Temple Builders (Greater Glory)

Even this seemed too much for them.

*We get upset because we don’t see the Glory like we used to.

The churches aren’t as large as they used to be.

The General Assembly don’t have attendance numbers over 2000 anymore.

We don’t have big garage doors where people would be piled outside as the older generation would preach and sing and shout and see the glory of the Lord.

We feel as we don’t have the direction.

Listen to me closely. John Parks is gone. Annie Petree is gone. Luther Gibson is gone. Bro Silcox is gone.

Let me go beyond our Assembly. Bro. RW Schambach is gone. Lester Summerall is gone. Smith Wigglesworth is gone. Aimie Semple McPherson is gone.

Now is the time that we become Legacy Builders.

+As they started to try to rebuild the temple, the samaritans opposed them.

When Darius took over as king they lost the financial support that Cyrus had provided them to restore the temple. Darius cut the subsidies that had been given to the people to build the temple. He was more worried about the finance of his military campaign.

The problem today is that we are more worried about worldly things than Godly things.

•It takes money to run this youth department.

•It takes money to run this church.

•We can’t pay church bills and light bills with good looks.

And when we refuse to support because of political differences and different viewpoints, we are stopping this generation from seeing a move of God like the good old days.

Fantasy gave way. The reality the size of the task discouraged the people and their hearts sank. The rebuilding of the temple looked impossible. It looked too big.

They got so discouraged that they quit altogether.

And the problem is, we got too many young people today who are quitting.

•They haven’t seen the Glory in their churches.

•Your pastor hasn’t spoke in tongues in 12 years.

•Your youth pastor ain’t even filled with The Holy Ghost.

•Most of y’all ain’t even got a youth pastor.

•You’ve been to more church funerals than you have been to baptisms.

•You’ve been to more gossip sessions than prayer meetings.

•You’ve been to church camp, and sadly that’s the only time you get anything from God.

You go to church camp, get on fire, get filled with the Holy Ghost, then go back to your home church the Sunday to see that it so dead and dry that you literally can’t even stand to be there.

Instead of people praying in the altar with you, you get asked by the old lady in the back what you did in order to need to be in the altar.

**•• I’m calling on the older generation to be more encouraging to this generation. Because you don’t know the Hell that we have to put up with.

•They are telling us that there are more than 2 genders.

•Now we have drag queens dragging their hellish junk in our local schools and even some so-called churches.

•America has preachers saying that it’s okay to be gay.

•They are now teaching that a little alcohol is okay.

•Teachers in the schools are teaching that a boy can change himself into a girl and that a girl can change herself to a boy.

•5 year olds are wondering what they even are.