There is Room

I was blind, royalty. But in just three days, you came, and by the power of your blood, I am love, and I am free. Whom the sun sets free is truly free. Free indeed. You have changed my name. I am not the same. Jesus, I proclaim. I am a child of God. You have changed my heart. Took me from the dark. Gave me a new start. I am a child of God. Oh, I am a child of God. Oh, oh, I am a child.

I was wrong. I was bound. Couldn't find a solid ground. I was blind. Couldn't see how you called me royal king. But in just three days, you came and rescued me. Oh, by the power of your blood, I am love, and I am free. Whom my son set free is truly free. Free indeed. You have changed my name. I am not the same. Jesus, I proclaim. I am a child of God. You have changed my heart. Took me from the dark. Gave me a new start. I am a child of God. Oh, oh, I am a child of God. Oh, oh, I am a child of God.

I am no longer a stranger. No, I am no longer a slave. I am no longer an orphan. I am a child of the King. I am no longer a stranger. I am no longer a slave. I am a son and a daughter. I am a child of the King. I am no longer a stranger. I am no longer a slave. I am no longer an orphan. I am a child of the King. I am no longer a stranger. I am no longer a slave. I am a son and a daughter. I am a child of the King.

You have changed my name. I am not the same. JESUS, I PROCLAIM. I am a child of God. You have changed my heart. Took me from the dark. Gave me a new start. I AM A CHILD OF GOD. OH, I am a child of God. Oh, I am a child of God. Oh, I am a child of God. Oh, I am a child of God.

Blessed Jesus is mine. He's been my fourth man in the fire. After born of His, washed in His blood, and what He did for me on Cal. I trust in God, my savior. The one who will never fail. He will never fail. I trust in God, my savior. The one who will never fail. He will never fail. Perfect. All is at rest. I know the author of tomorrow has ordered my story and my song. I'm praising my risen King and savior all the day long. So I trust in God, my savior, the one who will never fail. He will never fail. I trust in God, my savior. The one who will never fail. He will never fail.

And I saw the Lord, and He heard, and He answered. I saw the Lord, and He heard, and He answered. I saw the Lord, and He heard, and He answered. That's why I trust Him. That's why I trust Him. I sought the Lord, and He heard, and He answered. I saw the Lord, and He heard, and He answered. I sought the Lord, and He heard, and He answered. That's why I trust Him. That's why I trust Him. I sought the Lord, and He heard, and He answered. I sought the Lord, and He heard, and He answered. I sought the Lord, and He heard, and He answered. That's why I trust Him. That's why I trust in God, my savior, the one who will never fail. He will never fail. I trust in God, my savior. The one who will never fail. He will never fail. I trust in God, my savior, the one who will never f. He will never fail. I trust in God, my savior, the one who will never fail. He will never fail.

Oh, don't you just love Him tonight? Oh, what a sweet spirit of God. You can make your way to your seats. Remain standing. We're going to prepare our hearts to be blessed tonight. Man, what an awesome move of God we had over here Sunday. You know, if anybody's been around me any length of time, you you've always heard me say, "I'm going to be a millionaire one day." Brother Daniel, when I was sitting over there Sunday, something occurred to me when I seen my father-in-law crying and my sister-in-law. I already am a millionaire.

Look, look in that back row out there. I'm the richest man in the world tonight. We're the richest people in the world being in this house. Everything else God gives us, man, is just blessings. Man, we got to get invested in this thing. God, we love You tonight. Thank You, God, for everything You do in our lives. Continue to God bless us, God, each and every one of us. God, we love You dearly with all our hearts. Continue to rem to move on the remainder of this service. God, we love You. Y'all march with them and be blessed as you give tonight. God bless you. Hallelujah.

When I think about where I've been. Oh, the pit I was living in. How hard He fought to love me. Redemption is my story. And I will sing. I'll sing about Jesus. Sing about His goodness and all He's done. I will sing. I'll sing about Jesus. Sing about His mercy. I can outrun with my hands lifted high. I'll sing. Sing about Jesus. Hallelujah.

When I look at where I am now, oh, I see how He brought me out. His grace that now owns me is what rewrites my story. This is my testimony. I will sing. I'll sing about Jesus. Sing about His goodness and all He's done. I will sing. I'll sing about Jesus. Sing about His good. I can't run. He brought me out of my sorrow. He brought me out of my shame. He brought me out of my mourning. I'm dancing again. He brought me out of my worry. He brought me out of my pain. He brought me out of my sadness. I'm laughing again. He brought me out of my sorrow. He brought me out of my shame. He brought me out of my mourning. I'm dancing again. He brought me out of my worry. He brought me out of my pain. He brought me out of my sadness. I'm laughing again. He broke me out of my darkness. He broke me out of my chains. He brought me out of depression. And I will sing. I'll sing about Jesus. Sing about His goodness and all He's done. And I will sing. I'll sing about Jesus. Sing about His mercy. I can't outrun. I will sing. I'll sing about Jesus. Sing about His goodness. All He's done. And I will sing. I'll sing about Jesus. Sing about His mercy. I can run. I will testify with my hands lifted high. He brought me out of my sorrow. He brought me out of my shame. He brought me out of my mourning. I'm dancing again. He brought me out of my worry. He brought me out of my pain. He brought me out of my sadness. I'm laughing again. He brought me out of my sorrow. He brought me out of my shame. He brought me out of my mourning. I'm dancing again. He brought me out of my worry. He brought me out of my pain. He brought me out of my sadness. I'm laughing again. He broke me out of my darkness. He broke me out of my chains. He brought me out of depression. I'm shining again. He brought me out and my foot on the rock and Sing about my on a rock. And I shout about Jesus. I shout about Jesus. I shout about Jesus. I shout about Jesus. I shout about Jesus. I shout about Jesus. I shout about Jesus. I shout about Jesus. And I'll dance about Jesus. I dance about Jesus. I'll dance about Jesus. I'll dance about Jesus. I'll dance about. I dance about Jesus. I dance about Jesus.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Is that the way you feel? Why don't you let Why don't you let heaven and hell know? Anybody glad that you've been set free? Hallelujah. Hallelujah. My, my, my, my, my. God bless you. Thank you for your worship. You can be seated for just a few minutes. Thank you to this youth praise team and everybody that. Thank you, Sister Amanda, for that tremendous song. And I'm telling you, I love the worship that we have going here on Wednesday night. We have a good worship team, praise team. We really do. So thankful for the the praise team, the youth praise team, the soloist, everybody that contribute in the music department. I want to make mention, I didn't get to Sunday, but uh thank you to everybody that that worked so hard to get this place looking nice uh for Easter Sunday. There was so many that worked so hard uh inside and outside. I cannot name all the names, but thank you. You know who you are. This is your church, and thank you for making it making it look nice. We'll try to I I'd like to knock out a few more things before Sunday. Uh I I'll I'll let you know, but we'll try to gather up a few more things. We have this Sunday, everybody say Sunday. Sunday. We're going to celebrate one year as as us being here in Moselle at Revive Church with the greatest church in the world. We're We're one year old. One year old. Hallelujah. And growing. There you go. Uh it was a great Sister Elsie. It was a great day when I sat in the parking lot of Pine Grove Church. I remember right where I was sitting when I dialed the number. It's a great day. I knew it when I had the first conversation. Thank you for trusting us and putting your faith in us and believing in us and giving us a chance to lead you, man. We don't. Thank you, JESUS. You are the greatest. Thank you so much. You can be seated. Thank you for that. We're glad to be here. We're so thankful for every one of you. I could I could go I could go through the I could testify every one of you have a a testimony that that just connected us. And there's there's so many that so many testimonies here tonight of just confirmation of what God's done and doing and so much. And I don't care who you are tonight, what your name is, or how long you've been here. You're not here by accident. You're in this building because God put you in this building. I I want everybody to listen to me. If you have ears and you can hear me, if you're in this building, you're in here because God put you here. And and God is the one that orchestrated all of this. He knew 50 years ago. He knew from the beginning of time where we would all be tonight on a Wednesday night. He knew, and He's got His hand on us. He's going to help us, and and we're going to keep Him first, and we're going to trust Him, and we're going to Paul said, "Follow me as I follow Christ." I'm asking you to follow me, and I'll follow Christ, and we'll I'm telling you, we'll fill this place up, and we'll carry a bunch of people to heaven. I believe that. I believe it.

I've got a lot of scriptures to read, so I'm just going to let you remain seated. I'm going to start with Luke chapter 14. Luke chapter 14, and I'm going to begin at verse number 16. And He said unto him, a certain man made a great supper. It sounds good. Everybody like a good supper. Made a great supper, and He bade many. He invited a bunch of people, and sent His servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, "Come, for all things are now ready." And they all with one consent began to make excuse. A many things changed. You hum. We're all human. They all began to make excuses. The first said unto him, "I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it." I guess he thought it was going to run off or something. And I guess he thought he had to go look at it. Said, "I got I got something to do. I got piece of property. I got to go look at it." He said, "I pray thee have me excused." And another said, "I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them. I pray thee have me excused." And another said, "I have married a wife. We won't spend much time here, and therefore I cannot come." So that servant came and showed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry. I can I can relate to that. That's it's He He wants everybody to come. He wants everybody to be here. Said to his servant, "Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, the maimed, the halt, and the blind." This reminds me of an old message my pastor preached. I'm not preaching this tonight, but I I'm reminded of an old message my pastor preached that said, "They're coming to take your place." I don't. They're not coming to take my place. That's the kind of attitude we got to get. I'm Hey, I'm planted. Ain't taking my place. You know what? I'll I'll let them have my seat, but I'm going to go get me another one or something. But He said, "You got to go out and invite the poor and the maimed, anybody that'll come, and the blind." And the servant said, "Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room." Everybody say, "There is room." And the Lord said unto the servant, "Go out into the highways and the hedges, and compel them." Um, everybody say compel them. Compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. Everybody say filled. I see some empty chairs out there tonight. You know what God would like to see? He would like to see them filled. He'd like to see them filled with your mother, your father, Brother Williams. That was a great testimony, Sister Tammy. That was I talked to you before service. Wow. How God moved on your family Sunday. Brother Charlie and Cassidy, in the name of Jesus. He wants this place filled with your family. Sister Janet, Sister Judy, all your family that was here Sunday. He prophesied to Brother Will over here. I don't know if you heard it or not. It was real quick. And we're believing. There's room in this house tonight. The the greatest thing that could happen and to make heaven smile and shine down on us and be so excited would be to see this place filled on a Wednesday night. Hey, I I I'm not just believing for a full house on Sunday. I'm believing for a full house on Wednesday, 'cause there's hungry people out there. There's hungry. There's There's poor, and there's maimed, and there's blind people out there that's looking for somewhere to be tonight. Looking for hope tonight. Your family, there's people in your family looking for hope tonight. So last verse, number 24. For I say unto you, that none of these men which were bidden shall taste of my supper. I'm going to go back to verse number 22 and pull my title out of the last few words of that verse. Verse number 22. There is room. There's room. Everybody say there's room. Let's ask God to help us. Lord, thank You for another opportunity to come into Your house. God, we need You tonight more than we've ever needed You in our life. God, we believe that You're going to give us the greatest harvest that we've ever seen. God, it's going to be greater than we can think, greater than we can imagine. God, we're believing You for a full house. In the name of Jesus. Why don't you clap your hands if you believe that? Thank you. Thank you, Sister Albany. There is room. There's room. They. Everybody say there's room. There is room.

I I looked I dug into these scriptures, and I I looked as careful as I could, and I come across something that I sent them at the very last minute. I don't know if they got it or not, but John chapter 2 and verse number 7. John chapter 2 and verse number 7. The same the same word in the Greek in verse number 23 of our text when He said His desire was for this house to be filled. That field, that word when they translated it is the same feel that we find in John chapter 2 and verse number 7. It's the same feel. Jesus said unto them, "Fill the water pots with water." And they filled them up to the brim. Now, they knew the instruction was to fill the water pots. They didn't halfway fill them. They didn't part of the way fill them. They didn't they didn't leave any room. The scripture we just read in John 2:7 said they filled them to the brim. I mean, they poured water into them till they couldn't be any more water in them. To the brim. Everybody know what to the brim is? Anybody ever filled something to the brim? It kind of run over a little bit, and then you had to get a napkin and wipe it, but you got you took up all the space. You made it to full capacity. That's the same thing He was saying when He said He His desire was for His house to be filled. The the servant came back and said, "Hey, I've went out and I've I've invited them. They made excuses. They had land to go see. They had uh cattle to go take care of. They had uh a wife to go take care of. They had all this stuff. They they had stuff that was more important than coming to the supper, more important than was coming to the the house of God." And He said, "I want you to go out and compel them. I want you to go compel them. Go get the ones that will come. Go get the ones that are hungry. Go get the ones that." Hallelujah. I feel like I'm looking at some hungry people tonight because you're here on a Wednesday night. Thank you for being hungry. Thank you for making uh the house of God important in 2026. Thank you so much for making midweek a priority in your family's life. My Lord, we we've got these front rows full of young people filled. Thank you for for coming on a Wednesday night. Hey, anybody can go on Sunday. I'm just telling you, it's easy to go on Sunday. But not everybody can come on Wednesday. I I I'm I'm gonna get started in just a minute. But they are churches all over this state and this nation that are empty tonight. On a Wednesday night. I know I know a a big one in in Mississippi that a friend of mine is preaching at on Wednesday night. And he said, he called me and he said, "Hey, y'all have more than they do on Wednesday night, large church in this state." I'm Listen, thank you for making church a priority. It God will honor it. He's going to reward you for it. He's going to reward you. So, there is room. But with that all being said, there's still room. There's still empty pews. There's still empty seats. There is room. That is one of the most powerful and one of the most dangerous statements in our Bible. Yet the the servant come back and said, "Yet there is still room." So because on one hand it means God is still saving. God is still saving. On the other hand, it means somebody is still missing. Somebody is still missing. We've got room for them here. There's a place for them. Our desire is for them to come into this building and plant their family and get rooted in this thing. So, on the one hand, God is still saving, and on the other hand, somebody is still missing. You're you're here because God is still saving. He's He's working on you. He He's He He's moving in your f He's helping you. You wouldn't be here if God wasn't working for you. If He hadn't filled you with the Holy Ghost and and and put your life and your family toward the right track. On the other hand, you've got family members that should be here. You've got you've got co-workers. You've got friends that should be sitting in those empty seats. Let me let me pull out the simplicity of this parable. There was a great supper prepared. Everything is ready. Invitations had went out. Come, He said, for all things are now ready. But they begin to make excuse. I'm not going to go through those again. And they all with one consent began to make excuses the way the Bible put it. But let me drop this in you tonight. The problem was not that there wasn't room. There was room. The problem was people didn't come. They had sent the invitations out, but He come back and said, "They're not coming." So the master said, "Go get the broken. Go get the hurting. Go get the rejected." And the servant came back and said, "I've done that." And yet there is still room. So one of the greatest enemies that I want to present to you tonight, one of the greatest enemies for the church is the enemy's name is complacency. One of the greatest enemies is the enemy of complacency. Just to be average, just to get by. Mediocrity is one of our greatest enemies. Just getting, you know, the couch feels good, but the couch don't change you. It's real comfortable, but they ain't You ain't going to get no change out of that thing. You're just going to get some comfort. We're not here looking for comfort. We're here looking for change. There's people out there that is hungry for change. And there are cha thousands of churches today that are saying they're satisfied with their few and no more. They're satisfied with how everything's going. We've got everybody in the right spot doing the right thing. We don't need anybody else to come in here and and and shake it up. We don't need anybody else to come in here and mess with our flow. Thousands of churches that are just complacent and satisfied with exactly what they have going. Empty chairs are not just empty seats. They are empty souls. Every chair represents an empty soul. There's still room. If there's still room, there's still responsibility. If there's an empty seat beside you, there's still a responsibility that's on you to fill that seat. Hallelujah. Seats are empty. They're waiting on us. We shout about revival, but empty chairs are preaching a different message. Hey, I get excited about revival. I I love to shout and and get excited, but the empty chairs are preaching a different message to us. Sometimes we have to turn and look at the empty chairs and say, "Man, we got to reach them. We We got to feel this place. We got to reach out. We got to call them. We got to pray for them. There's room." Preaching to you tonight that there is room, and that's a problem. I'm just telling you, it's a problem. We shouldn't have any room. I I know we're I know we're all new. We are all just getting to know each other, but I'm telling you, we shouldn't have room. We should be We should be planning for just hang on. I don't want to get ahead of myself. There's a there's a a scripture Isaiah 5:14 that haunts the scripture haunts the church. Therefore, hell hath enlarged herself. Hell is getting bigger. Hell is knocking out walls. Hell is in a building program. Hell hath ENLARGED HERSELF. THAT SHOULD keep us up at night. That should that should come across every time we pray. We should pray that GOD IS IS FILLING His house and pulling them out of hell. Hell hath enlarged herself. What a sad scripture. Hell is expanding. Hell is making room. Hell is enlarging itself. Hell is full. And so many churches are empty. There's still so much room in the church. And hell is at no capacity, no vacancy, that they don't have any room anymore. Yet the church still has room. I'm just talking to you tonight. I I'm just trying to I want to stir something up. I I I want you to leave here and go try to find somebody, man. Oh, you we we we cannot be comfortable with where we're at. We can't be comfortable. People are dying. People are lost. We see them every day. They're dying. They don't know what we know. They don't feel what we feel. They don't know about the Holy Ghost. They don't know about Jesus name baptism. They have no idea. They They've never They've never experienced what we've experienced. THEY'VE NEVER HEARD THE FIRST MESSAGE. YET, WE'VE HEARD THOUSANDS OF MESSAGES. THOUSANDS. Hell is enlarging itself. People are dying. People are lost. We see them every day. They're not strangers. They're our friends. They're our family. Are we compelling them? Are we praying for them? Are we telling them that we're praying for them? Are we are we reaching for them? What? There's empty pews. There's room. And everybody say, "There's room." There's room. God didn't just save us. He sent us. We're not just saved. We're supposed to be sent. We We should be We should be on a comm a a commission. We should be We should be on a a journey to reach somebody. We We should be We should be reaching and and praying and and and bringing God didn't just save us. He sent us. Matthew 25 and verse number 14. For the kingdom of heaven is has a man traveling into a far country who called his own servants and delivered unto them his goods. See these these are parables of the kingdom of heaven. This was Jesus telling stories relating heaven to something we would understand. Here here's another one. He said, "Unto, unto one he gave five talents. Unto another he gave two. To another he gave one, every man according to his several ability, and straightway he took his journey. Then he that hath received the five talents went and traded with the same and made them other five talents." Everybody say he growed. There was some growth. He He didn't stay the same. He growed. Likewise, he that received two, he also gained other two. Everybody say growed. But he that received one went and digged in the earth and hid his Lord's money. He thought he was doing good. He thought he'd say, "Well, you know what? I'm just going to I'm just going to stick with what I got." That's the safe bet. There's too many churches trying to play it safe. Too many pastors trying to play it safe. Said, "You know what? I'm just going to be satisfied with with what we got going. Man, we we we running, man, we bumping a hundred every Sunday. I Man, I just Wow. I I feel like that's just that's enough, God. We're just going to we're just going to stop right here and enjoy the the ride and and we're going to That's not That's not what He wants. I'm telling you, complacency and mediocrity and and comfort is our worst enemy. We cannot entertain it. So after a long time, the Lord of those servants cometh and reckonth with them. So he that hath received five talents came and brought the other five talents, saying, Lord, uh, thou deliverest unto me five talents. Behold, I gain I have gained beside them five talents more. His lord said unto him, Well done, thou thou good and faithful servant. Thou hast been faithful over a few things. I'll make thee ruler over many things. Enter thou into the joy of the Lord. Next one. So we find the one that had two talents. He delivered to him, and he had gained two other talents. Next verse. His lord said unto him, "Well done." He said, "I'm going to make you ruler over many things. Enter in to the joy of thy Lord." All right. He which received one talent. This is the one that that was playing it safe. This is the one that was just satisfied with what God had given him. The one that was just comfortable. The one that just sat down and hid and and was satisfied with what he had. He said, 'I knew you were a hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawled, and I was afraid, and I went and hid thy talent in the earth. And uh so there here it is here. Hast thou is thine?' He he said, I'm I'm going to give you back this talent you given me. And the Lord answered him, said, thou wicked and slothful servant. Man, he he didn't lose anything. He He didn't He just maintained. He just HE JUST KEPT WHAT GOD HAD GIVEN HIM. HE JUST HE JUST MAINTAINED. You would think that just maintaining would be okay. Just just being JUST HAVING WHAT GOD GIVE YOU. Just just being uh, but he said no. He he said, "Thou wicked and slothful servant." Next verse. He said, "You should have put my money in the exchangers and and at my coming I should have received mine own with usury." Is there another verse? Yeah. Let's go through 30. So he took here's what he done. He took the talent from him and gave it unto him which had the 10 talents. He took that one that he didn't do anything with, the one that that did not have any growth. He took that one. He took from the small. Let me Let me put it like this. Maybe this ain't the right way to put it, but this is the way I'm seeing it. He took from the small church and gave to the one that was actually growing. He took from the the one that wasn't doing anything and gave. And people are thinking, "Well, what why how's that church growing? How's that church multiplying? How's it getting so big?" Because they're doing something with what they've got. They're not just satisfied with with being mediocre, with being average. Now, that's not what that's not the goal. That's not the goal of the church is to that is not the intention is to try. But that's what happened. He said, "You know what? They're not doing anything with what I gave them. They're going to go over here to the one that's actually doing something with what I gave them." Now, I know that's hard to swallow, but that's what's happening. The one did nothing, and he got rebuked. All right. God called him wicked and slothful. Doing nothing with what God gave you. Listen to this. Doing nothing with what God gave you is just as as it is judged just as seriously as doing wrong. Doing nothing was just as bad as doing something bad. Doing nothing was just as bad as doing something wrong. JUST TRYING TO TO MAINTAIN, JUST TRYING to to not lose any ground, NOT TRYING TO gain any ground, not trying to to to win souls. He come down hard on him. Acts chapter 1 and verse number 8. Here's the purpose of of of why we have the Holy Ghost. This, do y'all know this was this was Jesus's last words with His feet planted on this earth. The very last thing He said He right before He ascended, Brother R.J., right before He went back up into heaven, the last thing He told him, He said, "You're going to receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon you, and you shall be witnesses." He said, "I'm going to give you the Holy Ghost to be a witness. I'm going to give you the Holy Ghost to go get somebody else. I'm going to give you the Holy Ghost not to keep it all to yourself, not to hoard it, not to not to hear thousands of messages and never and never share it. He said, "I'm going to give you the Holy Ghost so you can be a witness wherever you go. You're going to BE A WITNESS." THE PURPOSE OF THE HOLY GHOST is not I hate I don't know about saying it like this, but it's not just for us. The purpose of the Holy Ghost is so God can fill us, so we can go tell somebody else. So they can be filled, too. That was the purpose. He wanted them to multiply. He wanted them to grow. He He He Thank God He gave you the Holy Ghost. But what are you doing with it? Are you are you being a witness? Are you telling somebody? Are think, "Oh, God, help me to be a witness." He didn't fill us with the Holy Ghost to sit. He filled us with the Holy Ghost to speak. He filled us with the Holy Ghost to reach. He filled us with the Holy Ghost to bring somebody to church. Every day we should be saying there's room. There is room. There's a seat beside me. I you we shouldn't be able to sleep at night with so many empty seats. We shouldn't and I know I know this this is we we should be celebrating. We should be celebrating 130 uh I don't know it's probably about that uh Sunday uh Easter Sunday. It it was up there. We we should be celebrating. I I know. I know. But there How can we when we still got empty seats when when there there's still lost people? He said He wanted this place to be filled. He wanted His house to be filled. And that's what I want to pray. That's what I want to believe. That's what I want to reach for. that wants to be the that it it don't need to it don't NEED TO SAY A HUNDRED. IT NEEDS TO SAY A FULL HOUSE. IT NEEDS TO SAY NOT AN EMPTY SEAT. NOT AN empty seat. Hallelujah. I don't want hell to be in a building program and and me to be comfortable sitting on the couch. H I I don't want to be I don't want to be growing myself and everybody else dying. I I I want to reach. I want to reach because there's still room. Everybody say there's room. There's room. Revelation chapter 3 verse number 14. Revelation chapter 3 and verse number 14. I know you'll be familiar with this one too. And unto the angel of the church of the Leodysans. Right? Now, the angel of the church was the pastor. He wrote this, and he said, "Write this to the pastor that these things saith the Amen, the faithful and the true witness, the being of the the beginning of the creation of God." He said, 'I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot.' He said, 'I would I would thou were cold or hot.' Anybody remember this one? This is a This is a famous one. So then, because thou art lukewarm and neither cold nor hot, he said, I'm going to spew thee out of my mouth. All right. Verse number n uh 17. We're going to go through 19. Because thou saith, I am rich, and I am increased with goods, and I have no need of nothing. And knowest thou that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that thou the shame of thy nakedness do not appear, and anoint thine eyes with eye salve and I saw sa salv my goodness sav sav I'll get it in a minute that thou mayest see. He said, I need your eyes opened. As many as I love, I rebuke and chasen. Here, here, here was the here was the the cure to the lukewarmness was right here. Be zealous. Does anybody know what zealous is? I looked it up, and I don't think I wrote it down, so I might not remember it correctly, but it was to pursue. It was to It was not to sit around comfortable. It was to get to work. He said, "I want you to repent and be zealous." Because they was lukewarm. They was JUST COMPLACENT. THEY WAS COMFORTABLE. THEY THEY THEY WAS JUST OKAY WITH being average. I said it I mentioned it before, but I remember I remember the red light that I was sitting at in in Indianapolis, Indiana. It was actually Greenwood. And I told I told my now wife, I said, "Let's don't be average. Whatever we got to do, let's I I do not want to be average. I want to do something great. I want God to use me in a way that I I don't want to be average. I don't want to be mediocre." And God don't want any of us to be that way. He wants you to be the greatest soul winner that this community's ever seen. He wants you to bring the MOST PEOPLE THAT ANYBODY'S EVER BROUGHT TO CHURCH. Let me tell you something. There is no greater joy than than to bring SOMEBODY TO CHURCH. GOD, FILL THEM WITH THE HOLY GHOST. THEY GET BAPTIZED IN JESUS NAME. TURN THEIR LIFE around, and they're thanking you for bringing them to church, for telling them about God. THERE'S NOTHING GREATER. THERE'S NO ALCOHOL. THERE'S NO DRUG ADDICTION. THERE'S no pornography. THERE'S NOTHING GREATER THAN THE FEELING OF BRINGING SOMEBODY TO THIS HOUSE TO SIT IN THAT SEAT. There's nothing that compares. You be seated. There's nothing that compares. It's the greatest thing. They was lukewarm. They They was They was comfortable. They was complacent. And He said, "You know what?" He said, "You're going to have to be zealous. You're going to have to get out of that complacency, and you're going to have to do something. You do not get comfortable. Do not get complacent." Ephesus, one of the churches, one of the churches, we're not going to go to all of them, but the Ephesus church had lost its first lost its lost love. The uh church at Pergamus, they had false doctrine. Okay, follow me. One of them had lost their love. One of them had fell into false doctrine. Theria had tolerated sin. Sardis, all of these are churches. You can read them in Revelation. Sardis was dead. So, one of them lost the love. One of them was in false doctrine. One of them was dead. One of them tolerated sin. Okay, you follow me? But Leodysia, Leodysia was just comfortable. Leodysia was just, "Hey, hey y'all, we we we've hit the number we want to hit. We've we've got the amount of people we want. We Hey, everything's going good. We ain't got no trouble. We ain't got to work much. Hey, we can just show up and man, everything's going to be okay." They got comfortable. They was complacent. And you know what happened? That is the only church that He said made Him sick. He said, "I'm going to spew you out of my mouth." He didn't say that to the one that had sin. He didn't say that to the one that had lost their love. it. It didn't say that to the one that was tolerating sin. He didn't say that to the one that was in false doctrine THAT HAD JUST GOT COMFORTABLE THAT WASN'T HOT AND WASN'T COLD AND EVERYTHING WAS JUST OKAY and hey we there's no need to there we got enough everything's okay. He said that makes me sick. He said I want to spew you out of my mouth. They were comfortable. They were average. They were lukewarm. And it made God sick. Other churches had problems. BUT LEADYIA HAD NO PASSION for the lost. THEY HAD NO PASSION to reach anybody. THEY WAS JUST OKAY RIGHT WHERE THEY WAS. THEY DIDN'T EVEN KNOW SOMETHING WAS WRONG. THEY THOUGHT, "MAN, it's it's ain't nothing we're we ain't got no problems. We ain't got everything's going good." They didn't even know anything was wrong. And God said that is making me sick. They they turned church into something about them instead of something about others. It was about me mess us. all everything about there was nothing about hey what about this lost world what about this dying world what about everybody that's so messed up and needs God there was no outreach program there was no outreaching being done there was no witnessing being done I remind you tonight that there is room in this church. There's room in this house. But God never intended it to stay that way. Somebody bought these pews for somebody to sit on. Hey, these pews costed these chairs costed some money. I know. I priced them before. I know they're expensive. There's a there's around 140 of them in here right now. They was bought for somebody to sit in, not to be empty. There's room. He didn't intend for there to stay room in His house. He said, "I want it to be filled." Empty chairs lead to empty altars. Listen to me. Empty chairs lead to empty altars. Empty altars lead to empty baptistries. Empty baptistries lead to empty souls. And all of these lead to hell in a massive building program. Hell is buying lumber. HELL IS IS DRAWING UP BLUEPRINTS. HELL IS ENLARGING ITSELF. AND THE CHURCH. DON'T LET IT BE SAID OF THE CHURCH THAT THE CHURCH IS JUST satisfied in our place that we're in because your mama needs to be here. Your sister needs to be here. Your father needs to be here. Your sister needs to be here. Your son needs to be here. Your cousin, your co-workers, your husband. How can we be okay when our family HOW CAN WE SIT HERE AND BE comfortable ah JESUS GOD WE WANT THIS PLACE TO BE FILLED. WE WANT IT TO BE filled in Jesus name. In Jesus name. Empty empty seats lead to empty souls. And all of this emptiness leads to hell being full. While we sit here, hell is building. My lord, you can hear the the the the electric drills. You can hear the hammers. You can hear the the all the construction going on. You can hear the you can hear the the equipment backing up. Beep beep beep. You ever heard the backup? You can be in a construction zone. You hear it all the time. All the all the s the the sounds of construction. Hell has it going on tonight. Hell is in a building program, and we've got room in this house. We shouldn't be able to sleep. We should We should not be able to sleep. We should not be able to skip a day without praying for the lost people in our lives. Hell is building. So back to our text, Luke Luke chapter 14. He said, compel them. Everybody say compel them. Compel them. Say compel them. It's our job to compel them. We must refuse to let hell enlarge itself on our watch. On our watch. Hey, there's many that's went before us. There's many that's put in the that's put in the time. THERE'S THERE'S SO MANY ELDERS THAT'S PUT IN THE WORK. HEY, we we're standing. We're we're ENJOYING THE THE THE WORK and the sweat and the money and the DEDICATION THAT OUR ELDERS PUT IN HERE. WE'RE ENJOYING IT. NOW IT'S OUR TIME TO BUILD SOMETHING. NOW IT'S OUR TIME TO ENLARGE THE KINGDOM OF GOD. IT'S our turn. It's our turn. We've got buildings to build. Well, I I don't know how long it took this church to get out of out of River Road. I don't know how long. I I I'm one day I'm going to get somebody to give me all that. I want to record it. I want to know. I don't know how long it took to get to to move out of that little that little building. I don't I don't have no idea. I know how long we this church has been in this one. And let me tell you something. We've been here too long. We've been We've been here too long. It's time to knock out some wall. We should have already knocked out some walls. We should have already made this sanctuary bigger. It We cannot get complacent. Listen, I'm just trying I'm not I I'm not doing any condemning or any kind of I I'm not doing anything getting on to anybody. I'm just trying to stir up something in us. I I don't want us to get satisfied. I KNOW WE HAD A GOOD WE WERE HAVING SOME GOOD CROWDS, BUT MY GOODNESS, WE CANNOT STOP. WE CAN'T STOP. WE GOT TO FILL THIS PLACE. IT'S GOT TO BE FULL TO CAPACITY. That's what There's thousands of churches that are just okay with where they're at. They are satisfied with what's going on. But our job is to reach. Our job is to implement whatever it takes. We will outsmart hell. We will outsmart hell. We're going to We're going to keep it on its toes. We're We're going to We're going to do things that that it didn't see coming. We will keep it on its toes. We will CONSTANTLY KEEP HELL OFF BALANCE. IT'S THE CHURCH'S JOB TO KEEP HELL OFF BALANCE. IT SHOULDN'T KNOW. IT SHOULDN'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO NEXT. IT SHOULDN'T KNOW HOW WE'RE GOING TO DO IT NEXT. WE'RE led by the Holy Ghost. We're led by the Holy Ghost. This is why God said in Isaiah 43 and 19, He said, "I'm going to do a new thing." God said, "I'm going to do a new thing." He said, "I'm going to do something that hell didn't see coming." He said, "I'm going to catch it off. I'm going to do something new. He said, I'm going to do a new thing there. If there is still room, if there is still room, our job is not finished. If there's empty seats, OUR JOB IS NOT FINISHED. WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY. Who will bring somebody? WHO WILL BRING SOME? WHO WILL PRAY LIKE IT MATTERS?

WHO WILL REFUSE TO LET ANOTHER one another chair stay empty? Who does anybody want to build the kingdom of God? Is there any? Have you ever? Have you ever heard the saying of new level, a new devil? Anybody ever heard that? Another level. Another devil. Hey, there we There's levels in this thing. There's going to be things that we fight. Every level is going to require something. Every every everything that the church has going is going to that the enemy is going to push against. It's going to fight against that. Hey, it's it's going to we're going to fight.

I'm wrapping it up. We're going to fight. We have grown. We've grown tremendously, but we still have room. There's still room in here. I'm looking forward to the day that this place is filled to capacity. And that is not the pastor's desire only. That's not only the pastor's desire. That is God's desire. We can't be satisfied with the ball game being sold out and the club being sold out and and everything in this world being filled to capacity and the church still having room.

WE HAVE GOT TO WAKE UP IN SOMETHING INSIDE OF US THAT GIVES US A HOLY A HOLY UNCCTION TO REACH SOMEBODY. TO BRING SOMEBODY, to pray FOR SOMEBODY, TO TO DO OUTREACH, TO TO FIND SOMEBODY THAT'LL COME TO CHURCH WITH YOU. We have the Holy Ghost to be a witness. We have the Holy Ghost to be a witness. What's got us to a hundred is not what's going to get us to 200. Let me tell you, it's going to take a shift. It's going to take a shift. And I'm coming to a I'm landing this thing. I mentioned last night in the I mentioned last night in the prayer meeting that we had last night that something happened to me Monday night. I had a feeling a feeling that come over me. It it was a feeling that that I can't describe. I was in a service Monday night. It was the very first song that was sung. Something happened to me. It it and all the only way I can describe it is it it was it was like a shift. That's that's the only word that I can that I can describe it as a shift. There was something changing. There was something ch it was it was another dimension. It was another level. It was another God was saying I'm going to do something that that NOBODY HE DIDN'T SAY this but it it it's the way I'm describing it that nobody saw coming that nobody felt that nobody it's just a shift that was taking place in the spirit and I I wasn't the same after that. And I said, "God, I I I want to be a part of it. I I want to I want to be involved in it. I I want to be I want to be in the middle of what you're doing. I I want to be a part of the shift. I don't want to be left. I I don't want to be." And and this message started working on me about being comfortable and being complacent and being average and being mediocre and how much God hated it. God hates it. You know what? He wants to He wants He He likes multiplication. He likes growth. The The trees that don't produce fruit, he's not happy with. He matter of fact, he said, "Go cut them down and and THROW THEM IN THE FIRE because they're not good enough just being a tree. They got to be a tree that produces fruit."

I want to be a tree that produces fruit. I want to I want to I want him to use me. Like I told you the other day, Brother Thomas, that he he created man. And I'm not going to get into as much as I He created man and he gave man dominion on this earth. Man, he gave man authority. Man dominion over everything on this earth. And he that's why he had to create himself a body and come die because it had to be a man. Man man had dominion. So he had to become a human and and and and do this work that he was doing. It's it's got to flow through us. If anybody's going to do it, we got to do it. Hey, I love angels and I love everything about angels and uh it's good to see angels and HEAR FROM ANGELS AND ALL THAT. But Cornelius prayed one down and THE ANGEL SAID, "GO GET A MAN." Is that what he said? Because a man, it had to go through a man. Let me tell you, this world is going to be one and this church is going to be filled through humans, through you. Because you told somebody, because you told somebody, because you invited somebody, because you prayed for somebody.

GOD COULD DO IT HIMSELF AND ANGELS COULD COME DOWN AND DO IT AND ALL THAT, BUT THAT'S NOT THE WAY HE CHOSE. HE CHOSE FOR US TO FILL THIS PLACE UP. SO NOW IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO FILL THIS HOUSE UP. WE CAN DO IT. We can DO IT. I'M LOOKING AT A BUNCH OF SOUL WINNERS IN HERE. ALL OF YOU CAN DO IT, MAN. IF EVERYBODY BRINGS SOMEBODY. I KNOW IT'S CLICHE. I know it's cliche and we've heard it so many times, but are we doing it? If everybody brought somebody, the next service we wouldn't have room in here for everybody. If you found somebody, IF YOU MADE UP IN your mind, if everybody in here tonight made up in their mind they was bringing somebody next service, we would have to put out the chairs. We would have to. And if we done it again, we'd have to knock out a wall and it would happen fast. We don't have time. Listen, I'm done. God's coming back. We don't have time.

We don't have time to wait another 20 years to fill this building up. We don't have 20 years to fill this thing up. We don't have 20 years to do it. I'm not going to be satisfied with 20 years to fill this up. I I was thinking about this when I was when I was getting this service together. and he and he's coming he's coming uh Sunday to preach our one year. But let me tell y'all something. Whatever you think about big churches, whatever you think about all of that, that's just all just put it aside. But let me tell you something. I know him. I know him. And he could right now, Brother Coleman, he could retire. he could start putting him money in an account that that his grandkids wouldn't have even have to worry about anything. But you know what? Instead of getting complacent, instead of getting uh just comfortable, instead of instead of just saying, "Hey, I I'm I'm at a good spot now. I've built the church. I've filled it up and man, there's a bunch of uh funds coming in." Instead of all that, he said, "You know what? I'm about to build another one at his age and at his it don't make sense. I can't think of another pastor in in this country that would do that at that age, at that respons, you know, who who knows what I've got it in my spirit, too. I don't want to be I don't want to be I I don't want to get comfortable. I know I've said it too much, but I there there's too much room in here. Let's stand. There's too much room in here. Why don't Why don't you turn and look at an empty pew? Find you an empty pew to look at. There's somebody that you know that should be sitting in that. It's empty tonight. It should be your kids. Should be yours. Your kids. THEY CAN BE HERE IN CHURCH WITH YOU. IT can be your family. It can be your lost loved ones. If you want that, why don't you lift your hands and pray right now? Reach out to him. Reach out. Reach out. Reach out.

Come on. Reach for him. Just a minute. We're We're almost done. Come on. Why don't you pray just a moment? Pray for your family. Your family was here. Many of them was here Sunday. It don't just need to be an Easter service. Come on. It pray. Pray just a moment for them. Come on, let's let's reach out for them just a moment. Hey, it it ain't just empty it ain't just empty chairs. It is lost souls. IT'S LOST SOULS THAT'S making hell enlarge itself. Come on. Come on. They want to be here. They want to be here. They want to be here. DID YOU DID YOU REACH OUT TO THEM? DID YOU CONTACT THEM? DID YOU DID YOU PRAY FOR THEM? OH, JESUS. Come on. Come on. Come on. Reach out just a moment. I We're We're almost done. Jesus. Jesus. Sister Coleman, your family can every one of them can be saved. Every one of them be full of the Holy Ghost. Every one of them. Every family member. THERE'S NOTHING TOO HARD FOR GOD. Every one of your family MEMBERS CAN. YOU GOING TO HAVE YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO BELIEVE THAT THOUGH. You're going to have to reach for them. You're going to have to pray for them. Oh Jesus. God, I'm not just satisfied with them visiting on an Easter Sunday. God, I'm not just satisfied with them coming once a year. Come on. Somebody's going to have to make up in your mind, hey, I I've got a burden for my family. I've got a burden for your family. I CHALLENGE YOU. I CHALLENGE YOU TO TO GET somebody in your mind. Get somebody else's family member in your mind and pray for them. Reach for them so God ascend yours. Oh Jesus. God, I delivered it. God, I delivered it. God, I spoke it. Your word will not return void. God, your house is going to be full. God, your house is going to be filled. The invitations are going out. The prayers are going up. WE'RE INVITING THEM. GOD, WE'RE GOING TO INVITE THEM. And God, uh, we're going to reach the poor, the maimed, the blind, and your house is going to be filled. Why don't you lift your hands? Lift your hands and and claim it. Lift your hands and believe it. It's going to be your mama, your daddy. God, we're not satisfied. We're not satisfied with 70 on on on Wednesday night. We're not satisfied with a hundred on Sunday, GOD. WE DON'T HAVE 20 YEARS TO WASTE, GOD. WE DON'T HAVE 20 YEARS TO TO TRY TO FILL THIS PLACE, GOD. YOU'RE GOING TO DO IT IN ANOTHER YEAR, GOD. 12 MORE MONTHS AND THIS PLACE IS GOING TO BE FILLED. 12 more months AND WE'RE GOING TO BE KNOCKING OUT WALLS. 12 MORE MONTHS. I PROPHESY. I BELIEVE IT. AND IT'S GOING TO BE YOUR FAMILY. IT'S GOING TO BE YOUR FRIENDS. WE'RE NOT GIVING UP ON THEM. WE'RE GOING TO THE GATES OF HELL AND WE'RE PULLING THEM OUT OF THERE. WE'RE PULLING THEM OUT. WE'RE PULLING THEM OUT. THERE'S ROOM. THERE'S ROOM FOR THEM. THERE'S ROOM FOR THEM. Come on, LIFT YOUR HANDS AND BELIEVE IT. THESE ALTARS ARE OPEN. I'M DONE. Come on. Why don't you just gather around and pray? Pray. I pray pray. SPEND FIVE M. LET'S TAKE FIVE MINUTES AND LET'S PRAY for them. Come on. Come on. We're believing. We're believing. H we're believing.

God. YOUR HAND IS ON DANIEL AND Jennifer in the name of Jesus. Your hand is on them. YOUR HAND IS ON DORIS RIGHT NOW. GOD, YOU'RE REACHING FOR IT. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. God, your hand is on AJ. Yeah. Come on, God. You're reaching for brother Daniel's son in the name of Jesus. Brother Williams, Y'ALL ARE GOING TO HAVE TWO ROWS. Two rows of people. YOUR FAMILY IS GOING TO TAKE UP TWO ROWS. Brother Elie, they're coming. THEY'RE GOING TO BE HERE. THEY'RE GOING TO BE PART OF THIS. THEY'RE GOING TO BUILD THIS KINGDOM. THEY'RE GOING TO BUILD THIS THING. Sister Davis, your family is going to be they're going to BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST. THEY'RE GOING TO BE FILLED WITH THE HOLY GHOST. Come on. You're going to have to believe it. BROTHER STEVE DIANA'S COMING. Come on. I believe that in the name of Jesus. GOD, I BELIEVE IT. GOD, WE'RE NOT SATISFIED WITH JUST US. GOD, WE'RE NOT SATISFIED WITH JUST US. I hear you say, "Brother Thomas, your family can be reached." They can be reached. They can be reached in the name of Jesus. I believe it. I believe it. There's nothing too hard. There's nothing too hard. THERE'S NOTHING THAT'S TOO HARD FOR GOD. OH, there's room. There's room. There's room. There's room. There's room. God, WE'RE GOING TO FEEL IT. GOD, WE'RE GOING TO FEEL IT. GOD, we're going to feel it. God, we're going to feel it. GOD, WE'RE GOING TO FEEL IT. WE'RE GOING TO DO IT. WE'RE GOING TO DO IT. We're going to do it. THEY'RE GOING TO RECEIVE THE HOLY GHOST. THEY'RE GOING to repent. THEY'RE GOING TO BE BAPTIZED IN JESUS NAME. TAKE MY feet for your glory. Oh Jesus. One one chair is ONE TOO MANY. ONE EMPTY chair is one empty chair too many. One empty chair is one empty chair too many. Send me to the lost and lonely. Send me to the Yes. Yes. Yes. There's room. There's room. There's room for your family. There's room for your family. There's room for your co-workers. There's room for your friends. Help us. Help us, God. Help us, God. I am Jesus. I'll be yours. Oh Jesus. Do it. Do it. Do it. Do it. Holy Ghost. Do it. Holy Ghost. You can do it. Holy Ghost. You can do it. Holy Ghost.