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Welcome to the Jonathan Shuttlesworth Podcast. To stay connected, go to RevivalToday.com and now, here is Evangelist Jonathan. I want you, if you have your Bible, open it with me to Malachi, chapter three. I'll take that podium bell on the floor. Tonight I'm going to read some notes. I've never preached this message before, and I had the Lord laid on my heart strongly for tonight to close. There's been an unusual number of ministers coming to these meetings. And God has a plan for his church. His end time church to multiply. You're going to get around. There's a book called the Triumphant Church. It's a great book worth reading. And in that book, the pastor that wrote it talked about three types of churches. In other words, three mentalities people have about Christianity. One he called the defeated church. Everybody say the defeated church. Nobody calls it First Defeated Church of Sumner, South Carolina, or Greenville or whatever. But there's churches that will teach. They won't come right out and say it, but they teach that because we're in the last days and the Bible says wickedness will abound, that our job is basically to try to hold on till the end. And if you go to those churches, they got about 13 people in there holding on till the end and nobody gets saved. There's not any attempt to go out and accomplish anything for the Lord because you feel the devil can take you out at will. And we're in a time where there's evil and the evil is greater than what you have available to you in Christ. I want you to say something with me. The evil that's in this world can never be greater than the Christ that lives in me. Is there wickedness in the world? Absolutely. But the Bible says, first of all, even if you study it historically, anytime you hear somebody talk about how we need to go back to when America believed in God, you have the highest percentage of Americans go to church now of any point in United States history. Did you know that about 17% of Americans went to church at the time of the Revolutionary War? It's at about 42% right now. Pew or Barna? I can't remember which one. Either Pew Research Group or Barna just published that 66% of Americans say they've made a personal commitment to Jesus Christ to receive him as Lord and Savior. That's still meaningful in their lives today. So if you let your mind frame be shaped by television, you're watching rioting in Minneapolis and you're thinking, man, this country's in trouble. No, downtown Minneapolis is in trouble and has been for a long time. But America's not downtown. You know, think of how if you watch just TV and watch Minneapolis and LA riots and protests and whatever's going on, you think you live in a terrible country. But if you go to Greenville, South Carolina, you know where that is? It's like 40 minutes away. It's where I'm staying. My office booked me a hotel. I'm preaching in here in Woodruff. Our office booked us to stay in Greenville because they don't own a globe. So we've been driving 40 minutes every night. But if you go to Greenville and just went outside and walked around, you wouldn't see. I've been there every day, almost every day for two weeks. I haven't seen one person hit another person. I didn't watch a black person walk up and hit a white person because they don't like white people. And I never saw a white person walk up and hit a black person because they didn't like black people. I saw all kinds of people just walking around and eating ice cream. I say walk around. Some of them were from. There's a basketball tournament and there were some people from Alabama, so they were more waddling around. But the point is this. There wasn't any crime or stabbings or muggings or anything like that. It's a peaceful city. South Lake, Texas is like that. If you go, the whole world's not. You know, you got people in South Carolina that are Christians that are upset about. I had a guy ask me in the south, what do you think about this? Mamdani? That's the mayor of New York. He's a Muslim. I said, where do you live? Georgia. I said, I really wouldn't worry about it if I were you. He's the mayor. He's not the Joker from Batman that can just roam around and cause trouble. So. So when you have a defeated mindset, I'm really going to miss you guys. I've never been around happy Christians before. This is pretty great. Praise the Lord. We're going to have a good night tonight. If you. If you feel that the church is defeated, it's like you'll gravitate. Looking for confirmation bias. There's some pastors, man, if you come to church depressed, you're going to leave extremely depressed. They're going to tell you what the devil's doing. I made up my mind a long time ago. I'm not focused on what the devil's doing. I made up my mind. I'm going to do so much for the Lord. The devil's going to have to focus on what we're doing in Jesus name. You know, a guy wrote online, he said these guys prophesy every year that there's a revival coming to America. When is it? I mean, I'm in one. I'm in a packed church with people up in that prison bullpen up there. This place is the biggest place in Woodruff, which isn't saying much, but it still counts. There's no crowd anywhere near this size anywhere in Woodruff. The biggest crowd is gathered to hear the word of God in Woodruff, South Carolina. Can you say amen? So we're not a defeated church. And then the second church, which I think most people would understand, we're not a defeated church. But the second one would be, he calls it the warring church, which is, we're not defeated, but we're in a great fight against Satan. But that's not what the word says. It's very hard to fight someone who lives under your feet. And I want to tell you this, if Satan is under your feet, then how much lower are the people that work for Satan? Witches, wizards, demons, you know, somebody says, I'm the head demon of the principality of this area. Congratulations. But your boss, Lucifer, that you work for is seated far below where I'm seated. We've been raised together with Christ and seated together with Christ. Far above all principalities and powers. Can you say amen? How many did the 21 days of prayer and fasting with us, how many days did we spend praying against the devil? You know, when I grew up, Pentecostals are big on the warring church. And when I grew up in Pentecostal church, they would open the service up by saying, we bind you, Satan, in Jesus name. Then after they'd sing a song, the worship leader would exhort and say, let's just Satan, we bind you in Jesus name. Then the person will get up to take announcements. Satan would take authority over you in Jesus name. The person will get up to preach. Before we preach, Satan, we bind you. I remember being nine years old and thinking, if this sucker is this slippery that he can get loose every five minutes. We're fighting a losing battle. But I found out he's not bound. He's been stripped of all his power and Jesus made a show of him openly. Can you say amen? So that's where I get, the devil's not over your head. We're not defeated. We're hoping he doesn't know, you know, that's what they'd say, some of the preachers I grew up listening to, now, be careful. The devil's out there. Good. You know, what if somebody told you, hey, just be careful going home. There's a kid from the second grade that's really upset at you. All right, give him a popsicle and a nap. I'm not fighting him. You know, that would be weird to fight an 8 year old. Everybody say, I have the victory. And then he's not eye to eye. We're not in a battle. I take whatever principality. No, you know, if you want to disarm and make principalities, vacate an area, you know how you do it? Preach the word, the word loses power. And then as you start taking people out of the devil's kingdom, it starts hitting a critical mass where you become stronger than him in the region, even in the natural realm. Then the third type of church, everybody say the Triumphant Church. Well, in covering those two, I kind of already covered the Triumphant Church. Everybody say this, I'm not trying to get the victory. I have the victory in Jesus name. We were down to $700,000 in our account, which I'm sure everybody would love, that problem. But when you're building a four million dollar church and it's going to be finished April 5th, on paper, that's a problem. And so I told the Lord, I said, if you think I'm going to pray about this, you're going to be waiting a while. I read in your word, my God shall supply all my needs according to your riches and glory through Christ Jesus. So I'm not praying about something that you already said. I don't care if it said $7 in the account. My heavenly account ensures my earthly account will never run out. That was two Mondays ago. In fact, Pastor Russell was there when we said it and saw this because it was at our board meeting. And Adalis spoke up. It's good to have somebody in your life that has faith. She said, I already spoke to the Lord and told him I'd like a million dollars by the end of the week to just have everything paid with plenty left over like his word says. And, you know, that was Friday that we got the call. Patrick runs the money for our ministry and he texted us and said, he texted me and wrote in all caps, you need to call me. It's urgent. I thought, son of a gun, how bad have things gotten? He said, when you said on your broadcast on Check the news that if anybody will give a million dollars, you'll fly and pick it up a Family just called and said, are you serious about that? Because they have it there if you want to come pick it up. Well, you only have to tell me once. I finished preaching in Arizona and we got in the plane, flew to where they were at and picked up that million. You know the crazy thing? I'm saying this to the glory of God. I didn't do anything. It was the Lord that did it. But I'm showing you the difference. Now, if I was part of the defeated church, I'd say, well, you know, the devil doesn't want this church built. We thought we'd be ready by April 5, but Satan had other plans. Satan can kiss my gospel grits. We're going to have that church open and remind the devil he's not God, he's the devil. And Jesus already took him out 2000 years ago. Can you say Amen? Praise God. So I'm so. And then if I thought we were the warring church, I'd have sent out a newsletter. Church, family, we need to pray. The devil's trying to keep this church from opening. No, when you understand that you have the victory, you don't pray about victory. You do what the Bible says, which is in all things, give thanks. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. When you give thanks, it's proof to God that you are not wavering concerning his promises. Can you say amen? You never heard anything from Abraham like, well, I thought I was going to have a son. But whether it happens in this life or in the next, no, Abraham never wavered concerning the promise. And so part of the purpose of these meetings is to get you to understand that the things oftentimes that we're praying for, we already have from the word. Prayer is not. Prayer is a great thing. The Bible says men ought always to pray and never to lose heart, turn coward, and quit. Luke 18:1 8, with the persistent widow. But prayer is not a substitute for giving. Prayer is not a substitute for obedience, and prayer is not a substitute for knowledge. So if you don't have knowledge of the Word, think of it, even when it comes to prayer. What did Paul pray over the church in Ephesus? I pray that your hearts would be flooded with light. Light in the Bible connotates revelation. Hallelujah. And so he wanted. He was writing, I wish that you in Ephesus would get even more revelation on who you are in Christ. Can you say amen when you start getting drunk, intoxicated, on what the Bible says about your life? Before you know it, you're not trying to stop cursing or trying to control your temper. It's just dead. Because the Word and the light of the Word is expelling whatever darkness needs expelled. Can you say amen? That's what we're doing today. We're going to unleash the power of God's Word. God's word has eternal power. God's word loses victory. And that victory belongs to the church in South Carolina. The devil's going to have the worst here in South Carolina that he's already had. There's not one mullah in Iran that has the power to change one of God's promises. They can close the strait of Hamas and all the oil flow. They can't stop God's provision to your life. Our provision is not from below. Our provision is from above. God didn't say I'd open the strait of Hamas and pour you out a blessing. He didn't say I'd open up Wells Fargo bank and pour you out a blessing. He said, see if I won't open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing that's so great you won't have room enough to receive it. Try it and let me prove it to you. Your crops will be abundant, for I'll send rain at the proper times. And I'll rebuke the devour for your sake, because you're in covenant with me. If you know you have the victory tonight, can you shout a living Amen? Somebody say I have the victory? I'm going to tell you, the more we study the Bible, and I talked about this with Pastor Kofi, that's our pastor out in Los Angeles, and is a great man of God and spends hours praying a day. I've heard him. In fact, when I used to finish check the news at night, I'd be leaving and he'd be coming in at like quarter after midnight, and he'd be. I said, what are you doing? You left something at the office? No, I'm coming to pray. I said, when do you usually leave? He said, at daybreak. So many times he'd pray from midnight to 6. And so I asked him, since he's more well versed in that than me, I said, am I wrong to say that the more you study the Bible, it starts to be hard to find things to pray about? And instead. And of course, he agreed. And then I found other older men of God that have gone to heaven that said stuff like, the highest form of prayer is praise. Because as you read the Bible, Jesus didn't take the Five loaves and two fish. And oh, Father, please, please, Lord. I don't know. No, the Bible says he gave thanks for it. He didn't say, what's this? Most people. If you have to feed 15,000 people and somebody gives you five loaves of bread and two fish, you just give it back. Listen, little guy, I appreciate you giving me your lunch. I got a hockey arena full of people to feed. So just keep it neat at yourself and that's one less person to feed. But he thanked God for it. Say this with me. Until I give thanks for what I have, nothing multiplies. They complained in the Old Testament. Vipers came out and began to bite them. And they began to lose their life. When you complain, what you have diminishes. And that's what you hear most ministers do if you give them a chance to greet you or to talk. You know, we live in a small place. There's not much money where we're at. The economy is down. You'll have people tell you the economy is down. I've had to tell pastors, no, you know, the economy is actually up in your city. Show them on ChatGPT. One guy was telling me where I was preaching. He said, nobody in this city has any money. As he said it, we drove by a Maserati dealership. I said, do they only allow people from out of town to buy these cars? You know, if they open up a Maserati dealership in your city, you're not living in poverty. There's people there that can afford six figure cars. You know what he said when I told him that? I never noticed that before. That's right. When you keep your head next to the toilet, all you smell is stink. When you're in defeat, you notice bad and unemployment and people that don't have anything. But when you get your mind in the word, you start to notice that God has blessed you. And God has made all things that pertain to life and godliness available to you. Can you say Amen? Say a word with me. Say increase. Go to Malachi chapter three, where I tried to start three nights ago. Malachi three. We'll give it another shot. Say it out loud. I'm anointed to increase. Malachi 3:16. And this is talking about the last days. Malachi 3:16. Then those who feared the Lord spoke with each other. And the Lord listened to what they said in his presence. A scroll of remembrance was written to record the names of those who feared him and always thought about the honor of his name. That's like a powerful thing to me for two reasons. Number one, I was, and again, you may have been raised better than me, but the churches I grew up in was, wow, 568 people tonight in a five month old church. Can you say Amen? That's pretty great. Two straight weeks. Thanks for coming out. You're going to be glad you came out by the end of the night. Amen. Unless you're a demon, then you're going to be severely upset that you came out. But I don't think you are. Those are in North Carolina. So one of the things I like about that is we were kind of taught like God's upset. You know, God sees everything you're doing. Yes, he does. But they would say it in a way like he's just like the NSA trying to catch you doing something wrong. The Bible tells us here and in the book of Job and others that God actually looks over at people from heaven and likes what they're doing. Can you say amen? You know, God's not up in heaven looking at you and going to look at them thinking they're going to get a blessing. I don't even like them. No. Even if you're like not really a good person, it is kind of odd that you made a decision on a perfectly good Friday night to be in the house of God knowing I'm sure somebody warned you that these services aren't short. Yeah, some of you, the churches you go to, they'd had two services already and we're just getting warmed up. And so for you to come on Friday, the Bible says that there was a scroll of remembrance being kept of those who loved, who feared the Lord. Everybody say, that's me. Spoke with each other and the Lord listened. And we're doing that. Of course you don't want to. Took me about 10 days to get it to happen. But we talk back and forth. Now can you say amen? And we do that for a reason. The Lord listened to what they said and he's liking what we're saying. I'm not having you repeat blasphemy or God. Things don't always work out. No, we're talking about the goodness of God. Can you say amen? You know, I've been following the Iran war, whatever you want to call it, as close as you can follow it, because I do. That pretend news show that for some reason got on television. Amazing. If you wear a suit and tie, people think you know what you're talking about. And I'm not worried. I, I, I I've already lived through about. I'm only 45. I've already lived through about 11 things that are supposed to end the planet. Yeah. I come from ancient days where if we didn't use enough paper straws, South Carolina was going to be completely underwater. I lived through Covid. I lived through Zika. I lived through the AIDS epidemic. I've lived through all kinds of stuff. I'm like an old prospector in a young man's body. I've been listening to things that are going to end the world every year since I was a little boy. I was born in the 80s where they had the Doomsday Clock one second to midnight. And it looked like the Soviet Union was going to fire on the US and the US Was going to fire on the Soviet Union. But I got news for you. I'm going to tell you this from the Holy Ghost. 2026 is not time for that. And this Iran thing is not beginning of Armageddon. This is the opening of Iran to the Gospel of Jesus Christ so that all nations can hear it. And we're going to be positioned to get the gospel out to the whole Earth. Can you say amen? Those who feared the Lord spoke with each other, and the Lord listened to what they said in his presence. A scroll of remembrance was written to record the names of those who feared him and always thought about the honor of his name. They will be my people. Everybody say I'm God's people, says the Lord of Hosts. On the day when I act in judgment, they'll be my own special treasure. And I'll spare them as a father spares an obedient and dutiful child. Can you grab Tessa? The testimony that Paul Nietzsche shared about the two people that were kidnapped by Islamic jihadists and what God did for them. On the day when I act in judgment, they'll be my own special treasure. I will spare them as a father spares an obedient, dutiful child. I'm not saying this because he's my friend or because he's here, but, you know, God treats people like that. For that church, for someone to call and say, pastor Russell, we'd like to give you this church building. We just feel. You can see, why did they feel that way about him? And then for somebody to say, hey, I've seen your preaching six times on Sunday. I'm going to get you a helicopter so that you can get from campus to campus. And then another guy, get him a pilatus plane. So instead of driving five and a Half hours to Spokane. He gets there in 50 some minutes and then can get back with his wife. Is that because he's unwilling? No, he already proved that stuff. He worked in pest control for the first. How many years of ministry? 3 years cleaning rat poop and rats themselves and spiders. Never heard the word poop before. Staring at me like turned to an Episcopalian church from one word. I mean, that's actually the nicest one you could use. Poo. Poo. Is that better? I'm going to talk to you like you're two. He did all that. And you know, there are tests you go through, especially in the beginning of your life in ministry. But when you show God that I'm 100% committed to the advancement of youf kingdom, all the other things that others are trying to get, God will add them unto you. That's what tonight is. God is adding things to people that are here. God is adding gifts to people that are here. God is opening the windows of heaven over people that are here. I'm not just talking about planes and helicopters and that kind of stuff. I'm talking about spiritual gifts. I'm talking about. But that stuff does matter, you know. I have a church in Arizona. In the morning at 10am I can't get there on Megabus. I'm not taking the bus because I'm too good to ride a bus. But I can't get to Arizona. If you look on a map, Arizona is almost 9 inches from here on maps. That's far. And then I'll be back at our church in Pittsburgh. Saturday night, preach there 8am and 10am then Monday night, start in Mars Hill, Maine. I could drive from Pittsburgh to Mars Hill, Maine. But if you do that over the course of years, you're going to die. Not from traffic accidents. That's why people that don't receive don't allow God to bless them. You think you know they're mage. Just keep old brother Shuttlesworth in prayer. I've been running these roads. Well, quit running them. Start driving and then go to flying. Can you say amen? If Jeffrey Epstein can have a plane to do what he did, why can't the church have one to build churches and do what God's called him to do? If Elon Musk can believe for a house on Mars, you can have one in Woodruff. Can you say amen? The wealth of the wicked is laid up for the justice. They will be my people, says the Lord of hosts. On the day when I act in judgment, they'll be my own special Treasure and I'll spare them. Everybody say God will spare me. There's no evil that will come on this world that God hasn't given you angels to protect you from. Hallelujah. It'll work in South Carolina, it'll work in Charlotte, it'll work in aisle three and Walmart at one in the morning. You don't have to go overseas to meet demon possessed people, just go to any Walmart after one o'. Clock. It's like a demon family reunion. There's no weapon the enemy has that he can form against your life that will ever prosper. And every tongue that rises up against you, thou shalt condemn. But again, we dealt with it last night. Anytime you depart from understanding of God's word, you abide in the congregation of the dead. So if you're a preacher, no one's ever taught you that and you hear preachers where I'm going to preach, I could be killed at any time. And you will be. Because death and life is in the power of the tongue. And what you believe determines what you become. Believest thou that I can make you see Jesus didn't need a pep talk or a self esteem boost. Do you believe that I can make you see? Yes, Lord, as your faith is, so be it unto you. So when you get faith in your heart, it won't stay in your heart. Out of the abundance of the heart, some of you in these two weeks of these meetings, you've heard stuff come out of your mouth that normally didn't come out of your mouth. I know God is going to make a way for me. The Lord is going to help me in that. God is healing my body. That's faith. Instead of using your mouth to take yourself out, you loose the power of God out of your lips and every mountain has to move as you loose that faith, every challenge that the enemy has loosed your way, your family's way, God's going to get you out tonight and you're coming out the other side with a testimony in Jesus name. They call this prosperity preaching, but I've never been much for poverty. And then when you, when you preach it, when you check, check, check, checkaroo. I'm not that good. Went from full gospel to Presbyterian. We love the Presbyterians but we don't love their sound system. You have Pastor Russell's mic or the second mic. Thank you. See, prosperity gets you two mics. See, if we were an old Pentecostal church, we'd spend the next 30 minutes praying in tongues, trying to get the mic to turn back on, but you can actually buy a second mic. Can you say amen? Hallelujah. How many can tell we're gonna have a good night at the devil's expense tonight? Praise the Lord. So when you preach like this, one of the criticisms that people lob that have, you know, no bearing in reality. Well, tell that in Africa. Tell that to the. Tell that to the people overseas. As if God didn't get a visa to do what he needs to do overseas. If you go overseas, you'll find better testimonies than the ones they're sharing in America. The gospel works everywhere. Can you say amen? Listen to these testimonies from Dr. Paula Nietzsche's church. Why? How does a church grow to a hundred thousand when people are dying and getting kidnapped? Now, there's probably Nigerians here. There's Nigerians watching online. I'm not saying this to like, knock your country or make it sound like this happens all the time, but it does happen. I mean, when you talk about kidnapping, Nigeria is a different level. There are times everyone gets on the city bus and the city bus driver has been paid off and takes everybody on the bus to the kidnapping site. Kidnap an entire church full of people. Just happened four Sundays ago. 166 people kidnapped from a church. And many of them will never be seen again. But say this with me, my case is different. See, it's not hitting everybody the same. Check out these testimonies. And I want you to hear say this. What God does for one, he'll do for anyone. Yeah. So when you hear this, it's letting you know God's power that's been extended to you and your family. Check this out.
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Scholarship in Plateau State was going to one of the bush areas in Plateau State. From the school embarrassing lady Ferrari Polytechnic and crossing the river and going. And then they were accosted with by Fulani headsmen.
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15 of them with AK47. Match them into the bush, strip them naked, asked them to recite the Islamic thing and they were not able. And they wanted to shoot. Now the gun shot and the gun refused to fire. 15 AK 47s. And then the people were released. What is this? Wear your cloth back. And they went into the. Went. And the young man went back to school. About 10 days later, the head of the Fulaniasman traced the young man back to school and he. Louis saw him. He said. He said, yes, I know you. You are the one who wanted to kill us the other day. He said, yes, you really know me. Please, I Came to ask you for the secret of that power. I need that same power. Can you give me that same power? And he said, what are you talking about? He said, the power that made our gun not to fire. He said, it's the power of Jesus Christ. He said, no, give me. Tell me more. He said, because since that day, the gun has not fired anywhere. None of the guns. None of the guns has fired anywhere for nobody. He said, it is Jesus Christ that has given that made a difference in my life. He said, then I need to know about that. Jesus Christ. Fulani hates me. He said, can you give me your phone number? And the man said, you collected our phone the other day. He said, please, I'm so sorry.
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We'll return back the phone in case you don't catch the accent. He said, can I have your phone number? He said, you stole my phone. Keep going, I'm back.
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And the man said, you collected our phone the other day. He said, please, I'm so sorry. We'll return back the phone. You see, I want to be your friend now. When such testimony was shared, everywhere erupted. And then people, okay, so this thing is fightable. So this thing is conquerable.
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Posit. He said, when these testimonies started coming out, the church that was afraid of the terrorists started to realize, wait a minute, this thing's beatable. This thing's conquerable. That's where so many people are in their Christianity. Can God heal cancer? Can God heal diabetes? They have something, but they don't know that the thing they're facing is conquerable. But I came to tell you there's no weapon that's ever been formed against you that can prosper. And God's already given you the power to overcome everything you're facing right now. We don't. We're not facing kidnapping here. That's. That's a regional problem. Just like they're not facing fentanyl overdose there. But whatever the tailor made from hell problem is that's been assigned to your life. Tonight is its expiration date and you're leaving free in Jesus name. Continue. This one's even better.
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Same two weeks we had another one. Young girl from I think Beni or saw somewhere was going to Lagos around or recited we are kidnapped by kidnappers, put in a lorry, taken into the bush in the thickness of the jungle. She sat down and closed her eyes and was singing one of the songs. You are always there to help. You are always there to help me. Even when know what was there. She bent her head, finished singing, opened her eyes. And she was sitting on the highway by the military checkpoint. She had disappeared from there. Transloc.
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See, sit and then see all the ministry understand them because they're all going through that there. And then it starts. See if somebody can get a testimony and share it. That's why I put up, you know, the airplane we use. That's why I don't hide it. That's why I don't hide the blessings. Somebody gave us a million dollar check. I want people to know that, that right now you have 17 people in your church. You have an evangelistic ministry with no meetings. Whatever you're facing is beatable. God has a plan to take you from where you are now. To go from God. Glory to glory, victory to victory and strength to strength. Hallelujah. Man, I feel good. Keep playing it.
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Get that. Transported from the road, sitting by military checkpoint on Benin or expressway. And the soldiers welcomed her. Oh, because they heard what happened. Oh, you are welcome. Sorry. And then kept her for another 24 hours. Transported her to Lagos. People had such things. And then boom. We started hearing calls. Somebody was kidnapped. Can you pray? We are coming to church and so forth, so forth and so on. Beloved brothers and sisters, these are things that we have heard.
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So you see what he's telling him, how his church went from 500 to 2000. His daughter, of course, he's been to preach in our church a few times. His daughter was coming to our church. I said, how many times did you. Did your family feel you had built your final church? In other words, like, okay, fine, we had 500. Now we built the 2,000 seater. She said, immediately it filled. Then we built the 8,000 seater. Immediately it filled, then the hundred thousand. And now they're out of room. They have to put overflow on the hundred thousand because there's no limit to God's increase. He's telling the people how it grew. When people heard those breakthroughs, they started to bring people, hey, our relative was kidnapped. Can you pray? Because we realize there's power there to get help. That will be the story, not just of this church, but of every ministry that's here. Your church will be known as a cancer free zone. Your church will be known as a place that people who are addicted come and the addiction is free. Flushed out of their system by the anointing of the Holy Ghost. The solutions that men are looking for are not in the methadone clinic or the rehab center or some social program. They are in the gospel of Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Ghost. And God's going to make you a vessel that gets it to your generation in Jesus name. If you receive it, go ahead and do what you're already doing. Clap your hands unto the Lord. Hallelujah. They will be my own special treasure. That's. That's where you start with increase. Say this out loud. I might look like everybody else, but I'm not like everybody else. If I was a Chinese immigrant to this country, I would not say, I'm a Chinese immigrant or, you know, it's hard when you're first starting out because you're just getting your papers. No, don't confess what's not in the word. If I was a Russian immigrant or Ukrainian, or if I was a white redneck, I kind of am. If I was black, I wouldn't confess black problems. I don't confess Polish problems. The Polish people have major alcoholism in our list. I don't say, well, we battle. We don't battle. Watch the we part. I used to say that to preachers. We're having a hard time, you know. No, don't. Don't group me in with you. If you want to say I'm having a hard time, knock yourself out. But I'm not having a hard time. His yoke is easy and his burden is length. He's given me joy unspeakable and full of glory. Surely goodness and mercy will follow me. Not one day, it'll follow me every day of my life. While the world's going down, I'm going up. Say it so the devil can hear you. I have the victory. I have the victory. Say what the Bible says. Say I'm God's special treasure. Yeah. You know, there's an old Southern gospel song that's got a powerful anointing on it. When I was on the. When he was on the cross, I was on his mind. Why would a king bleed and die? That's a great song. I mean, no, we're nothing. No, you're not nothing. You're a child of God with a covenant ratified by the blood of Jesus. And then the Bible says he saved you for the good things he planned since long ago. So again, if you got the defeated mentality or the battling mentality, then your whole focus is on you making it. Now you should focus. Your number one goal should be to get to heaven yourself. But you should also, since you were saved for good works, you should look. Lord, let your grace and your power flow through me as a vessel to bless hurting people. I have a spirit filled father. That's an Evangelist and a spirit filled mother. But many people don't have that. So use me like you use the apostle Paul that people that never knew anything but fighting and yelling and debt and not enough food and total life's hard. Use me as a preacher of your gospel and a minute an able minister of Christ to let people know the devil doesn't get to write your future. God has a future in store for you if you'll turn from sin and make Jesus Christ your Lord. Life doesn't have to finish like it started. I will spare the everybody say I'm spared. You know how many of you saw it today? Then put that thing up of gas being at $8 a gallon in, in California, nobody good. So I, I don't even need to preach this because you, you refuse to watch the news anyway in case somebody's online or on television. Bunch of fear mongering, won't say what I'm thinking. No good doers. Hell's that Christian schooled it up for you. Gas is already, you know, the problems are going on. Iran oil's already in California. It's already $8 a gallon. That's one gas station that's gouging and somebody else put a picture up that it's still at 435 or something just outside of LA. If you have a mind that is prone to fear and you don't deal with that, you're going to find the bad news everywhere you go. You'll be at Disney World going, there's a spider. And when you have God's word that renews your mind, they can beat your back, throw you in prison, lock you down and you'll sing a song and suddenly there's an earthquake and the bands of every prisoner come off and every prison door is open. That's why the devil's nervous. Because tonight there's 600 people getting ready to come out of this room. Carry on the fire of the Holy Ghost and the spirit of faith. Malachi 4 1. The Lord of hosts says the day of judgment is coming. Burning like a furnace. On that day, the arrogant and the wicked will be burned up. Who, who gets burned up? Somebody said that's not me. So you know, we need to be careful. God's not going to treat everybody the same. Never did. He always had people he didn't like in the Bible. I've been watching since this Iran war and I'm not, you know, you don't even have to bring the Bible into the war. But you know people. How could anybody, how could anyone Be in favor of what's happening in Iran. I don't see anywhere in the Bible where Jesus was kind of. Did you buy Bible on discount because it was missing the Book of Revelation? When he comes back the second time, he's not coming back as a giggling baby. He's going to lay waste. But that's kind of depressing. So we'll stick with what I got for tonight. The Day of Judgment is coming, burning like a furnace. On that day, the arrogant and the wicked will be burned up like straw. They'll be consumed. Roots, branches and all. The Bible is telling you here that in the last days, you should have an expectation that there's going to be a difference in your life. Everybody say, I'm not wicked. I would never go to any church where they say, how many know we're all sinners? I'm not a sinner. I've been saved by grace. The sinner is dead. Romans 6:1 14 does not tell me I'm a sinner trying to serve the Lord. It says, the sinner is dead and I become a new creature. Old things are passed away. Behold. How many things become new? All things. But for you who fear my name, the son of righteousness will rise with healing in his wings. It was a healing. I know. You know, I know people who died during COVID Me, too. It's not a contest. But I made up my mind. I'm not dying during COVID And obviously you didn't die either, so it's not. Well, hopefully it'll work out. You don't know how many full gospel preachers called me when I was preaching in March 2020, April 2020. You need to use wisdom. You know, if you die, you're going to make us all look bad. You already look bad. You were a coward before without any help from me. I'm not worried about how I look. I'm worried about doing what's right. You know, we had. Did you guys get that ice storm? You did? Texas. We were the only church open. You know what's interesting is that you got to use wisdom. Do you know the Dallas Mavericks played that afternoon? Sunday afternoon. You know, I looked it up. The Dallas Cowboys have never canceled a game in their history for weather, including blizzards and ice storms. And it's funny, when it's a football game, they say the fans brave the weather, but when it's church, you didn't use wisdom. Well, I did two videos, and on the second one, I made it clear I'm not keeping the church open telling you you have to be at church. And shame on you if you don't go. I don't mean that, but it's open. Because if you need help or want to come worship God, that's my job as a pastor. If you work in the oil field, are you allowed to call your boss and tell them, hey, there's inclement weather today, so we shut the pumps down. No, every military, everything else, when it's go time, it's go time. When it was go time to drop those bombs in Iran, they didn't care if it was any of those pilots anniversaries or their son's fifth birthday party. They're committed to the task. And a minister should be committed to his task. You know, I had all that bouncing around in my head because you got everybody telling you to use wisdom and all that. We get a call from a guy. He said, I have stage 4 cancer that's metastasized through my body. Are you still going to have church Sunday? Because I'm driving from Oklahoma and I want prayer. He said I was coming anyway, and they haven't given me long to live. I can't tell him to come next Sunday. They told me he could die anytime. He said, I just wanted to make sure you're open because the cold makes the pain flare up in my body. When I heard that that guy was going to drive hours, not just in the ice, but full of cancer so he could get prayer. That's what you need to know in the ministry. Increase is not about having a nicer watch, though. You'll get them. God will deck you out. God always decked people out. Six amens. Yeah. When the unnamed servant went to get the bride for Isaac, he didn't give her a friendship bracelet, Gave her a gold bracelet, a gold ring in her nose. That was popular back then. Now it just shows that you voted for Kamala, but it's not a big deal. A piece of jewelry lets everybody know how you voted. Just like a camo hat lets you know. Lets everybody know how you voted. Gave him, everybody say a gold bracelet. Everybody say a gold ring. And then a ring in her nose. And the Bible says they brought camels with gifts. Bride, when the unnamed servant went to get a bride for Isaac, he came with camels bearing gifts. Now, this is not a Pentecostal sermon. This is a Baptist sermon. But think of it. Abraham is a type of God who had to sacrifice his son and bring him back. Abraham did not make a decision to kill Isaac. He reasoned that God would bring Isaac Back from the dead. I'm quoting scripture in the New Testament and the Bible says, in a sense, Abraham did receive Isaac back from the dead. So Abraham is a type of the father. Isaac is the type of the son who wanted a bride. The unnamed servant being a type of the Holy Ghost who speaks not of himself, but only of Abraham and Isaac. Then he went to a foreign land, the filth of this earth, to go get a bride for the son. When he went and got that bride, that bride didn't have to walk through the sand. There were camels that speak of power to get from earth to glory. And they came bearing gifts which speak of God pouring out his goodness in the midst of the filth of this earth. I got news for 2026. The Camels are coming this year. God has a blessing with your name on it. God has a blessing for your marriage. God has a blessing for your children. I would expect things to get brighter and brighter till the coming of the Lord. If you believe it, can you shout hallelujah? Everybody say healing. So one of the things we have for the last days is healing. Jesus said there'll be plagues, but I have healing that counteracts the plagues. Can you say amen? And you will go free leaping with joy like calves. Everybody say I have joy. Depression, anxiety, panic attack, suicide at a historic high. And you got pastors saying, how many know we're all in a mental health crisis? Speak for yourself, Cuckoo. If you're in a mental health crisis, I'll help you. But if you're a pastor telling people that we are in a mental health crisis, why should anyone come to church? Somebody has to have the blessing. And it's not. It's not pride. You didn't do anything to do it except receive it by faith. But you should. Hey, I want to thank you for coming to all these meetings. Thank you. Oh, you're bringing me water. You know, Bible says, anyone gives a cup of cold water, be blessed. So how much more? A bottle that's sealed, Be blessed in Jesus name. Thank you for coming. You know, I started off joking around. I feel like the Lord's touching you. Thank you for healing for your body in Jesus name. Amen. Thanks for caring about me. So before that lady accosted me with water, you have things that counteract what's in the world. What's another one of them? So you got healing. And then the Bible says you have joy. Everybody say, I have joy. Leaping with joy like calves led out to pasture. Your joy is going to increase in the last days. I'm not sitting in a room thinking about Iran. You got people. Christians are odd people, man. I grew up around them, you know. I'm just concerned about Iran. Now you see, being concerned. What do you have your own military? Somebody asked me and Pastor Russell a question on TV today. They said, should I endorse Israel? Listen, Suzanne, if you do or if you don't, it's not going to change a whole lot. It's like they're in the Knesset in Israel going, how does Suzanne Marcus feel about what we're doing? Quit concentrating on things that don't pertain to you. Those things are going to happen in the world, but God has a problem plan for you to go forward in the midst of all these things. Get your eyes off a war, get your eyes off a disease. Get your eyes on the scripture, get your eyes on the promises of God. Begin to believe him in your heart and speak them with your mouth. And while the world's going down, you'll be jumping up and down with joy. Joy unspeakable and full of glory. Keep going. Everybody shout joy. On the day when I act, you'll tread upon the wicked as if they were dust under your feet. I like this verse because it shows. It can't be talking about heaven because there's no wicked people in heaven. So it's saying while you're in the world. When they sued our church, the city that our church is in sued us for having too many people. You know, I'll tell you the whole story. We started with 280 people, dropped to 260 the next Sunday. I was thrilled. My goal, I thought we'd have 40 to 80. And then we hit 300. Then at Easter, on the 1st of April, 2020, we had 774 people. And our building only seats 400. So a rainbow flag church, I guess they like rain or whatever, took pictures of our parking lot and how many people were coming into the church and turned us into the city. So the city said that they're going to padlock the building. We couldn't have church there, so we went to court. That court case is lost 97% of the time before it ever goes to court. It's a ten minute phone call. You ever heard the saying, you can't fight city hall? Yeah. The city calls with the judge. The judge says, yes, you're in violation. You can't have that many people there and you lose. We won. We won our court case to have church there. Then we won our court case to have church at that 36 acres of property. And then every time anybody came out to sue us or do something, well, you're going to see April 5th. At a minimum, we're going to have 2,000 people at that church in four years. We may break 3,000 in four years. Because though there is a devil and though there are wicked people, the Bible says when they rear their head, you will trample them like they're dust under your feet. I prophesy in the name of Jesus, everything that came from hell that's trying to shut down what God's given you to do, it comes under divine judgment tonight, in Jesus name, if you receive it, let your amen be the loudest. There's me and Kofi after we won our court case, looking like Starsky and Hutch. Looks like a broker deal between an African nation and Belgium or something. But that's me and my friend Kofi won that court case. You know, it's funny. I said to him, kofi, when he came over from Ghana, he was a party planner in the Bronx, New York. So I'm talking Bronx parties, not Chuck E. Cheese. Whatever you needed at that party, he made sure you got it there. I said, did you ever have to go to court the whole time you were a party planner? He said, no, first time I was ever in court was with you. So isn't that interesting that there's people that. See, that's where people get messed up. They think if you're setting out to do something good for God, there's not going to be any trouble or controversy. And that's what people think. Guys like me don't understand. These guys preach prosperity. Paul was in prison. Take it easy. You need to have blood squirt out your ears. Yeah, I know. Paul was in prison. How long Was he there? 13 years? No, they threw him in at 11. He was out at midnight. Did he have to get a good lawyer or did he get out supernaturally? And then I'll even show you something else about Paul. Let me see. Acts 16:32, NLT. And they shared the word of the Lord with him and all who lived in his household. Keep going. Even at the hour of that night, the jailer cared for them, washed their wounds. Then he and everyone in his household was immediate. Now, I really hope you can get this. I thought you were preaching on increase. You throw Paul in prison, and within one hour, he's not only out. Baptist Bible scholars, reliable Baptist Bible scholars tell us that that jailer became the pastor of the Church of Philippi. So if you put Paul in prison within one hour, he not only was out of prison, there was a church planted in that city that became his top. By the way, what's the only church that he said you were the only church that communicated with men giving and receiving. Not just the church. The church that financed the rest of his missions work until he went home to be with the Lord. What the devil means for evil, God takes it and turns it for good. Hallelujah. Let me see. Go back to this scripture. But before you do, go to Ephesians 6:8, and I'll show you. Now you understand why Paul wrote this. Ephesians 6:8. Anybody getting anything out of this? The references are taking the night off. Remember that the Lord will reward each one of us for the good we do, whether we're what? Or free. Paul's saying, this principle, I've had it work when I'm in prison. Prisoners have less rights than slaves. They don't even have their freedom. They're chained in a prison. Paul said, these principles will work whether you're slave or free. They work if you pastor in India or they work if you pastor in Indiana. They work in Canada. They work in Europe. They work in Africa. They work in Asia. They work for anybody that will work them. Jesus is not a tribal God. Jesus is not a savior of a race. He's the lamb that was slain for every tongue, every tribe, every nation and every race. Go back to Acts. Acts 16. Wherever we were. 34 references are back. Praise the Lord. It's a Christmas miracle. 34, 35. The next morning. Now, check this out. Because usually people stop at him getting broke out of prison. Then if they go further, they'll stop at the jailer getting saved. But there's more, you know. I mean, no, we don't understand what. No. Watch how Paul was. Paul was not a chump. The next morning, the city officials sent the police to tell the jailer, let those men go first of all. Too late. They're already living in the jailer's house. Hey, let those men go. Paul's like in his jammies, eh? 36. So the jailer told Paul, the city officials have said, you and Silas are free to leave. Go in peace. Paul goes, uh, they've publicly beaten us without a trial and put us in prison. And we're Roman citizens. And now they want us to leave secretly? Certainly not. I want a parade or something. I want them to name a city park after me. Certainly not. Let them come themselves to release us. Now, again, what did you have During COVID every spineless pastor. It really breaks my heart that any pastor would sue their city were not to do that. Oh, yeah. Paul invoked his legal rights all the time. If he had no legal rights to invoke, then he took it. But there's another time where they tied him to a post, got ready to beat him, and what did he say? Hey, before you whip me, as you can see from my back, it's not my first rodeo. Is it legal to whip a Roman citizen without charge? Oh, we didn't realize you're a Roman citizen. Oh, yeah, I am. And the guy says to the guy that's going to whip him, be careful what you're about to do, because whatever you did to the Roman citizen, they were going to do to you. Yeah. He didn't just let people whip him and arrest him and detain him. He talked back. The devil wants you to get a side of the Bible where the only verse you know is turn the other cheek. But you only have four cheeks, and they've all been turned. And you can talk back to the devil. Can you say amen? The devil's gonna hear from you this year. I'm not putting up with your mess in Jesus name. Man, it feels good in here. When the police reported this, the city officials were alarmed to learn that Paul and silas were Roman citizens. 39. So they came to the jail and apologized to them. Then they brought them out and begged them to leave the city. That happened to me and Hilton Head. Anyway. Please get out of here. Yeah. When Paul and Silas left the prison, they took a sabbatical because they had been through a lot, physically and emotionally. No. When they left the prison, they returned to the home of Lydia, where they met with the believers and encouraged them. The guy never stopped preaching. You could not shut Paul up. Find me Tessa. I think it's around Acts 13. I could have the wrong chapter where they stone Paul till dead and he pops out of the rocks and goes back into the city. The guy was like Terminator is based on the apostle Paul. I have one more point. Kid falls out of a window. He raises him back to the dead, sits him back down and goes. And as I was saying, point 17. Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won the crowds to their side. They stoned Paul and dragged him out of town. And now this is the Facebook message boards of the day. That's what pastors deal with a lot. Now that somebody starts a Facebook message group about how you're a cult and spreads misinformation about you. That's the devil's trick. What happened on the day of Pentecost? The crowds began to mock them and say, they're just drunk, that's all. The devil can't stop the power of God. He can only work to mock it and dissuade people. So everything you deal with, say with me, the devil has no new tricks. So you can see his tricks in the book of Acts. And then you can see how to successfully deal with them. Won the crowds to their side. They stoned Paul and dragged him out of town thinking he was dead. They not only. It's not like they hit him with a rock and thought he might be dead. They stoned him and they're like, no, no, he's dead now. You guys can quit throwing the rocks. The people that wanted him dead were happy with the amount of rocks he had been hit with. Then dragged him out of the city. And the believers gathered around him to bury him. And he's like, who we burying, you? I'm not dead. I'm going back and preaching where the Lord told me to preach. Now he got up and ran away from that town. He got up and did what? Went back to the town where they stoned him. That's what the anointing does. The anointing makes you someone that doesn't quit. You have a perseverance by the spirit. It's not macho ness. It's not toughness. It's an indefatigability that comes from the Holy Ghost. Receive that tonight. Receive that tonight. The devil that's used to knocking people down is not going to know what to do with you. Somebody's bouncing up from their rubble tonight and going back in to do what God calls you to do. I don't hear anybody in here. Somebody's getting up. Somebody that was left for dead. He's getting back up. Somebody shout hallelujah. Say it out loud. The Lord is good and his mercy endures forever. One more time. The Lord is good and his mercies endure forever. Oh, yeah, there's people that get killed by stuff like that, but you're not like them tonight. You're popping up from the rubble. The devil's gonna be surprised to see you up, walking around with a smile on your face, finishing your race, doing what God's called you to do. Here. What? All excuses, all sadness, all discouragement. God's washing it out of you today. You're putting on a new nature. Somebody say I'm popping back up. Hallelujah. Say with me, Satan does Not know what to do with a believer who will not quit that same city that was suing our church. They said, we just checked the law. We can fine you. We can't stop you from using that church, but we can fine you $1,000 a day. I wrote back. Can I pay 365,000 up front? I know you're used to dealing with broke churches and broke preachers, but you got the wrong one. My boss is El Shaddai, the God of More than enough. You know what I'm telling you tonight. The days of the church being pushed around by the devil ended yesterday. There's a new breed of Christian rising up with a sword of the spirit, with a shield of faith that knows how to pop back up and finish what God called you to do. Somebody say I'm anointed to increase. Let me see another scripture while I'm wound up. Let me see Tessa. I think it's in second Timothy. I don't know whether I want to go or whether I want to stay. It's better for me. It's. It's far better for me if I leave the earth, but it's better for you if I stay. These people preach increase. Apostle Paul. Why don't you read the whole story, numbskull? Paul was in prison. Keep reading. Paul was stoned. Keep reading. Paul got stoned and dragged out of the city. Keep reading. It never ends with his defeat, and neither shall your story. You know why? Cause Paul said the same God that delivered me will deliver all who are in Christ Jesus. I'm not hoping you get delivered tonight. You're coming out. Delivered from every attack of the enemy. I don't hear anybody in here. Say it out loud. I'm coming out, Man. I had the wrong book, wrong chapter. Everything I'm torn between. This is Paul talking. I'm torn between two desires. I long to go and be with Christ, which would be far better for me, but for your sakes, it's. That's a funny thing to say to people. Listen, if I had my way, I'd go to heaven. But you people need me now. When you read that, does that sound like somebody. That death was in control of them? After the stories I read you, and then this. In Philippians, do you feel that that's a man who was mastered by death or a man who mastered death? For your sakes, I'm going to keep living. I'll go home when I'm ready to go. I'll go home when I'm good. I mean, we could all Die at any time you can because you gave permission. But I would rather say the Bible says, let me see, Psalm 118, 17. I will live and not die. Now, don't just say I won't die. Everybody say I will live. You know what I'm doing tonight? I'm living. After I finish with you, I'm going to get on a plane, fly to Phoenix. There's a place called Lupita Hot Dog. It's surrounded by barbed wire fence and gunshots. That's where the good food is. If you're going to get tacos and there's not crime tape up anywhere, you're eating at the wrong place. I got tacos at a place in Houston, Texas. It's called Highway 6 tacos. It's a taco truck that's in a gas station. It's in a bad part of Houston. One time I was in line, there's probably 13 people in front of me, and there was a drive by shooting directly across from us, and no one got out of line. That's how you know the food's good. People just went like this, huh? It's a shame. I'll have the carne asada. I'm living. I'm going to get off that. Russell's flying out with me. He's going to fly out of Arizona tomorrow to go preach six times in Washington and we're going to go live. I'm not going to be an old man. I'll probably feel like sleeping, but just not to be old. I'm not sleeping. I'm going to go get a Sonora hot Dog. We walk into that place, people wonder. I think the first couple times they thought we came, they thought we were ice. People looked nervous, but we're just coming to eat you. Almost nobody speaks English there. That's good food. And we've developed a good relationship now. They've reposted my ministry stories. Oh, yeah. That's how you know you're tipping too much. I like having fun. I'm not going to bed. They're tired. We preached all week and then I have services all this weekend. So we're gonna go straight to bed now. I'm gonna go get me some ice cream. Because it doesn't just say, I will not die. It says, I will what? Jesus didn't just say, I'm going to save you from the devil who came to steal, kill and destroy. He said, I'm going to give you something instead. I'm going to give you life. And what kind of life? That's what we're doing. This is life more abundantly. I'm preaching to people that already believe this. You can say now it's a lot of services. And then plus we had a. I went to the grocery store today. I've already been out, so I'm going to rest. I have to pack. We have a vacation coming up in June. Everybody say, that's not me. So increase is about life. It's about the overflow of God's life. You know, let me tell you this. When we started our second church in Fort Worth and then the Lord spoke to me to start the church in LA and I could go. It was a supernatural story. And I wondered, how am I going to do this? So I announced we were going to start the church because the Lord spoke to me. I didn't know how. There's no jet that can get you from Pittsburgh or Texas to California in time to do a Sunday morning service. I had preached Saturday night and announced that I got on the plane, ate a cheesesteak, like, I'm going to go eat. I don't understand people. If you're on, if you're on sleeping medication, I don't understand you. Have you never heard of fettuccine Alfredo? I have trouble sleeping. Eat a big Scooby Doo sized sandwich. Let the sandwich do the work. If you take Ambien, you can wake up naked committing felonies. But if you eat a sandwich, nothing really happens. Can you say Amen? Amen. This lady feels very strong about that. I'm gonna keep my distance from you. So I ate a big sandwich, got on the plane, went to sleep. The plane. I woke up when the wheels hit the ground in Fort Worth. It was 4:40 in the morning because you lose time. And church was at 9. But I'm telling you, when I slept on that plane those four hours, whatever it was, three and a half, I felt really good. And so when I woke up and opened my eyes, I felt the Lord speak to me. Can you do what you just did every week? I said, yeah, I could do that. He said, then have church Saturday night and then do what you did. Just add another leg. You finish Friday, fly out, fly back. There's no problem. I thought, yeah, that's right. So it's not hard. Say something with me. His yoke is easy and his burden is light. One more time. His yoke is easy. I kind of broke the sentence up wrong. Give me a do over false start. Say this. His yoke is easy and his burden is light. From the time I was in Bible college. I never felt an anointing. Anybody telling you how hard it was going to be in the ministry. And when I was in youth camp in children's church, I never felt an anointing when people told you it's going to be hard out there serving the Lord. And then I found out from the Bible why it never rang true. In my spirit, his yoke is and his burden is light. So God will have you do a lot, but he'll give you the grace. Let me see, Tessa. This one's in First Corinthians, where Paul said, I labored more intensely than the other apostles, yet it was not I, but the grace of God working through me. Grace is not a covering for sin. If there was, there would have been no reason for Jesus to be full of grace because he didn't have any sin. Grace is an empowerment to live in victory over sin and to accomplish the things that God has called you to do. How are there this many people here tonight with the church packed out up into that upper prison looking section? Appreciate you guys up there. Why is it so? I don't know. It's the grace of God. If somebody asked me to tell how we did anything we did, I want to know how to tell. Someone gave us a $5.3 million building. That's the grace of God. The owner of the soccer team in Pittsburgh, when they found out we were getting kicked, we overgrew that building, told us to use his 75,000 square foot training facility for free. That's the grace of God. This builder saw us getting vilified in the news and built us this church for $70 a square foot. And we're paying them off. He fronted the money so that construction would never have to cease and said, just pay us. We're paying it all back. But there's no pressure. I said, there's no pressure. Proverbs 10:22. The blessing of the Lord makes a man rich and addeth. So I tell you from the word of God, you're not only going to increase this year, you're going to increase effortlessly. You're going to increase with joy. It won't be you doing it, it'll be the grace of God working through you. If you receive it one more time, clap your hands and give the Lord, Lord, a mighty shout. Can you say amen? So those are the scriptures that people think we don't know. And I want you to know I know them. You know, it's like, how many have ever heard somebody say, what about you know, like, if you shared this message, how many of you have a friend or family member that would go, what about Job? Did God put a book in the Bible called Job so that there'd be one out of the 66 books where it's like, just so you know, I can change my mind at any point. No Job without going into all the theology. Well, you know what? Maybe he should go into the theology of it. Can the devil attack a New Testament believer the same way he attacked Job?
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If you let me touch him, I'll get him to curse you to your face. By the way, did Job live after Christ, during Christ or before Christ? Did he have access to the blood of Jesus? Could he pray? Father, in the name of Jesus, could he take authority over the devil? No. Did he have a Bible? No. He's in a worse covenant. He was in a Motorola flip phone covenant, Windows 95 covenant. Because he was actually before the Levitical covenant. And every covenant improved on the one before. Can you say, amen, let me touch him and I'll get him to curse you to your face. Job had to prove his justification himself. Is the New Testament believer justified by their works? How are they justified? In who? Say Christ is my justification. So you someone can come to the altar that ran drugs for the cartels for 25 years and give their life to Jesus Christ. And Satan can't say, well, let's see whether he'll serve you or not. Because Christ is their justification. And they taught me in Bible college and they were right the way to remember the word justification. In the Bible, justification means just as if I. Just as if I never sinned. So now if Satan went to tell God, let me touch Jonathan, and I bet you I can get him to curse you. First of all, Satan can't even get up there anymore. The Bible says Satan went up to heaven to make war and prevailed. Not so we are seated where Satan has no ability to prevail. Secondly, who put sickness on job? Satan. Job 2:7. Then Satan went forth from the presence of God and smote Job. There it is. So Satan left the Lord's presence and struck Job with terrible boils from head to foot. Who took Job's stuff, God or Satan? Now, what about Job? Again, just like with Paul. Try to read the whole book. Go to job 42:10. How does it end? With him full of boils, crying? When Job prayed for his friends, the Lord did what in fact the Lord gave him. Now, if God doesn't like increase or wealth, how come he didn't Take the wealth. It doesn't say God took his wealth and Satan gave him twice as much. The devil is the author of sickness. How many pediatric cancer centers are there going to be in the New Jerusalem? How many handicapped parking spaces were there in the Garden of Eden? Sickness is the foul offspring of its father, Satan, and its mother, sin. When sin came into the world, sickness came with it. And when Jesus dealt with sin, he didn't just deal with the sin. That's why the same blood that cleanses you of your sin takes care of all your sickness and all your disease. If you receive that tonight, one more time, shout a living Amen. Malachi. Four, two. But for you who fear my name, everybody say, that's me. The son of righteousness will rise with healing in his wings. And you will go free leaping with joy like calves led out to pasture. On the day when I act, you will tread upon the wicked as if they were dust under your feet, says the Lord of hosts, the dead. That's four. Four. Yes. Five. Yeah. Okay, so go back to three. On the day when I act, you will tread upon the wicked as if they're dust under your feet. Let me see. Amos 9, 13. I'm going to tell you what the Bible says. The end time church is. We're not only a victorious church, we. We're an extremely victorious Church. Amos 9, 13. The time will come, says the Lord. Let me see King James. Behold, the days have come, saith the Lord, where the plowman shall overtake the reaper. And the treader of grapes, him that sows seed. That's talking about faster than the seed can be planted, the harvest comes in. Now, let me ask you a question. Do you feel that if there's only a handful of years left before the Rapture. Let me put it this way, Pastor Alex, let me use you for an example. Stand, if you would, stand over by that speaker. Okay. He's 1900, I'm 1800. If I was born in 1800, I'm going to live 100 years. How long does God have to fulfill all his promises in my life? Good. You guys okay with math? I mean, I chose even numbers, for crying out loud. I'm 1800, he's 1900. This is when I'm born, that's when I die. How long does God have to give me all my harvest? Because think of it. When you sow seed, there's not going to be anybody that goes to heaven. And God says, listen, I was meaning to get you your harvest back, but I ran out of time. No. So God has a hundred years to do what he's going to do. Also, I would even add this to it. Let's say he's 200. Let's say he's 400 years down the line. And let's say Pastor Russell or myself, revival today, Global pursuit. All the things that God was going to do in 400 years, now he's. And I'm not saying Jesus is coming this year, but let's say it's 2034 and I'm 2026 now. All the things that in the old days he would have had 400 years to do. How long does he have? How did you do? Better with the hard one than the easy one. Eight years. So this starts to help you understand. How can somebody start a church? Some of you come from churches. It's been at 50 to 100 for 80 years. There's a church by our church in Pittsburgh. It's a little white church. It's been there since the 1700s. They've never grown past 50 people. So how does somebody start a church in October? And they're having a meeting for the second week and there's close to 600 people in a 500 seater with no advertising, no celebrity preacher or anything. Just grew. It's a sign. It's not a sign that Pastor Alex is special or I'm special. It's a sign that in the last days, says the Lord, the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes, him that sows seed, supernatural acceleration on your harvest. Begin tonight in Jesus name. If you receive it, can you say Amen? Somebody shout increase. And I'm not going to keep you here long. I'm out of here, I promise you, because I got to go over to Arizona. But I want you to catch this on the. On the final night. Put Mark, chapter 4, verse 28. Mark 4, 28. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself. First the blade, then the ear, then the full corn on the ear. Somebody shout, increase. I was telling that young lady that came from Utah. There was a guy in our church in Pittsburgh that was a police officer, I think, in New Jersey, and he got shot through the spine and severed his spinal cord. That's paralyzed. Paralyzed. And so my Uncle Ted was preaching at our church and he said to him, he prayed for him and said, now, from today, you're going to get stronger every day. Well, you know, that sounds like just something a healing evangelist would say so he doesn't have to get you out of the wheelchair. But he goes to my church. From today, you're going to get stronger every day. I want you to close your eyes and put your hand on your belly where your spirit is. Say, thank you, Father, that from today I'm getting stronger every day. First the blade, then the ear, then the full corner on the ear, so you don't judge a thing before it's time. I went there and I wasn't healed. Why? Because we weren't healed. By the time you got to the lobby, everybody say, first the blade, then the ear, then the full corn on the ear. So he said that you're going to get stronger every day. Well, you know, I'm on the road almost every week preaching. But then I came back one Sunday and he was out of his wheelchair using a huge heavy walker. Walking real slow, but walking. I said, man, that's amazing. Couple more months, he had a regular walker with the tennis balls on the front. Then he went to a heavy walking cane that has the four prongs on it, walking with great difficulty. Then he switched to a normal cane. Walking with great difficulty. And then, I'll never forget it, one of our Friday night miracle services. I lined everybody up like I've done here to lay hands on him. He had his cane, I laid hands on him. And he took the cane and said, here you go, Rev, and flipped it to me and then just started walking to the car. He got stronger every day. You might have thought the battle is over, but it's not. It's not over until the child of God wins and you have the victory. And the world's gonna see that you serve a risen Jesus. Whatever you're going through, you're not battling it. You're getting stronger every day. In Jesus name can you say Amen? Another scripture, Matthew 13:12. Somebody shout increase for whoso. This is Jesus talking. This is why I don't understand. People don't understand increase. This is a spiritual law. Whosoever has to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance. But whoever hath not from him shall be taken away. Even him that hath. He was saying, one translation says, to he who uses well what he's been given, he'll be given even more and have an abundance. But to he who squanders what he has, even the little he has will be taken away. So you have these pastors. Pastor Russell alluded to it. I don't like. I don't defend myself much, but I don't like when people attack people. I like. So, you know, you would think if A young man like Pastor Russell just turned 40 like a week or two ago. What happened? He started in a barn that grew, got a building that grew. Then there were people. Seattle's a huge city, so he started other campuses in different parts. You know, how old is Pursuit Church? How old has it been since you got your first permanent building, Pastor Russell? Seven years. So you got these reformed guys that seem to just live on the Internet. Why do you have to preach at all the places? Why don't you have another pastor there so you don't have to fly around? Pastors don't grow on trees. Not good ones. I wrote back to the one guy that wrote that. Why does Pastor Russell have to have to fly around all Sunday and preach? I wrote, doesn't your website show about five ministers every week that fall into sexual immorality? And you're going to give him a hard time for being careful about who he puts in. The Bible says suffer not a novice to teach and lay hands on no man suddenly which is talking about be slow to promote people to leadership like that. Then Spokane calls him now. What happened to that church in Spokane? Liberal rainbow flag doctrine ran it into the ground to he that squanders what he has, it will be taken away and given to him that hath. Say this with me. The reward for good work is more work. When God likes the job you're doing, he keeps giving you more. And because he loves you, he won't let it crush you. He multiplies his grace unto you to get the job done. I'm talking about the ministry tonight. But this is going to start to work in tire shops, construction companies. Every child of God that's connected to the kingdom of God, you're going to have. It won't matter what's going on in Iran and Iraq, in Israel, it's not going to have any bearing on God's covenant over you. Can you say amen? So then, you know, as I'm going to church, I find this on who, who. I can understand if it's an atheist or somebody like hates God. What is this guy flying around to churches for? When you have another Christian that's a pastor, why is this guy. What would you rather. So if Russell has an affair, then he makes the news that way for being a bad pastor. Then if he decides to not be content to have a little church and instead grow his church, do you think Seattle needs less churches or more churches? You don't think that's God? Somebody turning a church building for free or whatever they did it for. We want you. We want you here. We want that in this city. You think that's the devil doing that? No, it's God. You know, whether you like Kenneth Hagin or not, he said something funny one time at an Assemblies of God ministers meeting. This evangelist got up and talked about how he built a tent and a storm blew it down and ruined his tent. He said, we put that tent up, but God blew it down. Kenneth Hagin got up and said, God's not blowing tents down, he's putting them up. God's not destroying churches. He's building churches. Can you say amen? You know, how many of you saw what happened in Minneapolis at that church? That's the devil. That demon possessed people that feel free to storm into a church. The devil's not looking to grow churches. The devil's looking to disrupt the ones that are there. But through, thank God, we're not under the dominion of the devil. The devil is under the dominion of those that are in Christ. And your church is going to grow in the face of all opposition. In Minneapolis, you have those people. In Seattle, you have Antifa. In Abuja, Nigeria, you have Fulani herdsmen. Wherever you are in the world, the devil has some kind of thing. If you were in. In Matamoros, Mexico, you'd deal with the drug cartels. The faces change, the names change. But at the back of every hindrance is the devil. But I've got good news. The devil that's at the back of them is subject to the child of God who has Christ alive on the inside of. Let me see. So this is a pastor in Florida that just feels free, Thinking about getting revival today. Brass knuckles made, but it's a bad idea. Okay, so watch this.
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Campuses have become all the rage in big EVA circles. These are churches where one preacher who apparently has the oratory skills, which ranks somewhere between Socrates and Spurgeon, it's so important that he.
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So he's mocking him. He thinks he preaches so well that he has to be the one that preaches at all these churches. First of all, he's up on the carbs. That guy's chair must be made out of whatever Captain American Shield's made out of. Let me ask you a question. When you read the apostle Paul, who said to follow the pattern of right living that you saw from him. Did Paul have a church and preach once on Sunday for 80 minutes, and then six days later come back and do it again? Or did he? What did John Wesley do? What made America different than Canada? Somehow? The Preachers here were not content, man. You don't have to show you, but I know what I'm going to say. And it came from the Holy Ghost, and I like it. Somehow the preachers here different than Europe, Pennsylvania, where I'm from. Sylvania is a synonym for. It's old English for woods. Penn is William Penn who It was Penn's woods, Pennsylvania. He was in prison in England or in Europe for preaching something that offended the king. His dad was a naval captain and the England owed the dad money. The king, because he was friends with his dad, said, we'll let you out of prison if you'll recant what you preached. And William Penn said, I'm willing to make this prison sell my coffin before I apologize for anything I've said. Now I'm going to tell you something. When that person told me a couple people, when you preach during COVID you could die. And they put that in my head. I think I kind of did die that day. I crossed a line like William Penn did. I'm not concerned about my life on this earth. I'm going to do what God said, regardless of the cost. And there's something you should know. When you decide that you don't care about the consequences of this world, God puts his finger on you and will open the good treasure of heaven to do what he's called you to do. When William Penn said that, that that day, I'll die in this cell before I stop preaching what I'm preaching, he was a Quaker. Quaker with their primitive understanding, allowed for the moving of the Holy Ghost. They owed his dad a bunch of money. And this is back before they had the Federal Reserve and could just print as much as they want. So he actually had to get the wealth and pay people. So they paid his son the land that's now Pennsylvania. You know why I know this so well? Because this is what I told the city council where our church is. Just so you know, this state that we're in has stronger protection for churches than the U.S. constitution. Because the first thing that guy wrote in Pennsylvania was that no church will be infringed on from expanding their expanding or acquiring property unless there's illicit illegal activity going, like brewing alcohol or prostitution kind of thing. So I told him, make sure you remember that this is not a Denny's. You're not putting a restaurant out of business because they found cockroaches. This is the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, you might not be a pastor, but I'm trying to impress in you Tonight you might look like everybody else, but you're not like everybody else. You have a blood covenant with God through Jesus Christ. William Penn wanted there to be churches. He wanted Philadelphia to be a model of a Christian city. And it was for a long time. And then guys like John Wesley started 800 churches. You know, I don't give two pools about people criticizing me for having a jet. They criticize John Wesley for having a horse because horses aren't cheap. They're still not cheap. How can he take the Lord's money? Buy a horse? This is the same. Same crap. If God wanted men to ride around, he'd have given them hooves. That's what they said. Whether little churches died. America is not in the shape it's in negatively because of a lack of churches. There's 420,000 churches in this country. But if they're little and they don't win souls and they won't multiply and they don't have power, the devil can run them all over with ease. But if one person stands up and says, I'm not going to be small. I'm not going to do little things for God. I want to do more for the Lord. I want to multiply. I want to be a soul winner. I'm going to do things for the Lord. There was a man from Russia coming to these meetings. He's the guy who built this. This building. I mean, you know, what a. What a unique man to have this and could make money on it every weekend as a wedding hall or banquet. No, I want it to be a church. And I'll get. I'm going to give it to you to use and build that. I want there to be a church here. That's why we preach prosperity. There shouldn't be one guy in the city that can do that. How about the guy that's helping us in Pittsburgh? He's the top builder, and he told all the painters and Sheetrock people, you're going to take a loss on this one. No, but we're only charging for labor and materials. Cut it. Cut it down further. But we'll lose money. You're going to lose money, but you're going to lose a lot more if you don't, because I won't use you for any of my houses anymore. Yeah, he's. He's like. He's like. I don't even know if he's 40 years old yet. You think God wants, like, nine people that can do that? Hobby Lobby and Chick Fil A and that's it. All the preachers outside of their door asking for money? Or do you think he wants everyone that's in covenant with God to rise up in the blessing of Abraham and remind the devil the wealth that's in the hands of the wicked belongs to the just. I'm looking at a new generation of Abrahams, Isaacs, Jacobs, Chick Fil A's hobby, lobbies in this room. Hallelujah. Hey, don't lose that video. But put Psalm 112, 1 to 3, and then verse 10. I don't like that guy. Looks like Michael Scott's uglier brother. Praise the Lord. How joyful are those who fear the Lord and delight. No bank. I meant to think that. Sorry. And delight in obeying his commands. Keep going. Their children will be successful everywhere. Your child has a learning disability. Shut up. Maybe you're just not a good teacher. Everybody say, my children are blessed. I said that in second grade. They said, your child's having trouble reading. I said, I know. I noticed that. That's why we sent her to school. Sounds like your problem. Her eyebrows went way up. You want to hear what else? I said? I said, listen, I know she might be having a little trouble reading. I said, but have you ever heard of Helen Keller? She said, of course. I'm talking to the. Of course I have. I said, did you ever hear of her teacher? She said, yes. Ann Sullivan. I said, that's right. I said, ann Sullivan taught Helen Keller how to read, and she was blind and deaf. I gave you a sighted hearing child. I'm not asking for a miracle. Stick it out, huh? Don't tell me my child has trouble. Her grades look terrible for a long time, and, boy, she's. Anybody ever seen my daughter online or anything? She's the sunniest person, other than Abraham that I've ever met. Have anybody ever seen the guy that travels with me, Abraham? He's, like, too happy. Smiles real big. It's like six in the morning. Like, turn your face down. Lower your eyebrows. It's too early to be that happy. Camila's like that. Camila. One time came home, I helped her study. She said, hey, Pa. You know, Pa, my wife's from Puerto Rico. I thought, maybe I'll get papi. That's what she says. We always said, dad, I got Pa. Like, I'm from Dothan, Alabama, or whatever. Hey, Paul, I got my math grade back. I said, how'd you do? She went great. I got a C. Well, that's one way to look at it. The C is not for congratulations. But you know what? She came back this last quarter. Her grades used to look like the back of an offensive line. 54, 63, 64. Like that. D's and C's, some F's. And she came this last time, and she had all A's and a B made honor roll. Her B is in Spanish, even though my wife speaks Spanish as her first language, but she speaks Puerto Rican Bronx Spanish, which is not a passable version of Spanish. Hallelujah. It's like speaking West Virginia English. It sort of counts. So she comes in and says, hey, Dad, I made the honor roll, man. I took her out and got her a super nice gift. Now, I'm going to tell you right now, do you think she'd have ever made honor roll if I said, you teacher said, you have trouble learning? And I was like, with her just standing there telling other adults she has trouble reading. They said she doesn't do well in school. No, I didn't say that. I actually went after a teacher. Tell me my child has trouble learning. My child's bright. Camila, you're smart. You're a blessing. Just tell your children instead of telling them, one day you're going to be paying the heat on this place. One day, you're going to be one day going to be paying the air conditioning on this place. Instead of talking like that, look at yourself and say you're blessed. See this place we live in, God gave it to us. And he's going to be better to you than he was to me. Because your children, children shall be blessed everywhere they go. Somebody say, my children are blessed. My son's on drugs. Yes. Anyone can say facts. Say what the Bible says. Call those things that are not as though they are. Child is blessed. My child will serve the Lord. My son will preach the Gospel. Their children will be successful everywhere. An entire generation of godly people will be blessed. They themselves will be. These people tell you that if you serve God, he'll make you wealthy. Yeah, because it says it right there. You know how I learned to say that? From sounding out the words these preachers tell people. If you serve God, he'll make you wealthy. Yeah. You know why? Because you read. Books are like paper talking that you hear with your eyes. You don't need to know the original Hebrew to understand they themselves will be wealthy. In fact, in the King James, it's stronger. Wealth and riches shall be where? Not in the church, in your house. God doesn't have you give so he can help keep his work going. He's not pbs Trying to keep Big Bird on the air, supported by viewers like you. He owns all the silver. He already owns all the gold. But when you give, you receive, your gift comes back to you. Pressed down, shaken together, running over, I will cause men to give liberally into your bosom. Get ready for the best year that you've ever had. Hallelujah, tony. We started building that building with 700,000 in the bank. It's almost done. There's 2 million in the bank, everything paid. And there's more coming. Because if you attack, blessing, if you rejoice, if you give God praise, quit being downcast, quit being refuse, throw up your hands and give God praise. Thank him for the victory. Whatever you're fighting tonight, the battle is not yours. The battle is the Lord's. If you believe it, shout Amen. Like, Say it so the devil can hear you. I'll never be broken another day in my life. Christ has redeemed me from all the curse of the law. You be seated. Wealth and riches shall be where in your house. And their good deeds will last forever. So when you have an abundance, you can do good works. Now, I'm not bringing this up, like to hold it over your head. I will never mention again, week one, what did the Lord speak to me to do? So what here, 5,000amonth. Pastor works full time. I want to get it started. You know, you can work full time when you have 140 people. I don't think this is going to go away. They were up from 160 to 220 last Sunday. It's going to keep. It's going to increase. I'm telling you, everything you put your hands to is going to start to increase. It's unscriptural for it not to increase. So I want him to be able. I want to do for him what I wish somebody would have done for me. I don't know if that's the golden rule, but it's like golden rule ish. Instead of whining about what people didn't do for me, now that I'm in a position, I decide I'm going to do for people. I'm going to make people smile, going to help people. That couple that pastors flew here from Europe. Yeah. Romania. They never complained or anything. I just liked. I liked how that wife was willing on Friday to drop everything, take her kids to her parents and just fly across the country to be in these minions. She said, we watch you on YouTube every week in Romania. Then we went up last night and I just thought, you know, Feeling good. Feeling. When I get in the anointing, I lose a lot of money. A lot. You know, my head's like, no, easy. Still got that church to finish building. Who cares? I didn't get that money by saving it. I got it by sowing it. So I looked on chat GPT. What's the average salary of someone who lives in Romania? They told me in their currency, I said, what is that in US? 2,000 US a month or 2,200 US a month is average salary. So on my way out, I said, hey, Abraham has all your information because you gave it to him when I flew the wife out to be with the husband. Because the last thing you want is the husband getting an impartation and the wife doesn't have it. You can always spot that in the ministry couple. The husband's on fire and the wife's got Samsonite suitcase bags under her eyes. So I want her to be in the meeting still. And so we flew her here. That's nice to do. And then second, I said, I just want you to know this is on my way out the door. I make a big deal of it. In fact, I didn't even tell her. I told the husband, I said, I'm going to give you 2,000amonth for the next year just to give you like a. So then you can focus on the church that you planted. Europe needs full gospel churches. You want to know something? As I taught my Bible college, if you'll get this, this was my first thing that I taught them. No one cares about you. I said, if you'll remember that, you'll never be disappointed. People should care, but no one cares. If you learn that, people don't care. But Jesus cares, and he's your source. But you know what? Every once in a while, God will send somebody around. I decided I'm going to care. I decided if it comes down to my last $2,000, then I'm already finished anyway, so I might as well make something happen for someone else. What you make happen for others, God makes happen for you. Let me see. Verse 3. Their good deeds will last forever. Now, the husband, I think, was shocked when I told him. He just froze. And then when Abraham went over to get the information from the wife, I guess he told her. And I saw her. And upstairs, she was on her knees with her hands lifted to God, crying. You don't have to worry about that anymore. See, for me, I got other things to worry about. That's a small thing for me, but I remember what it was like, it used to take more faith for me to get $3,500 to come in a month than it does for me. Our budget's going to be like 35 million this year. I don't even think about it because I have a better revelation now. But I remember what it's like to have no money. I remember what it's like to live on a frozen freezer thing of mozzarella sticks for the last seven days until your paycheck clears. It's actually not the worst. I'd take it over casserole. I basically married a Hispanic just to not have casserole anymore, to be honest with you. So when you have God fill your storehouse, you can instead of hoping. See, if I was a normal evangelist, I'd have to hope enough. I hope money comes in so that I can pay to get to Arizona. But then those days come to an end and God begins to fill your storehouse with grain. And now you can be like Jesus instead of being like the disciples. Hey, these people are going to want to be fed. Let's get out of here. No, you feed them. It would cost a fortune to feed people like that. All right. Just was seeing where you're at. Sit everybody down and tell them I'll be with them shortly. We have a little boy's lunch. But what's that in such a crowd? Give it to me. And he gave thanks for it. Everybody say, give thanks. There's a great song we used to sing in church. Give thanks with a grateful heart. Give thanks to the Holy One. Give thanks for he has given Jesus Christ his son. And now let the weak say, I am strong. Let the poor say, you said it. Amen. Because of what the Lord has done, Give thanks. Until you thank God, nothing multiplies. Then he blessed it. Everybody say the blessing. Just like there's a supernatural curse that comes on you when you're on drugs or living in the world. You know, drug dealers make a lot of money if they do it right. But it all disappears all the time. You know, one of my friends that dealt drugs, that's a pastor in New England, he said they had a saying. A drug dealer's money has no home. You can't put in the bank, you can't when you file your taxes. Right, Drug dealer. So you always have to be spending it and worried about it. But the Bible says when you get saved, you're not putting your money in a basket with holes anymore. It begins to multiply. They themselves will be wealthy, and their good deeds will Last forever. Now, this is why I go after people like this. Because it irritates me. Verse 10. The wicked will see this. See what? They'll see you prospering and they won't like it. They'll grind their teeth with rage. That's what that guy's doing on that video. Why are you pastoring in Florida and commenting on somebody in Seattle? Why don't you mind your own freaking business? You know, in a race. Did you know that in a race you can get disqualified for cheating? And you can also get disqualified for. For running into somebody else's lane? And the Bible tells you that in the last days, God's army will not break their ranks. Every man will march in his lane. I have people that I don't hang around. Those people. What do you think about Benny Hinn? I go months without thinking about Benny Hinn. What do you think about Joel Osteen? I don't think about him. I'm a heterosexual. It's kind of weird if you're sitting around thinking about Joel Osteen. Anybody have notebook paper? I'd like to sketch his face. Yeah, you need to get delivered. You're down. I'm not saying you're a homo, but you're going down the trail if you're not careful. You can always spot people that aren't doing anything because they always have comments on everybody else. Your unmarried aunt that's been. That's gone through four marriages has a comment on who you should marry. Your unemployed uncle has a. Has a thought about the car that you bought. I made up my mind. The dogs can keep bar working. The caravan's rolling through. I'm gonna do what God said to do. I'm working for the Lord. You can like it. You can not like it. But I'm gonna get it done. You found that, Tessa? Wow. That's an obscure scripture. Good job. This is talking about God's end time army. The attackers. Everybody say attack. See that. That guy with that terrible tie? He can't understand Russell's mentality because he's a defender, not an attacker. Paul wasn't defending. Paul was on the attack. Paul went to places where he was the only Christian. And when it was done, it was a Christian city. There's going to be people like that that come out of this room. The devil will rule the day. He didn't take you out when he had the chance. They'll. Anybody getting anything out of tonight? And scale city walls like soldiers. Straightforward. They march never. What? Let me see. King James. Out of curiosity, Seven. And they shall march everyone on his ways and they shall not break their ranks. 8. Neither shall one thrust another. But each one will walk in his own path. If you understand, increase. If Russell wants to get nine helicopters, it doesn't limit God's ability to help that guy go to Old Country Buffet or whatever he likes to do. Buy neckties, whatever. And say this with me. God has enough for everybody. Yeah, I don't watch Russell. Russell has a helicopter and a jet. I only have a jet. God, where's my helicopter? No, let people do their own. Let everybody run. Even I got people from our church in Pittsburgh here. I don't text or call or. Hey, I heard that you're doing this. I think you should. No, let preach. I'm not the Holy Ghost. Disseminate the word of God. Let the Holy Ghost deal with people and go enjoy. Let me have the scripture. Tessa, where Paul, this is a command from God. I'm going to echo this command on this final night about minding your own business. Let every man work with his own hands and mind his own business. Now, I threw freaking in there, but that's not in the Bible. Let us give you this command that we gave you when I was with you that every man should work with his own hands and mind his own business. That you study to be quiet. Yeah, we should add that in our Bible college. I want to have a course on just shut up 101. Be quiet. Commenting on everybody's life. All the preachers that are here, you're going to have to make up your mind. And there's a heavy tide right now. There's a tide for you to be a commenter on other people's ministries. You're either going to be a commenter on people's ministries or have a ministry that forces other people to comment. And I made up my mind. I'm not going to discuss other people. I'm going to do what the Lord told me to do. And I hope one day there's 14 YouTubers that make their full time living doing commentary on my sermons and how I mispronounced something in the Greek. Enjoy yourself yourself with your channel. But I'm not going after YouTube clicks. I'm not going after lakes. I'm going after the lost and the hurting and the broken and people that haven't heard about Jesus. And I'm going to tell people, if that's you, go ahead and do what you're already doing. Clap your hands, let the Lord know. I'm not here to be a commenter I'm here to be on the attack. Let me see. Nlt make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands. Just as we instructed you before. There's two Facebook groups in Pittsburgh that the whole point of the group is to attack our church. They're a cult. He's a cult leader. He runs drugs to the cartels. That's why he has that jet. Make up whatever you want. Don't make any difference to me. If they wrote that I killed my grandmother, I wouldn't go on to comment and tell them I didn't. I don't care. I genuinely don't care. People are going to talk and people are going to say false things. Jesus did everything 100% right, and they accused him of every kind of sin there was. Can you say amen? So why do you think you could do. And he said the same way. They hated me. They're going to hate you. So just learn to love it. So let me see this guy play from the beginning again.
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Campuses have become all the rage in big EVA circles. These are churches where one preacher who apparently has the oratory skills, which ranks somewhere between Socrates and Spurgeon, is so important that he must be the one who preaches in all the campuses. Now, most of the time, this is accomplished.
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How long have you had the church's book? In three weeks. Where'd you want to get? Is there a Costco that sells pastors? Three weeks there, chubby. Keep going.
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But apparently being live via video is just not impressive enough for Russell B. Johnson of the Pursuit Church.
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If you're live via video, they criticize you for that. There should be a pastor that's there. Then the pastor goes there. There should be another pastor. Where is this bullpen of pastors? The Pacific Northwest that really want the chance to pastor, but Pastor Russell took their church. You want to know something there, my body mass index challenge friend? There used to be a pastor in that church, and he started teaching that homosexuality is okay, sin's okay. There is no hell, there is no heaven. So Jesus booted him out of there and put one in that'll get it right. Why are you criticizing no matter what's done? I thought you were talking about increase tonight. You want to know what holds 95% of Christians back from increase? People's opinions. They're not willing to increase because they know somebody. You know how many people, once I was given that jet, told me somebody gave a jet to my ministry, I couldn't use it. Our People would flip out. All right, then walk. But you know what? The same spirit that told John Wesley shouldn't spend money on a horse. I could show you Pentecostal papers from the 1920s. These preachers that spend thousands of dollars on a motor car. It's like the devil's just anti moving. In fact, the devil is anti moving. What's this guy doing? I'd like to look up his church. I guarantee you if I could get it on DraftKings or Polymarket, I'd put a lot of money on it. That that guy's got less than a hundred people sitting and eating. You can tell he's sedentary by his body type. He doesn't move. So a guy like you can't understand. You can tell by Russell. He never stops moving. When he stands sideways, you can't even see him. You're looking at two different people. One's large and immobile. One's very thin and never stops moving. Because there's two ways to do Christianity. To sit still and do nothing. Let me ask you something. How do you interpret go ye into all the world and preach the gospel? God is raising up a new generation of ministers that won't sit still. They're going to sow the seed. Let me get something else off my chest and then I know this is sort of turning into group therapy, but thank you. Every other thing in life you learn from the people that are doing the most. Somebody with a business that takes in 70,000 a year doesn't criticize, Oracle or CrowdStrike. They go to a conference and learn how they're doing that. Religion is the only thing. And it's been that way forever. Jesus had an awesome ministry, did he not? So did they start inviting him to all the temples or did they ban him from every temple? Religion has the most stupid, learning disabled, brain dead spirit. It celebrates lack. It celebrates empty altars, it celebrates empty churches. But if you read the Bible, the early church went from 120 to 3120, then to 5000. Then they filled the whole of Jerusalem. Then they took the world and shook it upside down. That's the fire that's coming into you tonight. This guy's got like six good summers left criticizing Russell. Keep going.
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His four different campuses via helicopter service ends at the first campus. He runs outside, hops into his helicopter, which looked like it was ripped right out of the credits for Magnum PI.
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How much does it cost you as a helicopter? Roughly fifteen hundred dollars. Three campuses in a big city so you can get to Them. He preaches six times every Sunday. He just wants to get his name out there. It's already out there. You know, if your name's not out there and you got three huge churches in Seattle, the secret's not to start another one in Spokane. People in Washington don't even know where Spokane is. Keep going.
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Now, I understand wanting to reach more people, I really do, but it's something you don't.
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I promise you. You don't. I promise you, if you had the same commitment to food that you did to the gospel, you'd be the one on a helicopter. Keep going. Point.
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You have to ask the obvious question. Whatever happened to just raising up another pastor?
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We should be three weeks. Whatever happened to just raising up another passer? Where's the pastors? Why don't you send one that you've raised up? You haven't raised anything but your blood pressure. Keep going.
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Raising up elders, training men to preach and sending them out to shepherd congregations Instead. We've got this guy acting like every Sunday he's on the Lord's Day. Aristor.
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Booze. Right. And that is what provoked me to preach tonight. That if that's what ticks that religious spirit off, let's all covenant together tonight. That God, I'm going to do what you've called me to do. I'm going to multiply and not be small. Going to take your word that produces the blade, then the ear, then the full corner on the ear. And I'm not going to back off, no matter who likes it or who doesn't like it. I'm not going to let some spirit that criticizes horses and cars and helicopters and planes. I want to know how many videos that guy has done on why Jeffrey Epstein needs a helicopter or why Jeffrey Epstein needs a plane. All these Calvinists. By the way, the Calvinist church has been around for about 4, 400 years. They're in decline. They're dropping under 20 million worldwide. The Pentecostal Church in a hundred years has gone to 100 million people in America and they feel it's going to be a billion by the year 2050. You should shut up and take notes because we're not online. You can start blogs, you can start YouTube channels, or you can go out and start churches. I'm going to tell you something. How can somebody not online understand? How can somebody not understand that in the Pacific Northwest it's good for there to be more churches, not less churches? And when you say what happened to raising up pastors, where are they? First of all, he did start a Bible college. How old's the Bible school? Six months. They're talking about him. Look, he's been in the ministry 60. How come he never raised so many pastors? Look at him. Looks like he's like 23. Looks like he came here illegally in a shipping container. And he's doing everything he can to see the Pacific Northwest shaken by the power of God and the religious criticized. But you know what? God brought him to South Carolina to let him know. There's 600 people that say, well done. We're behind you. We'll keep it up. Keep knocking, knocking the devil around in Seattle. Keep knocking the devil around in Portland. I'm telling you today you're not battling flesh and blood. You're battling devils that want you to be incapacitated and immobile and small. But tonight, the anointing of increase comes on you. Take those zeros off the screen. Put the time up. We're going to be here all night. Holy moly. She said, I'm here as long as you're here. I love you. I love you, South Carolina. Praise God for Woodrush, South Carolina. Praise God for the people that are in this assembly. May God's grace multiply on you tonight. Let me read you two more scriptures. I'll leave you alone. You be seated real quick. Put isaiah. Sorry. Genesis 49:22. Everybody say, increase the blessing of Abraham. That was on Joseph. Joseph is the foal of a wild donkey. The foal of a wild donkey at a spring. One of the wild donkeys on the ridge should be more archers attacked him savagely. They shot at him and harassed him. But his bow remained taut. And his arms were strengthened by the hands of the mighty one of Jacob, by the shepherd, the rock of Israel. Let me see. King James. Genesis 49:22. Joseph is a fruitful bow. Even a fruitful bow by a well whose branches do what? So they're telling you that Joseph and the same blessings on us. You're like a plant that's by a well and has a water source. And when they build a little thing to contain the tree, your branches go over the containment. Russell was supposed to have no church. He was forbidden from having a church. He got kicked out of a denomination for the crime of starting a church. But Russell is like a fruitful bow that's connected to a well. And his branches run over the well. Now think of it. Joseph was sold into slavery. Could the slavery stop him? He was put in prison. Could the prison stop him? So when they were Pronouncing the blessing, his father said, there's something on your life that you're connected to a well. And no matter what they build around you, your branches run over that barrier. Every hand lifted, every barrier that's been erected it to keep you where you're at. Tonight the blessing of God kicks in and your branches go over that wall. In Jesus name. Now I'm going to tell you something tonight. If I was here and I was 72 years old, I want to say, well, that was a good message for these people. I'd say, father, I thank you that from 72 till 82, I'm going to have the best 10 years that I've ever had. In Jesus name, if you're with me, can you say amen? One more scripture. Everybody say increase. So there. There's a covenant secret of increase. I'm gonna give you one more revelation. Revelation. What you may ask. 10, 9 through 11 KJV, this is a pretty powerful revelation. And I went unto the angel and said unto him, give me the little book. And he said unto me, take it and eat it up. And it shall. Keep that up, and they shall. It shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey, which is talking of several concordances. Write this. The ingesting of the word of God, which causes you to carry a burden in your stomach. But it's sweet when you speak it out. And then when he ingested that word, what happened? 10 and I took the little book out of the angel's hand and ate it up. And it was in my mouth sweet as honey. And as soon as I'd eaten it, my belly was bitter. And what happened? And he said unto me, once you receive the word, thou must prophesy. Everybody say, I must preach. Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel is not written to evangelists. It's written to the believers. I must declare the things God's done. You must prophesy again before many. Now, here's the four phases of ministry. If you allow God to keep increasing you without trying. Everybody say, many people. So you go from a little bit of people to a lot of people. Then phase two, many Canada started calling for me after a little while. Phase three, everybody say different languages. It was funny, right? When I received this revelation, I got called to go to Amsterdam to go preach. And a girl met me in the lobby and she said, I translated your book on healing into German. I wanted to get your permission because the German people need this. That's a demand before I got this revelation. I hated preaching with interpreters because nine times out of ten, they wreck it. Like, do we have a second mic real quick? Run it up. Okay, Pastor Russell, you exhort something real strong, and then I'll be an interpreter. So it'll be English to English. But I'm going to show you what interpreters do. So stand up by me. Preach something real strong. Your pain has an expiration date, but the promises of God do not. Your pain as an expiration date. The promises of God do not. So he came talking. It's like I'm dragging this guy around who seems like he hates me so that you've had it happen. So I. You. That's what I would feel like when I was preaching with an interpreter. But then when I read this, I thought, no, it's a promotion that people from other languages. Everybody say other nations. Now, this was January. Now, I'm not wasting time. I was supposed to take off in 15 minutes. But it's my plane, so takeoff times, whenever I mosey on in. Praise the Lord. But having said that. So peoples, that's what happened here, went from 300 people to 600 people. Peoples and then nations. You know why it's funny when I got this revelation, that's why I'm taking a little extra time. Just a couple more minutes. Because when you get this, this will start happening in your ministry. That now. Now, don't go over blind to some place in Pakistan because some guy contacted you on Facebook. I'm saying that specifically, do not go to Pakistan because somebody contacted you on Facebook. The Bible says, know those that labor among you. If you know somebody from Pakistan and they invite you, knock yourself out. But I would not wander over there right now. So everybody say, many people, many nations. When I stood up on this stage to speak to 80,000 pastors, evangelists, and church workers in another nation that were there from 120 nations of the world. I was chuckling as I started speaking, and I actually said, just for my own amusement, I said, they've asked me to speak today to you, and I want to share what I've learned in my almost four years of pastoral experience. These guys have been pastoring for 40 and 50 years, have thousands of churches, and they, we want you to. Why don't you have me teach the Chicago Bulls how to play basketball while we're at it? But, you know, everybody say it's supernatural. See, everybody say, many nations. These were 80,000 ministers from 120 nations. Show it real quick. Just the first. Hallelujah. Six airplane hangers full of people. Keep going. Jesus. The fire that you carry will never go out. You will never lose your zeal for the word of God. I'm gonna have you play from the beginning. You know why I had that guy pray for me? He didn't pray for me. I asked him to. He said, what would you like prayer for? I said, lay your hands on me and ask God to give me the grace that you have that caused you to start 8,500 churches. He's 84 years old. He preached an hour in the morning, hour in the afternoon, an hour at night, Monday through Saturday, on his feet. No store. I want what you have. And so he did. And you saw some. Father help him to start many churches in America. I love it. Praise God. See that guy in the green shirt with the pattern? He likes me. The other people are making up their mind. Go from the beginning in the name of Jesus. The fire that you carry will never go out. You will never lose your zeal for the word of God. You will never lose your zeal for the Holy Ghost. You will never become ashamed of the power of God. Today I prophesy your desire to fit in with the religious world, your desire to fit in with the political world. It dies in the anointing tonight in Jesus name. From today you will never forget that you're a peculiar people, set apart to God. Carriers of his life, carriers of his power, carriers of his anointing. When you lay your hands on the sick, voltage from heaven will shoot through their body. Cancers will dry up and die when they see you coming. The devil is already packing his suitcases case and leaving your area. Receive that today in Jesus name am I say many nations. It is impossible. Say many nations are opening up to me now. Businesses in Jesus name. And then everybody say many tongues. So I felt Iran was going to pop open. I prophesied it. We already played the video Oct. 24, 26, 2024. And I started getting our words translated, our messages translated by AI technology. Million dollar technology. We were the first ministry to acquire it and use it. Because it doesn't do crude. It does my voice in that language and it doesn't edit out the crowd noise. So the only thing it doesn't do is match my mouth because it's not Pixar. But here's me in Russian. Decent, right? The only problem is we found out in Spanish, every time I say crap, it's not good. So God knows what I'm saying in Russian and Arabic. Might be the first preacher to get taken off air for profanity, but I'm doing my best. Can you say Amen? Everybody say many languages. And then what's the Last 1? Revelation 10, 11 Kings. I'm telling you, I got this revelation from Bishop Dag Heywood Mills in 2024. And all this happened once I got it from the Bible. And then I got a call last Easter. Text message, we'd like you to invite you to have lunch with President Trump at the White House for Easter. And so I figured there's going to be 1100 preachers there. There was 38 people, and Pastor Russell was at the same table as me. We were the two youngest people there by like 110 years. Carolyn Levitt was sitting in between us, the press secretary. She goes, so why are you here? I said, I was asking myself the same question. She said, you have a big church. I went, nope. She was, like, intrigued. I said, you should talk to Russell. He's got, like, huge churches in Seattle. Then people just wonder, why are you here? You want to know why I'm there? Because there's an anointing that takes you from few people to many. Now, every hand lifted as we close. Everyone here that has a small business or a small church. The next time you say that, man, angels slap you in the mouth. Your small church with few people, your small business with few customers by this anointing and grace is going to going to many people, many customers. Your small altar calls will become giant altar calls. Your small influence is becoming large influence by the increase of God. This is the hour of the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Number two. Everybody say many nations. Preachers that are here, different nations are going to open up to you. There's going to be a nation that's hungry for what you're carrying. You're going to take the light of God back to a nation that's hungry and thirsty. You know, if you're having trouble getting meetings in America, do you ever think you're not called here? What about Belgium? What about France? There's a young pastor from Montreal, so he speaks French and English. He felt called to go to Paris, and he said, what should I do? I said, go. There's nobody there. So he went. They were at 3,000 people in less than a year. There's nations that, if you went to preach there right now, your church choir would be the best church choir because it's the only church choir. There's nothing. So instead of now, if you're called, I'm called here. But I promise you If I wasn't, I'd be happy. When our planes flying internationally and stuff. I look at those little towns, I've looked at all the little towns in Iran and stuff. I'm already pulling plan and where to have a meeting. I have a call into the White House that as soon as Venezuela stabilizes a little bit to go down there and hold a stadium wide crusade. I'm telling you by the grace of God I endeavor to be the first open air crusade evangelist in the nation of Iran in the history of the world. We're going to do it soon. As soon as this regime flips, we're going to get the gospel to hungry people. Let me see that plane. Those are my two pilots from Iran. And this is the guy that talked to me with his eyes real big. When I came to the plane he said I, I was in Turkey and we met up with people for dinner and some of the people that were there were Iranian girls. They said what do you do for a living? I said I fly a jet. They said for who? A movie star? I said no, it's a church. They said can I see who it is on Instagram? He showed the girl me and she said that's who I listened to on YouTube. I gave my life to the Lord listening to him because we heard me in Russian. You don't have Farsi, do you? I felt like, what did you say? Yeah, that's fine, that's okay. I felt Iran was gonna flip and so I did it ahead of time. And so I took that as confirmation. Now these guys have family in Iran. Without going into a long story, I have a friend in the CIA and I mean in the CIA. He texted me a picture when the Ukraine Iran or Ukraine Russia war broke out of him on the plane with the munitions for Ukraine with the little pamphlets and sent me a video. He's. He's a weapons dealer. I said he's not a Christian yet. I said please let me know the second I can land my plane. And I ran and it's stable to do it meeting. He said, I will said same with Venezuela. See, I'm not interpreting these things. Republican Democrat. I see it that this gospel must be preached to all nations. And God is going before us and clearing the way out. God is going before us and clearing the way out. So this is what that girl. There's nothing for them and they don't speak English. So I felt to do Farsi. We have Farsi follow up materials and, and Farsi YouTube channel and it. I took those. He was freaked out. He said, they know you in Iran. Well, here's Iranian Jonathan. How many of your needs, all your needs, according to his riches in glory through Christ Jesus. Back to me. So when that guy said that, I said, let me know when it. When we're ready to fly that plane over there. I said, you can go see your family and drop me off to preach. You know what he said? Now, Christian pastor, you got to be careful. You know what? You know what the Iranian said? Let me tell you, they're hungry, too. It'll be a big meeting. The people want to know about Jesus. They don't want Islam. They want Christ. Tell me Japanese me. Do we have it in Japanese? Japanese now, like permanently. Oh, awesome. Go ahead. Here's Japanese Jonathan. The emptiness of religion without God and have declared we must have the Holy Ghost. So they're not just going to get the word. They're going to get the Holy Ghost in power. They're going to get the word of faith. They're going to get healing, going to get the gifts of the spirit. We're going to be the first ones in. The other groups are. Listen, anybody getting this? The Mormons are going to have to play from behind. Jehovah's Witnesses are going to have to play from behind. All the other religions are going to have to play from behind because we're going to be the first one in. And they're going to get the genuine, raw, unfiltered, Pure thousand milligrams, $5,000 caviar. Gospel of Jesus Christ, unaltered, unabridged. We're gonna do it together. Thank you for sharing the Jonathan Shuttlesworth podcast.
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