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 --> 00:00:37,480 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 --> 00:00:41,720 It's go time. Let's get into it. 9 00:00:43,360 --> 00:00:45,960 Hey man, you going to take your seats there? 10 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:49,680 You can grab your seat. That's country expression. 11 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:52,400 You can grab your seat. I suggest you're going to take 12 00:00:52,400 --> 00:00:59,040 it someplace, doesn't it? Praising my savior. 13 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:02,360 You know that phrasing. This is my story. 14 00:01:02,720 --> 00:01:09,720 This is my song is really important because sometimes what 15 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:12,240 you can't remember in a word, you'll remember in a song. 16 00:01:15,240 --> 00:01:22,880 Have you ever been, have you ever been like someplace and 17 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:26,800 then someone was will bring back a a quote, a verse of an old 18 00:01:26,800 --> 00:01:30,760 song or something, right. But you haven't heard like in 19 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:33,040 see, I'm old enough to say this amount of time. 20 00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:40,480 You haven't heard like 18 years and all of a sudden in a moment, 21 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:45,440 the verses, you know, and sometimes if you like in the 22 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:48,160 store or something, it's a song. You don't want to come back. 23 00:01:48,160 --> 00:01:51,960 It's like, no, no, no, no, right? 24 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:58,800 Songs have a way of helping you remember your stories in ways 25 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:04,680 that narrative doesn't. So if you can tie your testimony 26 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:08,800 to a song, OK, why don't we get a literal literation here? 27 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:12,760 If you can tie your testimony to a tune, If you can tie your 28 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:15,320 salvation to a song. If you can. 29 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:20,920 If you can tie your deliverance to a, A to a beat that drops in, 30 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:23,920 you have a way of remembering a little bit more. 31 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:27,920 And every time you remember it, it becomes more alive, it 32 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:33,120 becomes more powerful. It just deepens even more, you 33 00:02:33,120 --> 00:02:35,560 know? So I want to practice really 34 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:40,000 quick, Lee here because I'm wanting to practice. 35 00:02:43,680 --> 00:02:48,920 I'm having so much fun right now and I'm have y'all practice. 36 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:54,680 I want you to think of your testimony or a testimony. 37 00:02:57,320 --> 00:02:59,840 OK, Y'all thinking of a testimony? 38 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:03,800 How many of y'all thinking of a testimony right now. 39 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,200 Now, if you don't have your hand up, if you, if you don't have, 40 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:11,640 if someone next to you does not have the hand up, turn to them 41 00:03:11,640 --> 00:03:15,680 and say here's my testimony. You can borrow mine for this 42 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:20,240 exercise. OK, so everybody should have a 43 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:22,160 testimony, OK, that they're going to work with. 44 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:29,920 OK, ready. And I want you to sing it. 45 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:36,840 OK, I want you to sing. No, don't laugh. 46 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:41,000 This is a multiply billion dollar idea. 47 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:47,480 Any of you obviously movie elf? OK, and what do you know from 48 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:49,960 the movie, Elf? I'm with my dad. 49 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:54,520 I'm here and I'm Christmas and I love him. 50 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:56,600 That's called singing your testimony. 51 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:00,880 And you remember it from the movie, don't you? 52 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:04,880 And Will Ferrell made a bunch of money off of singing his 53 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:07,840 testimony. And Elf, it was good enough for 54 00:04:07,840 --> 00:04:10,040 Will Ferrell, Got to be good enough for the people of God, 55 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:12,680 right? And you can, you don't, You 56 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:15,960 can't sound worse than that in singing your testimony. 57 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:20,480 So just let her RIP y'all got it. 58 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:26,920 Go ahead, sing your. Testimony, everybody, all at 59 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:27,680 once. Go ahead. 60 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:33,800 Go ahead. Come on, man. 61 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:35,480 I want to hear some low pitched voices. 62 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:38,280 Now sing your testimony. That's Elita Maris. 63 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:40,280 There you go. Come on, man. 64 00:04:42,920 --> 00:04:45,200 Lord, I'm here. You bless me. 65 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:48,960 Lord, your life is in me. Oh, God, you brought me out of 66 00:04:48,960 --> 00:04:52,520 my marriage. Lord, I'm singing my testimony. 67 00:04:52,520 --> 00:05:00,200 Oh, Lord. Amen. 68 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:02,440 Amen. Amen. 69 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:03,200 Amen. That's it. 70 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:04,000 That's it. That's it. 71 00:05:04,520 --> 00:05:06,320 Don't watch you go. Remember that You're going to 72 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:08,040 leave here next week. You're going to start. 73 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:09,680 All of a sudden you're going to start going. 74 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:12,480 Yeah, Dad, where did that come from? 75 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:14,680 Singing your testimony makes a difference. 76 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:18,440 And you got to pray for the worship team and doing stuff 77 00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:20,800 like that because they deal with music. 78 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:24,760 Sometimes they get in their hair too much, you know, like I sing 79 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:25,960 my testimony. Dad. 80 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:28,520 I love you, Dad. Thank you, Godfather. 81 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:29,840 Thank you. And I'm cool. 82 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:33,200 They'd be like three-part harmony. 83 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:35,920 Four part harmony. Am I going to sing it in unison? 84 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:38,200 I'm not going to sing it. Like, I don't know, let me sing. 85 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:42,080 Sometimes they get too much into that, you know, so you got to 86 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:44,680 pray for the music to you so they can just I'm not saying 87 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:46,920 they have a problem, but when you still doing something, you 88 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,000 have to do more prayer to be free. 89 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:53,480 What is what is all this about? I've just given you an 90 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:59,000 experience of what holy is. What we did was just holy. 91 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:05,880 I got it, Pat. I got I got my wife. 92 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:11,320 What we did was just holy. OK, holy. 93 00:06:11,320 --> 00:06:14,640 Ain't that difficult. People make it difficult. 94 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:23,120 Every time I have a chance to to share a word or share a message, 95 00:06:25,240 --> 00:06:27,920 I'm always mindful of the privilege it is and the grace 96 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:30,560 that it is and the anointing of God that shows up. 97 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:33,760 The thing about our pastors give me an opportunity to share the 98 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,640 word is that in order to do this, there has to be anointing 99 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:39,640 of God present. Now I'm skilled enough to fake 100 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:41,560 it and I can do a good job faking it. 101 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:45,400 No, this is facts. I speak for a living. 102 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:50,520 There's certain, there's certain skills you can have, but I'm not 103 00:06:50,520 --> 00:06:53,600 relying on skill because skill doesn't change your life. 104 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:56,880 It's the anointing that changes your life. 105 00:06:57,920 --> 00:06:59,760 So I have to depend on the anointing to come. 106 00:07:00,440 --> 00:07:03,160 And the great thing about this opportunity is what every time I 107 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:05,520 stand here and have the privilege of standing here, I 108 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:08,800 get to experience the anointing of God in a way that I would not 109 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:12,240 have had my pastors not inviting me into this space to share this 110 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:15,360 word at this time. So they really do me a favor to 111 00:07:15,360 --> 00:07:18,640 allow me to experience God in a different way when they invite 112 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:21,240 me in. So I always want to thank them 113 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:24,440 for the privilege and opportunity to grow in these 114 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:25,240 moments. Amen. 115 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:32,200 What I just did was holy. That's holy. 116 00:07:34,400 --> 00:07:41,040 Holy's not spooky spiritual. We're going to break that down. 117 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:42,280 What is holy? What? 118 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:44,880 What? The title of the message I have 119 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:51,000 for today is very simple. Holy is. 120 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:57,480 Holy is. Right. 121 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:06,920 Holy is holy is now, Now this is fire. 122 00:08:07,680 --> 00:08:13,560 It's a symbolic of purity, cleansing, those kinds of 123 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:17,080 things. The holiness of God is not just 124 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:20,000 represented by the fire of God. So I don't want you to get a 125 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:22,840 picture of fire all the time, right? 126 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:28,160 This is not Fantastic Four. You walking around the fire all 127 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:31,120 the time, OK, But this is a picture of the purifying, 128 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:35,039 cleansing, sanctifying quality and work that fire does. 129 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:38,919 And I put holy is the title down here. 130 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:41,720 It's because I want you to understand that these are like 131 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:46,240 the logs of the foundation. And it rises up, OK? 132 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:49,360 Being holy rises up from a revelation of who holy, what 133 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:52,360 holy is. It's something you live out of, 134 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:55,680 not something you grasp at, not something you put on. 135 00:08:57,280 --> 00:08:59,480 So holy is as holy is and we're going to do this old school 136 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:01,360 style. We got two times to do this 137 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:02,920 today and we're going to do it old school. 138 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:06,240 So everyone say old school now. I want you to grab a hold of 139 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:10,400 this sometimes when we put. Up fancy slides and I don't. 140 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:12,120 I do slides. Y'all see my slide game? 141 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:15,800 I'm improving my slide game being past week competitive, you 142 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:18,800 know. Used to be I was down by 59 143 00:09:18,800 --> 00:09:20,320 within five with two minutes left. 144 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:24,080 I can win, I can win, I can win. OK, my Slack game was improving. 145 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:29,000 But sometimes you put a slide up, you just like click it. 146 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,000 It's like typing. You can type something and to 147 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,160 have no idea what you typed right. 148 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:38,920 But sometimes when you got to wrestle with it on the intake, 149 00:09:39,160 --> 00:09:42,920 it gets ingrained in you in a way that just flashing it 150 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:46,000 doesn't. And even when Pastor puts up a 151 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:49,920 slide or I put up a slide sometimes and you copy it, you 152 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:53,720 you're copying, you're not necessarily writing it. 153 00:09:54,560 --> 00:09:57,280 Does that make sense? And there's some things today we 154 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:00,240 want to get ingrained. We want to practice that skill 155 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:03,960 of having these things ingrained in US and how to do that with 156 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:05,600 attention. So we're going to use that 157 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:08,440 technique today. So I'm going to share a few 158 00:10:08,440 --> 00:10:10,240 things. I'm going to say a few things. 159 00:10:10,240 --> 00:10:11,880 We want to have some scriptures come up. 160 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:13,840 And I really want you to take notes. 161 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:17,280 I really want you to write the things down that impact. 162 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:18,640 Write the things down that are said. 163 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:20,800 Write some of the summary statements down. 164 00:10:21,680 --> 00:10:25,280 OK, y'all got it. OK. 165 00:10:32,080 --> 00:10:37,640 How do you say write? How do you, say, write in 166 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:45,600 Italian? Khajiore, how do you say right 167 00:10:45,600 --> 00:10:52,040 in Shona What? Yoda, how do you say right in 168 00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:59,600 Tagalog What? Nama Sama Sama, how do you say 169 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:01,600 how do you say right in Thai? You know, say right in Thai. 170 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:08,440 Ken, right now we didn't gave you 12 languages. 171 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:12,360 We can give you some more to pick from if you want to What am 172 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:17,280 I trying to get across? How do you say right in Canadian 173 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:20,240 right a how about that? OK 174 00:11:32,190 --> 00:11:35,070 this is goes for day. How do you say right in day 175 00:11:35,070 --> 00:11:36,070 speak? Day isn't here. 176 00:11:36,070 --> 00:11:38,630 I don't believe day you here. How do you say right in day 177 00:11:38,630 --> 00:11:47,070 speak? Halle Berry, This is what I said 178 00:11:47,070 --> 00:11:51,000 today and I hope this is safe. I believe it is. 179 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:57,160 I was talking to Dave one time and I was dropping some real 180 00:11:57,160 --> 00:12:03,360 word for him, for his life and I knew God was speaking to him, OK 181 00:12:05,080 --> 00:12:11,880 and and Dave was listening and I said, OK Dave, he had a phone. 182 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:13,560 I even said, man, you got to write this down. 183 00:12:13,560 --> 00:12:17,400 And he was kept listening with his phone in his pocket. 184 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:22,640 I said they what if Holly Berry said to you? 185 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:29,360 Or pick any other beautiful available single person. 186 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:31,840 OK, Holly Berry's maybe a generational thing. 187 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:38,760 OK, who knew? But I said they. 188 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:40,360 But they knew who Holly Berry is. 189 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:43,960 OK, if y'all know what I'm saying, I said they What if 190 00:12:43,960 --> 00:12:46,920 Holly Berry say they here's my phone number. 191 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:49,360 Would you just be listening then? 192 00:12:49,360 --> 00:12:53,720 Would you be like all right, I'm going to write this down right. 193 00:12:54,880 --> 00:12:57,760 So me and Dave got a short phrase when God is dropping 194 00:12:57,760 --> 00:13:01,320 science of something that God is saying I said I said Dave, you'd 195 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:04,200 Holly bury that thing. That means you need to write 196 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:08,320 that down. OK, you follow. 197 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:11,240 So I saw you hood folks. I just told you to write with 198 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:15,720 that with that example, right. Why am I admonishing you today? 199 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:22,720 I'm really challenge you to write something down today to 200 00:13:22,720 --> 00:13:32,240 not be common, not be familiar. Your writing is holy and 201 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:35,840 sometimes we act. We look for these big things we 202 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:38,240 seek to do. There's a there's a guy in the 203 00:13:38,240 --> 00:13:40,640 Bible. Why am I spending all this time? 204 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:43,520 Because I'm trying to get you to get it before we before we pull 205 00:13:43,520 --> 00:13:45,360 out. I'm trying to make sure you on 206 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:50,760 the plane before we take off. There's a scripture in the Bible 207 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:55,240 where a man was seeking to be healed of some stuff on his body 208 00:13:57,560 --> 00:14:00,400 and he sent for it, went to a prophet to be healed. 209 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:06,320 You know the story went to a prophet to be healed and the 210 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:09,240 prophet sent one of his assistants out to the guy. 211 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:13,480 Prophet said go talk to his assistant. 212 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:16,560 Said assistant go tell out this guy here fine no problem. 213 00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:21,160 Tell him to go dunk or dip himself 7 times in the river 214 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:26,280 down the street. And the and the and the man came 215 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:30,000 said when he got the message, hold on brother, don't know who 216 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:32,920 I am. I'm not Mr. Ordinary. 217 00:14:34,360 --> 00:14:37,000 He sends his assistant to me. I'm expecting the Prophet 218 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:43,440 himself to come out and talk to me, and he wants me to dunk in 219 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:47,040 this river down the street. You know how dirty that river 220 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:49,080 is. I got water cleaning that at 221 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:51,480 home. If we're talking about dunking 222 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:53,600 in water, I can do that better at home. 223 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:59,080 And a woman that was with him said this to him. 224 00:15:02,040 --> 00:15:06,840 Let me ask you something. If he had come, if the Prophet 225 00:15:06,840 --> 00:15:11,160 himself had come here and asked you to do some little thing, 226 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:17,000 would you have done it? He said, of course, he said, and 227 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:19,840 then just do this little thing and follow the direction that's 228 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:23,160 being given. It may not have come in the way 229 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:26,800 you wanted, a package you wanted, but your liberties in 230 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:29,400 following the plain spoken, simple direction. 231 00:15:30,400 --> 00:15:33,440 Sometime it ain't that deep. Just dunk in the water, bro. 232 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:37,680 He did and he was healed and delivered. 233 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:42,000 So when I'm asking you and encourage me to write some 234 00:15:42,000 --> 00:15:45,400 things down today, sometime it ain't that deep. 235 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:48,280 Sometimes your deliverance isn't your determination to write. 236 00:15:52,680 --> 00:15:57,840 We're clear for take off. Holy is as holy is. 237 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:01,400 You got to understand holy in this context. 238 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:04,120 Let me ask you this. Do birds bark? 239 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:13,320 OK, Do fish meow so birds don't bark and fists don't meow. 240 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:17,040 Why? What? 241 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:18,600 It's louder. Louder everyone. 242 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:22,200 Louder the how? You know birds don't bark. 243 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:25,120 You ever heard every bird that ever existed? 244 00:16:26,240 --> 00:16:29,280 How you know birds don't bark? Huh. 245 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:33,240 Extrapolating, right? The way you know birds don't 246 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:36,400 bark is not awful knowledge, experience, because you haven't 247 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:44,160 heard every bird right? Why don't birds bark 'cause they 248 00:16:44,160 --> 00:16:47,240 birds. Birds are just birds don't bark, 249 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:50,760 man, fish don't meow. If you believe that, you need to 250 00:16:50,760 --> 00:16:56,560 be in therapy, probably right? OK, what do birds do? 251 00:16:56,560 --> 00:16:59,600 Birds bird and fish fish. Why? 252 00:16:59,600 --> 00:17:06,200 Because it's their nature. Holy is because holy is. 253 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:10,920 Holy is about a nature that you live out of. 254 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:13,960 It's not about something you do on activity. 255 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:18,800 For the believer born again in particular, holy is something 256 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:23,119 that extends to you in a part of your being. 257 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:26,480 You don't have to tell a bird to bird the bird, just birds. 258 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:28,359 You don't have to tell a fish to fish. 259 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:37,000 The fish just fishes. Holy just holies as an extension 260 00:17:37,000 --> 00:17:40,280 of nature, as an extension of identity, as extension of 261 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:44,360 essence. So when you start trying to do 262 00:17:44,360 --> 00:17:52,320 holy, you've missed it. And when you understand that, 263 00:17:52,600 --> 00:17:57,400 then you don't have to be so focused on the things that's not 264 00:17:57,760 --> 00:18:00,480 a bird is not sitting there going around going like, man, I 265 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:04,200 hope I don't bark today, dude, I'm trying not to bark today. 266 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:05,320 Why? Because I'm a bird. 267 00:18:08,080 --> 00:18:14,360 If you are holy, because God has declared you to be holy, you 268 00:18:14,360 --> 00:18:16,200 don't shouldn't spend most of your time going. 269 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:19,520 I hope I can just be holy today. Hope I don't get into something 270 00:18:19,520 --> 00:18:24,200 that makes me unholy today. You just live and be and walk in 271 00:18:24,200 --> 00:18:27,200 the fullness of it. Let it bubble out of you. 272 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:34,160 Let it just come forth from you. Holy is as holy is. 273 00:18:34,600 --> 00:18:38,600 The Old Testament focus was what made you unclean. 274 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:41,600 The Old Testament focus on live stuff. 275 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:43,400 This is unclean. That's unclean. 276 00:18:43,600 --> 00:18:46,520 That's unclean because unclean gets in the way of your holy. 277 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:50,320 OK. The Old Testament focus on what 278 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:53,560 was unclean. The New Testament focus is on 279 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:57,000 being holy. It's not even focused on 280 00:18:57,000 --> 00:19:01,920 uncleanness, it's on being holy. The Old Testament focused on 281 00:19:01,920 --> 00:19:09,360 unclean because there was no way to actually be fully clean 282 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:14,200 because of sin had entered in to the very being of man. 283 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:20,400 So there was no ability to truly just be clean, just be holy. 284 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:24,080 Though they were made holy, they couldn't be holy. 285 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:27,600 You ever had you ever seen on them shows you got a car and a 286 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:31,880 garage and it's a fine car, you know, but it don't drive. 287 00:19:33,320 --> 00:19:36,240 That's like being holy but not able to be holy. 288 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:40,640 It's built for it's built to be fine, but it don't have the 289 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:44,080 internal engine just to live out its character and its nature. 290 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:49,160 So the Old Testament focuses on that because you didn't have the 291 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:50,840 capacity. We didn't have the capacity. 292 00:19:51,200 --> 00:19:53,320 The New Testament focuses on being holy. 293 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:57,160 And if the New Testament focuses on being holy, shouldn't we 294 00:19:57,160 --> 00:20:01,200 focus more on that than not being, than than being unclean? 295 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:09,840 The focus on Old Testament and the Old Testament was on holy 296 00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:14,240 stuff, lands, holy people, when they did speak of holy This 297 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:17,080 people shall be holy, or this thing shall be holy, or that 298 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:21,280 that place might be holy. In the New Testament, the focus 299 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:25,080 is on the Holy Spirit and a holy people. 300 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:30,560 The focus is on the Holy Spirit, not a land that was holy, not a 301 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:34,120 space that was holy, even though land and space can be holy. 302 00:20:35,360 --> 00:20:37,960 Why am I doing all of this? What's the purpose of this? 303 00:20:38,200 --> 00:20:41,000 The purpose of this is to show you your mindset. 304 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:46,560 If your idea of holy is based more on doing things and not 305 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:49,400 being and being unclean and watching, I don't want to get 306 00:20:49,400 --> 00:20:50,760 soiled, I don't want to get dirty. 307 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:54,600 That's going to get in my way versus being holy and walking 308 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:57,560 with the Holy Spirit, then you're missing the essence of 309 00:20:57,560 --> 00:21:02,080 what holy really is. And it's important to know you 310 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:05,120 can't walk in the fullness of something if you're not walking 311 00:21:05,120 --> 00:21:12,280 in the essence of it. Man, that is so good, holy. 312 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:16,880 So we're going to go through some scriptures now that talk 313 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:21,640 about holy and let God do some work in you and with you and for 314 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:30,560 you on this Genesis chapter 2, verse 3, Then God bless the 7th 315 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:32,440 day. The context is this is Genesis, 316 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:37,280 God's forming things. God blessed the 7th day and made 317 00:21:37,280 --> 00:21:39,480 it holy. Why? 318 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:43,680 Because on it He rested from all the work of creating that He had 319 00:21:43,680 --> 00:21:47,240 done. So your decision to enter into 320 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:51,880 rest is holy. How do I be holy? 321 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:57,800 Rest in what God has done. You're choosing to rest in the 322 00:21:57,800 --> 00:22:01,240 promise. Rest on what God has said is 323 00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:06,480 you're being holy. It ain't that deep when you 324 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,320 choose to rest in what God has promised on your life. 325 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:14,640 God has promised that, that my body stripes, my body is healed, 326 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:17,440 has been healed. I'm going to rest in that. 327 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:22,240 Thank you, Lord. I'm going to have peace in the 328 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:23,840 midst of that. Thank you Lord. 329 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:28,640 You're resting in the promise of God is holy. 330 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:33,080 So when you're not resting in the promise, then you are not 331 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:37,560 being holy. When you are focused more on 332 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:42,120 trying to gain the promise rather than rest in the promise, 333 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:45,880 then you are trying to do holy rather than be holy. 334 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:50,880 And doing holy will never produce what being holy will. 335 00:22:56,120 --> 00:23:04,520 Holy is rest. Holy tip, holy is rest. 336 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:17,050 Let's go to Exodus 26, verse 3. Now he's talking about building 337 00:23:17,050 --> 00:23:18,050 the Tabernacle. Here. 338 00:23:23,170 --> 00:23:27,930 Let me back up on rest a bit. If you're made to be holy and 339 00:23:27,930 --> 00:23:31,610 holy is rest, then rest is present with you. 340 00:23:31,610 --> 00:23:39,920 You just have to let it. Say that again, if you've made 341 00:23:39,920 --> 00:23:46,760 to be holy, and holy is connected to rest, then rest is 342 00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:49,320 already with you and in you. You just need to let it. 343 00:23:56,230 --> 00:23:59,870 Sometimes when we're striving to go after rest, we're missing it. 344 00:24:00,470 --> 00:24:02,950 Rest is present. We just got to let it flow. 345 00:24:04,790 --> 00:24:07,750 Shout out, go to Washington junior doctor J let it flow. 346 00:24:10,110 --> 00:24:14,960 I'd said that for you. Judah, you may not know what 347 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:21,680 that means. What's an example of that? 348 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:25,560 You ever seen a socket on a wall? 349 00:24:27,360 --> 00:24:28,800 You stick metal in there. What kind? 350 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:34,480 What happens, right? Power flows right? 351 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:38,760 It it's there ready to flow out, as long as you just open the 352 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:42,280 door and let it. Rest is not something you got to 353 00:24:42,280 --> 00:24:45,520 grasp at If you're dealing with anxiety, if you're dealing with 354 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:49,600 mental anguish, rest is not something you go get when you 355 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,760 are in Christ. Rest is a part of who you are. 356 00:24:53,040 --> 00:24:56,000 All you need to do is let rest come forward. 357 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:04,040 You just need to yield to rest. You don't need to go get rest to 358 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:09,400 fight your anxiety, you just need to yield to rest and rest 359 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:12,200 will wash through that anxiety for you. 360 00:25:22,940 --> 00:25:28,460 Go to Exodus 26 three. Join the five of the curtains 361 00:25:28,460 --> 00:25:30,380 together and do the same with the other five. 362 00:25:30,540 --> 00:25:34,980 Keep going. Make loops of material along the 363 00:25:34,980 --> 00:25:38,020 edge at the end of the curtain in one set and same the other 364 00:25:38,020 --> 00:25:40,300 other set. Make 15 loops is going down a 365 00:25:40,300 --> 00:25:42,460 little deeper maybe. I got the reference, didn't 366 00:25:42,460 --> 00:25:47,400 quite get the reference right. The reference I'm going to here 367 00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:50,440 is after God is giving these instructions about building the 368 00:25:50,440 --> 00:25:53,440 Tabernacle. He's saying one part will be the 369 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,920 holy place and the other part will be the Most Holy place. 370 00:25:58,360 --> 00:26:02,520 The holy place is where you got the word and other people can 371 00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,960 enter in. The most Holy place is the place 372 00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:08,880 where you can only get into by blood and a high priest. 373 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:14,280 So in the Old Testament there was holy and then there was most 374 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:18,400 holy. When Jesus gave his life, that 375 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:23,440 veil was torn. So now there's not this thing, 376 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,920 this difference between holy and most holy. 377 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,880 What does that mean? When God says be holy is I'm 378 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:37,760 holy, what he's saying is be most holy because I am most 379 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:42,120 holy. There's no little holy and big 380 00:26:42,120 --> 00:26:47,360 holy however holy I am Most holy is the holy I'm calling you to 381 00:26:47,360 --> 00:26:50,440 be. So much so that you don't have 382 00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:53,240 to put on a most on it because it's just who you are. 383 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:59,160 God does not call himself Most High God. 384 00:27:05,630 --> 00:27:09,670 He know who he is. Most high Gods that let the 385 00:27:09,670 --> 00:27:12,430 other folk that don't know who he is know who he is. 386 00:27:15,880 --> 00:27:18,000 God is not calling himself most holy. 387 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:25,400 He just he just holy, right? So I ever holy he is. 388 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:30,080 He's invited us into that level and quality and character of 389 00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:33,720 being holy. So it's not a little holy and a 390 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,760 big holy. The fullness of whatever holy 391 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:39,080 represents in God you're able to walk in. 392 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,920 That's the invitation. Do you want to answer that 393 00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,000 invitation now? Right now? 394 00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:52,280 If I say God's inviting you into the most holy place to be, to 395 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:56,520 live in a place of most holy, so much so that it's like regular, 396 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:03,280 OK, what's the first thing that comes to your mind? 397 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,920 Man, that's too much work, man. I'm too scared of that. 398 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:09,600 What am I have to do? How am I going to maintain that? 399 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,160 How am I going to keep that up immediately? 400 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:15,440 If your mind goes to stuff you're doing, it automatically 401 00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,440 demonstrates you're missing what Holy is. 402 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:22,480 Because it's not about doing, it's about being. 403 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:26,360 This is this is my son. Here. 404 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,040 Right here. Raise your hand, son. 405 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:34,160 Where's my money? That's part of the illustration. 406 00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:35,240 You're supposed to give me some. No. 407 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:37,480 Anyway, this is my son here. Right? 408 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:40,920 What he what does he have to do to be my son? 409 00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:52,480 Right as he gets older, is he more my son or less my son? 410 00:28:55,880 --> 00:29:01,360 He just is my son. He, he is no more my son now 411 00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:06,040 than he was on that amazing evening with my with his mom. 412 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:13,680 That's holy. Now y'all giggle, but that's 413 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:17,520 holy. See, that's part of the problem. 414 00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,840 You forget that some things are holy first and foremost. 415 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:33,160 Not titillating, not familiar. You're cute, OK? 416 00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:39,600 The idea is he doesn't have to do anything. 417 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:44,040 He's born of me, which makes him holy. 418 00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,000 He's born of me, which makes him my son. 419 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:50,200 He's born of God, which makes him in his image and his 420 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,040 likeness. And where his spirit was dead on 421 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:56,800 the inside, he has a new spirit on the inside on which God is 422 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,160 able to live. Which means he's now able to 423 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:03,360 live out the being holy that God always called him to do and to 424 00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:07,080 be. There's no separation between 425 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:16,120 these two. Go Leviticus 1144, the book, the 426 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:22,880 least read book in the Bible. Why It got too many rules, man. 427 00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,440 I got too many rules, man. It'd be all dry. 428 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:30,400 Too many rules, you know, I was reading through the Bible, man, 429 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:34,080 and I was reading all the way. Through And then I Leviticus. 430 00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:40,280 I just stopped. You know what part of Leviticus 431 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:43,080 is for? It's in the name. 432 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,560 Who's Leviticus for? Right? 433 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:47,600 Who? The Levites. 434 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:53,920 Yeah, but more specifically, those who are in charge and 435 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:57,600 taking up the charge to carry the presence of God on behalf of 436 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:00,640 others. See, if you ain't interested in 437 00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:06,080 that, you can skip Levites. Leviticus But if you saying I'm 438 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:08,920 willing to take up the charge to carry the presence of God for my 439 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,480 nation, my bloodline, my family, a generation, then there's a 440 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:16,800 level of holy God wants you to know you are and need to walk in 441 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:22,840 and express because it's necessary to be that close to 442 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:30,520 God and who he is. Leviticus 1144 says this. 443 00:31:32,000 --> 00:31:36,720 I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves and be 444 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:40,720 holy because I am holy. Now how many of y'all thought 445 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:42,200 that was just in the New Testament? 446 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:45,840 God been saying that since the beginning. 447 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:51,240 Consecrate yourselves now be holy because I'm holy. 448 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,360 And he said it in the Old Testament in part because he 449 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:57,720 wants to say have the people say this God. 450 00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:02,040 I can't. He says I know, and that's the 451 00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:05,120 basis of why I'm sending Jesus, because you can't. 452 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:12,000 But it's not until you recognize that you can't, that you don't, 453 00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:16,440 that you receive who God can or who God is. 454 00:32:17,960 --> 00:32:23,600 You just concentrate yourselves and be holy because I am holy. 455 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:29,640 Do not make for yourselves. Do not make yourselves unclean 456 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:32,760 by any creature that moves along the ground. 457 00:32:33,280 --> 00:32:36,120 I am the Lord who brought you out of Egypt to be your God. 458 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,240 Therefore be holy because I am holy. 459 00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:46,280 What God is saying here is this. I have established you in 460 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:51,760 holiness. It is your responsibility to 461 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:58,000 deal with the uncleanness. I've given you a diamond that 462 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,200 sparkles. It's your job to keep the mud 463 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:03,000 off. You don't have to create the 464 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,800 sparkle. It's already in the diamond. 465 00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:12,000 If you just keep the mud off, the sparkle will come through. 466 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:18,960 OK, God is going to ask you to create the sparkle. 467 00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,720 He's not asking to even create the diamond. 468 00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,440 He says I'm giving you the diamond and I'm giving you the 469 00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,600 sparkle and I'm giving you the light. 470 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,000 When it goes through the diamond, that will bring 471 00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:34,040 sparkle. All you need to do is keep it 472 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:37,000 clean, keep the dirt off the diamond. 473 00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:42,800 That's it. And if you want to say if you're 474 00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:46,960 feeling bad sometimes that's the dirt. 475 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,920 Just look underneath. It's all diamond underneath. 476 00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:57,760 Don't give up because you're looking at dirt on the outside, 477 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,320 because there's diamond underneath the dirt. 478 00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:11,080 Holy, I said this. We be because he be. 479 00:34:13,199 --> 00:34:18,080 That's the bebop phrase, Greenwich Village phrase. 480 00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:26,360 We be he, be Doobie Ooby. Scoobly Roo doody wop Dick Van 481 00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,000 Dyke show. Anyway y'all don't know. 482 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:29,440 I'm doing a lot of references here. 483 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:34,199 We be because he be. Why do I say we? 484 00:34:34,199 --> 00:34:36,239 Because it's about a people, not just you. 485 00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:41,040 Do you know I can't fully manifest the holiness of God 486 00:34:41,199 --> 00:34:45,199 unless we do it. It's not just about me. 487 00:34:45,199 --> 00:34:49,360 It's about a we. It's about a people working 488 00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:53,040 together and living together to get full expression to what God 489 00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:59,920 is saying, what God is doing. Leviticus 19 verse one says 490 00:34:59,920 --> 00:35:05,960 this. The Lord said to Moses, speak to 491 00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:12,360 the entire assembly of Israel and say to them be holy, because 492 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:19,360 I the Lord your God, I'm holy. Peterman again, each of you must 493 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:24,240 respect your mother and father, and you must observe my 494 00:35:24,240 --> 00:35:26,240 Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God. 495 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:30,920 Do not turn to idols and make metal gods of yourselves. 496 00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:35,360 Metal gods for yourselves, of yourselves. 497 00:35:35,360 --> 00:35:38,680 The revelation too, make metal gods for yourselves. 498 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:43,840 I am the Lord your God. Holy is how you honor your 499 00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:49,080 parents. What I have here is holiest 500 00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:52,720 relationship. Are you giving honor to the 501 00:35:52,720 --> 00:35:59,000 relationships that you have? If you aren't, are you being 502 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:02,280 holy? It's almost like God is saying 503 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:07,280 this. I've given you parents that have 504 00:36:07,840 --> 00:36:12,080 light and glory and blessing to flow through to you. 505 00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:15,560 It's your job to make sure nothing gets in the way of that 506 00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:18,520 relationship. Don't let familiarity get in the 507 00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:21,320 way. Don't let your what your friends 508 00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:26,960 say get in the way. Holy is about relationship too. 509 00:36:27,240 --> 00:36:31,080 So you say God, how do I express my holiness more? 510 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,760 Are you honoring your mother and honoring your father? 511 00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,160 You don't know what they did to me. 512 00:36:38,240 --> 00:36:45,160 God does. So there was a king that 513 00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:50,320 committed wickedness and violated God's laws and someone 514 00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:54,800 went and killed that king and I think maybe cut off that, I 515 00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:58,160 can't remember, and went back to the people of God said I did 516 00:36:58,240 --> 00:37:05,400 look, I killed this king and God said this man, what are you 517 00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:09,280 doing? My paraphrase, what are you 518 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:12,960 doing? Though they were wicked, they 519 00:37:12,960 --> 00:37:19,360 were still a king. Though they cause wickedness 520 00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:22,200 amongst the people, they were still a king. 521 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:27,840 There was still an honor to be given to them, because when you 522 00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:33,360 give honor to them, then I can let my honor flow to you and 523 00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:36,680 redeem you from everything they may have taken from you. 524 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:45,480 Keep the mud off your relationship with your parents 525 00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:51,320 because that's holy. It's hard. 526 00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:53,800 I don't know how I can do that. It's already in you. 527 00:37:54,720 --> 00:37:56,920 It already will flow through you. 528 00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:58,280 All you have to do is keep the mud off. 529 00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:00,000 What's 1 good way you keep the mud off? 530 00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:03,840 Pray. Let me tell you how you can 531 00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:06,200 start praying sometime. OK? 532 00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:14,240 Doctor King, Martin Luther King. Jim had a famous speech and we 533 00:38:14,240 --> 00:38:16,160 know the speech to be. Anyone know? 534 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:20,240 I have a dream you. Know how to speech started. 535 00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:26,000 I got an idea. Or better, started. 536 00:38:26,080 --> 00:38:29,480 I'm tired of this. How long is this going to take? 537 00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:34,600 Why was I even born in this country? 538 00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:41,960 But you know, there's still hope. 539 00:38:43,720 --> 00:38:50,840 And I got an idea or policy. No, no, no, what I have is a 540 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:54,000 dream. What did I just do for you? 541 00:38:54,880 --> 00:39:01,000 Showed you the process That's I have a dream speech was as much 542 00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:05,920 I have a dream when he was like, I'm tired of this as it was. 543 00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:08,200 I have a dream. It's on the same continuum. 544 00:39:10,240 --> 00:39:17,760 I said how do you pray ready Lord, I hate my daddy. 545 00:39:19,320 --> 00:39:26,880 You praying out of honor because you're going to God with your 546 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,240 issue. God, I hate my dad. 547 00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:31,960 I hate my mom. You know what they did. 548 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:34,720 You know how they treated me whether they did or not. 549 00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:38,360 You know how that is God, I don't want to pray for them at 550 00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:42,040 all. You you just like the beginning 551 00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:44,880 of the I have a dream speech was here you beginning. 552 00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:46,840 God, I hate God. I'm just upset God. 553 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:49,040 I don't know how I'm going to do this God. 554 00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:51,000 You don't have to help me. God. 555 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,600 I got such stuff in my heart, God. 556 00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:57,080 But you tell me to God. But that's wholly involved. 557 00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:01,200 All right. I just say it. 558 00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:06,600 Lord, I honor my parents. I don't feel nothing about it. 559 00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:13,280 You are still praying. The point where it becomes God, 560 00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:16,080 I see God. I didn't know what they went 561 00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,440 through. I didn't know the struggles they 562 00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:20,520 had. I didn't know that what they did 563 00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:23,640 to me was done to them and to the people before them and they 564 00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:25,920 had no way of coping. I didn't know God. 565 00:40:25,920 --> 00:40:28,920 The fact that they didn't quit and didn't leave was victory 566 00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:31,080 because everyone else had walked out on them. 567 00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:33,920 God, I get a better picture of it now. 568 00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:37,680 God, thank you for a parent that stayed that was ill equipped to 569 00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:44,120 stay my dad. I'm going to give a shout out to 570 00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:53,120 my dad real quick and shut up. My dad was born out of a out of 571 00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:58,480 an affair. His mom slept with a man that 572 00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,920 was married. She got pregnant, he was born. 573 00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:09,480 He went to the same school as his half brother but it was like 574 00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:10,720 they weren't supposed to talk to me. 575 00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:14,840 Everyone knew The Dirty secret but no one said anything then. 576 00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:18,040 This is during the time where black people were segregated 577 00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:19,920 already. There was already stigma on 578 00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,240 being black in in the South in the US. 579 00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:29,680 OK, just stigma on stigma. His dad didn't support him, 580 00:41:29,800 --> 00:41:31,120 didn't have a relationship with him. 581 00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:34,000 His brother came to school enclosed. 582 00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:40,440 My dad had to hustle for his raising a house with no men. 583 00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:43,920 His Mama was a His Mama was a numbers runner. 584 00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:48,120 That means illegal lottery. That's what the lottery comes 585 00:41:48,120 --> 00:41:49,560 from. Illegal numbers running the kids 586 00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:52,200 you didn't know. His Mama was a numbers runner 587 00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:53,880 and his stepfather was a drug dealer. 588 00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:01,520 When he went to college, he was a senior. 589 00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,280 Met my mom as he jokes. How did you meet mom? 590 00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:10,960 I saw she had a checkbook son. He started dating my mom, went 591 00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:15,080 back home and then my mom's parents said to him, she's yours 592 00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:16,720 now. What do you mean we just dating? 593 00:42:16,920 --> 00:42:19,560 She's yours now. You're responsible for her. 594 00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:29,920 He is senior, she a freshman. He moved to Chicago to try to do 595 00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:33,040 work and support her education and bring her up. 596 00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:38,960 And money will multiply your weaknesses as much as give your 597 00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:43,040 ability to do good things. So as weakness become multiplied 598 00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:44,880 upon multiplied, I'm going to leave it right there. 599 00:42:52,870 --> 00:42:57,670 But my but my mom and my dad, but my dad stayed married to my 600 00:42:57,670 --> 00:43:00,510 mom. My mom had every reason to walk 601 00:43:00,510 --> 00:43:01,670 out, every reason to quit on him. 602 00:43:03,710 --> 00:43:06,510 But my dad wouldn't quit and my mom wouldn't quit. 603 00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:11,840 My dad was not present for me in the house as much as I would 604 00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:14,040 have liked. He was working so hard because 605 00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:16,760 he was trying to use money to make up for the what he didn't 606 00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,560 have. He was trying to give us as a 607 00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:23,680 family an honor that he didn't know because he was told growing 608 00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:26,600 up, you ain't going to never be nothing, do nothing, nothing. 609 00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:28,920 You're black. You're I'm going to leave it 610 00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:33,240 there. So we didn't see him much. 611 00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,120 And when we saw him, he didn't have a real emotional 612 00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:42,560 connection, never had a father, never had a male, never had 613 00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:45,200 someone to teach him how to be a parent or how to be a husband or 614 00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:47,400 how to be a father. There's married, I don't know 615 00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:51,360 what, 50 years, 40 years, 50 years, 50 plus years. 616 00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:59,640 My dad was holy. What? 617 00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:03,800 You mean he was not equipped to be married? 618 00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:09,880 He was not equipped to have a family, but he would not let go. 619 00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:17,800 He would not let go. He had no ability to stay. 620 00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:21,920 Didn't know what it meant. But he has said I'm I just can't 621 00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:24,040 walk away. I'm going to try to stick and 622 00:44:24,040 --> 00:44:32,870 try to hold on till change come. That is holy. 623 00:44:34,480 --> 00:44:37,560 Holy isn't always just living out the highest and the best. 624 00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:40,800 It's having a reverence for God, saying God, I know if I just 625 00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:43,640 keep holding on, something's going to change. 626 00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:49,280 Now, what is holy for me? Dad, you left me this. 627 00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,400 You didn't do this, you didn't do this, you didn't do this. 628 00:44:51,720 --> 00:44:54,560 But by the time I get through the end of my prayer and all 629 00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:57,640 that story I just told you, that's the story God revealed to 630 00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:04,040 me, not my father. My father never put those pieces 631 00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:10,760 together like that, that God put those pieces. 632 00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:14,800 I was angry at my father when God showed me the picture. 633 00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:19,720 Then I saw how much of A victory and a worry he was to go into a 634 00:45:19,720 --> 00:45:23,640 battle against machine guns and tomahawk missiles and all you 635 00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:26,720 have is a butter knife, but yet you still think you're going to 636 00:45:26,720 --> 00:45:31,640 get a victory. You ain't got no equipment, no 637 00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:34,800 ability, you don't know nothing about warfare, and you're 638 00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:38,200 expecting to come out on the other side only because why? 639 00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:41,160 I don't want my son to be to know a divorced parent. 640 00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:46,040 That's all I got. When everyone quitter with you, 641 00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:49,960 that comes through that prayer part. 642 00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:56,040 Holy is giving honor to the relationship apart from how the 643 00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:58,480 people walk in it. And when you give honor to the 644 00:45:58,480 --> 00:46:01,000 relationship, part of when people walk in it, there's a 645 00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:04,280 place where you begin to get understanding of who God is in 646 00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:06,520 the midst of it and what God has done. 647 00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:08,880 And that's where then you're able to be holy. 648 00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:12,720 Because now the junk of offense, you're clinging off your 649 00:46:12,720 --> 00:46:16,560 diamond, the junk of brokenness, you're cleaning off your diamond 650 00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:20,040 so your light can shine through, not just for you, but for the 651 00:46:20,040 --> 00:46:27,360 generations to come. Holy is relationship. 652 00:46:30,240 --> 00:46:35,960 Amen, Amen. I'm a park it there. 653 00:46:37,560 --> 00:46:42,200 There's more that I that I'm going to share and God is going 654 00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:50,440 to share the next time we gather at our next experience. 655 00:46:51,960 --> 00:47:02,720 I encourage you to be here. For that, for your good, and 656 00:47:02,720 --> 00:47:08,320 because God's trying to do a holy work in us as a people, I 657 00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:14,960 further encourage you to listen to it online if you're not able 658 00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:17,480 to be here. Because God has a work to do in 659 00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:24,120 us as a people, and I know some things God's going to have me 660 00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:29,560 finish up with that are really the point of the movie. 661 00:47:30,640 --> 00:47:33,080 The point of the movie is the end, not the beginning. 662 00:47:36,480 --> 00:47:36,920 Amen. Amen. 663 00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:41,360 How many of you gotten something out of this today? 664 00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:50,240 Amen, Amen. Amen. 665 00:47:50,240 --> 00:47:50,760 Amen. Amen. 666 00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:58,280 God is doing something in our midst in this area and the the 667 00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:01,960 wrestling, this part of it is what God is trying. 668 00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:07,960 He's trying to get us to wrestle with it so that way we really 669 00:48:07,960 --> 00:48:13,080 get it in a particular way. Amen. 670 00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:20,600 I just want to make A1 announcement a reminder for us 671 00:48:22,240 --> 00:48:26,360 in terms of our remnant gathering. 672 00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:31,960 Well, let me let me pray first. I looked at my wife. 673 00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:35,040 You know my wife. Give me she didn't do nothing. 674 00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:36,960 I looked at her. We got and I see stuff on her. 675 00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:43,800 OK, we'll pray first. Everyone just get in a posture 676 00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:47,720 of prayer. Good to see you, Oswald and 677 00:48:47,720 --> 00:48:54,400 Judy, in a posture of prayer. Father, we thank you for this 678 00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:56,240 moment and what you shared and what you poured out. 679 00:48:56,240 --> 00:48:58,000 We thank you for your glory and your grace. 680 00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:01,160 We thank you for revelation of what it means to be holy, 681 00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:04,920 because without holiness and you just can't even see the Lord, 682 00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:08,480 more or less even follow him. We thank you that you're 683 00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:11,360 transforming us to know that you've made us a holy people. 684 00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:15,720 And I just being the people you've called us to be is being 685 00:49:15,720 --> 00:49:19,360 holy. And we thank you God, as we go 686 00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:22,720 forth into this, into the into the world, into the earth, just 687 00:49:22,720 --> 00:49:27,000 being holy, your presence that accompanies the accompanies 688 00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:30,400 holiness is with us in a greater measure, transforming all of 689 00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:34,120 those that are around us. We thank you, God, for the good 690 00:49:34,120 --> 00:49:37,120 work you've begun in us on this, on the topic and subject matter. 691 00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:39,440 And we think you're going to watch over the performer to 692 00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:42,280 bring you to his completion in Jesus name. 693 00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:46,720 A story about my dad. My dad gave his life to Jesus. 694 00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:57,760 My dad had encounters with the Holy Spirit that were of 695 00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:03,000 extraordinary nature. My dad and all of us in our 696 00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:06,560 family will have been completely and fully reconciled. 697 00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:14,320 You know, you cannot be broke but not be reconciled. 698 00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:16,840 We was never broken. We just wasn't reconciled. 699 00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:20,520 That's for another message. I want to make sure you get the 700 00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:25,480 end of the story and don't walk out here seeing the middle part 701 00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:28,360 and highlighting the middle part because the middle part was to 702 00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:31,400 have you understand the end. Amen. 703 00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:39,640 Also, too, remember the end of what we're doing. 704 00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:44,720 You got to remember the end because the end pulls you 705 00:50:44,720 --> 00:50:46,080 through. The end gets you through. 706 00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:49,160 The end carries you through. You remember when you was a kid? 707 00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:51,960 Some of y'all still kids, I'm sorry. 708 00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:58,360 Remember, I remember when I was a kid, OK, I'm no, we got 709 00:50:58,360 --> 00:50:59,920 different ages and different experiences. 710 00:50:59,920 --> 00:51:03,920 I remember when I was a kid and I was getting and we had a drive 711 00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:08,840 to go someplace and it was a long drive too long had had had 712 00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:10,960 kid kidneys. You know what I'm saying, right? 713 00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:12,520 I got stopped at the bathroom all the time. 714 00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:14,320 I'm like, where we going to get there, Where we going to get 715 00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:15,760 there, Where we going to get there, where we going to get 716 00:51:15,760 --> 00:51:19,480 there? The thing that kept me going was 717 00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:22,400 the expectation of what I was going to see when I arrived. 718 00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:26,120 That helped keep me going through the middle parts. 719 00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:30,960 You see, it's the vacation that I'm going to that helps me wait 720 00:51:30,960 --> 00:51:34,160 in the three hour TSA line or whatever the place is called in 721 00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:37,280 Canada. It's it helps me get through the 722 00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:41,720 turbulence of the flight because I know what I'm going to is more 723 00:51:41,720 --> 00:51:45,440 than worth it. We're in the middle part in many 724 00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:48,600 ways, what we're doing in terms of establishing a place of 725 00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:52,360 refuge, a place of rest, a place where people can find hope, and 726 00:51:52,360 --> 00:51:55,600 a place out of which God can let His light shine in a more 727 00:51:55,600 --> 00:51:59,520 glorious way. In this community, we encourage 728 00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:04,840 you to continue to be diligent, to be urgent, to be relentless 729 00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:10,120 and you're giving and you're investing with the Lord and in 730 00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:13,400 letting God share with you and show you how he wants to help 731 00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:15,880 you be a part. I told you this story last time 732 00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:18,320 and I take it to you again. Woman walked in the church, 733 00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:20,240 didn't have any money. God said you're going to get a 734 00:52:20,240 --> 00:52:22,120 bunch of money coming that you don't even know about. 735 00:52:22,320 --> 00:52:26,960 She said, OK, next week called up looking for something, trying 736 00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:29,920 to solve a problem in her life and and the bank said, listen, 737 00:52:29,920 --> 00:52:31,760 you got this money over here. Did you know about it? 738 00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:36,480 She said, yeah, sure I did, right. 739 00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:39,400 He said, great, now you got that money, no problem. 740 00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:41,640 OK, great, great, great, great. She came back to church after 741 00:52:41,640 --> 00:52:45,000 getting that money and, and, and we talked about the invitation 742 00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:46,600 to participate in the Remnant project. 743 00:52:46,720 --> 00:52:48,920 And the Lord said, now, now you got the money to get to the 744 00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:52,640 Remnant project. It's not about what you have, 745 00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:54,360 it's about what God gets through you. 746 00:52:59,900 --> 00:53:01,340 Have I said anything that bless you today? 747 00:53:04,340 --> 00:53:06,380 Have I been in a relationship with any of you that's changed 748 00:53:06,380 --> 00:53:15,880 your life at all? My dad sacrificed the dad I just 749 00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:19,240 told you about. He sacrificed for me to be here. 750 00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:23,080 He lived uncomfortably for me to be here. 751 00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:26,600 He let himself be called names for me to be here. 752 00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:31,080 Blessing don't come without sacrifice. 753 00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:35,400 And the only thing we're asking is. 754 00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:40,040 Part of a generation of sacrifice that's going to do for 755 00:53:40,040 --> 00:53:44,080 the next generation what my dad has done for me and for you and 756 00:53:44,240 --> 00:53:48,520 allowing me to be, I'm using you as an example, right? 757 00:53:49,920 --> 00:53:52,840 So and then one thing I encourage you to do, ask God, 758 00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:55,520 God, what you have me do. God, how generous do you want to 759 00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:58,240 get through my life? How generous do you want me to 760 00:53:58,240 --> 00:53:59,440 be? It's not about what you have. 761 00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:03,080 It's about what God can get to you and through you and then 762 00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:06,160 pray it through and then praying through. 763 00:54:06,160 --> 00:54:07,760 God only asks you to do your part. 764 00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:13,080 God, we thank you that we're going to be walking into this 765 00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:17,080 building very shortly. The work continues to be done. 766 00:54:18,000 --> 00:54:21,680 And how many of you all know that in a relay race, the anchor 767 00:54:21,680 --> 00:54:24,800 leg is critical? The one that takes the baton and 768 00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:29,040 carries it to the finish? That's the critical one because 769 00:54:29,040 --> 00:54:32,200 you can be ahead when they get the baton, but they got to keep 770 00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:35,560 it up to finish the win. And we're in the anchor leg now. 771 00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:37,120 So thank you for all the generous giving. 772 00:54:37,120 --> 00:54:41,640 You have done as was, as was aptly put forward today, there's 773 00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:45,680 195,000 for this phase and we believe that it's done. 774 00:54:46,040 --> 00:54:50,640 It is finished, it is received, it is allocated, it is 775 00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:54,160 duplicated, it is multiplied, it is consecrated. 776 00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:59,920 It is already put to use in an extraordinary, extraordinary way 777 00:54:59,920 --> 00:55:01,680 already. And we thank you for your 778 00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:04,600 participation and seeing it brought to pass. 779 00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:06,920 You got the ways you can give generously again. 780 00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:14,680 We encourage you to do so as you exit out of this space today. 781 00:55:14,680 --> 00:55:15,880 Amen. Amen. 782 00:55:15,920 --> 00:55:17,200 Let's give God another hand clap. 783 00:55:38,120 --> 00:55:40,360 Thank you so much for tuning in to this week's sermon. 784 00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:43,720 We pray you were challenged, equipped and encouraged. 785 00:55:43,960 --> 00:55:45,920 Make sure to follow us on all platforms. 786 00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:50,000 That's love Quest Intl church. We out here for real. 787 00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:52,360 We're really doing it. That's Facebook, Instagram, 788 00:55:52,360 --> 00:55:53,920 YouTube and TikTok.