1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:04,520 Let's give the Lord a great praise in this place today. 2 00:00:04,520 --> 00:00:08,240 He's worthy. He's worthy of my praise. 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:12,920 He's worthy of my worship. Hallelujah, Hallelujah. 4 00:00:13,840 --> 00:00:17,840 What a great God. What a magnificent savior. 5 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:20,600 What a beautiful day. To be in the House of God. 6 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:24,240 And what a great time we had here yesterday. 7 00:00:25,080 --> 00:00:28,920 And thankful for the food, the fun, the fellowship. 8 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:32,400 You know who? No, I don't know. 9 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:35,040 Whoever said that living for God can't be fun. 10 00:00:35,040 --> 00:00:39,560 It can be. I've all I've heard it said. 11 00:00:39,560 --> 00:00:43,680 And I, I concur that my, my worst days now are better than 12 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:47,960 my best days then. And I, I love living for God. 13 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:51,080 This isn't, you know, this isn't a drug. 14 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:53,320 This isn't a board. This is the best time of my 15 00:00:53,320 --> 00:00:55,880 life. And so thankful for each and 16 00:00:55,880 --> 00:00:59,000 everyone of you all thankful for the McGee family, some of the 17 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,600 kindest, most wonderful people in all the world. 18 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:04,480 And I love and appreciate them very, very much. 19 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:10,440 And I want to say if you are a guest here, especially a first 20 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:13,960 time guest, please do not judge this church by me. 21 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:18,800 I'm just a guest here also. But please come back and hear 22 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:21,000 this man of God preach. He's one of the best preachers 23 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:25,320 you'll ever hear in your life. And Amen, I believe that. 24 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:32,040 And I want to say thank you for the nice room and the gift 25 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:34,880 basket. What a probably my favorite gift 26 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,640 basket I've probably ever had. It was the most thoughtful. 27 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:40,600 Anyway, I don't know if you can tell by the car I drive or 28 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:44,320 colors I wear, but orange is my favorite color. 29 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:48,360 And my sister Don McGee went above and beyond everything in 30 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:52,320 my gift basket is orange. She just, she just went through 31 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:54,920 the store finding anything orange and throwing it in there. 32 00:01:55,360 --> 00:01:58,880 And the lady when I was checking in the room, she said she she, 33 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:02,120 you know, just struggled to put that gift basket up on top of 34 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:03,760 the counter. And she said you might need to 35 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:05,360 get a cart. This thing's pretty heavy. 36 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:08,039 So it was a gift basket for a king. 37 00:02:08,039 --> 00:02:10,600 And I didn't feel worthy. But thank you very, very much. 38 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:12,160 You have your bibles turned with me to. 39 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:15,960 Proverbs 14 and four. I guess if you don't have your 40 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:17,720 Bible, you'll just. Have to trust me since the. 41 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:20,600 The bulb on the the big screen is out. 42 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:25,800 Proverbs 14 and 4 says where no oxen are. 43 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:30,560 The crib is clean, but much increase is by the. 44 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:34,640 Strength of the ox I want to preach for just a few minutes 45 00:02:34,640 --> 00:02:37,240 today on this thought a messy house. 46 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:39,280 Would you set your? Bible down. 47 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:41,800 Would you lift your hands? Would you lift your hearts? 48 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:43,600 Would you help me pray right now? 49 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:46,920 Lord, we love you and we thank you for your spirit, your 50 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:51,040 anointing, your power, your majesty that we feel in this 51 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:53,200 place. God anoint me to preach your 52 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:56,400 word. Lord, anoint your people to hear 53 00:02:56,400 --> 00:03:01,200 your word, to receive your word, but most importantly to respond 54 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:04,760 to your word. God, speak to us through your 55 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:06,600 word and through your spirit today. 56 00:03:07,240 --> 00:03:10,680 And let us leave here challenged and changed and directed and 57 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:15,440 corrected by today. In Jesus mighty name we pray, 58 00:03:15,960 --> 00:03:17,680 Amen. Why don't we give him another 59 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:19,120 hand? Clap of praise. 60 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:23,320 And as you clap your hands, the Bible says also to shout. 61 00:03:23,840 --> 00:03:25,800 Would you add a shout to your handclap? 62 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:29,920 Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus, thank you 63 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:34,880 Jesus, thank you, you may be seated. 64 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:40,840 Solomon in all of his God-given wisdom, understood and shared a 65 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:46,040 principle and proverbs. A crib can become and even stay 66 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:51,960 clean but it comes at a great price because you can't have 67 00:03:51,960 --> 00:03:57,560 oxen and keep the crib clean. So you can keep the oxen out and 68 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:02,640 you can keep the crib clean, but the great prize comes at not 69 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:08,240 having oxen because the Bible says you lose much increase 70 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:12,080 without oxen. The crib stays clean and tidy, 71 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:15,360 but it also stays empty with no harvest. 72 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:19,360 Without oxen. The crib may be clean, but there 73 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:21,720 isn't any harvest to put in the crib. 74 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:24,800 You can't. You can't have a harvest without 75 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:29,080 oxen, and you can't have oxen without a mess. 76 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:35,920 We can have a clean church, but it'll be an empty church because 77 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:42,000 a messy house is a full house we've all seen, and some of us 78 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:43,960 might even live in a messy house. 79 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:50,200 Fingerprints all over the appliances, the doors and the TV 80 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:53,600 and the windows. Toys scattered throughout the 81 00:04:53,600 --> 00:04:57,280 entire house. The trash needed to be taken out 82 00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:01,480 days ago. Windows need to be Windex. 83 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:07,640 The dust bunnies have invaded and colonized the house. 84 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:11,000 Could use some vacuuming and maybe even some mopping. 85 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:16,360 There are piles of dirty clothes and piles of clean clothes and 86 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:18,720 sometimes we don't remember which is which. 87 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:21,280 There's dirty dishes in the sink. 88 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:26,320 There's leftovers on the stove. The bathroom counter, especially 89 00:05:26,320 --> 00:05:29,400 on the one women's side, looks like a hurricane hit. 90 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:34,880 Don't even attempt to open the closet door because you may be 91 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:39,040 attacked by an army of clothes and or suit shoe ninjas. 92 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:43,520 That one junk drawer, because we all have them, don't we has 93 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:48,320 infected others with its junk. Itis disease and it goes on and 94 00:05:48,320 --> 00:05:50,800 on and on. But we live there. 95 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:54,200 It's our home. It's our mess. 96 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:57,560 It might be a mess, but it's our mess. 97 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:00,920 And a lived in home is a messy home. 98 00:06:01,280 --> 00:06:04,080 But a messy house is a happy house. 99 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:09,400 A clean house is an empty house. It's a sad place. 100 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:13,160 It's a sad house. A clean house doesn't have the 101 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:15,480 pitter patter of little feet running through it. 102 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:19,080 A clean house doesn't have sticky fingerprints covering 103 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,360 everything. A clean house doesn't have the 104 00:06:21,360 --> 00:06:25,160 sounds of laughter and happiness because it's empty. 105 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:31,000 A clean house is like a museum. You're afraid to touch anything, 106 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:34,880 afraid it might break. You're afraid that your shoes 107 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:38,760 are too dirty for their carpet and maybe even your socks. 108 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:43,720 Sadly though I've been in some churches like that, Bishop, I 109 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:46,400 was afraid to break something with my brokenness. 110 00:06:46,840 --> 00:06:50,800 I was fearful that I might mess up something with my messed up 111 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:53,000 life. But I've come to tell you, this 112 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:57,400 is a messy house today. But it's not a messed up house. 113 00:06:57,760 --> 00:07:00,840 There's a difference. There's a difference in a dirty 114 00:07:00,840 --> 00:07:05,400 house and a messy house. This isn't a dirty house filled 115 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:09,240 with the filth of the flesh, but it is a messy house. 116 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:13,400 And because it's a messy house, it's a mercy house. 117 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:18,240 And it is a beautiful mess. And there is a message in the 118 00:07:18,240 --> 00:07:21,200 messy. There is a method to the mess, 119 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:24,640 and there is a blessing in the messy today. 120 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:30,440 In Genesis 7 the Lord says to Noah, come thou in all the 121 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:34,480 house, and to the ark. For that there have I seen 122 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:36,840 righteousness before me in this generation. 123 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:42,080 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens the male 124 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:46,880 and the female, and the beasts that are not clean by two, the 125 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:51,280 male and his female. So Noah took thee clean and the 126 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:55,880 unclean animals into the ark. You know what that tells me? 127 00:07:55,880 --> 00:07:59,240 The ark was a messy house, you know. 128 00:07:59,280 --> 00:08:01,040 Think about it. You know what was in the ark? 129 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:04,000 There were stinky skunks in the ark. 130 00:08:05,480 --> 00:08:08,200 There were bullying bulls in the ark. 131 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,240 There were giraffes that were constantly sticking their noses 132 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:15,680 and other people's business. There was goats that were 133 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:18,560 butting in. There were proud Peacocks 134 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:21,640 strutting around. There were stubborn donkeys that 135 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:25,440 wouldn't listen to anybody. There were barking dogs whose 136 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:29,040 bark is worse than their bite. There were elephants that were 137 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:32,640 pushing their weight around. There were laughing hyenas 138 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:36,840 mocking everyone and everything. There were monkeys in their 139 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:41,080 business. No doubt this zoo cruise was a 140 00:08:41,080 --> 00:08:46,840 messy house, but guess what? Outside the Ark was the flood. 141 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:52,560 Outside the Ark was death, and the mess inside the Ark was 142 00:08:52,560 --> 00:08:54,920 better than the death outside the Ark. 143 00:08:55,240 --> 00:08:59,840 The stink inside the ark was better than the storm outside 144 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:02,560 the Ark. And this might be a messy house, 145 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:07,400 and we may have some problems and we may not always get along 146 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:13,000 and we may disagree sometimes, But I like my chances in this 147 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:17,240 messy house a lot more than I like it outside of this place, 148 00:09:21,680 --> 00:09:25,360 Paul tells a young Timothy and second Timothy, 2 and 20. 149 00:09:25,680 --> 00:09:27,840 But in a great house, this is a great house. 150 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:33,320 Today there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of 151 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:37,800 wood and of earth, and some to honor and some to dishonor. 152 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:43,600 In other words, Paul was saying this is a messy house because a 153 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:49,360 messy house is a mixture of vessels, a mixture of people, 154 00:09:49,680 --> 00:09:55,000 all chosen, all called to do a work for the king and his 155 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,560 Kingdom. But a messy house is also a 156 00:09:58,560 --> 00:10:00,040 great house. Why? 157 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:04,480 Not the cause of the messes in it, not the cause of the vessels 158 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:06,520 of honor and the vessels of dishonor. 159 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:11,280 But the reason this messy house is a great house is because of 160 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:16,520 the one who can work hard work with and work through our 161 00:10:16,520 --> 00:10:22,800 messes. Today a good friend of mine told 162 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:27,440 me he used to buy storage units before the show Storage Wars 163 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:31,200 came out. And he said that before the show 164 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:34,280 came out you that you might show up at a storage auction and they 165 00:10:34,280 --> 00:10:36,520 might be just a couple of people there. 166 00:10:36,800 --> 00:10:39,760 He said after that show there would be, you know, 100 people 167 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:41,640 there by trying to strike it rich. 168 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:45,960 But he he told me that whenever they would cut the the lock and 169 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:51,400 roll that door open, he said if if he looked inside and 170 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:54,640 everything was in rubbermaids and everything was labeled and 171 00:10:54,640 --> 00:10:56,880 everything was nice and clean and tidy. 172 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:59,160 He said he just walked on to the next auction. 173 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:04,200 He said, he said he always wanted the messy ones because 174 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:08,400 it, you know, he, he said he was looking for the ones, you know, 175 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:10,440 that, that, that were disorganized. 176 00:11:10,680 --> 00:11:11,960 You know, you know what I'm talking about. 177 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:15,000 You know, the ones that had the the country croc tubs and the 178 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:18,840 cool whip fine China in them and, and stuff just stuffed in 179 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:23,440 trash bags and thrown in there because he said, and I quote, 180 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:29,240 there is money in the mess. There is value and variety. 181 00:11:29,760 --> 00:11:33,080 And another show that I like to watch, American Pickers, they 182 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:35,280 don't stop at manicured mansions. 183 00:11:35,560 --> 00:11:39,080 They stop at places that have a mess, a messy house. 184 00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:41,400 You know why? Because there's just something 185 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:44,160 about the mess. There's just something about 186 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:47,320 finding something in the messy. There's just something. 187 00:11:47,560 --> 00:11:50,560 And I think that's the way God looks at a service on Sunday 188 00:11:50,560 --> 00:11:52,080 morning. He didn't come here on this 189 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:54,800 Sunday morning to find the best dressed person. 190 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:57,560 He didn't come here on this Sunday morning to find the 191 00:11:57,560 --> 00:12:00,920 person with the most education or the most money in their 192 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:03,600 wallet or the person that has life figured out. 193 00:12:03,800 --> 00:12:07,920 But he came on this Sunday morning to a messy house looking 194 00:12:07,920 --> 00:12:12,400 for somebody that he can touch, looking for somebody that he can 195 00:12:12,440 --> 00:12:16,120 fix, looking for somebody he can change their lives. 196 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:22,760 Today Jesus said in Matthew, the Kingdom of heaven is like a 197 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:27,240 treasure hid in a field. The wish when a man had found, 198 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:32,000 he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and see selleth all that 199 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:34,840 he hath and buy at the field. You know what? 200 00:12:35,120 --> 00:12:36,680 You know what was in a field? Field. 201 00:12:36,760 --> 00:12:41,920 Fields are filled with mess. There's rocks and fields, 202 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:47,880 there's weeds, there's storms, there's dirt, there's mud. 203 00:12:48,480 --> 00:12:51,440 Not to get too graphic, but there's stuff left behind by 204 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:55,520 animals. The field, it was filled with 205 00:12:55,520 --> 00:13:00,080 messes, but guess what else? It was filled with a treasure. 206 00:13:01,040 --> 00:13:04,960 And this place today might be filled with messes, but it's 207 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:08,360 also filled with a treasure. And that treasure is the Holy 208 00:13:08,360 --> 00:13:13,160 Ghost, because when Jesus steps in to your mess, when Jesus 209 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:17,440 steps into the problem, when Jesus steps into the hurt, when 210 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:21,360 Jesus steps into the brokenness, when the master of the mess 211 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:25,360 steps into this place, he can bring a treasure out of you. 212 00:13:25,360 --> 00:13:31,360 Today. Jesus tells 3 very familiar 213 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:35,880 parables in Luke 15. One of them he says in verse 8 214 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:39,840 either what woman having 10 pieces of silver, and she loses 215 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:43,800 just one piece? Does she not light a candle and 216 00:13:43,800 --> 00:13:46,960 sweep the house and seek diligently till she finds it? 217 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:50,480 And when she has found it, she call with her friends and her 218 00:13:50,480 --> 00:13:54,560 neighbors together, saying, Rejoice with me, for I have 219 00:13:54,560 --> 00:13:56,560 found the peace which I had lost. 220 00:13:56,840 --> 00:14:01,880 Likewise I say unto you, There is joy in the presence of the 221 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:05,760 angels of God over one Sinner that repent. 222 00:14:07,560 --> 00:14:12,800 So this woman in this parable, she cleaned her messy house to 223 00:14:12,800 --> 00:14:17,400 find the lost coin, and then she turns around and throws a party 224 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:22,200 and makes it messy again. I think that's what God wants us 225 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:25,880 to do on this Sunday morning. Let's clean this house to find 226 00:14:25,880 --> 00:14:29,120 that one lost soul. But then let's make it messy 227 00:14:29,120 --> 00:14:32,840 again by throwing a party and joining with the angels of 228 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:37,400 heaven over one soul that's in this altar, repenting over one 229 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:41,640 soul being baptized in the only name under heaven whereby we 230 00:14:41,640 --> 00:14:45,440 must be sent one soul being filled with the Holy Ghost. 231 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:52,120 I'm thankful for a messy house today Jesus tells another 232 00:14:52,120 --> 00:14:55,240 parable in Luke 14. He said a certain man made a 233 00:14:55,240 --> 00:15:00,080 great supper and made many and sent his servant at supper time 234 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:03,840 to say to them that were been come for all things are now 235 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:06,960 ready. And they all with one consent 236 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:10,200 began to do what we do, make excuses. 237 00:15:11,080 --> 00:15:14,040 One of them said, well, I bought some land and I got to go. 238 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:16,320 Look at it. That was just an excuse. 239 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:18,440 You don't buy land without looking at it first. 240 00:15:19,440 --> 00:15:22,760 Another one said, well, I bought some oxen and I got to go try 241 00:15:22,760 --> 00:15:24,600 them out. That was just an excuse. 242 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:26,960 You don't buy a car without test driving it. 243 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:30,400 The last one said, well, I just got married. 244 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:32,600 I got to go see my wife. He might have been telling the 245 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:34,320 truth, he might not have been making an excuse. 246 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:39,720 But the servant comes and he shows all these excuses to the 247 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:43,760 Lord of this great supper. And the master of the house, 248 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:48,760 being angry, said to his servant, go out quickly into the 249 00:15:48,760 --> 00:15:53,760 streets and the lanes of the city, and bring in hit, or the 250 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:58,160 poor and the maimed, and the halt and the block. 251 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:03,360 In other words, he said bring in the messy, because if they don't 252 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:06,760 want it, there's somebody out there that if you don't want 253 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:10,560 what God has for you today, God's got somebody with a messed 254 00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:13,600 up life out there. God's got somebody in Alcohol 255 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,600 Anonymous, God's got somebody in drug rehab. 256 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:19,880 God's got somebody living in a cardboard box. 257 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:24,400 God's got somebody out there in a prison cell that will want 258 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:26,240 this. So he said, if they don't want 259 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:30,640 it, bring in the message. And the servant said, Lord, it 260 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:33,160 is done as thou hast commanded in their steel room. 261 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:37,120 And the Lord said to the servant, go out into the 262 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:41,600 highways. See the church, I'm not saying 263 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:45,240 this church, but the church, the global church. 264 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:48,560 We have gotten really good at going to the highways. 265 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:53,600 See the highways are where we find everybody that everybody 266 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:56,560 wants. It's on the highways we find 267 00:16:56,560 --> 00:17:00,640 people that are educated, so we won't have to put a whole lot of 268 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:04,480 effort in discipling them. It's on the highways we find 269 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:07,839 people who have good jobs, so they'll be, they'll be able to 270 00:17:07,839 --> 00:17:11,400 pay their tithes and offerings. It's on the highways we find 271 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:14,800 people that haven't been divorced and remarried 12 times, 272 00:17:15,079 --> 00:17:17,800 so they won't be dragging a bunch, a bunch of baggage into 273 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:20,119 the House of God. We've gotten really good at 274 00:17:20,119 --> 00:17:23,560 going, you know, bring us a teacher and bring us a policeman 275 00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:26,720 and bring us a, a businessman and bring us a manager. 276 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:31,880 Bring us those people. We, we like those, but the, the 277 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:37,040 Lord of this servant, the type and shadow of Jesus didn't just 278 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:43,520 say go to the highways, but he said go to the hedges because on 279 00:17:43,520 --> 00:17:47,000 the side of the highways are the hedges. 280 00:17:47,840 --> 00:17:52,360 And lying in the hedges are people that were once on life's 281 00:17:52,360 --> 00:17:57,360 highway. But life and, and addiction and 282 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:01,720 pain and heartache have knocked them off the highway. 283 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:08,720 And now they lie bloodied and broken and bruised and confused 284 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:12,480 and lonely and hurting in the hedges. 285 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:16,800 And every once in awhile we need to get off our holiness highway 286 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:20,800 and we need to get down and get our hands a little messy and get 287 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:23,680 our hands a little dirty and reach down and talk. 288 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:28,600 Find somebody that we can bring to that this messy house so that 289 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:39,520 God can restore them. Jeremiah 18 The word which came 290 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:45,520 to Jeremiah from the Lord's saying, rise and go down to the 291 00:18:45,520 --> 00:18:50,280 Potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. 292 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:55,720 Then I went down to the Potter's house and behold, he wrought a 293 00:18:55,720 --> 00:19:00,080 work on the wheels. You know what the Potter's house 294 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:02,600 is? It's a messy house. 295 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:05,640 I don't know if you've ever seen anybody do pottery. 296 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:08,920 I have. There's there's a big old bucket 297 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:12,480 of dirty water. There's dried clay all over 298 00:19:12,480 --> 00:19:14,840 every the walls, the floor, the ceiling. 299 00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:18,440 That the Potter himself or herself, that they've got clay 300 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:20,960 and dirt all over them. They've got it on their face. 301 00:19:21,760 --> 00:19:27,480 Potter's house is a messy house. But I want you to know there's a 302 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:33,400 miracle on the mess because the Potter, Jeremiah said when he 303 00:19:33,400 --> 00:19:36,520 went down to the Potter's house, he watched. 304 00:19:36,520 --> 00:19:41,480 He observed the Potter working on the wheel and noticed verse 305 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:44,720 #4 it says. And the vessel that he made of 306 00:19:44,720 --> 00:19:48,400 clay was marred or it was a mess. 307 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:54,080 But here's here's where the miracle comes from because it 308 00:19:54,080 --> 00:19:57,760 was marred in the hand of the Potter. 309 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:04,280 See if I can stay in this messy house today and my life becomes 310 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:06,520 marred. My life becomes a mess. 311 00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:10,200 I'm okay because I'm still in the Potters hand. 312 00:20:10,720 --> 00:20:15,000 The problem comes whenever I'm out there on my own and I'm 313 00:20:15,000 --> 00:20:19,560 trying to figure it out myself and my life is a mess and not 314 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:24,520 this vessel becomes marred. But as long as I stay in his 315 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:30,000 hand, if my life is a mess, as long as I'm in his hand, he's 316 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:33,560 not done with me. As long as I stay on the 317 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:36,200 Potter's wheel, he's not done with me. 318 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:38,840 Because the Potter didn't throw the clay away. 319 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:42,960 He didn't start it and say this, this has no value anymore. 320 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:47,240 It's a marred mess. But the Bible says he began to 321 00:20:47,240 --> 00:20:50,000 make it another vessel and seemed good. 322 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:54,640 Not to your spouse, not to your pastor, not to the evangelist. 323 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:57,680 But it seemed good to the Potter to make it. 324 00:20:57,880 --> 00:21:02,000 So there is a miracle in the mess because the Potter is in 325 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:06,360 the business of making the mess into a masterpiece today. 326 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:15,280 This is a messy house. Let there be Bobby pins laying 327 00:21:15,280 --> 00:21:17,000 in the carpet from people shouting. 328 00:21:18,440 --> 00:21:22,760 This is a messy house. Let there be dirty kleenexes and 329 00:21:22,920 --> 00:21:26,600 snot rags laying around this altar from all the weeping in 330 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:29,280 the prey. This is a messy house. 331 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:33,960 Let there be tear stained altars and tear stained pews. 332 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:39,040 Let this be a messy house and God bless the mess. 333 00:21:39,360 --> 00:21:45,440 God bless this messy house. You know what else was messy in 334 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,320 biblical times? Sacrifices. 335 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:53,960 Sacrifices were messy. The high priest would take an 336 00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:58,680 animal kicking and screaming. He would take a knife and slit 337 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:01,400 his throat. He would then take that same 338 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:04,480 knife and literally split that animal into two pieces. 339 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:08,720 Then he would be offered as a burnt sacrifice to the Lord. 340 00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:15,000 Biblical sacrifices were literally a bloody mess, but the 341 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:19,480 untold millions of animals and that were sacrificed in the 342 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:24,520 countless billions of gallons of blood that were shed, they would 343 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:27,480 only pacify God but never satisfy God. 344 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:33,760 So God would come in the likeness of that same failed, 345 00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:40,600 flailed, fallen, messy flesh as Jesus Christ, and He would come 346 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:44,200 and he would become our ultimate sacrifice. 347 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,960 And you know what? There was nothing pretty about 348 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,560 the cross. There was nothing beautiful 349 00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:52,680 about it. It was bloody and it was gory. 350 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:56,320 It wasn't like the nice picture hanging on Grandma's wall. 351 00:22:56,560 --> 00:23:01,080 Calvary, the cross, the crucifixion, it was a bloody 352 00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:04,480 mess. So I guess you could say he was 353 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:09,920 our messy Messiah because and because of that great truth, we 354 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:14,000 can bring our message to the Messiah today because he loves 355 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,160 the messy. He loves a messy house. 356 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:20,080 Your mess. I want to tell you today, your 357 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,280 mess might scare family and friends away, but it does not 358 00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:26,000 scare him. Your mess might stress out 359 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:28,360 people, but it does not stress him out. 360 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:30,840 Your mess doesn't bother him one bit. 361 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:34,840 Your mess may scare off the lawyer and it may scare off the 362 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:37,440 banker. It may scare off the counselor, 363 00:23:37,640 --> 00:23:41,720 it may scare off the the psychologist, but your mess 364 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:44,840 doesn't bother him. He's been getting his hands 365 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,040 dirty since the beginning of time. 366 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,840 He reached down into the dirt and he created Adam. 367 00:23:51,120 --> 00:23:53,840 He reached down. When he came as Jesus, he 368 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:56,720 reached down with his finger and rode in the dirt. 369 00:23:56,720 --> 00:24:00,560 When they brought a messy life, a woman called in an adultery. 370 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:05,680 So I promise you today, your mess, your messy situation, your 371 00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:10,120 messed up life, it doesn't bother him and it does not keep 372 00:24:10,120 --> 00:24:19,720 him from working today. See the bad news today is your 373 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:23,880 life is a mess. Your marriage is a mess. 374 00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:28,320 Your family is a mess. Your finances are a mess. 375 00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:30,120 Your heart is a mess, your mind is a mess. 376 00:24:30,360 --> 00:24:34,280 Everything is a mess, preacher. Everything I touch ends up being 377 00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:36,760 a mess. That's the bad news. 378 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:41,160 But the good news is you're in the right place at the right 379 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:45,040 time because you are in a messy house today. 380 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:50,720 And the Messiah has a unique ability to mix your mess with 381 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,720 His mercy. And He can make a miracle out of 382 00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:56,400 your mess. He can make a masterpiece out of 383 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,840 your mess. So whatever it is you brought 384 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:02,760 here today, no matter what it is, no matter how messy, no 385 00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:06,560 matter how hurt, no matter how broken, no matter how battered 386 00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:10,560 or bruised you may be, you've come to the greatest place and 387 00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:14,280 this entirety of this town. You've come to a messy house. 388 00:25:14,640 --> 00:25:17,400 And God is able to work in this place. 389 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:27,440 So as we stand all across this house, every head is bowed. 390 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:34,800 Every eyes closed. I wonder today, is there anybody 391 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:39,600 that brought a mess to this place and maybe you were afraid, 392 00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:45,240 maybe you were embarrassed. Maybe your pride would say to 393 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:48,640 you, don't you go up front? Don't you go to an altar because 394 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:50,120 look, I know how the devil works. 395 00:25:51,120 --> 00:25:52,960 He's already whispered in some of your ear. 396 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,720 Don't listen to that preacher. If you go to the the altar, 397 00:25:56,720 --> 00:25:58,240 people are think that you're a messed up. 398 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,200 If you go to that altar, people think your life is a mess. 399 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,880 Don't go to that altar. You know why he he doesn't. 400 00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:10,960 He knows that when you bring your mess to Jesus, Jesus can 401 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,680 fix it. And so he'll do anything he can 402 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,600 to keep you in your Pew today. But instead, why don't you 403 00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:20,320 understand that we all have been a mess in our life? 404 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:23,640 We've all had messes. We've all messed up. 405 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:26,680 We've all done things. We've all had things happen to 406 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:32,080 us that were messy. But the difference between US 407 00:26:32,120 --> 00:26:35,200 and them is that we came to a messy house. 408 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:40,840 We came to an altar. We came when we gave our mess to 409 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,000 the Messiah. He made something amazing. 410 00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:51,640 As I read about the Potter's house, the Potter's will, I 411 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:57,080 would just like to think today that this altar is a symbol and 412 00:26:57,080 --> 00:27:01,640 a representation of the Potter's will and that when we bring our 413 00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:07,640 mess, we bring our marrying and we say, God, I want to be marred 414 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,480 in your hand. I don't want to be marred out 415 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,200 there on my own. I don't want to try to figure 416 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:17,960 life out by myself. But God, I want to bring my mess 417 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:22,160 and I want to put myself back on the Potter's wheel so that you 418 00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:25,040 can make me and mow me and create. 419 00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:30,040 Something beautiful. So as heavy head is about every 420 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:34,000 eyes closed, this altar, this Potter's wheel is open today. 421 00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:37,400 And I wonder, is there somebody that would like to bring their 422 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,240 mess? Don't be afraid, don't be 423 00:27:40,240 --> 00:27:43,320 ashamed. Don't let Prague keep you in the 424 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:47,760 Pew today, but step out of your seat and make your way down to 425 00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,200 an altar and come in contact with the one who loves the 426 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:55,680 messy. He can take your mess and mix it 427 00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:59,280 with mercy and make a masterpiece out of it today. 428 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:01,800 Come on, would you allow him to work? 429 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,920 He's here today. He's ready to work, He's ready 430 00:28:06,920 --> 00:28:10,960 to move, He's ready to fix. He's ready to put things back 431 00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:13,040 together. He's ready to touch you today. 432 00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:16,400 But you've got to willingly lay yourself on the Potter's will 433 00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:20,480 today and say, God, I might be marred, I might be a mess, but I 434 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,640 want to stay in your hand because it's in your hand that 435 00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:26,440 there is safety. It's in your hand that there is 436 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,320 restoration. It's in your hand. 437 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:31,400 There's restitution. It's in your hand, God, that I 438 00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:32,520 want to be today.