1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:03,440 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:06,560 Church podcast, where we seek to love all nations, equip the 3 00:00:06,560 --> 00:00:09,520 church, mobilize the equipped and serve all. 4 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:13,040 We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever 5 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:15,760 you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get 6 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:18,440 your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe 7 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:20,640 some tea and get ready to receive. 8 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:22,640 It's go time. Let's get into. 9 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:25,880 It Amen. Amen. 10 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:28,080 Amen, Amen. Let's give a head clap for our 11 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:29,000 pastors. Amen. 12 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:31,600 Hey, man. Hey, man, hey, man. 13 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:35,560 I really want to thank you. Can have your seat. 14 00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:37,240 Take your seats as long as you can. 15 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:41,520 I really want to strap you in, strap up because this is a 16 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:43,160 blast. I'm blasting at you. 17 00:00:43,160 --> 00:00:45,240 I ain't preaching at you. I'm not teaching at you. 18 00:00:45,240 --> 00:00:48,760 I'm blasting you Today you got to understand how it's coming so 19 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:52,800 you know how to catch it. Hey, man, if you if the ball is 20 00:00:52,800 --> 00:00:55,960 coming fast, but you ready to catch slow, something else going 21 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:58,640 to happen so you'd be ready to catch it. 22 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:02,000 And it's something that's more importational than it is 23 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:05,280 informational, OK? So it's important for you to 24 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:09,200 catch because my goal is to release the impartation of it 25 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:12,520 even more than information of it, OK. 26 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:16,680 The goal is to have you impacted and then you unpack the impact 27 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:18,920 over time. And as Pastor Terence comes and 28 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:22,680 develops in the series specifically, we're not going to 29 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:25,720 do everything today, but we're going to get some things started 30 00:01:25,720 --> 00:01:28,200 today in a way that I think can be very helpful for us. 31 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:30,960 Pastor Terrence, again, thank you for the opportunity. 32 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:34,920 So good to see you join that sunshine anyway. 33 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:40,160 It's in the sunshine anyway. Join yourself in the sunshine. 34 00:01:40,880 --> 00:01:42,680 It's a blessing. Thank you again for the 35 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:44,920 opportunity and particularly something like this. 36 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:47,920 He said he's never done this every series he started. 37 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:51,600 So it means a lot to me. It means a lot to us about the 38 00:01:51,600 --> 00:01:54,840 urgency of what God is doing when he says this can't wait 39 00:01:54,840 --> 00:01:57,560 till I get back God and say we got to go to we got to go now. 40 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:01,120 OK, so now to give you a sense of the urgency of and how you 41 00:02:01,120 --> 00:02:03,800 need to catch it, because it's something not just for our 42 00:02:03,800 --> 00:02:08,240 houses before our times, everyone say for our times, you 43 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:15,520 know, the Bible says this, that the days will come when men's 44 00:02:15,520 --> 00:02:20,080 hearts will fail. OK, Men won't be able to finish 45 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:21,680 because of the fear that's on the land. 46 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:25,440 And I will tell you this, if we were in the end times when Jesus 47 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:29,200 started, because he declares that you better know for sure 48 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:32,280 that we're in that space now. And you see evidence of that by 49 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:36,480 by by the tackle mental health people dealing with pressures 50 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:38,880 alike. You know, there's more disease 51 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:42,280 connected with stress than there is with eating than there is 52 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:46,720 with exercise or anything else. Men's hearts are already dealing 53 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:48,560 with the issues of failing or not failing. 54 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:51,200 But God is not a God that wants us to fail. 55 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:54,880 He is the Alpha and the what. He is the beginning and the 56 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:57,880 what. He's the starter and He is the 57 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:00,280 finisher of all that He is and all that He does. 58 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:04,440 And when you really understand who He is, you understand He 59 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:06,920 never starts unless He's already finished. 60 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:14,120 He never starts unless he is already finished. 61 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,800 The Word of God declares that God sees the end of a thing at 62 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:21,760 the beginning. So the fact He starts is an 63 00:03:21,760 --> 00:03:26,440 indication that it's done. He is that focused on finishing. 64 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:29,840 And we are to take after His image and His likeness. 65 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:33,280 He wants us to be those people that finish as well. 66 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:37,400 But the quality and character of a faith that finishes the good 67 00:03:37,400 --> 00:03:40,880 fight of finishing faith, the finishing kind of faith, has a 68 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:44,640 different character to it in much ways, in much the same way 69 00:03:44,760 --> 00:03:48,040 that playing most of a game has a different character than 70 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:54,040 finishing the end of a game. OK, Finishing faith has a 71 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:57,240 different character to it in the same way that building most of 72 00:03:57,240 --> 00:04:01,520 the house looks very different than when you finish the house, 73 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:05,400 OK, when it's ready to be moved in. 74 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:07,640 So we want to explore this today. 75 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:11,080 And in the beginning part of what we want to do, I want to 76 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:16,040 share a, and it's important to understand we're going to talk 77 00:04:16,040 --> 00:04:19,200 about a lot today, but think about it in this context. 78 00:04:19,200 --> 00:04:22,280 It's for our times, not just for our house. 79 00:04:22,840 --> 00:04:25,040 It's for our times, not just for your house. 80 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:28,880 It's for our times, not just for this one moment. 81 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:34,360 I want to begin with something that God shared with me and I 82 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:35,840 just want to share it with you guys. 83 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:39,600 And it's something that's been accumulated over the course of a 84 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:45,160 couple days, but it says this. Listen and understand the times 85 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:48,200 that we're in, what we're involved in. 86 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:50,520 This love quest is more than a remnant project. 87 00:04:51,720 --> 00:04:57,080 God is fashioning us into a Nehemiah force to give aid and 88 00:04:57,080 --> 00:05:00,440 support to the remnants of God through this country and the 89 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:03,520 province. A remnant is something that is 90 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:09,880 reserved from what was for the purpose of starting what's new 91 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:18,440 while carrying the core DNA of what has always been an example 92 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:22,360 of sourdough. There's a remnant of yeast 93 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:28,520 mixture maybe even from hundreds of years ago and that it remains 94 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:32,760 and people would take from that yeast mixture to make dough 95 00:05:32,760 --> 00:05:36,240 today. OK, so it's something that's 96 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:42,800 taken from what remains is used to start new things today, so 97 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,120 much so that the name of that is a starter. 98 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:53,080 The remnant that remains becomes the start of something new, and 99 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:56,960 the new takes that starter and keeps a remnant so that they can 100 00:05:56,960 --> 00:05:59,160 continue to start other things as well. 101 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:02,720 But a remnant only remains if it knows how to finish. 102 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:08,280 There's a faith that starts, but it also has to be a faith that 103 00:06:08,280 --> 00:06:11,600 finishes. How you start determines how you 104 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:15,240 finish. How you start determines whether 105 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:20,120 you finish. Faith that works isn't full 106 00:06:20,440 --> 00:06:23,440 unless it's a faith that finishes. 107 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,400 As I said, he's the alpha and the Omega. 108 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:29,600 He's the beginning and the end. God is not interested in 109 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:31,760 starting unless there is finishing. 110 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:35,960 He knows the end of a thing. He knows to finish at the 111 00:06:35,960 --> 00:06:38,760 beginning. There is a good fight of faith 112 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:42,360 to start. There's a good fight of faith to 113 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:44,880 get up. There's a good fight of faith to 114 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:49,600 go on. But there also has to be, there 115 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:52,400 must be a good fight of faith to finish. 116 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:56,000 It's been said that how you start them is how you got to 117 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:02,200 keep them, but how you finish is how far it's going to go after 118 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:07,040 you. How you start your generation is 119 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:11,360 how you keep your generation, but how you finish your work 120 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:16,200 determines how many generations will carry on the fight after 121 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:20,080 you. We've got to fight the good 122 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:24,360 fight of finishing Faith. A finishing Faith says at the 123 00:07:24,360 --> 00:07:28,720 beginning we will stand until we see. 124 00:07:29,200 --> 00:07:31,960 We will continue until it's done. 125 00:07:33,200 --> 00:07:39,400 A finishing faith is not afraid of contact or tight games or 126 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:43,400 close calls or down to the wire ends. 127 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:49,320 In fact, a finishing faith relishes, longs for those 128 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:53,280 moments. A finishing faith knows how to 129 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:58,240 take contact, to use that contact to finish the race, to 130 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:00,720 go through the contact until the finish. 131 00:08:01,760 --> 00:08:06,880 God is using this remnant project to develop finishing 132 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:15,880 faith in us as a community. I know for a fact that men and 133 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:18,960 women of God with great means, they're part of this community 134 00:08:19,080 --> 00:08:22,600 and some are not a part of this community, but who love this 135 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:26,920 community nonetheless, have been asking and listening for release 136 00:08:26,920 --> 00:08:31,880 from God to do more. But God is holding their hands 137 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:39,400 because if they move greatly without all of us involved, it 138 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:43,440 will be finished. And while we will have received 139 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:50,240 the promise, we all of us won't have the finishing faith that's 140 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:54,000 required to keep that promise and then pass it into other 141 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:57,720 generations to come. I believe God is saying these 142 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:02,000 people, my people, have got to have a finishing faith for 143 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:04,880 what's to come. They have to have a finishing 144 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:08,560 faith, especially in the area of money and resources building an 145 00:09:08,560 --> 00:09:11,720 economy, to be a light for what's to come. 146 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:18,360 A finishing faith knows how to start the fire and keep it lit. 147 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:23,680 A finishing faith knows how to open heaven and keep it open. 148 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:30,040 A finishing faith knows how to endure until the end and just 149 00:09:30,040 --> 00:09:34,760 doesn't care how long it takes on what the enemy's doing. 150 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:40,720 A finishing faith kills Goliath, cuts his head off, and carries 151 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:43,960 the victory around the city for all to see. 152 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:49,080 A finishing faith rallies the nation to live as sons and 153 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:51,600 daughters pursuing the Kingdom of God their father. 154 00:09:52,480 --> 00:09:55,640 A finishing faith heals them all. 155 00:09:56,200 --> 00:10:00,760 A finishing faith stands having done all to stand. 156 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:06,240 A finishing faith believes for the completion, whether they 157 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:12,080 ever see it or not. It takes a different faith to 158 00:10:12,080 --> 00:10:18,080 finish when the pressure's on, when you may be behind, when 159 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:21,960 there's only a small amount of time, when the margin of victory 160 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:25,680 is so close. A finishing faith is different 161 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:32,840 because it activates focus. It activates a steely 162 00:10:32,920 --> 00:10:37,680 determination. It activates an obliviousness to 163 00:10:37,680 --> 00:10:42,440 pressure. It ignores the distractions. 164 00:10:42,800 --> 00:10:49,920 It understands the moment and taps into a joy that draws upon 165 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:55,280 a finishing grace. It's the finishing grace where 166 00:10:55,280 --> 00:11:00,160 you find your rest and your refuge as the God and Father of 167 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:04,120 our Lord Jesus Christ finishes the good work that He has 168 00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:06,200 promised. Amen. 169 00:11:08,560 --> 00:11:12,760 I'm with you. That's worth a hour and a half. 170 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:15,160 Philip is to be the name of the Lord. 171 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:18,760 So God is telling us, He's exhorting us, He's urging us, 172 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:21,960 He's telling us whatever faith you've had before, it has to 173 00:11:21,960 --> 00:11:25,000 have a finishing faith quality. If you didn't start with the 174 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:28,720 finishing faith, then you now you have to retool in the midst 175 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:31,000 of your walk to get a faith that finishes. 176 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:35,920 OK, then that's harder to do because you're used to believing 177 00:11:35,920 --> 00:11:39,400 in a certain way, but it's something you need to do if 178 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:41,920 you're going to finish in the face of what we're facing and 179 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:44,440 what's going to be coming in the days to come. 180 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:47,400 Amen. So I want to go on further and 181 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:49,000 develop this. And you'll hear some of these 182 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,480 themes echoed and repeated within the context of the 183 00:11:51,480 --> 00:11:54,640 message we have today. So the name of the message is 184 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:58,640 the good fight. The name of the call is the good 185 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:04,200 fight of finishing faith. God is training a generation to 186 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:08,200 finish. He's training a generation to 187 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:14,160 finish, to have strong hearts that won't fail when facing 188 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:17,080 generational defining threats and difficulties. 189 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:23,040 God is calling this generation. God is making this generation. 190 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:27,480 God is trying to form his people to be a part of this generation, 191 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:30,760 because the things we're going to be facing will be 192 00:12:30,760 --> 00:12:33,560 generational, defining threats and difficulties. 193 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:41,640 The Bible declares that the day shall come where people, in 194 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:44,400 facing the things we wish they would have never been born, 195 00:12:44,840 --> 00:12:48,280 would be willing to abandon their life because of what 196 00:12:48,280 --> 00:12:50,280 they're facing and the pressure that's in front of them. 197 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:54,240 But God is training a generation to finish even in the midst of 198 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:58,840 that, not in spite of the difficulties, but to rise above 199 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:01,240 the difficulties to be a finishing work. 200 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:12,960 Knowing God is not enough. Loving God is not enough. 201 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:22,240 Signs and wonders is not enough. Showing up is not enough. 202 00:13:23,240 --> 00:13:28,240 Doing your part well, I'm doing my part is not enough. 203 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:39,280 Praying is not enough. Community is not enough, 204 00:13:44,990 --> 00:13:50,870 Worshipping is not enough, Giving is not enough. 205 00:13:54,230 --> 00:13:56,230 What you did before is not enough. 206 00:14:00,830 --> 00:14:06,560 You must have a finishing faith to have all of those things, but 207 00:14:06,560 --> 00:14:12,160 not be able to finish isn't enough, and loving God doesn't 208 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:16,160 automatically develop in you a finishing faith, no more than 209 00:14:16,160 --> 00:14:19,560 loving to play basketball, develops in you the skill and 210 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:22,320 the ability to finish a championship game. 211 00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:26,200 The love of the game will keep you motivated through the 212 00:14:26,200 --> 00:14:31,640 difficulties to learn how to finish the game, but the love is 213 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:34,360 not the same as being able to finish the game. 214 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:37,840 At the end of every season, there's one team that's the 215 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:41,440 champion and the other teams that are filled with players 216 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:46,320 that love the game go home to continue to love the game, but 217 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:49,480 they never finished enough for the championship. 218 00:14:51,840 --> 00:14:55,400 Well, I'm not saying that all of those things aren't important. 219 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:59,440 What I'm telling you is all of those things aren't enough. 220 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:07,080 So if we are resting on those things, well, I love God, that's 221 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:09,680 not going to be enough to help you finish. 222 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:14,760 Am I saying love is insufficient? 223 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:17,480 No. What I'm saying is that love has 224 00:15:17,480 --> 00:15:23,160 to translate and transform your life into an ability to stand in 225 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:26,600 the midst of whatever it is you're dealing with to finish it 226 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:29,960 to the end. There are many who loved God and 227 00:15:29,960 --> 00:15:33,640 failed love God and fallen because they just didn't know 228 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:36,520 how to finish. They're never practice what's 229 00:15:36,520 --> 00:15:39,720 coming to the end. One of the ways you learn how to 230 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:43,960 finish is to practice finishing faith challenges. 231 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:48,800 The challenge of the middle of the game is different than the 232 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:50,560 challenge at the end of the game. 233 00:15:54,080 --> 00:15:56,800 Injuries. Shout out Shatal. 234 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:02,640 Andrew Rees had a record for double double s during the game. 235 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:06,440 They played A1 on one. When it got to the end of the 236 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:12,280 game when her record for points was on the line, four people 237 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:15,640 gathered around her to stop her from scoring, even though that 238 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:19,960 team had already basically went up by like 10 points with just a 239 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:24,320 few seconds left. The challenge she faced at the 240 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:27,800 finish of that game? Four O 1 was not the same 241 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:30,800 challenge you faced during the game. one-on-one. 242 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:37,040 The finishing challenges you face are different than the the 243 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:41,880 regular walk challenges. So you have to prepare for that. 244 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:45,440 You have to know that the love of God is how it's going to keep 245 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:47,640 you in the midst of that difficulty. 246 00:16:50,080 --> 00:16:54,120 You must have finishing faith. You must have the mindset of a 247 00:16:54,120 --> 00:16:58,000 finisher. A lot of what finishing faith is 248 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:00,760 about is about how you perceive it. 249 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:05,240 I'm pointing over here because during our relay race many have 250 00:17:05,240 --> 00:17:08,119 talked about perceiving and seeing how you see things. 251 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:11,200 OK, are you building your Kingdom? 252 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,520 Are you building God's Kingdom? How are you seeing what you're 253 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:16,280 doing? A mindset that says I'm building 254 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:20,480 His Kingdom says the pressure is not on me to do, but I am just 255 00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:24,160 going to stand. If I'm building my Kingdom, then 256 00:17:24,160 --> 00:17:25,839 the pressure is on me to build it. 257 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:31,160 Perception where you are. So all the messages we've had up 258 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:34,440 to this point are linking and building to this point. 259 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:37,680 You must have the mindset of a finisher. 260 00:17:39,360 --> 00:17:42,840 Tom Brady said this. I've never lost a football game. 261 00:17:43,120 --> 00:17:47,800 I just ran out of time. That's the mindset of a 262 00:17:47,800 --> 00:17:53,560 finisher. I win and I don't stop until I 263 00:17:53,560 --> 00:17:56,640 win. That's the mindset of a 264 00:17:56,640 --> 00:17:59,200 finisher. Did you lose? 265 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:01,040 No, I just ran out of time, that's all. 266 00:18:02,760 --> 00:18:06,200 But it does suggest that you do have to know how to finish 267 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:10,520 within time frame sometimes, and the attitude and approach that's 268 00:18:10,520 --> 00:18:14,120 required to finish in that context is different than a 269 00:18:14,120 --> 00:18:18,200 faith that has no limits. I was talking Thursdays that I 270 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:20,280 got prayer meeting. It's really good. 271 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:25,080 You ought to come. And we were talking about why do 272 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:29,360 people feel pressure helping people receive an activation of 273 00:18:29,360 --> 00:18:36,080 a gift of tongues? It's because that activation can 274 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:39,080 be shown. If you ask someone, lead someone 275 00:18:39,080 --> 00:18:41,960 to the Lord, and they say, yes, I receive Jesus as my Lord and 276 00:18:41,960 --> 00:18:44,240 Savior. Yes, I receive them as God, as 277 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:46,160 my Father. Do I really know whether they've 278 00:18:46,160 --> 00:18:48,000 received it or not? What's the evidence? 279 00:18:48,360 --> 00:18:51,160 Well, maybe I'll watch them over time and we'll see how the life, 280 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:54,600 you know, the life change. But in that moment, I just like, 281 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:59,680 OK, I guess it is. If you ask people to get 282 00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:03,560 baptized in the Holy Spirit, you pray or prayer, you believe you 283 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:06,240 receive it, the power of God comes on your life to transform 284 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:08,280 you. What's the evidence in that 285 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:11,560 moment? Well, I don't know. 286 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:14,880 I guess you just have to. Yeah, I guess you did just by 287 00:19:14,880 --> 00:19:17,440 faith. But when you ask someone and 288 00:19:17,440 --> 00:19:20,520 someone said help me activate this gift of speaking in other 289 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:24,120 tongues at the end of that prayer, either they will or they 290 00:19:24,120 --> 00:19:29,400 won't and you're going to know. That's why folk get nervous 291 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:34,280 about that. The faith that finishes is going 292 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:38,760 to show the results. It's going to make it for easy 293 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:42,640 to be seen. You have to have the mindset of 294 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:47,400 a finisher. Fainting hearts won't finish, 295 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:55,320 can't finish, don't finish. Fainting hearts won't finish, 296 00:19:55,920 --> 00:20:03,720 can't finish, don't finish. Fainting hearts won't finish, 297 00:20:04,360 --> 00:20:09,440 can't finish, don't finish. You cannot have a fainting heart 298 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:15,120 and finish. So now you have a real insight 299 00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:17,040 right there. You got ears to hear. 300 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:20,520 What's one of the insights you have? 301 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:25,000 That it's important for me then to have a kind of faith that 302 00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:29,600 keeps my heart from fainting, right? 303 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:34,920 You got to develop that strength of heart before you get to the 304 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:41,280 point of your testing. You got to practice in fainting 305 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:45,120 heart scenarios. You got to practice that. 306 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:49,240 Well, how do you practice that? Here's how I practiced it one 307 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:52,120 time. My wife, she's pregnant getting 308 00:20:52,120 --> 00:20:56,960 ready to have a baby first, a first born child Grace and and 309 00:20:56,960 --> 00:21:01,240 it was problems and difficulties with the delivery and I believe 310 00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:05,440 God, I trusted God, I done all those things and I said and it's 311 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,960 we was facing difficulty still and I was angry with God. 312 00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:11,440 I was upset. I said I tried to live for you. 313 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:14,560 I've done all of this and you don't show up for me like I need 314 00:21:14,560 --> 00:21:19,840 you to right in this moment. Yes, it's like that OK, in this 315 00:21:19,840 --> 00:21:25,200 moment and I don't understand. I don't get it. 316 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:29,000 This folks not serving you having deliveries easier than 317 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:35,920 this and it's complications that threaten her life. 318 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:41,640 Even grace is life and I'm trying to figure it out and I'll 319 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:48,240 take for go for a walk. And as I went for a walk, 320 00:21:52,360 --> 00:21:56,840 something said to me, go ahead and just curse God, man, don't 321 00:21:56,840 --> 00:21:59,280 just curse God. He's abandoned you. 322 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:08,240 And in the moment when my heart wanted to faint, because I had 323 00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:16,600 read it in a book, because I had read Job before, because I'd 324 00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:19,480 seen the stories of people of faith and heard their 325 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:27,440 testimonies, practicing, in that moment, I said, God, it doesn't 326 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:31,400 matter whether the baby lives or dies. 327 00:22:32,480 --> 00:22:35,840 It doesn't matter whether my wife lives or dies. 328 00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:45,960 I will worship you. And in that moment, the light of 329 00:22:45,960 --> 00:22:53,880 God broke through my soul. You got to practice not fainting 330 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:56,920 before. You have to rely on not 331 00:22:56,920 --> 00:23:03,640 fainting. Fainting hearts won't finish. 332 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:05,960 So why is that important in our context? 333 00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:09,920 Now this message is going to go over two times 222 experiences, 334 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:12,160 so I'm not trying to finish everything right now. 335 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:14,080 Why is it important to practice that? 336 00:23:14,080 --> 00:23:16,680 Well, what's the Remnant Project about trying to teach you how 337 00:23:16,680 --> 00:23:20,640 not to fame, how not to fainting your giving, how not to fainting 338 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:23,520 your prayer, how not to fainting your praise, how not to fainting 339 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:25,960 your attitude, how not to fainting your perception of what 340 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:31,400 God is doing, how not to faint. What's an example of fainting 341 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:33,280 coming? And it's like, well, you know 342 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:36,320 it'll be done whenever it's done. 343 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:42,800 Well, you know, I did my part. Well, you know, I keep coming. 344 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:46,040 We'll see. All of that is deep degrees of 345 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:47,520 fainting whether you know it or not. 346 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:55,640 See, a faint don't happen when you hit the ground. 347 00:23:57,120 --> 00:24:01,000 A faint happens while you're standing and it begins 348 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,680 internally before it manifests externally. 349 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:07,880 OK. If someone is fainting, as in 350 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:10,880 the physical faint, it begins internally. 351 00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:14,200 And by the time they do this, it's already been going for a 352 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:18,520 minute, right? And they're hitting the ground. 353 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,640 It's just an extension of what they've been experiencing. 354 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,040 You have to practice not fainting. 355 00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:27,120 How do you practice not fainting? 356 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:31,880 When we come in to praise and worship God, do you have do it? 357 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:36,440 Are you given everything you got? 358 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,240 When it's hot, are you pressing in? 359 00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:41,040 When you don't feel like it, are you pressing in? 360 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:44,880 Are you practicing not fainting in moments like this? 361 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:49,280 So you can be like those Hebrew boys when they say when the 362 00:24:49,280 --> 00:24:53,280 sound blows bow or you go into the fire. 363 00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:57,360 The reason they could stand in that time of being challenged to 364 00:24:57,360 --> 00:24:59,760 worship because they had practiced not fainting in 365 00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:07,120 worship 1000 times before then. God gives us opportunities to 366 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:12,400 practice not fainting. Are you taking advantage of it? 367 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,600 When stuff is going well, it's too long. 368 00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:19,320 Maybe God's trying to teach you how not to faint over time 369 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,800 because you can't win every contest in three seconds. 370 00:25:24,360 --> 00:25:30,960 Ask Mike Tyson. Look at the Rocky movies. 371 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,880 Sometimes you can only win the fight if you can go to distance. 372 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:50,800 The nations in the marketplace are watching you to see if our 373 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:54,640 God finishes. They're watching you, and based 374 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:56,560 on what they see from you, they're going to determine 375 00:25:56,560 --> 00:26:00,440 something about God. So they're watching you to see 376 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,920 how committed you are to finish in this remnant project. 377 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:07,280 They're watching you to see how committed you are to being 378 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:09,120 rooted. They're watching you to see how 379 00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:12,840 committed you are. And based on what they see, 380 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:14,680 they're going to make decisions about God. 381 00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:18,120 They're not going to be into. Well, you have to understand how 382 00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:20,400 faith works in my circumstance. They're going to say you 383 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:22,600 worshipped that God. You didn't finish your God. 384 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:27,680 Don't finish, right? So City Hall's watching. 385 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,720 We gave you your permit. How long ago? 386 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,080 How long it's supposed to take the building to be finished 387 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:36,160 after you get your permit. Our landlords are watching. 388 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:39,200 Hey, you got the permit, You ready to go? 389 00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:43,520 What's going on? They watching and based on what 390 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:46,640 they're seeing and making determinations about your God. 391 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:50,160 Now I want to speak to something that's creeping up in the room. 392 00:26:51,120 --> 00:26:54,840 Why I got to be about money? Why I got to be about buildings? 393 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:59,840 You ever read the story about Joseph in the Bible? 394 00:27:01,920 --> 00:27:06,120 The economy was facing cataclysmic future. 395 00:27:07,360 --> 00:27:12,800 God cared enough about the world that he had a man in place with 396 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:18,800 a prophetic vision and a track record of excellence backing 397 00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:21,080 him. His heart didn't faint in the 398 00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:22,640 pit when his brothers put him in. 399 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,400 His heart didn't faint in the jail when he was there the first 400 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:26,960 time. His heart didn't faint in the 401 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,880 palace when this woman's man's wife was trying to get after 402 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:31,560 him. His heart didn't faint when he 403 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:33,840 got put in jail and was forgotten about. 404 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:42,120 His heart didn't faint and his excellence didn't diminish, and 405 00:27:42,120 --> 00:27:44,960 God needed him to be raised up with a vision and a dream. 406 00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:46,320 You know what's really interesting? 407 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:48,720 That God didn't even give Joseph the dream. 408 00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,640 That was the explanation for how to do it all. 409 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,600 He gave it to somebody that didn't know God. 410 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:56,760 He gave it to somebody that didn't honor God. 411 00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:02,200 He gave it to one of them because He loves people. 412 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:06,600 He gave it to someone who can really make a difference, the 413 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,640 head of the government, hoping that the head of the government 414 00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:11,120 would get an understanding what happened. 415 00:28:12,120 --> 00:28:15,840 And then God raised Joseph up to bring that understanding. 416 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,440 And through that understanding, Joseph not only saved the 417 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:22,920 nation, but when you understand when the world collapsed, people 418 00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:26,840 came down to Egypt at that time. So you can, you can 419 00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:32,320 metaphorically say, Joseph, save the world, not just those that 420 00:28:32,320 --> 00:28:39,560 love God, but everybody. I'm telling you, God is dealing 421 00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,280 with us about resources, economy and money, as I shared in the 422 00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:45,200 opening, because there's a shaking that's coming. 423 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,960 And your ability to stand and not faint in the midst of that 424 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:52,360 is going to be critical. So He's teaching us lessons now 425 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:57,080 of how not to faint in the ways that allow us to stand, how not 426 00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:00,640 to faint in generosity and gratitude, in Thanksgiving, in 427 00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:05,440 praise and in worship. Now, preacher, how do you know 428 00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:07,400 that's coming? Well, you can go to the Book of 429 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:13,240 Revelation and it says this, the day shall come that the only way 430 00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:16,120 you're going to be able to buy or sell is with a mark. 431 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:19,960 And those that choose the mark are going to basically be opting 432 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:21,640 out of what God has provided for them. 433 00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:27,160 If you don't know how to faint in the midst of economy, in the 434 00:29:27,160 --> 00:29:29,040 face of that pressure, you know what? 435 00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:32,360 The Bible says that some of the people, if I remember correctly, 436 00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:34,280 some of the people chose the mark. 437 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:37,280 I got babies at home. If I don't feed them, they die. 438 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,240 Imagine that pressure. They weren't even just choosing 439 00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,040 the mark because they was lazy. They weren't choosing just 440 00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:48,120 because they felt a pressure for lives they were responsible for. 441 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,040 And in that pressure, their hearts fainted because he had 442 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:57,160 not practiced learning how to trust God in the midst of 443 00:29:57,160 --> 00:30:00,040 economy. The Bible says this. 444 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:04,360 You cannot serve God and mammon. You got to choose. 445 00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:10,400 And it's no blended function in the Kingdom where I'll give me 446 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:14,680 20% God and 80% mammon, and I'll just call that a salad. 447 00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:22,280 God don't serve like that. God is calling us to clarify our 448 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:26,800 Marks and our motivations, how we live, how we do, how we deal 449 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:30,200 with money, how we deal with economy, because He wants a 450 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:34,280 whole heart, because it's just having a whole heart, us having 451 00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:38,120 his, his having ours and us having his that's going to allow 452 00:30:38,120 --> 00:30:42,120 us to sustain in that time. And rather than being another 453 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:44,840 example of something that's failed, we'll be able to be a 454 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:48,400 beacon of hope, a city on a hill, a light shining for the 455 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:50,720 world to see. And when everyone is failing to 456 00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:53,760 say, come, come all to you that are labor, come all to you that 457 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,120 are heavy laden. We got more than enough because 458 00:30:56,120 --> 00:30:58,920 our God is more than enough. And we know how to receive 459 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,880 whatever is required for the moment because he's taught us 460 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,080 how not to faint. He's taught us how to be 461 00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,200 generous. He's taught us how to deal with 462 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:10,560 the things of life. He's prepared us for such a time 463 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:28,040 as this. The kingdoms of God and darkness 464 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:33,400 are watching you also. They're watching you to see if 465 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:37,320 you finish. The world is watching to see if 466 00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:40,320 our God finishes because they the only thing, only way they 467 00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:44,240 know God is to look at us. But the Kingdom of God and the 468 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,560 Kingdom of darkness is watching us to see if we got what it 469 00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,400 takes to finish. Are we finishers? 470 00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:54,920 Why is that important? Because when you know someone's 471 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,160 a finisher, you approach them different. 472 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:02,160 Michael Jordan, can I say the best basketball player of all 473 00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:07,440 time? They would say this about them. 474 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:12,080 Don't mess with them. Don't get them upset. 475 00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:15,960 Leave him alone. Don't. 476 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:19,720 Don't get him angry, but don't say anything in the paper before 477 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:22,960 the game. Why? 478 00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:28,160 Because if you mess with him, he has a way of finishing what you 479 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:31,120 start. Don't mess with a finisher. 480 00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:37,080 He will embarrass you. He will show you up and the 481 00:32:37,080 --> 00:32:41,200 biggest moment of your life, he will make you look inept and 482 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:45,360 incapable by his command of dominance. 483 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,240 In the moment. You don't mess with the 484 00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:52,560 finisher. There's a story about a game a 485 00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:54,800 rookie came up to him and it was having his way with Michael 486 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:58,400 Jordan scoring points 3/4. Michael maybe had maybe two 487 00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:01,400 points, six points or eight points or whatever it was, and 488 00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:04,000 the guy looked at Michael Jordan, said, hey, got you. 489 00:33:05,760 --> 00:33:10,080 Michael Jordan scored 27 points in the last quarter of that game 490 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:19,840 and they won the Kingdom of God. To see if you're a finisher and 491 00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,720 you don't become a finisher by the big things only. 492 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:27,680 Are you finishing your praise? Are you finishing your word? 493 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:29,680 Are you finishing your meditations? 494 00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:31,360 Are you finishing your forgiveness? 495 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:32,800 Are you finishing your Thanksgiving? 496 00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:36,960 Are you finishing in the things that lead up to the big things? 497 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,640 Because that's where you build your faith that finishes. 498 00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:47,080 A finishing faith strikes until it's done. 499 00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:50,880 How do you know if you got a finishing faith? 500 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:54,040 Do you strike until it's done? The reference Second Kings, 501 00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:58,080 there was a king I'll prophet came along said shoot the arrow 502 00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:00,720 out the window. Thank you, I'll work on those 503 00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:07,720 sound effects. OK, whoopsie, I repeated it 504 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:11,440 tells you I'll work on it right. So the arrow goes out, goes out 505 00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:15,280 and lands, and then the prophet gives the king another arrow and 506 00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:22,159 the prophet just says strike the ground and the king goes 123. 507 00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:27,159 And at that point the prophet goes or something like that. 508 00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:31,920 In my mind, that's how I see it. He said, why did you only strike 509 00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:36,239 three times? Had you struck five or six 510 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:40,679 times, your enemies would have been destroyed and you'd have 511 00:34:40,679 --> 00:34:44,520 never seen a meaning. Your enemies and the generations 512 00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:48,120 of your family to come would never be able to see that enemy 513 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:51,800 rise up against them again. But because you only struck 514 00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:55,120 three times, you didn't finish. Man, you look what was 515 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,840 comfortable. You took what was easy. 516 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:04,600 If the prophet says strike, then you strike it. 517 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:12,760 He says stop. That's a faith that finishes, a 518 00:35:12,760 --> 00:35:15,240 faith that finishes. A finishing faith strikes until 519 00:35:15,240 --> 00:35:18,080 it's done. We will give until it's done. 520 00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,120 I will sacrifice until it's done. 521 00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:24,240 I will pray until I see it. I will continue to praise until 522 00:35:24,240 --> 00:35:26,840 we see what God has promised. I will stand. 523 00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,760 I will continue to forgive until it's all done. 524 00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:33,280 I, I, I'm not going to quit. I'm going to keep striking. 525 00:35:33,280 --> 00:35:35,480 I'm going to keep giving. I'm going to keep praying. 526 00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,840 I'm going to keep standing. I'm going to keep thinking. 527 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,640 I'm going to keep lifting up your hands and keep standing by 528 00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:47,000 your side until it's done. A finishing faith strikes until 529 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:54,240 it's done. A finishing faith kills, cuts 530 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:58,160 and shares the victory. This is this is David and 531 00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:00,760 Goliath. The thing you got to understand 532 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:05,800 about David, if you read the passage, God never told David to 533 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:09,840 go kill Goliath. God did not even send him to the 534 00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:16,280 battle line. David was the Uber driver. 535 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:21,680 David was to skip the dishes. Dude, his daddy said go send 536 00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:25,080 lunch to the fellas. And he like, well, it's been a 537 00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:29,480 long drive to bring this lunch. Let me check out what's 538 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:33,200 happening, OK, and see what's going on. 539 00:36:34,720 --> 00:36:39,360 And it's in that moment David had a finishing faith. 540 00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:43,080 And the finishing face is, you mean this Joker's been coming 541 00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:43,920 out here? How? 542 00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:47,440 How long? Defying the living God we serve, 543 00:36:47,720 --> 00:36:51,560 and he's still standing. Hold on, hold on. 544 00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:56,640 What's going on? See, we get a different sequence 545 00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:59,200 from how David experienced it. I believe David looked at this 546 00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:03,360 joker and he said, man, dude, I've already known how to finish 547 00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,400 a lion. I've already learned how to 548 00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,960 finish a bear. I've already learned how to 549 00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:11,920 finish my attitude and pride as the youngest son out there 550 00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:14,360 watching the sheep while my brothers sent out the fight. 551 00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:19,800 I've already learned how to finish my own agendas so I can 552 00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:22,600 serve my Father in any way that he needed. 553 00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:26,760 I've learned how to finish some things and I've because of what 554 00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:29,520 I've learned and because of who I've learned it from, and 555 00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:32,680 because who's with me? Because I serve a God that's a 556 00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,400 finisher. You going to be finished just 557 00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:37,040 like all these other things have been. 558 00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:42,000 God is finishing. He went out there and He saw an 559 00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:47,520 opportunity to finish. No one asked him to go kill 560 00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,440 Goliath. No one asked him. 561 00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,400 He said man y'all standing around this is an opportunity 562 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:58,160 for a finisher and I got what it takes, what you get if you 563 00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:03,160 finish this dude off Catholic Kingdom daughter, no taxes 564 00:38:03,240 --> 00:38:06,040 because it's OK to understand there's a value in finishing. 565 00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:10,480 There's a reward to finishing. The Bible says this cast not 566 00:38:10,480 --> 00:38:14,360 away your confidence for you have great recompense of reward. 567 00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:16,600 And the Bible talks about being diligent. 568 00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:19,400 And if you continue to be diligent, you shall reap that 569 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,080 what you sown. There is a reward that comes 570 00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:24,360 with finishing. That's OK to say. 571 00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:29,040 Does that come to me? And he did that and he said, OK. 572 00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:33,520 Then he turned and he told him how he was going to finish him. 573 00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,680 Let me tell you, tell you what a finishing faith is. 574 00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:40,080 A finishing faith sees the vision of what needs to be done 575 00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:47,880 even without the resources. David said to Goliath, I'm not 576 00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:51,040 only going to drop you, but I'm going to cut off your head. 577 00:38:51,240 --> 00:39:01,320 David did not have a sword, so I understand what he's saying 578 00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,920 there. And you know I'm going to tell 579 00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:06,600 you I've been in places where God is moving on you. 580 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:09,040 You begin to speak some things. You may not even know why you're 581 00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:10,600 saying stuff he may not even thought about. 582 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:12,280 I'm going to use his sword to cut his head off. 583 00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,200 But the God who's a finisher says when they gave him the word 584 00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,760 to declare, he gave him a word of finishing. 585 00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,600 You're going to cut off his head no matter how it's going to get 586 00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:25,320 done. Didn't matter whether I have a 587 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,120 sword or not. Now, now, if you really 588 00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:31,240 understand the, the, the, the, the passage I get, I like to 589 00:39:31,240 --> 00:39:34,760 extrapolate it this way. If you really understand it, 590 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:39,000 there's no evidence that David had ever used the sword before 591 00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:45,720 in the Scripture when he was out there with the shepherds, he was 592 00:39:45,720 --> 00:39:47,320 using the slang. That's what he said. 593 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:50,680 He tried Saul's arm and he said this don't work for me. 594 00:39:50,680 --> 00:39:52,440 I ain't used to using all this kind of stuff. 595 00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:56,080 There's no evidence he ever used the sword before. 596 00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:00,440 But because he's a finisher and he got a finishing faith and a 597 00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:05,040 finishing God, he said, don't worry that you never knew how to 598 00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:06,880 do what I'm getting ready to teach you to do. 599 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:10,120 Don't worry, you never ever lifted up a sword that size at 600 00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:13,720 least if at all. Don't worry, the grace is on you 601 00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:17,680 to finish because I'm a finisher will equip you to have have 602 00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:20,280 whatever resource you need and to know how to do it to the 603 00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:23,600 finish. Your ignorance is not an excuse, 604 00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,560 and your ignorance is not going to keep me from finishing what I 605 00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:30,640 promised you I would do. What? 606 00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:33,040 Cut? What clean cut? 607 00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:40,560 Bam, that was it. And he took the head and paraded 608 00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:41,560 it. The Bible says this. 609 00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:43,360 There's a translation, I think it's Annabeth's Bible. 610 00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:44,960 I saw sitting down here. I read it down here. 611 00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:48,000 I don't know what translation it was, but it says this. 612 00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:52,240 And when they saw that Goliath had fallen, it says the people 613 00:40:52,240 --> 00:40:56,800 rallied. Your finishing faith were rally 614 00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,600 hearts from fainting to strength. 615 00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:03,680 Your finishing faith will rally destinies and rally the promises 616 00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:06,280 of God. Your finishing faith will rally 617 00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:09,160 a world that's lost. To have hope that maybe there's 618 00:41:09,160 --> 00:41:11,480 a difference, maybe things can't change. 619 00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:15,920 Maybe there's hope for me. They rally them so strong that 620 00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:19,080 they pursued them all the way out of the valley, leaving dead 621 00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:22,360 bodies all along the way. What are the dead bodies for? 622 00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:26,560 Testimonies to anyone else who comes along that has not heard 623 00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:31,680 the story before to get them to ask questions about what is this 624 00:41:32,440 --> 00:41:33,800 and then to hear what God has done. 625 00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:40,320 Finishing faith leaves testimonies along the way for 626 00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:44,760 people to begin to grasp onto so they can begin to finish and 627 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:50,600 learn how to finish their faith. A finishing faith impacts 628 00:41:50,880 --> 00:41:53,440 generations. You do not have a finishing 629 00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:56,560 faith until you have a faith that's believing to impact 630 00:41:56,560 --> 00:42:00,720 generations. You may have faith, but it's not 631 00:42:00,720 --> 00:42:07,400 a finishing kind of faith. A finishing faith impacts 632 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:12,560 generations. Isaiah 37 says 3735 says this 633 00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:19,400 for I would defend this city to save it for my own sake and my 634 00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:22,960 servant David's sake. This God speaking David long did 635 00:42:24,240 --> 00:42:26,880 David had a finishing faith faith. 636 00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:30,360 They continue to speak to God long after he was gone and he 637 00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:32,000 said, David, you had to finish your favorite bro. 638 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,120 So I'm going to finish your assignment long after you've 639 00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:36,840 left this earth for my servant David's sake. 640 00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:40,160 I'm going to finish what he set out to finish even though he 641 00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:44,200 wasn't alive to do it himself. I'm going to finish your forum. 642 00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:52,840 It says this Proverbs 1322 A good man leaveth King James, an 643 00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:56,320 inheritance to his children's children and the wealth of the 644 00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:59,800 sinners laid up for the just. A finishing faith goes two 645 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:04,920 generations at least. Are you doing finishing what 646 00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:08,920 you're doing in a way that leaves a faith that lasts 2 647 00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,320 generations? Are you creating like the 648 00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:16,120 sourdough example, the kind of yeast or the starter that can go 649 00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:19,560 on for at least two generations? 2 generations? 650 00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:23,480 If you're conservatively speaking, it's 35 years, 3035 651 00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:28,760 years at least, or more. Well, people, 35 years from now, 652 00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:33,680 I'll be declaring and telling my daddy Caleb Swain, when faced 653 00:43:33,680 --> 00:43:36,760 with the Goliath of whatever in his life, he stood and he 654 00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,120 believed God no matter what it was. 655 00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:42,120 And that giant drop, just like it did for David. 656 00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:45,640 And we have a testimony of that goodness in our family and 657 00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:50,640 grandchildren, not mine, his. That's what you're living on 658 00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:52,960 right now. The faith of your grandfather, 659 00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:00,360 faith that finishes is generational. 660 00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:07,680 How important is this to God? Deuteronomy 7 verse eight says 661 00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:09,800 this. But because the Lord loved you, 662 00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:12,280 and because He would keep the oath which He had sworn unto 663 00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:16,600 your Father's generational reference, hath the Lord brought 664 00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:18,760 you out with a mighty hand, and ain't even bout you. 665 00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,120 It's about the promise of the finisher that went before you. 666 00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:26,240 Your finishing faith can get your future bloodline out of 667 00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:29,520 problems that they didn't even ask to get out of. 668 00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:35,840 Because you finished. Has the Lord brought you out 669 00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:39,240 with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the House of bondsman 670 00:44:39,240 --> 00:44:41,400 from the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt? 671 00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:47,400 Know therefore that the Lord thy God, He is God the faithful God 672 00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:51,720 which keeps covenant in mercy with them that love Him and keep 673 00:44:51,720 --> 00:44:55,360 His commandments to 1000 generations. 674 00:44:57,160 --> 00:45:00,800 God will take your finishing faith and and have it cascade 675 00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:04,840 out 1000 generations if you understand what finishing faith 676 00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:09,280 is when it's in your heart. God, I'm not going to be 677 00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:13,880 satisfied with what you do in Wally until 1000 generations of 678 00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:15,800 Wally residents know your goodness. 679 00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:18,760 Whatever you got to do, God do it. 680 00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:23,120 Let me do my part now so that 1000 generations of Wally 681 00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:25,480 residents will know your goodness. 682 00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:30,480 God is like, oh, I like that kind of party. 683 00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:37,400 I said so much about what it is that you're doing. 684 00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:43,200 We're going to pray. I'm going to stop right there. 685 00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:45,840 We're going to pray and I do encourage or exhort you. 686 00:45:45,880 --> 00:45:52,280 I admonish you to come for the next experience, to finish this 687 00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:56,360 up as much as we can because God is imparting something. 688 00:45:57,840 --> 00:45:59,560 He's imparting the finisher into you. 689 00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:04,720 That's what the grace of what it is about When you exercise your 690 00:46:04,720 --> 00:46:06,920 faith to receive from God, there's a grace that gets 691 00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,640 imparted into you. And like David maybe who never 692 00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:12,000 even wielded a sword, had a grace that wield one in the 693 00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:15,320 biggest moment of his life. God is imparting something into 694 00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:18,280 us in this moment. Some encourage everyone to lift 695 00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:20,280 their hands. This moment only those that want 696 00:46:20,280 --> 00:46:23,440 to receive, and I mean that sincerely. 697 00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:25,600 I ain't trying to. If you want to receive, lift 698 00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:26,680 your hands. There's no pressure. 699 00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:32,960 Father, I'm praying right now. The God we receive a finishing 700 00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:38,720 faith, receive what it takes for the good fight of a finishing 701 00:46:38,720 --> 00:46:41,240 faith. Father, we're receiving the 702 00:46:41,240 --> 00:46:45,080 impartation of this right now. We receive it not just with our 703 00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:49,760 eyes, not just with our ears, but as Mary received your spirit 704 00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:52,160 deep within her womb to give birth to Jesus. 705 00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:55,440 We receive it into the depth of our souls and our beings. 706 00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:58,400 God, you're causing us to be finishers. 707 00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:02,520 We pray and we're declaring it so today that we are finishers 708 00:47:02,720 --> 00:47:06,600 after your own heart. We are finishers after the Omega 709 00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:10,240 in the Alpha and the Omega. We are the finishers that endure 710 00:47:10,240 --> 00:47:12,600 to the end. God, by your grace, you're 711 00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:15,000 imparting it to us. Wisdom and revelation, 712 00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:20,680 understanding of how to finish so we can intensely draw on what 713 00:47:20,680 --> 00:47:25,760 it takes to finish as we face the challenges of our day. 714 00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:31,720 Father, we give you the praise and glory for it and we thank 715 00:47:31,720 --> 00:47:43,160 you And I just want to tell you this very quickly and how much 716 00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:50,600 God sees you as a finisher. He did all his creation and it 717 00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:54,200 was only come here. It was only after, after God 718 00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:57,600 made you in Genesis. I'm talking about make man, He 719 00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:01,440 said. That's my finishing touch. 720 00:48:02,040 --> 00:48:05,000 He's a finisher. He's the finish to it. 721 00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:07,320 That's how much finishers we are. 722 00:48:07,760 --> 00:48:09,760 That's how much we can have a finishing faith in God. 723 00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:13,520 He didn't say it was finished beforehand, but when he said, 724 00:48:13,520 --> 00:48:20,560 man, God, now it's finished because I put a finisher on the 725 00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:23,880 end of it. Father, we thank you for that 726 00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:27,320 and give you praise and glory for it in Jesus name. 727 00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:31,520 Thank you so much for tuning into this week's sermon. 728 00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:34,840 We pray you were challenged, equipped and encouraged. 729 00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:37,040 Make sure to follow us on all platforms. 730 00:48:37,040 --> 00:48:41,120 That's Lovequest Intl church. We out here for real. 731 00:48:41,200 --> 00:48:43,480 We're really doing it. 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