Crossroads Bible Church Podcast

Church we have taken scripture that was meant for a specific people, with a specific issue, during a specific time, and used it in 2024 as God's law, rather than recognizing it is the law and tradition of man. There are no laws according to God that says that women cannot speak in church. Paul did not contradict himself in 1 Corinthians chapter 14 and chapter 11. Women - you have the same access & right to the promises of Abraham as heirs of Christ, as the men do. We must stop comparing ourselves with one another, pushing one another down. We must be secure in who we are in Christ. Be secure Woman! Be Secure Man! You must be who God called you to be. SERMON NOTES: https://www.bible.com/events/49317241 https://theroads.church

Perseverance in PRAYER! The WORD becoming who we are! DISCIPLINE to put God first! Jesus well equipped us to be victorious and overcome! But like the disciples in the Garden of Gethsemane with Jesus, our spirit is willing, but our flesh is weak. They could not pray even one hour, but instead fell asleep. We can be on our devices or watch a ball game for hours, but it's uncomfortable to pray for an hour. Our discipline to build up our spirit to be strong is in PRAYER & the WORD. The Lord wants to prepare us for what is coming, so we are ready for it, and not just reacting to it when it comes that we would be victorious, and a refuge of people that holds the TRUTH. Are you willing to makes prayer & intercession and the will of God number 1 in your life? https://theroads.church

Newsflash - Moses didn’t build the Tabernacle. Bazalel and Aholiab did! God put wisdom, skill/talent inside of them to build it. And God has put talent inside of each of us for His purpose to reveal or make known through the gospel the life that does not end. Talent is your God-given ability. We all have the same God-given purpose - it’s His purpose, but we all have different appointments based on our talents. When we have an understanding of our TALENT - what we can and cannot be the best at, and develop it to give God our best in pursuit of our purpose - OUR GREEN, then everywhere people go, they will see the light shining on the God kind of life that never ends - at the lumber yard, in the grocery store, sitting in the dentist chair . . . 2 Timothy 1:6-10, John 11:25, John 14:6, Romans 6:4-5, Exodus 31:1-11, 2 Chronicles 2:12, 1 Kings 7:13 Where's Your Green? Venn Diagram https://theroads.church/wp-content/uploads/Wheres-Your-Green-Sermon-Series-Venn-Diagram.pdf https://theroads.church #talent

God wants to purify our mouths - what we say, how we say it, in our relationships, in our workplaces, in our homes. What comes out of our mouth should bring edification. We live in the most critical culture and time - today. The devil is the accuser, and being critical and accusatory is operating in darkness. The enemy will use accusation to tear up the Church. Judgement will come to the Church first. Search our hearts Lord for any place that we operate in criticism and accusation that needs to be purified, so that what comes out of my mouth would bring edification. Malachi 3:2, John 8:6-11, Proverbs 4:23, Luke 6:45, Psalm 139:23-24 https://theroads.church

God has saved us AND CALLED us. God is calling everyone, but not everyone will fulfill the calling. Too many people are ignoring God’s call. God’s invitation to us is according to His purposes. It’s greater than what we do for our job to make a living. It’s vital that we know where our purpose comes from; it comes from God, and it’s about what He wants to do in the Earth to bring all of creation into His Kingdom. He is blowing up your phone inviting you to live a life that is dedicated to Him, devoted to Him, and set apart to Him - HOLY UNTO HIM. When we submit to His purpose, everything that He created you to do on the inside, will be fulfilled. No one will fulfill their true purpose in life without Jesus. Your true purpose is In Him. 1 Timothy 1:8-12 1 Peter 1:15-16 2 Corinthians 6:17 Where's Your Green? Venn Diagram https://theroads.church/wp-content/uploads/Wheres-Your-Green-Sermon-Series-Venn-Diagram.pdf Chad Everett Core Teachings: https://theroads.church/meet-our-pastor/ #grace #purpose #cal

Paul wrote to the church at Corinth for the purpose of speaking about the expectation of being in harmonious relationships and unity in the house of God, and then instructed them with how that is accomplished in light of using the gifts to bring Edification, Unity & Peace. The Church should be: Speaking in tongues ✓ Interpreting in certain situations ✓ Prophesying ✓ Desiring spiritual gifts ✓ Not forbidding speaking in tongues ✓ All things done decently and in order ✓ We must trust God to let Him say what is "decent" and "in order" and not our tradition. If anyone thinks himself to be a prophet or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things which I write to you are the commandments of the Lord.But if anyone is ignorant, let him be ignorant.Therefore, brethren, desire earnestly to prophesy, and do not forbid to speak with tongues. Let all things be done decently and in order. I Corinthians 14:37-40 NKJV SERMON NOTES: https://www.bible.com/events/49308545 The Roads Church: https://thero

Holy Spirit is IN YOU for NEW LIFE, and He comes UPON YOU for POWER & GIFTS for ministering to people. Tongues is a gift we receive when we are baptized in Holy Spirit, allowing us the ability to speak to God, and in the spirit speak mysteries. The Church must not forbid it. It's going to be essential for all believers, the Church, to operate in the Power of Holy Spirit in the days to come. The wisdom needed in the end days comes from the Bible, and it's available. We must be on the cutting edge of prophecy. What is God saying in this hour? SERMON NOTES: https://www.bible.com/events/49305224

Charla Lewis - The Roads Kidz Pastor - shares a dream she had with an interpretation and unpacks the deceit that the enemy uses against us to create a hold and imprisonment of our minds that is stealing our time, relationships and our continual development in our relationship with God. Entertainment and all its devices have been a deceitful cover up, a smoke and mirrors that we partner with to keep us from realizing the unseen and heavenly realm and partnering our faith with what God is doing. The "American Dream" has become the "American nightmare." Galatians 5 : 13 Beloved ones, God has called us to live a life of freedom. But don’t view this wonderful freedom as an excuse to set up a base of operations in the natural realm. Constantly love each other and be committed to serve one another. The Roads Church - https://theroads.church

Tongues is not about memorizing syllables - it's about making connection with Holy Spirit as our source to speak what the Father & Son are speaking. It empowers us, and gives us access to speak and pray when we do not know what to pray. It is speaking the "mysteries of heaven." Let Holy Spirit speak. Then speak what He's telling you to say.

We are invited into this prophetic season - that all the sons and daughters begin to prophecy. Everyone of us has been divinely created by God to hear the voice of God, the voice of Holy Spirit - who is the greatest evangelist and searches the heart and thoughts of God, and His thoughts will change people's lives. It's time to engage our Creator. He's calling us to full surrender. Our lack of response to the voice of God has consequences, because He has people He wants to reach through your life who comes in the power of God and operates in the ministry of reconciliation. Matt. 4:8 - 25, Luke 5:1 - 12, II Cor. 5:10 - 21 The Roads Church - https://theroads.church Richie Seltzer - Global Awakening - https://globalawakening.com/richie-seltzer/

When Holy Spirit is on our life - we have POWER, which means by definition that we have abilities, power, strength and might that we didn't have before and without Him. With Him in your life, you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you, without Christ you can do nothing. Part of that “Power Package,” is speaking in tongues. When Holy Spirit comes upon you, you now have the ability to communicate with a language with God, praying the will of God that you did not have in your own natural ability. Speaking with God isn’t EXTRA! Or unnecessary. Or just for certain people. IT’S BIBLICAL. We’ve wanted the power without a relationship with Him, it’s been the temptation from the beginning. But God’s desire has always been about a relationship and in His PRESENCE there is POWER. SERMON NOTES: https://www.bible.com/events/49283814 The Roads Church: https://the roads.church

Offense is a trap that holds us captive and creates casualties. You might be the recipient of offense, BUT you might be the offender. NINE WAYS OFFENSE ATTACKS 1. Starts in our MIND 2. Comes after our HEART 3. Attacks our VISION 4. Comes at the MOMENT OF BREAKTHROUGH 5. Attacks RELATIONSHIPS 6. Affects our HEARING 7. Causes UNFORGIVENESS 8. Steals our TIME 9. Affects our PERSONAL ECONOMY God has freedom for us today! We get to choose to shut the door or open the door to offense. We must use the Word of God to combat offense, and cut it off at the roots. Is there anyone you have offense against? Is there anyone you need to forgive? YOUVERSION NOTES: https://www.bible.com/events/49282008 The Roads Church https://theroads.church

Jesus wants to settle some accounts! He says 70 X 7! The practice of forgiveness comes from a place of compassion that allows us to release and forgive. Church, we get to be the carriers, the agents of forgiveness for the world to see, so we can point people to Jesus! Forgiveness in the "C"hurch has been made attractive and not very practical or useful. Forgiveness is necessary, and we've made it unnecessary. Jesus is addressing issues and showing us areas where we haven't released and forgiven people of debts, and He wants to tackle the complacency that has given us up to a place of avoiding the practice of forgiveness. How do we practice forgiveness? We must know what it looks like! Eph 4 : 31-32 We must look to Jesus - our greatest example of forgiveness! Col. 3 : 12 We must deliver forgiveness. Matt 6 : 14 - 15 21 Then Peter came to Him and said, “Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?” 22 Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times,

Where are the men after God's heart? Those who are: OBEDIENT - Submission to someone greater HUMBLE - Servant COURAGEOUS - Fighter/Warrior PASSIONATE - Worshiper A man with a heart after God - LOVES GOD! Every man wants the Goliath story, but David also danced! Everyone wants to be the warrior, but what about also dancing before the Lord and looking foolish before people? Men, we are wired by God to have a heart after His. "And when He had removed him, He raised up for them David as king, to whom also He gave testimony and said, ‘I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My will.’" Acts 13:22 NKJV YouVersion Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/49275781 The Roads Church: https://theroads.church

Even if we know Jesus, there's more to know. The whole world has talked and debated Jesus throughout history. "Who is Jesus?" His life has had a great impact on people, greater than any other person in history. Are we satisfied to know Him as we know Him today, or do we desire to know Him deeper? Is there anything left to surrender that is in the way of knowing Him more? Is there any part of your life that His love doesn't touch? Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” Matthew 16 : 13 https://theroads.church

Unity, Stability and Maturity in The Body of Christ - God is accomplishing it through the building of the Five-Fold Ministry. Jesus gave us Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Shepherds and Teachers, representing His own ministry. We are shifting from a One-Man Ministry to a Five-Fold Ministry - the divine wisdom of God, and He is restoring it in the Earth today. It is for the equipping of the saints for the work of service for the building up of the body of Christ. We're familiar with Pastors and Shepherds. The body of Christ has been over-pastored and under fathered, which is why we have a culture of being a nursery and not an army. We have tried to build the church in our own wisdom and have built an atmosphere of immaturity in the body. God is waking us up, and changing how we have perceived church, and He's calling us back into His Word. Ephesians 4:7-16 NASB 1995 Visit Paul T. Ministry at https://www.paultjohnson.org/ The Roads Church: https://theroads.church

When we receive Holy Spirit, we should expect to speak in tongues. Holy Spirit doesn't take over your tongue, but does tell you what to say, giving you the words to speak out of your mouth. We have to speak what He says. First - We are filled with the PERSON of HOLY SPIRIT. THEN - Holy Spirit tells us what to say. It's Holy Spirit's job to give us the "utterance," but it's our job to do the speaking. "While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word. And those of the circumcision who believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also. For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God. Then Peter answered, “Can anyone forbid water, that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?” And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then they asked him to stay a few days." Acts 10:44-48 SERMON NOTES: https://www.bible.com/even

When we receive Holy Spirit, we should expect to speak in tongues. Holy Spirit doesn't take over your tongue, but does tell you what to say, giving you the words to speak out of your mouth. We have to speak what He says. First - We are filled with the PERSON of HOLY SPIRIT. THEN - Holy Spirit tells us what to say. It's Holy Spirit's job to give us the "utterance," but it's our job to do the speaking. "While Peter was still speaking these words, the Holy Spirit fell upon all those who heard the word. And those of the circumcision who believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out on the Gentiles also. For they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God. Then Peter answered, “Can anyone forbid water, that these should not be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we have?” And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then they asked him to stay a few days." Acts 10:44-48 SERMON NOTES: https://www.bible.com/event

Our Helper! Holy Spirit! Not just with us, BUT IN US! "If I can get them scared of Holy Spirit, I will get the power out of their life." The enemy understands the dunamis power we have through Holy Spirit. He wants to keep us operating in our natural power, and not Holy Spirit's supernatural power. He wants to tame and domesticate Christians to believe that salvation is about behavior modification instead of it being about transformational power that changes them on the inside and around them. Without understanding the Feast of Pentecost, you can't move beyond Passover. We must understand Pentecost! Sermon Notes: https://www.bible.com/events/49261001 The Roads Church: https://theroads.church

"He sees crowds of people doing their own thing, making their own way, putting their trust in their own abilities and doing what is best for themselves. And He is saying, 'Excuse me, you're in My way.'" God wants to move in our lives, but we won't slow down, stop and listen and give up what WE want to to do, while wanting Him to bless our desires. If we would let Him through and let Him lead, paths would begin to open up for our lives that we have no idea. Will you allow Him to take the lead? To lead you and guide you? Will you listen to His voice? It requires surrender. In your surrender, He will take you where you've never been before. I hear the Lord saying, “I will stay close to you, instructing and guiding you along the pathway for your life. I will advise you along the way and lead you forth with my eyes as your guide. So don’t make it difficult; don’t be stubborn when I take you where you’ve not been before. Don’t make me tug you and pull you along. Just come with me!” Psalm 32:8-9 TPT https://th