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in progress. Chapter 20, verse #1 Says Now
Pashur the son of Emma the priest, who was also chief
governor in the House of the Lord, heard that Jeremiah
prophesied these things. Then Pastor smote Jeremiah the
prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high
gate of Benjamin, which was by the House of the Lord.
And it came to pass on the Morrow that Pastorum brought
forth Jeremiah out of the stocks.
Then said Jeremiah unto him, The Lord have not called thy name
Pashor, but Magora Misabim. For thus saith the Lord, Behold,
I will make thee A terror to thyself and to all thy friends,
and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies.
And then I shall behold him, and I will give all Judah into the
hands of the king of Babylon, and he should carry them captive
into Babylon, and shall slay them with this sword. 5
Moreover, I will deliver all the strength of this city, all the
laborers thereof, and of the precious things thereof, and of
the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand
of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them and
care of them to Babylon. 6 And thou, or you, Pasha, and all
that dwell in your house, shall go into captivity, and thou
shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shall be
buried there, you and your friends, to whom your prophesied
lies. Verse 7 O Lord, Thou hast
deceived me, and I was deceived. Thou art stronger than I, and
has prevailed. I am in dare vision.
Every day everyone mocketh me. A For since I spake, I cried
out. I cried violence and spoil,
because the word of the Lord was made a reproach unto me, and a
dare is. And daily Then I said, I will
not make mention of him nor speak anymore in his name, but
his word was in my heart as a burning fire shut up in my
boats. And I was very with forbearing.
And I could not stay the word of God for the people of God.
Thanks be unto God. Help me out as you turn to a
neighbor and say, hey, neighbor, are you OK?
OK, all right, all right, help me out with turn to other
neighbors. Say hey, neighbor, are you OK?
Nope. OK, we got one over there.
OK, Praise the Lord. You know, after I dropped this
time. I just need y'all to hit it real
hard after after I drop this. It's going to help push me where
I need to go for the next few fleeting moments.
If you don't mind, I'm going to preach from the thought I almost
quit but I got a new fire. Thank you.
I just, I just need to hear the right sound as I get started
because my dear brothers and sisters, every generation has
had to face this question. Is it even worth it anymore?
The truth of the matter is, the numbers do not lie.
According to the American Psychological Association, 40 to
50% of first marriages fail. They said one of two marriages
in the United States and then divorce.
They say. According to George Bonner, the
Bonner group in tuning 23 state of passes that 42% of pastors
seriously consider quitting full time ministry almost every year.
the US Bureau of Labor just yeah, still here, right.
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics says 50% of of
entrepreneurs shut down their businesses within five years.
And then also in 2023, the American Psychological
Association had also put out a report called the Stress in
America Report, and they had confirmed that Gen.
Z's have the highest stress level of any generation by
millennials in genetics report. Historic burnout.
So according to the support across generations from boomers
to Gen. Z's, burnout, breakdowns and
silent suffering are on the rise.
And if we all can be honest in the room that there's some that
did not almost quit a job or relationship.
There's some here that can always say that, you know, I
really almost quit my faith. You know what?
Almost quit praising because it didn't seem to change my pain.
Almost, almost, almost quit sewing because the harvest
seemed stuck in heaven. Almost quit studying my Bible
because I felt like God went silent and I just kept getting
sleepy. Almost quit fasting and
travailing praying because the breakthrough felt like all that
was broken was sweat and spit. And and even some say they
almost quit going to church because they were tired of
pretentious, phony, prideful people who sin more on accident
than they love purposely themselves.
And some even say they almost even quit tuning into the cyber
church online because even that was becoming too much with
people singing, oh, happy day, but looking sad while doing it,
yet still spelling through it. There's many in the room and
online that that that posted through it, that worked through
it. But inside you and I might have
been 2 steps from saying I'm done, I'm done, I'm done, I'm
done. I, I don't know the author of
the quote. Maybe it was an adaptation from
one by Johnny Depp. But it was said people don't
quit because they're weak. They quit because they're tired
of being strong for too long. And minding brothers and
sisters, Deacon Glenn, that's where we find ourselves in
between the black and white pages of the book before us or
the electronic device which you may be reading from exactly with
this prophet, this man named Jeremiah who was not weak, not
faithless, not rebellious. He's just tired of being strong
for too long. He's tired of speaking what God
said about getting no applause but only attacks.
He's, he's tired of crying out for people who never cried to
God for him. He's tired of preaching the
glory down and getting thrown in shackles and tired of, of waking
up obedient and going to bed broken.
And and it's the famous words of Fannie Lou Hammer who said I'm
sick and tired of being sick and tired.
And here, my new brothers and sisters, I and Jeremiah chapter
20, we don't meet the bold prophet calling down fire from
heaven, but we meet the broken man in the stocks.
He's between the mantle that's on him and the entire mess all
around him. And it is right here, here in
your Bible, my Bible, my name. Brothers and sisters, between
life and God's purpose, we see Jeremiah in the breaking point.
I promise you I won't be before you long if you holler back at
me. But we find 3 movements in the
text that are worth exploring in your Bible.
Jeremiah chapter 20 verse #1 says Now pass sure the of Immor
the priest who was also chief governor in the House of the
Lord heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.
Verse 2 Then Pashor smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put
him in the stocks that were in the high gates of Benjamin,
which was by the House of the Lord.
Verse 3 And it came to pass on the Morrow that Pashur brought
forth Jeremiah out of the stocks then.
Jeremiah said. Unto him the Lord have not
called thy name Pashur, but not God I miss a bit.
For for thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will make thee A
terror to thyselves and to all thy friends, and they shall fall
by the sword of thy enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it.
And I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon,
and I should carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay
them with the sword. The very first movement of this
Texas he's persecuted for proclaiming.
He's persecuted for proclaiming. God gave Jeremiah a hard word,
not a revival word, not a trending word, not a seeker
friendly word, a costly word. God gave Jeremiah a
confrontational word, and he had just finished preaching in the
valley of that old slaughter in chapter 19, a word of divine
judgment on Judah and the desecration of the temple.
He had even smashed a claim pot in a prophetic act to symbolize
how God will shatter their nation for their sin.
That's Jeremiah chapter 1910 and 11.
And now here in chapter 20, he is punished by the church.
He's punished by the church. And notice in your Bible after
the establishment of time, we see Pastor, pastor.
Pastor was not just a priest. He was the chief governor in the
House of the Lord. The Hebrew word here calls him
Pakid Nagid. It means the chief officer or
the overseer of order. He was important in church
pasture. He didn't just attend church, he
was on staff at he wasn't just in leadership, he enforced
leadership. Are you still with me?
And when he had heard Jeremiah proclaim, but thus said the
Lord, the Bible says that he didn't repent.
He didn't inquire. But this priest's name pastor
had retaliated because Jeremiah spoke a word that made religious
people uncomfortable. And sometimes I am.
This life true doesn't get you celebrated.
Instead, it may get you silence. Because Pashure had position,
but Jeremiah had power. Pashure had the keys to the
church, but Jeremiah had the word of the Lord.
Let me help everybody that's in the room and that's online.
For those in the Silent Generation, you may be watching
and listening and you might have even seen how some people keep
their titles even when they lost their integrity to others.
You, you, you, you, you, you. You might have been taught to
respect those of the cloth even when the clothes were dirty and
and then others in the room. You you might have might have
got yourself caught between the tradition and the faith or or
you're still impacting how church heard and control mask
itself as community. I get it.
You may even be wondering if you can love God without being by
his people or you may be just trying to figure out how this
church thing works and you you really just want truth.
That's how you want you want truth.
And then there are those are trying to hold everything
together, pain and purpose. But let me give you just a
little bit of revelation real quick.
God will always raise up a voice.
That position can't be Muslim. Hallelujah.
Thank you, Jesus. You don't need a title.
Uh huh. To carry the truth.
You don't need the platform to have power.
You don't even need the mic to make movement.
But I do. I do.
I do, I do. I do want to show you something
the Bible says in Jeremiah. I feel like preaching.
I'm sorry. Chapter 20, verse 2 A it says
then pastor had smoked Jeremiah. Lord, it's a fight that's broke
out in church. Did you see it?
I'm a reader one more time. It says pastor smoked Jeremiah.
This Hebrew Hebraic word for smote is naka.
Naka means to strike means wound.
It means to punish violently. It's almost to to hit, but
intent to kill. This was not a rebuke, it was a
beating. This was not a conversation, it
was a condemnation. And the Bible says after the man
in God's house had beat the man of God up when the preacher was
fighting the other preacher in that round.
And the Bible says here that the word preacher then put him in
stocks. That's Jeremiah chapter 20 in
the B claws and put him in the stocks.
Put them in the stocks, Put them in the stocks.
The word stocks there shows us that it is a device that twists
and contorts the body publicly shame a person by applying
pressure. He was put in the Highgate
Jeremiah in the Highgate of Benjamin, the main entry of the
church, so that everybody walking around, in and out of
church as they were walking around would see him stuck,
stiff and shamed. But here's the part we need to
unpack together for those in the room and online.
What if you've never been beaten in church?
What if you've never, never, never, never found yourself in
stocks made of wood? Let's tell the truth.
Some of us have been put in mental stocks by our family,
bound by their silence, twisted by their expectations, and
bruised by their betrayal. OK, come here.
That wasn't you. Some of us have been placed an
emotional stocks at work, punished for being ethical,
overlooked for being excellent, and even boxed out because you
didn't blend in that it's not you either.
OK, come here. Maybe it's for somebody online.
You've been place to end, placed in academic stocks, suffocated
in classrooms where you were too gifted for the level.
You've been in there but, but, but, but but not seen, not seen
enough to be actually accelerated.
And some, some have found themselves in some social stocks
where you've just suffered for standing up, found yourself
isolated for telling the truth and not for your integrity.
And then some of you, some of you are just tired.
Yeah. Thank you.
Deacon Hauser. I think one out of three.
Come on. Tired.
Tired of tired. Tired of trying to hold it all
together. Tired of being the strong one.
Tired of being the one who was always forgiving, always
praying, always always smiling. But bleeding, bleeding and still
sinking. The truth is, you're not weak.
You're just over it. The text says here Jeremiah was
in the stocks. But check this out because this
is what's even more crazy. Sister Mary and Jeremiah,
Jeremiah chapter 20, verse 3, it says, and it came to pass on the
Morrow, the next day, that passion sure hadn't brought
forth Jeremiah out of the stocks.
Then Jeremiah has said unto him, the Lord have not called thy
name pashur, but magar misabem. Now, now check this out.
Jeremiah just came out of the stocks.
He's still sore, he's still humiliated, he's still hurting.
But the moment he's released, he does not cower.
He confronts look, look, look, look, look.
But he says, he says, he says, the Lord gave me a new name for
you. He said, I know you say your
name is Pasha verse three, he says, but your name really is my
God. Miss a miss a beep, which means
terror on every side. Jeremiah says you look like
stability, but God sees your fear.
Jeremiah says you're hiding behind religious structure, but
God sees your spiritual chaos. And so whenever we're in study
mode, looking at our Scriptures in our Bible, we see often times
that people are are renamed and they're renamed because it is to
reveal the essence of who they are.
Jeremiah says you wear priestly rose, but you're trembling
behind that curtain. And he says you might have
silenced me, but God's just unmuted your judgment because
you aren't who you really say you are.
I think I better get on that, this first movement.
But some people only know how to function and control.
So when you walk in truth, they call you a problem.
And I'm going to let you know that the system doesn't hate you
for being loud and hates you for being clear.
So the stocks didn't silence Jeremiah, they staged him for
his next word. Because God will use your public
pain to reveal someone elses private panic.
God, I feel like preaching. That's why I ain't got time
though. I got 15 minutes.
So so so so so I'm gonna let you know.
I'll let you know that if you've been doing silent suffering, if
you worked hard but still find yourself overlooked, if you're
parenting through pressure, if you try to to fight and then you
really find yourself tired out of fighting to be heard.
If, if you you've been serving as systems that celebrate
mediocracy and punish truth. If you feel like nobody sees
you, then you too. You, you, you, you in the Pew,
you online, you. You know what it means to be
persecuted for proclaiming. So it's here we find ourselves
now into the second movement of the text.
I've already read verse 4 for you, but the second movement is
that there was a pronounce, a pronouncement of judgment with
precision. You would think Jeremiah would
have been done by now. You really thought at?
Going through all of this in just a matter of a few verses,
that he had really just tapped out.
You would think after being beaten, after being locked in a
contorting device, after being humiliated in front of the
temple crowd, that he'll come out with his head down and his
mouth shut and his confidence crushed.
But no Bible says he comes out of the stocks still clear and
still called because when the system tried to strip his
dignity, God gave him a word so sharp it will cut through the
road ranks and respectability of even the religious elite.
Because such I got to remind you today that there has to be
prophetic precision. Jeremiah begins by adjusting
Pashore. Check this out directly.
But no sub tweets but no sneak tacks.
Yeah, he came to him directly, not as a peer, not as a priest.
But that's a problem God has marked for judgement.
Come here, let's read it again. We're in verse #4 He says the
Lord have not called thy name pastor.
But not gore, Misabin. Terror on every side.
Terror on every side, He said. He said the name that you said
you were pastor, which means freedom, liberation.
No, he said you really are a terror on every side.
Jeremiah renames him not to embarrass him, but to expose
him. I guess I better go down the
list real quick and help you out because sometimes you're going
to walk into to school and and you're going to feel like nobody
sees the fear you carry. But God sees every hallway,
every class, every bully, every weights, and he will never call
you to something that you're not able to handle.
OK, you've learned how to keep it cool on the outside by chaos
surrounds you on the inside. You look like ease on your
timeline, but inside it's tear on every side.
And that's that's for sure. But I want to let you know how
about for the young folks in the room, maybe, maybe the
middle-aged people, you find yourself working hard with your
little side business and you know, working hard, hard which
on your enterprise skill, smiling through anxiety, trying
to build a life with pressure, pressure, pressure pressing on
every angle. You know what it's like to be
productive when panic rise your back.
OK, let me find another group 'cause I ain't found the group
yet in the room. Maybe if you spent your years
holding the house down, carrying both kids and parents faith and
frustration, and now the panic's on the inside and nobody knows.
Let me go a little far farther up in the age rank and see if I
can find you. Maybe you're the person that
you're. You find your pieces constantly
threatened. You've navigated the pressure of
aging, maybe retirement or or health issues.
You've, you watch the world shift faster than your body can
catch up. That ain't it.
Let's go a little bit higher. Maybe the silent generation.
You don't leave your house much anymore.
You're not fighting crowds, but you're fighting loneliness.
You're fighting the fear that your life no longer has meaning.
I'm going to let you know that panic doesn't always show up in
the body. It often hides behind
performance. I thought I'd find you
somewhere. God used Jeremiah to rename, but
the system refused to confront and look at this.
Look at this. And here he tells him.
He tells him that thus saith the Lord.
He does not say God might. He says to the man, thus saith
the Lord. Verse #4 thus saith the Lord.
This word is not open to interpretation.
It's precise as to Jackie, it's personal sister Jackie, it's
piercing. Sister Jackie, God is saying,
you've manipulated my church. My temple long enough Dick and
Davis, you silence prophets, prophets and preachers and
platform liars in this text. You've called yourself free
pastor, but I see fear coming from every side of you.
And now the punishment will fit the potential.
Check this out. But God doesn't just judge lies.
He just the systems that let them that that keep working.
The lies work. And I and I had to say that
because I know the world we live in, we keep trying to figure,
Lord, when will it in? But I want to let you know that
we serve the righteous judge and his timeline is not ours.
Get out of God's business. I hear my grandmother can't
nobody do it like him. And God says to him, he says
you're going to Babylon and you would Dang them.
I'm Papillon so specific almost surgical system Mary now this
divine accountability, but no anesthesia.
He says you and yourself go get on out of here.
Well, well, OK, you may not be past sure, praise the Lord.
But have you, have you ever had to deal with consequences from
someone else's compromise? You, you were the child, but
they, they made you care of the brokenness.
You were, you were the employee, but but leadership lied and you
lost your peace. OK, you were the faithful one,
but the family dysfunction keeps dragging you back.
And here's the tension of the text.
What happens when you're caught in someone else's collapse?
OK, but there's good news. Even if you live around fear,
you don't have to live under it. I think I better rewind that one
back right there. That was good, huh?
Even if you live around fear, you don't have to live under it.
So Jeremiah releases this judgment.
There's something shifts, and then I believe his voice
trembles, his spine softens, his chest collapse.
And all of a sudden, from finally confronting Pastor,
giving the word of the Lord, your Bible says in verse #7 to
chapter 20, the book of Jeremiah, he says, 0 Lord, yeah,
that has deceived me and I was deceived.
I was deceived. The word deceived means
persuaded or seduced. This isn't doctrinal doubt.
This is deep disappointment. Jeremiah says, God, you didn't
tell me it will feel like this for every kid going back to
school this week and next week and you got butterflies, but
they don't see your burden. To every college student that
said yes to that major, but now you're wondering if you chose
the wrong one. To every teacher that's got to
go back to teaching who loves their kids, but the system is
choking your joy out. To every single parent in
another state or in another area who's doing everything they know
to do right and it still feels like something's wrong.
To every business owner and entrepreneur who follow the
vision, but the bills are louder than your calling, OK?
To every retiree at the house that you still got this wonder
going on in your mind if your life matters.
To every pastor that's watching and listening, every mentor,
caregiver that's on the line, who's pouring, trying to figure
out who's feeling you. God is what?
Jeremiah cried out. Then he said you checked me into
this calling. He said you tricked me and you
didn't show me the pain. Can I give you a quick
homiletical highlight? I only got two people talking.
It's OK, I ride with it. I'm going to let you know that
sometimes God will let your calling break your heart.
So your heart will never break covenant with your calling.
I Did you go to sleep on me? What happened to you?
I'm preaching harder than you talking.
I said sometimes God will let your calling break your heart.
So your heart will never break covenant with your calling.
I'm not ready, John. Hold on now.
Jeremiah didn't get. He didn't keep going because
ministry felt fair. He kept going because the
calling was too sacred to surrender for comfort.
And here's rare. Here's rare.
I got to really help us out. The name Pashor means ease,
liberation of freedom. But don't miss this Pashor is
the name that tries to convince you that you don't deserve
exemption from pain because you're anointed.
Pastor is the voice that says I shouldn't have to suffer like
this. Pastor is entitlement in
priestly robes and garments. And some of us are not at war
with the enemy. We're at war with our own
expectations of ease. We've confused favor with
insulation. We've mistaken calling for
comfort. I feel your Lord.
We've idealized the idea of serving God, but we despise the
reality of obeying him under pressure.
And the truth of the matter is entitlement must be eradicated.
Because if you're going to carry this word of God with power, if
you're going to find yourself doing the real of God, yeah, you
have to bury the lie that you're owned.
A painless journey. This is not about what you're
old. This is about the honor of being
entrusted with God's truth even when it hurts.
You're entrusted with God's glory even when it hurts.
You're entrusted with this salvation even when it hurts.
So Jeremiah says yes, yes, yes. He says yes, but, but, but, but,
but, but he didn't understand, didn't understand that the yes
will lead to bruises. He yeah, Jeremiah obeyed, but he
didn't know his obedience. But get him overlooked.
Yeah. Jeremiah spoke up, but he didn't
know that the truth will get him isolated.
And yet now Jeremiah says, God, I love you, but I'm tired.
He says, yeah, dear Lord, I trust you, but I'm triggered.
He says, God, I follow you, but I feel fooled.
Have you ever found yourself there?
Sometimes you don't feel like quitting the call, you just feel
like quitting the cost. I know Mother was hollering.
You couldn't hear me. I better say it again.
Sometimes you don't feel like quitting the call, you just feel
like quitting the cost. It's not the word that's heavy,
it's the wounds that came with it.
Oh, I like that sound. Yeah, sometimes the biggest test
is not if you'll preach or share.
It's if you'll stay pure while being punished.
God can handle your honesty. That's all I need you to know.
So don't hide behind a fake Hallelujah.
Don't hide behind this fake praise.
Don't hide behind that. Because Jeremiah shows that you
can be powerful and processing it at the same time.
You can prophecy and still wrestle with pain.
You can be strong in public and stretched out in private.
And you're not less anointed because you find yourself
crying. See you.
I've got to get out of here. My last few moments sharing with
you that the last movement of this text.
Sometimes you have to be pressed by the pain.
Come, you got to be pressed by the pain.
I better skip this text because I ain't got much long.
Let's go to verse #9 Verse 8 says.
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak
anymore his name. Jeremiah makes a decision in his
soul. I'm done.
Not because he doesn't believe, but because belief has been
costly. Not because he's lost his
calling, but because he was losing himself.
He didn't walk away from God. Yeah.
He just tried to retreat from the weight of obedience.
And let's be real. Real in the room.
Yeah. That sometimes it's not the
enemy that exhausts us. It's the expectations of being
faithful. It's not the cold, cold, cold.
Yeah, that breaks us. Yeah.
It's the silence that follows obedience.
You prayed and it got worse. You fasted and still got laid
off. You stayed faithful and still
got misunderstood. You're not a weak.
You're just human. And Jeremiah shows us in the
text that you can be real with God.
Yeah, I'd still be righteous before him.
I've got to get out of here now. But I'm reminded of a story of
this old man who was a world famous violinist who had came on
stage one time with this priceless violin in his hand.
The orchestra was tuned up real good, the lights had dimmed real
low. Sister Chris, the audience had
waited breathlessly and the man begin to play.
Yes, Lord, he played so well, Mother, that the sound he was
playing was like heaven kissing the earth.
The notes seem to dance all around the walls of that concert
hall, and the crowd was mesmerized.
Then suddenly, the man stopped and he smashes the violin
against the floor. Yeah, and he's smashing it until
it's crushed into pieces. Sister Sherry, the crowd is
looking like your eyeballs up in amazement at the story, gasping
at what happened, This violinist calmly reaches around and behind
him. He pulls out the real violin,
and he takes a second and he yells out to the audience.
He says what you just heard came from a cheap imitation, he said.
But I want you to know, yeah, that it's not about the the
instrument, but it's about the fire in the hands of the one who
plays it. I got to get out of here for
real now. But God will let life press down
on you to prove the power. They come from you.
And there'll be moments, yeah, you feel broken.
And when you find find yourself in that place, when he breathes
through you, you still release glory.
Don't know how I'm going through it, but I still got glory.
Glory to the Lord, but I'm so glad that he even thought
Jeremiah had been through this ordeal.
Jeremiah shows us him that says that he didn't just stop
preaching, he just shut down. He he didn't just leave the mic.
He had buried the message, but there's something about burying
the message because at the core of the message is the word.
And you can't walk away from the platform.
Oh my God, let me say it again. You can walk away from the
platform, but you can't walk away from what's pulsing in your
bones. I believe Bible's so real.
Yes, Lord, Jeremiah shares his ordeal with God.
Jeremiah shares his complaints with God.
But as he's there, yes, Lord, He feels the pool of purpose in the
middle, in the middle of pressure.
The Bible says in verse #9 Then I said, I will not make mention
of Him, not speak anymore in His name, but His word was in my
mind. No, that ain't what your Bible
says. I want to see if you had it
open. It says but his word was in my
pinky toe. No, that ain't what it said.
It says box. His word was in my heart as a
burning I. AM shut up in my bones, my Lord,
you're. Trying to hold it in turned,
tried to sit down. But something stood up inside.
Something. Got a hold of them?
Something we ignited him and. Somehow, I'm sorry the word
didn't just visit him, but the word inhabited him and I.
Got to let you. Know you can't quit when.
God made your body. His Tabernacle you can cancel
coming to church. You can quit watching online,
but I. Want to let you know.
You may even find yourself following the Sunday school.
Book away but his word but his. Word.
But his word was. Somehow we ignite you even when
life has snubbed out the flame of your life.
I can hear. Mama now cooking in the kitchen.
And sometimes the flame will go. Out on the stove but.
Mom. But say don't.
Wear it, all you got it do is re lighted the pilots.
Already on. Don't worry, God is still
working in your life. Don't worry, God.
Is going to use his word. Like a match and he going to
light you up. That's all I came to tell you.
Happy 1st Sunday, have a good week.
But whatever you do, but whatever you do, but whatever
you do, don't forget the word of God.
Because here's where here's a lap potato shot, a lapid to my
feet. Here's where it is a light to my
path. It may be dark.
Come here deep. Help me preach.
It may be hard, but I want you to know that God will steal you,
light you up. You may feel cold, you may feel
like you've lost your feeling, but God, God, God, God, God, God
will use his own word to light you back up.
I don't know how bad it is for you now, but I got one word.
I got one way. I got one way.
I got one way I don't. Want to know what?
It is, I said. I got one word.
Oh y'all don't? Like surprises, I talked.
To my own child. But I got a one word.
I almost quit but I got a new fire and I.
Came to tell somebody. Quitting might have happened for
a moment, but I got a new fire. I found the fire that Moses
found him, the burning Bush. I found the fire that fell on
the church on the day of Pentecost.
I found the fire that said I'll never leave you nor forsake you.
Found the new fire, Somebody said, what's the new fire?
Well, the new fire needed some wood, and that wood had a lure
to it. That wood had to be nailed
together, but they put the fire with the wood.
I lifted it up and his name was Jesus, and he died.
Didn't he die? I.
Don't know what I tell, I didn't decide.
No, I said. He died on our old rugged cross.
He died just long enough to light me up.
He died, but that's not all the story is.
He might have died, but they buried him trying to contain his
fire. But early someday morning, early
someday morning, it seemed like it was cool as a cucumber.
But somehow on a Sunday morning, the fire came out The Cave, the
fire came out the grave, and the fire is now burning, burning,
burning, burning. Help me appreciate, I said.
It's burning and I'm trying to figure it out.
You say Anybody yelts in the room?
Yelts online. That's the Lord I want the Fire
Lord. I need the Fire Lord.
Light my fire Lord. I can't stay here.
Lord, I need your help. Lord, Lord, Lord.
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