Something that happened that caused a gap between you and the Holy Spirit. It doesn't mean He leaves you. It means His presence is not upon you. His anointing is not with you. The feeling of friendship is not there. You might have a breach in a relationship between you and your parents. And your parents may be a little disappointed in you, or not happy with you, and not giving you what you want, or having that great sweet time of fellowship, maybe with a spouse. Or a friend or anyone, and that spirit is the greatest friend you could ever have. And that spirit is the greatest power there is known to man, because it is really the communion of the Holy Spirit of God in which we get to know Christ. We get to know the word. We get to know everything that God has for us comes through the spirit. Love, joy, peace. Long-suffering and gentleness, meekness, faith, goodness, temperance, power, wisdom, understanding, knowledge, all these things come from God. And it comes from the Spirit. And when it says that perverseness in therein is a breach in the Spirit, when you speak the wrong things, the Spirit doesn't like it. If you ever curse and it comes out of your mouth, the Spirit gets very grieved with that. As a matter of fact, in Ephesians 4.30, it says, grieve not. the Holy Spirit of God, whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption. We're not supposed to grieve the Holy Spirit, we're supposed to please the Holy Spirit. The more of the Holy Spirit you please, the more of God you get. Can I get an amen? The more of the Holy Spirit you get, you please God, you obey Him, you love Him, you worship Him, you pray to Him, you praise Him. Come on now! And you get them songs that we just sang, you get a little bit of... Going on inside of you and the spirit gets a little more filled and a little more filled and a little more filled next thing You know, you're not depressed. You're not sick. You have fevers gone. You're feeling pretty fine all because of the spirit, but that doesn't happen all the time, does it? Some of you say it never happens and that's your fault because there's a breach and we need to fix that gap, amen? We need a wholesome tongue, a healing tongue, a healthy tongue, a helpful tongue. Speaking the truth in love, speaking the truth of God's holy word brings life. Saying the things of God, you know God is for you, he's not against you. God wants to bless you. He doesn't want to curse you. God wants to fill you. He doesn't want to leave you. God wants to give and give. It is better to give than receive. Amen. And God is the giver of all things. God wants to give you strength. And he wants to give you peace. And he wants to give you the joy of the Lord. And I'll tell you right now, Anton, the Bible tells us, and I know that the joy of the Lord is my strength. And when I don't have the joy, I know I'm weak. When I'm down, I don't like it. I don't like to be down. And I know that there's always a breach going on because of this message that tells us that. You know, when it says, grieve not the Holy Spirit, how many things grieve the Holy Spirit? What grieves Him? Think about it, for let it sink in. What do you do on a daily basis that grieves the Holy Spirit? Makes the Holy Spirit go. I wish you wouldn't have said that. I wish they wouldn't have done that. I wish they wouldn't have acted like that. Yeah, it's all sin. But think about the things in your life. Don't put it in a category. Think it personally. What is it that you're doing that grieves the Holy Spirit? Why are you not experiencing the fullness of God? Why are you not experiencing the joy and the peace and the love? There's something going on that has caused a breach in the communication and the Spirit of God. Many a preacher hears from God. And I'll tell you right now, as I was getting this message, I was praying, God, please fill that breach. I need something to come in and connect me back up with God. Can I get an amen? Well, I want you to think about when we cause a breach or a break, and that life-giving power of God is missing from our lives, and that spirit of the closeness, of the joy, and the peace that God gives you. Anybody ever experience that love, and that joy, and experience that fullness? Amen. Each and every person in here, the only reason you haven't been filled, it's because of you. God wants to fill you. God wants to give you. God wants to be one with you. You understand that? He wants that. Something's wrong. Something's wrong with you that you will not submit. You will not obey. You will not. You're stubborn. You're prideful. The Bible says that if you get any pride in you, God resists you. He literally pushes you away and says, no, you're not getting my goodness. No, you're not getting my joy. No, I got so much good to give unto you. We think you're going to get it. Humble yourself. Humble yourself. Come to me. Beg. plead, cry out to God. What are you, too proud to beg? Isn't there a song that says, too proud to beg or something like that? I don't know. But you people are too proud to come to God and cry out to God. I'm not. I'm like them little babies in the nest. When the father comes, ah, my mouth's wide open like, feed me. I need it. And that's the whole point is I need God. I need the Holy Spirit. I need him. I want him. I desire him. I don't think about him and say, you know what? It would be nice. to have the Holy Spirit. No, I'm like, I had him! Where is he? Give me! God, please! I'm crying out to God. David did. The apostles did. Everyone in the Bible did. And they got filled. Problem is, is you're too pride, prideful, you're too arrogant, or you're too stubborn to just do what God says to do. Who do we think we are? We think, what it's saying is, I don't need him. I don't need the Holy Spirit. I'm strong. I got everything I need. We know we might not say it, but inside our actions show it. And I don't want that to happen to anybody. You know what I mean? Some people that went missing the Holy Spirit in your life, not feeling that connection, it's devastating. They know it. It's horrible. It's the worst thing. Other people, they don't even realize it. They go through life not even knowing that they don't have the Holy Spirit on them. Apostle Paul, when he went into certain places, he met with believers and was hanging out with them. And he looked at them and said, you know, brother, have you received the Holy Spirit since you've been since you've been believed? And they said, we don't know what you're talking about. He's like, well, I could tell. I could tell you don't have the Spirit. I want you to understand why don't you? If I can tell and others can tell that there's something missing in your salvation, can I get an amen? I'm not talking about salvation. I'm talking about the Spirit already being in you, filled you for the... Spirit of the Lord is upon me. He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. The good news, amen. There's joy in that good news. There's praise in the power of His people. There's worship, true worship in the true worshipers. Can someone give me an amen today? This is for real, amen. When the Spirit has you, amen. Amen. Who said awesome? Yeah, amen. Amen and amen. But the problem is there's too many people don't even know what I'm talking about. Huh? Spirit, yeah, I guess I got him. I guess I got him. I didn't kill my neighbor the other day when he, my wife cooked bad and I kind of told her it was okay. I mean, we are missing so much, and I don't, there's a breach, and we need to repair that breach. The very first time that, turn with me to Genesis chapter 38, the very first time in the Bible the word breach is mentioned is in the book of Genesis, of course, and it's kind of interesting, and I'm not going to get into the message here, I just want to give it to you. It's a pretty cool story, in case you haven't heard it before. It says in verse 27, it says, and it came to pass in the time of her travail, here's a, Here's Tamar. Tamar, that's where my wife gets part of her name. Her name is Tamar Lee. Amen. And Tamar, she has a baby with her father-in-law. And it's a whole cool story. You got to read it. He didn't know it was her. She hit herself because she got married to his son and he died. And then he got married to his second son and he died. And then he had a third son, but he was too young to get married. And he said, well, when he gets older, you can be married to him. And he put her away and he never gave her a son. I can imagine he said, she's a death trap. So anyway, she ended up dressing up like a harlot on the side of the road and met him. And he went in with her, and she got pregnant. And it's a whole great story. You got to read it. This book is amazing. This book is better than any soap opera you'll ever read. And this book is better than any movie you can ever watch. This book is amazing. I'll never forget the first time we were reading through our Bibles for the first time when we first got saved, my wife and I. And I was ahead of her, and she was behind me. And we were in the book of Genesis. And I hear her in the other room go, no, what? And I hear her, she goes, no, like that. And I'm like, I know right where she's at. The scandal's in this book. It's like, what? Here, Judah has a relationship with his daughter-in-law. And she gets pregnant. And he finds out she's pregnant. He's ready to kill her. You harlot, you hooker. He calls her all kinds of names. And she gives him his bracelet and his ring that she took from him and said, here, this belongs to the guy that I'm having the baby with. And he went. And he went, uh, okay, I guess you're all right. And here she has twins. I mean, this story is amazing. But here the twins, look what happens in verse 27. And it comes to pass in the time of her travail, that behold, twins were in her womb. And it came to pass that when she travailed, she's in labor, that one put out his hand, and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, this came out first. And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out. And she said, how has this? How have you broken forth? This breach be upon thee. Therefore, his name is called Perez. And afterwards came out his brother that had the scarlet thread upon his hand, that his name is called Zarah. Now, the Bible talks about the scarlet thread of Christ, the meaning, the blood of Christ. There's a great story. Remind me one day, I'll preach a message on it, and we get to it. You can see the scarlet thread from from Abel all the way to Jesus on the cross. And that scarlet thread is the blood of Christ. Amen. But there's a whole nother story. It was a breach birth. You ever hear of that? Ruth, don't worry about it. You're not going to have that. Everything's good. I got you all taken care of. I got you prayed for. Everything's good. And you're going to have the best delivery. It's only going to hurt like, ow! And that's it. It's going to be great. It's going to be great because the Spirit of the Lord is upon you. And so that's where the breach comes from. When you ever hear a breach baby, it comes from that, that Perez, he's twins in there and somehow he turns upside down and sticks his hand, or I'm sorry, Zara sticks his hand outside the womb. Imagine you're the midwife and there's a hand comes out. And so he, she ties a thread on it saying, okay, this is the first one, but then he pulls it back in and the other one Perez beats him up kind of and comes out first. And so now you have Phares, and this is the children of Tamar, who had a kind of a crazy weird relationship with Judah. And guess who came out of Phares? Jesus Christ. He's the line of Jesus Christ. There's a whole lot to learn in this book. But I'll tell you one thing right now, this book is interesting. You need to read it for yourself. It's so much going on. But he pulls back and out comes Phares to breach which Jesus came from. Breach is talked about many times, and I'm going to go quickly, but you have to turn there. But in Numbers 14, verse 3 and 4, it says a breach of promise. God said to Israel, you made me breach my promise to you because of what you did. In Judges 21, verse 15, it says a breach in the tribes of Israel. So they were going to wipe out Dan and one of the tribes, and they said, no, we can't kill them all because then there would be a breach, a gap. in the tribes of Israel. 2 Samuel though, let's look at that. This is interesting. 2 Samuel chapter 6. 2 Samuel chapter 6. We have a story of Uzzah, Uzzah, whatever you want to call them. But it's starting in verse 6. 2nd Samuel 6 verse 6, it says, And when they came to Nacon's threshing floor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it. For the oxen shook it, and the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah, and God smote him there for his error. And there he died by the ark of God. And David was displeased because the Lord had made a breach upon Uzzah and he called the name of that place Pirazuah, to this day. Here we have a story of David finally taking over Jerusalem. David's settling up. His house is settled. Everything's good. And he said, you know what? We need the ark of God in Jerusalem. So he gets a bunch of people. And he goes and he gets the ark where it was at in someone's house. And he's having a party. He's got musicians. He's having a great time. He puts it on a wagon. And he starts carrying it back to Jerusalem. And here, the wagon, the ark of God, the ark of the covenant, is on the back of a wagon. And it goes over the threshing floor, and it's going like this. Like that. And it starts to shake. And the ark of God looks like it might fall. So Uzzah, in his good intentions, puts his hand on it to level it, to keep it steady. And God breaks forth and causes a breach between him and Uzzah and the people of Israel, and he kills him. And David's like, and that was David's friend. David's like, what happened? And it says that Dave in verse nine, David was afraid of the Lord that day. And he said, how shall the ark of the Lord come to me? See, it's a different thing between being afraid of God and having the fear of God. Being afraid of God is one thing. And here, I just want to say this briefly, is that when you have a type in the Bible, it's very, very important to God. Types in the Bible are very important. Moses wasn't allowed to go into the promised land because he smoked the rock twice. You guys know that story? If you don't know that story, you got to look it up and come to me. I'll tell you later. But Moses' first time, people needed water. God said, go to the rock. I will stand up on the rock, upon the rock. God's standing there, visible, can't see him. And he said, now hit the rock. So Moses smites the rock. So what he's doing, he's hitting God. It's a type of the Jews and the law smiting Christ. And out of the rock came water and it fed the people. They had plenty of water for a while. And it happened again a little later down. And Moses went to God. And God said, OK, Moses, do the same thing before, but just ask the rock this time. Just ask the rock, and he'll give you life. It's a total picture of Jesus. He's crucified on the cross. But now he's risen, all we have to do is ask, and we can receive eternal life. And so it was a perfect picture, but Moses got angry, because all the Jews were making him upset. And so he hit the rock twice. And the water came out, but man, God was not happy. And so God said, because of this, Moses, you're never going in the Promised Land. You're going to die on this side of the river. So learn your Bibles, a lot of cool stories. But here we have the Ark of God. The Ark of the Covenant, which represents something, represents the Word of God. It has everything in it, and we'll talk about that another time. But here, you don't touch the word of God. No man is allowed to touch the Bible. That's why it's so important that no man touches this book. This is the holy book. It's a spiritual book. It's inspired by God himself. Anyone that tells you it's not inspired, the Bible didn't tell them that. They learned it somewhere. Some pinhead, some professor somewhere told them that. The Bible tells you that it's alive. The Bible says everything in it is inspired. The Bible says it's breathed by God. The Bible says in Hebrews 4.12 that the Word of God is alive, it's quick, and it's powerful. Amen? Sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing, dividing, asunder, soul, spirit, joint, marrow. And it is a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart. This book is alive. When you're reading it, you're not reading it, it's reading you. This is the very Word of God. God says, this man will I look, he that trembleth as a pawn of a contrite spirit and trembleth at my word. We need to realize what this book is and give it the reverence that it's due. But man comes along and says, well, this King James Bible is hard to read, and so we're going to fix it. And puts his hand on it, and then you got the NIV, and you got the ESV, and you got every other V, and you got the non-inspired versions, and you got all this junk out there, because man puts their hands on it. You know what the man's saying? Same thing as I said, it needs my help. I'm telling you right now, the Word of God doesn't need our help. The word of God is eternal, powerful. It's God. You can't separate God from his word. That's why Jesus said, I am the word of God. I come forth to show you who God is. Great stuff, but that's not the message, really. But here we have a breach that broke forth. God was with David. God was with everything. But David did the wrong thing. What he did was, the Bible tells us, and David knew, you're not allowed to put the ark. Only four people can carry that ark. Only four priests from the Levites can carry that ark. And that's only through a golden pole, and they carry it on their shoulders. Amen? Not on a cart. Do you understand? And no one's allowed to touch it. David did everything wrong. And because he did wrong, and because he allowed his friend to touch it, act like it wasn't what it was, God killed him. And that's another story. But in 2 Kings chapter 12, verse 5, it says, a breach in the house of God. It says that the Bible talks and you go back and read it yourself. It says that there is the house of God was falling down, the house of God had holes in it. You know, we should and it needed to be fixed. You know, the story, the purpose of all these things is pretty simple, that if there's a break and there's a gap, you ready for this really deep truth? Ready? Fix it. It's that simple. If you got a problem, fix it. That's men's problems. We think we can fix everything. But if a woman's involved, you can't fix any of it, so don't even try. I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I'm not saying it's a bad thing. We just don't have a clue. We don't know how. We got the book. We got the book, and we're still reading it, but the truth of the matter is we can fix things. We can fix leaks, can't we, Anton? We can fix roofs, can't we, Joe? We can fix a good dinner, can't we, Tony? But we can't fix problems in people's lives sometimes. But here, one thing you have to realize is that there is a problem. It's not like AA. The first thing you have to admit there's a problem. It's kind of like the gospel. The very first thing you have to admit that there's a problem. The problem is sin is in you and there's a breach between you and God. And God and you are not connected. And if you die without that connection, you're going to hell. That's kind of what we have to realize, right? Before we can get saved. But God gave us his son to be the one, the bridge, to be the one to connect us, to be the one that's there for us, to grab us, to get a hold of us like the lost sheep. You know what I mean? But you can't fix something if you don't realize it's broken. And that's what I want us to think tonight. It's the breach in a spirit. Too many people don't even realize that the Spirit of God is not connected with them. I'm not talking about salvation. I'm talking about relationship. Isn't that what we talk about as Christians? It's not religion. It's a? It's not religion. It's a? Yeah, it's what we always say. It's a relationship. How's your relationship? It is a relationship. It is between you and God. And the only way you could be connected, God's in heaven through the Holy Spirit. And when the Holy Spirit's connected with you and you're connected with God, whoo, you know it. Hallelujah. But when the Holy Spirit's grieved and backs up some and goes, no, no, no, I'm not being part of that. You keep on going a day, a week, a month. years, and people never realize. So I'm here to tell you, you need to realize there's a problem, there's a gap, and you need to fix it. Can I get an amen? Amen. Well, it tells us in 2 Kings that there's a breach in the house of God and they need to repair it. But it tells us in Nehemiah chapter 6, turn to Nehemiah with me. Nehemiah is a great book. Nehemiah chapter 6, what happened was Israel was broken down, I mean Israel, Jerusalem was broken down, walls were down, all this, and Nehemiah was the cupbearer of the king, and God gave him favor with the king, and the king saw him all depressed, and said, what's the matter there? Nehemiah said, my Jerusalem, my city, it's destroyed, the walls are broken down, all enemies, people come in, and so the king said, listen, I'm gonna give you a bunch of money and some men, you go and fix it. Really? You're going to let me do that? And he was so happy. And the whole story about this, you got to go and read it for yourself. This book is amazing. If you don't know these stories, man, get in it. This book is amazing. Start reading. You'll blow your mind. This book is awesome. People that don't have something to preach, I got a lot to preach. I just want to make sure it's what God wants me to preach. Oh, man, I could tell you story after story after story. I could sit here for days and tell you things that God did in my life. I hope you have those stories too. And you need the Holy Spirit. But look in Nehemiah chapter six, it says in verse one, it says, now it came to pass when Samballot and Tobiah and Gershom, the Arabian and the rest of our what? The rest of our what? Enemies, they heard that I had built the wall. and that there was no breach left therein, though at that time I had not yet set the doors and the gates. The breach of the Holy Spirit of God has been repaired. The breach between man and God has been repaired. Nehemiah, you read it for yourself, he gets guys and people coming and they're bricking it up and they're bricked up. There you go. I'm repaired. There was a breach between my mic and that's what it is. You got a breach. What do you do? Fix it. You got a breach with God. Think about it. Think about the Holy Spirit of God. The one who loves you. The one who wants to hear from you. The one who wants to be with you. The one who's like your mother. See, we have God the Father, we have Jesus Christ, the Son who is also the Husband. We have the Holy Spirit who is like the Mother. We have a whole family in God. Jesus, you're complete in Him. He's awesome. But the Holy Spirit is sent to us as our Comforter. He's sent to us as the One that loves us and comforts us and takes care of us. And what happens is He's very sensitive. You know why? Because His first name is Holy. His second name is Spirit. You know, I'm teasing, but He's Holy. And that's the problem, is you got these charismatics, you got these people, and they smoke, and they curse, and they gamble, but yet they speak in tongues. I got the gift of the Holy Spirit, it's all phony, it's all baloney, do you understand? What it is, is the spirit of the living God gives life, the abundant life, the things that God knows you need. What do you need right now? What are you lacking? What is the, seems like there's something missing between you and God. You have to fix it. And it's an easy way to fix, and I'll get to that in a minute. But Nehemiah goes back and he spends years building the walls back up to Jerusalem. See, without walls, you're open to all the enemy. And the enemy is going to hear about it when you start fixing things with God. The enemy is going to hear about it when you start repairing your life with God. The enemy is not going to like it. Because the enemy wants your walls down. The enemy doesn't want you cut off. The enemy doesn't want you powerful. Do you understand? Can I get an amen? The enemy doesn't want you to have joy. The enemy doesn't want you to have peace. You kidding me? The enemy loves it when we're on the seas. And we're like the apostles going, Jesus, wake up! Don't you care that I'm dying? And he gets up and says, where's your faith? The enemy hates it when they hear that the walls are closed. I'm here to tell you, you got enemies. And your enemy doesn't want you to fix it. What's stopping you? What is stopping us from building those walls up, from building our relationship back up? How many people wish you had a better relationship with certain people in your life? If you're a parent, you know what I'm talking about. We have seven children. We have 29 grandchildren. We have four great-grandchildren. Got a couple of dogs that are better than all the rest of them. I'm kidding, I'm joking. No one's better than them two right there. Those two girls. But there's a lot of them I don't get to see. We don't get to talk too much. You know what I mean? You wish your relationship was better. Guess what? Nothing's gonna happen unless you try to fix it. The problem is we get prideful and we're like, well, they should call me. That isn't what Christians do. Christians do the calling. Christians do the texting. Christians write the cards. But they don't do that to me. I know. Probably because you're grumpy and miserable. Probably because you don't have the Holy Spirit of God in you. Every time they see you, you yell at them. Parents, don't yell at your children every time you see them. Especially if they live in your house, yell at them all you want. That's a little bit of a joke. But when they come to visit, don't harp on them. Because they won't want to come to visit again. So when the Holy Spirit shows up, don't sit there and give them all your demands of what you want. Don't sit there and say, hey, listen, I need money, and I need this, and I need this. Can you do this for me? You know, my car's broken, my dog's sick, and can I do that? No, you know, that isn't how you start a good relationship. What you do is, I love you. I thank you. It's so good to see you. It's so good to be with you. I want to be with you more. I love you more in love, in joy, in peace, and build that bond up with the Holy Spirit of God, because everything that He has for you is everything you've been desiring anyway. And then when you guys are walking with, talking with one another, and when the Spirit of God is going good, then He already knows what you need. And He'll udge you and say, hey, how about that? Well, yeah, Lord, you know what I need. Well, how about this? The next thing you know, God's blessing you and God's filling these gaps up all over the place. It's all about the walls. And Nehemiah, he's got a breach in the walls and they must be repaired. And I want to ask you a question. Do we repair the walls in our lives? Do we repair or do we care that it's broken? Do we care that it's even things are missing? There's been a breach in our relationship. There's been a big breach between the relationship of Israel and God. Israel and God, there's been a breach, a big one. There's been a big breach between God and man because of sin. Amen? Because of man's sin. Isaiah 59 verse 2. Brian, if you could put that up. Isaiah 59 2, it says, your iniquities, it says, but your iniquities have separated between you and your God and your sins have hid his face from you. Ready? Even gets worse. That he will not hear you. See, if you don't build this relationship back with God, all those prayers, they're not even being heard. People don't realize that, that the Bible tells us that in Psalm 66 verse 18, if you got that one, Brian, it says, if I regard iniquity in my heart, that means if I don't care about fixing it, if I don't care that I'm doing what grieves the Holy Spirit, If I know that I shouldn't be doing it, but I'm doing it anyway, it says, if I regard nickering my heart, please say that loud and ready, the Lord will not hear me. He won't even hear you. You ever been that way with someone? I don't even want to hear them. You ever been that way? Like, you can call, I don't want to hear you. At this moment in time, I'm mad, I'm not happy, I just don't want to hear them. There's certain people that have voices I don't want to hear. Her name was Calamari Harris. I'm glad I don't have to hear her anymore. Sorry, that was for your benefit. That was for you, Trump team. All right. That was for team Trump. But there's certain people that have voices that annoy you. God doesn't want to hear your prayers if you regard iniquity. What's in your heart today that you need to get right with God? What is it? Don't tell me. Tell him. Do something about it. And I'm gonna tell you about this is that, you know, when there's been a breach in the spirit, our prayers are not heard or answered. Our peace is dried up and our joy is disappearing and our love seems so distant from us. When Israel would sin against God, they would murmur and complain. And I'm here to tell you, you wanna grieve the Holy Spirit, murmur and complain. No one, no, excuse me. Brian, why is this not on? I know. Give it to me. Give me full power. Power, Scotty. Scotty, give me some power. If you murmur or complain, no one wants to hear it. Is this on? Nobody wants to hear your complaining. Yeah, well then stop doing it. Because many of you that said amen are the ones that do it. Stop complaining, stop murmuring, because what you're doing, what you're doing without knowing it, is you're telling God, you're not good enough. The blood of Jesus Christ and the sacrifice of your son is just not good enough. I want more. And that's what the children of Israel did. You can turn that off if you want to, I don't really care, or turn it down. But when your complaints and your murmurs, it grieves God, and God was angry, and God would disturb. Look at Exodus 32. This is a great, great thing. And the good thing is I want you to see this. Exodus 32. Exodus chapter 32, starting in verse 10. Well, starting in verse nine, I should say, it says, and the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people and behold, it's a stiff neck knucklehead people. I added knucklehead for Joe. Cause every Wednesday, when we give praises, he always says, I'm a knucklehead, but God loves me. You got to come on Wednesday night and hear the best praises of your life. Every single person praises God. You know what they praise God for, Christine? For their salvation, for the word of God, for the church. There's so much to be thankful for. Look what it says. And it says in verse 10, now God is talking to Moses. Now, therefore, Brian, you turn this down. It says, now, therefore, let me alone. that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them, and I will make of thee a great nation." Get the picture of what's going on. Israel was a complaining bunch of people. Israel got brought out of Egypt by a strong and mighty hand. 10 plagues on Egypt, he parts the Red Sea, he puts food from heaven, he puts a fire pillar in front of him, smoke over top of him, he takes care of him water out of the rock, he beats up their enemies and they complain and complain and complain when finally it's all I can stands and I can't stands no more. Popeye, great man of God by the way, I'm kidding. He says, God says, now let me alone. Let me alone, Moses, that I may destroy them. Because God gets fed up and look what happens in verse 11. Moses besought the Lord his God and said, Lord, why does thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou has brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? Wherefore, why should the Egyptians speak and say, for mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? To turn, turn your fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, thy servants, to whom thou swearest by thy own self. and said unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven and all this land that I have spoken of, will I give it to your seed? And they shall inherit it. Look in verse 14. And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people. Thank you, God. No, listen, I'm not Israel. If I was all the Jews, I'd say, thank you, Lord, for Moses. Because if it wasn't for Moses, they would have been all destroyed. See, when you hear, there's so much to talk about, and sometimes I get excited and I want to talk about it, but people talk about the elect and the predestined and they think this. No. Listen to me, Israel was the elect of God. And God said, I'll wipe them all out. I'll start over with you. God doesn't need you. God doesn't need us. Only in His mercy and His grace does He allow us into having the covenant between Him and us, the peace that God gives, the love that God gives, the salvation that God gives. It's a gift, amen? It's a great gift. It's an amazing gift. It's an awesome gift. And all you've got to do to really be happy with it is have gratitude. and be thankful, don't complain, don't murmur. But Moses, he stood in the gap. He stood in the breach. God was ready to kill them all, and Moses stepped in. I'll tell you what now, if you're praying, if you're a praying person, and I know you're praying for your family, and so am I though, you're not alone. I know you're praying for your wife and family, Anton, so am I, you're not alone. I know you guys are praying and I pray for each and every one of you every single day. And I go before presence of God and I beg him to help you to save your children, to save your families, save your marriages. And I'm here to tell you, it's not me that's doing it, it's the spirit of God that's in me that's doing it. Because I'll be honest with you, I could find some other things to do than spend three hours talking to God about you. And talking about God about people that won't even show up for church. Talking to God and asking God, please don't destroy them, Lord. Please don't destroy them. Please don't let the devil get their marriage. Please don't let the devil get their children. Please don't let the... Because someone has got to care enough to stand in the gap between your friends and God, or your family and God, or your children and God. Because God's wrath is real, and God's anger can be broken forth, and the worst thing that could ever happen is that God just leave you alone. He doesn't have to do anything bad to us. Just leave you alone. You're fighting. You're struggling to go out on your own. You want to do what you want to do. And these rules in church, it's like a jacket that doesn't fit right. You just want to take it off. You don't like that. I have to go to church on Sunday. I have to go to church on Sunday night and Wednesday night and then Bible study and a bunch of murmur and little babies. All that God's done for you and you complain. All of us do. Not just you, we all do. We complain, oh, I gotta do this. Oh, I gotta go out and hand a gospel track out. What'd he do? Everything he did on the cross for you, and you can't do anything that he asks you to do without complaining? When I ask my children to do something, you know what the best thing as a parent? You'll know when they say, okay, mom, okay, dad. How often does that little boy, when you tell him to clean his room, say, golly gee, mom, I can't wait to do it. Or when you tell your daughter, no, you're not allowed to do that. And she says, okay, mom, because I know you know best. But what if she did? What if they did? How would that make you feel? Party time, it's the best day ever. Well, we're God's children. And when he asks us to do stuff, we complain. I'm here to tell you right now, When we have so many problems in our life, the answer to every single problem is your relationship with Jesus. The answer to every single problem, finances, health, peace, relationship, you name it, the country, the nation, the president, the government, the church, your brothers and sisters, everything, Jesus Christ. but yet he's the one that we go to probably the least. I wanna hurry up with this, but it says in Ezekiel 22 verse 30. Brian, you put that up? In Ezekiel chapter 22 verse 30, it's a great verse. And it says, and I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge. and stand in the gap before me, before the land, that I should not destroy it. But I found none. Let me tell you one of the saddest verses in the Bible, if you ask me. God's looking for someone to stand in the gap, in the breach. All of us have grieved the Holy Spirit in one way or the other. And at times we're good with God and we have that relationship and it's good. But how long does that last? and maybe you're here today, and maybe your love is being, you can't find it, or your joy is drying up, or your peace seems like it's hiding, and you don't know why. I'm here to tell you because there's a breach in the spirit. He loves us. He loves us, and he's a jealous God. He doesn't want a part time. He doesn't want a once in a while time. He wants all the time. He loves you with an everlasting love. And all He asks us to do is to be grateful, thankful, talk about Him, praise Him. Why, for Him? No, that others would come to know Him. That others would be saved from hell. God gets no pleasure of someone going to hell. God doesn't send anybody to hell. People send themselves to hell. I'm here to tell you this, that God so loved you that He gave His only begotten Son. that you, whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. And Jesus said, I am the life. I'm the way, I'm the truth, and I'm your life. And He says, and I'm your abundant life. I will give you so much that you'll never have need of. He said, the water you drink that I'll give you, you'll never thirst again. The food that I'll give you, you'll never hunger again. I give unto you, no man, no thing on this earth can ever replicate. You can't get it anywhere. You can't get it from money. You can't get it from fame. We can't get it anywhere but from God. And we complain and we murmur when we have broken relationships with the Holy Spirit of God. If we would just listen and do what He said to do. The first thing you can do is forgive someone that you have a problem with. That's the biggest thing. Jesus said, if you don't forgive, I won't forgive you. So please work on that. I'm going to give you a couple of verses and I'm going to finish. Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. You know Him? You heard of Him? He's the one that was sent. He came down to stand in the gap between God and man. Jesus Christ, the third person, the second person of the Trinity, God the Father, God of His Word, and God His Holy Spirit, these are one. Hero Israel, Lord our God is one God. And God spoke to Himself when He said, let us make man in our image, in our likeness. Let them have dominion, let them have this, let them have this. And then Satan comes in and destroys it. Now sin is broken between the relationship with God and man, so God makes a way to cover that sin. Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice. And then finally Jesus steps into the picture. And Jesus the God-man, 100% God and 100% man. How that works? I don't know, but He's 200%. I don't know how it works, but He is. He's 100% God and He's 100% man. And only He can reach into heaven and put His hand on the shoulder of His Father, and reach down into sinful man and put His hand on the shoulder of sinful man, and bring them both together. in His body, in His blood, in His sacrifice, because He gave His life for us, He suffered for us, He bled, He cried out, Father, forgive them! They know not what they do. And He washes you and cleanses you. And all your sins through Christ are forgiven. And God the Father opens His heart to you. He opens His home to you. He opens His love to you. He opens everything that He has. And He gives you His Spirit as the gift of the Holy Spirit of God. to be with you forever. He'll never leave you. He'll never forsake you. Just remember this, God, the Father is in heaven. Jesus Christ, the Son is at his right hand, Father, right hand Spirit, right hand of the Father, but only the Holy Spirit's here. And the Holy Spirit's here for a purpose and a reason, many of them, to get you prepared and get you ready to meet the Father, meet the Son for the marriage. And He loves you. And everything He tells you to do is for our good. Anything he tells you to do, it's for your good, amen? It tells us in 1 John 2 verse 1, it says, my little children, these things have I written unto you that you sin not. But if any man sin, listen to this, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. We have a lawyer. We have a lawyer and advocate. Jesus Christ is the one who stands in the gap. When you sin, he steps in and says, Father, I got it. I took care of it. Imagine the Father sitting there, sitting on the throne. He's got to judge sin. He's got to judge it. That's who He is. And you sin. He's got to judge you. And Jesus, your advocate, steps in between the gaps and says, Father, it's okay. I take care of it. Okay. Anything the Son asks, the Father gives. And Jesus Christ is my advocate. It says in Romans 8 verse 34, it says, Christ stands at the right hand of the Father who makes intercession for us. intercedes on our behalf. It says in 1st Timothy 2.5, there is one God and one mediator between God and man, the man, Jesus Christ. We have a mediator. We have an intercessor. We have an advocate. You understand who he is? He steps in and he is the one. He is the one and the only way. That's why he said, I am the way, I am the truth, and I am the life. No man comes to the Father but by me. We must come to the cross. We must come to the sacrifice. We must come to the blood. We must come to the atonement. We must, we must, we must come to Jesus Christ. So that his sacrifice and his blood can take away all your sin. And until when that sin's taken away, you're saved, but you don't have eternal life until the Holy Spirit comes in. The Holy Spirit can't come in when there's sin. Your sins and iniquity have separated you between you and your God. But once the blood has come upon you, there's no more sin. And the Holy Spirit comes in and He seals you to the day of redemption. And He lives and dwells in you, with you. And He speaks to you. He walks with me and He talks with me. You know the song? And He tells me I'm His own. And the voice I hear falling on my ear, oh man, it's beautiful, it's sweet. It's like no one else's voice. The voice of the Almighty Holy God that tells me it's gonna be okay. I got you, it's gonna be okay. Yes, I know you're going through a tough time, but I'm gonna be with you, it's gonna be okay. The person that you're praying for, intercede for them, pray for them. Be, stand in the gap for them. The person that hurts you, stand in the gap for them. The person that you say, I hate that person, stand in the gap for them. Be that person. So the Holy Spirit of God can pour out his spirit on you. It tells us, Ms. Kira, could you come up please? It tells us in Hebrews 7 and chapter 7 and chapter 9, that we have a great high priest. a great High Priest who ever liveth to make intercession for us. If we will come to Him, if we will confess to Him that we have grieved Him, our sins have separated us from Him. What is it that the Holy Spirit of God is talking to you right now about? What is it? You know it came to your mind. You know it did. Because the Holy Spirit, that's His job. The Spirit of Truth. The Spirit of Truth. Whatever it is. give it to the Lord, talk to Him. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and He's just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. That means anything. Right now, with your heads bowed and your eyes closed, I want you to think about this. Repair the breach, restore, rebuild, renew the relationship with your God. Don't worry about the relationships with your children or your family or workers. Worry about the relationship that can restore every other relationship. The relationship between you and your Lord, your God. The Holy Spirit is here, the Holy Spirit's in you. If he's speaking to you and he spoke to you about something, move. Don't sit there and do nothing. Show the Holy Spirit that you mean it. You're not a hearer of the word, but a doer. Come to the Lord right now in prayer. Call upon Him and ask Him to forgive. Ask Him to forget. Ask Him to repair the breach, restore the love and the joy and the fellowship of the Spirit. Ask Him to come in. To your heart, maybe you don't know Him. Maybe you never had a real relationship with Him. Well, right now is the time. He's knocking at your door. You have got to let him in. You've got to open the door by trusting and having faith in him. The door of your heart, it's your door. He won't bust it down. He'll just knock gently. If you hear his knock, open the door and he will come in to you and he will sup with you and you with him and you'll have relationship with the almighty God in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. If you were to die today, do you know for sure, 100% sure, that you'd go to heaven? If you don't know for sure, then right now is your time. It's your time to obey the Holy Spirit of God and restore the relationship. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord Jesus shall be saved. Would you pray with me right now? I will stand in the gap between you and God, and I will pray for you, but you've got to receive it, you've got to believe it, and you've got to call upon the Lord. Father, I pray, Lord Jesus, We love You. We believe in You. We receive You, Lord. You are our Lord. You are our God. You are our King. You're my husband, my best friend. You're everything to me. Lord, I love You. You've forgiven me and given me life. I pray for those now, that person. That soul that's nearest hell, that soul that if they die today, they will go to a certain hell because they don't have You. I pray for them. As you cried on the cross, Father, forgive them. They know not what they do. I pray Holy Spirit's power to be upon whoever that is out there today that is stubborn. I pray that they'd put the stubbornness away and trust in the Lord and believe with all their heart and call upon His name. In the name of Jesus. Say His name, say Jesus. Jesus, save me. Save me a sinner. Wash me in Your own blood. Make me Your own. Come into me, Jesus. Holy Spirit of God, I need You. I desire You. I love You. I desire You more than life itself. Jesus, save me. Jesus, Wash me, Jesus, forgive me, and give me the gift of the Holy Spirit of God. And help me in my life to walk with you, to talk with you, to be filled with your spirit and your power. Teach me, Lord, that which I need to know, and I will be grateful, and I will be thankful, and I will worship you, and I will praise you, and I will give thanks unto the Lord our God. In Jesus' precious name, and all God's people said, Amen.