1 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:22,480 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International 2 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:25,600 Church Podcast where we seek to love all nations, equip the 3 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:28,560 church, mobilize the equipped and serve all. 4 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,080 We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever 5 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:34,760 you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get 6 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,440 your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe 7 00:00:37,480 --> 00:00:39,720 some tea and get ready to receive. 8 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:41,760 It's go time. Let's get into it to. 9 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:51,280 Move it in that order. So when the jailer startled out 10 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:56,880 of his sleep, saw the prison doors were open, say the prison 11 00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:03,720 doors were open, he drew his sword and was on the point of 12 00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:09,680 killing himself. Somebody say pressure because he 13 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:16,200 supposed that the prison, the prisoners had escaped. 14 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:28,880 But Paul say but Paul but Paul shouted, do not harm your self, 15 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:39,880 for we are all here. Then the jailer called for 16 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:47,200 lights, lights and rushed in trembling and terrified. 17 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:54,880 He fell down before Paul and Silas, and he brought them out 18 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:01,600 of the dungeon and said, Men, what is it necessary for me to 19 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:08,560 do that I may be saved? And they answered, Shout it out, 20 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:15,880 shout it out, come on, they answered in the Lord Jesus 21 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:17,600 Christ. Somebody say, help my unbelief 22 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:23,560 no matter what. If you're asking Lord heal me, 23 00:02:23,560 --> 00:02:25,120 guess what you need you asking for him. 24 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:27,800 Know what? Save you, Laura, Give me 25 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:29,400 strength. What are you asking him to do? 26 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:34,400 Save you. So what he has here is a moment 27 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:38,560 of unbelief. He's not a believer, but he 28 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:42,600 still has unbelief in its most, most critical state. 29 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:48,760 So before he can step into the Kingdom and the promises of God, 30 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:52,080 he has to do something we all still have to do. 31 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:55,360 Even though we believe in Jesus, we still have to what? 32 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:58,000 Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ. 33 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:03,040 Give yourself up to Him. Even once you have received 34 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:04,720 Jesus, guess what you got to keep doing? 35 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,400 Give yourself up to Him. That's believing. 36 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:12,200 Take yourself out of your own keeping and entrust yourself 37 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:15,160 into His keeping. That's believing. 38 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:20,520 And when you do that, you will be what saved. 39 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:27,160 And this applies both. Watch this to you and your 40 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:31,560 household as well. Say my whole house going to get 41 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:34,840 saved. Come on, somebody say everybody 42 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:42,200 healed. Today's message title is we all 43 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:51,600 here arrested by grace. Somebody say we all here, we're 44 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:58,400 all in the same room, but some of us are in different prisons. 45 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:07,080 Say it again, we are all in the same room, but some of us are in 46 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:10,600 different prisons. Watch this. 47 00:04:11,280 --> 00:04:16,360 Some of us are wearing different prison clothes. 48 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:22,720 But trust me, if we all go through the metal detectors of 49 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:28,080 heaven, we all got some metals that heaven don't need. 50 00:04:29,080 --> 00:04:31,560 We all got some unnecessary weights. 51 00:04:32,080 --> 00:04:38,640 We all got something nasty about us on us, and somebody is being 52 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:43,160 infected by us. Somebody say we all here. 53 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:51,440 Can I get a couple honest witnesses today that can say if 54 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:56,040 you really knew the truth about me, you probably could find some 55 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:58,840 dirt? Yeah, we got a few. 56 00:04:58,840 --> 00:05:01,520 And then we got some people in here afraid to be honest. 57 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:09,000 But you under heaven's metal detectors, God sees you. 58 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:11,880 We are all here. Watch this. 59 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:16,480 We are all here today, gathered by grace. 60 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:25,800 Some prisons you can see and you can hear with bare eyes bars and 61 00:05:25,800 --> 00:05:30,360 bad decisions and disease and sickness and cycles of conflict, 62 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:32,600 right? And some are quiet and 63 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,480 invisible. Watch this anxiety and 64 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:39,360 bitterness and shame and secret addictions and messiness and 65 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:42,120 gossip and and all those. You get what I'm saying? 66 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:47,120 They're silent prisons, the ones we can often just dress up and 67 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:49,480 come to church and nobody sees them. 68 00:05:52,400 --> 00:06:00,160 But look around, we all here, let's not forgive what the text 69 00:06:00,160 --> 00:06:06,600 said. We all here and I think often 70 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:08,320 when we come to church, we forget. 71 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:18,360 We all here gathered by grace. So when you look around, if you 72 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:21,840 can hear in the spirit, everybody got some clankety 73 00:06:21,840 --> 00:06:26,080 clank on them. I know we come in. 74 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:30,760 How are you doing, brother? Praise God, Hallelujah. 75 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:34,040 We hide behind our degrees, our diplomas, we pull up in our 76 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:39,320 whips, we well groom, we smell good, we talk proper. 77 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:45,720 But the cool thing about God is he's like none of that matters 78 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:47,880 to me. None of y'all status matters to 79 00:06:47,880 --> 00:06:55,720 me because you all one thing to me, my children, he used to be a 80 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:59,400 soap opera because I know my Mama used to watch it and still 81 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:07,320 watch it. All my children, if you watch 82 00:07:07,320 --> 00:07:11,280 it, Mama, thank you for thank you for watching soap operas. 83 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:20,920 We all hear the broken Amen. The bruised, Amen. 84 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:25,520 The barely making it, Amen. I just need, I just need like 5 85 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:28,920 to 10 honest people today. Not not church folk. 86 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:34,480 I need honest people today. We all here with some 87 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:38,760 brokenness. We all here with some bruises. 88 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:43,280 We all here with some barely making it. 89 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:49,640 And Grace says that's exactly who I came for. 90 00:07:52,560 --> 00:07:56,800 He he he he's like I came for the sick, the healed. 91 00:07:56,800 --> 00:07:58,560 If you healed already, I don't need the food with you. 92 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:01,320 So he'll come spirit to come into service and be like, oh, 93 00:08:01,320 --> 00:08:03,240 you think you oh, you don't want it. 94 00:08:03,280 --> 00:08:04,800 OK, You think you got it all together. 95 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:08,000 Cool. Next year he's searching who 96 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:12,200 hungry, who in here is spirit and in truth and who in here or 97 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:15,720 or what worship leader, what pastor, what clergy what what 98 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:18,920 leader is is still, although we serve in Lord. 99 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:24,440 I need a touch today. Watch this. 100 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:34,360 This is the gospel of the Kingdom grace gathered us today. 101 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:39,799 We got different cultures, different chains, different 102 00:08:39,799 --> 00:08:45,600 backgrounds, different baggage, but we all have the same need 103 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:51,480 for mercy. We've been taught how to hide 104 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:58,200 our chains and look holy, but Paul and Silas shows us watch 105 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:04,520 this Praise doesn't need perfection, it needs 106 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:07,640 participation. Talk to me, somebody. 107 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:11,240 Praise doesn't need perfection, it needs what? 108 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:15,800 Participation? This is more than a miracle 109 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:19,560 story. It's a model for the church when 110 00:09:19,560 --> 00:09:24,520 the people of God prays under pressure, conquer in confusion, 111 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:30,320 dance in delay and carry over criticize and worship over 112 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:32,520 worry. Heaven doesn't just free 113 00:09:32,520 --> 00:09:36,320 individuals, it redeems entire families and cities. 114 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:43,160 Watch when we can get over, when we can get the plank out our 115 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:49,120 eye. It realized from the windows to 116 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:59,160 the walls, everybody got issues. Everybody got it, got got some 117 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:02,960 stuff. Everybody's being the refined. 118 00:10:04,600 --> 00:10:09,560 So it's not it's unsafe for you to define somebody while they're 119 00:10:09,560 --> 00:10:15,800 being refined because you are about to. 120 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:21,760 You are about to get rooted on where a person is today and 121 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:24,800 totally miss the blessing of their evolution. 122 00:10:28,040 --> 00:10:34,040 Somebody, somebody say you, you, your view of me is too small for 123 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:40,800 me to grow around you. Your view of me is too small for 124 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:46,360 me to grow around you, right? You want a fishy fishy to grow 125 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:48,800 and not be a fishy fishy but be a be. 126 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:51,320 Whoa. You got to put him where he can 127 00:10:51,560 --> 00:10:57,160 grow. Watch this, watch, watch this. 128 00:10:57,360 --> 00:11:02,120 When the uncompromisingly righteous are in authority, the 129 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:06,120 people rejoice. But when the wicked man rules, 130 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:10,040 the people groan and they sigh. Watch this. 131 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:14,960 The blessing that rests on the righteous releases strength and 132 00:11:14,960 --> 00:11:21,280 favor to the entire city, but shouts of joy will be heard when 133 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:24,040 the wicked one dies. Watch this, the blessing of 134 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:26,880 favor resting upon the righteous. 135 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:32,720 The favor of the Lord is meant to rest upon you, Not visit you, 136 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:37,440 but rest upon your life. It says the blessing of favor 137 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:42,400 resting upon the righteous influences a city to lift it 138 00:11:42,400 --> 00:11:46,840 higher, but wicked leaders tear it apart by their words. 139 00:11:48,480 --> 00:11:53,440 So it don't matter if you are in a prison or not, if the favor 140 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:56,600 and blessing of the Lord rest upon you, put you in a 141 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:00,200 graveyard, put you in a valley with dry bones, put you in a 142 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:04,280 prison, the favor and blessing that rests upon you sets 143 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:09,840 captives free. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, 144 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:13,240 Hallelujah, Hallelujah. So follow me today. 145 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:18,640 Paul and Silas are not just two preachers in trouble, they are 146 00:12:18,640 --> 00:12:21,240 instruments of a new move of God. 147 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:24,480 I'm going to say that one more time. 148 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:29,280 Paul and Silas are not just two preachers in trouble, they are 149 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:31,280 instruments of a new move of God. 150 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:36,600 The gospel has just crossed into Europe at this time at Philippi, 151 00:12:36,720 --> 00:12:39,560 a Roman colony and a city in ancient Macedonia. 152 00:12:39,560 --> 00:12:41,200 Which is modern day Greece, right? 153 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:45,640 A proud military style city where Roman law ruled in Jewish 154 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:49,400 faith was foreign. Paul is on his second missionary 155 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:53,440 journey, LED there by a vision of a Macedonian man pleading. 156 00:12:53,800 --> 00:12:58,120 Please come and help us. Paul is resilient, Paul is 157 00:12:58,120 --> 00:12:59,760 urgent. Paul is persistent. 158 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:04,720 And Paul is is is is the epitome of a man on a mission. 159 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:10,200 It's here that we begin to see the gospel First enter Europe, a 160 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:15,520 moment of significant historical reformation and spiritual 161 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:17,440 transformation. Watch this. 162 00:13:17,600 --> 00:13:21,840 The West is about to meet the word and encounter a move of the 163 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:23,760 Spirit. Somebody say West side. 164 00:13:26,000 --> 00:13:31,920 Paul is about to take the word into brand new territory in a 165 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:35,440 way that they ain't even heard it, let alone heard it at all. 166 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:40,960 See, when God is moving, he will always send not just a new 167 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:44,200 church, he is going to send new leaders. 168 00:13:44,200 --> 00:13:48,600 He is going to send a new way, a new facet, a new way to present. 169 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:52,560 He is going to see spend, bring, bring a new anointing in the 170 00:13:52,560 --> 00:13:55,800 land, right? And watch this. 171 00:13:56,120 --> 00:14:01,040 And so and so we see in this one chapter somebody say 1 chapter, 172 00:14:02,000 --> 00:14:07,600 Acts 16. God converts Lydia, a wealthy 173 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:11,440 woman. God converts Lydia, a wealthy 174 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:14,840 woman. She was a woman of influence who 175 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:19,520 opens both her heart and her home and she gets saved. 176 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,560 Watch this. And then delivers the slave 177 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:29,320 girl, the damsel, a young woman exploited for profit, set free 178 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:32,640 by Paul in the name of Jesus. Somebody say the name of Jesus. 179 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:37,520 Watch this. And then we see the men of God 180 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:42,880 save a battle worn jailer and his entire household. 181 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:47,400 But first they had to go through to get to the household 182 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:50,160 salvation. They had to go through the 183 00:14:50,160 --> 00:14:54,720 experience of backlash of injustice inflicted upon them. 184 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:59,640 Paul and Silas as they are beaten and jailed for setting a 185 00:14:59,760 --> 00:15:04,160 damsel free. They are imprisoned, they are 186 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:08,160 persecuted for setting someone free. 187 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:11,040 We wrestle not against flesh and blood. 188 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:18,280 So it's not it's not you it it's not you, it's not me. 189 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:23,080 If the wind is blowing, you can be used by. 190 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:28,080 But what the enemy wants you to do is be mad at the jailer who 191 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:31,400 locked you up. He wants you to be mad at the 192 00:15:31,400 --> 00:15:33,800 persecutors. But say somebody say no. 193 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:42,200 The enemy is trying to slow down the momentum of freedom that is 194 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:45,160 being set by the anointing on our lives. 195 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:53,760 Watch this. They set this young girl free, 196 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:58,280 proving that obedience doesn't exempt us. 197 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:07,360 Watch this from opposition. Obedience does not exempt you 198 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:14,040 from opposition. Obedience does not exempt you. 199 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:17,000 That's that's a big time word right there. 200 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:22,920 Obedience does not exempt you from opposition. 201 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:27,600 Here we see every class of society is represented in Acts 202 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:30,920 16 because grace never stops at one group. 203 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:35,280 Grace covers all nations. Come on, Love Quest, that's a 204 00:16:35,280 --> 00:16:38,000 word for you. Grace covers all nations. 205 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:41,640 It says there's a room for watch this, There's a room. 206 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:45,280 If there's room for all of our salvation, that means there's 207 00:16:45,280 --> 00:16:49,040 room for all our mess. Now. 208 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:52,160 Now we find Paul in silence after being brutally and 209 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:58,000 unjustly beaten in the inner prison feed, fasting in in 210 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:02,760 shackles. But instead of despair, I love 211 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:04,280 this new word. I'm gonna put in my I'm gonna 212 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:06,200 put in my I'm gonna put in my vocabulary. 213 00:17:06,920 --> 00:17:11,599 They deliver a doxology. Amen. 214 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:19,920 A word or praise of glory. A A sound of great faith 215 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:27,560 melodies from heaven. Filled the air with harmonious 216 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:34,200 hope, filled the air with harmonious hope. 217 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:39,680 While trembling in and out of consciousness, their change 218 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:44,040 became instruments. Their cell becomes a sanctuary. 219 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:49,400 Their relationship becomes crucial as they need harmonies 220 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:54,920 to abolish mental havoc, they need to be on one accord to 221 00:17:54,920 --> 00:18:00,680 derail discord, and as they are both under attack, they need 222 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:05,800 love in order to help each other fight back and stand against the 223 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:10,480 true enemy of the Kingdom. Progress, offense and unbelief. 224 00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:17,480 And while society sees two men in chains, the Kingdom of heaven 225 00:18:17,480 --> 00:18:23,560 sees a church being born and a remnant rising up and preaching 226 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:30,560 to somebody today, somebody today a remnant is rising up. 227 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:36,200 This is not a mere story about prison with some praise that 228 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:40,560 tore down walls. This is about a sound of faith 229 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:45,400 that ushered in the hand of divine Kingdom orchestration. 230 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:51,440 Because as Paul watch this, as Paul later wrote to this same 231 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:53,840 church, where was he at? He was in Philippi. 232 00:18:54,680 --> 00:18:57,960 This is the book of Acts. He enters Philippi. 233 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:01,200 This is the book of Acts. He enters Philippi. 234 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:04,120 Watch this. Paul fresh off of murdering some 235 00:19:04,120 --> 00:19:11,160 Christians. He fresh off of persecuting 236 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:20,640 Christians. Watch this, as Paul later writes 237 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:28,080 to this same church, and I am convinced and sure of this very 238 00:19:28,080 --> 00:19:34,240 thing, that he who began a good work in you will continue until 239 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:38,560 the day of Jesus right up to the time of his return. 240 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:41,160 Watch this. Developing that good work, 241 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:44,640 perfecting and bringing it to full completion. 242 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:47,600 Where is that in you say the work is in me. 243 00:19:48,800 --> 00:19:51,440 Watch this. Paul understands this because 244 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:56,080 when the work began in his life, he understood that he could have 245 00:19:56,080 --> 00:20:01,520 and should have good reason to be derailed, to to to to rebel, 246 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:07,600 and had reason to quit. Watch this like Sarah like like 247 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:11,120 the like the not the centenarian shoot a might woman. 248 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:20,200 Paul didn't ask for this call. Paul was interrupted on his way 249 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:24,880 to murder some Christians and the Lord stopped them in his 250 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:29,440 tracks and said repent. I'm going to fill you with the 251 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:31,480 Holy Ghost. Now go build my church. 252 00:20:31,480 --> 00:20:35,400 Come on. So he understands. 253 00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:41,040 He pinched his letter to this church where he was first 254 00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:46,600 persecuted in their land, and he said, yeah, Remember Me? 255 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:54,000 I know God, the one that began the good work on the road to 256 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:56,720 Damascus. Damascus began a good work. 257 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:00,120 He's going to see it through and he's going to bring it to 258 00:21:00,120 --> 00:21:02,360 completion. He's going to perfect me. 259 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:05,320 So if I got to go through some change, if I got to go through 260 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:08,480 some prison cells, if I got to go through some persecution, 261 00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:13,600 what I can hinge my hope on is that he that began a good work 262 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:17,400 in me, he is committed to see it to the end. 263 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:22,160 Come on, somebody say God going to finish this work. 264 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:27,800 Watch this. God transforms pain into purpose 265 00:21:28,080 --> 00:21:31,600 and what begins in a prison becomes a promise fulfilled in 266 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:34,640 his people. Am I talking to one side? 267 00:21:34,640 --> 00:21:36,840 What side am I talking? West side, South side, North 268 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:40,160 side, West side? God transformed pain into 269 00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:45,880 purpose, and what begins in what begin what be what begins in 270 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:50,920 prison becomes a promise fulfilled in his people. 271 00:21:52,400 --> 00:21:57,000 Here's another way to say it. God turns confinement into 272 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:02,080 construction, and he builds destiny out of difficulty. 273 00:22:02,520 --> 00:22:06,240 And what starts in chains ends in change. 274 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:09,760 Am I talking to you over here? Am I talking to somebody over 275 00:22:09,760 --> 00:22:13,400 here? God turns confinement into 276 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:17,560 construction. He builds test destiny out of 277 00:22:17,560 --> 00:22:21,640 difficulty. And what starts in change ends 278 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:24,240 in change. I promise you, if you hold on, 279 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:27,320 you will see the change of God in your life. 280 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:31,000 I promise you. I promise you He's not finished 281 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:40,840 yet. So, so, so, so, so let's, let's, 282 00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:43,760 let's, let's see what happens when, when faith sings in the 283 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:48,920 dark. Let's see, let's see what 284 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:52,680 happens when faith sings in the dark, Acts 1625 says. 285 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:58,360 But about midnight, somebody say midnight one more time. 286 00:22:58,360 --> 00:23:05,480 Say midnight, as Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns 287 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:11,600 of praise God and the other prisoners were listening to 288 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,160 them. Watch it and it say they were 289 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:16,080 trying to shut them up. Watch this. 290 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:21,720 Their melodies was bringing peace in other people's cells. 291 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:28,000 Watch it, they were listening to them. 292 00:23:29,360 --> 00:23:33,240 Suddenly there was a great earthquake. 293 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:38,920 Who? So that the very foundations of 294 00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,640 the prison were shaken. Somebody say the foundations. 295 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:48,000 Somebody say a great earthquake. Somebody say suddenly and at 296 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:51,400 once all the doors was open. Somebody say all the doors. 297 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:54,480 Come on, one more, one more, one more again. 298 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:58,600 Somebody say all the doors, All the doors were open. 299 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,080 See, I don't know if I'm the only one in here. 300 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,400 I, I appreciate one door being open. 301 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:07,640 Hallelujah. I, I thank God for the man of 302 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,480 seasons. I thank God for the 1. 303 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,160 You know, he praised God for the one door. 304 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:16,480 I thank him for the one window. I thank him for the one sunroof 305 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:20,080 that open. I, I, I thank, I thank God for 306 00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:23,960 the dog door that open. I thank God for every size door. 307 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:28,640 I'll take one rather than none. But there comes a point in a 308 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:34,240 season I I just feel like this is this is this we're right on 309 00:24:34,240 --> 00:24:37,760 the brinks of this. All the doors were open. 310 00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:43,200 Can I just take can we just take 30 seconds to just thank God in 311 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:45,760 advance for all the doors being open? 312 00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:52,320 Lord, we thank you for the doors of of financial freedom being 313 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:54,680 broken open. We thank you for mental health 314 00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:57,600 being open. We thank you, Father, for divine 315 00:24:57,600 --> 00:24:59,760 relationships, those doors being open. 316 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:03,240 Lord, we thank you for the door of healing to be open. 317 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,520 Lord, we thank you for the door of household salvation being 318 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:08,640 open. Lord, we thank you that this is 319 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:11,720 a season that all the doors are about to open. 320 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:14,680 Lord, we're not just experiencing trouble on every 321 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:16,680 side. We're not just experiencing 322 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:19,120 persecution. We're not just experiencing 323 00:25:19,200 --> 00:25:21,360 lost. Lord God, you're about to break 324 00:25:21,360 --> 00:25:23,880 open the doors that you've designed to be open. 325 00:25:24,360 --> 00:25:27,680 Lord, we thank you. When you purge you, you produce 326 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:30,400 lavish fruit. All the doors are about to be 327 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,760 open. All the doors are about to be 328 00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:35,240 open. All the doors are about to be 329 00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:38,200 open. All the doors are about to be 330 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:44,880 open. See, Bible talks about a people, 331 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:51,360 when a person has received great love, they give great love. 332 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:56,240 So I'm only talking to the people who have experienced all 333 00:25:56,240 --> 00:26:01,840 the doors closed, who've experienced opportunity shut in 334 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:07,200 your face, who's gotten promises and those promises, people pull 335 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:10,720 them back. That door you walked in because 336 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:12,760 you was excited and thought it was it. 337 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:18,800 That relationship, you thought it was it and it was snatched 338 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:22,720 out of your life. So I'm not going to be the 339 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:31,000 person who bask in my pain and grief but not celebrate the 340 00:26:31,120 --> 00:26:35,480 other side of the coin. If I could be sad because the 341 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:39,600 door closed, I could be excited because the door about to open. 342 00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:50,200 If I can have fear of loss and fear of rejection, I can also 343 00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:54,400 have excitement and joy for gain. 344 00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:59,200 I'm not about to be a one side of the coin, a believer. 345 00:26:59,320 --> 00:27:00,480 No, no, no, no. Yeah. 346 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:02,600 Though I walk through the valley and shadow devil, I shall fear 347 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:05,000 no evil, for God is with me. I was blind. 348 00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:08,760 Now I see I'm not just going to complain I was blind. 349 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,400 You best believe you're going to get that work. 350 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:16,600 When I open my eyes. I've gone too long without my 351 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:18,840 sight. You think I'ma shut up with my 352 00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:32,620 eyes open. Watch this. 353 00:27:32,740 --> 00:27:35,260 Your mistakes don't stop God's promises. 354 00:27:37,420 --> 00:27:40,460 Your mistakes might hinder people from seeing God in your 355 00:27:40,460 --> 00:27:43,540 life, but your mistakes will never stop God. 356 00:27:44,860 --> 00:27:47,020 He meant what he said. Somebody say he meant what he 357 00:27:47,020 --> 00:27:55,680 said. I want you to see this midnight. 358 00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,280 I've always seen this but but never seen this. 359 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:03,360 Midnight is the time of transition. 360 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,400 Midnight is the overlap of two days. 361 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:13,320 I'm not talking Midnight is a time of tension. 362 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:20,680 It's shifts are crossing over. There's a new shift coming on. 363 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:25,360 I, I don't know if you worked in a hospital or any, any, any, 364 00:28:25,360 --> 00:28:29,200 any, any place where people have shift meetings, you get the next 365 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,560 shift, come in early so they can meet with the shift that's been 366 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:35,760 on and get a report of what's happened all night and then the 367 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:37,640 new shift take over. You understand what I'm saying, 368 00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:41,280 Doc? So there is a shift happening. 369 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:47,360 We're we're in a time where it seems dark, but it's not dark 370 00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,680 because Hell's in charge. It's dark because there's a 371 00:28:50,720 --> 00:28:55,600 shift. Somebody say shift. 372 00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,960 Say it very carefully. All you cussers say shift. 373 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,760 Here we go. Hallelujah. 374 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:13,360 Midnight is the breaking point between the old and the new, the 375 00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:17,880 old and the new. Their worship was not 376 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:22,200 situational. Their worship was revelational. 377 00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:27,720 Somebody say revelation, They did not look at the prison 378 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:29,280 behind it. And mind you, they were in the 379 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:32,480 dungeon. They couldn't even stand up. 380 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:37,080 You messed up when you forced me into a prostrated position. 381 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:43,120 When you put me on my face, that's my posture. 382 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:47,480 That's my posture. So when you put me under the 383 00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:51,800 house thinking you throwing me away, you better get ready 384 00:29:51,800 --> 00:29:58,920 because this is my posture. Come on, face down is my 385 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:02,280 posture. This is where I see my greatest 386 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:04,920 breakthrough. This is where I see my greatest 387 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,680 oil. This is where I see my greatest 388 00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:11,280 revelation. This is where I see God work the 389 00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:13,760 most. This is where I see things turn 390 00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:16,880 around. When you force me on my face, 391 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,000 that's a dangerous place for me and you. 392 00:30:26,610 --> 00:30:29,330 Somebody say devil, thank you for pushing me on my face. 393 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:39,240 Whoa. Eyes to see, ears to hear. 394 00:30:39,600 --> 00:30:41,800 Watch this. Anyone can praise in daylight. 395 00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:44,760 It takes faith to praise in the dark. 396 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:48,800 Somebody say we got to turn it up. 397 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:51,640 And anyone can praise in the daylight. 398 00:30:53,120 --> 00:30:55,040 It takes faith. Maybe. 399 00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:56,600 Maybe I'm preaching in the wrong audience. 400 00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:58,720 Maybe everybody in daylight now. Maybe, maybe y'all. 401 00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:00,520 Maybe I'm getting my breakthrough later than all 402 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:04,200 y'all. OK but anyone can praise in 403 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,360 daylight. It it it takes faith to praise 404 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:09,520 in the dark. Watch this. 405 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:13,360 They didn't wait for daylight, they created it. 406 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:20,640 Do we got any praisers here? I got folks staring at me like 407 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:23,280 like, like like I'm a presenter. No, I'm trying to, I'm trying to 408 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:27,200 get to that spirit of yours and into that deep place of yours so 409 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,160 you can get excited about what God is doing in your life and 410 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:33,800 you can shift your perspective for when you walk out that door. 411 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:38,040 They did not wait for daylight. They did not wait for 412 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:39,480 breakthrough. They did not wait for the 413 00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:41,200 blessing. They did not wait for the 414 00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:43,080 harvest. They did not wait to come out of 415 00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:45,680 their chains. They praised them right where 416 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,560 they were, and they created the daylights. 417 00:31:50,240 --> 00:31:52,680 Watch this. They were the break of dawn. 418 00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:55,360 They were that. That'd be a great band name. 419 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:59,040 Break of dawn, Break of dawn, the break of dawn. 420 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:02,560 They were the break of dawn. Let there be lights. 421 00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:06,040 You're the light of the world. You're the break of dawn. 422 00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,560 You're the one that God sends into the dark places. 423 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:17,400 This was the meeting place of the end and the beginning. 424 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,440 Midnight is where the end and the beginning have a little 425 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:24,480 meeting. Somebody say shift. 426 00:32:30,830 --> 00:32:33,870 It's it's it's almost like it's midnight is saying it's, it's 427 00:32:33,870 --> 00:32:38,270 over, let's get it started. Somebody said it, it's over. 428 00:32:38,270 --> 00:32:45,030 Let's get it started. Faith doesn't wait until it's 429 00:32:45,030 --> 00:32:52,760 over to start. Oh no, joy comes in the morning, 430 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:55,880 so I'm going into the morning celebrating. 431 00:32:57,640 --> 00:32:59,920 I know what God promised us love quest. 432 00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:03,560 So I'm not waiting until we crossover. 433 00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:15,830 I'm I'm I'm praising it while we going over we see the great 434 00:33:15,830 --> 00:33:27,000 shaking to freedom. Watch this verse 26, Seismos. 435 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:31,520 Somebody say this wasn't normal. Somebody say this is a great 436 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:33,400 shaking. Watch this. 437 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:34,840 Somebody say this one was different. 438 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:37,520 You know how they say this hit different? 439 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:40,360 Yeah, this one hit different. Watch this. 440 00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:45,640 God disrupted the system to deliver his servants. 441 00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:50,160 Everyone's chains fell, even those who hadn't prayed. 442 00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:55,120 This ain't the season to worry about your family members and 443 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,480 all that. Just just give, give God the 444 00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:01,680 praise that's due because every chain fell, even those that 445 00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:05,640 hadn't prayed. You, you look, I, I can tell you 446 00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:08,440 that I got out of some situations because of what my 447 00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,199 grandma prayed. I didn't even know how to pray 448 00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:15,000 and chains broke off of my life. Do we got any prayer warriors in 449 00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,920 here that believe that what's in their mouth is the key to 450 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:26,679 somebody else's freedom? Just shout out come out now in 451 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:39,880 Jesus name. The praise their praise shook 452 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:45,840 foundations plural. You got to watch this. 453 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,600 Remember I had you say foundation Their praise shook 454 00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:52,199 foundations. It's very important. 455 00:34:52,719 --> 00:35:00,400 Their praise shook foundations. Every chain fell off, even those 456 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:05,160 who hadn't prayed. God doesn't deal with symptoms, 457 00:35:05,320 --> 00:35:15,360 He shakes systems. Come on, somebody say, I don't 458 00:35:15,360 --> 00:35:17,800 mind God shaking my systems. They need some of them need to 459 00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:22,600 change in the 1st place, right? Sometimes God is. 460 00:35:22,720 --> 00:35:26,960 Can you wait for the shaking? It's not about if you waited for 461 00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,440 the shaking if it took too long, it's about when he shakes. 462 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:31,560 Do you let pride keep you? Still? 463 00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:35,400 Can God shake you? Can God shift you? 464 00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:41,000 Can God change you? God doesn't deal with symptoms, 465 00:35:41,320 --> 00:35:46,600 He shakes systems. When worship is real, it doesn't 466 00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:53,400 just open doors, it breaks up unneeded structures and discards 467 00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:57,600 old wineskins. Have you ever thought that the 468 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:02,560 praise in this house was for this house first worship team? 469 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:07,800 You ever thought that the songs that we say it was to shake your 470 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:12,200 foundations first? See this what the church needs 471 00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:16,680 to understand. So when shaking comes, when 472 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:22,880 disruption comes, we trust God and while we waiting on God, we 473 00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:27,040 unite with each other, not divide because have you ever 474 00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:30,560 thought there was a word that came in this house that God was 475 00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:33,640 cleaning it? So have you ever thought that 476 00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:38,440 the disruption or some of the confusion, oh I know God 477 00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:40,480 confuses folks. Look at Babel. 478 00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:46,640 When God is trying to break up something, He will allow 479 00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:49,840 confusion, but it's him breaking it up. 480 00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:54,160 Watch this. But it's not to divide us, it's 481 00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:57,720 to unite us. Because with Babel, he said when 482 00:36:57,720 --> 00:37:00,600 they put their mind together, look at what they can do. 483 00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:05,640 The devil wants you to think the shaking is for separation, but 484 00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,680 God's shaking always should lead to unity. 485 00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:13,640 Watch this because guess what? Watch this, watch this, watch 486 00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:15,000 this. Follow me, follow me. 487 00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:20,560 It was some singing, it was some shaking and it was some shifting 488 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:25,280 in that order. How long we been singing that? 489 00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:28,200 That's one thing Love quest do we get on people nerves. 490 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:33,920 We welcome you, right? You you got a song for that 491 00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:36,680 right? We got our mission song. 492 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:39,640 If it can be sang, we going to sing it. 493 00:37:41,040 --> 00:37:44,800 One thing we going to do is we going to sing but but you got to 494 00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,200 be understand God put that in our spirit. 495 00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:52,040 God gathered all these singers. Watch this, which means that 496 00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:55,800 there's an anointing upon us to shake some stuff up. 497 00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:03,000 So when stuff starts shaking, let's learn from these guys. 498 00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:10,640 Shaking is a sign of shifting. Watch this. 499 00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,240 Shaking is a sign of shifting, not departing. 500 00:38:14,240 --> 00:38:16,360 OK, write it down. Watch this, Watch this. 501 00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:18,840 Praise brought pressure and pressure. 502 00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:22,040 Birth power. Praise brought pressure. 503 00:38:24,240 --> 00:38:27,520 Can you can you stand through the squeezing? 504 00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:31,880 OK, all you smart people squeezing. 505 00:38:32,720 --> 00:38:34,760 Can you stand through the squeezing? 506 00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:41,360 See. All squeezing does is it pushes 507 00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:42,360 out of you. What's in you? 508 00:38:44,000 --> 00:38:46,160 Have you ever thought God wanted to get it out of you? 509 00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:47,840 Because there's a shifting happening. 510 00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:53,160 New wine can't go on the old wine skins, so there's a squeeze 511 00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:57,160 necessary to get out of you the unnecessary way. 512 00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:03,120 But when watch this. But when what comes out of you, 513 00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:06,640 you got to be careful because sometimes what comes out of you 514 00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:11,440 is evidence for people to use against you for what the enemy 515 00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:16,800 made them think about you. So you can't be surprised during 516 00:39:16,800 --> 00:39:21,480 the squeezing when people run from you because something came 517 00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:23,520 out of you that God brought out of you. 518 00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:27,480 See, some of the truth is, is God want to know his brothers 519 00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:30,040 and sisters. Can you handle your brother's 520 00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:34,680 mess? Because your brother handled 521 00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:39,600 yours. That's why you all save, right? 522 00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:42,160 It's because somebody handled your sin. 523 00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:49,360 Hallelujah. Watch this. 524 00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:51,920 Their praise didn't just set them free. 525 00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,320 It freed everyone close enough to hear them. 526 00:39:58,720 --> 00:39:59,560 See you. You. 527 00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:01,440 This is why you got to keep opening your mouth. 528 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,360 Because there's somebody around you with chains, but they don't 529 00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,440 got to praise. There's somebody in your family 530 00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,280 would change, but they don't got to praise you got to stop. 531 00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:11,960 You got to start understanding that joke. 532 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:14,520 See, I see why my grandma used to walk through the house and 533 00:40:14,520 --> 00:40:16,880 just sing. She's like, look, I ain't going 534 00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:19,040 to argue with Uncle Willy. Let him sleep on the back porch, 535 00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:20,600 but he going to hear these hymns. 536 00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,840 Come on, somebody. Sometimes you need to stop 537 00:40:24,840 --> 00:40:27,880 arguing and getting in conversation and put a hymn on 538 00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:30,520 them. Put a hymn on them. 539 00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:37,400 Put a hymn on them, something about the name Jesus. 540 00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:44,720 Put a hymn on them, something about the name Jesus. 541 00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:59,460 It's his love, Sweet. Whoa, whoa. 542 00:41:00,060 --> 00:41:06,340 Somebody say Jesus. Oh hi Lord, the name Jesus. 543 00:41:26,950 --> 00:41:29,510 I'm like Grandma, how you dealing with all this in the 544 00:41:29,510 --> 00:41:33,670 hood, your son on dope, your daughter running around doing 545 00:41:33,670 --> 00:41:36,990 her thing and you just you just the sweetest little piece of 546 00:41:36,990 --> 00:41:39,880 pie. You not disturbed, you not 547 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,920 distracted, you faithful, you going to church all week, you 548 00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:45,840 still tithing, you still giving, you will not be moved. 549 00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:49,160 Your husband abused you, your husband left you and you still 550 00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:53,160 something about the name Jesus. See, this is what you got to 551 00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:57,520 understand. The pressure is not so you can 552 00:41:57,520 --> 00:42:01,360 run. God is trying to say OK, this 553 00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:05,240 season that mess came out of you, but next season when I 554 00:42:05,240 --> 00:42:08,280 squeeze you, something mature going to come out of you. 555 00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:14,240 You go bless your enemies, you go bless your family. 556 00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:17,320 You go sing a hymn instead of cussing somebody out. 557 00:42:17,720 --> 00:42:21,800 You go stand and not get weary instead of running out the back 558 00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:27,200 door. Their praise didn't just set 559 00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:30,960 them free, it freed everyone close enough to hear it. 560 00:42:31,120 --> 00:42:37,800 So to this day, what keeps me standing is the memory of my mom 561 00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:41,800 and my grandma standing. Despite being on welfare, 562 00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:47,120 despite being abused, despite being single mothers, They stood 563 00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:50,240 and they worshipped through the pressure. 564 00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:57,360 We're in a generation that we need to know how to stand 565 00:42:57,360 --> 00:43:01,440 through the pressure. I don't know all this running 566 00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:03,480 around. When I grew up, it was 567 00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:07,680 generations in one church. And guess what? 568 00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:09,800 I've seen fights in the choir stand. 569 00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:12,000 I've seen fights in the choir room. 570 00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:15,240 Folks was messing around. I've seen people cheating. 571 00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,960 But guess what? Everybody you go back to that 572 00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:20,360 day, they celebrate in 70 something years. 573 00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:25,240 We're in a time where when something don't fit for us 574 00:43:26,280 --> 00:43:33,520 deuces. How will the church last if we 575 00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:37,400 don't know how to fight through the prisons, fight through the 576 00:43:37,400 --> 00:43:41,960 pressures? See, but my grandma and they, 577 00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:46,880 they were just only one or two generations away from slavery. 578 00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:50,480 So the only way they got through slavery. 579 00:43:54,680 --> 00:44:02,120 Hymns and unity. Lord, may we, may we, may we get 580 00:44:02,120 --> 00:44:07,240 the art of hymns and unity back. We're on a pilgrimage. 581 00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:15,200 Understand that personal faith caused corporate breakthrough. 582 00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:18,240 Grace was too big to stay in their cell. 583 00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:24,480 Grace was too big to stay in that cell. 584 00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:32,040 Praise from your prison, praise from your prison, praise from 585 00:44:32,040 --> 00:44:36,320 your prison might just be the key to someone else breaking 586 00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:41,520 from their bondage. Paul cries out. 587 00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:44,960 Do thyself no harm, for we are all here. 588 00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:46,040 Remember that. Say we all here. 589 00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:47,160 Shout it out. We all here. 590 00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:51,560 Come on one more time. Say we all here, They could have 591 00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:53,080 watched this, They could have ran. 592 00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:56,600 Paul and Silas could have ran. But they stayed. 593 00:44:56,800 --> 00:45:00,600 Because freedom isn't just escaping chains, it's embracing 594 00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:05,720 responsibility. See on the other side of your 595 00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:09,120 breakthrough and your freedom and your deliverance. 596 00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:11,880 Now you're handed responsibility. 597 00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:16,120 Watch this. The greatest attack on your life 598 00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:18,320 wasn't the change that was on you. 599 00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:22,680 The greatest attack on your life begins when the chains come off. 600 00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:29,200 You Watch this. Be careful of running from where 601 00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:33,400 you got free. Before you fulfill 602 00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:36,880 responsibility to help others get free. 603 00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:40,440 Watch this. Nobody's judging in this moment. 604 00:45:40,720 --> 00:45:43,160 Remember that the walls came down. 605 00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:49,720 They're all standing around. The jailer wants to go kill 606 00:45:49,720 --> 00:45:56,200 himself because if a prisoner escapes in that day, law says 607 00:45:56,400 --> 00:46:00,800 that the jailer gets the same sentence as the ones that 608 00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:04,800 escaped he was supposed to be keeping, so he was facing 609 00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:09,640 capital punishment. But back then also, it was more 610 00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:14,640 honorable to commit suicide than to be persecuted or killed 611 00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:17,040 publicly for something you did wrong. 612 00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:21,240 So his first response when he got up and thought the 613 00:46:21,240 --> 00:46:23,880 prisoner's escape is he was going to die. 614 00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:27,680 So he said, I'd rather kill myself, more honorable than to 615 00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:30,040 be put in public in front of my family. 616 00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:36,360 And if you go way back, this is the guy that Paul heard in a 617 00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:40,720 vision. Paul's on his way to do ministry 618 00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:45,160 and gets put in prison. Paul goes to set someone free 619 00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:54,400 and get locked up himself. The prison ain't always because 620 00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:57,920 you did something criminal. What's this? 621 00:46:58,080 --> 00:46:59,560 No one was judging at this point. 622 00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:03,280 Nobody's performing at this point because Grace is doing 623 00:47:03,280 --> 00:47:06,440 what law could never do. It was bringing everybody 624 00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:08,600 together in freedom. See. 625 00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:13,880 Get this picture of we all here. These are apostles in prison 626 00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:18,960 with prisoners, Jesus on the cross with real thieves. 627 00:47:20,640 --> 00:47:22,160 Jesus say you coming with me, buddy? 628 00:47:23,240 --> 00:47:26,360 Paul says. Why would I run from the real 629 00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:29,920 bond bondage? I'm free. 630 00:47:32,400 --> 00:47:38,400 I can handle prison. I was free so I can handle 631 00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:40,760 prison, so I can handle pressure. 632 00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:45,800 I'm free so I can show somebody how to stand under pressure. 633 00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:51,280 I'm free so I can show somebody how to stand when offended. 634 00:47:52,040 --> 00:47:55,840 I'm free so I can show you how to grieve like a free person. 635 00:47:59,720 --> 00:48:02,240 I love his word, he said. I'm ready to die. 636 00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:05,440 You ever been there? Maybe even figuratively. 637 00:48:05,760 --> 00:48:07,280 I'm ready to throw in a towel and give up. 638 00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:09,960 I'm ready to quit. I'm ready to start new. 639 00:48:10,080 --> 00:48:12,360 I'm ready to run. I'm ready to go somewhere else. 640 00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:14,480 I'm ready to die. I'm ready to faint. 641 00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:16,960 I can't stand this no more. I ain't coming back there. 642 00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:21,120 I don't want this. Am I the only person in here 643 00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:23,520 that's been at the point where I'm like ready to throw in the 644 00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:25,120 towel? Watch this. 645 00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:29,840 Do you notice how God has always sent a free person around you 646 00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:35,000 when you was ready to die? I, I I could look at a few. 647 00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:37,200 I ain't going to even look at you because I I didn't, I didn't 648 00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:42,200 I didn't been in that prison with some of y'all watch this. 649 00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:46,640 Make make sure if you're going to go to prison is worth it. 650 00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:50,040 Watch this. This is worth it. 651 00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:57,000 Freedom is not watch this. Freedom is not running away, 652 00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:01,000 It's staying when others need. What freed you? 653 00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:06,920 I don't exercise my freedom by running. 654 00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:10,120 I exercise my freedom by staying. 655 00:49:12,440 --> 00:49:17,390 I don't exercise my freedom by running. 656 00:49:17,390 --> 00:49:19,150 I exercise my freedom by staying. 657 00:49:32,580 --> 00:49:43,480 Watch this. Somebody say we all here in that 658 00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:46,640 moment, the man was ready to die. 659 00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:53,520 But thank God there was apostles there who didn't run because 660 00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:57,000 they they were actually charged in justly. 661 00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:00,760 So this was their chance to go just like the Shunami woman when 662 00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:02,480 her son died. She's could have been like, I 663 00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:06,640 didn't ask for this. Let's have a funeral so I can 664 00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:09,960 get my freedom back. Oh, the prison doors is open. 665 00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:13,600 Since we free, let's hurry up and run before they put us in 666 00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:24,260 another cell. Paul could have escaped, but he 667 00:50:24,260 --> 00:50:29,100 stayed. Proof that true freedom isn't 668 00:50:29,100 --> 00:50:33,740 running away is staying present in purpose through difficult 669 00:50:33,740 --> 00:50:36,860 times. Paul could have escaped. 670 00:50:36,860 --> 00:50:41,440 Watch this. But Grace makes you stay where 671 00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:48,600 love still has work to do. Watch this, watch this. 672 00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:53,480 See on if me and you were at art, it ain't time to go. 673 00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:57,400 It's time to stay because love still got work to do. 674 00:50:57,800 --> 00:51:00,440 When you was going through what you was going through, it wasn't 675 00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:03,480 time. Now if once you come through it, 676 00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:09,120 if once we good. If you go good, peace, love you, 677 00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:13,760 but as long as we in a wrestle what what God is holding us 678 00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:17,000 responsible to do is wrestle till the match is over. 679 00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:24,800 You want to you want to talk about Jacob, You want to talk 680 00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:26,560 about the man he was wrestling with. 681 00:51:26,720 --> 00:51:30,520 When God assigns a wrestling match, you better wait until he 682 00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:35,640 ring the bell, right? Watch this. 683 00:51:35,720 --> 00:51:37,880 The blessings ain't all about my assignment. 684 00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:40,120 Guess what? The wrestles is my assignment 685 00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:44,240 too. I'm not just going to dance with 686 00:51:44,240 --> 00:51:52,840 you, I got to wrestle with you. Galatians says bear one 687 00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:55,880 another's burdens. Romans 10 say be devoted to one 688 00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:59,520 another in brotherly love. John 1513 says greater love has 689 00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:03,600 no man than this, that he laid down his life for his friends. 690 00:52:04,800 --> 00:52:10,120 Grace doesn't just free you from sin, it teaches you how to stay 691 00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:17,120 for souls. But we've made grace for us. 692 00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:25,880 Grace doesn't abandoned people, it abides with them. 693 00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:28,360 Watch this. Here's what the statement says. 694 00:52:28,720 --> 00:52:35,440 We are all here. Paul easily can separate himself 695 00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:40,000 from the prisoners. They're criminals, Paul says. 696 00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:43,480 Watch this. We all here man, y'all got to 697 00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:49,360 see that, Paul says In this moment I'm no different than 698 00:52:49,360 --> 00:52:51,480 you. We both got chains on. 699 00:52:53,320 --> 00:53:06,520 We all here because love blossoms even when it could 700 00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:14,240 bail. We all here not perfect but 701 00:53:14,240 --> 00:53:18,000 present. We all here not flawless but we 702 00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:22,000 found. Grace says I'm not free, watch 703 00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:24,360 this y'all y'all I hope this hit your spirit. 704 00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:28,800 Grace says I'm not free till my brother free. 705 00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:41,320 Watch this Jesus not still hanging on that cross for me, 706 00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:45,800 but Jesus still hanging on that cross for the world. 707 00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:50,160 I'm not free until my brother's free. 708 00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:59,840 God's goal was not just man's salvation, but a family's 709 00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:02,640 transformation. Next experience we're going to 710 00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:03,960 get into the household salvation. 711 00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:09,400 The same grace that freed the prisoners broke the generational 712 00:54:09,400 --> 00:54:16,200 curse of the household. Because when grace moves, it 713 00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:20,520 never moves for one person. Grace moves for all people. 714 00:54:24,200 --> 00:54:29,680 Watch this close here. When God shakes a sail, he's 715 00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:35,720 aiming for a city. And when God saves a man, he's 716 00:54:35,720 --> 00:54:40,920 coming for the whole household. Lift your hands right where you 717 00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:46,440 are. When God shakes a sail, he's 718 00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:52,280 coming for the whole city. And when God saves a man, he's 719 00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:56,400 coming for the whole household. I'm going to say that one more 720 00:54:56,400 --> 00:55:01,840 time. When God shakes your sail, He's 721 00:55:01,840 --> 00:55:17,140 coming for the whole city. The real testimony is how people 722 00:55:17,140 --> 00:55:21,260 see you handle your prison, how people see you handle your 723 00:55:21,260 --> 00:55:29,180 pressure, right. No greater time to stay when you 724 00:55:29,180 --> 00:55:39,280 got legit reason to run. When grace comes for man, grace 725 00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:42,240 coming for that whole family, lift your hands all over the 726 00:55:42,240 --> 00:55:49,660 place. I want you right now, in this 727 00:55:49,660 --> 00:55:53,460 moment to just whoever God brings up in your spirit. 728 00:55:53,460 --> 00:55:56,620 I want you to just take the next two minutes, 2-3 minutes, and 729 00:55:56,620 --> 00:55:59,580 pray for your brother or sister, your mom, your dad, whoever it 730 00:55:59,580 --> 00:56:04,860 may be. You go ahead, open your mouth, 731 00:56:04,860 --> 00:56:07,520 don't you? You don't think about them, you 732 00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:10,960 open your mouth and release the word for them. 733 00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:13,200 It could. It could be family members, it 734 00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:17,640 could be teammates, it could be Co workers and God knows their 735 00:56:17,640 --> 00:56:20,280 name so it's just when it's on their heart you can see. 736 00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:22,280 If you don't want to say their name out loud, that's totally 737 00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:26,720 fine, but set your mind on them and just go ahead and send a 738 00:56:26,720 --> 00:56:29,720 word to them. It could be your spouse, it 739 00:56:29,720 --> 00:56:32,320 could be your children. Send a word. 740 00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:36,320 But this is not the time for you to faint. 741 00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:41,280 He's coming for your household. He's coming for your friends. 742 00:56:41,280 --> 00:56:44,960 He's coming for your family. He's coming for your coworkers. 743 00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:49,440 The fact that he saved you as evidence that he could do it 744 00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:51,440 again. He will do it again. 745 00:56:53,080 --> 00:56:54,520 What? I stand in agreement for my 746 00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:57,160 brother and sister, whoever they're praying for. 747 00:56:57,160 --> 00:56:59,640 Lord, I stand in agreement that the chains are broken. 748 00:57:00,320 --> 00:57:02,560 Lord, we declare today. We all here. 749 00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:06,920 We all here, we all got some change, we all got some things 750 00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:11,760 to change in our lives. We all here, we all here Lord, 751 00:57:12,040 --> 00:57:15,320 and we all need mercy. We all need grace. 752 00:57:19,320 --> 00:57:22,800 I speak an anointing over you that you have staying power. 753 00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:26,440 You will not tap out in the wrestle, but you will wrestle 754 00:57:26,920 --> 00:57:36,720 until He bless you. Come on, 90 more seconds, 90 755 00:57:36,720 --> 00:57:40,440 more seconds, come on. And some of you, maybe you want 756 00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:43,640 to stand on your feet for your friend, but take it serious. 757 00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:45,600 You're standing in the gap for somebody. 758 00:58:10,510 --> 00:58:12,270 Come on, take that time. Take that time. 759 00:58:13,390 --> 00:58:15,510 You're praying for people that don't know how to pray. 760 00:58:17,270 --> 00:58:19,390 You're praying for people that don't know Jesus. 761 00:58:26,430 --> 00:58:28,150 Come on, send that word. Send that word. 762 00:58:29,350 --> 00:58:33,430 Send that word. Come on. 763 00:58:33,430 --> 00:58:35,950 Prophetic posture. Prophetic posture. 764 00:58:41,880 --> 00:58:44,760 Well, maybe you got to stand and get on the ball of your feet. 765 00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:48,800 Prophetic posture. Let the heavens know you really 766 00:58:48,800 --> 00:58:52,800 mean business. Let the heavens know you really 767 00:58:52,800 --> 00:58:56,280 mean business. Paul and Silas was put flat on 768 00:58:56,280 --> 00:58:58,480 their face. Posture, me is everything. 769 00:58:59,240 --> 00:59:03,360 Posture is everything. I'm not approaching my prison 770 00:59:03,360 --> 00:59:05,520 lightly. I'm not approaching my 771 00:59:05,520 --> 00:59:09,960 neighbor's prison lightly. I'm not just praying for my 772 00:59:09,960 --> 00:59:34,320 shackles. Thank you so much for tuning 773 00:59:34,320 --> 00:59:36,840 into this week's sermon. We pray you were challenged. 774 00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:39,840 Equipped and. Encouraged make sure to follow 775 00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:43,640 us on all platforms that's lovequest intl church. 776 00:59:43,880 --> 00:59:46,880 We out here for real we're really doing it that's Facebook, 777 00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:50,720 Instagram, YouTube and TikTok. You can find us anywhere you 778 00:59:50,720 --> 00:59:53,000 need to find us. But until next time, you know 779 00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:56,480 the drill, you know the motto. Get your love fixed man and 780 00:59:56,480 --> 00:59:57,440 we'll see y'all real soon.