Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast.
You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX.
We pray. And.
Point you to the cross. Now let's join the service.
I was praying the other day and looking up at the store tonight.
We all have the thought of understanding.
You know, the enemy steals a lot of souls because of the word
understanding. I just don't understand the
Bible. I've tried to read it, but I
don't understand it. I've heard it over and over and
over. And it's not that hard to
understand. But when the author of Confusion
gets in your mind, it can become very hard to understand.
But the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said you don't have to
understand. You don't have to understand the
trial you're going through this morning.
You don't have to understand the hurt that's in you.
You don't have to understand. You just got to know that you
serve a God that at any moment is able to deliver.
You don't get caught up on the understanding.
I wanted to preach that, but I'm going to preach this in
Galatians chapter 6 and verse 6. It said let him who has taught
the Word sharing all good things with him who teaches verse 7
says do not be deceived who comes to deceive the enemy and
confuse and destroy, But he says do not be deceived.
If there's anything that's running rampant, not just in the
world, but I would say more so in the church, in the body of
Christ, people are being deceived because we're mocking
God. And and he says right here that
God is not mocked. We have people running around
that think whatsoever they sow, they will not reap.
But he says here that whatever man souls that he will also reap
for he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap
corruption. But I love this next verse.
But he who sows of the Spirit, will of the Spirit reap.
Everlasting life isn't that good.
And let us this is what I want to preach to you today.
Let us say us not grow weary while doing good.
For in due season, when it's God's time, we shall reap if we
do not lose heart. Therefore, as we have
opportunity, let us do good to all, but especially to those who
are the household of faith. Father, we come before you today
and I just pray for those that are growing weary myself
sometimes and doing good when we listen to the misdirection of
the enemy. And Father, I pray today that
you would just get in our hearts and our minds and in our flesh
and all over us, that we cannot grow weary while doing good
because if we do not give up, if we don't give in, if we don't
give up, we will reap a harvest. We thank you for your love.
We thank you for the anointing to preach the gospel again in
Jesus name, Amen. I want to share with you 3
points today. The first one he says don't grow
weary, do not give in. I'm going to camp out on this
one for a little while because today there's too many people
that give in. And Matthew chapter 6 and 13, it
was part of Jesus prayer when he was teaching how to pray, he
said lead us not into temptation, but deliver us what
from evil didn't lead us not into temptation.
But yet Jesus knew what it was like to be LED into temptation.
So there was nothing. There's nothing wrong with
temptation. The wrong comes is when we yield
to it, when we what? Give in The first point I want
to share with you, Jesus tells his disciples in Matthew 26 and
41. He says to watch and pray so
that you will not fall into temptation.
Temptation is not a sin in itself, but when we yield to
that temptation and we give in, it becomes sin.
And as I begin to think about this, I thought, you know, 1
nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for
all, and proclaiming God as our Lord, as a sovereign nation.
It has brought us thus far. I believe there's only one
reason that we haven't received the famines and all the things a
lot of countries have is because we have declared that we are one
nation. But I recall under another
administration, I heard the president say that we are no
longer one nation under God, but many gods.
Hello, I heard a rodeo announcer on TV and I know he's a believer
and I love him. I know him personally and he
prays a great prayer and leads people to Christ.
But it kind of struck in my spirit the other day said let's
let's take our hats off and let's go to the God of our
choice. See that that speech can't enter
into me. Hey, man, it's not a God of
choice because if you, it's not another God at all.
There's one true God. But yet we give in.
We give in. How did one nation under God
fall as low, but yet we think we're high?
The Bible says take heed lest you fall, but we're messed up.
I was watching the news yesterday and I want to tell you
how messed up we are. And I know we have podcast.
I'm reminded very often of that, but I'm not changing.
I'm not giving in. Amen.
Podcast is a great thing. But if you elevate the podcast
and I start worrying about what I'm saying, if it's the truth,
hello. If it's the truth and I begin to
waver from what I really want to say that the Holy Spirit has put
down in my soul that I prayed and fasted and saw God about
that week. And I said, oh, because somebody
else is going to hear this that may not agree, Amen.
What am I doing? I'm giving in.
My ancestors, they did not care what you thought about how they
taught you and told you how you should live because it was in
the Bible. And if you didn't like it,
you're the one had to deal with it.
But Christians aren't that way today.
I don't know where we ever got this, that we can keep them
unoffended and we can pat them on the back and we can tell them
how good they are and not give in.
I want to give to you some statistics today.
How did we fall as low that I can turn Fox News on, and I know
it's on the podcast. I know there may be some
transgenders that I don't care, but they were showing a a Miss
Universe pageant and letting a man compete in it and he was a
pretty man, but he's still a man.
He looked like a woman. Hello.
I made some of y'all on the late night after a few drinks.
You would have probably went out with him, but I got news for it.
The truth is, he's still a man. I got news for the transgenders.
You will never be a woman. God placed the love and the
motherhood of a woman down deep in the soul of a woman.
And it doesn't matter how long long your hair gets, or what you
add to your body or what you take away from your body, you
will never be a woman. Amen.
In God's eyes, it will never change and I'm not giving it.
And I shouldn't have to explain to a four year old why a man can
compete in women's sports, why a man can, can, can get into Miss
Universe beauty pageant and may let him win it because it's
going to offend them if he don't.
I don't care. Amen.
I love them, I pray for them, but I'm not giving in.
Hello, I'm not giving in. I refuse to give in.
Well, Pastor, that's cost you. Oh, it's cost me some friends.
Hello. The story I give about Charlie
Sampson with a fake ear. And everywhere he walked up,
young people's looking at his ear that a bull stepped on a
ripped off because they'd heard about it.
Amen. Anybody ever felt like that as a
Christian, you go into a place, you're the only one not giving
in and you're the only one not participating in all the things
they're doing. And everybody's looking at you
like you. I don't care overcome that a
long time ago because I know that the price that Jesus paid
at the cross of Calvary is way more than what I feel and way
more than the offenses that I take to the I'm not giving it.
Yes, it's cost me friends I got I thought they were friends, but
you know what a few of them are coming back.
I get called sometime. Hey, you might have been right.
I said I wasn't right. I told you what the Bible said
and it's an unfallable word of God and it goes forth and it
will accomplish what it was set forth to do.
It's not about being right, it's about the truth.
The truth is always right. Y'all going to preach with me
this morning? You can always tell when you
ain't preaching to somebody in the house.
They're like, man you boy, I'll get on something in a minute.
Just give me a second. It's going to cost you some
family members. Didn't Jesus tell us that he
said I didn't come to bring peace on this earth.
I came to to turn a mother against a daughter, a father
against a son, a brother against a sister and, and and what he
was saying he wasn't doing. But he's the way the truth and
the life and it will happen. But I've come by to tell you
today, don't give in because someone's eternal destiny may
depend on it. When we look at the church, the
body of Christ, when we refer to the church, you know, we're not
talking about this building. We're not talking about the
eight or seven that's in Campbell that I could throw a
rock and hit around here that all believe different little old
glitch in the end glitches in their believing and can't come
together and build 1 big church because we want to believe what
makes us feel good. But the mainstream Protestant
denominations. What does that mean for you?
The ones that believe in Jesus and believe that he died on the
cross for the forgiveness of our sins and went to the tomb and
rose again on the third day and ascended into heaven and sets at
the right hand of the Father. Yes, churches that believe that
have also give in. They ordained openly LGBTQ plus
and now they got numbers on the end.
Every time they come up with another somebody that's that
wants to that develop their own lifestyle.
The enemy said Bible says in the last days we will invent ways to
sin because the old ways of sinning wasn't fulfilling
enough. Amen.
But we're inventing ways. Yes, they have ordained clergy
preachers and they say we're going to ordain them to serve.
My questions serve what? Serve what?
You're not serving God. You're not believing in the
cross that you profess to believe in because it's listed
in the sins that God hates his homosexuality much less trend.
You know, I don't I don't even know.
I don't know. Sometimes I wonder, as as
omnipresent and as omnipotent, if God is, could he really
phantom what his creation would do?
They wasn't doing near as much crazy stuff as we are today.
I don't believe in Sodom and Gomorrah.
I really don't believe they could have been.
But I'm going to name them the United Church of Christ.
Yes, they are ordaining. Gay, lesbian transgenders, I
suppose. I know it's gay and lesbian.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, yes, is ordaining
homosexuals. The Episcopal Church, yes, is
ordaining. I want you to hear this this
morning. The Presbyterian.
You know why I want you to hear it?
Because I know some folk going to this church that don't even
know the church is doing it. The Presbyterian Church.
Are you ready for this one? the United Methodist Church?
What would John and Charles Wesley do?
What would they think about it that founded that church?
The Christian Church call themselves disciples of Christ,
legalizing mind altering drugs. What happened?
I ask you what happened? What happened?
Somebody give in. I challenge you today, never
give in. Yes, clout.
That's OK. I know for many churches, hard
the kids don't want to go. I hear parents say if my kids
don't want to go, duh, my spouse don't want to go.
So what? Well, I can't take my dog.
You can bring him in here. If he does something, you're
going to clean it up. I'm not I've heard it all call
someone with us have been missing at church just checking
on you while I do laundry on Sunday only to found out they
didn't have a job. They had six days to do laundry.
What happened? We give in to a stupid enemy
that knows if he can cut your lifeline and you can't get fed
you're going to fall. But see you're a child of the
most high God. Hold the banner high.
Don't give in to the little worthless lies that are of the
enemy. I love you, I pray for you, but
I'm not giving in. I'm not accepting the lives of
the enemy. I'm not OK in things that are
blatantly in the Bible that says do not, don't give in.
Engage the enemy. Far too long believers have been
giving in in the church, and there's a way to do it in love.
I get it, but we can't give in. I'm preaching to the church
today. I'm not preaching to somebody
that needs love. I'm pretty to somebody that
knows, should know how to give love.
Do it in a lovingly way, but don't give in.
Don't give in to the world just accepting the things.
I've got news for the devil. I'm not giving in and I want to
give you a heavy Revi. There's not a church that you
can attend that will help you if you don't accept the truth.
I didn't say it wouldn't make you feel good, but how many know
The feeling might be up here today, but it's leaving
tomorrow. Serving God is not about a
feeling. Somebody to pull their ear and
say sorry. God's not about how I feel.
I'll never forget when I got that.
It's about the good news. There's not a church that can
help you if it's not preaching the truth.
What do we stand before a judge and say the whole truth?
Nothing but the truth. So help me God, why can't we do
that in our spiritual life? Why can't we do it?
Because the truth is not being preached in a lot of places, and
the truth is all that will set you free.
How many want to see results in your spiritual life?
A lot of people don't. They just want fire insurance,
will know that they pray to sinner's prayer, and somehow
they're going to escape the tribulation and they're going to
wake up in eternity in a heaven with streets of gold and plenty
to eat and all needs met. That's kind of the mentality of
a lot of people. That's true.
But he says you shall know the truth.
Jesus said you shall know the truth and the truth shall do
what it shall make you free. So what if what if you walked in
one day? And a lot of Christians, this is
just such a good, good what parable or whatever you call it.
But you join a gym and you hire a trainer.
I see none of you done that, but somehow but you decide to hire a
trainer and you walk into this gym and he's my wife's got these
little weights. She gets in there little in her
in her swimming pool thing and they're just rubber.
I mean, they're the foam. There's no way to us.
What are you going to do with these things?
She's a dummy. She calls me that something.
You got to stick them on the water.
When you stick them on the wall, they become a little heavy.
I get it. But suppose you walk in the gym
and the guy hand you this thing said and he's big and Buffy
says, oh, you want to look like this Here, pick up them little
foam dumbbells. I want you to give me 500 reps
every day. Boy, you're doing this.
You're doing that. You're doing.
What do you think would happen when you go look in the mirror
and go to flexing? What would happen?
You'll help me. What would happen?
What would you? What would happen?
But yet because he told you to do it, your mind would think
that you're going to see a result.
But yet you walk up there every day.
Well, I've been to church 1000 times.
I see no results. I ain't done nothing.
I mean, that's because you're lifting the fault, but you would
expect it because somebody told you that it would happen, right?
And then on the flip side of that, this big old buff guy
comes in there and he's been pumping out his arms are big and
he gives you some 100 LB dumbbells to give me 4050 curls
a day. And you begin to do it and you
know what? This arms going to get really
big. I promise, I promise.
You know, the older you got your rodeo crew, you don't worry
about anything that your right arm because you knew you could
hang on. So you just work your right on.
Forget the rest of it. I just want to work my right
arm, make sure I move my feet fast, forget about everything
else and pretty soon catch up to you.
But you lift this big old weight.
Come on, I'm going somewhere with this.
You lift this big old weight every day and you're tearing.
What? What happens when you lift
weight? You're really not pumping it up
that you're tearing it down. You're set.
You're tearing it down and it's heavy and you're tearing it
down, right? But you could leave that place.
And if all you ever do is it, and you go home and you stop by
the store on the way home and you go chicken fry, you eat some
French fries, some of them onion rings with a beer batter, They
call it on them. And you just eat that.
But I'm going back to gym tomorrow.
You getting it? Might even do some legs.
But you know what? There's a part of you that is
not going to. Change.
Men, women. It ain't going to change.
You can work it. You can.
You know. I'll go.
I'll go with my wife sometime before I get in trouble.
I didn't say nothing. I was feeling for my hankie.
It's up here. I thought it was back there.
There it is. It ain't going to change.
Why? Because you feeding it the same
junk. Come on, somebody that you was
feeding it. But I'm going to go over here
and I'm going to do this and I'm never going to change.
I'm going to keep feeding it the wrong thing.
The Spirit is no different. You can come to church, you can
clap, you can praise. And if it's not coming from here
and if you're not feeding it the word of God, you know, there's a
lot of people, boy, they can, they can praise and they can
clap. But when it comes to reading
that Bible, no, I can't understand it.
Boy. You can jump and praise, but you
can't read your Bible then expect the big biceps and expect
the big old sins to keep following you and the angry
attitude and no peace and no joy and no love because you have not
put anything in it to nourish the Spirit, Amen.
So if you can lift all you want, you can praise all you want, but
if you don't put the word of God in it.
But see, there's a lot of people telling church folk that just
come, just do this, you ain't got to do it.
And they got the big old biceps, so they got the big high in the
Amen, they got the big belly. They ain't nothing changed in
their life. And then and then you follow him
around. You hear him say, well, I know
God can, but because they got their big butt in the way, you
got to get your butt out of the way and say that I'm referring
to a spiritual, but you got to get your butt out of the way.
I know God, but you know, I know God did it for them.
But we're good at putting the butt in the way.
There's no but when the word of God.
Hey man, my God will supply all of my needs according.
Let's get back in the word John chapter 8, chapter 32 before I
get in some more trouble. I'm glad I found that hanky John
chapter 8 and verse 32. Jesus said if you abide in my
word and you're my disciples indeed.
And in verse 32, he says, you shall know the truth and the
truth shall make you free. They answered him, I like this
right here. They was holding on to some old
doctrine just like church folk. They answered him, said we're
Abraham's descendants and we have never been in bondage to
anyone. How can you say that you will be
made free? They didn't know what freedom
was. They were keeping the law and
Jesus answered them. He said most assuredly.
I say to you, whoever commits sin as a slave of sin, anybody
ever been there? Whoa, you didn't want that
drink, but the enemy made you take it.
He didn't want that drug, but the enemy convinced your mind
you had to have it. You know he can't go.
He just, we become a slave to it.
But most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits a sin is a
slave, and a slave does not abide in a house forever, but a
son abides forever. Therefore, if the son makes you
free, boy, I like that. How many remember the day the
son made you free? Hey man, it wasn't 12 steps, it
wasn't what somebody said, but the Son made you free, and you
shall be free indeed. Jesus told him that look.
And then he said, I know that you're Abraham's seed.
I know everything. Do you think I don't know who
where you come from? I created you, I know you're
Abraham's descendants, but yet you seek to kill me.
You believe in God, which I'm God in the flesh, but yet you're
trying to kill me. And he says it has no place in
you. But I speak what I have seen
with my father, and you do what you have seen with your father.
They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father.
And Jesus said to them, I love this right here.
He brings it home. I'm a Christian.
You could put that right there. If you were Abraham's seed, you
would do the works of Abraham. What did Abraham do?
He set the blood covenant up right by offered up his only son
on the mountain. But now you seek to kill me, a
man who has told you the truth which I heard from God.
Abraham did not do this, but you do the deeds of your father.
Let's read the rest of this. Then they said to him, we were
not born of fornication. We have one Father God.
Jesus said to them, If God were your father, you would love me.
We have people saying they love God but don't believe in Jesus.
We have denominations that are doing that trying to separate
the Trinity for I proceed forth and I came from God, nor have I
come of myself, but he sent me. Why do you not understand my
speech? Because you're not able to
listen to my word. You are not of your fault.
You, you are of your father the devil and the desires of your
father. You want to do a lot of problem
right there, right? He was a murderer from the
beginning and does not stand in truth.
Because I like this. There is no truth in him.
When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he
is a liar and the father of it. But because I tell you the
truth, you do not believe me. Which of you convicts me of sin?
And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?
He who is of God hears God's words.
Therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.
So you got to be of God to receive the truth, and to know
and let the truth set you free. But I challenge you, don't give
in #2 you ready for this? Don't give out.
Many give in because they give out.
Isaiah 40 and 29 and 31, it says trust in the Lord.
Those that trust in the Lord. One translation says wait upon
the Lord and you'll renew your what?
Strength? Those who wait upon the Lord
shall renew their strength, and they shall mount up with wings
like eagles. Why is it important to mount up
with wings like eagles? Because you fly above your
problems. I'm not denying I'm in the
problem, but have the attitude. I really can't believe it's with
this far because I know at any minute my God's about to speak
to my problem and he's about to fix my problem because he's
working all things out to my good.
Because I'm called according to his purpose.
Wait upon the Lord, renew your strength and mount up with
eagle's wings. It says they shall run and not
be weary. We're supposed to run this
Christian race, but we're never to give in.
We're never to give out. They shall walk and not faint,
but wait up on the Lord, hear from the Lord.
Well, God doesn't speak to me. It's true, the Holy Spirit does.
I say that God don't speak to me.
It's true, the Holy Spirit does. God's in heaven, The Holy
Spirit's run on this earth, right?
But they're three in one. Tell me when you figure that
out, do not grow weary and doing good. 2nd Corinthians 4 and 16
Let's read this. Second Corinthians 4 and 16.
It says, therefore we do not lose heart, don't give in, don't
give out. Even though outwardly we're
perishing, yet the inward man is what being renewed day by day.
Oh buddy, I used to drill with, We were so busy all the time we
were doing that, you know, not a minute to breathe sometime.
And he called me every day. He said, what are you doing
today? I said some church stuff and he
says it's Friday, ain't doing no church stuff.
I said, man, every day. I'm about to father's business.
Well, what are you doing? I said I'm going to see an older
man his wife died and I'm praying with him.
See outwardly we're perishing, yet inwardly we're being renewed
What day by day You got to figure this out Your your light
and momentary afflictions is working for us a more
exceedingly and eternal weight of glory.
You like that while we do not look at the things Christians
can't do this walk around this week something to quit looking
at things what you're seeing. Hey man, quit looking at my ball
head and imagine me with hair. We do not look at the things
which are seen, but at the things which are not seen, for
the things which are seen or what temporary, But the things
which are not seen are eternal. There was a guy going to church
here one time. He had been eating the right
things. He had lost some weight and he
had got really buff. And that's why I give Scott such
a hard time all the time. So you say he says anything to
people used to. And he walked in and he's like,
man, I've been working out. Look, hey, so I've lost 30 lbs
and buffed up Scots to turn around and he turned around.
So I'm pretty sure I found it. I think he that might be why he
left. I didn't do what you did.
I got the blame. What am I talking about?
Seeing the invisible. It'll work in your marriage.
She walks in. Oh, I got a #5 now.
Good. You've lost a lot of weight,
honey. Just look and see the things
what you can't see sometimes, right?
That's what they do with us seeing the invisible.
We have to learn this, See, as a child of God, it says weeping
may do what? Endure for a night, but joy
comes in the morning. Don't give in, don't give out.
I ask you, have you ever give in?
Have you ever give out on something?
Someone walked up and boom, anybody have been turning on a
boat, cranking on a boat for days And boy, you, you don't
have that sucker loose and somebody comes up and just gives
it a little quirky turn and you're like, man, why didn't I
just do it one more time? Your pride buffs up it.
It wasn't that they were strong. It's just that they didn't give
in. They didn't give out.
You did one more turn be cranking on that old jar and
then hand it to somebody not near strong.
You think, man, why didn't I just one more time?
But far too many times in our faith, we give in, we give out.
Which leads me to the third thing that we do that I see more
and more as we give up. When you give in, that's the
first step. And when you give out, you're
fixing to give up. You're fixing to give up.
Many talk about revival and how we're entering into that phase
of the church, Church age maybe. But when I look at statistics,
you can Google them, I don't see revival.
I don't see the great things that the prophet Joel talked
about. Not yet.
Because it also says before that happens, there's a great falling
away. 1 eschatology preacher will tell you that that means
the rapture. We have fell away.
We have went on to be with the Lord, but it doesn't say falling
away. It says catching away.
It says first there will be a great falling away.
And I believe we're in that now because the enemy has disguised
our nation is that we're doing really good.
We have a great leadership. And I'm not saying we don't.
But the Bible also says that there's a great falling away
that's coming. There's approximately 70 to 88%,
statistics say, of young people raised in an evangelical church
that believes in the cross, that believes in baptism, the
evangelicals that are leaving church after high school, 70 to
88%. This was the one I looked up was
2015, eleven years ago, leaving studies.
They, they, they're calling the nun the the NONES nuns, not like
a Catholic nun, but the nuns, they don't attend the church.
They don't even claim a denomination.
But in 23 and 24, it makes up 29% of our society.
In 2015, when I looked some of these studies up, it said for
every person that's coming into the church, every person that's
accepting Christ for we're leaving the faith.
Now it says that 59 to 64%, nearly 2/3 from the ages 18 to
29 who grew up in church have give up.
And I've done some other research about how many are
converting from Christianity to something else.
Well, what is it? It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter what it is. And I blame a lot of that on the
church because when you give in, young people can't find the
truth in something that they can hold to.
Because they look at us and they say they really don't know what
they believe. On Sunday they believe this and
Friday night they do this right because we give in.
We give in or they know somebody that used to serve God, but they
give in, they give out and ultimately they will give up.
That's astounding. I've come by to tell you never
give up. I have left my house many times.
In 31 years I have known a man. He was very instrumental in my
first ministry of bucking bulls and horses.
He supplied the bulls and was not a believer.
We were unequally yoked for many years and our relationship was
somewhat frayed at times because of I didn't give in.
But for 31 years, that's a long time older than some of you are
in here. I've called his name in prayer.
I've mentioned the Bible. I've mentioned the cross.
I mean, only to be just shut off and told another wild story.
Money was never issued in his life.
No dependence. But his wife passed away a few
weeks ago and I I kind of let all that pipe wasn't the time
for me to go the enemy come and say, oh, you didn't go see him
in the two weeks. So there's a time frame it don't
do no good. Now the enemy goes to flood.
But all that time I was praying. I said, God, get that ground
ready. Get that ground ready.
By the way, my friend that don't think you about the father's
business on Friday. This happened on Friday and
another guy that is a real prayer warrior and a believer
that knew him too. I told him I was going to be
praying. I said I need it.
I went in that house and set for hours and waited for it to come
up, waited for the opportunity somebody else would come in.
And I said I'm not leaving today.
Lord, 31 years before I left, I said I want to pray with you.
I look in the corner of my eye and I see no Bible over there.
Never seen it before. I see you've been reading that
Bible, he said, but I don't understand it.
I said you ain't got to understand it.
Well, the subject started changing.
I said we're not changing today we're praying.
I stood, I said I want to pray for you.
Lord given him chance. After 10 took he can't walk
anymore. He can get around but he had
paralyzation in the leg and thinking he was going to pass
first. His wife passed and it's just a
God thing. And I said I but I want to pray
with you. But I, you know, I'm always
said, I want you to want me to pray.
I don't want to just pray this prayer.
And I begin to pray about you don't understand what I've done.
See the enemy's telling somebody here that you don't understand
what I've done. I said, no, I don't.
But I understand that there's a man that was on a cross and I
said he bled and died for you. And the Holy Spirit just flooded
the place and I said he hung between two thieves.
I said, you know what they had done all their life?
They stole. They was being crucified for the
crimes that they had committed. They were being crucified for
that. And I said, you know what they
had done to be good? What you're telling me you don't
understand what I've done? And I knew a lot.
I said, I don't have to. I said God don't want to
understand it. Jesus don't even he don't even
care. But I said he was between two
thieves. I said, you know what?
They had done absolutely nothing.
He just looked over at him and he said, Remember Me when you
get to your Kingdom today. And Jesus, what did he do?
He said today you will be with me in paradise.
I said you want to go to heaven. I said you want to see me again
after this life? You want to see your wife again
after this life. You want to go to heaven and I
begin to pray the prayer with him.
And I, I said you want to you want to take you want to meet
the man that that you may be hurt, but he can give you peace
in this hurt. Do you want to meet him today?
Are you tired of giving in? Are you tired of giving out?
You know, I titled this don't give in, don't give out, but
that last word I said never give up because there's times you're
going to give in. I said don't do it, but there's
times you're going to do it. There's times that I would say
don't give out, but you're going to give out.
Tell me on 31 years there was times I wash my hands after
talking and not getting in. 31 years planting seed after seed.
Don't give up. Don't give up.
Well, did you fat every day and pray for this individual?
You ain't got to do all that. Just remember, every now and
then, just remember, pray the prayer of faith.
I said God, God's going to get him.
But you know, I'll always believe if there would have been
times and I had plenty chances to give in, I had plenty chances
to give up. But I never give in.
Though there were times in 31 years we didn't talk.
God will bring us back together. There's people like that in your
life, you know, you just, I'm done with them.
I ain't cat. I love that verse about casting
your pearls before swine, man, I use that a lot.
But God always takes me back there.
Not sure what that man casting no pearls before God.
I don't give them everything. But you know where we mess up?
We say I don't give and I ain't getting.
God don't work like that. You give out of the abundance as
you stand your feet of your heart.
You give. You give, you give.
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