The Church of Eleven22 - Saturated 2020 - Saturday: Bishop Vaughn McLaughlin

Episode Date: September 12, 2020

When Bishop Vaughan McLaughlin said, here I am Lord, send me. God sent him. He was sent to his hometown right here in Jacksonville, Florida. Bishop McLaughlin took his first pastoral role in Green Coast Springs. In 1988, he founded the Potter's House Christian Fellowship on the West Side and has seen attendance grow to over 5,000 members. See, what we're doing right now is not just for this generation. That means you got to, you got the dream pig.

And if your desire is to help somebody else and to bless somebody else, then get ready for territorial expansion. In 2002, Bishop McLaughlin led the Potter's House in purchasing and renovating Kingdom Plaza at Normandy Mall, a shopping mall that is now home to many businesses like the Fitness Center and Temple Builders, Kingpin's Bowling Center, and a world-renowned Soul Food Bistro. Please welcome Bishop Von McLaughlin.

God bless everybody. God bless you all. Come on, give Jesus a big old hand clap. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. God bless you. You can be seated if you can. And those you that are watching under different sites,

I know you were jumping up, screaming and hollering. You can sit down too now. No, really. Go ahead and sit down now. No, sit down now. God bless y'all. I appreciate you.

Pastor Joby gave a brief introduction. our relationship needs no paper it needs no accolades it needs nothing to be read i remember that day like it was yesterday and i remember the look these guys following him these henchmen these guys um that were supposedly succoring him or helping him and we had us a day that day and um to see this ministry manifests and to see the things that is doing around the world is absolutely tremendous and to know that on that day, you hadn't even had your first service yet. That's a miracle and that's amazing. Could we put our hands together for this great church, this great leader? I know that Gretchen and J.P. and Reagan, I know that they're glad to have you in their life and to hang out with them.

You know, I would, you know, I'd be cool to be able to hang out with Joby Martin and call him my daddy. You old enough of my daddy? No, you ain't on enough of my daddy. My wife texted. My wife, me when you said Narling Jackson, she says, will you please tell him? My name is McLaughlin now. And we've been married 42 years. And that's such a blessing. But she couldn't be here tonight. We're actually selling our home and she's packing up and doing some stuff. Anybody want to buy it? Please call me a 904. 445. Please call me. Jesus. All right. So I'm grateful to God. I want to get right to the word of God. I want to thank God for the band and the singers that came out tonight. Just look good up here together and just working together, sound good up here together.

This just feels right. It just feels good. And somebody said many more and look ahead. I just believe. And I hate COVID-19. And I hate the coronavirus. Don't you hate it? I hate it with a passion.

And again, as Jobi said, a whole lot of things going on. And people at this junction, all of this red and blue and black and white, trying to keep us separated and divided, but the devil is a liar. There is no way in the world that the body of Christ is not one body out of Twain made him one new man. There's one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and follows above us all, through us all and in us all. There's only one church. Come on, there's only one Lord and he is the Christ, the king of kings and the Lord of Lords. And I have an expression, I have a shirt that I had made. And if God is your father, I am your brother. Amen.

Acts chapter 1 verse 8 common verse for this week. Thank you guys. It's one keyboard. Matthew 16, verse 18. And I'm going to read these verses and then share with you a topic that God gave me that I kind of let out of the bag that God spoke

to me last night. And I got to say it. People who know me, they know that I give topics. But I love preaching and love doing what I do. And I always kind of work my way out of a topic, even when people are like, oh, what is he talking about? What does that mean? I preached.

a message one time said, you know, we need some lying prostitutes off up in here. You know, and Rahab lied and said to spies went that way, but she had the scarlet thread, you know, and so she helped save the people of God. So I just said, we need some line prostitutes off up in there. Can we pray?

Believe in God for some lying prostitutes in the church. So stuff like that. You know, I do stuff like that. and it's worked over these years, 30 plus years. So Acts chapter 1, verse 8 says, But you shall receive power. After that, the Holy Ghost has come upon you, and you shall be witnesses unto me,

both in Jerusalem and in Al Jadaea and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. And then there's a verse in Matthew 16, 18. Very powerful verse that says, And I say unto thee, thou art Peter, and upon this rock, I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

we've been talking about sending people and here my Lord send me and the missions and all this kind of stuff and people are going I had lunch today with some staff members from 1122 and I asked them how many of them were going and I ain't going but anyway I said everybody can't go I mean Joe we have nobody to preach to so you got to have some people that remain here so tonight from the topic we'll be here when y'all get back come on say that with me we'll be here when y'all get back come on say that with me we'll be here when y'all get back. Father, thank you for this time. In Jesus' name, amen. Come on put your hands together and bless the Lord for this opportunity to share tonight. It's a two-part message you'll see. Preaching the gospel amongst the nations is a divine mandate. We heard it all week long, and it's been very good. Pastor Matt kicked us off. Then the president was here. Glory to God, J.D. And then Doug last night. And they all reminded us that the great commission, It's not a suggestion.

It's a command. So the Bible says that we're called also to disciple whole nations. Matthew 2819 says, go teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father's Son and Holy Ghost, and then teach them to observe all things whatsoever I've commanded you. And lo, I am with you always, even until the end of the age. So the Bible says that we are to disciple nations. The word nations there is translated, peoples, peoples, people groups. But the word there is ethnos, right?

And it literally means the heathen. It literally means pagan inhabitants of the world. That there would be people who don't know who God is, and those people who don't know who God is are affectionately called heathens. Like some of your heathen family members. Are you all with me? Some of your heathen coworkers. They do not know God, so they are affectionately called heathen.

So there are people that could never come to know God without the people who know God showing up to tell them about God. And that we need to know. I had somebody to bring me the gospel. You had somebody share the gospel with you. People who don't know God, who are heathen and pagan, have to have somebody who knows God to come to them to tell them about the God that they don't know about. I was 26 years old, had never read a Bible, had never been through the doorways of a church. But once in my life, I didn't know there's a God, a Lord. The only Lord I knew was Lord Calvert, and I drink a lot of that.

That's for somebody right in here that's filling the ABC calling you tonight. Now, I just don't want to tip you, but, you know, if y'all been paying attention, then you probably would know that I probably been looking all week for a good Charles Spurgeon quote on the Great Commission. So I don't have a Spursion quote, but I did find a Kirkland. quote, James Kirk, that is, it kind of sums up the great commission to boldly go where no man has gone before. That's about as close as I can get. And then that's what we're talking about, right? Boldly going where no man has ever gone before. So Jesus commissions us to go and then he gives us

everything that we need to do it. I love what scripture says about we have everything that pertains to life and godliness. That he totally equips us. for the work of the ministry. So number one, he commissions us. He said go. I looked it up in the Greek. It means go. And I even tried to find Latin, you know, the Vulgate, and it said, go. Number two, we have the promise of his presence. He said, I'll be with you. I'll be with you. And then thirdly, he's given us the power to do what he's commissioned us to do. He said, just the verses prior, He says all power, all authority has been given under me in heaven and in earth. Then he says, now you go.

So actually, he's with us, right? So the power is available to us. But not only is he with us, he's in us. Christ in you, the hope of glory. The same spirit that reads Jesus from the dead lives in you and quickens your motor bodies. So Acts 1-8 talks about power. And it says, but you shall receive power. After that, the Holy Ghost has come upon you.

And that word is dune, which is the inheritability to be able to reproduce yourself. To be able to reproduce. It's like our actual initial mandate. When God said, be fruitful and multiply, replenish subdue, and have dominion or take dominion. That's what we're supposed to be doing, reproducing after our own kind. So then, if it's the Lord's will for you to go to the ends of the earth, you can go with confidence. that's boldly where no man has gone before. Some manuscripts don't record Mark chapter 16.

Those verses have been kind of controversial over the years, but it still has a particular charge from Christ in the book Mark 1615. It says this, and he sent under them, go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Go and preach to God. But notice this. Go, yes, but do what? preach the gospel. Now there's a whole lot of preaching going on, but not everybody is preaching the gospel. The gospel, the good news, y'all. Paul said, I give him to you what I first received,

how that Christ Jesus came, lived, died, was buried, rose again the third day according to the scriptures, now seated on the right hand of the father, ever living to make an intercession, and he's coming back again. Ain't of that good news? The good news is for God's all of the world that he gave. He made provision. God was in Christ, reconciled in the world to himself, that God was so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son so that whoever believes on him shouldn't perish, but have everlasting life. Guess what, y'all? God didn't send his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be safe. Ain't of that good news? Now, y'all know the story. Man failed. I've fallen and I can't get up. And he failed. And then

he tried to cover his sin. Was afraid because he was a naked. it and wasn't right with God anymore. So made fig leaves and tried to cover himself. That's called religion, y'all, man's attempt to be right with God. And so God said, no, you won't do that. It won't work like that. Sin got so bad. God sent a flood. You know the story. And then God sent him judges and kings and prophets. And then finally, stepping out of heaven through 42 generations, a child was born and a son was given. And his name is called Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God. the everlasting father, the prince of peace. Come on, wrapped in swaddling clothing, lying in a manger,

grew up and lived a sinless, impeccable life, incapable of sinning, because Joseph really wasn't his daddy. You heard about the mama drama last night. God was his father. And because he couldn't sin, he also didn't deserve to die. So nobody took his life. He who knew no sin became sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God by faith in him.

me here so christ came and he went to that cross nailed our sins on that tree forgave us four principalities and powers made us show of them openly triumphed and then handed us the victory and now we fight yes a good fight of faith but we fight from victory because christ has come live died was buried and rose again and if there be no resurrection then this conference is in vain our meeting tonight is in vain this preaching tonight is in vain but i heard an old old story by the Savior came from glory. Come on y'all ain't helping me here. Oh, he brought me the victory. Victory in Jesus, my Savior forever. And God has given us this victory. So also, we never forget that the key to this is resurrection, right? Jesus is alive.

We're the only world religion, recognized world religion on earth, whereas founder is still alive. You don't get that role call Buddha dead Muhammad dead Krishna dead Zoriades dead Joseph Smith been dead Charles Tass Russell

judge brother for kingdom hall dead Jesus if you say Jesus you might get saved for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved you know why he's not dead the angel said why are you looking for the living among the dead

he's not here. He is risen just like he said. He's alive. Jesus is alive. Glory to be to God. Our founder, our Savior lives. Ask me how I know he lives. He lives in me. I used to be a no good good for nothing. Lord Alton's coming to her back back to homeowner's center on my way to hell. But God, who is rich in mercy with his great love. What would he love does redeem me? So I didn't work for it. It's by grace through faith that I'm saved in Christ Jesus. Not that of myself. If I had my brothers tonight I'd be on the beach with a ball of Hennessy kicked back with some weed in my hand and singing some Bob Marley and just saying to y'all crazy for being off up in there talking about go here my lord send me I went to the beach one night and I had me a good time

and then God said nope no more I was sitting at home with the glass of jack dungeons in one hand and weed in the other and prince sang the night and were parted like a 1999 and I said God, if you're real, save me. And he did. Glory be the God. That's the kind of God we say. Jesus is alive, man. He's risen, just like he said. He said, destroyed this temple and in three days, I'll raise it up. That means he's God, too. So a lot of people have a problem with that, you know, over the years. When people get confused in the Bible, how can he be God and be the son of God and all that kind of stuff? How? What about this Trinity thing? And my Trinity ain't even the Bible. Well, Bible ain't even in the Bible.

What's wrong with you? What's your problem? So the Bible said that if we confess with our mouth to Lord Jesus and believe in our heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, will be saved, right? Jesus said, destroyed this temple, and in three days, I'll raise it up, right? The Bible said the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead

lives in you and quickens your motor body. The Father raised him up. The Spirit raised him up. He raised yourself up. There are three that better record in heaven. The Father of the Holy Ghost, these three are one. And so this is the divine trinity. That's the best way I can explain it.

It's called a tenement. I don't understand. It sounds like it's contradictory saying the same. But I promise you, it's real. So he was Emmanuel, which is being interpreted God with us. God was manifested in the flesh and dwelt among us. And so we need to know that. That's good news because we're the only religion in the world that believes that Jesus is God.

Can I get 10 people to say, amen? So preaching the gospel, I've got to remember. move is God's M.O. For people to be converted under him. Romans 1014, how can they call on him and who did not believe? And how can they believe on him and who are not heard? And how can they hear without a preacher? And how can they preach?

Except they be sick. It's the preaching of the gospel. Romans 116, for I'm not a shame of the gospel of Jesus Christ. It's the power of God under salvation to all who believe. To the Jew first, Jerusalem, and then to the heathen, the pagan, the Greek. And so Jesus sends people

to preach the gospel. But he not and send everybody and just anybody. We have an expression. Some were called, some were sent, some just pricked up their briefcase and went. And there are a lot of people out there like that. You just can't get up and go on your own. So let's thank God for this church, 1122,

and this pastor who will vet you, train you, then send you so that you're properly covered and supportive. For everybody that's made a commitment this week to this mission, you ought to thank God, come on, that you've got a proper covering, that you've got support, you're going to be trained, you're going to be vetted, and then you won't be one of those who just picked up their briefcase and went. You were sent. You either needed to be called to somebody or sent by somebody to become legit. So I thank God for legitimate sending stations like this one. Now let me testify. I remember when I was being prompted to go to the nation's, I said, no way, Jose.

I guess you probably don't figure it out, right? It was Latin America. But I actually had said that I would not cross that pond, the Atlantic. I was not going to Europe. I was not going to Africa. Somebody said, but you don't go to Africa? He said, but what about Conta Kenta? They were like, Konte, you owe it to Alex Haley.

You got to go to Africa. And I said, no, I don't want to go to Africa. So now I don't want to go to Africa. And then the guy said to me, Joe, but what about your people? You're like, my people. You're like, my people, your people, you know, your people, black people, Africa, cold, you know. And I said that biblical, let me say that biblical, Paul said in Romans 10, my heart says I in prayer to God for Israel is that that may be saved, that they might be safe, that they might be safe. I've been in record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge, for they being ignorant of God's righteousness.

They're going about to establish their own righteousness and not submitting themselves unto the righteousness of God. So Paul was concerned about his people not properly worshiping God and having a bogus legal relationship with God. And he wanted to know that the word was in their mouth and in their heart. The word of faith, we preach, that if they would just confess with their mouth, the Lord Jesus and believing their heart to God. So he had a burden for his people. He was a Jew of Jew, Israelite, a Hebrew of Hebrews. Certainly all blameless. This man circumcised, they tribe of Benjamin.

if anybody had anything to boast about in the flesh he did and he had a burden for his people and when I saw that I said you know what there's nothing wrong with having a burden for your people for your ethnic group there's nothing wrong with that some of the people who are European descent they want to go back to Europe I've got doors open to me right now to go into old Russia right now and preach and do crusades and to do seminary training and teaching over there I don't want to go but but I'm going to tell you what happened when I didn't want to go here I said okay Okay, I'm going to go. I'm going to do it for my people. Okay?

But then I thought, you know, wait a minute, I got enough Africans in my neighborhood. I went to all African school. I got to go. I'm good. But people persisted. And then they said, at least open yourself up and make yourself available so that the idea of missions and going into all the world it lines you up with the scriptures and you won't just resist God. So I said something real stupid.

I said, this ain't normal for me, but I said, God, I'll go. But if I go, I want to have an impact on the whole continent. I just don't want to go in there, some little hamlet of small village. I don't want to just go take a glass of water to somebody in the woods, and they come back and say, we got one. So I don't want to do that. So he said, okay, look how careful. Look how God is. You got to be careful because God's got a sense of humor.

The International Global Day of Prayer was held in Cape Town, South Africa, every year. so they decided they're going to move it to the United States to Jacksonville. And so the pastors here got together and said, let's send Bishop to Africa to get the baton to bring back the torch and say next year it's going to be in Africa. So I went to simply serve to be a flower on the wall. While I was there, Job, I ran into a pastor that recognized me. He looked at me and he said, could you do a workshop for me tomorrow? What are you doing here?

I said, I'm just here, looking and seeing how things are working so I can come back and tell everybody we can do. it. He said, well, do my workshop. I did the workshop. Then the guy who was hosting at Grand Power heard me at the workshop and said, hey, preach Friday night. So I preach Friday night. I'm like, tired. I ain't bring nothing to wear because I was just working. I don't, you know, then he said, after Friday night, the global day of prayer, we have 67,000 people going to be in the stadium, and we have 220 nations represented in indigenous garb. And what we do is we have 10,000 translator machines to say on that day, everybody will hear the speaker in their own language preaching the word of God. And we got God TV, TV, N, and Africa TV, and we got a potential

audience of 1.1 billion people. And this will be the first sermon that has ever gone into all 220 known civilized nations at one time in the history of the gospel. I'm just trying, I'm testifying, y'all. I'm just trying to say, I didn't want to go. I went over there reluctantly. I went over to get a baton and there I was da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da and there I was on Sunday morning on Pentecost Sunday in Cape Town Africa 67,000 people

almost a billion people watching the whole continent of Africa every nation, every country, not only in Africa on every continent the satellites were pumping this in, God TV, TV in and I was standing there and I preached and I didn't want to go.

Lord have mercy and to God be the glory worked out they didn't storming it worked out so today we've got this now huge mission program in our church we in India orphanages leper colonies churches and schools that we support through our missions and monthly mission sewing I have a missionary that's full time in India Matthew Culliverlla who goes for us he calls me his mule into India and he's doing more work than anybody that I know in India I go twice a year now to Africa, speak to tens of thousands from full pits in the villages, hospitals, places where there's no water and stuff, sewing and giving, no greater feeling in the world than to preach the gospel and physically serve less fortunate and unreached people groups who would never know who Jesus is

who would not for the obedience of the people that went. Nothing more powerful. So I love the world's missions and it's exciting, but that ain't my message to you. I may be wrong. I don't think But I think it's safe to say that not everybody is going to go to the ends of the earth, as I heard Doug so eloquently speak last night. So I want to talk to them, everybody, but to them specifically. I love missions, and a big part of missions, though, is the strength of the local church, which is why this church is so successful with this missions program. a strong strategic governing center, a headquarters. In some circles, it's called an apostolic governing center. Just like in Jerusalem, when they went up to whenever had an issue on the law or grace

or what was going on, James sat on that council with the other apostles, and they made determinations of headquarters. So what is the local church? Somebody defined it as the sole embodiment of the presence and activity, the Lord Jesus Christ in the earth. It is a synergetic gathering of transformed people. in a particular locale for the purpose of representing the body of Christ on earth through corporate worship and service to its community.

And every local church is strategically placed in a community. Every local church should have a burden for the community in which it is placed. It is from the local church that missionaries are sent. It's through the local church that people are equipped to go. Ephesians 411 says, and he gave some to be apostles and some prophets and some of the evangelists and some pastors and teachers. Why? For the equipping of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the equipping or the edifying or the building up of the body of Christ. So just like the mission field is worked, hear me good, local church ministry is worked. And every one of you

should be being equipped, disciplined to do the work of ministry. There are those in the local church that's responsible for the continued ministry to their Jerusalem or to their community. Remember it says to Jerusalem first. The gospel to the Jew first. There's a purpose for that. All right? I know that I'm called to strengthen the local church. I would have done you in this service to have come here tonight and not laid on you my strength. I know where my anointing lies. That's why I'm here. And I've got to deposit what I've got left to say. Your Jerusalem will always be combating the reason why you went there to begin with. If you didn't hear what I just said, the principalities and powers and the rulers of darkness and the spiritual wickedness in high places,

they are going to be relentless. You may have put your flag down. You may be building. You may be expanding, but it's not without a fight. The Bible said that God opens up doors for us, gives us great opportunities, but we have adversaries, many adversaries, mushrooming opposition. So you've got to get this. You see, it doesn't matter whether you're in the suburbs or whether you're in the hood, whether you're fighting crime in the hood or fighting subjective relativism and narcissism in the burbs. You've got to fight and you've got to fight on your hands. You've got an ongoing battle and we've got to keep waging war. The local church has got to remain strong so that those that are physically gone to the ends of the world can be supported,

can be prayed for, encouraged by those who sent them. Being a strong local church takes work, takes effort. But we've been at it for 32 years and God has made room for us, as Pastor Jobi said, in this city and especially on the west side of our Jerusalem. We've been intentional doing what it takes to meet the failed needs of our community. Our mantra, Matthew 25, feed the hungry, clothed, the naked, visit the jails and the prisons, the nursing home, the hospitals, take care of the widows and the orphans. We take care of the transits. Like you have transits and people that are coming by, that are walking by, that sleep in your parking lot, that sleep under the canopy of our church. It's our responsibility to not look down our ecclesiastical noses at them, but to reach down and pick them up, to figure out a means by which we can get them detox, help get them psychiatric training, help get them into a home, put shelter, roof over their head.

I wish I had about 10 people in here who understood that that was the mission. Our mission statement is simple. Help as many people as we can before the Lord returns. That's our mission statement. That's what we do. So we develop a full point plan of empowerment on the west side of Jacksonville. Here we go. We believe that we need to be involved in social empowerment. Social empowerment. I already told you, Matthew 25, feed the hungry, clothed and naked.

When Jesus came and said, when you're going to a community, speak well of it, bless it, sit down, listen to them, eat what they put before you, heal everybody that sick them on them and then tell them that the kingdom has come. We do it backwards. We want to go preaching, but we ain't got nothing to help them with. Nobody wants to know how much you know until they know how much you care. I think it was Sir Francis Assisi that says go into the community and evangelize it and use words if you have to. You have to show people that you care for them.

You have to speak truth also to power and have them to when you get right now with this social injustice and stuff that's going on. Let me hit this real quick. You got to do this because social justice is something that God is concerned about. He says, and Amos, hold your vios, keep your ego music until righteousness run down like a river until you treat each other right. there's parity amongst each other until you love one another until you feed the hungry and care for the poor the whole thing of sonoma is not just homosexuality but they didn't care for the poor they didn't care about people less fortunate than them and it led to their debauchery and we can't let stuff lead to our debauchery we got to love who god loves we got to care for who god cares for

and some of y'all looking at me rather sheepishly like you weren't lost listen you once were lost but now you're found. You were blind, but now you see. You know good and well. You didn't earn this. You weren't worthy of this. You didn't deserve this. You were tired of living,

afraid to die, but God. Looked at you, supplied exactly what you needed on that tree called Calvary, on that cross, and now you believed on it and look at you now. You may not be all that, but you show ain't what you used to be. Come on.

You know good and well that heaven's going to be your home. You're checking up out of here. So what has to happen right now, here's what the world is discovering. We got to stop asking Jobi Pharaoh how things are going. And we need to start asking the slaves how things are going. That's real liberation theology. When you ask Pharaoh how it's going, he said, look at our treasure cities.

Look, everything. It's just wonderful. Look at this. I have built. Who built? Asked the Hebrew slaves. How things going? I don't feel no way.

See, if I was in a black church, they'd be like singing the women. I'd need a few more black folks. We'd have been gone. We'd have been like, yes, it'd have been over in here. Making brick without straw, barefooted on government subsidy, controlled, manipulated by the governmental systems. It's systemic. We can't get out.

Same people, same city, different class of people. I need 10 people to say, ouch. Yes, sir. So we had to be concerned about social issues. Educational empowerment. People are destroyed for a lack of knowledge, lack of knowledge. We have an excellent academy. Many have heard about, there's a school over here.

We used to beat up on all the time called Providence. I loved it. I loved it. Gracie and Allen was over there. We beat them too, beat them like they stole something. Tebow, Tebow was at Trinity. We beat them like he stole something too. Ask him.

Ask him. I'm going to tell you all this. I'm going to say it public. I hope Tim is watching. I got a video with Tim in a fight in the eighth grade playing against our basketball team. I'm going to wait until he get good and world famous. Then I'm going to sell it to TMZ. Education.

We looked at the public school system when we were like, why complain about it when you can do something about it? Number three, economic empowerment. Don't give them a fish. Teach them how to fish. And then if you teach them out of fish, teach them how to buy the pond. That's the kind of empowerment we need. We employ hundreds of people.

We employ over 200 people full time. And these people, a lot of them are unhireables. They couldn't be hired nowhere else. They're ex-felons. The numerous, numerous, all have testimonies. And we're able to bring them into an environment and a culture between our fitness center, our bowling alley, our bistro, our maintenance crews, our church staff. We're able, our schools, our academies, two locations, three levels of school.

We're able to empower people and help people to be able to pay their bills and to be the heads of their families and their homes, economic empowerment. and then spiritual empowerment. Last but not least, teach them about God. You know why? Theology is important. Them that know their God shall be strong and do great exploits. And so they got to teach them about God. Somebody say God.

Come on, you got to say God like a church of God, pastor, God. So that's why we do what we do. And that's what we do. So every strong local church also will have some of the mastery of these three things apparent in their church. We teach them. In order for you to be 1122, a continued strong base and a support system for those that you sin, you've got to, number one, have a strong ecclesiology, a strong ecclesiology. What if it's ecclesiology is the nature, structure, and purpose of the church.

You need to understand that you don't go to church, you don't have church, you are the church, that this is not some glee club. This is not a place where you put a mote around and let the drawbridge down for people who only look just like you and become some a marginalized group of pious peacocks of God zoo looking down your ecclesiastical knows that other people wondering why they don't have like you what you have and wear what you wear and shop where you shop come on y'all that ain't the church the church is a place for every kind of people black white red brown rich poor ugly pretty every kind of people jesus died for everybody come on whosoever will let them

come open up these door let them in off the street you never know that bag lady that sharp and carp guy, that homeless person. You don't know. If all won't give him praise off up in here, if you're going to sit there and look crazy, you just wait. After a while, God's going to touch them, they're going to come in here, take your seat. You're going to be out there. You better give God some praise on credit.

You better thank God for them. You better bless God. I'm preaching myself happy in a minute I'm out of here. This ain't no lodge. This ain't the Kiwanas. It's a church of Jesus Christ. Number two, new methodologies and strategies. You cannot.

You cannot answer today's questions with yesterday's answers. You have got to keep up with the times. You've got to be able to relate with what's going on right now. Right now with this COVID-19, people who were streaming and doing all this kind of stuff didn't catch us by surprise. But then now people who are catching up now who are going like, wait a minute, I should have been on there all the while. Wait a minute. I've got to change my platform.

No, we have to keep up at the time. We're the pace sector. The world should be imitating us. God gives us creative, witty inventions. God helps us. God. We have the mind of Christ. Come on talk to me here.

And so they ought to be following us. We're not following them. But we have new methodologies and strategies. We're going to be effective and relative. And then the power. Number three, the power of God. See, people say, well, oh, you know what I'm saying? Ecclesiology.

That's kind of theological. And let's see, new methodologies and strategies. That's a little stretch for me. I'm kind of old fokey. I still carry a Bible. And then you get to the last point, the power of God, the power. to power and all of these

what they call them, reformatics, all of a sudden, when you say power of God, all of a sudden, you know, it's kind of hard to get people to quicken when they used to be Presbyterian and it's kind of hard that, you know, people are quicken, what is that?

You know, when you're, hey, hey! Hey! When you're quicken, you ever been to store, I've been in the store, ain't no save people. Old Pentecost of black folk in the stroke when they get to see that the bread now is on sale 30% off. Hey! Also, never forget that there are enemies to becoming all that God intends us to be.

As a good Jedi master, I never watched a Star Wars movie until COVID-19. And I tell you, Star Wars and Star Trek, I'm hooked. But as a Jedi master, which I consider myself, and you better be careful because this thing here might just become a light, right quick. I just feel it in my spirit. But as a Jedi master, I would say that we're battling the dark side with the principalities and powers and the rules of darkness. That's the dark side. They're enemies. Enemies.

Joby, here's something that we've got to be careful of every pastor in the world that's trying to do what you're doing and do what we got to do. That's enemies. Number one, religion. I already told you that as man's attempt to be right with God. It's what we do and thinking that God has to accept it. we're accepted to God based on our efforts. It's the works of the flesh and those things that we think bring us honor and bring us glory. It's religion.

It's the institutionalism of the church. It's religion. It's the organization that snuffs out the power of the living organism. It's religion. Number two, tradition. Jesus said, by keeping your traditions, you make the word of God of none effect. I hate to be Baptist Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopian, the Holyoke. It's holy by prayer, church God, church God, church crack, written in heaven on Sunday morning.

name. I was a pressed down Presbyterian USA. A.A. M.E. D.I.O. I had all of these particular titles and we never did it like that. When you come into churches like this and like ours and you came from somewhere else, you got to check that at the door because this is a

Bible-based Christ-Center spirit-filled congregation that's trying to do things the way God said, do it. So you just check yourself at the door. And then there's another enemy of ignorance. I just don't see it, I understand it.

Well, that's just ignorant. If you're ignorant, don't tell everybody. Listen, even, even, even, even the one-eyed man is king in the kingdom of the blind. Man, Sid, if you couldn't see it at all and you got somebody, got half an eye and see a little bit, who are you going to vote for king?

You want the one-eyed man, the half-eyed man. Where we had now, pastor? Where we at now? I can't see nothing. Where we had now? I hear the waterfall. Where we had now? All you got to do It's just get with the program, right? So if you don't understand something, just follow somebody who does. And then lastly, the law of first truth.

The law of first truth. That's that thing grandpa taught you on the Fish Creek about people, about race, about life, about society, about how to be a man, how to be a woman. That's that thing that, why would they lie to you? But they were ignorant. They were traditional. They were religious. and your relationship with God was formed on a disruptive relationship, a destructive relationship with a human being.

And it's hard to get that out of you. It's hard to get some systemic stuff out of you, some long-term stuff out of you. I know what I'm talking about. I was roommates with a boy by the name of Jim Bo Epp was at the University of Tennessee played baseball. I played basketball. He never met a black man before in his life.

When I walked in the room, he went livid because my name is Von Monroe, McLaughlin, he thought I was Scott Irish, you know. He didn't have no idea who I was. And he said, you're not my roommate. I said, yes, I am. He said, my roommate's Von McLaughlin. Say, I am he. We wound up in physical altercation. We wound up having to be separated. We put out of rooms. But after we got to know each other, after he learned me, after he didn't judge me by the color of my skin, but by the content of my character, after I showed him some things, after he realized that what his daddy taught him wasn't true. We became like Brian's song. He was, wrote me one of the most beautiful letters that you ever wanted to see at the time of his graduation.

Just thank of me for the education that I had brought to him to be the first black person that ever went into his home in Atwood, Tennessee, the home of the Ku Klux Klan, where his daddy was a wizard in the clan. And I sat at the table and ate out of his place and saw his mama take the place and put him in the garbage can when I got through eating. And we became the best of friend. But he didn't mean no harm. The first day he called me out of my name and called me the N-word. He didn't mean no harm. All he knew is the law for his truth. And so many people carry that over into the faith and bring that over into the body of Christ.

And it lingers and it spreads. But we got to read it. At this time in America right now, glory to God. All the white watching of history is now being unveiled. All the systemic stuff is America done got woke. Come on there, everybody. America then got woke. When Joby stood there and I looked up here and I saw Big Field and I saw the

girl here and I saw them stand up here and I saw this picture up here and I saw two churches coming together, two families of God coming together when I saw the worship together. Come on, in heaven, there multitudes and multitudes around the throne of God. And they sing glory and honor and power and might be until our God, there's no distinction. Every nation, every kindric, every tongue, they come together and they glorify God and worship God. And that's what we're trying to do. And that's what we'll do when this is over. That's what we're going to do until Jesus, comes back again. We got the show some folk by this other world

know that you and my disciples that you love one another. I love y'all. Can't you tell? I love it. This ain't no fake thing. Me and Jobbitt. Oh, redneck boy from South Carolina with Georgia Bulldog fan. Come on. I'm from the hood

from the north side. Like the Gators, Florida State and Miami. And Central Florida Noggin. They'll whip all of them. So lastly, they're also requisites to the local body that everybody should be participating in if they're truly

born again. So I'm for the medal with y'all and I'm going to get out of your way. This is what a strong local church looks like and sound like. We call these things requisite. There are eight requisites in the body Christ. Just quickly, I'm going to run through them real quick. And if you're not participating in these things, you are a very disobedient believer. If you

are a believer at all, I'm going to listen. Let's see. We hit you. Mama say you throw a rock in the pack of dogs. The one that holler. is the one you hit. That's good old Southern. Number one, prayer. Prayer, talking to God and God talking to you.

You can't be a born-again believer in a local church and not have a prayer life. No prayer, no power. Little prayer, little power. Some prayer, some power. A lot of prayer, a lot of power. You got to pray just to make it today. Oh, yes, we pray.

You got to pray. Number two, praise. And I'm not talking about this patty cake. I'm not talking about that quiet stuff. God ain't nervous. You don't need to be nervous either. Praise is what we do, how we act, what we say when we come before the presence of God

for what he's done, what he's going to do, and what he's doing in your life right now. When I think of the goodness of Jesus and all that he's done for me, my soul cries out, hallelujah. I thank God for saving me. Somebody shout, hallelujah. Oh, the person behind you said,

turn it down. You're hollering too loud in my ear. I told y'all, somebody shout glory. Yeah, I'm telling you right now, we got to praise him. We got to dance sometime. Lift our hands sometime. We got to run sometime. Worship.

We got to worship. It's what we do, how we say, how we act, when we come before the presence of God just for who he is. God, you ain't got to do nothing else. You're just God. You're just worthy. You're just God all by yourself. I've seen grown men this week get on this altar,

trembling and hands lifted to God because of the awesome dwelling of God and the praise and the worship for God inhabits that praise. He lives in it. people have been drawn to God, let me rush. And then there's fellowship. You've got a fellowship. You've got to be together for saking, not dissembling of ourselves together as the man of some is, but coming together and exhorting one another, even more. As we see that day approaching, this COVID has caused us to be divided and separated for so long.

But I've been missing you so much. Have you seen her? Tell me, have you seen her, seen her? And so as some of us have been saying, late at night, it's hard to rest. I hold a picture to my chest, and I feel fine. Y'all don't even know that, do you?

It's a rainy night in Georgia. You know that? Such a rainy night in Georgia. It feels like it's raining all over the world. When we're apart from each other, there's something missing. That's why I kind of feel kind of good coming back and seeing people,

being back in the House of God. How many y'all slap happy that you can come back to the House of God? And bless the Lord. Bible study. Bible study. You've got to get in the word of God. Giving.

That's a whole part of what we got to do. It's how we take care of missions. Witnessing, different than soul winning, but witnessing. Sharing what you know. It's like being on the witness stand. This is what I saw. This is who I am. This is what's going on.

Soul winning, like the prosecutor where you have to work and you have to get a decision for somebody. And then lastly, community transformation. All these things should lead you to community transformation. If you are in Spirit-filled Church, you are not Spirit-filled. separated when they were filled the Holy Spirit get this and God gave me this revelation personally If your spirit feel on the day of Pentecost when they were filled after that the Holy Ghost You shall be witness this go Terry in Jerusalem to be in due with power They spoke with tongues at the spirit of God gave them utterance

It wasn't the tongue speaking it was the languages of the people that had showed up there Right so what does that mean they spoke in tongues being filled with the Holy Spirit made them relevant to the people that were coming to check out what was going going on with them. So being filled with the Holy Spirit makes you relevant, gives you the language of people that you normally couldn't talk to. Come on, that's the power we need to have. That's why we go. Let me keep going. I'm going. I'm going close with this, y'all. So those who sin, who we sin, have got to have a model for ministry to teach and implement around the world. That's what we do. We take our model and we put it on top of churches. And right now in Africa, we have over 30,000 member churches there. If you looked at them and looked at us, you wouldn't be able to

tell us apart because the things that we have implemented, these four principles that we've implemented, these three keys that we implemented, these requisites that we implemented, we take it. These missionaries that you're sending, they got to have a local model. That's what I meant about the strength. You've got to have a local model that we can take there and say, hey, do this like this, do this like that, do this like that. And then they apply it where they are and then it works. I said, we'll be here when y'all come back. Why? Because we will. Because the gates of hell shall not prevail against the church. We ain't going nowhere. I don't care. Coronavirus, racial issues, problems, political infighting. We ain't going nowhere. We ain't got but one president.

We ain't got but one king. We ain't got but one Lord. I wish I had somebody. The gates of hell, the Bible says, shall not prevail against the church. We've been standing and we'll be standing and holding it down when you're gone and we'll be expanded and advance when you're going. You return, Matthew 1618, says, I sand to thee that thou art peter, and upon this rock, I'll build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Inclosing, gates are defensive mechanisms. The design, Jobb, to keep something out and to keep something in. The thief comes not but for the steel, the kill, and to destroy it. So the devil has stolen some of your joy, some of your peace, some of your children, some of your finances.

He just mess with you. And what does he do? He takes it and brings it behind his gate. Yes, he unleashes things from the gate. but it's defensive. You don't fight with gates. You defend yourself with gates. The gates around your house, unless they're electric,

they ain't going to hurt nobody. So you've got gates around your house. And the enemy has stolen some of your stuff. If David was here, he'll tell you that you can go and get your stuff back. If you consult God, worship him. David got the ziglag and everything was gone. This children was gone. Stuff burnt down.

And they went to kill him. He said, I got to go to God. And he said, Lord, shall I pursue? And the Lord said, pursue, you shall recover it all without fail. And some of y'all, I come tonight to tell you, if you pursue, you can recover it all without fail. I promise you if you pursue. But where you got to go, Pastor Jobb, you know, I'm a good old reform, philogian myself. And I understand that I'm saved.

I understand heaven is my home. I understand election. I understand predestination. I understand fore the knowledge. I understand sanctification. Now, everybody don't understand sanctification, but I do. So I understand sanctification. I understand everything about my theological relationship with God, my salvation, my soterology.

I got that. I am going to heaven. Why? I believe in the finished work of Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary, and I put my faith in him. I got that. I'm going to heaven. The problem is, if you know you're going to heaven and you've got a thief out here that's messing with your stuff and taking it behind his gates and locking it up called the gates of hell, we go into heaven. The problem is everybody want to go to heaven, but don't nobody want to go to hell.

Even Jesus went down into hell and took the keys of death, hell, and the grave. So tonight, brothers and sisters, women and children, boys and girls of all ages around the world, tonight we need to look at somebody and tell them, go to hell. Go get your stuff back. Go get your stuff back. Listen to this. I told y'all what happened when I went to Africa. So they got back in the back and said, he's still saying, you go to hell.

No, I meant to get your stuff back. I told you all about going to Africa and what happened there. This is my mission story. As phenomenal as that was, I came back to Jacksonville. This is well documented. You can watch the video. The message is called Why I Went to Africa. And I came in that night for traveling across the pond to share with everybody that wonderful event in that stadium.

hour before I got ready to preach, I got an email. Cape Town is supposedly the home of the AIDS virus. There's a community there where they said that a monkey or whatever. And I went to an AIDS camp. I got to this camp and there were tents everywhere. This is my trip to Africa. I was so blessed with all the excitement in the stadium, but then I got to see real Africa. 1,700 people laying on cots, unclaimed and dying of AIDS.

Full-blown AIDS. I walked into the tent, James Thomas, sent me a mightnown fish hook of Baptist Church. He walked me around, and he said, these people have no one. These people have nobody. Some of them have been unclaimed for five, six, seven years lying on a mat. And for some reason I was just

drawn to this one guy No bigger than my finger His bones Eyes sunken in his head and bulging So hot that a tear Would couldn't come out of his eye Would frown his face I walked over and just led of God

And I went to lay my hands on him And I had to pull my hand off He was so hot And he looked at me And he blinked his eyes do you know Jesus? I said, Jesus, and I shared the gospel, this gospel, I shared the gospel with him. And I said, can I pray with you?

Do I know Jesus? And I just prayed with him. I said, you believe this? You accepted me. He went, I was a mess. I turned it. I walked away and I left, shook up, all that good stuff that had happened. And it came down to that one.

man on a map, the email said, I still have it. Dear Bishop McLaughlin, when you came to the camp, you prayed for a man, his name, I cannot pronounce, Aishili. He had been with us seven years. Nobody had ever come to see him. Nobody ever claimed him. He said, when you left, he died five minutes later. I didn't go to Africa to be famous. I didn't go to Africa to preach at the world's largest gathering and to be on TV all around the world. God sent me for that one man to lead him to the Lord Jesus Christ before he finally closed his eyes. I was so overwhelmed. I had about an hour before I spoke.

I completely, without script, just got up and shared. why. And for some of you that are going, I'll be sent. There may be somebody just like that. Before he died, John said, you paved the way for him to meet his maker. Thank for your obedience. And I want to say in advance, thank you for your obedience to go and to share this gospel with people, heathen, pagan, the nations, the ethnos. and to let them know that there's one savior and he's in the world today and he's not dead he's yet alive i grew up without a father didn't have one there's a man in here property tonight his father was the closest thing to a father to me that i had in my adult life a great man by the name of tom magee mac paper company he took me on his wing at a very critical time in my life when i'm trying to make the

about how to meet the needs of my community. Partners. The Bible calls them benevolent benefactors. They don't have to give you money, but they can give you wisdom. They can give you courage, like pure. What difference can one man make? Gideon was afraid to fight, even after fleecing God, even after getting down to 300 and that water like dog. And God said, if you're still afraid, take Purell with you. And he went down, he got a great victory. Jobi, I don't know who it is or what it is in your life

that God is doing in your life, but he's doing some great things, and he's putting partners and people in your life, and he's bringing some folk around you. That's going to help perfect you. That's going to dot some of those eyes and cross some of those teas. I felt it in here tonight.

And 1122, I just want you to know as your humble servant from the west side of Jacksonville, probably the most unproductive and the most undeveloped side of the town that we live in this city. Not one movie theater, not one fancy restaurant, just a soul food bistro. And yet we thrive with the epicenter, our local church of that community. If we shut down, that community shuts down.

You're building a new building next door. You'll be able to house more people. It's an equipping station. It's nothing more than a larger sheep shed where you'll be equipped to go do the work of the ministry right here in this community. And so when those that are gone, yes, ask anybody that leaves and goes away representing their family in their home. They might meet the Cowley Line. They might meet the Ten Man and the Scarecrow. But all of them will tell you the same thing.

There's no place like home. And when they come back, let them find you better than what they were before they left. On fire for God, doing the work of ministry. Come on. Growing and expanding. Bills paid. Souls being won. could you stand with me

I'm going to pray a prayer faith and I just want you to know that before I went I was reluctant but when I went I'll never forget it the one thing that meant the world to me with that one man

on that God heaven rejoiced and I'm rejoicing with heaven even today some 12 years later my heart is in that tent even today. Father, I thank you now for this opportunity to share with your people, the Church of 1122.

I thank you for this leader and for the followers. I thank you for the shepherd and the sheep. I thank you for our union. I thank you for our partnership. God, I pray that every need be met. And I pray, God, that it is. everybody that signs up that they learn tonight that they'll be vetted, they'll be trained, and they'll be sent. But while they're gone, they'll be supported and covered in prayer.

For people will still be in prayer and praise and worship and fellowship and in the word of God and giving and witnessing and soul winning and transforming their communities. So that when they return, they can see that we've been about our father's business. So God tonight, yes, we'll be here when they come back Because you planted local churches and communities for your glory And there might be many members, but we realize there's only one body We thank you tonight for the one body of Christ And we bless you.

To you be all glory and all honor and our praise Does it be any flesh tonight that tried the glory in your presence? Please forgive me, oh God. that people