1 00:00:00,400 --> 00:00:04,240 Welcome to the official podcast of Rock Hill Baptist Church 2 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:07,480 where we are focused on glorifying God, spreading the 3 00:00:07,480 --> 00:00:11,840 gospel, and making disciples of Jesus Christ right here in the 4 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:16,520 heart of Greenville, SC. Each week we bring you a life 5 00:00:16,520 --> 00:00:20,600 changing word from our Senior Pastor, Pastor Matthew D Long 6 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:23,760 Junior, or one of our anointed guest speakers. 7 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:27,920 We pray this message strengthens your faith, deepens your 8 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:32,479 understanding, and empowers you to elevate in every area of your 9 00:00:32,479 --> 00:00:35,840 life. Let's join the service already 10 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:47,400 in progress. John chapter 2 verse #4 I really 11 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:51,280 want to deal with verses one through 11, but forsake of your 12 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:53,640 leg strength and our time together. 13 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:58,440 I'd rather have your vocal support and find me at verse #4 14 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:03,480 and it says Jesus said unto her, woman, what have I to do with 15 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:07,520 thee? My hour is not yet come the word 16 00:01:07,520 --> 00:01:12,040 of God for the people of God. Thanks be unto God, and you can 17 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:14,840 take your seed, and now she take your seed. 18 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:16,600 I want to preach from this though. 19 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:20,520 Are you ready? You ready? 20 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:24,360 I'm going to preach from the thought, I ain't come here for 21 00:01:24,360 --> 00:01:29,280 this. I ain't come here for this. 22 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,840 Monday brothers and sisters, timing is everything. 23 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:35,400 I mean, it really is. It really is. 24 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:39,920 You can have the right dream at the wrong time and you can even 25 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:42,200 watch it implode. And Monday, brothers and 26 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:44,880 sisters, you can have the perfect strategy and still miss 27 00:01:44,960 --> 00:01:49,520 your moment because life doesn't operate on your schedule. 28 00:01:50,560 --> 00:01:54,560 To be honest, it doesn't even wait until you're healed and it 29 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:58,440 it doesn't pause when you're feeling overwhelmed. 30 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:02,400 It doesn't check your bandwidth before it breaks your routine. 31 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:06,440 And, and honestly, if I can be transparent with you, some of us 32 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:10,080 can really attest that you can find yourself laughing in the 33 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:13,840 sun and the next you find yourself questioning everything 34 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:17,040 in the shadows. We've all been there, stuck in 35 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:20,200 between what was planned and what is present, where 36 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:24,680 expectation collides with reality, where joy starts 37 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:28,120 leaking and pressures Deacon metals start rising. 38 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:31,480 And here Deacon houses what really makes it worse? 39 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:35,920 You can be surrounded, Sister Jackie, by celebration about 40 00:02:35,920 --> 00:02:40,440 silently battling chaos. Thank you. 41 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:47,280 That part you can find yourself dressed for a moment that your 42 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:52,120 soul can't afford, and you can be in the right place, but not 43 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:57,760 ready for what hits. And the truth of the matter is, 44 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:01,840 there are statistics to prove that African Americans are 20% 45 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:06,040 more likely mother to face serious psychological distress, 46 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:09,480 but really only one in four will go get the help. 47 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:14,920 So if that's to be true, in this very room, one in every four 48 00:03:14,920 --> 00:03:22,840 persons find themselves only going to get some help. 49 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:28,200 Someone may be smiling in public but sinking in private, maybe 50 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,600 clapping in the crowd but cracking behind the curtain. 51 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:35,880 And they may find themselves hosting the party while praying 52 00:03:35,880 --> 00:03:38,360 the pressure doesn't expose the pain. 53 00:03:39,360 --> 00:03:42,840 You see, timing isn't just about Sister Chris clocks. 54 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:47,280 It's about capacity. It's about what shows up when 55 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:51,920 you thought you had more time. Mother Gordine or or Mother 56 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:54,640 Thelma, but you thought you had more energy. 57 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:57,560 A Braylon. I mean, you felt like you had 58 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:00,720 more strength or a Bree even when you felt like you have more 59 00:04:00,720 --> 00:04:04,840 stability. It's about what life demands 60 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:07,840 when you feel least prepared to give. 61 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:11,520 And I don't know who this is for, but there may be someone 62 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:14,520 too, who's find themselves standing in the moment where the 63 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:18,720 timing feels off and the weight simply feels unfair. 64 00:04:19,920 --> 00:04:24,120 But what if, what if, What if, just maybe, this moment isn't 65 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:29,280 punishment, it's positioning. But if the interruption is an 66 00:04:29,280 --> 00:04:33,480 invitation, Deacon Davis. But if the pressure is really 67 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:38,720 the platform and before we can go to the text, I got to tell 68 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:40,840 you something real quick, Brother Brandon. 69 00:04:40,840 --> 00:04:43,360 Sometimes God doesn't give you a sign. 70 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:47,160 He gives you a shift. And if you're not careful, 71 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:50,480 you'll miss what he's doing because you're focused on what 72 00:04:50,480 --> 00:04:55,080 you weren't expecting And somebody, Dear brothers and 73 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:57,800 sisters, can you help lean into this text with me? 74 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:00,880 Because that's where we find ourselves in between the black 75 00:05:00,880 --> 00:05:03,600 and white pages of the book before you or from which the 76 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:05,560 electronic device you may be reading from. 77 00:05:06,280 --> 00:05:11,040 It's here it's 333 observations, pointed observations. 78 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:14,560 I want to give you from the text you got your Bible still right, 79 00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:20,640 John chapter 2 started verse #1 the Bible says, and on the third 80 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:26,040 day there was a marriage and Cana of Galilee and the mother 81 00:05:26,040 --> 00:05:30,200 of Jesus was there. Verse 2 says, and both Jesus was 82 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:33,440 called and his disciples to the marriage. 83 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:37,880 Verse 3 And when they wanted wine, the mother Jesus said it 84 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:40,440 to him. They have no wine. 85 00:05:42,920 --> 00:05:45,240 My dear brothers and sisters, the very first pointed 86 00:05:45,240 --> 00:05:47,960 observation of this text is the perceived problem. 87 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:51,880 Thank you sister Shay. I know sometimes all you got is 88 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:56,520 a for that. It's the perceived problem. 89 00:05:57,320 --> 00:06:00,200 The text does not open with a wonder. 90 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:04,760 It opens with a worry. It doesn't begin with a 91 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:08,040 breakthrough. It begins another spurgeon with 92 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:10,440 a breakdown. And it doesn't really start with 93 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:14,000 a celebration. It starts with crisis. 94 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:21,360 The wine runs out, The text here says, and that's what the people 95 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:22,720 see. That's what the servants are 96 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:25,480 panic about. That's what Mary brings to 97 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:26,960 Jesus. They have the wine. 98 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:29,680 That church is the perceived problem. 99 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:34,720 It's visible, it's measurable. It's real, right? 100 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:37,960 There's nothing fake but pretentious about this, a phony 101 00:06:37,960 --> 00:06:40,520 about it. But the reality is, it's not the 102 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:43,840 root. It's not the root because 103 00:06:43,840 --> 00:06:46,120 shortages don't need invitations. 104 00:06:46,320 --> 00:06:53,080 They just make appearances and they always seem to arrive at 105 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:57,000 the worst possible time. This, this is a wedding. 106 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,560 It's it's a covenant moment, a joy filled memory in the making. 107 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:05,040 And yet the joy is drying up, the laughter is about to be 108 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:09,520 replaced with whispers, and the reputation of the host family is 109 00:07:09,520 --> 00:07:13,320 at risk. No, because this is 1st century 110 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:15,880 Galilee. Wine wasn't just a beverage. 111 00:07:17,360 --> 00:07:19,360 It just was a Stella Rosa. Hallelujah. 112 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:24,080 It was a symbol. It stood for praise the Lord. 113 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:26,600 Some of y'all tightened up. I know I I got you. 114 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:28,240 Don't, don't get too tight on me. 115 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:29,400 Saint Louis. Hallelujah. 116 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:34,080 Did this wine stay? It stood for joy, the 117 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:37,800 hospitality provision, for honor and for covenants. 118 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:41,280 Help me out. Say, covenant, Covenant. 119 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:46,040 So the wine running out wasn't just a logistical air. 120 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:51,440 It was a symbolic collapse. It was an unspoken omission, 121 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:57,640 such as we weren't ready for this, or we can't sustain what 122 00:07:57,640 --> 00:08:01,000 we started. And maybe that's not just their 123 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:03,520 testimony. Maybe that's for some of us in 124 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:06,400 the room. Have you ever found yourself 125 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:09,880 smiling into something you actually weren't prepared to 126 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:15,120 carry? I think we better sit down at 127 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:16,680 the kitchen table and talk real quick. 128 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:20,560 Have you ever found yourself running out of energy? 129 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:23,360 Have you ever found yourself running out of confidence, 130 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:26,800 running out of resources, running out of vision, running 131 00:08:26,800 --> 00:08:29,000 out of stimula, running out of peace? 132 00:08:29,040 --> 00:08:32,600 Have you ever found yourself there well leaning? 133 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:36,000 Because I'm going to tell you sometimes God will allow a 134 00:08:36,039 --> 00:08:41,159 public shortage to expose a private structure of 135 00:08:41,159 --> 00:08:47,480 self-reliance. He lets it break down so you can 136 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:51,040 finally build on the right foundation. 137 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,640 I can't hear you talking. Talk back to me, Church. 138 00:08:55,200 --> 00:09:00,640 Because if we keep dancing around, we'll find ourselves in 139 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:05,600 this place of non confrontation when God's trying to pull us out 140 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:06,920 of dysfunction. So. 141 00:09:07,080 --> 00:09:11,880 So he'll let it run all the way out, not to ruin us, but to 142 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:18,600 rebuild us from the inside out. Because the real problem wasn't 143 00:09:18,600 --> 00:09:21,200 the wine. That was just the symptom. 144 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:24,080 Come here. OK, so what's the real issue, 145 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:25,160 Pastor? I hear you. 146 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:28,720 The real issue is Braylon, they invited Jesus. 147 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:30,080 Thank you for taking notes, baby. 148 00:09:30,800 --> 00:09:34,200 They didn't involve him. They they they had him there. 149 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:42,520 They just didn't involve Jesus. They put him on the guest list, 150 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:47,520 but not on the glory list. They they, they, they, they, 151 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:51,680 they brought him into the room, but but they didn't give him 152 00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:56,920 authority in the room. Let me give you a quick 153 00:09:56,920 --> 00:10:00,760 homiletical highlight of the perceived problem was the empty 154 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:03,560 jar. But the actual problem, Deacon 155 00:10:03,560 --> 00:10:08,920 Davis, was the empty strategy. They built a moment of 156 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:11,640 celebration on humans. You got your Bible right. 157 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:16,080 They built a moment on human supply, but not divine presence. 158 00:10:17,560 --> 00:10:20,840 And whenever you start without Jesus at the center, no, no, no, 159 00:10:20,840 --> 00:10:24,240 no, I mean for real Jesus at the center, you will eventually run 160 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:27,760 out. Because if Jesus is only your 161 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:31,160 backup, shortage will always be your future. 162 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:34,400 And my dear brothers and sisters, I just need to park 163 00:10:34,400 --> 00:10:38,040 here real quick because for some reason we have fallen in love 164 00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:42,360 with poverty. And then I don't get it. 165 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:44,760 I don't know. We we have such this scarcity 166 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:48,760 mindset that that we hate talking about money. 167 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:51,440 We cringe up. But you know what? 168 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:56,720 We all need a little piece. OK, I'm gonna come. 169 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:59,080 I'm gonna come. Let me go get a piece of piece 170 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:01,040 of pound cake and come back to the table. 171 00:11:02,880 --> 00:11:04,560 Here. Here. 2 pieces. 172 00:11:04,640 --> 00:11:06,160 OK, I got you. I'll get one for you. 173 00:11:06,160 --> 00:11:07,440 Here. Here's the revelation. 174 00:11:07,440 --> 00:11:12,280 The miracle didn't start with motion, it actually started with 175 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:15,080 the mindset. I know, I know you know the 176 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:17,680 story, but come on, let me let me teach you a little bit more 177 00:11:17,680 --> 00:11:22,600 about this text because Mary here are discerning the problem 178 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:25,360 says something that shifts the entire story. 179 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:31,320 You got your Bible open right? John chapter 2 verse #3 says 180 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:43,480 they have no wine. I have no mind. 181 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:49,120 They are without. Check this out. 182 00:11:49,160 --> 00:11:55,040 She gives no suggestion, no solutions, no scheming. 183 00:11:56,040 --> 00:11:59,320 She just acknowledges. Come here, scoot to the edge of 184 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:01,560 your seat. I put some time on the clock. 185 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:08,360 She acknowledges what is and makes room for who he is. 186 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:13,840 She doesn't. She doesn't. 187 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:15,920 She doesn't bring a plan, She brings. 188 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:19,520 Posture. She doesn't offer a proposal, 189 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:24,920 she offers presents. And I know, I know, we like to 190 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:28,160 talk about grown and not grown and AIDS and all that, but the 191 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:30,680 truth of the matter is that's not grown faith. 192 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:33,440 That's a God centered perspective. 193 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:38,560 That's that's what happens when you stop putting God in the 194 00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:43,000 margins of your moment and you start placing him at the center 195 00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:46,720 of your crisis. And I wonder for somebody in the 196 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:52,240 room, you shifted your body, but have you really shifted your 197 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:55,560 brain? You you've you've, you've 198 00:12:55,560 --> 00:13:00,120 pastored, but are you really positioned and your perspective? 199 00:13:01,840 --> 00:13:05,920 You come to church, but are you still operating out of anxiety? 200 00:13:07,560 --> 00:13:10,600 You raise your hands when told, but not because you love the 201 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:13,320 Lord, but but have you really renewed your mind? 202 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:18,320 OK, you may not bow in church, you bow the house so nobody see 203 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:22,480 you, but are you still thinking high of yourself? 204 00:13:24,560 --> 00:13:28,640 Because if God isn't at the center of your mindset, then 205 00:13:28,640 --> 00:13:31,200 he's still on the edge of your miracle. 206 00:13:31,880 --> 00:13:33,800 I think I better say it again, is the mic on? 207 00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:35,840 I don't know. I better test it. 208 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:40,960 I said, because if God isn't at the center of your mindset, then 209 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:44,520 he's still on the edge of your miracle. 210 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:49,200 Mindset is the miracles meeting ground. 211 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:51,080 Help me out. Turn it to your neighbor and say 212 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:58,680 neighbor mindset is the miracles meeting ground. 213 00:14:00,680 --> 00:14:04,240 Mindset is, is the miracles meeting ground. 214 00:14:04,240 --> 00:14:09,160 It's, it's not your emotions, It's not your feelings. 215 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,160 It's not your Social Security check. 216 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:15,680 It's not your patterns, routines or habits. 217 00:14:15,880 --> 00:14:21,200 It's your mind. You you know your Bible, right, 218 00:14:22,120 --> 00:14:25,120 You know a little bit, but if if you if you was in me and you 219 00:14:25,120 --> 00:14:27,560 might have had a little experience in BTU y'all remember 220 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:33,200 BTU Baptist training? Oh, OK, you might know a little 221 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:35,200 sound. You might remember that they 222 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:36,800 taught this scripture. I'm just going to give you a 223 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:39,040 piece of it. But it was Romans chapter 12, 224 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:44,040 verse 2, and you know that one. But be ye transformed by the 225 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:49,400 renewing of your of your mind. Check this out. 226 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:53,400 The greatest miracle God ever performs isn't around you, it's 227 00:14:53,400 --> 00:14:58,960 actually in you. Look, look, look, look, look, 228 00:14:58,960 --> 00:15:01,920 look, look at the text with me. The wine didn't run out to 229 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:05,280 destroy the party and ran out to deliver the people. 230 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:08,760 I don't like your voice. You got to talk a little bit 231 00:15:08,760 --> 00:15:12,720 more to me because if the wine never ran out, Sister Shirler, 232 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:16,240 they would have kept drinking something that couldn't sustain 233 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:19,960 their destiny. Mind your brothers and sisters. 234 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:23,720 And in this culture, this moment, I come as your prophetic 235 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:27,880 male man from heaven by the way of Louis, Delaware, Columbia, 236 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:33,560 SC, Omaha, NE, Honolulu, HI, and now Greenville, SC to tell you 237 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:38,400 that God's trying to pull us from this poverty mindset. 238 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:43,560 God's trying to bring you into a elevated place. 239 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:48,840 So God disrupted the supply. Check this out to correct the 240 00:15:48,840 --> 00:15:53,400 source. I know we in the valley and for 241 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:56,600 some reason it really does go down in the valley, but I need 242 00:15:56,600 --> 00:16:01,160 you to understand that God did not bring us here for us to be 243 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:03,960 enslaved to somebody else being over us. 244 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:09,000 And I know you know this story, but but, but, but this text is 245 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:14,000 really trying to teach us that God is trying to show that he is 246 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:18,600 the source, not our 40 and 50 years on somebody's job. 247 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:26,280 You know that that God is our source, not not not a federal 248 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:31,600 grant or a contract, but the Lord, he is our source. 249 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:36,080 I better keep on moving. And some of us, some of us have 250 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:41,800 a fixed mindset. I just come for you today 251 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:45,640 because some of us are fixed on how it used to be. 252 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:48,720 OK. Thank you, Mother Gordian. 253 00:16:48,920 --> 00:16:51,440 She's the one of us in the room. I appreciate your Amen. 254 00:16:51,480 --> 00:16:55,240 Right now, some of us, some of us are fixed on who left. 255 00:16:56,160 --> 00:17:00,200 Some of us are fixed on how you thought it was going to happen 256 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:03,680 by now. Some of us are fixed on formulas 257 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:07,000 that no longer fit your faith. But I want to let you know that 258 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:11,680 God is saying He's not going to work in our fantasy, but He's 259 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:15,319 trying to actually break us into our destiny. 260 00:17:17,280 --> 00:17:20,960 You want new wine, You want new joy, You want new revelation, 261 00:17:21,160 --> 00:17:24,000 Then first you got to acknowledge what's empty. 262 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:29,400 You can't hide it, you can't dress it up, you can't fake it. 263 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:33,680 But you've got to say we don't have what we thought we did. 264 00:17:35,080 --> 00:17:37,080 And that's where the miracle begins. 265 00:17:37,480 --> 00:17:43,720 Not in the jar, not in the water, not in the taste test, 266 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:49,640 but in the mind of the room. My, my, my, I'm. 267 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:52,560 The first miracle Jesus ever performed didn't start with a 268 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:56,080 physical act. It started with a mental shift. 269 00:18:00,560 --> 00:18:04,000 And I'm going to let you know, don't let you know that God is 270 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:08,320 saying to us today that he's going to wait until we stop 271 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:12,120 performing fool and start confessing empty. 272 00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:17,440 He's going to wait until our pride is low enough for his 273 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:22,400 glory to rise high enough. He's he's going to wait until 274 00:18:22,480 --> 00:18:27,560 our plan collapses so his presence can carry us through. 275 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:35,200 He's going to wait until our systems fail so His spirit can 276 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:41,480 finally take over. So yeah, the wine ran out, but I 277 00:18:41,480 --> 00:18:46,080 don't want you to get distracted by the glass because I believe 278 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:49,240 God is really trying to change our gaze. 279 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:56,040 He's not trying to empty us. He's not even trying to punish 280 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:59,600 us, Deacon Meadows. He's trying to empty us, to 281 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:03,280 entrust us, Sister Etta, because what he's about to pour next 282 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:06,520 can't be mixed with what you were fool of before. 283 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:09,160 Help me out. Turn to your neighbors and 284 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:14,840 neighbor we got to empty out. Turn to your other neighbor 285 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:16,480 because I think they might need to hear this too. 286 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:18,440 Tell them, neighbor, we got to empty out. 287 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:23,640 And that's where we find ourselves in the second 288 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:28,240 observation of this text. And John chapter 2 verse #5 it 289 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:34,280 says, his mother said unto the servants, Glory, Hallelujah, but 290 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:38,720 I praise you. She says, Whatsoever he said 291 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:46,840 unto you, Do it. And they were set there, 6 water 292 00:19:46,840 --> 00:19:50,440 pots of stone, after the manner of the purifying of the Jews, 293 00:19:50,440 --> 00:19:52,760 containing two or three firkins of peace. 294 00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:58,480 And Jesus said it to them, Fill the water pots with with water, 295 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:02,480 and they fill them up to to the brim. 296 00:20:04,600 --> 00:20:07,400 The second point, the second point of observation is the 297 00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:11,720 practical preparation. I hope that's good and simple 298 00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:14,920 for your notes as you take it. I hope you take notes that the 299 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:21,400 second point is the practical preparation after the crisis is 300 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:24,720 confessed, after the lack is acknowledged. 301 00:20:24,720 --> 00:20:29,080 Jesus doesn't wave his hand. Jesus does not shout a word. 302 00:20:29,080 --> 00:20:30,400 Come on you, you know the story, right? 303 00:20:30,880 --> 00:20:33,680 Jesus does not even call for wine. 304 00:20:34,440 --> 00:20:38,840 Jesus gives an instruction. Now Sister Mary, check this out. 305 00:20:38,920 --> 00:20:43,600 It's in red, it's not black, it's in red and it's even in 306 00:20:43,600 --> 00:20:53,680 verse #7 it says Jesus said unto them in red, fill the water pots 307 00:20:53,760 --> 00:20:57,760 with water. That's not magic, not in, that's 308 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:01,120 not even impressive that that's not even exciting. 309 00:21:01,120 --> 00:21:02,160 But. But but but but. 310 00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:09,720 But look closer. That's obedience, because 311 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:12,440 sometimes the greatest demonstration of God's power 312 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:15,440 comes dressed in the plainclothes of practicality. 313 00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:17,960 Where you at? Did you leave the room? 314 00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:20,520 I know we're at your house. We're at your table. 315 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:22,000 Come on back in the room, I said. 316 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:26,440 Sometimes the greatest demonstration of God's power 317 00:21:26,440 --> 00:21:30,680 comes dressed in the plainclothes of practicality. 318 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:34,120 It wasn't flashy, it was faithful. 319 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:38,080 It wasn't mystical. It was mundane it but but when 320 00:21:38,280 --> 00:21:42,080 Jesus speaks, even the mundane becomes miraculous because the 321 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:43,880 miracle didn't begin with movement. 322 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:48,000 It began with the mindset. They didn't need new jaws. 323 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:52,480 They needed a new pore. They needed a new posture for an 324 00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:55,320 old vessel. They needed a new challenge for 325 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:58,080 an ancient system. They needed a new assignment. 326 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:00,120 Deacon Glen for a familiar object. 327 00:22:00,120 --> 00:22:02,480 And the text says it says that there. 328 00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:08,480 Uh huh, were 6 water pots of stone used for ceremonial 329 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:10,640 cleansing. Now check this out. 330 00:22:10,840 --> 00:22:15,120 These weren't wine jars. These weren't kegs. 331 00:22:15,120 --> 00:22:18,000 Praise the Lord the glory to God that they they were celebration 332 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:19,920 vessels. Why y'all looking like that? 333 00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:25,000 That they were hand and feet washing stations. 334 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,920 They were ordinary, functional and predictable. 335 00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:33,880 But look, Jesus gives them a prophetic repurposement. 336 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:36,640 Check this out. Because God will take what was 337 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:40,880 designed for old time religion and repurpose it for revelation, 338 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:46,400 what was meant for cleansing. He'll use it for celebrating. 339 00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:48,680 And that's the kind of God we serve. 340 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:52,160 He doesn't discard old overlooked vessels. 341 00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:57,080 Come here, He feels them. God, you miss your shout, I 342 00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:01,880 said. He doesn't cancel them, but he 343 00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:07,200 crowns them with new glory. Can you lean in real quick? 344 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:08,720 Because I want to give you a secret. 345 00:23:09,240 --> 00:23:11,760 Come here, come here. I want to let you know that God 346 00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:14,800 doesn't always give you new tools. 347 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:17,240 Sometimes he just gives you new eyes. 348 00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:22,040 It's, it's not, it's not, it's not about the vessel changing. 349 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:26,120 It's about the vessel being used for a higher vision. 350 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,280 Come here. Let's walk this thing just a 351 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:32,760 little bit slowly. This is these jaws. 352 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:35,600 These jaws. They had been there all alone, 353 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:40,520 but nobody was checking for the jaws that they they were 354 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:43,800 background furniture. They were there at the party. 355 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:47,880 They were part of the scenery. They were seen but dismissed, 356 00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:53,320 present but purposeless. But when Jesus steps in, he 357 00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:57,680 doesn't replace Nick and Davis. What they had, He reveals what 358 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:02,120 they never saw in it. Let me give you something real 359 00:24:02,120 --> 00:24:04,440 quick for your notes, because you might need to remember this, 360 00:24:04,440 --> 00:24:07,080 that God is about to take what's familiar and flip it. 361 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:10,640 He's about to take what's functional and fill it. 362 00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:15,280 He's about to take what's ordinary and overflowing and, 363 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,680 and, and here's where it shifts. Mary, the mother of Jesus, 364 00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:22,880 sensing divine time, he turns and says to all the servants 365 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:27,120 there, whatever he says to you, do it. 366 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:31,400 She says do it. No, no explanation, no 367 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:35,960 negotiation, no delay, no hindrance, no meeting, no, no 368 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:37,480 mystery. Meet up. 369 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:41,160 She just tells them be obedient and do it. 370 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:45,760 You see, you see the shortages, but oftentimes gets our 371 00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:48,480 attention. Deacon Glenn but the strategy 372 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:52,320 that's God's instruction for when we are in it. 373 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:57,360 Mary doesn't call a meeting notice in the text, Sister Chris 374 00:24:57,360 --> 00:25:00,560 She does not even panic with the planners. 375 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,880 She doesn't even consult the governor of the feast. 376 00:25:05,120 --> 00:25:09,240 She doesn't brainstorm. All she has is belief. 377 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:14,520 God, I feel you in the room and I think we better go back and 378 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:17,720 get us a little tea to come up with this pound cake. 379 00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:20,040 No, get you some water for your sugar. 380 00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:23,040 Get some water instead. She just believes. 381 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:24,640 She believes. Check this out. 382 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:29,720 Because obedience is the bridge between crisis and creativity. 383 00:25:32,440 --> 00:25:34,520 I think I lost them. I said. 384 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:39,680 Obedience is the bridge between crisis and creativity because 385 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:45,000 obedience is the womb where God's Word becomes alive. 386 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:53,120 You can hear Pastor Nathaniel Greene from Dallas, TX right now 387 00:25:53,120 --> 00:25:57,400 who said once that opposition is the mother of creativity. 388 00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:00,400 But if I can add on to his quote, I would say that 389 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:03,960 opposition is also the mother of obedience. 390 00:26:05,120 --> 00:26:07,800 Cause some of you been opposing your mom and your daddy at one 391 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,280 point. But it was that in between 392 00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:15,880 space, for some reason, all of a sudden you found some obedience. 393 00:26:17,120 --> 00:26:22,280 It's oftentimes the tension, the tension of opposition where we 394 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:25,080 find the next instruction from God. 395 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:29,200 And here's the thing, Sometimes the instruction seems too small 396 00:26:29,360 --> 00:26:31,760 for the size of the problem we're up against. 397 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,040 Thank you, Deacon House. I thought I lost everybody in 398 00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:36,680 the room. I don't know, they, they got 399 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:38,200 caught up and I was turning the corner. 400 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:43,800 I said sometimes the instruction seems too small for the size of 401 00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,000 the problem. But that's how God moves. 402 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:52,800 He's he's he's often times testing not our ability, but 403 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:58,440 he's testing our availability because you don't need to be 404 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,480 impressive. You just need to be obedient 405 00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:02,840 because obedience doesn't make sense. 406 00:27:02,880 --> 00:27:07,200 It just makes miracles. God, that's good that that's 407 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,920 real good right there. I ain't got time to stop there. 408 00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:14,000 But but but here's the tension. Obedience only works when your 409 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:18,760 mind is ready to grow. God help me preach a word. 410 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,880 You can't follow divine instructions with a fixed 411 00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:26,840 poverty mindset. No, no, you can't receive 412 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:30,720 supernatural strategy when you're locked into old systems 413 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:33,120 of thoughts. Some of us, some of us are 414 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,520 asking God for another level, another moment, another, another 415 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,400 season of greatness. But, but we keep showing up. 416 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:44,600 But last season's mentality and and you say I didn't come for 417 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:48,280 this, but God says you're right. You, you, you didn't come for 418 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:54,440 this, but I brought you here to deal with this because there 419 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,720 have been a foundational issue sitting for far too long. 420 00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,280 You, you, you thought you was coming for a party, but but the 421 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:05,440 text shows that this is really a pivot of mindset. 422 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:11,800 One might even thought that it was about the wine, but the text 423 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:15,560 really cheap teaches us that it was really about willingness. 424 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:20,880 Because fixed mindsets fear stretching. 425 00:28:22,800 --> 00:28:24,920 Hallelujah. I better say it one more time 426 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,480 cuz cuz I think you got laryngitis in your voice. 427 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:33,640 I said fixed mindsets fear stretching, but growth mindsets 428 00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:38,760 follow strategy. And can I submit to you today, 429 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:42,280 my dear brothers and sisters, that we may have a following 430 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:49,560 problem, that while we profess that we come to the party, the 431 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:53,440 truth of the matter is we come to the party for ourselves, but 432 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:57,000 not to follow anybody. Hell, are you the God? 433 00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,480 And so that's where we find, oh, that was tough, ain't it? 434 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:02,680 I know the Lord got me with that one too. 435 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,920 Then he just came back through and just got all of us, huh? 436 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:10,080 But I just want to let you know, my dear brothers and sisters, 437 00:29:10,240 --> 00:29:14,160 that if your mind is too rigid, your obedience will always be 438 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:20,000 delayed. I must say it again. 439 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:24,160 The I said if your mind is too rigid, your obedience will 440 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:30,560 always be delayed. And delayed obedience does not 441 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:36,160 get miracles or blessings, but it always leads to shortage and 442 00:29:36,160 --> 00:29:39,000 begging. Ain't that? 443 00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:42,600 Ain't that something? So God's not just stretching our 444 00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:48,640 hands, He's stretching our head. He's not just saying fill the 445 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:52,240 jar, He's saying fix the way you see the jar. 446 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:56,280 Come here, I'm gonna read the text one more time that you know 447 00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:57,760 it. Romans 12:00 and 2:00. 448 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:06,040 But be transform pie, the renewing of your mind, because 449 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:09,480 miracles flow where mindsets shift. 450 00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:15,080 And God is not just changing what's in our jar, but he's 451 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:19,680 changing what's in our judgment. Because if he doesn't renew our 452 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:23,960 mind, we'll pour out the next blessing trying to make it fit 453 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:28,080 the last season. So what does Jesus says? 454 00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:31,560 He says fill the water pots with water. 455 00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:34,840 That's all he says he gives no context. 456 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:39,320 He he gives no why he gives no how other than he just says feel 457 00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:43,880 the water pots with water. He gives no revelation. 458 00:30:43,960 --> 00:30:47,000 He just gives instructions. Just feel it. 459 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:50,600 I need your help. Help me out because I feel like 460 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,400 your neighbor might need a little prophetic touch. 461 00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:56,200 Just tap them real closely and say feel it, feel it, feel it, 462 00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:58,240 feel it, feel it. That's all you got to do, Just 463 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:01,920 feel it. Just feel it and just look at 464 00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:05,840 the But the Bible says that the servants did not crush them. 465 00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:08,960 The servants didn't have no gathering. 466 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,520 They didn't have no secret text for it. 467 00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:18,320 All they did was they obeyed. That's all they did. 468 00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:25,640 The Bible says, it says, uh huh. And they filled them. 469 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:30,080 That's that's that's what that's what your Bible says. 470 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,920 It says and they filled them. But check this out verse #7 it 471 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,720 says and they filled them up to the brim. 472 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:40,760 God, y'all ready? I feel like preaching just a tad 473 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:42,280 bit John. I'm about to get there. 474 00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:47,840 They did not feel it. They did not feel it halfway to 475 00:31:47,880 --> 00:31:51,520 the brim that that's full faith that that's all in trust Mother 476 00:31:51,520 --> 00:31:54,320 Gordon. That's I don't know how, but I 477 00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:58,760 believe God can kind of faith and I just want to let you know, 478 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:01,960 I don't know, let you know that you can't expect brim level 479 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:05,920 blessings from bottom shelf obedience because if you want 480 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,200 the overflow, you've got to give God everything. 481 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:12,680 They did not leave any room for themselves, no. 482 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:15,720 They did not leave any room for error, no. 483 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:19,000 They did not leave any room for margins, no. 484 00:32:19,280 --> 00:32:22,920 They feel these. Water pots until there was 485 00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:27,880 nothing left but for to touch the water box. 486 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:29,800 And I want to let you know my name. 487 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:34,360 Brothers and sisters, the jars here we see are now filled with 488 00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:37,520 water. The mindsets of this text are 489 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:39,200 now shifted. Deacon Davis. 490 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:44,800 But look here now the atmosphere is pregnant, but obedience and 491 00:32:44,800 --> 00:32:48,040 yet the miracle still has not manifested. 492 00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:51,800 Sister Chris, I'll check this here, check this here, check 493 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:54,640 this here that there's one last one last point I'm going to give 494 00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:55,560 you. We're going to get out of here 495 00:32:55,560 --> 00:32:58,440 together. It's in John chapter 2 we find 496 00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:02,640 starting at verse #7 Jesus says to them, fill the water pots 497 00:33:02,640 --> 00:33:07,480 with water and they filled them up to the brim. 8 And he said it 498 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:13,120 to them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast, 499 00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:16,880 and they bear it. Verse #9 says, When the ruler of 500 00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:21,200 the feast had tested and tasted the water that was made wine, 501 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,960 and knew not which it was, but the servants which drew the 502 00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:28,560 water knew the governor of the feast called the bridegroom, 503 00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:32,440 Verse 10 And said unto him, Every man at the beginning to 504 00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:36,280 set forth good wine, good liquor. 505 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:40,600 And when men have well, drunk, that's the text, then that which 506 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:43,640 is bad, worse ain't no good. That's when they're pulling out. 507 00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:46,400 But look, look, is that a, is that a, is that a colon? 508 00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:47,440 It's a colon. It's a colon. 509 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:49,280 There's more to see this he says. 510 00:33:49,280 --> 00:33:55,480 But you, my good man, my good self, you have kept the good one 511 00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:59,480 until now. Monday, brothers and sisters, my 512 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,680 Third Point for you is the public presentation. 513 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:05,960 Let's walk this together. Let's walk it. 514 00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:08,480 Jesus gives no spectacle of fanfare. 515 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:12,480 I'm trying to find it. Just a simple instruction. 516 00:34:13,199 --> 00:34:16,080 He tells them, fill the water pots with water. 517 00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:20,080 But they didn't just obey, they filled them to the brim. 518 00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:24,920 And that's the kind of faith that doesn't leave margins and 519 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:28,920 we leave a margin for anything else other than God. 520 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:33,239 And then that's where we find ourselves, my Big Brothers and 521 00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:38,000 sisters, with this mystery. It's the mystery of the test 522 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:42,760 because not doing the pouring, neither during the testing or 523 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,320 the tasting. I'm Deacon Glenn. 524 00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:52,280 But some man between the job and the delivery, I'm sorry. 525 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:55,040 I still feel glory. The water was made wine. 526 00:34:56,000 --> 00:35:02,280 That's where tension lies in a space called the in between, not 527 00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:09,680 where the word was spoken, but where the wine has been now set, 528 00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:17,960 but in the space, Norman's song, the unseen space where God moves 529 00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,640 in mystery. And I'm going to let you know 530 00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:28,520 today that. The middle is. 531 00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:34,640 Where your faith has has to function without confirmation. 532 00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:44,000 I said that the middle is where your hands have to. 533 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:53,400 Carry water. He even when your heart expects 534 00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,640 why? That's why. 535 00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:02,480 The servant, Sister Shirley should have been shouting 536 00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:08,480 because they found they felt the tension in the room. 537 00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:17,040 These servants, they found themselves just obeying. 538 00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:22,800 They didn't see the outcome. Come here, Deacon Metal, check 539 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,480 this out. But they kept on drawing. 540 00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:33,800 They couldn't verify the change, but they kept on moving because 541 00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:38,600 that's how real faith works. It doesn't wait for evidence 542 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:43,760 come here now. It just carries expectation. 543 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:52,680 I can hear the New Testament right saying faith is the 544 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:58,640 substance. Of things things hold for. 545 00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:08,360 Have the evidence of things not seen God. 546 00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:12,640 God didn't change. He didn't change the pots 547 00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:18,240 because sometimes you won't see it change. 548 00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:24,120 But all God will tell you, he says stay on the battlefield. 549 00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:31,760 Sometimes you won't see things happen as fast as you hope, 550 00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:36,440 Sister Sharon, but all God's got for you today is. 551 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:40,320 Carry it like I. Told you so. 552 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:45,920 God didn't change the process, I said. 553 00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:50,160 God didn't change these old pots. 554 00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:54,480 No God. Changed the. 555 00:37:54,600 --> 00:38:02,520 Outcome. Because God doesn't just move in 556 00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:05,200 movement. Man, God, God, God. 557 00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:21,880 He manifests. Through mindsets and God moves. 558 00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:28,200 In the middle moments, I've got to get out of here now, but I 559 00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:31,840 want to encourage. You today, this ain't the. 560 00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:39,560 First time God moved in the middle of it. 561 00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:44,600 God. Moved in the middle. 562 00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,560 Hard and deep. And Genesis, yeah, I said. 563 00:38:49,560 --> 00:38:58,440 God move. Moved in the middle of a Red Sea 564 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:05,360 in excellence. Can't even moved in the middle 565 00:39:05,360 --> 00:39:08,520 of the Jordan River when the priest were told to. 566 00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:13,800 Stand there in. The middle of it all in the book 567 00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:19,400 of Joshua. You even know about those three 568 00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:22,600 Hebrew boys in the book of. Daniel. 569 00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:29,480 Was in the middle of a fight. And I'm going to. 570 00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:34,280 Let you know. If you read your Bible and Luke 571 00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:39,840 chapter 20. Three, you'll find Jesus even in 572 00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:44,920 the middle, middle himself. On the right. 573 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:52,360 Hand and on the left hand. He found himself between 2:00. 574 00:39:52,360 --> 00:40:02,080 Male factors hanging on the old tree I want to let you know that 575 00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:02,680 the. Middle. 576 00:40:05,240 --> 00:40:10,800 Just messy. But the middle hey, hey glory, 577 00:40:11,720 --> 00:40:12,720 it's holy. Grail. 578 00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:20,080 Because we never come shows up in the middle. 579 00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:29,160 I've got to break loose on the app beside I got to. 580 00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:34,240 Get out of here now. But help me out, hold your. 581 00:40:34,240 --> 00:40:37,320 Neighbors. Hold your neighbors hand. 582 00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:43,840 They may not be able to stay in. But hold your neighbors hand and 583 00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:47,760 tell your neighbor I got to write for you. 584 00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:57,520 It might be in the middle of it, but God's going to break out. 585 00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:05,640 Harmi, every side read my mind ourselves in the middle. 586 00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:09,880 Come here, I decree in the middle of it. 587 00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:18,880 But I want you to know that from the middle, Jesus, do it on the 588 00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:24,920 tree blood. God, I love you. 589 00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:33,080 Blood and water coming from the middle in the middle of it. 590 00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:36,800 And it wasn't just I signed a pain. 591 00:41:37,680 --> 00:41:43,760 It just wasn't water and blood, but it was a sign. 592 00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:54,280 I'm a symbol, a promise and prophecy, and that's what I get. 593 00:41:55,040 --> 00:42:01,560 That's on the Saints today that did it. 594 00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:11,720 Just turn water, get some wine to impress, impress the ground. 595 00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:21,240 But God did it to preview. Another covenant. 596 00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:26,400 Lord, I love your word. I'm going to let you know that 597 00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:31,640 this wasn't just right, but it was a St. 598 00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:39,760 Oh, what was the cup? I got to let you know that the 599 00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:48,080 symbol that the all time managing childhood for being 600 00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:54,240 filled been a new wine of revelation. 601 00:42:55,040 --> 00:43:01,320 And what's fighting? What started? 602 00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:08,320 I'm sorry he's on behaving. Today, as a shortage became a 603 00:43:08,360 --> 00:43:19,000 stage I want to save you and what look like what if actually 604 00:43:19,720 --> 00:43:28,240 was just mine, waiting on the word I gotta go and I gotta go 605 00:43:28,240 --> 00:43:33,120 for real, but I want to let you. Know you might have been. 606 00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:40,920 Waiting for the wine, but I got the word to tell you to stand. 607 00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:52,320 Having therefore stand in the middle, stand in the middle of 608 00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:54,560 it. You don't see it right now. 609 00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:59,080 But stand come. Talk to me, Dee ain't. 610 00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:05,440 Nobody pushing in the middle of it because you're standing in 611 00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:13,040 the middle of a miracle and I want you to know if you find 612 00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:16,240 yourself working. And you find yourself tired. 613 00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:23,560 Just know Wayne, it's on the way. 614 00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:30,520 Let's go to the five John. Now, now, now. 615 00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:34,680 I got to. Let you know for real, there's 616 00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:37,320 one last thing. Here nothing. 617 00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:44,680 That shows us that the same God who turned one up water into. 618 00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:48,560 Wine is the same God. Is that? 619 00:44:48,760 --> 00:44:54,200 Not the turn your weakness. Into a witness. 620 00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:58,360 I said the same. God that turned 1. 621 00:44:59,360 --> 00:45:04,400 Up into wine. It's the same God that's going 622 00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:09,760 to turn. Your obedience into overflow 623 00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:13,920 accept the same God that's. Low. 624 00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:20,800 That's on water into wine. It's about to take your middle 625 00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:27,880 moment and ship everything. Everything, everything, 626 00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:31,560 everything. I need you to catch this 627 00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:34,120 prophetic word, I said. He's going to shift. 628 00:45:34,120 --> 00:45:37,200 Everything. Everything around you. 629 00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:38,920 So. He asked. 630 00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:45,560 This may not be what you came for, but he asked. 631 00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:51,080 I got a word from heaven that didn't come for this. 632 00:45:51,800 --> 00:45:54,280 But. God, I said. 633 00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:59,640 God, I'm almost. Out of time, I said God brought 634 00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:03,440 you here. He brought you here for this to 635 00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:07,240 remind you. That you might be in the middle 636 00:46:07,240 --> 00:46:13,000 of it, but the middle of. It is still holy ground and 637 00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:18,200 don't look at yourself and don't look at your stress and don't 638 00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:22,040 look at your situation with limitations. 639 00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:24,120 I don't know how you can sit like a bubble. 640 00:46:24,120 --> 00:46:27,920 Of law, but I gotta let. You know that. 641 00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:32,800 The miracle, Paul. Was always in motion and the 642 00:46:32,880 --> 00:46:37,680 wine was always in reach. But God. 643 00:46:37,680 --> 00:46:44,560 Needed your obedience I'm gone for real now, but I. 644 00:46:44,560 --> 00:46:50,040 Want to let you know. That now you're finding yourself 645 00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:56,360 in a season where God's going to. 646 00:46:56,360 --> 00:47:01,880 Begin you anew. God going to do some new words. 647 00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:05,760 God go. Open some new doors. 648 00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:07,840 I said you. Don't like this word? 649 00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:11,280 Do you, huh? I said, God, it's going to give 650 00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:14,880 you some new blessings, going to give you some new strength. 651 00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:19,600 It's going to give you some new figure, give you some new ideas, 652 00:47:21,720 --> 00:47:23,680 God. I'm sorry, preaching the fella. 653 00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:30,360 On me I said, God don't give you new, new innovations. 654 00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:34,880 So be not weary. You will do it. 655 00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:45,200 You shall, you shall reap. If you fail, say not I got to go 656 00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:48,480 for real now, but help me close my message. 657 00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:56,240 Grab yourself, hold yourself, sell yourself, sell. 658 00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:01,760 I'm holding on to the word of the Lord. 659 00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:10,680 I won't give up, I won't give it, but I'm a home till the end, 660 00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:21,560 'cause God I changed again. Is holding, holding, holding, 661 00:48:22,720 --> 00:48:30,040 holding me in the middle of it. I don't like it but he's holding 662 00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:34,400 me. I don't want it but he's keeping 663 00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:38,120 me. I don't want this but he's 664 00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:41,720 blessing me. But he's holding me. 665 00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:47,840 But he's keeping me. But he's sustaining me But he's 666 00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:51,520 watching over me in the middle of it. 667 00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:56,120 Can you help me? Thank you, the Lord. 668 00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:01,320 And in the middle of it, I don't care about me. 669 00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:04,920 Praise. Thank you, Lord. 670 00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:09,680 Bless you, Lord. I love you, Lord. 671 00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:13,520 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 672 00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:17,760 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 673 00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:26,400 Hallelujah, Hallelujah, no, Lord, praise here, Hallelujah, 674 00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:32,520 holy glory to you. Hallelujah, the devil is 675 00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:43,240 defeated, God is exhausted, and Jesus, I said Jesus, Jesus the 676 00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:54,080 Buddha, Jesus, not Muhammad, Jesus not your witchcraft, Jesus 677 00:49:54,760 --> 00:50:00,240 not your black magic, Jesus not your right magic. 678 00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:04,160 I said Jesus is Lord, Jesus is Lord. 679 00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:08,040 I said Jesus is Lord. I said Jesus is Lord, this is 680 00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:11,480 Lord. Can you help me praise him I 681 00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:12,920 feel? Miracles coming in the room. 682 00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:17,240 Can you help me praise Him? I know you're focusing on me, 683 00:50:17,720 --> 00:50:19,680 but the Lord's trying to work in your house. 684 00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:23,440 Can you help me praise Him? I know you're trying to follow 685 00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:28,520 me, but you want to close your eyes and you want to praise him 686 00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:33,760 because he's still Lord. Lord over my life, Lord. 687 00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:39,280 Lord over my fears, Lord over my failures, Lord over my trees, 688 00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:42,840 Lord over my destiny. He's the Lord. 689 00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:50,440 He's the Lord. I got to stop. 690 00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:55,440 I got to stop. He's the Lord. 691 00:50:55,440 --> 00:51:08,200 He's the Lord. He's still Lord under brothers 692 00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:13,920 and sisters. Listen, he's Lord, but he wants 693 00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:19,680 you to acknowledge you. Let's Lord He wants you to 694 00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:24,600 acknowledge John. I think you know this one. 695 00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:28,640 It's old hymn used to sing in the church. 696 00:51:29,280 --> 00:52:04,640 I said come to Jesus. He will save you. 697 00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:10,600 He will save you. Just now and just. 698 00:52:11,760 --> 00:52:23,320 Now and just now, he will save you. 699 00:52:26,240 --> 00:52:31,040 Just now it's real simple. You don't have to come down to 700 00:52:31,040 --> 00:52:33,200 the altar. The Bible says if you confess 701 00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:36,480 your mouth and believe in your heart, it says you shall be 702 00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:39,480 saved. I want you to go and repeat this 703 00:52:39,480 --> 00:52:43,120 prayer after me today. And again, salvation is between 704 00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:45,120 you and God. That's not between me trying to 705 00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:48,160 keep a count number. No, that's between you and God. 706 00:52:49,280 --> 00:52:52,280 The Bible says man looks on the outside, but God looks at the 707 00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:54,720 heart. It's a lot of people we think 708 00:52:54,720 --> 00:52:58,880 are saying they say for real because only God sees the 709 00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:01,520 inside. God does the work on the inside. 710 00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:05,560 Don't let nobody judge you, put you in condemnation because you 711 00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:09,080 don't look like them, sound like them, smell like them, act like 712 00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:12,480 them. No, God saves and doesn't work 713 00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:15,080 in all of us individually and it's different. 714 00:53:15,840 --> 00:53:20,080 I want you to pray this prayer to me, say, Lord Jesus, come 715 00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:24,800 into my heart, save me. I want to be saved. 716 00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:30,840 Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross of me. 717 00:53:32,360 --> 00:53:37,400 Lord Jesus, thank you for rising out of the grave for me. 718 00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:43,920 Lord Jesus, thank you for soon coming again for me. 719 00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:49,680 In Jesus name, Amen. Amen. 720 00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:51,000 Come on, put your hands together. 721 00:53:51,280 --> 00:53:54,360 Believe by faith that someone just received Jesus into the 722 00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:56,560 heart. Thank you for tuning in to the 723 00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:58,880 Rock Hill Baptist Church 2 Podcast. 724 00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:02,560 We pray today's message planted something in your spirit and 725 00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:06,040 gave you the strength to keep growing here at the Rock Hill 726 00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:09,160 Baptist Church 2. We're a growing church and 727 00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:12,640 growth starts with one step. 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