Turn Up The Fire

• There’s only one. >> There’s no compromise on Jesus. He was born of a virgin. He lived a sinless life. He died on a cross. He rose three days later. He said, “I give you eternal life.” And he said, “One day, I’m coming back with a shout and the sound of the trumpet. And I’m going to raise the dead up and the living up.
• And we’re GOING TO GO UP and live eternally in a place called heaven. and I’m going to make heaven AND EARTH ALL NEW. HALLELUJAH. That’s the altar. That’s the foundation you can build your life on. I believe that holiness is one of those stones. I believe that I believe that prayer is one of those stones. I believe the word of God is one of those stones.
• And we have to rebuild those stones and that altar in our life. And then he said, secondly, I want you after you put the 12 stones down, he said, I want you to put the wood in order. Don’t just throw it over there and pile it up, but he said, I want it in order. I want you to get the wood laid out so that it can breathe oxygen when the fire starts.
• do it and stack it in a way that the fire will be receiving oxygen, which is what fire has to have to to to really flame and get intense and get hot. There is an order to it. He said, “Put the wood in order.” There is an order to the movement of God and the fire of God. And it requires all of us getting in our place.
• There comes a point where you have to find your place in the order. If the church is going to be on fire, every piece of wood, and that’s you and that’s me, we have to find our place in the kingdom of God and begin to show up and do what God’s called us to do. And then he said, “Put a bulock on the fire once you get the wood in its place and once you get the foundation under it,” he said, “Take the sacrifice and put it on the wood and on the stones.
• ” Because it’s so important that you understand that we never get away from sacrifice. >> If you want the fire to fall, it requires having sacrifice on the altar of God. put skin in the game. As a pastor, sometimes I don’t I don’t even want to receive what people want to do for the church because I feel like I know some people and I I’ve seen people especially in the years past when when people gave so much and I knew they didn’t have it to give so that we could have what we have today.
• And in the natural as somebody, you know, you just want to say no, no, don’t do that. But what I have learned is if there’s no sacrifice on the altar, the fire is not drawn to people who don’t sacrifice. We need to make sure that sacrifice is always a part of the fire that falls. And when you don’t ever sacrifice, church is not about you just coming to church when you feel like it.