It's Time To Purify: I'm Coming Clean // It's Time (Part 3) // Michael Todd

we gotta come up with a name for this. You understand what I'm saying? Because we are family and I love every person that is watching on the pando app right now. My pando posse, that don't work, send your ideas. I don't know, we're gonna find it out. But I'm telling you, I'm so grateful. I'm hearing the testimonies of the people's lives who are changed as you are in a correctional facility. God is doing work on your heart. And I'm so proud of y'all, man. Today's message, it's time to purify. And I'm telling you, this is a message that I know is going to connect with you 'cause in Joshua chapter three, before the people go into the promised land, God tells Joshua to tell the people, hey, tomorrow I'm gonna do great wonders, but today I need you to purify. And this is the thing that he says, purify yourself. And there are things in my life and in your life that nobody knows except us. And today God wants to shine a light on how he is giving us the command to purify ourselves. This message is going to bless you. And if it does, please write us a letter. Please let us know. Please send your family members the video when you talk to a woman. Let them know that transformation church

is not just praying for you and believing for you, but we see transformation happening in you. This sermon is going to bless your life. It's time to purify. I'm coming clean. You're in the house today. And I believe that God has something specific for you. We are in a series right now called It's Time. Somebody shout at me, it's time. And the under idea of this is it's time to shift. And if you don't sense the shifting that's happening all around you, today in this service I'm praying that the shift happens inside you. And today I've been excited. I've been waiting all week to preach to you 'cause I left last Sunday and I like when things work. Now I don't know about you, like some people put in work and then it's like, oh, it didn't happen. But I like when God says something and I say something and I see it come back in the form of transformation in people's lives. And so we said it's time to shift and we told people it's time to get in the house. And can I tell you that last week after church, there were 83 people who got baptized on the lawn yesterday, last Sunday. Oh, can we celebrate people making a shift in their life? Baptism's got so good that somebody went down and came up and then got proposed to.

Only at Transformation Church. You get baptized and get a ring, glory to God. Somebody say shift. She went down single, came up with a man, all right. Somebody like, where to water? Where to water? Where to water? Okay, let me see. (laughing) Oh God. The reason I'm saying this is because the word of God is an active instruction manual. It doesn't matter how much you know if you never do it. And so at TC, I always celebrate the action of God's people. Not just the idea of an action, but the actual action of it. Y'all, this has been blessing me so much and I'm hearing the stories and the testimonies from the people who are even on the PANDO app. We have hundreds of thousands of partners that are watching, that are incarcerated right now. Can we say what's up, Transformation Church to everybody? Who's watching, who's currently? Oh, y'all can do better than that. We, they family, I love you, we're praying for you. The reason why this is important is we got a letter this week from people who are literally in the penitentiary right now, whose lives are being transformed from content that is being produced and provided and paid for

by the people that are here. It's going into these places and it's transforming people's lives. I love getting to go to the lobby and meet people and be like, "Yo, what's up, pass the mic?" (audience laughs) And I'm like, "What, what's up?" And they'd be like, "I've been watching you on the PANDO app (audience laughs) for two years." And then they just put their arms out and say, "I'm so glad to be in the house "that transformed my life, y'all." (audience cheers) TC, even though we're gonna celebrate the transformation, guys, come on, man. (audience cheers) Pastor Mike, why are you telling me this? It's 'cause this is why we pray. This is why we give. This is why we show up. This is why we do. I tell you this because the Bible says we overcome by the blood of the lamb and the words of our own testimony. So we got one more testimony that came from somebody on social media, and I want you to see this. We were at this point of service last week, and the person was at home in Tulsa watching the message, and I said something over the interwebs that convicted them in their spirit so much so that they got their husband up, and they came to the church so that they could participate in baptisms.

Somebody say, "Shift!" It shifted her out of her bed to the house of God. That was the message last week, "Get in the...some of y'all would have waited a month." And she said, "No, no, no. I got to go now." You don't believe me? Check out this video real quick, it's her testimony. Go ahead, testify girl. I did something today that I haven't done in a few months. I watched church. When I woke up this morning, something told me to tune in to transformation. I do not know why. They haven't even been on my for-you page, I have not watched church in so long. I tuned in to the series, it's called "It's Time." I watched today's sermon in tears because I felt like he was talking directly to me. At the end, he said that they were doing flood Sunday. Immediately, I jumped up, I told my husband, "Put on some clothes, we have to go to transformation right now." I was praying the whole way there as my husband did almost a hundred on a highway that they were still doing the baptisms. Y'all, we pulled up right when they were getting ready to end. As I was walking up, one of the security officers recognized me and he asked me what was up and I started crying and told him, "I need to be baptized." Immediately, he had somebody come grab me and she walked me over and had these two amazing people baptized me. Without hesitation, everybody gathered around to me, gave me nothing but love and encouragement and they put me right in the food. He asked me if I wanted to change clothes. I said, "No, I just want to do this." Have you ever felt like God was literally tugging you and trying to tell you come back

to him? That was the tug I got today. It was so strong, it scared me. It's a feeling that I cannot describe honestly. If baptized you need to be in the house, we cannot touch you and love on you properly. If you're not in the house, that did something to me because I remember one of my friends told me the same thing about a year ago when we all started going to transformation church. To feel these people love on me and to hear me and to wipe my church and tell me it's going to be okay and that the shift is coming, it felt so powerful because I needed that. Everything that's going around me right now, I feel like God is going to make that change. But he needed me to accept that change. He also was trying to get my attention and obviously I have been ignoring it no longer ignoring it now. God, you got my attention. Bye, y'all. Church, can we give God praise for the transformation that's happening in people's lives? All right, I'm ready to preach now. If you got your Bible, get to Joshua chapter three. I don't know if you have picked up on it, but the series started in Joshua chapter one and then last week we talked about Joshua chapter two and that common sense shift that Rahab made and she got into the house and right now we're going to Joshua chapter three. And I believe that God is about to speak to you in a way that's going to transform your life. This is the last thing I'm going to do because some of y'all didn't exercise this week. Would you stand up for the reading of the word this morning? I'm going to get them knees, the blood flowing in them knees real quick. We're going to start in Joshua chapter one, I mean chapter chapter three verse one. It says early the next morning, Joshua and all the Israelites left Acacia Grove and arrived at the banks of the Jordan River where they had camped before crossing. Three days later, the Israelite officers went through the camp giving these instructions

to the people. I need you to underline this if you have this in your Bible. When you see the Levitical priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, shift. When you see the ark of the covenant, move. When you see the ark of the covenant, come out of the position you are in and follow the ark of the covenant since you have never traveled this way before. The ark of the covenant, the presence of God, it will guide you. Say about a half a mile behind them, keep a clear distance between you and the ark. Make sure you don't come any closer than Joshua told the people, write this down, y'all. Purify yourself. I'm going to say it one more time for the people in the back. your neighbor and tell them the title of my message? It's time to purify. Look at the neighbor you didn't like as much the first time and tell them my message title too. It's time to purify. Write it in the chat. If you want God's Word to speak to your life, just give God one more cup of praise real quick. You may be seated. It's time to purify. Now if I would have said it's time to get paid I would have heard. And if I would have said it's time to find your partner. It would have been like yes yes yes yes. My McCoy sit down and your coat of many colors looking like Joseph out here. I'll see you girl. It's one of our senior saints in here. See always looking for a man. Here we go. You've got to be a part of the family church. Get in the house. Okay here we go. But it's time to purify. Not time to get paid. Not time to get pumped up. Not time to increase your platform. The scripture explicitly says it's time to purify. And then it goes on to say ain't nobody gonna do the purification except you. Purify yourself. I need you to understand the context of what's happening right now. Rewind with me through the Bible and see that the children of Israel have been wandering in a wilderness after being saved out of Egypt. God brings them into a holding place until they get to the promised land. They disobeyed in the holding place. They mama-nim was idol worshipers. They

mama-nim didn't listen to the leadership. They mama and grand mama-nim wanted to do their own thing. And so they died in the place they were supposed to pass through. Moses dies. Joshua's a new leader at the beginning of Joshua chapter 1. And then what ends up happening is God says in three days we're gonna go possess what everybody has been waiting for a whole generation to get. I just want you to see how quickly God can shift your situation. You can go from waiting for 40 years and in three days it changes just like. Okay I just need you to see it that quick. But before they cross into the promised land God says I need you to do something. I need you to purify yourself. And the reason why this is important is because God wanted to do something that could not be done if they weren't purified. Okay it literally said tomorrow I want to do great wonders among you. What do you think God would do if he described what he wanted to do as a great wonder. This is the God who spoke the world into existence. This is the God who literally told the son to stand still and sit right there and it's still coming up and doing the same thing off of one word he spoke. He don't got a check on the son no more. If God tells you hey clean yourself up because tomorrow I'm about to do things eyes have it seen. Ears have not heard you've never written it down in your journal the things that I have planned for you. The only prerequisite is clean it up. And I'm not telling you what you need to clean up because God said the past ain't gonna clean you up the priest ain't gonna clean you up. Joshua's not gonna clean you up. It said purify. Yes. Okay I'm trying not to get ahead of myself right now. Okay so let me get in my teaching bag. According to Ephesians 4-11 I need some glasses right now. There are five gifts that God gives to the church. He gives the apostle. He gives the pastor. He gives the prophet. He gives the teacher. He gives the evangelist. I dabble in all of them. So today I'm gonna give you the teacher Mike. So if I had a professor jacket I would be a professor today and I want to teach you about the intricate parts of this scripture that most believers miss because they don't have understanding. The Bible tells us in all your getting get in understanding. So it's not cool to just read through your scriptures and

your daily Bible plan to get a streak. 98 days with reading the Bible. right this down because we're in a class this morning, okay? So you need to take notes. The church and this church has to understand the arc of the covenant. Now I know that sounds like something out of a Indiana Jones movie and I know that sounds like something that you've seen but this was a real thing, okay? And I want you to understand the significance of it and how it applies to us today. The importance of this is paramount. That means in Scripture there are a couple of things that are like you've got to know what this is. And this is why we have to stay with biblical teaching and understanding so that we can understand what God was trying to say through certain things. So the arc of the covenant understanding that is like, like, like if you watch the Marvel series, how many people like the Marvel series, all the things, yeah, church people love that. So it's like, it's like watching that and not understanding what infinity rings are. It's like watching football. How many people like football? Okay, come on. All right. It's like watching football and not knowing what a touchdown is. Do you understand? You have to understand the basic concepts of the thing and so this is why I want to explain to you the arc of the covenant because it's very important. Exodus chapter 20, I'm just going to paraphrase it, this is when God gives Moses the Ten Commandments. Y'all remember the Ten Commandments? Y'all watched the Heston movie and y'all seen that? Okay, good. The Ten Commandments were not just an idea. At that time, it was God speaking to man. So when Moses went up on the mountain and had a meeting with God, what he came down with

was the Word of God on two tablets, okay? But then in Exodus 25, one man and one God met together but our God always desired to have relationship with his people. And so because he had a desire to have relationship with his people, he said, "I need my presence to be among my people." All these people will not come up to the mountain. "I need to make a place where my presence resides on earth among the people." So they built in Exodus 25, the Ark of the Covenant. Behind me, this is a picture of the Ark of the Covenant. It was built out of acacia wood and it was covered in gold on the outside and the inside. It was about three and a half feet long and two and a half feet deep. It was something that they put a few things in and was to be carried on poles. You weren't supposed to come and touch this if you didn't have the credentials to get around the presence of God. I need everybody to understand how important this was. This was God's manifest presence among his people. Write that down. The Ark of the Covenant represents God's manifest presence among his people. Now I need you to stay with me because this is going to make a lot of sense in just a minute, but without the Ark of the Covenant, God was never with his people. With the Ark of the Covenant, God was among his people. That's why we sing it at Christmastime, but it's a year round word, "Emanuele" means "God with us." His presence is with the—let me give you an example. I have four kids and we have a house that sometimes you've got a Yale for people to know that they are needed. Any parents in the house right now, you just sat down to eat, and you could get up and go up the stairs and tell them, "But instead of doing that, you just Yale." Oh, I'm the only one cool. Now watch.

My children know I'm in the house, but my manifest presence is when I've called for them and they didn't come, and then I opened the door and come in their room. That's my presence manifesting. I need you to understand. So what God was trying to say is, "You know I'm God, just look around. You know I'm God because you've seen me do other miracles, but my desire is to be the God that walks in your situation, and you can see that I am in this place with you." Emmanuel God with, say me, "God with me," he ain't just with us, he with me. When I go to that job, he's Emmanuel God with me, but I don't know what to do with the situation. He is Emmanuel God with me. - Me! a way for them to know my presence is with me." That's why in Hebrews, chapter 9, verse 4, it says, "In the room where a gold incense altered, and it wouldn't chaste called the Ark of the Covenant, which was covered with gold on all sides." This is just confirming everything I just told you. Inside the Ark were a gold jar containing manna, Aaron's staff, and that spouted out leaves, and the stone tablets are the tin commandments. So let me break this down for you. We're still in class right now. Inside the Ark of the Covenant were three things. The first thing were the tin commandments. The tin commandments were the Word of God, and it was put in here to represent that the Word should always be a part of the presence of God. Do y'all see it right there? The Word of God is in there, and then it had Aaron's staff. Now Aaron's staff, he was a priest, and back in the day before we got our high priest Jesus, there had to be somebody that mediated between God and man, because you had to approach God a certain way, because he's this big word that is four letters, holy.

She wouldn't let just anybody come and approach him if they didn't approach him right. I'm going somewhere with this. And so what ended up happening is Aaron's rod represented that God always gave man authority to be able to speak on behalf of the people to God, and for God to speak to them, and get back in relationship, because he always wants relationship with you. So that was supposed to represent relationship with God and the priest who would make sure that would happen. The last thing that was in the Ark of the Covenant was a jar full of manna. Does anybody know what manna is? The children of Israel didn't even know what it is. Literally manna means what is it? But when they came out of slavery in Egypt, they didn't know how they were going to eat every day, and God said, "Even in the wilderness, I'm going to provide sustenance for you." So every morning they were going to wake up, and this little bread was going to be all over the grass like dew, and it only lasted one day, because he wanted them to be dependent on him daily. So he wanted everybody to understand that these three things had to be a part of his presence. The word, relationship, and him providing for them. Okay, let me break it down even further. We're almost out of class, 15 more minutes, and you're going to get an A. Here we go. The tablets represented God's Word, because God always works by principles. He is a consistent God, and anything consistent doesn't just get made up on the spot. It has a principle it's built off of. And so when you see God's Word, you actually see, hold on, there's something I can build off of here. This is why we read this. It's not because I need to prove to anybody that I know Psalms 92, or Philippians, forget that.

I've got to have something to build my life with. I'm not about to build my life on sand. I'm not about to build my life with a material that changes all the time. I've got to build it on something that is consistent enough to put my family on. I've got to build it with something that's consistent enough to build this marriage on. And those are what God calls principles. So the Ark of the Covenant had principles attached to it, then it was Aaron's staff, which represented God's want for relationship. And this was the priesthood. This is going to make sense in just a moment, but the truth of the matter is the presence of God you just felt in worship. That thing that just changed you just a moment ago, that thing that made that woman she said at the beginning of the video, something told me to get up and come to church. That was a Holy Spirit. Access to God's presence was not available to common man back here. I want you to understand how good you got it. If you don't understand the Ark of the Covenant, these people could not access God. They couldn't just say a prayer and talk to God. You know how we just say, just talk to God about it. They couldn't do this, and you're choosing not to do it when you can. They couldn't. You can and you don't, but they couldn't, but you can and you don't. - Go on! (audience laughs) They needed a priest that didn't sin. They needed a priest and a lamb and a goat and a perfect lamp. They had to do all of this because God wanted a relationship. Y'all know what? Sometimes they would have to send the priest into the temple to be able to send a prayer request in and they tied a bell to the little cloak because what they would know is if the

little bell rang, it meant that the priest failed dead because they wasn't really clean. And they would attach a rope to him and drag him out because they couldn't go in and get him because you had to approach God's presence a certain way. But could anybody thank God for his grace and his mercy? That even when I wasn't clean, I just got to take a five-second praise break. That I could still talk to God and ask him for his help. When I was still becoming a better person, that I could lift my hands and say, "God, I need you." All the perfect people, you can be quiet, but for all of us that needed God's grace, I have to help you understand this because the Ark of the Covenant wasn't just a word. This represented the presence of God among his people. The last thing that it had in it was a jar of manna because even though God was not providing for them in that same way throughout this entire story, he wanted them to know that I'm always the way of your needs getting met. You remember when I provided manna for you? He said, "My presence always, watch this, provides what you need." And that was a sign of God's provision. This is what was inside the Ark of the Covenant. This was important because it was like God coming to sit at your table. So now, if God came to sit at your house, at your table, in your living room, how would you clean up? No, I know when your friend from work comes over. You throwing stuff in closets and throwing stuff out the windows and we don't need that putting stuff under the bed. If your boss came to your house, you repainting, come on, let's see, depending on the level of authority that that person has in your life, it would be an indication of how you would clean up. If God was coming to put his presence in your house, how would you clean up? Because he literally tells him, "Purify, ain't nobody coming to clean your house?" You know where the stuff is at.

You know where your hiding them lies. You know where that pornography addiction sits. You know where that jealousy is. I'm not about to come to your house and look for that. When I first started at my youth ministry called Soulfly, this is the first time I started preaching back at 1519. Anybody that was at Soulfly back in the day, y'all are still rocking. I love y'all so much. Yes, mama cloy, 1519, I just said that, somebody get hurt. When I was preaching, I started off bishop, you'll remember this, I started off preaching a message to the teenagers called the summer sex series. And when we did the summer sex series, everybody was there. I don't know if it was because summer or sex, but everybody was coming. And then the Holy Spirit at the end of that eight or ten week message series, he said, "I want you to do a message on purity." And everybody was there. I did a message on purity. That next week, half the audience disappeared. Abra, Godabra, because purity is not something you play with. Guys, I'm trying to let you know we can yell, shift all day. We can say, "Promise land," he said it in his word, "If he said it, we believe that." We can do that all day, but it comes with the condition. Tomorrow you about to see great wonders. This is the last days that some of y'all look at certain things. This is the last day. You might have to go through some drawers and throw some stuff away. This is the last day that you smoke that, drink that. You don't need a cabinet of those substances anymore.

Somebody say this is the last day. 'Cause tomorrow, God wants to do a great wonder in my life. But today, I gotta purify myself. (crowd chanting) There are certain Instagrams or Finstas. You need to delete. There's people you follow over there that you can't follow where they can really know your name. Oh, I'm in your business right now. Some of y'all need to get off of social media all together because you know it's a cesspool of comparison for you. (crowd cheering) Purify! George, are you willing to give up the great miracle because you like this secret moment? (crowd chanting) The secret moments are messing up the great miracles. You still having casual sex with people 'cause you feel lonely. You still keep the numbers in your phone. He said purify, you're, delete 'em. Right now, delete them. I'm looking at you. Delete your sacrificing great wonders for a moment of pleasure, and I do mean a moment. And this. (crowd laughing) You keep lying on your taxes for $2,500 so you can buy some rims or a big screen or go on a vacation.

Nobody's coming to do this. You're just holding up what God wants to do in your life. Purify yourself. You know the only reason you go to that gym is to see that girl in them pants on Thursday. Y'all acting like I'm up here making stuff up. You got gym equipment at your house. You got a whole total gym. Shout out to our IP Tech notice. What I'm saying to you is, you could save the money and save your soul if you would purify yourself. Numbers chapter four, verse 15, this ain't really my message, but I think a couple of people need to understand this. The ark of the covenant was such a big deal or the presence of God was such a big deal that there was once this guy named Uther and he touched the presence the wrong way. He was playing with the presence of God. They already messed up because the Bible was strict with its instructions with the presence of God that you were supposed to have men that were certified carrying it on poles so there would be four men carrying it because they would probably get heavy over a time. There's some concrete tablets in that mug so they're actually carrying it but they got tired and tried to help God with what he said. So they put the ark of the covenant,

the presence of God, they put it on some oxen and one of the oxen stumbled and when the oxen stumbled, I call him Uther for short, he literally tried to reach out and hold up the presence of God and when he touched it the wrong way, the Bible says he died immediately. I thought when I read that in the Bible, that was extreme. But God was trying to prove a point. Don't approach my presence any type of way. Let me say it to you in a point. Don't play yourself by playing with the presence of God. I know the people around us was like, "Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh." They were like, "What happened?" He touched the presence of God, the wrong way. Thank God when we have sinned or sending text message of sin in church. When that Snapchat came in and you know what it was but you sitting next to your youth leader, like... (audience cheers) No, I'll look at that later. Oh my God, Lord, I'm in your presence. (audience laughs) I'm just saying, thank God we don't get killed. (audience laughs) I mean, this whole section, ooh, nah, I'm just saying, like, I'm just saying, thank God we don't get killed because of the grace of God

but he's still trying to prove a point. 'Cause it's powerful enough to transform your life. Let me just tell you one more thing about the Ark of the Covenant. This Ark of the Covenant was a temporary fix. This is not what God wanted to be long term. That's why it ain't around today. The Bible says that this temporary fix was for an eternal problem. And God wanted his people and his presence to be together. And this all has to do with one name. What is his name? Jesus. See, you could replace the Ark of the Covenant with this name. See, because when you start looking at the parallels between what God was trying to teach the people, he says, when Jesus shows up, Jesus is the word. Okay. He said, I'm the word, I'm the living word. And then it says, Jesus is the wage that paid for us to actually have a relationship with God. And Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. He said, he's the way that all your provision will be made. And then Jesus gives us principles every day in his word to live by. Jesus, the Bible says, is our high priest. And Jesus is all that we need, so he is provisioned. Say his name, shout it out. She's, say it like demons, Trimble, when you say it. Jesus, say it like you know that we don't need a mediator

'cause we got him. Jesus. This is why we worship Jesus. This is why we praise him. And the Ark of the Covenant was kept in a temple, but guess what? The temple that the presence was kept in, that was temporary too. 'Cause the Bible tells us in 1 Corinthians 3, 16, don't you realize that you are now the temple? (congregation cheering) So for every person that gets saved, you are the new Ark of the Covenant. This is why you can't just look at things and pass them over what he was trying to say because of Jesus. When you accept him, now you have a relationship with me. And on the inside of me is my presence. That's why you can be at the gym and meet with God. That's why you can be in the shower and meet with God. That's why you can be on the toilet and meet with God. Don't act like you don't speak to you on the throne. That's why you can be. I want us to have understanding. This is important because the presence of God is the thing that they have to be led by. So I need everybody to understand this from this point on. It gets real simple.

That Joshua tells them, "Hey, when you see the Ark of the Covenant "or the presence of God, "that's when you come out or shift from your position "and you start following the presence of God." This means you don't just move 'cause you can. Don't go without his presence leading you. He's saying, we about to go into the promised land, but you better wait for the presence to pass your tent before you start moving. And this is why I need everybody to understand why it's so important for us to value the presence of God, to value worship, to value a meeting place with him. I heard this story that really blessed me because I don't know if anybody's ever been to Graceland. Has anybody ever been to Graceland in Memphis? Okay, my dad took us to Elvis' old house one day. We used to travel all over the country and people was lined up to get into Graceland. And it was interesting because the house is now kind of in the hood. And I was, we pulled up and I was like, this is where Elvis lived, okay. And it's changed over the years. And when I got up to the house, I was like, this house kind of ugly. Wow. And then we went in the house and like there's rag, like rug carpet on the floor and on the walls

and he even has a jungle room. And it was just an ugly edifice. (audience laughs) But there were thousands of people visiting this place. And every year on Elvis Day in August, people come from all over the world, not because of the architecture, and not because of the decor. They make a special trip to this place because that house was once the house Pastor Mike, what are you saying to me? What makes you special and a threat to the enemy is who lives on the inside of you. I need you to hear me say this with all of my might. I need you to understand the reason it's time to purify is because God's on the inside. And he's trying to do something so the whole world can see, but he has one caveat, you gotta purify. What area in your life right now do you know is out of order? What area in your life, you don't need a prophetic word, you don't need nobody to pray for you. You can tell me right now, I'm angry, I'm jealous, my words are sharp, I'm hateful, I'm still mad, I'm indifferent, you can identify, 'cause nobody knows you, like you. It's a wonder to me that God didn't say, come out of your tents and we're having a purifying session. He says, stay on your tent, 'cause everybody will need to see this, purify. This is the grace of God 'cause if he did it

in front of everybody. Come on, if everybody knew what you was really dealing with, they judge you, but God's grace is so good. He was like, hey, tomorrow I'm about to do great wonders, but I need that marriage to be purified. I need your thoughts to be purified. I need your actions to be purified yourself. Pastor Mike, what do you want me to know? The presence of God is where you get purified. Why do we worship so long? Y'all got 45 minutes, 50 minutes of worship. Why y'all be worshiping so long? You've never asked why movies so long? Ever. But the reason, if you must have an answer, the reason we worship so long is because we're trying to get cleansed. In our minds, in our hearts, some of us had a hard week. Oh, come on, y'all, some of us are in a season right now. The reason we needed to shift is because there's a bunch of, and this is, you filled in the blank, I didn't say nothing. All I'm telling you. It's the reason why we're singing these songs and reminding ourself of God's goodness and trying to get in, it's 'cause I'm trying to wash myself in his word, I'm trying to get purified. I want to fight and you want me to have faith

and I want to bust the head and you want me to bless them. (congregation laughing) I'm purified myself. And this is what I want everybody to know. If you set up a meeting place with God, he'll always show up. I'm gonna put it in a point, put it on the big, on the back screen so they can see. You set it up, he'll show up. If you set it up, he'll show up. The reason why people don't see God move is 'cause they won't set the meeting. (congregation chattering) Moses, when he went to go meet with God, every time he came back with something. And if I could be honest, Michael, every time I set up a meeting with God, I come back with something. It's not always what I want. Sometimes I go in for blessing and he corrects me. Yeah, before, yeah, I know what you're talking about, but you need to go apologize. Not what I came for. (congregation laughing) Has anybody gone to God and been like, that was not what I came for today. But thank you, sir. But if you set it up, he'll show up. Set up a place of prayer, he'll show up. Set up a place of worship, he'll show up.

Set a place where you get in his word, he'll show up. And God tell them, I don't want you to shift without my presence. Why are you saying this, Pastor Mike, 'cause the new version that you're going into, it requires revision. Hear what I'm saying to you. He said, you gotta purify yourself 'cause you've never been this way before. This is a promise that God's about to bring you in a new territory. God's about to bring you into places you've never been before. You've never had the level of influence you are about to have. You've never had the platform that you're about to have. You've never had the level of connection. You've never had it before. That's why you gotta follow his presence. 'Cause if you go out here just trying to do it by yourself, that's how you get hurt. He said, I want you to follow my presence. You've never been this way before. Purify yourself. 'Cause God's promises always come with a price tag. [BLANK_AUDIO] Every person that paid the price tag in this situation of purity, they got to see the promise land. Today I came to tell you, "We're shifting!" Thank you for the two-person bet. But you can't shift if you do not purify. Thank you, sir.

I know it's sobering. I see it even sucks. But the Bible calls it sanctification. He said, "I'm working some stuff out of you that cannot go into this next season. And I see the religious people right now." It's like, "This word is great for them. God blessed them. They really needed that." And some of the most disgusting people to Jesus, to Jesus, not to me, to Jesus, were those who were always looking to see how the word applied to others. And never trying to see how it applied to them. If I'm saying this word to you, this is your next shift instruction. You need to purify your sin. I don't care how many years you've been in church. I don't care how many churches you've laid. I don't care how many Bible studies you have or followers you have talking about Jesus. If there is an area in your life that you cannot publicly get up and say, "This is where I'm at," you need to get rid of it. One of my favorite songs is an elevation worship song that said, "I'm gonna see your victory. I'm gonna see your victory for the battle belongs to you, Lord." And I thought about this when God told them to purify and I wrote it down as a point. The battle belongs to the Lord, but the bath belongs to you. Did y'all hear what I just said? The battle belongs to the Lord, but the bath? You being washed? The purity that the bath belongs to you? He's gonna fight this battle. You've got to clean it up. Not the battle. You're sad. It says, "When you see the Levitical Priest, the Ark of the Covenant, moves shift into position since you have never traveled this way before. It will guide you." I need everybody in this last five minutes to understand these four things because I see too many people romanticizing their bondage. When you romanticize the bondage like, "Man, it was better back there, man. We was in slavery,

but at least we had some wingstop. Man, we was getting beat every day, but at least we..." Has anybody ever thought that a bad season was better because you're not in your next season yet? Hear what I'm saying to you. Here are four things that can't shift with you into the promised land. This is why you have to purify because you can't take the worry into the promised land. You can't be worried about tomorrow. You can't be worried about what you're going to eat and what's going to happen. You can't be worried about this, and God says, "Hey, I know back there you were worried about all this stuff, but I need you to shift." Somebody say, "Shift." Say it with faith. Say, "Shift." I need you to shift into trusting me. I've sustained you all this time. I'm not going to leave you now. I need somebody to hear me say this with everything on God. The Bible says, "I was young, and now I'm old, but I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children, bloodlines, generations. I've never seen their children begging for prayer." God's saying, "Don't bring that worry. Instead, worship me. Every time you're about to work, get in my presence. God, I'm sorry of God. I worship you." Second thing that cannot go into the promised land are the wounds. The worries can't go into the promised land and the wounds can't. That's why if you ever get a gash or a cut, the first thing that a medical a person does is they clean the wall. They purify the wound even if it burns. You put anything in an open wound? but it just mentally… But why? It's because if you have a wound, which we all are going to have wounds, the wilderness provides wounds to all of us. Is there anybody in here that could be honest? I mean, like, I've got some wounds, like, I know, I want to go into the promised land. The worst thing with a wound is for it to get infected. And so this is why God is saying purify yourself because you did get cut, but I don't want that wound to turn into something that takes your life. So the third thing that was in the wilderness that can't go into the promised land is the idol worship. Oh God, back in the wilderness they were making other things that were not God idols.

It looks like some of us right now making political parties idols. It's quiet in here, it's quiet in here, but if you get with your group of friends and y'all start talking about stuff, that might be an idol in your life. You're making fashion, an idol, you're making money, an idol, and God says, guess what ain't going into the promised land? Y'all worship in anything other than me. You got to leave the worry. You got to leave the wounds. You got to leave the idol worship and the last thing right here to purify yourself. You got to leave the wickedness. Now this word wickedness is interesting because what it really means is to pervert or twist. So it's something that the image is something that is straight that you then begin to contort. So whatever is wicked in your life is something that was meant to be done one way, but then you turn it a little bit. What God is saying is anything that is not straight in your life that's just a little twisted, you got to leave that here. You can't go into the promised land. That's why he said purify yourself because I don't know what you've perverted. But you do purify, consecrate yourself. That's what we just did this past week in fasting and praying. We set ourselves aside from looking at certain things and eating certain things because God's saying I want to do something great wonders. But I can't do it if you don't purify yourself. Pastor Mike, you keep saying the same thing because I don't want you to forget that the promised land being held up is no longer God's fault. When you get to the beginning, you're like, God, you didn't do what you said. You never took a bath. You never washed that off. You never cleansed yourself. You never confessed to anybody.

You never said anything. You never said, God, search me. If there's anything in me that's not like you, show me, God, I will denounce anything. I will let go of anything. I will move anywhere. I'll do whatever you say, but cleanse me and make me whole. I need to purify my. This is the message that won't go viral because it requires action from you. I can't purify for you, but I'm trying every day to come to God's presence and purify myself. Another word for this is holy and the angels cry, holy, it's not just for him. He wants us to be holy as he is holy. The only way you become that is that you purify. I have to address this because I know this is a very firm message, but I'm telling you for any believer that listens to this and applies it, it's going to transform your life. The promised land is waiting on your purity. There are a lot of people under the sound of my voice. I'm trying to talk Tinder. I'm trying to let you know that I get it. I understand how many images are coming into your word, how many temptations are coming into your world. This is a crazy world that we live in today. I don't care what they can air on TV now. You can choose to watch it or turn it off. Oh, God, it doesn't matter what platform. I can't believe they showing it on that platform. I can't believe they showed us on Instagram. You are watching it. Because nobody else is in charge of the parameters of your purity. Very good. Do what you've got to do to live pure because the promised land is waiting.

Just for you and I'm gonna say it. There are people right now who have decided to live in sin that are listening to me. And I didn't say people who are have sinned because the Bible says all of us have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. But there are some people that are willingly saying, you know what? This ain't that bad and you know what? I'ma just keep doing this and watch this and me and God have an understanding. Show me in the Bible. Show me in the word where y'all understanding is because he's real clear and wants a son, but we and the reason I'm saying it like this is because I need you to hear me say this very clearly. You cannot claim the blessing of God and live life on your terms. There you go. Pastor Mike, why are you coming? Why are you coming like this on week three? Because I want you to actually live in the promised land. But there is a prerequisite. Purify yourself. Pastor Mike, how do I purify myself? Four things worship the word washing by confession and wrestling, wrestling with yourself, purify yourself. In my life, I've done a lot of things that I am not proud of. And every time that I sin, it's like taking a beautiful white rag that represents my life and putting just a little stain on it. This is the time that I had sex outside of marriage. But I mean, most of the towel is still clean. I could, I could do a lot steel with the rest of this towel, but then there was that one time that I lied for no reason. They asked where I was at and I lied. And I said I was at my mom's house and I wouldn't even know where bad.

I was just, I was eating, but I lied. Why did I lie? Why did I, why did I not tell the truth? I guess God will understand, hold on, the standard is still the same. There's no such thing as a little white lie. And then I watched some things I wasn't supposed to, jealous of family members. I'm coveting what other people get and where they go on vacation. Oh, y'all didn't know that was a sin. On Instagram, coveting, I wish that was my wife. I wish my wife was more like her. I wish my, and this is what happens. Sin, sin, sin, and guess what? Nobody sees when it happens, but they see the results of it. And this is what we try to clean our kids with. When we talk about changing our bloodline, what's on us gets on them. And this is why you are the only one that can come to the presence of God and say, Father, today, through the power of Jesus and what He did on the cross, I need you to wash me. I need you to change me from the inside out. Here I am today again. I'm waking up to pray because I need you to do a work that I can't do in myself. Holy Spirit, in this worship moment with this song, I'm going to give you the praise that I have. I'm going to give you the worship that I have. I am not perfect right now, God, but today I need you to wash me from the inside out. Here I am again, God. This is me. This is my fault. This is my sin. This is my transgression.

This is my pain. And what God does through what Jesus did, I need you to see. Is He allows us to? Now when I go to touch my co-worker, now when I go to witness to my neighbor, I'm not claiming to be perfect. I'm just claiming to be clean. Oh, God. I'm not saying there wasn't something there yesterday, but I got in the presence of God and I got clean. Because guess what? Tomorrow I might sin. Oh, no, the church figure, no, once you clean, you clean, you alive. [LAUGHTER] Because I approached my wife wrong yesterday. I looked too long at that thing on HBO. I promised I was watching hard knocks. And then, God, I'm so sorry that I sent that text message tempting somebody. I didn't mean to be a thirst trap to them. I'm just lonely. God, I've been so mean to my baby's father. And I've been planting seeds of deceit, just because my heart is hurt. But here I am to worship. Here I am to bow down. And yes, here I am to say that you're my God. You're all together, worthy, all together. Whoo.

That's why I keep coming back to this presence. All together, wonderful to me. Search me, O Lord. Purify me, God. Cleanse me from the inside out. Nobody else can do it but you, standing all over this building. One thing I want you to see about our sin, it never changed God. Did you see it? All my sin, when it went in, it never made what was holy defiled. Because there's some power in this that's not in regular water. If I put this in some regular water, it would turn the whole thing the color of my sin. But literally, I can dump it in here. And where sin abounds my God today, the grace of God is eating up all of my sin, my God, today. It doesn't even look like I feel the presence of God. It doesn't even look like this. This is why the presence of God is so important. Church, it's time to purify. Psalms 24, 4 says, "Only those whose hands and hearts are cleaned and purified, who do not worship idols, who don't tell lies, they will receive the blessing of the Lord." The promised land is waiting on your purity. Today, if you're in this place, I sense the presence of God so strong. If you're in this place or you're watching online, and you know there's an area of your life that you are saying, "God, I'm surrendering this and I need your presence to purify. I'm about to clean this up, but I can't do it without your presence.

I can't. If that's you, I want you to lift both hands all over this building. If you're at home, I want you to lift your hands. Nobody got to know. You won't got to confess right now. But today, you're saying there's an area in my life that needs purity. Today, I'm about to pray for you. But after I pray for you, listen to me. You got to make a list and purify yourself. Father, you see the hands, and more than the hands, you see the hearts of my God today. And God, I am praying over every person who has been carrying the heavy load of all of the sin, the temptation, the hurts, the wounds. Today, God, we know there are great wonders in this shift that you're doing on the inside of us, but today, God, we are focused on your presence because in your presence, we can be purified. I hear the Holy Spirit saying, worship is the way. Father, today, we come, not just singing a song, we come giving you our lives. Worship is an active surrender of our lives, so today, Father, God, whatever you're telling if you're telling us to give up those addictions, if you're telling us, Father God, to take down a poster, whatever we gotta do to purify. If you're asking us to delete the app, if you're telling us, Father God, that we gotta unsubscribe to that channel, if you're telling us we can no longer go to that gym or that sports arena, whatever we must do to purify today, God. We are saying yes. We will not miss your great wonders because we would not purify.

Today, God, I'm asking you to start the work in me. Creating me a clean heart and renewing me a right spirit so that I may not sin against you, creating me a clean heart, and renewing me a right spirit so that I will not sin against you. In my marriage, creating me a clean heart, God, and renewing me a right spirit in my parenting, creating me a clean heart. I will not repeat the cycles, creating me a clean heart, renewing me the right spirit so that I may not sin against you. When it comes to my money, creating me a clean heart, Father God, in my relationship, when it comes to sex, God, creating me a clean heart, and renewing me the right spirit so that I may not sin against you. I will not let my purity be somebody else's problem. Today, God, I make the decision to obey your instructions and purify myself. Do the work on the inside. (gentle music) - It's a dangerous song to sing, but I feel it. ♪ I wanna be tried by fire ♪ ♪ Purify ♪ ♪ You take whatever you desire ♪ Lord, here's my life.

♪ Lord, here's my life ♪ ♪ I wanna be ♪ ♪ I wanna be tried by fire ♪ ♪ Purify ♪ ♪ You take whatever you desire ♪ ♪ Said, Lord, here's my life ♪ ♪ So take my heart ♪ ♪ And love it ♪ ♪ Just take my mind ♪ ♪ And transform it ♪ ♪ To take my wheel ♪ ♪ Confirm it ♪ ♪ To your ♪ ♪ To your ♪ - God's doing something. Would you just lift your hands if you're in this moment and just talk to him and take my heart? ♪ Take my heart ♪ ♪ And more ♪ ♪ And take my mind ♪ ♪ God, transform ♪ ♪ Today God, take my will ♪ ♪ You're a fine Lord ♪ ♪ Said to Yours, to Yours ♪ ♪ I heard you do miracles ♪ ♪ With broken things ♪ ♪ And she's so beautiful ♪ ♪ What about me ♪ ♪ Some say that I'm too far gone ♪ ♪ But I don't believe ♪

- Whoa, I feel the presence of God. ♪ That the God of labor and David ♪ ♪ That the woodwind beneath me ♪ - Everybody that wants to purify, lift your hands right now, I'm here. ♪ So I'm here, I'm dying ♪ ♪ Crying out ♪ ♪ Staying Lord ♪ ♪ Please remember me ♪ ♪ Your love finds me ♪ ♪ When I hide ♪ ♪ No man, you love no mountain high ♪ ♪ Don't run in no way ♪ - Sing y'all. ♪ I wanna be your turn ♪ ♪ Here at the altar ♪ ♪ There is no gift ♪ ♪ No gift, no shame ♪ ♪ Lay down and cry ♪ I'm ready for shame Come on y'all I wanna be your turn Here at the old world Just sing that one more time Just tell God You're love reminds me When I'm proud of you No love, no love, no love No love, no love, no love Don't run in the way

I wanna be your turn Here at the old world Don't give no shame Don't give no shame Lay down Don't do anything, Jesus Purify me from the inside I'm ready for what I wanna be I wanna be your turn Here at the old world Here at the old world Good-bye Yesterday I'm living in the light I'm living in the light Of all places I'm living in the light This is why we're purified It's the world I'm living in the light Good-bye Yes, Lord, I'm living in the light Of all places I'm living in the light Of all places I'm living in the light Of all places I'm living in the light Of all places I'm living in the light

Of all places I'm living in the light I'm living in the light I'll do whatever you want I'm living in the light Just one more time Tell us the day for it Take the light Whoo! I'm living in the light Of all places I'm living in the light Praise the Lord Praise the Lord I'm living for it again Oh, I feel the presence of God Praise the Lord Praise the Lord I'm living for it You'll show me from the inside I'll go Praise the Lord Praise the Lord Praise the Lord I'm living for it again That's what we're going to do If you have not been born again Or if you have not put your faith in Jesus Christ Or you've walked away from Him for a long time

And today you need to come back home This is the first sign of being purified The transformation church, this is what our church is all about Representing God to the lost and found for one reason This moment Transformation in Christ And if you want to walk in another level of purity You cannot do it without Jesus Our High Priest The one who represents everything we talked about today He wants to come And be Emmanuel God with you Some of y'all are sick of living the old way Today you're going to say goodbye to yesterday You're walking freedom If that's you on the count of three I just want you to shoot your hand up in the air Whether you're in the room or watching online Today is the day of salvation And I need you to begin to pray church Number one, I already see a hand up there If you're going to make Jesus your personal Lord and Savior Number two, your name is going to be written in the Lamb's Book of Life I see you, my brother I see you, my brother Number three, your eternity in security If you want to accept Jesus, shoot your hand I see you, my brother I see you, my brother

I see you, my transformation Can we give God a praise? I see you, my brother Online, we see you Praise the Lord You're about to be born again At TC, nobody prays alone And so at this moment I want us all to lift our hands for the benefit of those coming to God And pray this prayer, say God Thank you For sending Jesus To purify me Shoot I believe you lived You've died And you rose again With all power So that I Could live in freedom Today I repent And I turn to you I'm yours forever Change me Renew me Transform me I'm yours In Jesus' name Amen

Can we give God a big shout in this place? Oh come on y'all, let's give God praise Over one person, heaven is rejoicing If you just made that declaration I want you to know it's time to get in the house Come on everybody, say get in the house I want you to text save to 8-2-8-2-8-2 And then I'm gonna challenge everybody, I want you to get connected Outside on the lawn, right after, I know y'all gonna try to rush to the garage You need to go to the front 'Cause your healing is gonna happen, watch this The Bible says in James that the healing comes when you pray one for another, when you talk to each other about what's going on. You don't need your pastor to pray for you. All you need is your friend next to you. And many of us, the enemy is taking you out in isolation because you won't get connected. And today, I want you to get connected. Figure out how to join a tribe and find some friends and start serving it. But come apart of what God is doing. I just ask everybody in the building, take 10 minutes. You may meet somebody that transforms your life because listen to this, when the enemy wants to destroy your life, he sends people. But when God wants to transform your life, he also sends people. So maybe you need some new people. Hear me say this, I am burdened right now because I feel that God is beginning to purify. You're getting illumination is beginning to happen. I'm about to alter, I'm about to open this altar. And if you know that there's something that you need to lay down at this altar, and listen, I want to be very practical, do not make this just a spiritual moment. If there are things that you need to dispose of, delete, give away, break, give to somebody,

it's time to purify yourself. This is God's instruction to you. The breakthrough is waiting on your obedience. Thank you Lord. I want to be altar here at the altar. I've got to go, but I'm going to let the team worship for a second. I feel his presence right now. Don't rush out of this to go just do something, y'all, for tomorrow, great wonders. Who knows what's going to happen this week? Oh my God. After a service like this, who knows what you're prepared for now? Who knows what God can trust you in? He was the only thing that was holding up the Promised Land. Father, bless this people. And God, I thank you that anybody who's searching for you, your presence, I thank you. You changed them and purify them and consecrate them today. Have your way in this place is my prayer. If you need prayer, altar team, y'all come. If you need prayer, if you need somebody to agree with you, even if you're online, somebody's about to pray with you, start putting your prayer requests in the chat right now. We're just going to end this thing. I'm going to pray for you who are online, but we're going to let this worship go. If you need to go, go. But I'm telling you, if you need to take a moment and just stay in your seat and just be up there and just repent and write down what you're purifying. If you need prayer, I want you to come. Do not let your pride keep you from purifying today. I don't care how old you are, how young you are. Today is the day. Come on, people are coming from all over the place.

Father, I thank you that you bless us as we purify God. Do the work that no man can do. We trust you and we believe you in Jesus' name. If you must go, go. But if you can purify in this atmosphere, I want you to do that. Father, I thank you. Thank you. Thank you for what you're doing. Come on, from all over this place, I feel the burden right now. Come on, sing that. Lift that up. I love you so much. Next week, we're going to another level. Oh my God. Come on, just lift your hands, creating me, just sing that. Purify me, God. Come on, just one more time, creating me, creating me, creating me. Oh God, Jesus, I want you to do that. I want you to do that. Oh God, create me, creating me, creating me. Oh God, take me back, take me back, Jesus, I want you to be, I want you to do that. I want you to be, I want you to do that. Oh, I wanna be, I need to be real *Ding* *Ding* *Ding* *Ding*