### Quotes for Outreach

1. "Sometimes you've got to descend to a sin, amen, sometimes you have to walk through the valley of the shadow of death to get up to the next mountain that's going to give you faith and character, oh, we don't like that word, faith and character, it builds that by the way, amen, everything you go through builds faith or it should, it builds our faith and it builds our character, amen." [15:35](Make raw clip | Make vertical clip | Make vertical captioned clip)



2. "I talk to a lot of people. was talking to a guy at the laundromat just the other day. And he was telling me all of his problems. And I said, there's a better day coming. You know what he did? He ignored me and just kept talking about his problems. And so I said it again. There's a better day coming. It's coming. It's coming. I know there's issues, but there's an ascending that's coming." [18:24](Make raw clip | Make vertical clip | Make vertical captioned clip)



3. "And getting there, there's always these ups and downs and rounds. There's a boulder field. When you first come out of tree line, Brother Hal, you know exactly what I'm talking about. You've been around those parts. Amen. You come out of tree line and when you come out of that tree line, there's a camp over here on the right. And you look and you've got to cross this boulder field that kind of goes that direction." [20:45](Make raw clip | Make vertical clip | Make vertical captioned clip)



4. "Sometimes we've got to go down to go up. Sometimes we've got to have problems to have goodness. Amen. It's all in your... It's all in your viewpoint of it. Amen. I'll just tell you this. I never look at it. If we're on trails, and I can name a bunch of them. A bunch of the trails and the mountains that we climb and all of that. And I can sit here and talk about them." [18:48](Make raw clip | Make vertical clip | Make vertical captioned clip)



### Quotes for Members

1. "That's repentance. I've turned, done an about face away from it. I've repented. Turned from that. Amen. It gets me to a place to where God can do something in my life. It does. It gets me to that place to where now God can, He can work on this now." [39:36](Make raw clip | Make vertical clip | Make vertical captioned clip)



2. "But I feel like there's a call. That God gave to Moses. That he's given to the church in these last days. Come up higher. Come up higher. Come up higher. There's that drawing. Come up higher. But, but God, I got this congregation. But I need you right here. I need you up here. Come up higher." [43:00](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Making vertical captioned clip)



3. "Heaven's waiting. And here's the key to all this. If I'm not transformed, then I've still got sin in my life. And that's hard for us to accept. It's hard for us to accept. We've got to let Him transform our lives. We've got to let Him change us and make us into what He wants us to Not what I want to be." [33:59](Download raw clip | Download cropped clip | Download vertical captioned clip)



4. "That repentance. That dying to self. That letting this flesh and this body get rid of that flesh. That's what the Apostle Paul is talking about. I can't glory in my flesh. I have no... I have no confidence in my flesh." [37:10](Make raw clip | Make vertical clip | Make vertical captioned clip)



5. "You see, when I forsake those things which were, which are behind, I've forsaken all that. I've, I've often wondered this. Woo, I feel the Holy Ghost. I've often wondered this." [39:09](Make raw clip | Make vertical clip | Make vertical captioned clip)

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, amen, amen. The Lord is definitely in this place, but he's waiting for you to reach out to him, amen. All you got to do is reach out to him, amen.

I'm reading from the book of Philippians, chapter 3, beginning with verse number 1, amen. Philippians 3 and 1. I've known for a couple of weeks what I was going to preach today until I got here yesterday morning and got on my face before God, and God began to change it. Amen, God's going to speak to us.

I don't ever tell you what to do. I don't ever tell the worship team what I'm preaching, and it's going right along with what they sang. It's definitely in line with what God wants to do, amen. Amen.

And this scripture, you're not going to get what I'm totally talking about by reading this scripture, but we'll get there. Everybody okay? We'll get there. The Lord will get us there, amen.

Philippians 3 and 1: "Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe. Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. For we are the circumcision, which worship God in spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. Though I might also have confidence in the flesh, if any other man thinketh that he hath whereof, he might trust in the flesh, I more. Circumcised the eighth day of the stock of Israel, the tribe of Benjamin, Hebrew of the Hebrews, as touching the law, a Pharisee; concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless. But what things were gained to me, those I counted loss for Christ. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.

That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; if by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended, but this one thing I do: forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize—everybody say the prize—of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus, amen.

This is Paul giving us some instruction. The church at Philippi, he's writing to them, and he's letting them know, you know what, there's only one thing that is needful in this hour, and that's, I seek to know him. I've got to know him, amen. I want to talk about the need of the hour, amen, the need of the hour. You can be seated.

The disciples were in a boat. It was dark, it was nighttime. They were in the boat because Jesus said, "Get in the boat and go to the other side," as he went up on a mountain to pray. They're rowing as hard as they could. They didn't have Evan Rudin, they didn't have Johnson, and they didn't have any of those to help them out. It was Peter, and James, and John, and their muscle in rowing a boat, and they're rowing for everything they're worth.

And the storm comes up, and it kind of stops them in their tracks. They're not going anywhere, and they're scared, and their water's coming over the side of their little boat, and they're about to drown. They're about to capsize and drown, and all of a sudden, they see a figure walking through the fog of the rain and the storm, and it's Jesus.

And the Bible declares this. The Bible says that he would have walked on by if they hadn't cried out to him. They hadn't said, "Hey Jesus, help us." Tell somebody today, unless you cry out, you got to cry out to God, amen. He'll walk right by you. He loves you, but he wants you to cry out to him, amen.

And that's blind Bartimaeus. What it did for him, it got him his answer. And I figured out a long time ago, I've already stated this, but I'm going to restate it. Everybody has a need, but some of us just aren't desperate enough to call out to him yet. We're not desperate enough to cry out to the Almighty God, but I'm telling you today, God is waiting to hear your voice.

He wants somebody to cry out, "Jesus, Jesus, I need you," amen. You see, you may be drowning in your troubles, and your trials, and your sickness today, but if you'll just cry out to him, he is here right now. Elbow your neighbor, say he's here. Y'all didn't obey, amen. Elbow your neighbor, he's here. He's going to answer your cry. You just got to cry out to him, amen.

And if we'll do that, I promise you, God wants to do a miracle. He wants to do a miracle in this room, amen. A lot of times in the Gospels, Jesus asked people, he said, "What do you want me to do for you?" It's a good question because God can do anything. He's able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or even think.

The blind man looked at him and said, "That I might receive my sight," amen. You know the one line, the one line, the one line, the one line, the one line, the one line. He came to him and said, "That my daughter might be healed." Jairus said, "That my daughter might be healed." He told Jesus, "That my daughter might be healed."

But there was one at the pool of Bethesda that began to whine and complain. He didn't tell Jesus what he wanted. Jesus said, "What do you want me to do for you?" He said, "You know what, before I can even get in the water, somebody beats me to the water." I hope you're not a complainer today. Come on, he's asking.

He's asking you right now, "What do you want me to do?" He's saying, "I want to help you today. I want to bless you today. I want to touch your life today. What do you want me to do today?"

But I never find one instant in scripture where anybody said, "That I might be resurrected." I don't find it. I looked, I searched the scriptures and I thought, does anybody ever ask God to be resurrected? Not one.

I was up here and I was on my face before God yesterday morning, and man, the Lord just began to deal with me. I was bawling in there, I was bawling my eyes out because God was just hammering me with this, and I felt God speaking to me. Now, I don't say this very often, but I felt God strongly speaking to me and telling me that, and I've got to preface this with this, there's nothing wrong with healing. I like it when God heals my body, amen.

Anybody with me? I enjoy that healing, but I want to flip something in your mind today. And again, there's nothing wrong with healing. We pray for healing for people all the time, but here's what healing is: healing restores you to your former self. That's what healing is. It's a restoration. It's getting you back to what your body used to be and what it was before you got sick or before you got hurt or whatever the case may be.

And there's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with that. But you want to know what a resurrection is? A resurrection is a transformation. It changes us from who we are to what God wants us to be.

Come on somebody, I don't have a problem with healing, but I have a feeling God—this is what God spoke to me yesterday—that I need some people that will ask me for a resurrection, amen, because in a resurrection, transforming power begins to happen in a life. Amen, something begins to change in a life. You're no longer who you used to be; now you're what God wants you to be.

Woo, I feel the Holy Ghost right now. We need some resurrection power in this room. We need God to change us. We need Him to change us, amen. There's some incredible things that's needed in this hour. There is, we need to get the gospel out. That's an incredible need of this hour. People need to hear the gospel, amen.

There's physical needs that need to be met. There's mental needs and spiritual needs and emotional needs that need to be met today. But I want to tell you something, the greatest need of this hour is what Jesus did for us when He died. When He died and was buried and rose again in the resurrection, when He rose up, it gave us the opportunity to have our life forever changed, to become a new creature in Christ Jesus, to be transformed by the transforming power of His resurrection.

The need of this hour is not to be famous, and it's not to be rich. The need of this hour is really not even to be rich. The need of this hour is not to be healed, even though that's awesome and good. The need of this hour is not to be at the top of the heap, amen, so to speak. But the need of this hour is to be transformed. The need of this hour is to be resurrected out of hell. The need of this hour is to be changed from a sinner to a saint. The need of this hour is to know Him in the power of His resurrection.

Oh, let's clap. Let's clap our hands to the Lord. Oh, hallelujah, hallelujah. Everybody goes through stuff. It's not a person in this room, you haven't gone—I don't care how young or how old—we've all gone through stuff, amen. It starts when we're little; we go through stuff.

I was thinking—and he's not in here so I'll talk about it—I was thinking about Apollo, amen. He's about to go through some stuff. He's got a little brother; life's changing for Apollo. Oh yeah, it's changing. Amen, it's changing for his mom and dad, and that's just how life is, amen. He'll never be the baby again. Come on somebody, he's never going to be the baby. Now he's got Ameris, and Ameris is going to be the baby in their lives, and things are going to change, amen. That's just life; that's how life is.

There's always something happening in our lives, and some people can term it as this. And I'm not cussing when I say this, but some people term things that happen in life as going through hell, amen. And we do go through things in life, and we do go through some problems and issues in our life. We will go through events in our life; it doesn't matter, it's always happening. There's always new events taking place in our lives, amen. Some of them cause joy, and some of them cause, amen, a little bit of pain in our lives.

It is called life, amen. But sometimes you have to descend to ascend. I don't care who you are, and I don't care who you think you are. If you're going to climb a mountain, you've got to go through a valley. It doesn't matter what your name is. I've been on a lot of mountains; I've climbed a lot of mountains in Colorado, and every one of them has a valley that you have to go through first.

Sometimes you've got to descend. Sometimes you've got to descend to ascend, amen. Sometimes you have to walk through the valley of the shadow of death to get up to the next mountain that's going to give you faith and character. Oh, we don't like that word, faith and character. It builds that, by the way, amen. Everything you go through builds faith, or it should. It builds our faith, and it builds our character, amen.

I read every day; I read Calvin and Hobbes. If you don't read Calvin and Hobbes, you should. It'll make you laugh; it'll make you smile, and some of y'all need to laugh and smile, amen. But his dad is always telling him, "Calvin, you're going through this, you're having to do this because..." And Calvin gets mad, "I don't need character," he says. We do; we need God to build our character, to build our faith. And sometimes there's a lot of loss to get from each other, amen.

Turn with me to Ephesians chapter 4. You can just turn back a couple pages if you were still in Philippians. Ephesians chapter 4 and verse 8. Watch this, this is incredible: "Wherefore he said, when he ascended up on high, he left captivity captive and gave gifts unto men. Now that he ascended, what is it but that he? What is it but that he? Oh, descended first into the lower parts of the earth."

Talking about He was put in the grave. Jesus was. "He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens that He might fill all things. And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. Till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ."

I'm going to tell you something. You will never be what God wants you to be unless you first descend and then you ascend into what God wants you to be. Amen. We go through stuff. We have things happen in our life that causes us to descend.

And I came to tell somebody, if you're in those clutches of things happening in your life, that kind of pulled—it seems like it's pulled you down. You've got to know something. There's an ascending coming. There's a rising that's coming in your life where God is going to pick you up and bring you up and do a miracle in your life.

First of all, it's a miracle that He's getting you through the valley. Amen. We all go through things. I talk to a lot of people. I was talking to a guy at the laundromat just the other day, and he was telling me all of his problems. And I said, "There's a better day coming." You know what he did? He ignored me and just kept talking about his problems.

And so I said it again, "There's a better day coming. It's coming. It's coming." I know there's issues, but there's an ascending that's coming. Sometimes we've got to go down to go up. Sometimes we've got to have problems to have goodness. Amen. It's all in your viewpoint of it.

Amen. I'll just tell you this. I never look at it. If we're on trails—and I can name a bunch of them—a bunch of the trails and the mountains that we climb and all of that. And I can sit here and talk about them. And there's my wife, and Blaine's here, and there's people that can help me with this and agree with this. But I can take you places that you're going through the valley, but you're not really thinking about the valley. You're thinking about the mountain. You're thinking about that place that you're going to get to.

We've never—the tallest peak in Colorado is Longs Peak. It's 14,100 and something feet. I can't remember the exact height, but it's over 14,000 feet. It's the tallest peak in Colorado. It's an incredible thing. I've never been to the top of Longs Peak because it's technical, and I'm not very technical. And you've got to have ropes, and you've got to have all this stuff to do it. And it's incredible.

But I've been to the very base. It's a lake called Cache Lake. Am I right? Chasm Lake. I'm sorry. Chasm Lake. It's Chasm Lake. And I've never been there that half the lake wasn't frozen over. And I'm talking in the middle of July. I'm talking about when it's really hot and warm. That lake is always half frozen. And it's right at the base.

And so I've—there's—I can't remember. They tell you up there, there's a sign, and I can almost see it that tells you how many feet up from that lake is Longs Peak. Anybody—y'all remember? Blaine, you remember? There's just a few hundred feet left to get to the top of Longs Peak. But we've never been up there, but we've been to that lake.

And getting there, there's always these ups and downs and rounds. There's a boulder field. When you first come out of tree line, Brother Hal, you know exactly what I'm talking about. You've been around those parts. Amen. You come out of tree line, and when you come out of that tree line, there's a camp over here on the right. And you look, and you've got to cross this boulder field that kind of goes that direction.

And as you're looking across it, you're thinking, "Oh, that looks like it's about a mile across." And it's at least three or four miles across it. It's crazy. And you walk and you walk. And you're above tree line, and the air's getting thinner. And you're saying, "I don't know if I can make it through this boulders and this little valley of these boulders. I don't know if I can get there or not." Amen.

And before you know it, you've been walking for another couple, three hours to get over, and you cross this little saddle. And when you cross that saddle, you're thinking, "Man, that was worth the trip right there." Because you look down in this valley, and there's waterfalls coming down and all of this stuff. You can see elk on the other mountainside across the way, and the trail's about this wide, and you're on the edge of a mountain after you drop out of that saddle, and it's just a little bitty narrow trail, and you're walking along, and somebody comes in, and you lean into the wall and let them pass by, or vice versa if they're scared on the outside, and you're doing that.

And after about another mile, you come up out of that, and there's this meadow that's just gorgeous. I'm telling somebody right now, sometimes we've got to go through valleys, and we've got to go through stuff, amen, just to get where God wants to show us something in our life and help us in our life.

I've never been through a valley that it wasn't worth getting to the mountain. Man, I feel the Holy Ghost right now in saying this. I have never been through a valley that it wasn't worth going through to get to the mountain. Because the mountains of God are greater than any valley. And God wants to bless us and help us and do a work in our life that will take us places we've never, ever been. Amen.

It's always worth the pain. It's always worth the trouble. It's always worth it. Because God is trying to get us somewhere. Amen.

If I were to ask everyone in this building to describe a grave, the first things that come up if you type it into the internet: dark, cold. That's a grave. That's our thinking of a grave. But if we're dead, what does dark and cold matter? I'm not trying to be morbid, okay?

There's others that when I typed this in who said they had other descriptions, and they wanted to attach hell and demonic things to grave. Well, y'all, that's not always true. Because everybody's going to the grave. And I don't put myself in the grave. I don't plan on going to hell. And I don't plan on having demons in my life. Ain't happening. I'm going to heaven.

I was, uh, I've been in the room when several people died. There's been two or three of them that really impacted my life. As ornery as Sherry's dad was, Brother Stacy, I was there when he passed away. And if I've ever felt angels come and take somebody to heaven, it was there.

Now, he was ornery, okay? And he was a mess. But he had asked everybody—I was there—he had asked everybody to forgive him for anything he'd done wrong. He'd done all this stuff. And I'm telling you, and I was, I'm being as nice as I can be, and I'm not being mean. Don't you take this as mean. But the thought went through my mind, why am I feeling an angel as ornery as he was? But I felt it.

When my mom passed, I was there. I'd hugged her and told her goodbye. And I was there when they pulled the plug and pulled the tubes out of her and all that kind of stuff. And I was there when she breathed her last breath. I was there, me and my sisters and my dad. And if I ever felt angels come into a room, I felt angels come into that room and take my mom. I felt that when Teresa's mom, Sister Dunn, when Sister Dunn passed away, my wife and I were there when she passed. We were in that room with her.

And I'm telling you, you could feel the angels come into the room, and there's just those few that I've felt that. Amen. Well, you know what? That better happen to me. I don't want no demon coming to get me. Come on somebody, amen. I don't. I want the angels to come and get me.

But I want to tell you something. That grave, I know we put a bad spin on the grave. And we can talk about—and this is Bible, okay? The Bible does call the grave hell or Hades. It calls it that. There's that wording in the Bible. And it's literally just talking about the grave.

Now there's other names for hell and Hades. There's other names that take it to that torture that the demons are going to go through and all of that stuff. And the Bible talks about how hell hath enlarged itself because of the sin of man. Talking about that punishment for those who don't make it to heaven, amen.

And we understand all that. But the meaning of the grave is just where you are put when you die. This body, which has nothing left in it, to where it goes. And a lot of times we type the grave as a bad place in our lives. Amen.

But I want to tell you something. I've often wondered this. Woo, I feel the Holy Ghost. I've often wondered this. I don't know. I don't have any proof. I don't have no Bible for this. I don't have anything like that. And, but I wonder if when Lazarus was in that grave, if some way, somehow, he was crying out to God to come and help him.

I believe he did before he died. I believe he was crying, "Where's Jesus? I need Jesus. Where's my friend? I need my friend Jesus." I believe that that did happen. And so as he's laying in that cold grave, amen, perhaps his voice—I'm believing this with all my heart—amen, his voice was echoing through the ages. And it got to where Jesus was staying.

And I believe that there was something that Jesus heard, that call from his friend Lazarus, that maybe even started before he died. "I've got to go resurrect him. I've got to make my way to where Lazarus is. I've got to find him. I've got to resurrect him out of the grave."

Is there anybody in this house, amen, that in your problems and in your issues and in your hell, amen, you're crying out to God, "God, I need you. God, I need a resurrection in my life."

Oh, hallelujah. I think we ought to lift our hands and love him right now. Come on, the Lord's in the house right now. You need to talk to him. You need to ask him to help you through your hell right now. Ask him to help you through your grave right now.

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Come on, I feel him in this room. He's touching somebody right now. He's about to give somebody a resurrection right now. Come on, you're calling out, and he's coming. He's on his way.

Amen, amen. I've talked about it the last few weeks, that we're prone to stop when the pressure lets up. God touches us, and we stop with that. God, maybe he does heal our body. Maybe he does give us a healing in our mind, our heart, our emotions. Maybe he does do that.

But God don't want you to stop right there. There's always more of God. Come on, I'm in the Bible. There's always more of God, amen. And I cannot stop until I'm transformed. I need a transformation in my life. I need a transformation in this service. I need a transformation in our church. We need that, amen.

It's something that God is looking for. If Jesus allowed the people that he created, amen, to whip his back until it's bloody and rip the skin off of that cat of nine tails, if he allowed that, if he allowed them to nail him, amen, with long rusty nails in his wrist and his feet into that wooden cross, if he allowed them to stick a spear in his side and water and blood gushes, if he allowed all of that and the excruciating pain of going through the cross to where he couldn't breathe and he would push himself up to give himself relief on his lungs, but as soon as he sagged back down, that pressure all came back, amen.

And that pain and the excruciation of what he was going through and the rawness of the nerves of the nails in his hands, amen, if he did all of that and he rose on the third day, then I want to tell somebody, amen, he wants us to rise up in a resurrection also.

Nowhere in the resurrection story does it say anything about his body needing a healing. Nowhere. It's not in there. But everything was about and pointed to that third day rising, that resurrection of that body coming up out of that grave.

I came to tell somebody, and I contend that every person in this room needs a resurrection in their life. Amen. We've got to have it. We've got to be transformed. We've got to be there. The need of the hour is not to have confidence in your flesh. Just like Paul said in Philippians, that's not what it is.

But I came to tell somebody, the need of the hour is to know Him in the power of His resurrection. Amen. That is the need of the hour. And we don't like the rest of that verse. The need of the hour is also to have fellowship of His sufferings. That's going through stuff.

The need of the hour is to be made conformable unto His death. Amen. Because here's what it does for us. It gets us to the place to where we can forget the things that are behind us. And we're pressing towards that mark. We're pressing towards that mark, the calling, the prize. That's what this is all about.

Y'all, I don't just come here just for fellowship. That's good. I don't have a problem with the fellowship. I love all of y'all. That's not why I'm here. I don't come here just to feel the presence of God. That's not why I'm here. I don't come just because I have that calling on my life to preach the gospel. That's not the only reason I'm here.

There's a prize. Heaven is waiting. Heaven's waiting. And here's the key to all this. If I'm not transformed, then I've still got sin in my life. And that's hard for us to accept. It's hard for us to accept. We've got to let Him transform our lives. We've got to let Him change us and make us into what He wants us to be, not what I want to be. Amen.

That's the need of the hour. I need to forget those things which are behind, press towards the things that are ahead.

So, me and God had a conversation yesterday. And I've had this conversation many times with God. "God, I'm tired of loss." Anybody tired of loss? I'm tired of it. I'm tired of—again, I'm not cussing—I'm tired of hell. I'm tired of that. And God's like, "Didn't get a resurrection. Let me resurrect you." That's what God told me.

"How'd I do that? Lord, how?" He said, "It's all in the gospel. You've got to repent." To have a resurrection, there's got to be that death to self. You've got to repent. "Lord, forgive me of all the things that I've done that goes against you."

All those parts in my life. And here's how I always pray when I repent. I do this all the time. "Lord, forgive me for what my eyes have seen that's not of God. Forgive me, Lord, for what my hands have touched that's not of God. Forgive me, Lord, for those thoughts."

You say, "Well, that's not sin." Oh, it's not? The Bible says it's to bring every thought under subjection to God. "Forgive me for my thoughts. Forgive me, Lord, for the things I've hidden in my heart." Because we all keep things in our heart that's not of God. Amen.

I've dealt with this so many times in myself. Those feelings against somebody. I ain't going to get no help right here, but it's right anyhow. That bitterness. "Forgive me, Lord." Those things that hinder me from being what I need to be. That repentance. That dying to self. That letting this flesh and this body get rid of that flesh.

That's what the Apostle Paul is talking about. I can't glory in my flesh. I have no confidence in my flesh. And then, there's got to be that burying. Amen. You've got to bury what has died. That's what baptism is about. But we don't—every time we sin, we don't go back to the waters of baptism. We use the Word to wash us. It washes us.

You've got to have the Word in your life. I've never understood people—in fact, somebody posted it this morning. Several—I think Eddie did. It was one of them that posted it. We want to—we want the worship and the, yeah, yeah, and all the good stuff. But we don't want the Word. That's a problem.

You've got to have both. You can't—you can't get into the Word unless you've worshipped. I don't have time to preach that, but I could. Amen. We've got to be washed by the Word. And then, we rise in newness of life. That's the Holy Ghost, where God gives us that newness of life.

He told Nicodemus, He said, "You've got to be born again of water and of Spirit." You've got to have both. You can't pull them apart and make them separate. We try to make it easy when we make it into steps. "Okay, step one is repentance. Step two is baptism. And step three..." No, no, no, no. It's all one salvation. You're not saved until you do it all. Amen.

And so, that's how we get our resurrection. And we get that newness of life. Amen. You see, when I forsake those things which were, which are behind, I've forsaken all that. That's repentance. I've turned, done an about face away from it. I've repented. Turned from that. Amen.

It gets me to a place to where God can do something in my life. It does. It gets me to that place to where now God can work on this now. You know, before the Bible, Jeremiah uses this example of the potter and the wheel and how the potter goes out and he finds some clay and he brings a big old blob of that back and he throws it down on the wheel.

He begins to turn that wheel with his feet, and he's forming and he's forming. And, but the Bible says—it's what Jeremiah said—but the clay was marred. You ever studied that out? It had rocks in it. It had lumps in it. What'd he do? He takes those lumps out, wads that clay back up, throws it back down, puts some more clay with it, starts again.

See, sometimes we're going through that process of being in the hands of the potter. And he's forming us. He's working on us, amen. It's what God wants to do to get us to the place, to get us to that place where we are now transformed.

Amen. It doesn't stop with the wheel. Do you know that every piece of pottery has to go through the fire? Whoo, I don't like going through the fire. But I learned a long time ago, brother, brother sings about it. Stan Cook, he's still in the fire. There's a fourth man in the fire with you. He's always there with you in the fire. You're not going to go through the fire by yourself.

I'll even add one to you. You're not going to go through the storm by yourself. He's always there. You just got to call out to him, amen. I want to ascend. I want to rise up. Amen.

There's so much happening in our world right now that is just one big fat mess. But I want to tell you something. If I dwell on all of that, I'll never get to that. Can't do it. You can't have that trash in your mind from the world and get to where he's taking us. I can't be a part of that.

I was, as I was sitting in my office yesterday, and I was just—God just, he just put me down. I'm on the floor, and I'm talking to God. God's talking to me. God's speaking to my spirit. All of this that I felt. But I feel like there's a call that God gave to Moses that he's given to the church in these last days.

"Come up higher. Come up higher. Come up higher." There's that drawing. "Come up higher." But, but God, I got this congregation. "But I need you right here. I need you up here. Come up higher." But God, there's my family. "But I need you up here. I need you to come up higher." But God, I got my possessions. "But I want you up here. Come up here."

God is calling us. He's calling this church to a higher plane. Amen. He's calling this church to a mountaintop. Yeah, we're going through some stuff. Yeah, we've got all of this that's down in the valley. But he's calling us out.

There's a resurrection that's waiting for everybody in this room. Everybody that's listening today. Everybody that's watching. There's a resurrection waiting right now. God's, he's got a resurrection for us to get us from this to this. We just got to call out to him, amen.

Let's stand. Everybody has a need. And it's up to you to call to God. It's up to you to want God to help you. I can't make you do it. Your spouse can't make you do it. Your kids, your mom, your dad, they can't make you do it. This has got to be you.

So this altar call is about you and God and you surrendering to God while he's asking for the spirit. Amen.

Lord, we love you. And your presence is so thick in this room. I show it to you. Oh, Jesus. You're calling us, God. You're calling us, God. Help us, Lord, to get that resurrection, that transformation change in our life today. Help us, Lord, to call out to you today in the name of Jesus.

Oh, yes. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. I'm going to bless your name, Jesus. Come on, I need somebody to call out to him right now.

Oh, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Lord, you're the miracle worker today, oh God. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Hallelujah, hallelujah, the miracle worker, Lord.