Let's go back to 1 Timothy 2, we're going through the book of 1 Timothy.
I'm going to share with you something today. It might actually be one of the most important sermons I have preached here in a long, long time. Remember, Paul has sent Timothy back to Ephesus to clean up a mess. He says to Timothy, you've got to reestablish the base.
You've got to strengthen the base. This church has fallen apart, Timothy. And so Paul is giving him instructions, and I shared with you a couple of weeks ago, I really feel like God is saying the same thing to cross assembly.
It's time to strengthen the base. And at 1 Timothy 2, verse 1, Paul says this, therefore, I exhort, first of all, that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and reverence. Now, in this passage, Paul gives some foundational concepts of prayer that's not just for the church at Ephesus in the first century.
I think it's for us today. You've heard me share this passion that God has spoken in my heart and said, we are a church that prays, but we are not a praying church, and we've done some things to get better, but we're not there yet. And the apostle Paul says to Timothy, listen to me, Timothy, if you're going to straighten out this church and make this church at Ephesus, the church that God has called it to be, I want you to return that church back to being a praying church. And so let me give you some foundational concepts of prayer that I see right here in this passage that's going to be for us as a church at cross assembly.
First concept is this, prayer is the most important thing we can do as a church. You say, where do you see that in this passage? Look at verse 1, Paul says, I exhort.
In the Greek, that's an intensive word. He's saying, Timothy, I'm begging you, I'm pleading with you. Make that church a praying church.
He says, not only exhort, he says, I exhort first of all. In other words, Timothy, this is to be the priority of the church. Now, in the New Testament, our handbook, our church growth handbook, our handbook as to how we are to do what God has called us to do is the book of Acts.
I want you to do this sometime. Go through the book of Acts and underline every time it talks about prayer, it is all over the place. The church was birthed in prayer.
People came together and for 10 days, they prayed and the church was birthed. The Holy Spirit came after a time of prayer. We see over and over and over again, the book of Acts portrays the church as a praying church. We wonder why don't we see people being raised from the dead like they saw in the book of Acts because we're not praying like they did in the book of Acts. Why don't we see demons cast out like we saw in the book of Acts because we're not praying like they did in the book of Acts.
The book of Acts is very clear. If we're going to be a supernatural church, we've got to be a praying church. I love what Oswald Chambers says. He says, prayer doesn't equip us for some greater work, prayer is the greater work. And so, honestly, the leadership team and I, the last couple of weeks, you know, I told the leadership, I was like, I know it feels like I'm springing this on you. One of the pastors said, you're not springing this on us, you've been talking about doing this for 21 years here at Cross Assembly.
Man, it's time that we do it. We're going to bring on, and I don't need applications and resumes, thank you, I don't need your resume, but we're going to be bringing on a full-time prayer coordinator that's going to help us do things like this, have all-night prayers consistently here at Cross Assembly. It's going to help us to do some type of 24-7 prayer ministry. Have seasons of prayer and fasting.
This is too much for a volunteer to do. We're going to put our money where our mouth is and start investing in prayer because I want us, listen to me, I want us to be a praying church. And so, Paul says to Timothy, the most important thing you can do as a church is to be a praying church. And incidentally, look at what Paul specifically tells Timothy to pray for. He says, by the way, Timothy, I want you to pray for our government leaders. Do you see that in verse 2?
And do you see the motivation? Not that we'll make America a Christian nation again, no, no. You pray for your leaders. And keep in mind, there's a madman on the throne when Paul says to Timothy, pray for your king, pray for your government leader, pray for Nero. I want you to pray for your government.
Why? Just so they'll just leave us alone and we can have a quiet, peaceful life. Do you see that? Not so that we can, again, put one party into power, not... Timothy, you pray for the government just to leave us alone, let us do what God has called us to do so we can mind our own business. Do you see that in verse 2?
That's really what he's saying. Because for the last 2,000 years, there's been kingdoms in conflict. The governmental kingdoms of this world constantly try to step over and get involved in the kingdom of God.
It's happened for the last 2,000 years, it's happening today. Some of y'all asked me about this new bill that's in Congress, it's called Bill 3589, which would designate church security teams. You know, we got a response team here at Cross Assembly. Because there's all kinds of crazy stuff going on.
It would designate church security teams, response teams as, quote, paramilitary groups and make them illegal. I've got two questions. With all the church shootings going on out there, what would motivate a politician to try to get us to lay down our arms when all this mess is going on? Y'all heard about what happened in Joel Osteen Church last week? That's one question. Second question, why does this insanity keep coming from one party?
That's one I'm a little bit curious about. And so somebody asked me, well, Chad, if this bill passes and churches can't have security groups, what are you going to do? What are we going to do? We're going to keep exercising our Second Amendment right to defend ourselves against bad guys. That's what we're going to do.
Isn't that interesting? Things haven't changed in the last 2,000 years. Paul says to Timothy, Timothy, you be a praying church and pray the government would just leave us alone and let us go win the world for Jesus Christ. So, number one, prayer is the priority. Second principle I see from this passage is this, prayer is spiritual warfare. The Bible connects praying. See, this is why I can't go to most, I'm not bashing other denominations, but I can't go to most Presbyterian Baptist prayer meetings today because it's an anatomy lesson.
Pray for his goiter, pray for her arthritis, pray for his hospital stay. I believe in praying for healing, but prayer is so much more than just praying for healing. Prayer is pushing back the kingdom of darkness.
Prayer is spiritual warfare. And you see that in two parts here in this passage. Number one, Paul says, do you see how verse 1 starts out with? He says, Timothy, he starts off with this word. Therefore, now you've heard me say this before, any time you're studying the Bible and you see the word, therefore, you got to ask yourself, what's it there for?
It always connects a previous thought to a new thought. So, when Paul says to Timothy, therefore, I want the church to be a praying church, you got to see what's before that. And keep in mind, in the original, there aren't chapter inverse divisions. That wasn't part of the original.
We added that later on. So, what goes right before therefore? Right before that is if you look at the 1st Timothy 1, verse 20, Paul talks about two troublemakers in the church, Hymenaeus and Alexander, that he says, Timothy, I've handed these men over to Satan. In other words, there's some type of satanic attack coming against your church. That's verse 20. Then he says, therefore, I'm telling you, pray. Implication, prayer is spiritual warfare that counteracts the activity of Satan.
Does that make sense? Let me show you a second place where I think I see spiritual warfare in this chapter. Look, if you would, over at verse 8. Skip down to verse 8.
Paul says, I desire, therefore, that men pray everywhere, lifting up holy hands. Now, what's he talking about? He's probably referring to something that took place in the Bible back in Exodus 17, when God's people are just minding their own business and the Amalekites, who's a shady people, numbers kind of connects them to the Nephilim. So, there's a demonic element here. They come against God's people. They're fighting God's people. Moses goes on the top of a mountain, and he starts praying. And when his hands are lifted, holy hands in prayer, the battle goes the way of the people of God.
When Moses' hands got tired, the battle went the enemy's way. Hands raised, going our way. Hands lowered, the enemy starts to advance.
And so, two men come up underneath his hands and just raise up. We don't want those hands coming down anymore. We're going to hold your hands up in prayer. And I think what Paul is saying to Timothy is, when you, as a church, come against satanic attacks, I want you to do the same thing that Moses did several thousand years ago. I want you to raise your hands in prayer, lift your hands up in prayer, because when we pray, God moves and forces back the kingdom of darkness.
Y'all wouldn't have that. Prayer is spiritual warfare. And again, we see this all over the Bible. In Acts chapter 12, a demonic king named Herod Agrippa is trying to wipe out the church leadership. The church prays, and God sends an angel and fights a battle. Prayer is spiritual warfare. Daniel chapter 10, Daniel is praying for his people, the people of Israel. And as he prays, God sends an angel, and that sparks a 21-day battle with wicked spiritual powers like the Prince of Persia and Michael the Archangel. But Daniel prayed, and there's a spiritual battle. Ephesians chapter 6, it's a spiritual warfare passage. And Paul ends his passage on spiritual warfare by saying this, verse 18, you pray always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit.
Prayer is spiritual warfare. Now, one of the reasons I come up with the idea is y'all got to fund it, okay? So I've come up with a great idea, but it's going to cost some money, okay? And the good news is we already have the money to fund this thing.
The bad news is it's still sitting in the checking account. So I said to the leadership team, I said, I want us to pull out the stops and have a prayer center, prayer leader, all that kind of stuff. And here's what I said to the leadership, pastors, elders, and deacons. I said, what's happening now in our prayer ministry at cross assembly, it's very strange. And it's not just that we're a weird church, okay? We are a weird church, but that's not all that's going on. You have a weird satanic culture that's now starting to be reflected in the body of Christ.
There's something weird going on. We're in the last days. Satan knows his time is short. When an animal is cornered, a vicious animal, you know what he does?
He starts to lash out. That's what Satan is doing right now in our culture. And in our prayer room, it's very interesting, we are ministering to a lot of people, I don't know names, they don't tell them the names, but I keep getting our intercessors saying, we are praying people who are dealing with three things, cutting, self-mutilation. Number two, suicide, a spirit of suicide.
And then number two, three, gender identity issues. Cutting, suicide, and gender identity issues. Do you know all three of those are signs of satanic demonic attacks? In Mark 5, verse 5, Mark connects cutting with a demon possession, demon harassment, suicide. There are two suicides in the Bible, both of them dealt with demonic stuff. Saul goes to visit a witch, and the next day, he commits suicide.
Judas, it says the spirit of Satan entered him, and then he goes out, and he kills himself. There's a connection there. And the gender identity issue, it's kind of interesting, in Luke 4.34, a person who is demonized, harassed by demons, starts to use the plural pronouns to describe a singular person, which is what you're seeing going on in our society right now. And here's what...y'all got to keep me accountable to this. We can't get angry at the transgenders, angry at the homosexuals, angry at the lesbians. Here's what we need to understand. There is a satanic battle going on, and they are being harassed by the devil. We are not here to condemn. We are here to show them freedom and liberty that can only be found in Jesus Christ.
That's what God's called us to do. And on this thing of gender identity issues, in 1979, the journal... Now, this is an academic journal. It's not a Christian journal. It's a secular academic journal.
They did a case study in 1979 that you couldn't do today because academic freedom is dead today. But in 1979, the secular journal, the Archives of Sexual Behavior, did a case study on a man named John who believed he was a woman trapped in a man's body. Psychologists worked with him and recommended that he go through, quote, a gender reassignment procedure, a sex change operation. He changed his name to Judy, and he started the process of changing genders.
Now, this is a secular academic journal that's talking about this. At the insistence of a Christian friend of his, he went to a Christian doctor who recommended that he let Christians pray over him for deliverance. Multiple demons were cast out of him over a three-hour period, and one of these demons identified herself as a female entity. And when that demon left, he said he felt his masculine identity return to him. Doctors followed him over two years and were amazed to see that he showed a clear reversal in gender identity. And here's how that journal article ends. What cannot be denied, however, is that a patient who is very clearly a transsexual by the most conservative criteria assumed long-lasting masculine gender identity in a remarkably short period of time following an apparent exorcism.
The academic world back then got it better than the Church of Jesus Christ. There's a spiritual war going on for men and women and boys and girls, and it's time to stop getting angry at people who are cutting themselves, angry at people who identify as X or Y. It's now time to say Jesus Christ is the one that can save souls, change identities, give people new starts, new trajectories. It's time to pray and come against the forces of darkness. And incidentally, while you're praying for your leadership, pray for your pastors.
Would you do that? There's a spiritual warfare going on with pastors. I'll be honest, I've been in this town 21 years. I've seen men rise up and fall, pastors come into the pulpit and fall.
I've seen it all over the place. And now, I'm not the smartest guy in the world. It's taken me a little time to realize there's something demonic going on in the heavenly realms. In fact, you all know who Peter Wagner is? Peter Wagner was a professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, sharp guy. Peter Wagner tells a story from his friend, Bill McRae, who was a chancellor of two evangelical institutions in Toronto, Canada, the Ontario Bible College and the Ontario Theological Seminary. Bill McRae reports that while he was a pastor, it was brought to our attention that a group of Satanists had committed themselves to pray to Satan for the elimination of a number of our evangelical leaders in the city through marriage and family breakdown.
You get that? He said, I found out that Satanists in our area were praying actively that pastors would fall morally, is what he was saying. During that summer, the cell group, satanic cell group in Ontario was honored at a particular Satanist gathering for being so effective and successful during that year.
Why did they win the award? McRae says, in the course of the previous year, they had succeeded through their prayers to Satan to eliminate five prominent pastors in the city through immorality and marriage breakdown. He says, we're very much aware of the desperate need for prayer, but I must frankly confess, none of us was quite as alert to the reality of satanic warfare we were fighting until it was all over. McRae also tells a group of his friends who went to a restaurant in London, Ontario, and observed a prayer meeting in a corner booth at the restaurant. These Christians introduced themselves as fellow Christians, but the prayers quickly identified themselves as members of the Church of Satan in London, Ontario. They admitted or bragged that they had been praying that night specifically to Satan for the destruction of a certain pastor in that city.
McRae says they mentioned his name, and he's a very good friend of mine in one of the leading churches in the city. It once again brought home to me the dark reality of satanic battle in which we are engaged. Here's my question, whose prayers are being answered? The Satanists or the church? Probably the Satanists because the church isn't even praying for their pastors.
We are oblivious to the war that's going on all around us. When I talk about prayer, this isn't a tame, quiet, fold your hands, light a candle, burn some incense, and repeat some kind of prayer in a book. This is prayer that sweats. This is a prayer that cries out. This is a prayer that sometimes will fall out in the presence of God because we were so intense to see Satan pushed back and the kingdom of God expanded. That's warfare kind of pray. And so, number one, prayer is the most important thing we do. Number two, prayer is spiritual warfare.
And then number three, prayer changes things. Now, I got this from a Calvinist, it sounds Pentecostal. I got this from a Calvinist this past week. He says, if you read the book of Genesis, when God created the earth, he raised up the human race to be co-regents, co-rulers with God over planet earth. He told us that the world is yours, manage the earth. God says to the human race, you and I are going to manage this together.
You're going to be my co-regent. The human race fail, but the concept of co-ruling with God, that's still here. We partner with God in managing planet earth by being prayer warriors. When we pray, we are co-ruling, co-managing with God. Which, I thought you said God is sovereign. Why pray if God is sovereign? Here's why we pray if God is sovereign, because God has said, I am sovereign, and I have sovereignly decided there are some things I'm not going to do unless you start praying for him. That's why we pray. When we pray, we see God move, and we see that again here.
Look at a couple of these words that Paul uses here. He says, I want supplications. That word, supplications, it comes from the Greek word to lack. If we lack something, we need healing, we need finances, we need a breakthrough. Paul says, if you lack, pray, because when you pray, God moves, God works, God changes things. He said, I want intercessions.
That comes from the Greek word to fall in with somebody, to be in alignment with somebody. And so my mother needs this, my son needs this, my daughter has gone off the rail. Paul says, then I want you to fall in line with them. I want you to put one hand on the throne of grace and the other hand on that child and let your prayers be a conduit through which the power of God flows. I want prayers, I want intercessions. He says, I want thanksgiving.
Do you see that? I was going to skip over this, but it's actually important. I counted nine times in the gospel when Jesus prayed, nine times. Before he prayed, he thanked God.
Ain't that interesting? Paul says the same thing in Philippians. He says, if you're worried, stressed out, I want you to pray with thanksgiving and you ain't going to be stressed out anymore. Y'all believe the word of God is true? If you're stressed out, it's because you're either not praying or you're not thanking.
Both of those come together, your circumstances may not change, but you'll change. And so Paul says, Timothy, I want supplications, prayer, thanksgiving. Because when you pray, God provides, God begins to move. That's why we pray. We don't pray, I heard somebody that didn't believe in miracles today. We pray just so that we can kind of change ourselves. Prayer changes you, but that's not the only reason I'm praying. I'm praying because I actually believe when I pray, God might actually do something.
He might actually provide. I believe God still heals. God still provides.
God still... You believe that? See, some of y'all have heard me share this story before. One of my favorite stories from George Muller. George Muller raised $12 million for orphanages in the 1800s just through prayer alone. There's one time when one of his orphanages with 300 kids, there was no food left. He's a great prayer warrior, but these kids are hungry and there's no food.
And so they asked George Muller, what do we do? He says, the children are to be dressed and ready for school. He told the house maker of the orphanage to have them take the 300 kids to the dining room and have them sit there at the table.
She said, why? Why take 300 kids to the dining room when there's no food? He said, take them to the dining room. When the kids had sat around the tables, he thanked God for the food, and then he waited. George knew God would provide food for the children as he always did. Within minutes, a baker knocked on the door.
Mr. Muller, he said, last night I could not sleep. Somehow I knew that you'd need bread this morning, so I got up and baked three batches for you. I'll bring it in. It was enough food for 300 kids. Soon there was another knock at the door. It was the milkman. You know, in those days, they delivered milk. The milkman said his cart had broken down in front of the orphanage, and the milk would spoil by the time the wheel was fixed. He asked George if he needed some free milk.
George smiled as the milkman brought in 10 large cans of milk. It was enough to feed 300 thirsty children. You believe that's coincidence, or do you believe that when we pray and we do it in God's way, God actually moves, you believe that? Why do we pray? Because we believe prayer changes things.
So watch this. Number one, prayer is the most important thing we can do. Number two, prayer is spiritual warfare. Number three, prayer changes things. And then number four, prayer and holiness go together. Look at verse eight.
Paul says, I desire therefore that the men and women and children everywhere lift up what kind of hands. This is where I get called a legalist right now. I get called a legalist by the very same people who've never seen an answer to prayer.
Maybe you're doing something wrong. Maybe it's not legalism. Maybe it's just following the Word of God that there's a connection between lifting up holy hands and seeing answered prayer.
And this isn't the only place we see this. We see this in places like James 5, 16, the effective fervent prayer of A. Anybody know what the next word is? Righteous man or woman availeth much. Psalm 66, 18, if I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord's not going to hear me. Psalm 24, 3, who may ascend into the heel of the Lord, who may stand in his holy place, he who has clean hands and a pure heart. You want to know why I'm starting to emphasize holiness among God's people?
You've heard me say this a thousand times. I don't care what kind of weird, kinky sex they're having out there. I don't care what's going on on that. I don't care what I care about what's going on in the body of Christ.
Because we need God to move, and God moves through prayer. But God will not answer a people who are playing it loose morally, and that's what's happening to the Church of Jesus Christ in America, where we're playing it loose morally, and then we wonder why we're not seeing God move supernaturally. I don't know if you saw this last week, a mega church in Ohio. To celebrate the Super Bowl and to attract the church with all the young people, they actually had a Bible hiked on stage, put down, and the pastor kicked the Bible through the field goal. Do you know Muslims wouldn't do that to the Quran? Muslims won't even put anything on top of their Quran.
Muslims have more respect for a demon-inspired book than you and I have for the Word of God. We had our annual business meet, and we were celebrating. It was a great year last year, but I did some calculation here. And according to the stats, the average church member here at Cross Assembly, if your tithes are any kind of reflection, you make about a $10,000 a year salary. That's what you're living on. We are robbing God of our tithes and offerings.
We are robbing God, and then we're wondering why we're not seeing God move in our midst. We're playing it loose morally. Now, my wife told me, I don't think you ought to share this illustration here. She just said it a few minutes ago. But she's not in charge. I am.
She's not looking at me, is she? Okay, all right. Do you know what the number one song in America last week was? It was a song by Layton and Megan Thee Stallion. In a nation that claimed 65, 70% people claim to be Christians, that tells me a lot of Christians bought this song. We got Christians in our church that have these kind of songs on their playlist.
I'm going to do my best to read you some of the lyrics here. I just want to kick this S-H-I-T off by saying, F-y'all, my euphemism for a female genitalia is so famous it might get managed by Kris Jenner next. All you B-I-T-C-Hs are weak on the Bible. He said he F'd Megan, and now he the topic.
These hoes don't be mad at Megan. I ain't scared of a euphemism for male genitalia. We listen to that stuff in the body of Christ, and we wonder why God's not moving. I'm just telling you, it's time for a revival in the church of Jesus Christ, but it's going to be a revival of holiness where we say, I want to walk with clean hands and a pure heart.
And I'm just telling you right now, if you're trying to play it loose with the world, you're trying to play it loose morally, you're watching things you shouldn't watch, you're listening to things you aren't listening to, you're robbing God, you're living a godless life, just keep your mouth shut. Your prayers aren't going to puncture heaven. But when the church finally says, I want Jesus. I want Jesus more than that song on my playlist. I want Jesus more than anything else.
I want to walk with clean hands and a pure heart. When that starts to happen, oh my, you will see signs, you will see wonders, you'll see miracles, you'll see people being raised from the dead, you'll see what I've been praying about for a long time. Ambulances on the way to wait and med, taking a detour on Yonkers Road and pulling in here because they're finding out the people getting healed physically at cross assembly. When God's people start getting serious about God and walking with clean hands and a pure heart, that's when you're going to see God move. So church, the most important thing we can do is pray. When we pray, we're fighting the forces of Satan. When we pray, prayer changes things. We see the supernatural unfold. But we got to get our head on straight here and start taking a walk with Jesus seriously.
We're going to have to start saying no to some stuff and turning our back on some stuff. Revival's coming, but it's going to be a revival of holiness, church. Church, I want you to stand with me right now.
Can we, now look, this was the lecture, now let's have a lab. Can you take the next few moments and lift up holy hands? And as you look at these hands, you say, Chad, these hands are not holy. There's some things in my life that should not be there. I've been playing it loose morally. I've been putting things in front of my eyes I shouldn't be looking at. I've been saying things with my mouth I shouldn't be saying. You're telling me I'm not going to see a revival of prayer until I get things right?
That's true. But I got good news for you, the blood of Jesus Christ can cleanse you from all unrighteousness. And for the next few moments, can you just lift up your hands and allow the Spirit of God to convict us? I got things, church, I got things in my life that aren't right. I've been running my mouth against some leadership and I've been, there's some things I've been doing that just not right.
Not leadership in our church, don't worry about it, just it's my own thing. But can we, I got to confess some things. I got some attitudes that are unholy. Just for the next few moments, can we allow the Holy Spirit, Spirit of God, convict us?
Spirit of God, take the surgeon's scalpel and cut us right now. Show us where we have sinned against you. The most, three most powerful words in the Bible are, I have sinned. Prayer warriors, before we can go any further in this prayer ministry, we got to say to God, I have sinned, God forgive me in the name of Jesus Christ. Father, I repent, there's some things in my life going on that should not be here. God have mercy upon me a sinner.
Would you do that right now? Just confess to the Lord. And if the word of God is true, and it is, you can rest assured that the blood of Jesus Christ your son is going to cleanse you and me from all unrighteousness.
But we got to get right with God, church, we got to get right with God. Father forgive us, there's some things in our lives that shouldn't be here, Father forgive us in the name of your son Jesus. I plead the blood of Jesus over me. Father, I plead the blood of Jesus over this church, over our families. Father, this is mommas and daddies here that have opened portals to the demonic in their homes.
God help us to shut those portals back. Help us to be watchmen, watch women on the wall who watch these attacks of Satan and stand against them. God have mercy on us, cleanse us, purge me with hyssop and I will be clean.
Wash me and I will be whiter than snow. God have mercy upon us. Church I shared this verse with you last week. I said Satan is real, Satan attacks, but we overcome Satan according to the book of Revelation by the what? Blood of the lamb. Those of us who were born again are covered in the blood of the lamb. When we fail, we have cleansing through the blood of the lamb. Satan can't come against us when we're walking under the covering of the blood of the lamb.
Demons tremble when they hear those words, the blood of the lamb. We thank Jesus for the blood that was shed at the cross 2000 years ago. At the cross, Satan thought he had won his victory.
He suffered his greatest defeat at the cross when Jesus shed his blood for us. Now can you lift your hands and thank Jesus for his blood that was shed. Thank him for dying in your place. Thank him for the victory that you have in him. Let's bless the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and thank Jesus for his precious blood.
Do that right now wherever you're at. Let's thank Jesus for his blood. So you, you made a way across the great divide, left behind heaven's throne to build it here inside. And thank you, Jesus, for the blood applied, and thank you, Jesus, it has washed me white. Thank you, Jesus, you have saved my life, and brought me from the darkness into glorious light. It is nothing stronger than the wonder-working power of love, love, love, love, that calls the sons and daughters. We are ransomed by our Father through love, love, love, love, Jesus, the blood of Christ. Thank you, Jesus, for the blood of Christ, and thank you, Jesus, it has washed me white. You have saved my life, I'll be from the darkness into glorious light. And I look around, I see a bunch of warriors, men and women, bold, strong warriors who fear nothing but God and hate nothing but sin. Through people like us, we can storm the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of God, amen. And so I want to say to the warriors, here's your margin order, your margin orders did not change from last week, the same margin orders, and there it is, Chazak be'amatz, alta'rot dorachet, hi imcha adonai elehecha be'ol ashat elach, which means cross assembly, be bold, be strong, y'all want to be afraid, and you won't be terrified of anything, why, why, because the Lord your God is going to be with you everywhere you go this week, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit we pray, amen and amen, God bless you, let's go change this world for Jesus Christ.
