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If you're taking notes today, the title of my sermon is United We Stand. United We Stand. And why is it United We Stand? It's because divided will fall. United we stand because divided we will fall. And who's the author of division? The devil is the author of division. And he wants to disunite us. And he will use anything that he can from politics to race to melanin. Whatever he can find to divide people, gender, he will find anything to create division. And I just want to show you who you are in God and how God has called us to be one. He called us to be unified. He called us to work together. Unity is not uniformity where we all look the same, act the same, dress the same, speak the same, but it's unity. And and and to be and to have unity, you have to be unified under something. So what do we unify under? We unify under God. One people under God, one nation under God, one heart under God, one family under God. When we all come under God, we are unified and we have to submit to God and his ways and his principles.
We don't get unified through politics. I love politics. I read politics. For a week, I thought about being a politician. At the end of the week, I was like, "Child, please. I ain't doing that." But I like politics. I think politics have a place. And I love when politics listen and submit to God. Politics has a place. I'm not anti-political. I'm political. I vote. But when I'm on this platform, my job is to be biblical. And my job is to hold politics accountable because our country has made a decree that is set up to be a nation under God. Which means God now has a right to hold it accountable if it has made that decree. So our job as people of God is to not come and take sides. Our job is to take over as the people of God to submit under God and under the will of God and hold everything in our world accountable to God because only God is the solution to the problems we see. If the problems are originated from a demonic place, it can only be healed from a heavenly place.
So our job as believers is to go to God. And the problem in our world is we're listening to everybody except for the spirit of the Lord. Yeah, we want everyone's hottake and everyone's opinion, but we don't want the opinion of God. What does God say? And how does God call his church and his bride to be a part of the solution? Because I want to tell you this, politics will never heal the true problems of our nation. Only God can and only his church can. He has called his church to heal the problems we face. If you I ain't even get to that point yet. We we'll come back to that. We'll come back to that.
So, if you have your Bibles, go to Acts 17 verse 26. In Acts 17:26, and I'm going to go to the beginning and then I'll land us to where we are now. We got to go backwards before we can go forward. I ain't going to preach. I ain't going to preach like I've been preaching the last couple of weeks. I want to have a conversation with you today. If you want to hear me preach, come back next week. But today, we're going to have a conversation as a church family. Or if you want to hear me preach, go listen to the last couple of weeks. We're going we're going to have a conversation today. Is that cool? Yes. Get some clarity before we leave because this is the last week I'm going to deal with this. I've dealt with it for four weeks and next week I got a sermon I want to preach to you guys. And it reads Acts 17:26. And he has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on earth to dwell on all the face of the earth and has determined their pre-appointed times in the boundaries of their dwelling. So he has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on the face of the earth and has determined their pre-appointed times in the boundaries of their dwelling. Wow. Wow. Wow.
So from one blood God has made every person of the world. What does that mean? It means that God created Adam and Eve. And from Adam and Eve, every person of the world came. Every person in existence comes from Adam and Eve. They come from one blood. They come from the same person. The same man, the same woman. Every person in this room, in this world, comes from one blood. There's only one blood, which means there's only one race and it's the human race. We have different ethnics. We have different colors and shades and and and we look different in ways. But every person comes from one blood. Scientifically, do you know every human is 99.9% the same in DNA, which means the person sitting next to you, they have the almost the same exact DNA with you. 99.9%. The 0.1% that's different makes up your skin color, your immune system, your genetics, and your height, your eyes, your eye color, hair color. All the physical things you see on the outside is made up by that.1%. And then 99.1% of all of us in this room share the same exact DNA. Isn't that crazy? Well, why is it? Because we all came from the same mom and dad. We all came from Adam and Eve. Every single person, how else did we get here? We all came from Adam and Eve. And even if you say, "Well, I don't even believe in believe in God." Even from a scientific perspective, every person came from two people. So, we all came from the same exact person. Science in the Bible agrees in this. So, there's no other place you came from. I don't know how else you got You didn't come out the TV. You came from Adam and Eve.
So, it raises a couple questions. The first question it raises is well if we all came from Adam and Eve that means that brothers and sisters would have to have babies and that's incest right okay we'll come to that secondly pastor some of us black white Hispanic Asian Hawaiian like if we all came from the same parents what were they h how did we all come from the same parents and we don't look alike I got my kids and all them things look the same okay like how how did we work this How? I'm glad you asked. The first thing I want to answer is this. The Bible says everything reproduces after its own kind. What God did was when he created originals, he loaded the originals. The first two people were after Adam and Eve. He loaded Adam's loings with every kind of person inside of his being. Which means Adam held every kind of person. all the different DNA patterns, all the different DNA changes, which means Adam had this ability to where when he had kids, he could have kids that wasn't related because if they were, then you would have the incest problem. So God put all the people inside of Adam. So all of a sudden, he have a black kid and he have a white kid and an Asian kid and all kind of Hispanic kids and different kids. So he had the ability to have kids that didn't look like him and they didn't have the same exact DNA. So though they came out of the same womb, they wasn't physically related closely. And God set him up this way because God wanted everything to produce after his own kind. That's why you see when God made apple tree, he didn't just come keep making apple trees. God put a seed inside of the apple tree. And inside of that seed, you had the whole forest. In sight of Adam's longings, you had the whole world. That's why the Bible says we're all in Adam. We're all in Adam. He was the first man. So we all died in Adam. Why did we all die when Adam died? Why are we all born in sin? It's because Adam had all of us in his longings. So when he sinned, it was handed to all of us. And now we're all born in sin and shaping in iniquity because we was in him when he sinned had we got out of him before he sinned. We wouldn't have been born in sin. But every man came from the one man. Everybody came from the one blood. So when the one blood was tainted by sin, guess what? All blood was tainted by sin. That's why Jesus came through a virgin birth so he wasn't one blood with us so he could have blood to save all blood. I'm preaching good now. Come on.
So we all come from the same place. We all come from the same parents. We are all one. Think of Noah. Noah on his argument. This is where scientists This is where scientists miss it. They'd be like, "How do you guys believe in in God and and Noah had an ark and there was two dogs on there and you mean to tell me that these two dogs created all the dogs of the world?" And I'm like, "Dude, you believe that these two rocks created all the dogs of the world? You delusional? Not me. God said everything produces after its own kind." Which means these dogs like Adam, they would have this Adam gene where these dogs was having all kind of litters of puppies. They would have a pitbull, a rockwaller, German shepherd, lab, chihuahua, all kind of dogs just coming out of out of them. And we still have scientific proof of this today called the Adam gene. You can go online and look it up. I was researching it yesterday that there was this couple from Africa. They were all black. I mean, they weren't like meat, like brown, light-kinned like me, chocolate, burnt black, hot black, like this seat. They had a white child. Yeah. A white No, not a light-skinned child. I said a white child. And there was a white couple that had a black child. Just imagine if you or two white people and your baby come out black. You like, "Hold on. Who is the dad? Where is my at?" Or two black people come out white. You like, "Hold on now. Who the daddy is?" Like, "This is confusing." Or imagine this one one couple I read about. They had a fully white twin and a fully black twin. You talk about confused. And they're like, "What's happening?" These are real cases. And both of these twins have the same exact parents because the atom gene is rare, but some people still carry it today, which means they can have kids that's a little different than them. Little. Come on. Just a little bit. Still 99.9% same DNA but the point one can be different. What are you saying preacher? I said all this to say we all came from the same place. We're one. And why did God make us all through one? Because he wanted us to be unified. And if we would had different parents, we would have used that to divide us. God said, "Y'all crazy. So I'm going to go and set this up. We all came from one blood. All the men, all the nations that dwell came from one blood. Can we give God a shout of praise? So we are one. So fundamentally, I want you to know we are one. We are one. And that is important because we have to be united.
Now we're going to go to Genesis 11. And this is where my sermon starts. That was all free. Genesis 11, one of the most fascinating chapters in the Bible. And it reads, "At one time all," let's read this again. At one time all the people of the world, not some, not most, all the people of the world spoke the same language and used the same words. As the people migrated to the east, they found a plain in the land of Babylonia and settled there. They began saying to each other, "Let us make brick and harden them with fire." In this region, brick were used instead of stone, and tar was used instead of mortar. Then they said, "Come, let us build a great city for ourselves with a tower that reaches into the sky." Translation, a tower that reaches into the heavens. This will make us famous and keep us from being scattered all over the world. But the Lord came down and looked at this city and the tower the people were building. Look, he said, this is the Lord. The people are united. If God said people are united, they united. and they all speak the same language. After this, nothing they set out to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse the people with different languages. Then they won't be able to understand each other. Wow, this sounds like America. In the in that way, the Lord scattered them all over the world and they stopped building the city. That is why the city was called Babel because this is where the Lord confused the people with different languages. In this way, he scattered them all over the world. Wow. Wow. Wow.
So, this is powerful and we're going to get ready to dig into this. At a point of time, all the people of the world were united. They all spoke the same language. They all used the same words. All the people, all the national nationalities, all the races of people, they were all one. They were all in the same region. And they were all united. They spoke the same language. They used the same words. They had everything in common. They were unified. How do we know they're unified? Cuz God said they're unified. If God said you're unified, you unified. But there was an issue with these people. They said, "Let us build a city unto ourselves. Not a city unto God, but a city unto ourselves. Let us make ourselves famous. Not make God famous, but make ourselves famous. And let us stay united in this reason. And instead of building out, we're going to build up." And the danger with them building up instead of out is because God told Noah, and he told them in Genesis, I want you guys to fill the earth. And he told Noah and his sons to scatter across the earth. Why? Because God wanted the whole earth to be inhabited. And what happened is God called them to scatter. And they said, "We're not going to scatter. We're going to gather. We're not going to be spread out. We're going to build up." So instead of building out, they decided to build a tower up. Not in the name of God, but in the name of themselves. Not in the fame of God, but in the fame of themselves. Not in the way of God, but in the way of themselves. And if you heard something this demonic, just imagine, you're like, "Man, it's going to fail."
So then the spirit of the Lord got up off his throne. He came down to look and see what the people were doing. And when he looked, he was astonished. He was blown away. He said, "Look, the people are united. They all speak the same language and they all use the same words." When he say use the same words, that means that they were in agreement. They were one in mind. And then God says something that is so powerful. Don't miss it. He says, "Nothing they set out to do will be impossible to them." God said, "These people that have cut me out, that have made a name to themselves, that is disobey my command because they're unified, nothing will be impossible to them." God says nothing will stop them. Which means God said, "I got to come down and stop them." God had to interfere because they were going to succeed without God. Unity is so powerful. God's blessed unity in such a way that it even works without God. That's how powerful unity was. God said, "Wait, hold on. Unity is using the wrong context right here." And God said, "It is so bad. Unity is so strong, so powerful. When all the people come together as one, God said, "Only I can go and stop this. They're not going to stop it. They're not going to destroy it." So God came down and stopped it. And what did God do? God supernaturally came down and he confused the languages. Well, how did God confuse the languages? Is because language comes from God. He created language. Language is a form of technology that was created by God. And when God first introduced language was in Genesis 2 when he told Adam, "Name the animals and you will and they will be what you call them." He gave Adam language. And language was the ability to speak and call and name. Language was something that we had. Yeah, animals can kind of talk to each other, but they ain't got language. We got language. And we all spoke the same language, but more than that, we had the same words. There was unity. They had the same culture. And God had to come down and divide the people because the people were united. He said nothing they try to do will be unstoppable. And I want to tell you something. What would happen if a people was united under God? What would happen if we wanted to make a name for God, not a name for ourselves? What would happen if we wanted to make God famous, not ourselves famous? And if we had the spirit of God back in us, we can do something so impossible and something so unstoppable for the kingdom of God. God didn't have an issue with the unity. He had an issue with the reason for the unity because the unity was designed demonically to violate God's commandment.
So, I want us to do something. I want us to slow down and I want us to take a look at this. What did God say composed of this unity? They were all united. Which means if you notice the language they used, they said, "Let us make a tower. We're going to build a name for ourselves." It was us ourselves. We There was no I or me in it. It was all about each other. They were all unified to the same vision, the same goal. Everyone had a brick in their hand. Everyone was contributing. Everyone was leaned in to the mission in the vision. And none of them was building for themselves. They was building for everyone collectively. Yeah. And they were unified. The Bible says they spoke the same language and they used the same words. So what did God do to break unity? God came down and he changed the language supernaturally. Why? God created language which means he just gave he just started dividing languages between the people. When God changed the language, it changed the words, which was the culture, the agreement, all of them being of one accord. When the language and words changed, they scattered and they divided. Why? Because whenever we don't have the same language and we don't use the same words, we divide and we scatter and we create division. And God knew the only thing to divide them was a different language, different words, different viewpoints, different thoughts. And then we became me and us became I. And they divided and they scattered. And God strategically broke them up without touching anybody, he just touched the language. The only issue we have is the devil was sitting on the sidelines watching. Which means he found out anytime something is being built, anytime something is great, anytime something is amazing, because I'm not a creator, I'm just an imitator. I'm going to imitate God's strategy. And I'm going to run this play back, back, back, and back again. So, every time something starts to build, I'm going to come attack the language. I'm going to attack the words, and I'll scatter and divide the people. And he's been doing this since the beginning of time. And God called this place babble because the people babbled. They babbled with different languages. And all of a sudden, that's what we see in our world right now. Just a bunch of babbling. People babbling with different words and different languages. And they can't be on the same page. And the result is division and dividing. And this is Satan's strategy.
So from here on out, every time there is unity, what does the devil come to do? He comes to recreate Babel. He comes to attack language and words. And all of a sudden, he attacks a and I'm not saying some are right or some wrong. I'm just saying demonically this is Satan's attack. And the danger in this attack is this. Here's what the devil does. If you go back and you look at the last hundred years politically, we just go back and forth. Democrat, Republican, Democrat, Republican. We just keep going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. And what's going to happen, I believe, this is my biblical prediction of what the enemy is trying to do. If the people of God who's called by his name will humble themselves and pray, turn from their wicked ways, and seek his face, we can put a stop to this. But I'm going to give you what I feel like the devil's plan is. I feel like his plan is Babel. Yeah, he's going to come and make the people babble, switch their languages, make them speak different words, different languages. He's going to create a tugof-war back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. We've seen it over the last hundred years. Then you put Democrat in office. Then you put Republican in office, Democrat in office, Republican in office. Then you keep having things come up and then our nation gets so inflamed and there's a back and forth pull until everybody's exhausted. And we all want a solution. It's going to get so bad if we don't put an end to this as a church that we're going to want a solution desperately. Which means we now set the stage for the Antichrist. Because the Antichrist comes and what he's going to do is in perverted demonic wisdom finds a way to get us back to the Tower of Babel to stop the people from Babylon to try to get us all to unite. Bringing in a little bit of godliness, a little bit of righteousness, a little bit of justice, a little bit of all of it in the pot where everyone can say, "You know what? We're so tired of the violence and we want peace. We'll all agree." And now we have an anti-spirit Christ that's leading the world. And he ain't just coming for America. He's coming for the world. And if I were the devil, I would get people so busy fighting each other that they never saw him coming. Wow. And this is why it is so important because I'm not even I'm not judging current politics. I'm just saying if this keeps going back and forth, at some point, it could be five years, 10, 20, 100, I don't know, but at some point the people of the world will want peace. And there will be an antichrist spirit who can provide it. Jesus, a distorted peace, a worldly peace. It will look like Babel where he will find a way to get all the people to speak the same language and use the same words, not just in America, but across the world. And this is the antirist spirit. And this is why we have to be devoted to God, devoted to our Bibles, devoted to prayer. Because the Bible says that he will be so persuasive and deceptive that the very elect will be deceived. That people are called by God. They will see this guy and be like, he's the answer. And this is what's going to happen in the next 100, 200, I don't know how long it is, years. But right now, we're setting the stage. We're setting the stage. So, as the people of God, we have to now drop all of our our perspectives and go to a biblical perspective. And now we're holding everybody accountable to the Bible. We're holding everyone accountable so when something comes in that's antirist, we can oppose it. But we have to have the discernment and we have to have the wisdom to know the counterfeit when it comes. The counterfeit isn't here yet. Oh, but it's coming one day. The Antichrist spirit is coming. And the job, even if we're unawarely playing into it is to create such a war on each side, every side, all race, politics, such a war that everyone gets exhausted and looks for a solution. And then soon as we can't take no more, he's going to appear and he's going to say, "No." And he's going to tie everything together. And if you don't know this book, you will be deceived. Give God a shout of praise.
So, I'm going to read something to you in the Bible. I'm going to show you something. I want to show you something. You have your Bible. Like I said, we're just talking today. I ain't preaching. We're just talking. Matthew 12 25. And this is Jesus telling us the danger of division. Matthew 12:25. He says, it says, "But Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation. And every city or house divided against itself will not stand. If Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then will his kingdom stand? And if I cast out demons by bleub, by whom do your sons cast them out? Therefore, they shall be your judges. But if I cast out demons by the spirit of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you. So this is what Jesus is saying. Jesus is saying that any kingdom, nation, city, even a house that's divided against itself, it will not stand. It will be brought down to desolation. Which means it'll be brought down to destroying. It would be brought down and destroyed and brought down to ruin. This is Jesus talking. He's saying a kingdom that's divided won't stand. So I just want you guys to know, I don't know where you stand or sit in this world, but I just want you to know that division leads to desolation. Our job is not to divide against the world. is to evangelize the world. Okay? There's a lot of evil things going on in this nation and I don't like it. But my job is not to make them an enemy. It's to make them a child of God. It's to make them a child of God. It's to bring them to the knowledge of God. Which means if someone believes crazy, you can't believe crazy and be a child of God. I'm going to bring you to Jesus. And the first step is to get you loyal to him. Because what Jesus is going to do is get you out of all of the things that you're pulled to and tied to. And then from that point, you're what's called a kingdom ambassador. And now you're an ambassador on the point of Jesus Christ. The Bible says you have dual citizenship. I just need you to know you have dual citizenship. You're a citizen of America, but you're also a citizen of the kingdom of heaven. You have dual citizenship. And you have to prioritize your heavenly citizenship. sometimes over your earthly citizenship so you can use your heavenly citizenship to impact your earthly citizenship. I'm going to bring the he the kingdom of heaven to impact the kingdom of earth. That's why the Bible says, "My kingdom come, my will be done on earth as it is in heaven." I got to go get how it is in heaven and then bring that to earth. The solution to our planet is heaven. It's the only thing that'll work. It's not politics. It's not Republicans. is not Democrats because God did not save you by the blood of the elephant. Nor did he save you by the blood of the donkey. He saved you by the blood of the lamb. And only the blood of the lamb can unite the world, healed the world, and called the world back to purity and holiness. He didn't use a donkey. He didn't use an elephant. He used the lamb. And the lamb will always be the symbol. And he will always be the solution to the problems that plague our nation. Come on. And God will use other things, but the solution is rooted in him. It's rooted in him. So you have to make a decision. Whose side are you on? And everyone is pulling for you to choose a side. And I want to tell you, choose the lamb. Yeah. And why choosing the lamb is important is because there will be times where the donkey and the elephant will stray and you will call them both back to the lamb and back to holiness and back to godliness and back to goodness. Our job is to make heaven as to make earth as it is in heaven. And it's to unify. It's to reach the world. It's to unify the world. Because what's going to happen if we don't is there's going to be a divide. Then there's desolation. And the antichrist is going to be the solution to the desolation. And it's going to usher in the great tribulation. And I know this is scary. And I know you may feel like this is dark and maybe this is deep at the church, but I've chose to preach the whole council of the word of God. Not just good stuff, not just cute stuff. We got to preach the whole Bible from Genesis all the way down to Revelation. We got to preach it all in season, out of season. There'll be seasons where they don't endure sound doctrine cuz they have itching ears. But we're going to preach the Bible when they like it. When they don't like it, when they choose it, when they don't choose it, when they want it, when they don't want it. We have to make a stand and appeal to heaven. Can we give God a shout of praise?
So, so babble, babble means to confuse and to confound. The reason why we're having such issues in our world is because the spirit of Babel has been released on the land. And there's a spirit of Babel. And there is only one solution to a spirit of Babel. And that's a spirit of Pentecost. Pentecost is the only solution to Babel. Let me show it to you. If you have your Bibles, go to Acts chapter 2, verse one. I'm almost done, too. I ain't got much to say. Again, if you want to hear a good sermon, I'll preach one next week, but you're going to get the truth today. So, I'm going to show you Acts chapter 2 verse one. I'm going to show you the solution. And sometimes we don't like the solution, but the solution is God. The solution is God. I had a mentor and I remember I would go to him and I see such wisdom in him. I'm going to take a little a little rabbit trail, but I would go to him and I would take problems to him. He was such a wise guy. And I would take the biggest problems to him just in the church, in the world, in my life. And he would get on my nerves because I wanted some practical solutions. I just wanted him to I wanted him to feel what I'm saying. But man, he just stood on Jesus. I'm like, "Hey, man. This is happening." He just like the book. I'm like, "What book?" The Bible. I'm like, "What, man? Hey, we're arguing, man. What do we Ephesians 5?" He just walk off. I'm like, "What? Ephesians 5? What's that going to do? Everything you need about marriage. Ephesians 5. He was gone. And I'm like, dude, like, I need you to tell me I need to quit doing this. You need to do this. I need to take out the trash. You need to do like I need something. Ephesians 5. And he was out. I'm like, dude, like, give me some Ephesians 5. He gave me something. Ephesians 5, which is how you run a marriage. And if we do Ephesians 5, everything else falls in place. I didn't even want to read Ephesians 5. I wanted him to tell me she was wrong. The end. And he was just basically letting me know that the Bible is a solution to your problems. If you're making solutions without the word of God, you're in trouble. Again, not saying politics don't supposed to play their part. You're caught politics in here. You're passionate. You're educated. Hey, run that play. But run this one, too. because this one works. Yeah, there have been some beautiful things done through the political arena. So, I'm not disrespecting our our our neg or I'm not negating that God can't work through the political figures and stuff like that. I love when I saw our politicians worshiping in this nation. I was happy and glad to see worship coming in our nation. I loved it. But I know that God has called his church to change the world. Yeah, it's his bride that's going to do it. Not the political arena. It's God's bride. He gave us his church, his bride, which is the hope of the world. Okay? So, I would not for a second believe that anything great is happening in this world without God's church. And this church isn't a building. It's you. It's God's people. And if you happen to be in politics, too, great, great. Awesome. Make sure you take this to your political meeting.
Acts chapter 2 verse one. It says, "On the day of Pentecost, all we got this word all again. All the believers were meeting together in one place." Ah, suddenly there was a sound from heaven like the roaring of a mighty windstorm and it filled the house where they were sitting. Then what looked like flames, flames or tongues of fire appeared and settled on each of them and everyone present was filled with the Holy Spirit and began speaking in other languages as the Holy Spirit gave them this ability which means the ability that was taken away at Babel is brought back at Pentecost. At that time there were devout Jews from every nation living in Jerusalem. When they heard the loud noise, everyone came running and they were bewildered to hear their own languages being spoken by the believers. They were completely amazed. How can this be? They exclaimed. These people are all from Galilee and yet we hear them speaking in our own native tongue. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. In other words, let me break this down to you. At Babel, everyone spoke At Babel, everyone spoke the same language, and God divided all the languages up. At Pentecost, everyone spoke one language, but then God gave them all many languages. In other words, at Babel, God scattered everyone. At Pentecost, God united everyone. At Babel, God confused the language. But at Pentecost, he united the language. So what did God do? What God did was he made right what he cost at Pentec at Babel. He made it right. He brought the solution to Babel. The solution to Babel is always Pentecost. And what was Pentecost? The thing was here. What de what what disunited everyone was a confusing of languages. What united everyone was the same language and now even though there was different languages so means when they spoke in tongues tonesues was so powerful because they wasn't just loco moa they were actually speaking in Spanish they was actually speaking in Russian they was actually speaking Mandarin they was speaking French they were speaking English they speaking different languages and you may say what those languages were now you get what I'm trying to say they were speaking different languages in other words At the day of Pentecost, God restored what he broke. God blessed what he cursed. And right here when the Holy Spirit came down, the first act of the Holy Spirit after Jesus had ascended, they were waiting in the upper room. And the first thing the spirit of the Lord thought necessary even before people got physically baptized was to bring a blessing to what he had cursed was to bring unity to what he had disunited was to bring Pentecost to Babel. And what Pentecost did was it cured everything Babel caused. In other words, Satan, you sat on the sidelines and you watch the strategy of Babel. Which means the church, we sit on the sidelines of the book of Acts and we watch the strategy Pentecost and Pentecost always triumphs over Babel. So, so, so God united the languages. God brought everything back together as one. God made all the people speak the same language. And the people was amazed because they're like, "The power of God is speaking to this people, that people, that people, that people, that people." Why would God speak to all the nations? Because he was calling us all back together as one. He was calling us to unite. The world had been scattered. His vision has been fulfilled. And now God says, "I'm calling the church together as one body, one baptism, one spirit, one heart, one people." And when that happens, it would bring healing to the world. These guys turn the world upside down. These guys change the world. They triumph governments. They triumph politics. They they triumph everything the devil threw at them. And they're still triumphing today through us because Pentecost is always greater than Babel. Can we give King Jesus a shout of praise? Why? Because Babel was when they wanted to make a name for themselves, but Pentecost is when they waited for the Holy Spirit to make a name for God. Babel was where the nations were launched. Pentecost is where the church was launched. Babel is where they tried to build a building, but Pentecost is where God came and built people. Babel is where they tried to build a tower to reach up and touch the heavens, but Pentecost is when the heavens reached down and touched the earth. God said, "I have I have a better plan and I have a better way." Pentecost is always greater than Babel. Can we give King Jesus a shout of praise?
So, let me show you the effects of Pentecost and then I'll close. That's it. I told you we're just talking today. Acts 2 verse 40- 47. And it reads, it says, "And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, be saved from this perverse generation." Uh, this is Acts 2:40, by the way. Verse 41. Then those who gladly received his word were baptized. In that day about 3,000 souls were added to them, and they continued steadfast in the apostles doctrine, in fellowship, in the breaking of bread, and in prayer. So they continued steadfast in the apostles doctrine. That's biblical doctrine. In fellowship, they had unity with one another. They broke bread and in prayer. And then verse 43 says, "Then fear came upon every soul." See, this is what we need in our nation. We need fear to come upon the souls of the people of God. And many wonders and signs were done through the apostle. When fear and reverence for God comes, then signs and wonders follow. Number 44. Now we get this word all again. All who believed were together and had all things in common. Let's read this again. Now, all who believed were together and had all things in common. Now, I just want to show you something. I want to challenge you. I want to challenge you. Every last one of you guys, I'm here to challenge you. Do you think there were politics in that day? beliefs in that day, things that things that issues and things they were passionate about in that day? Sure. And does the spirit of God have a solution and a plan and a play to impact those things? Sure. Did some of these guys still impact government? Sure. The Apostle Paul was always impacting government. I can do a whole sermon on how he was a kingdom ambassador. But it says this, "Now all who believe," all of them, which means that if you all in here believe, this would be the result. It says, "Now all who believe, were together and had all things in common." It's not saying they looked alike or they dressed alike or they had the same hairstyles. Not saying that, not uniformity, but unity. They had all things in common concerning God's word. They listened to the apostles teaching. They were in fellowship. And fear came above upon all of them. And they had all things in coming in their viewpoint towards the spirit of God. All things in common. And they sold their possessions and goods and divided them among all as anyone had needs. Look, generosity follows unity. So continuing daily continuing daily with one accord in the temple. One accord and breaking bread from house to house. These the small groups. We're launching small groups in January. Let's go. Time to be a part of one. Let's go. They ate their food with gladness and simplicity of heart, praising God and having favor with all people. Favor with all people in the Lord added to the church daily. Those who were being saved. Friends, this is God's plan. Come on. This is God's play. God's trying to run this back. Yeah. God wants This is God's plan. his play. This is what God wants to run back. He wants to run back Pentecost where the Holy Spirit comes and fear falls upon all people. And now we go steadfast in the biblical teaching. And now we have all things are coming biblically. And now we can work together to bring change to our world in our nation. And we hold them accountable to heaven and bring earth mess that up. To hold earth accountable to being like it is in heaven. That is the job of the church. That's the job of the church. And we model this. We model unity. We model oneness. If we modeled this well enough, do you know that our political officials will come to us and they will say, "What are y'all doing?" And then we can say, "Let us show you." And now we can start having prayer meetings for our nation. And we can start praying and having conversations and showing our legis legislation how if we adjusted this principle and change this principle then we can bring more unity in our land. This is the job of the church of Christ. This is the way God does it. Not arguing with your neighbor on a Facebook post. This is God's strategy. So I just wanted to show you if you wanted to make a difference. This is God's way. Whenever there's a babble, God raises up a Pentecost.
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