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Recent sermons preached at Rock City Church by Bishop Bart Pierce and other guest ministers.

The Glory of God | Episode 1

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When Jesus was praying in the Garden of Gethsemane in John 17, he said, “Lord, do you remember the glory that I had with you before I came to this earth? Restore that glory to me.” Remember that? Then, he gets up from praying and he sees a bunch of soldiers with weapons and torches coming at him in the garden. And he said, “Who do you seek?” They said, “Jesus, who is the Christ.” He said, “I am.” The Bible says, “I am he.” But, what he technically said was, “I am.” He is the I Am.

When he revealed who he was, his glory was manifested. And, what happened to the soldiers? They fell backwards. Not towards him. Backwards. Why? Because the glory of God defeats every enemy of God. The Bible says in Revelation that when Jesus returns he will destroy all of his enemies. Not with a bazooka or an RPG, or a missile or a drone. With a MOAB. Do you know what a MOAB is? We’ve only used it one time. That’s the “mother of all bombs”. Jesus isn’t using any of those things. The Bible says He will destroy his enemies with the brightness of his coming! His glory. I want you to get this. God’s glory just tears up any of his enemies. Just completely defeats them. All he has to do is just be there. Boom! They’re out! He will destroy them with the brightness of his coming.

When Stephen was being stoned for preaching the Gospel, and they were throwing big stones that would crush his scull and his chest cavity, until he couldn’t breathe. As he’s being stoned he began worshipping and praising God and he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened.” See, we think God’s heaven is way far away. No! God said, “I will never leave you or forsake you.” The thing we don’t understand is that the spiritual realm does not take up physical space. When you got saved, did you have to go to the tailor and say, “Can you let out my clothes? I asked Jesus into my heart and my chest swelled right up. Go ahead and let them out as much as you can because next week I’m planning on getting filled with the Holy Spirit.” The spiritual realm does not take up physical space.

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The Glory of God | Episode 2

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When Jesus was praying in the Garden of Gethsemane in John 17, he said, “Lord, do you remember the glory that I had with you before I came to this earth? Restore that glory to me.” Remember that? Then, he gets up from praying and he sees a bunch of soldiers with weapons and torches coming at him in the garden. And he said, “Who do you seek?” They said, “Jesus, who is the Christ.” He said, “I am.” The Bible says, “I am he.” But, what he technically said was, “I am.” He is the I Am.

When he revealed who he was, his glory was manifested. And, what happened to the soldiers? They fell backwards. Not towards him. Backwards. Why? Because the glory of God defeats every enemy of God. The Bible says in Revelation that when Jesus returns he will destroy all of his enemies. Not with a bazooka or an RPG, or a missile or a drone. With a MOAB. Do you know what a MOAB is? We’ve only used it one time. That’s the “mother of all bombs”. Jesus isn’t using any of those things. The Bible says He will destroy his enemies with the brightness of his coming! His glory. I want you to get this. God’s glory just tears up any of his enemies. Just completely defeats them. All he has to do is just be there. Boom! They’re out! He will destroy them with the brightness of his coming.

When Stephen was being stoned for preaching the Gospel, and they were throwing big stones that would crush his scull and his chest cavity, until he couldn’t breathe. As he’s being stoned he began worshipping and praising God and he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened.” See, we think God’s heaven is way far away. No! God said, “I will never leave you or forsake you.” The thing we don’t understand is that the spiritual realm does not take up physical space. When you got saved, did you have to go to the tailor and say, “Can you let out my clothes? I asked Jesus into my heart and my chest swelled right up. Go ahead and let them out as much as you can because next week I’m planning on getting filled with the Holy Spirit.” The spiritual realm does not take up physical space.

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The Glory of God | Episode 3

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When Jesus was praying in the Garden of Gethsemane in John 17, he said, “Lord, do you remember the glory that I had with you before I came to this earth? Restore that glory to me.” Remember that? Then, he gets up from praying and he sees a bunch of soldiers with weapons and torches coming at him in the garden. And he said, “Who do you seek?” They said, “Jesus, who is the Christ.” He said, “I am.” The Bible says, “I am he.” But, what he technically said was, “I am.” He is the I Am.

When he revealed who he was, his glory was manifested. And, what happened to the soldiers? They fell backwards. Not towards him. Backwards. Why? Because the glory of God defeats every enemy of God. The Bible says in Revelation that when Jesus returns he will destroy all of his enemies. Not with a bazooka or an RPG, or a missile or a drone. With a MOAB. Do you know what a MOAB is? We’ve only used it one time. That’s the “mother of all bombs”. Jesus isn’t using any of those things. The Bible says He will destroy his enemies with the brightness of his coming! His glory. I want you to get this. God’s glory just tears up any of his enemies. Just completely defeats them. All he has to do is just be there. Boom! They’re out! He will destroy them with the brightness of his coming.

When Stephen was being stoned for preaching the Gospel, and they were throwing big stones that would crush his scull and his chest cavity, until he couldn’t breathe. As he’s being stoned he began worshipping and praising God and he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened.” See, we think God’s heaven is way far away. No! God said, “I will never leave you or forsake you.” The thing we don’t understand is that the spiritual realm does not take up physical space. When you got saved, did you have to go to the tailor and say, “Can you let out my clothes? I asked Jesus into my heart and my chest swelled right up. Go ahead and let them out as much as you can because next week I’m planning on getting filled with the Holy Spirit.” The spiritual realm does not take up physical space.

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Uncontrolled Change Part 2 | Episode 1

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We can determine what is right by our will and we can determine what is wrong. Good and evil. We can decide to love God or curse God. We can decide to abandon truth or create our own truth. Change is in the hand of man. We use the human will to impose our will to the world. Especially right now. We see the desire to change America from a Judeo-Christian normal kind of national view to a failed system of socialism. Socialism has never worked. Never! Give me a plan that’ll work and I’ll consider it. But when you hold up a constant plan of failure, you’re not going to convince me that your plan is a good plan.

Change… from a moral nation with laws to uphold those moral beliefs as standards to an immoral nation that lives to please itself with no restraints or guidelines, creating a lawless culture. We murder our newborn and are shocked when the kids that escaped the selfish verdict kill at random what they don’t like or what they deem unnecessary or unimportant or not valued. How can we be shocked when they’re killing in Chicago? How can we be shocked when kids are killing kids and we’re over here killing kids. We’ve outdone them because we’ve killed fifty-three million and they’ve only got a few hundred thousand.

Uncontrolled change can tip the boat. So can other human imposed changes, scientific changes… AI, human DNA manipulations, and what we are going to do with these new discoveries. AI sounds so cool, but it’s scary! There’s no control on things like iPads and the games the kids are playing. Uncontrolled change… Technological changes that control our lives and invade our lives. Our behaviors, our appetites, our cars, our clothes, our vacations. Economic interdependence. How we spend what we earn. Which nations have power to prosper. Where our money is spent by our government. Major decisions of change to the definition of terms of words, like choice for killing. It goes on and on…

We must become the answer to our prayer for changes. You and me. There are those of you from other nations, and you’re the answer for that nation. There’s an unimpeded prayer that God will let you pray and pull out of this house. We’ve had prophecy that this house is like a battleship, and there are missiles of prayer that are shooting off the deck of this ship. We pray on Friday night. We pray on Saturdays. And because we pray all the time, there are missiles coming out of here. Say with me, “Lord, thank you for all the Holy Ghost empowered missiles that are going to land in our city.”

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Uncontrolled Change Part 2 | Episode 2

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We can determine what is right by our will and we can determine what is wrong. Good and evil. We can decide to love God or curse God. We can decide to abandon truth or create our own truth. Change is in the hand of man. We use the human will to impose our will to the world. Especially right now. We see the desire to change America from a Judeo-Christian normal kind of national view to a failed system of socialism. Socialism has never worked. Never! Give me a plan that’ll work and I’ll consider it. But when you hold up a constant plan of failure, you’re not going to convince me that your plan is a good plan.

Change… from a moral nation with laws to uphold those moral beliefs as standards to an immoral nation that lives to please itself with no restraints or guidelines, creating a lawless culture. We murder our newborn and are shocked when the kids that escaped the selfish verdict kill at random what they don’t like or what they deem unnecessary or unimportant or not valued. How can we be shocked when they’re killing in Chicago? How can we be shocked when kids are killing kids and we’re over here killing kids. We’ve outdone them because we’ve killed fifty-three million and they’ve only got a few hundred thousand.

Uncontrolled change can tip the boat. So can other human imposed changes, scientific changes… AI, human DNA manipulations, and what we are going to do with these new discoveries. AI sounds so cool, but it’s scary! There’s no control on things like iPads and the games the kids are playing. Uncontrolled change… Technological changes that control our lives and invade our lives. Our behaviors, our appetites, our cars, our clothes, our vacations. Economic interdependence. How we spend what we earn. Which nations have power to prosper. Where our money is spent by our government. Major decisions of change to the definition of terms of words, like choice for killing. It goes on and on…

We must become the answer to our prayer for changes. You and me. There are those of you from other nations, and you’re the answer for that nation. There’s an unimpeded prayer that God will let you pray and pull out of this house. We’ve had prophecy that this house is like a battleship, and there are missiles of prayer that are shooting off the deck of this ship. We pray on Friday night. We pray on Saturdays. And because we pray all the time, there are missiles coming out of here. Say with me, “Lord, thank you for all the Holy Ghost empowered missiles that are going to land in our city.”

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