In this sermon, the speaker emphasizes the importance of guarding what we listen to and watch, as they can influence and corrupt us. He warns against the infiltration of worldly influences in movies, schools, and universities, which can lead to the loss of future generations. The speaker urges believers to pray and stand against these influences, calling for separation from unclean things. He emphasizes the need for the power of God and revival in our families and cities, rather than just being angry. The sermon also references the story of Peter and Jesus, highlighting the importance of faith and obedience in following God's guidance.

Lord, I just pray that we would hear from your spirit, not from our own reason, not from the flesh. Please ask you to speak to our hearts, that we might be able to hear the voice of what you're trying to say to us, and that we could overcome. In Jesus' name, Amen. I was thinking of after the resurrection, sorrow filled the brother's hearts, and unbelief set in. Jesus revealed himself to the eleven, and the one brother said, unless I stick my fingers in your hands, in the wounds and in the side, I won't believe. So Jesus invited the brother to come in, and he tried to encourage them, and he rebuked them about their unbelief and their hardness of heart. And then it says Jesus appeared to the eleven, it says he appeared to the two on the way, he also appeared to 500 at once. But he wasn't with them every day, all day, like he was originally, but he said it was better. He said, it's better that I go so that he can come, but the Holy Spirit hadn't come yet. And sometimes we would say, well, if Jesus just came back, everything would be better. But Jesus says, it's better that I go so that he can come. You know, a lot of us don't have a revelation of what that means, so that he can come. And he spoke of the Holy Spirit, he said, I must go so he can come. He said, I'm going to send the comforter to you, the spirit of the Father and the Son to come and indwell your hearts through faith, and being born again and filled with the Holy Spirit, the baptism of the Holy Spirit. He said, go wait in Jerusalem, and there you're going to receive power. At first there was thousands there, whatever, and then all of a sudden, there was 120 left, while they were waiting, waiting, waiting for the Holy Spirit to come. A we don't wait for the comforter. And so we say, well, you know, how could it be better that Jesus goes? If you haven't received the Holy Spirit, you won't believe that. And discouragement will fill your soul. Those brothers didn't have the Holy Spirit, discouragement came into their hearts. And so Peter said, you know what, I'm going back to my career, I'm going to go back and do what I do best, I'm going fishing. And some of the other brothers were fishermen, and they said, oh, we're going with you. This is between the time Jesus was resurrected, and he appeared at different points in time. But before Acts, when the Holy Spirit descended upon the church, and they're out in the boat fishing, they fished again all night, and they toiled, and they caught nothing. And all of a sudden, there's a voice, and there's an image of a man. Children, have you any food? Brother John, I believe it was him, he said, it is the Lord. He was so close to Jesus, he would used to put his head on Jesus' chest like that, and he would hear the Lord's heartbeat. He would be so close to Jesus. It's the Lord. And Peter, he just dove in, and he went for Jesus. They had no food. And Jesus, when they got to the beach there, some of the brothers were there, he said, put your other side of the boat. The logic of that, just cast your nets on the other side of the boat. Don't do things according to the flesh. Don't do things according to your own reason. Don't do things according to your own strength, your own abilities. Do things according to faith. Do things according to hearing the word of the Lord, and being obedient, and allow the Lord to bring about the miracles in your life. And this is the, initially when the Lord first told him to cast the nets out again, and Peter said, Lord, we've toiled all night and caught nothing. Nevertheless, at your word, he did it. And when they caught these fish, the nets were tearing. But this time, when they caught 153 large fish, it says the nets were not tearing. A lot of times, we can't deal in our own strength with the load that the Lord allows in our life. But now, the nets weren't breaking. They come to a place where they're prepared to go into ministry when the Holy Spirit would come upon them. And they towed this fish to shore, but Jesus had already prepared for them food and fish. He had prepared a meal for them. They didn't have to toil for it. It was there. And Jesus begins to speak to Peter because Peter was the one who would lead the Jews in Jerusalem. He would be the the head of the church there, overseeing the other brothers. He said to him something very simple, yet very convicting. Peter, do you love me? Wow. He had just finished denying the Lord three times. Lord, you know that I love you. In our English translation, that's what it says. But when you look in the Greek, those two words are different. He said, Peter, do you have agape love for me? The all-encompassing, sacrificial love. And Peter said to the Lord, Lord, you know that I have phileo love for you. I have affection for you, deep affection for you, natural affection for you. And he said to him, I want you to feed my sheep. He said, do you love me more than these? Which these is he speaking about? He could have been speaking about his brothers that he went fishing with, his comrades, his buddies. He could have been speaking about the fish that they had caught, 153 fish that the Lord had blessed them with, the blessing that came from the Lord. God might bring good people in your life, good brothers. God might bring a blessing in your life, prosperous business. But do you love the Lord more than these? Well, Lord, you know, I have a great affection for you. I phileo love you. But he said, do you agape love me? Is it a sacrificial kind of love? Do you still have this kind of love for me? I want you to feed my sheep. From now on, you're going to catch men. I want you to feed my sheep. So he asked him a second time, Peter, do you love me? Do you have this agape love for me? He said, Lord, you know, I have great affection for you. I phileo you. You know all things. He said, take care of my lambs. It's very important that there's people who arise up in the faith, become mature, God-fearing, established, rooted and grounded in their walk with God, walking in a manner worthy of the calling. And they feed the people of God, the sheep of God. This is what Jesus was asking Peter to do. Feed my sheep. And the second time he said, take care of my lambs. The scripture says in John chapter 10, my sheep hear my voice, they follow me. To bring people to a place where they can understand the voice of the Holy Spirit that says this is the way walking. There's a lot of voices that we hear out there. You just go to a family gathering, you hear all kinds of people with their opinions. What should you follow? They all seem good. No, you need to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit that says this is the way walking. Now how about the lambs, those precious little ones? It doesn't say my lambs hear my voice, they follow me. It says my sheep hear my voice, they follow me. The lambs follow the sheep. So it's important for us as we lead our children in a way that is right, that we give them good guidance, good direction, and we protect them as best we can with the Lord's help from the wolves, the coyotes, from all the other wild elements that are out there to seek to take them out, to destroy them. That's why we have the good shepherd. He sees a wolf coming, he lays his life down for the sheep. Jesus is that. We also need natural shepherds who will blow the trumpet when they see an enemy coming, they see a wolf coming. Coming for the sheep, coming for the lambs. The lambs are very vulnerable. We want to protect them, feed my lambs. Peter, he said it a third time, do you have affection for me? Do you phileo love me even? Well I said twice I phileo love you Lord. Peter became very discouraged, he became very downcast. He said Lord you know all things, you know that I have phileo affection for you. He couldn't say that he had agape love for him. He had denied him three times. He said after you return to me strengthen your brothers. Peter was still waiting for the coming of the Holy Spirit to fill him up with power so he wouldn't deny the Lord. We can deny the Lord with our lips the way Peter did. He said Lord I'll never deny you. He said all will be made to stumble tonight and before the rooster crows twice you'll deny me three times. Never Lord I'll die with you. We can have all this zeal inside of us until you get into a situation you find out what you're capable of. May the Lord help us not to deny the Lord. Peter said I don't know the man, the one he was going to die for. And he called curses down on himself. I don't know the man. Three times then he wept bitterly. But now Jesus is reminding him it's not what you can do Peter, it's what my power in you is able to do in you. And you need to have a dedication, a loyalty, and a commitment to the sheep and to the lambs and now finally for the flock, the church of God corporately. Peter do you love me? Take care of my flock. Be the pillar in the church. Be the head of the church in Jerusalem and lead these people in a way that is right. Don't be a coward Peter. You have a lot of zeal but that zeal needs to grow roots. You need to be established Peter. Lord you know all things. You know that I have great affection for you. Why would the Lord say that three times? Peter do you agape me? Peter do you fillet me? There's another type of love which is a which is a physical affection kind of a love like a sexual kind of thing. And we're not talking about those things today but we're talking about how the Lord challenged Peter and he went back to his trade. He went back to his business. He went back to life as he knew it before Jesus came on the scene. But now he's reminding him that you've been called. There's a calling, an election that's there. Peter make your call and election sure. It's important for us not to forget that. You say take care of the lambs. Yesterday I went to a baseball game with my son and we get there and we're trying to arrange some rides and I run into one of the family members of someone on his team. We're trying to coordinate some rides and that that lady she started talking to me about things that are going on that she doesn't have answers for because I started sharing the gospel with her. I told her that we have a home fellowship. I quoted what Dan shared from 2nd Corinthians chapter 6 14. Not to be unequally yoked with unbelievers. We are salt and light in this world. We're in the world but we're not to be of it. So how can we be in the world to participate in the events that the world has all around us whether it be a worldly job or a public school or some other place and to be salt and light and she finished she said to be in the world but not of it. She quoted from 1 John chapter 2 and 15. Do not love the world nor the things in the world and she was telling me about what's going on. She said I've noticed a shift in the last year in the schools. She said that from grade 6 to grade 12 the kids are coming home with books. Graphic pornographic books showing homosexuality, lesbianism, transgender and also some other things which have to do with bestiality and they're teaching them. They're in the libraries of most of the schools. There's no trustees that are in charge of the agenda of the school that's being pushed and the little lambs are being subject who don't know their right hand from their left who can't discern what is right and what is wrong and they're going through these things. Social justice agendas and there's a massive push and this lady's trying to get this stuff brought to the attention of the trustees and everybody's in the dark. Everybody's got their head in the sand. Nobody knows what's going on. They see it going on but nobody knows what to do. She said to me you won't believe. I said believe what? She says there's a school in Abbotsford now and it's coming down to a number of the schools. They have litter boxes in the bathrooms of the public schools. Litter boxes. I said what in the world they have litter boxes? They're bringing animals? She said no, no, no. Part of the agenda is some people identify as an animal and they use the litter boxes in the bathrooms and they mow at the teachers and there's nothing anybody can say or do about it. This is where the society is going. This is where the public system is going and we're allowing our children to be subject to people who are going to brainwash and to destroy our children. We have a responsibility and a stewardship to say if the Lord speaks to us we hear the Lord speak to us and he says Peter do you love me? Take care of the lambs. Take care of the sheep. Tend the flock. We need to blow the trumpet in this hour and say you know what? Somebody has to say something. We have to watch over our little ones so they don't become corrupted. I remember the first time at five years old I saw images from five years old and those images haunt me even to this day. When those pictures get into your mind you can't erase them. The devil brings them back from time to time. We want to protect our young ones, our little ones from the filthiness and the corruption that's in the world. We can't protect them from everything but we can teach them in the way that they should go so that when they're older they won't depart from it. That they might be established rooted and grounded in the Lord in love. Brothers, sisters, I don't know where this thing's headed but it's not good. You know what can happen? We can hear these things and we can just get angry but there's something more required than just being angry. We need the power of God. We need to see the power of God move in our families. We need to see the power of God move in our cities. We can be against it but we need revival. We need something to change drastically and it has to happen with us. If we're not cautious about how we teach our children the way they should go. Brothers, sisters, it says if a man doesn't discipline his son he hates his son. If you don't discipline your children properly you hate your son. That's what the word of God says. It says you shall beat your son with a rod or a switch and he shall not die but you'll spare his soul from destruction. Brothers, sisters, we need to do things in a right way when we see rebellion and foolishness in the heart of a child. It says the rod of correction will drive that foolishness from him. You say well I got beaten in lots when I was small and I did and it didn't work for me but you know what with the word of God and careful instruction and consistency you know what we're too lazy to discipline our children. We'd rather just yell at them or just gently say no no please stop or you'll get a time out. These things do not work. We need to use the discipline and the correction of the word properly not in anger but in love and consistently. If you have a horse or a donkey or a mule or a young foal and you do not break the will of that animal, that animal will be useless. We go up to the creek where we see these men who are in bound by sin and addiction and all that. Where did it happen? It happened because they became rebellious to authority when they were young and maybe their father just beat them or maybe they got abandoned or maybe they went into the foster system where there was no discipline at all. I don't know what all happened but we know one thing now many of them are in jail and others of them are in addiction. We have to say we love our children more than this brother sister. The Lord even says in Hebrews in chapter 12 and verse 5 he disciplines every son whom he receives and he scourges him. He scourges him. That word scourge is taking a whip that has glass or bone on the end of it or metal sharp pieces and he puts it onto the onto the back of the fool. The rod for the fool's back and he tears that flesh from the back. Does the Lord not deal with us in a way that he gets our attention when we become carnal and foolish? That he tears that foolishness from us through discipline, through trials, through tests, through scourgings. Doesn't he love us enough? He doesn't discipline the worldly people. The brother from from Psalm 73 he says I was chastened every morning but the Lord doesn't deal with the worldly people but then he understood their end that in one day suddenly they would fall and not rise. Then he went into the house of God and he realized that he had he had spoke so foolishly. He didn't understand that the Lord loved him. He didn't understand that the Lord was keeping them because pride served as their necklace. You know we sometimes I used to have this big gold chain used to hang around my neck. It was about pride. Pride serves as their necklace. We want to make an image. Want people to recognize that we're somebody. I used to have this Rolex gold watch 18 karat and this this gold bracelet and this huge thick chain and that became my image. The image of the beast. The harlot that rides the beast. The Christian that wants to look like a lamb but speaks just like the world. Brother sister if we're going to be like that our children are going to get swallowed up in a generation and we're not going to know what to do. So we're either going to have to disown them or we're going to have to come alongside and just love and accept them as homosexuals, as lesbians, as trans or as animals or whatever it is that that they're indoctrinating our children. You know they put it into the shows into the cartoons now they're putting it on the movies and they're they're educating them in the schools and they're wearing them down in the universities. We have to be careful to guard the things that we are listening to and the things that we're watching. Otherwise we'll drift away brothers and just a little sleep a little somber a little folding the hands to rest and all of a sudden we're going to lose our kids. We're going to lose a generation. We need people who will pray. Who are people who are standing in the graph calling for the wailing women saying Lord spare your people. Where are the people who are coming out from among them and being separate not touching the unclean things. That's like sticking a pornographic magazine in front of your kids and telling them you know what just just resist the devil and he'll flee from you. Who would do such a thing? This is where it's coming down to and they invite these people in and the lady said they come in and they educate them and they make them fill out these questionnaires and if you don't fit into one of those boxes then there's something wrong with you. You're white privileged. It's called social justice. They're pushing this thing on our children and it's coming to the elementary schools. I went to public school things are different now from grade five and kindergarten all the way to grade seven. I had my issues there and I got corrupted in that thing but things are way different now. Way different. I said to one brother not too long ago I'd rather my kids can't read and write and they they spend at home and they're totally illiterate and they love God. That's my was my thinking then have them educated go to some university have some big career and spend eternity in hell. I'm not against education but we have to educate them in the ways of the Lord. That's a parent's job to teach your child in the way he should go so when he's older he won't depart from it. We have a responsibility and a stewardship to these things. I think of this discipline thing. The Lord doesn't show partiality with discipline. I was reading this morning in Exodus 17 and the people of God were there grumbling and complaining against the Lord. You know it's supposed to be Thanksgiving tomorrow. We're going to eat some turkey and some cranberry and some stuffing. Some wonderful meal as a family and everybody going to get together but I don't know if we're going to talk about Jesus. I can't say for sure whether we will or we won't but we're going to have a good meal. Family will be together. Jesus said who are my mother and my sister and brothers? Those who hear God's word and keep it. Just because you're a natural family what is that to God? This Exodus 17 it's called the wilderness of sin where the people sinned greatly against the Lord. They grumbled against the Lord. They had no manna. They had nothing to eat. They had no water. They grumbled. They had no water. They had no meat to eat. They loved Egypt. This is the place where they ate, drank, rose up to play because Egypt was in their hearts and the Lord was testing them and trying them there and so what happened that the Lord spoke to Moses and he said I want you to go to this rock at Horeb and I want you to go and bring the congregation together. I want to speak with them there and Moses went and took his staff and smacked that rock and water came out of the rock and the people were refreshed there and manna came to them there and quail came at night and God provided for them there in the wilderness of sin and there's a symbolism there where it says in 1 Corinthians in chapter 10 it says that rock that accompanied them was what? Was Christ. That rock that Moses smote in the wilderness that was Christ in the wilderness of sin where Christ was smitten for us on the cross. He was bruised for our transgressions and by his stripes we have healing. It says it pleased the father to crush him and to make his soul an offering for sin. This is a picture of Christ being smitten for us because we have been in the wilderness of sin grumbling and complaining against the Lord and there Christ was smitten and times are refreshing came from the Lord where Jesus stands up in the tabernacle on the last day of the great feast and he says come to me all you thirst and out of your innermost being speaking of the Holy Spirit who was not yet given inner flow of life would flow from you. This is what came out of the rock living water came out of the rock where the people were satisfied and this is what will come out of us if we pick up our cross and follow after him because it says anyone who desires to come after him must also deny himself bear his cross and follow after me and so we're not to think it's strange concerning the fiery trials or the discipline or the the way the Lord deals with us as sons as though some strange thing has happened to us but then what happened they kept grumbling they kept complaining they kept sinning then they were finally supposed to go and possess the land and they said oh these giants what's going to happen to our little ones what's going to happen they were very concerned about their little ones what was going to happen to their little ones and the Lord says you know what I'm going to take care of your little ones but you're all going to die here in the wilderness because you wouldn't possess the land you listen to the bad report and you know what we talk about being weak in faith we listen to bad reports and there's a plenty of them there's 10 of those spies who are God-fearing men supposedly who are leaders in their tribes and you listen to these men and they bring you bad reports they tell you it's not possible it's impossible there's no way you can't do it but then there's the voice of Joshua and Caleb that the Lord leaves in the earth the men of faith who say yes it's difficult and yes it looks impossible but God will deliver us strengthen yourself in your faith don't be weak in your faith don't be unbelieving don't get an evil heart don't allow yourself to be destroyed in this wilderness because it's so hard look to the Lord and be saved so they went back through the wilderness another 40 years until they all should pass away there in the wilderness and then God brought in anyone under the age of 20 would be brought in to possess that land but on the way oh they were thirsty and hungry again and grumbling again and all these different things it says they came to lo they hated that manna that God gave them you know what that man is a picture of he took an omer of it which is like one tenth of an epa and they put that thing inside the ark of the covenant this is the word of God that says man shall not live by bread alone but by every word of God this was in the ark and this is supposed to be in our hearts also Moses brought down those commandments from the mountain the first time and he smashed them on the ground because in the wilderness of sin the people were sinning there they'd made an idol they called it Yahweh golden calf from their gold and that they broke out of their nose and their ears and from around their necks probably and they were committing sexual sin there they were doing all kinds of stuff they're partying and then the Lord had him remake those commandments and he brought those tablets down and he put those tablets into the ark and the word of God was placed into the ark and it's also the scriptures it's we now become the the temple of the living God your heart now becomes the ark where God's presence dwells this is now where the the manna the jar of manna is hidden in your heart this is now where the word of God is not written in tablets of stone but on the fleshy tablets of your heart and also there's one more thing that went into that ark they said about the priesthood who is the one who would establish the priesthood it was the Levites and they said well you all bring your staffs and lid in the presence of the Lord and Aaron put his rod there and in the overnight all those other staffs were as dead as a post but Aaron's rod butted and it upbeared almonds in one night and he said you take that rod and you put that rod inside the ark of the covenant and this type of an ark is also to carry thy rod and thy staff they comfort me and this discipline of the Lord this guidance and direction from the Lord is also to bear fruit and to bring forth fruit in our lives and it can bring good proper discipline can bring fruit overnight if we do this in a right way before the Lord we do it God's way you might not win the war in one day with your son or with your daughter but you fight the battle and you might lose a battle or two but in the end you will win the war if you do it God's way but you need to have commitment you need to stick with it and you need to do it God's way without anger and you need to break the will of the wild man so that he doesn't become like Esau where he despises the birthright and the blessing and he just disobeys the word of the may the Lord help us to do things the right way according to the word of God and you need to have unity between husband and wife otherwise there'll be chaos in the home it doesn't have to just be the father who has to discipline all the time every there has to be consistency one voice he said he made the two one so you have to agree that the husband is going to make the final word but you're going to listen to both sides come up with a plan on how you're going to discipline your children correctly so that you can show the Lord that you love the little ones so it happened that Moses become thoroughly frustrated with the children of Israel in Numbers in chapter 20 it talks about the sin of Kadesh and here we see the Lord says there's no water they're grumbling again against the Lord grumbling against the Lord again no water we love Egypt we hate this manna we don't we're tired of this word of God that you keep giving us we're thirsty we're going to die of thirst out here they grumbled against Moses and the Lord he said we're going to ask the Lord what to do and Moses and Aaron went in and the Lord said I want you to go now to the rock that rock which is Christ in a spiritual sense and we want you to go and I want you to go and Moses and Aaron I want you to speak to the rock and I'm going to bring water out of the rock I think it's Leviticus 20 and so what happened that Moses and Aaron got out there and they got angry I'm telling you the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God you can have the right intentions you can have a good gospel you can have all the right doctrines but if you allow anger in your spirit you're going to be the one repenting and it's an area that I struggle with that I can get angry and in your anger you can sin the scripture says we're not to let the sun go down in our anger the Lord is that sun the morning star that rises in our hearts the Lord can just just the presence of the Lord just leaves you if you remain angry and you just don't repent of it and deal with this anger it says that Moses and Aaron they went out there and they started to get angry with the people of God and they said how long shall we deal with you rebels shall we bring forth water out of this rock for you and it says that in that hasty moment instead of speaking to the rock Moses takes his rod and he hits the rock and nothing happens and so he hits it a second time and water comes out and the people are refreshed from the water that flowed forth from the rock and the Lord was very angry with Moses and Aaron because he said that they did not reverence the Lord in front of the people of God in that they got angry with the people and he told him to speak to the rock but Moses in his anger smacked the rock two times I want to finish with this and say brothers sisters the Lord was smitten for us once but we don't want to smite him a second time because it says we crucify the son of God afresh from Hebrews 10 26 we put him to open shame and we insult the spirit of grace the Lord says vengeance is mine I will repay the Lord's going to judge his people but it's not up to us that in our anger we should sin and bear the consequences of that anger may the Lord help us to overcome whatever your struggle is today whatever your trial whatever your difficulty that we would look to the Lord that our help would come from the Lord that we would repent quickly that we would return often and that would be led by the Spirit of God pray that the Holy Spirit fills you it says in Acts 5 I believe it's like 26 that he gives the Holy Spirit to those who obey him believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved call upon him while he's near look to him and be saved but how shall they call on him if they've not believed Moses God told Moses and Aaron because you did not believe me that's why he smote the rock because you didn't believe me but faith and obedience are very closely tied it says it in Hebrews 3 you can read it because of their unbelief and then he says their disobedience their bodies were scattered in the wilderness and with most of them God was not well pleased but he did bring those little ones in because he's able to save to the uttermost he's able to redeem he's able to establish his great name for his own purposes Moses and Aaron received the punishment they couldn't enter the rest they couldn't go he said take Moses to the Aaron to the mountain he's going to die on the mountain his son is going to take his place and then he told Moses a short time later I'll let you look over the promised land but because you sinned and I was not hallowed in front of the people and because you did not believe he said you're not also not going to enter his rest there's a picture there the law could not redeem the people of God it could show them what sin was but it could not bring them into that land flowing with milk and honey there is then one named Joshua which can also be translated in the Greek Jesus who would lead the people of God into a land flowing with milk and honey as brother Dan shared to dispossess the land little by little and to push back the enemies of God may the Lord allow Jesus Christ to rise up in our families in our homes in our churches in our cities in our schools and to push back the powers of darkness that we might possess this land for the Lord Jesus Christ and fulfill the purpose and call of God that he predestined us to be conformed into the image of his son Jesus that we would become joint heirs with Christ through faith and grace in which we stand amen