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 --> 00:00:09,480 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 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:22,680 It's cold time, let's get into it. 9 00:00:25,760 --> 00:00:27,360 You can be seated as you're doing now. 10 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:36,840 Look at your neighbors, say lock in because something's about to 11 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:44,120 break out. Yes, no longer. 12 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:46,640 I will live. But Christ in the for I've been 13 00:00:46,760 --> 00:01:07,000 born again, my heart. The hope of heaven before me, 14 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:15,920 the great behind. Someone say strategy. 15 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:21,840 Can you turn with me to Second Chronicles 20 really quickly? 16 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:26,920 Somewhere around verse 20, I'm going to give you a few things 17 00:01:26,920 --> 00:01:32,320 we didn't release in the previous experience and we just 18 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:43,120 going to see where God takes us. It is very important to know who 19 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:51,040 you are in Christ. It is very important to know 20 00:01:52,080 --> 00:01:57,800 your assignments, but it's very hard to know your assignments 21 00:01:58,320 --> 00:02:07,520 when you don't know who you are. Every God-given assignment has 22 00:02:07,520 --> 00:02:12,720 multiple purposes, but one of the purposes is to reveal him in 23 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:16,160 you. And as he reveals him in you, 24 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:24,960 you are also revealed. It is in Him that I find my true 25 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:28,800 identity. It's not in the book, it's not 26 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:32,040 in culture, it's not in my feelings. 27 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:38,840 It is in the Creator. And we are in an hour of time 28 00:02:38,920 --> 00:02:42,320 that God saw fit. We should be living in. 29 00:02:43,360 --> 00:02:49,960 And not only should we be living in, we should be serving in. 30 00:02:50,800 --> 00:02:55,200 You are not just alive. Your purpose is in this 31 00:02:55,200 --> 00:03:00,040 dispensation of time. You weren't just merely born 32 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:03,680 from an amazing family or a jacked up family. 33 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:08,920 But I don't care how amazing you think your family is, there is 34 00:03:08,920 --> 00:03:19,960 some jacked upness about it. OK, No one on this earth is 35 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:27,120 exempt from needing Jesus. And as much as man is looking 36 00:03:27,120 --> 00:03:36,440 for answers to the simplicity of their their yearnings, the world 37 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:42,480 can't give you anything but counterfeit versions of God's 38 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:48,040 reality for His children. The simplicity of your yearning 39 00:03:48,040 --> 00:04:00,720 is this Lovejoy, peace, faithfulness, kindness. 40 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:10,960 Long-suffering self-discipline that in the child of God can 41 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:18,279 only be cultivated by the existing of the Holy Spirit 42 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:24,600 within. You understand there is the real 43 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:31,720 thing that only God can give us, and then there's the world's 44 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:35,960 version of it. Jesus says peace. 45 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:40,440 I leave you not as the world gives you. 46 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:49,000 So with the world, there's work involved to get any number of 47 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:56,320 the things that I just named. Love is God, joy originated in 48 00:04:56,320 --> 00:05:01,480 heaven, Peace is the atmosphere of the Kingdom of God. 49 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:08,920 Joy is the response and reaction and the very fiber of sons and 50 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:14,520 daughters. long-suffering is something that we have the 51 00:05:14,760 --> 00:05:19,520 ability to do without losing momentum in our life. 52 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:23,640 long-suffering does not mean missing out. 53 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:30,080 In the Kingdom, long-suffering leads to greater capacity. 54 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:35,800 When you're long-suffering for God, you never miss out. 55 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:43,480 But here it is the the church has been given the real thing, 56 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:47,640 and the world has the counterfeit. 57 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:58,320 But the church depends on the world's version of it, and we 58 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:03,280 struggle getting the church, I mean the world, to thirst and 59 00:06:03,280 --> 00:06:07,520 hunger for the world, for the church's real version. 60 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:13,760 We have put change your life first, then come the church. 61 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:19,760 We have said change your gender first, then come the church. 62 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:23,960 The world's issue can't be changed by man. 63 00:06:24,840 --> 00:06:28,720 It can only be. It can't even be changed by the 64 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:33,600 church. Man's issues can only be changed 65 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:40,200 by God, and it is the change one's job to lead them to the 66 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:44,160 changer. Because there's evidence that it 67 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:47,800 works. It's evidence that his love is 68 00:06:47,800 --> 00:06:52,560 greater than the counterfeit. It is evidence that his joy is 69 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:55,720 better than the counterfeit. It is better. 70 00:06:56,240 --> 00:06:58,880 The marriage of the believer is better. 71 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:04,480 The family is better. Waiting is better then when we 72 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:09,240 look at the church. Jess is divorce, Jess is 73 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:15,400 depressed, Jess is anxious. Just as fruitless quite frankly. 74 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:19,400 Because God reigns on the just and the unjust and he has placed 75 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:24,240 principles in the world that the non believer and the believer 76 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:27,440 can benefit from. So you think you bless because 77 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:36,120 you work hard and got stuff? No, it's working produces what 78 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:38,880 you work for. And then with a little bit of 79 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:41,480 wisdom, a little bit of luck in the world, you get around the 80 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:44,080 right friends, you get around the right family, you grow up in 81 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:46,840 the right time, you get the right opportunity or you have 82 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:49,160 the right, right amount of courage. 83 00:07:49,280 --> 00:07:53,520 You might strike wealth, but is your soul wealthy? 84 00:07:54,240 --> 00:07:58,880 Your business may prosper, but is your soul prospering? 85 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:03,480 Everybody in here that think they could do it on their own. 86 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:08,720 I am 100% guarantee you that there is a day you will come 87 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:11,480 running to somebody, some church. 88 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,240 You will come running to God, I promise you. 89 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:18,560 And you're going to do the thing backwards instead of listening 90 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:21,320 to the sound of his voice when he's calling. 91 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:28,000 God's going to have to allow you to eat the fruit of your life in 92 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:29,840 order to get He's going to get you back. 93 00:08:31,720 --> 00:08:35,240 That's the thing. You got too much prayer out for 94 00:08:35,240 --> 00:08:38,600 you. The fact that you're here today 95 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:40,679 lets me know somebody praying for you. 96 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:44,720 So I'm telling you, you're going to suck at sin. 97 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:49,800 You're going to suck at running. I don't care if you take 30 98 00:08:49,800 --> 00:08:51,320 years. I don't care if you on your 99 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:53,760 deathbed. I promise you, before you leave 100 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:58,440 this earth, you will say, Lord come into my heart and you will 101 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:03,280 repent and He will receive you. Remember those that have been 102 00:09:03,280 --> 00:09:06,200 walking with him for 40 years, those that have been walking 103 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:09,440 with him for 40 minutes, we going to still get the same pay. 104 00:09:09,520 --> 00:09:10,960 What is that? Eternal life? 105 00:09:14,520 --> 00:09:18,920 That's the good news. So on one hand I'm telling you, 106 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:22,240 take all the time you want to play with your life, miss out, 107 00:09:22,680 --> 00:09:26,640 you only get one and I'll see you on the other side. 108 00:09:28,040 --> 00:09:30,080 But boy, this is the only opportunity. 109 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:35,400 We get to experience the Dominion power. 110 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:40,360 We get to experience image and likeness. 111 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:54,360 Here no image and likeness is not needed there right? 112 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:55,880 It's. Almost like OK, follow me over. 113 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:00,720 See, I'm not quite sure, but I think I'm pretty accurate. 114 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:04,240 See my kids, this is the only time they get to experience 115 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:08,720 their mom and dad. As mom and dad, when we all get 116 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:12,840 there, my kids will be brothers and sisters. 117 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:17,760 There's some there's there's some, there's some 118 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,480 opportunities. You only get the experience God 119 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:27,360 this way here you you only get to look in the mirror here and 120 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:31,080 see you and God and God in you here. 121 00:10:34,880 --> 00:10:36,080 You only can be the light of the. 122 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:42,280 World while you're in it. You can only be the salt of the 123 00:10:42,280 --> 00:10:45,720 earth while there's bland stuff around you. 124 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:50,760 That needs salt. And I'm telling you right now, I 125 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:53,080 don't care what life you live in if it's not with Jesus, I 126 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:54,920 promise you I'm living way better than you. 127 00:10:56,120 --> 00:10:58,240 Guarantee you I'm sleeping better than you. 128 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:01,880 I ain't got no pills. I ain't got no medicinal 129 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:05,520 marijuana, no medicinal gummy bears, no medicinal brownies. 130 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:08,240 I don't have no ecstasy pill. I don't got no lean. 131 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:10,840 I don't got no Oxycontin. I don't got no drinks. 132 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,600 I don't got nothing. But I'm telling you, I've drank, 133 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:17,000 I've smoked, I've partied, I've done, I've done all of that. 134 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:18,920 I'm telling you ain't never. That was the. 135 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:22,360 Counterfeit. And that's why you can't put 136 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:24,480 this fire out because you didn't give it to me. 137 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:32,240 See, when I smoke weed, although weed brought me a certain 138 00:11:32,240 --> 00:11:35,280 satisfaction, when people looked at me a certain way, I was like, 139 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:41,520 oh, you took my high, it's counterfeit. 140 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:43,640 When somebody could take it, it's the fake thing. 141 00:11:45,160 --> 00:11:47,720 Yeah. So I have to smoke again to get 142 00:11:47,720 --> 00:11:50,840 high again. But this joy, look at me all you 143 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:55,600 want to, I got that real thing. You can't take it. 144 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:59,120 This is not a high that goes down because God cannot do the 145 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:03,280 first hit. That's why you're addicted to 146 00:12:03,280 --> 00:12:05,800 other stuff, because you're chasing the first experience. 147 00:12:06,920 --> 00:12:08,760 So eventually you graduate to other drugs. 148 00:12:08,760 --> 00:12:10,440 Why? Because this drug no longer gets 149 00:12:10,440 --> 00:12:17,520 you high, but with God, He takes you from glory to glory to 150 00:12:17,520 --> 00:12:19,240 glory. To glory. 151 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:24,000 This is the good news that I don't need what the world 152 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:28,280 provides for joy. I don't even need the world's 153 00:12:28,280 --> 00:12:32,640 economy because the Kingdom of God has its own economy. 154 00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:35,840 So I partnered with God financially. 155 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:40,000 So when COVID come, I'm not begging the government to mail 156 00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:43,480 me a check because they're not my supplier. 157 00:12:44,360 --> 00:12:47,880 And somehow this church brought in more money at the time than 158 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:50,920 it ever had when we weren't gathering like that. 159 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:53,160 Why? Because we're a sewing church. 160 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:56,560 While folks was. Losing their mind trying to get 161 00:12:56,560 --> 00:12:59,720 the EI and the AIAIOU and all that stuff. 162 00:12:59,720 --> 00:13:04,440 You're depending on the government and the Bible tells 163 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:08,120 you in Second Corinthians. So you have no need. 164 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:13,680 For aid or support, you're not dependent. 165 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:16,240 It doesn't matter who prime. It doesn't matter. 166 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:18,880 It don't matter who's in. Pray for government. 167 00:13:19,720 --> 00:13:22,840 Why do I pray for government? Because they're people who God 168 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:25,080 is after. I'm not praying for the 169 00:13:25,080 --> 00:13:28,240 administration to prosper. No, no, no, no, whatever. 170 00:13:28,320 --> 00:13:31,160 This is not political. This is a Kingdom and we have a 171 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:34,480 Kingdom that Trump's any Kingdom and it's going to be the only 172 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:38,360 Kingdom standing in the end. So I'm not wasting my time 173 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:41,480 trying to better a place that is meant to crumble. 174 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:48,960 Read your Bible. I'm looking around. 175 00:13:50,440 --> 00:13:52,400 I'm sorry, son, I got to testify. 176 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:54,440 Can I just testify? You shouldn't be such a cool 177 00:13:54,440 --> 00:13:57,960 son. Are we over there worshipping? 178 00:13:57,960 --> 00:13:59,840 And he grabbed me and we just. Worship, he said. 179 00:13:59,840 --> 00:14:04,120 Look, he said, Dad, thank you taking me across the finish 180 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:06,400 line. He said, listen, listen. 181 00:14:06,400 --> 00:14:10,400 He said, look around the church just started with eleven of us. 182 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:16,640 He said, look at it now look at the people. 183 00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:23,840 Look, that's my son saying look, and when I look the sounds he 184 00:14:24,440 --> 00:14:27,320 they all lost enough and I'm sitting see you got you got to 185 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:30,520 understand prophetic movement. You got to be you got to you got 186 00:14:30,520 --> 00:14:36,000 to be able to identify freedom. You know, I've seen you guys and 187 00:14:36,000 --> 00:14:38,640 I'm like, there's, there's, you know, Annabeth that hit you with 188 00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:40,400 the. And she just bouncing. 189 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:44,960 Now, now, look when you when when we met Annabeth. 190 00:14:45,200 --> 00:14:53,120 She was just this. Passive, shy, damn good, like, 191 00:14:53,160 --> 00:14:58,640 oh, like Nicole, Danny like, and these people are out here and 192 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:02,720 consumed by freedom. Right. 193 00:15:09,120 --> 00:15:12,760 And the testimony starts with them, but it bleeds into their 194 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:16,880 families. Are you right to have your 17 195 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:20,240 year old come up to you and prophecy and say, dad, look, he 196 00:15:20,240 --> 00:15:24,920 was just about 8 years old when we moved here and he said he was 197 00:15:24,920 --> 00:15:32,240 one of the 11. He was he said it was only 11 of 198 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:37,800 us Pops look and how your son say it started with you dad, 199 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:41,280 like thank you for carrying us to the finish line. 200 00:15:57,520 --> 00:16:08,800 Yeah, Matthew, I'll take this, I'll take that, I'll take that. 201 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:16,360 I'll take that up there. That's the whole, that's the 202 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:19,840 fruit. The fruit ain't you going out 203 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:25,920 missing God for some money, you know what I'm saying? 204 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:29,440 My son can can prophecy and we ain't broke. 205 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:34,760 Like what you may think, saying no a few times and following 206 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:39,880 Jesus and starving your flesh a little bit is not prosperous, 207 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:43,160 right? To live in a way that your 208 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:46,760 children can identify the authentic thing in a world where 209 00:16:46,760 --> 00:16:49,080 they're being presented the false thing all the time. 210 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:52,160 And some of you adults, it's still falling for the okey doke. 211 00:16:54,440 --> 00:16:57,960 I'm like, boy, you chill, handsome self, you can stay, 212 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:01,520 stay, stay pure. Don't give it to no girl. 213 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:04,640 I don't care how much she is after you don't care how fine 214 00:17:04,640 --> 00:17:07,160 she is. Boy, you get you walk down that 215 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:11,040 aisle and you give that woman the greatest gift that she God 216 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:12,440 could ever give her. You. 217 00:17:12,480 --> 00:17:16,359 You don't let no, you can be a basketball superstar, you can be 218 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:18,200 a virgin. You can know God. 219 00:17:18,319 --> 00:17:21,880 You can preach the gospel, you can make disciples and you can 220 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:26,319 have a clothing line and you can still still prosper. 221 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:36,160 Scared to raise our kids in the way they should go because we 222 00:17:36,160 --> 00:17:40,400 trying to be their buddies. Not on my clock. 223 00:17:40,960 --> 00:17:43,360 If you do something foolish, it ain't going to be because I kind 224 00:17:43,360 --> 00:17:45,280 of gave you permission. You gone crazy. 225 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:49,760 Help your kids understand you don't need the title girlfriend. 226 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:54,480 What that mean? That mean ownership that mean 227 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:56,160 right? What's the title? 228 00:17:56,880 --> 00:17:59,400 You're not get in my car and be like, oh, that's my girlfriend. 229 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:04,160 Nah, we're going to teach you how to date Kingdom style and 230 00:18:04,160 --> 00:18:06,240 you're going to honor her. You're going to honor her father 231 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:08,200 and you're going to honor her mother and you're going to honor 232 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:10,600 her family and you're going to and vice versa. 233 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:21,000 I believe our young people can marry right once early, but you 234 00:18:21,120 --> 00:18:23,560 you talking about well, you got to get all your ducks in the 235 00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:25,480 rope. You know how long it take to get 236 00:18:25,480 --> 00:18:30,160 ducks in the rope? Ducks be moving, man. 237 00:18:34,000 --> 00:18:38,480 I'm helping somebody right now because we've been messed up and 238 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:42,640 you like no live your life, try it out, get your money right. 239 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:49,920 OK, now you 30. I understand fixed marriages, 240 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:54,640 but not to the extreme. We got a responsibility to guide 241 00:18:54,640 --> 00:18:59,160 our children and guide this generation and show them the 242 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:01,760 way. You don't got to have all your 243 00:19:01,880 --> 00:19:04,200 ducks in the row. You don't have to have all your 244 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:07,600 money, your bags. You got to have Jesus. 245 00:19:07,960 --> 00:19:11,960 You got to have faith, you got to have some financial stability 246 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:15,560 and then you if God blesses you with your partner early, you 247 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:20,000 guys wait right, you wait well, you obey your parents and watch 248 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:22,840 what God does. If you allow the people in your 249 00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:26,400 life to guide you to that altar, it will never be broken. 250 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:34,000 It will never be trashed. You know come on right, all all 251 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:38,320 the stuff you going to experience by 30 then you get 252 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:41,240 you do it right and you get married early man what what 253 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:43,880 y'all got to figure out? You know what I'm saying? 254 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,640 The reason why you got a date so long now because you're 35 and 255 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:51,000 you just slept around. You got all kinds of baggage. 256 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:53,080 So you got a lot of stuff to figure out. 257 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,400 Not next generate right. We call to do different stuff 258 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:03,880 that's unpopular. It's a peculiar people. 259 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:07,680 Man, I ain't never met so many virgins till we got our worship 260 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:08,760 team. I'm like, what's going on? 261 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:11,920 I get it. I get or or or the virgin. 262 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:13,920 Now if you ain't no virgin, don't don't raise your hand. 263 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:15,640 I ain't never did that. I've been waiting for the Lord 264 00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:17,200 to. To no, I can't do it because 265 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:18,960 then if you don't raise your hand, then people are going to 266 00:20:18,960 --> 00:20:22,120 be like, ah, you ain't a virgin. So I can't do that. 267 00:20:22,120 --> 00:20:26,520 I know who the virgins is, OK. And they all got oil. 268 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:28,840 Full flash full of oil. They ready. 269 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:33,240 Hallelujah. All right, all right, all right. 270 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:35,520 We got a lot of virgins. OK, That's all I'm going to say. 271 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:38,680 We really do. And I think that's God ordained, 272 00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:42,960 that's being this worship so good. 273 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:46,640 We got some little pure little babies up here. 274 00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:49,720 That's why we say certain stuff they like. 275 00:20:49,720 --> 00:20:51,320 I don't know what you talking about Pass AT. 276 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:56,720 Hey, it's a blessing when you grew up, when the choirs sleep 277 00:20:56,720 --> 00:21:00,920 with each other, the praise team sleep around each other, and 278 00:21:00,920 --> 00:21:02,720 then after church folks go to the club. 279 00:21:03,240 --> 00:21:06,080 It's refreshing to be in a house with pure help for your pure 280 00:21:06,080 --> 00:21:09,720 hearts. They can do 24 hour prayer 281 00:21:09,720 --> 00:21:14,920 because they don't care about going to the club, said Hearken 282 00:21:14,920 --> 00:21:19,600 all Judah, you inhabitants of Jerusalem, and you came. 283 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,400 Jehoshaphat, the Lord says this to you. 284 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:28,920 Be not afraid or dismayed at this great multitude, this, this 285 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:33,640 lofty task, this call, this mountain in front of you, the 286 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:35,480 things that are not going your way. 287 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:39,560 The battle is not yours. Whoever that for the battle is 288 00:21:39,560 --> 00:21:43,920 not yours, but it's God's tomorrow. 289 00:21:43,920 --> 00:21:48,680 Somebody say tomorrow, somebody say God has a strategy for 290 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:53,240 tomorrow. Go down to them. 291 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:59,400 Behold, they will come up by the ascent of Ziz and, and I mean 292 00:21:59,400 --> 00:22:03,480 for some of you is that like Ziz it or ZZ? 293 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,840 How you is how you say that in Canadian is ZZ? 294 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:19,240 Did I say it wrong? Is ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ and 295 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:21,480 you will find them at the end of The Raven. 296 00:22:22,120 --> 00:22:27,440 Before the wilderness of Jerry L You shall not need to. 297 00:22:29,920 --> 00:22:36,600 Although although this season requires a fighting posture, it 298 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:38,800 does not mean you will have to swing. 299 00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:43,640 Am I talking to you, Andrew? Am I talking to somebody right 300 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:44,920 now? Like, like, like God. 301 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:46,320 Want to see this? Don't mean. 302 00:22:46,320 --> 00:22:48,680 Oh, God, go ahead. You fight my battles. 303 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:53,640 No, I mean, let's go. I'm, I'm, I'm at attention. 304 00:22:55,360 --> 00:22:57,960 You shall not need to fight in this battle. 305 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:10,120 Take your positions, stand still and see the glory or the 306 00:23:10,120 --> 00:23:13,440 deliverance of the Lord who is with you. 307 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:19,440 Love quests. Fear not nor be dismayed. 308 00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:24,640 Tomorrow, somebody say tomorrow go out against him. 309 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:28,720 You got to listen to instructions, he said. 310 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:32,720 You're not going to need to fight, but you got to show up to 311 00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:38,480 the fight. So it's awesome you let you cast 312 00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:44,320 your cares at the altar. Now, now, now, get up and still 313 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:49,680 show up to the fight, for the Lord is with you. 314 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:55,280 Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground. 315 00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:59,720 And all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell 316 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,120 down before the Lord. What was they doing? 317 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,040 Worship. It sounds like the fear of God. 318 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:13,800 Some Levites of the Kohathites Korah Heights stood up to praise 319 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:19,680 the Lord. God of Israel, is that just 320 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:23,480 another place that just says loud, a very loud voice? 321 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:27,040 And they rose early in the morning and went out into the 322 00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,960 wilderness of Toccoa. And as they went out, 323 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:31,960 Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear. 324 00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:36,880 Me, PT said. Hear me, you inhabitants of 325 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:44,200 Surrey and British Columbia, you shall. 326 00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:51,800 I love this EJ, he said. Rest from fighting, and when you 327 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:53,720 rest from fighting, you'll be established. 328 00:24:57,160 --> 00:25:01,800 You can labor hard as you want to and get a counterfeit rest, 329 00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:10,240 or you can labor to get into the rest of God and be truly 330 00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:12,640 established for generations to come. 331 00:25:13,360 --> 00:25:16,120 Believe and remain steadfast to His prophets, and you shall what 332 00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:20,320 prosper. That's important because we do 333 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:23,240 not have a generation that hears the Word and takes heed. 334 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,320 To the men and women of God, that God puts his word in their 335 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:32,640 mouths and take it for what it really is when he had to consult 336 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:39,240 with the people he appoint. He had to appoint singers to 337 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,800 sing to the Lord and praise Him in their holy priestly garments 338 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:48,120 as they went out before the army saying give thanks to the Lord, 339 00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:49,960 right? This wasn't no somber stuff, 340 00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:53,080 right? Here is what the Lord please 341 00:25:53,120 --> 00:25:57,400 take wretched me. I'm undeserving. 342 00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:01,840 I'm a rag. Filthy rag. 343 00:26:02,880 --> 00:26:07,040 No, he said. Go out and give thanks for his 344 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:11,440 mercy and loving kindness. Endure forever. 345 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,840 And when they begin to what? Sing, not swing? 346 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,080 And to what? I love that we're a House of 347 00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:29,160 praise, not a House of somber. The anointing on our house 348 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,320 speaks to the assignment the House has. 349 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:39,840 So while other people are sitting face down Gideon all the 350 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:42,760 time, just wanting to sing in like slow music, just slow 351 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:47,560 music, just strings and laughing and ha ha ha and and goosebumps. 352 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:50,400 And and while you're doing that, there's a people in the city. 353 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:53,000 That is warring for you because you got your head down. 354 00:26:55,360 --> 00:27:00,560 You're not a warrior, you just want to be. 355 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:05,120 Held by God, not necessarily fight with God. 356 00:27:06,360 --> 00:27:07,920 And there's a time and place. We did it yesterday. 357 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:12,040 If you were here you would have seen we we know how to be face 358 00:27:12,040 --> 00:27:14,200 down. There's a time and place for it. 359 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:21,280 And it says the Lord said ambushment against the men who 360 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:23,840 did. And if you keep reading for the 361 00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:25,480 for the sake of time, I'm not going to keep reading. 362 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:29,920 They turned on themselves. Somebody say turn on yourself. 363 00:27:30,840 --> 00:27:35,440 The enemy that was pursuing them turned on himself because the 364 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:39,360 praise confused the enemy. When they should have been 365 00:27:39,360 --> 00:27:42,080 scared, they had a praise. When they should have been 366 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,360 quitting, they had a praise. When they should have been 367 00:27:44,360 --> 00:27:46,640 making excuses they had a praise. 368 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:49,000 When they should have been procrastinating they had a 369 00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:50,200 praise. When they should have been 370 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:54,240 fearful, they had a praise. And understand praise is a 371 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:57,080 weapon. Oh why y'all be praising so 372 00:27:57,080 --> 00:27:58,600 much? Because we fight so much for 373 00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,800 you. That's what we're called to do 374 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:05,240 in this city because when's the last time a praising church 375 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,120 showed up in the middle of wall-e and said let's go. 376 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,000 When's the last time before Love Quest showed up? 377 00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:15,360 You came down here and walked around this community and took 378 00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:27,880 it back from Pharmakeia. Oh, there's a scripture you 379 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:31,640 could read in your own time. Matthew 18, three. 380 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:34,440 Now you can put it up. I think I got a little bit. 381 00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:36,320 I got a little time. I got one more scripture and I'm 382 00:28:36,360 --> 00:28:38,000 going to give it to you. I'm not going to get to these 383 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,560 notes. I pray. 384 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:44,280 Can you? Was it when was the night I did 385 00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:54,480 Turning Point? Noel, did we record Wednesday 386 00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,440 and Thursday? Can we post that this week? 387 00:28:57,720 --> 00:28:59,800 Can you give it to Troy or whoever? 388 00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:03,880 And if they can edit just the sermon and can we get that too 389 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:07,520 on Spotify? It it'll be available for you 390 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:11,360 within the next 48 hours. It was a word released and you 391 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:14,240 got to go get it. OK as well listened to this 392 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:17,280 morning. I'm I'm just going off a script 393 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:20,720 right now and so I will not get to those slides. 394 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:26,680 OK, not yet. I need that, he said. 395 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:30,560 Truly, I say to you, unless you repent, change, turn about and 396 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:38,280 become like little children, I wish my kids would come to me 397 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:40,520 like this. Dad, what we eating for dinner? 398 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,600 Dad, can you can I get some? Just just a couple more 399 00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:49,440 meatballs please. With my spaghetti please. 400 00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:53,240 Dad, can you make me a smoothie? I need a smoothie. 401 00:29:53,240 --> 00:29:55,640 Dad, can you take me to basketball practice, please? 402 00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:57,360 Can you tell? I know. 403 00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:00,240 I know you're busy. I know you work so hard and I'm 404 00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:02,720 undeserving, but I need a right to practice. 405 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,160 Thank you so much. You're so good to me. 406 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:10,640 You're so good. But how do kids come to their 407 00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:13,520 parents? I mean they like. 408 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,680 Stiffing a What were we eating tonight? 409 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:21,600 Right? Unless you just a horrible 410 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,960 parent, the kids don't have no worries. 411 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:27,160 They're just like they ask stupid questions just for no 412 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:31,040 reason. They're not thinking and like, 413 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:32,720 are we? Are we going to eat tonight? 414 00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:38,240 But have you never not eaten right? 415 00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:42,160 Kids can just walk up in the crawl up in the bed and just lay 416 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:47,080 down and just and just think that stay bad, right? 417 00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:50,560 Think of the faith of kids. They walk in stores and walk out 418 00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:57,160 with stuff that we did not ring up No, in their mind, I don't 419 00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,400 think they're stealing. I think they're just like my mom 420 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:01,560 gonna pay for it, but I didn't even see you grab it. 421 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,160 That's not stealing. That's faith. 422 00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:14,520 They like substance of things hoped for and the evidence of 423 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:15,840 things not seen. I'm. 424 00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:25,560 But but look what he says. Here's what you changed into 425 00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:33,560 repent and become like a child. So how long you going to live in 426 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:37,840 your trauma? How long you going to have a 427 00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:41,880 hard heart? This, this. 428 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:43,520 It'd be weird. It's kind of weird sometimes I 429 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:45,640 think about it. You spank your kids or you'd be 430 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:49,160 like you, you'll yell at them. I know some of y'all don't. 431 00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:51,800 That's OK, You yell. I can't spank my kids now these 432 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:53,360 days. I threatened a lot though. 433 00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:55,800 I threaten a lot these days. I do. 434 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,720 I do even Mike. I'm like Dang bro, I got to 435 00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:00,160 punch you. You like big. 436 00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:05,840 And he's strong too, like Micah got. 437 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,520 I think Micah got some moves he'd be working on by his self. 438 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,240 But but, but that, what was I saying? 439 00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:19,080 Punch Michael. No. 440 00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,200 You just like fighting. That's what your problem is, 441 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:22,640 huh? Yeah. 442 00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:24,680 Yeah, yeah. Come, bully. 443 00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:26,400 No, I was saying something else. Maybe I was thinking that. 444 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,960 I didn't release it yet. Huh, huh, huh. 445 00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:35,840 How long you going to stay in that trauma? 446 00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:37,960 Yeah, I I still forgot. Whatever. 447 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:39,920 Thank you. And so I'm like. 448 00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:45,160 We, we, we are too. So, so in all of our 449 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:51,080 transformation, there's a dependency, childlike dependency 450 00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:57,840 that we should end up as a child. 451 00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,720 My, my, my, my son can't wait to get to church. 452 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:06,560 He'll go before us. And he there's pictures video of 453 00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:11,040 him little unloading EU Haul. When we say our kids planted the 454 00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:16,000 church, they planted the church, but there's no like how long we 455 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:20,480 going to be serving that? There's no planning center or to 456 00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:26,360 deny a Sunday as children. They just have bought into their 457 00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:37,440 parents rhythm for their life. And if they don't like where 458 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:40,880 they go and all they care about is having some snacks and these 459 00:33:40,880 --> 00:33:47,080 days of foam, he says. So when I'm looking around the 460 00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:52,200 room and I'm seeing God. 'S children just like, like man 461 00:33:52,240 --> 00:33:56,040 you, I don't know how you look at the room, but when you see 462 00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:59,680 like kids play, that's how God's kids play. 463 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:03,840 They praise, they dance around. When you see these pictures of 464 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:09,679 angels, they're crazing around the throne and in the North 465 00:34:09,679 --> 00:34:13,199 American church. I know Kenny don't want to 466 00:34:13,199 --> 00:34:18,040 relate to anything with the word American in it, but sorry, 467 00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:26,960 you're part of North America and the way we do church, You're 468 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:34,239 soft. Some believers in other parts of 469 00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:39,639 the world would call you fake. Any amount of pressure. 470 00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:43,400 We run. We don't know how to pray. 471 00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:50,000 Our prayer meetings are an arrested they're then they're 472 00:34:50,159 --> 00:34:52,480 they're they're they're they're they're unhealthy. 473 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,080 They're there are prayer meetings. 474 00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:57,000 There's no interest. But on Sunday we fill the seats 475 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:01,320 five days, maybe 6. The world gets it. 476 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:06,160 They get all of you, they get your time. 477 00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:09,000 You up late at night, write notes for your meetings and 478 00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:12,040 planning and then when they come to church, it's like all right, 479 00:35:12,640 --> 00:35:16,680 start around that 2 hour time because. 480 00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:18,800 You got a little bit of capacity if you come to local around that 481 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:24,600 2 hour time you start want to get tea in the back and water 482 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:27,440 and stretching your legs. Some of y'all don't ever make it 483 00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:31,200 back to your seat. I can tell us a few of you guys 484 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,600 do it all the time. You disengage after a certain 485 00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:37,160 amount of time or when a certain message get real tense. 486 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,280 Start walking around getting uncomfortable. 487 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:44,800 The capacity of today's church. There's parts of this world they 488 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:50,280 are walking hours and they will be mad if a preacher preaches 489 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:54,840 any less than two hours. I didn't walk 4 hours to get a 490 00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,560 30 minute message. You crazy? 491 00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:03,000 Here we got you don't even got nothing to do. 492 00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:09,920 You don't cook like that. Where I came from, we cook like 493 00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:11,280 that. I think Deborah one of them 494 00:36:11,280 --> 00:36:14,040 people that cook like that like beans probably on right now at 495 00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:18,320 the house, right We smothering chicken. 496 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:21,960 We like we and we cooking for like a whole House of people who 497 00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:26,000 are eating between services to go back to night service. 498 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:31,560 Where have we? Where did you get your 499 00:36:31,560 --> 00:36:35,360 Christianity from? Who trained us? 500 00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:39,000 It's not the Holy Ghost capacity. 501 00:36:39,680 --> 00:36:41,920 And then we're stubborn because we get to pick and choose 502 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,200 whatever church, forget the one God called us to. 503 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:46,360 Which one is closest to my house? 504 00:36:47,720 --> 00:36:50,800 Which one actually has a service at the time that I can go? 505 00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:57,560 Which one has the best worship? Which one teaches in a way that 506 00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:01,720 I best understand because God made me to understand like this. 507 00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:06,040 When I go to that other church, he's like over here sometime and 508 00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:08,400 he's like over here sometimes kind of sound like the Holy 509 00:37:08,400 --> 00:37:12,320 Spirit, kind of sound like you're not the only one that God 510 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:16,240 wants to talk to. So there's someone over here 511 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:19,240 who's pulling on the anointing, and then there's a way that we 512 00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:21,480 God did me like somebody else is over here. 513 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:25,360 I think one of the greatest gifts of a great communicator is 514 00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:27,440 that they can reach as many people in the room. 515 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:32,000 Now, I can get 100% of you to understand a miss message in 516 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:35,200 simplicity, but it doesn't mean I helped most of you. 517 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:40,440 I'm not here to make sure everybody understand everything 518 00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,400 I say. That's between you and the Holy 519 00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,840 Ghost, Bereans. Go study the word, take notes, 520 00:37:45,840 --> 00:37:49,280 go listen to the message and squeeze and pull out the word. 521 00:37:49,440 --> 00:37:52,440 And that's the Holy Ghost. What does this word mean for my 522 00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:56,520 life But boy? You get a bunch of Christians 523 00:37:56,520 --> 00:38:00,120 come, don't take notes, they just look at you like 524 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:08,240 interesting. Let me write that down and go 525 00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:12,000 ask my other pastor friend if this is theologically sound. 526 00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:21,440 My YouTube pastor doesn't is not saying that's what God's doing 527 00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:26,240 today. What are we doing? 528 00:38:36,580 --> 00:38:42,180 I'm here to let you guys know that we don't do worship for 529 00:38:42,180 --> 00:38:46,460 you. Worship time is actually God's 530 00:38:46,460 --> 00:38:51,640 children worshipping Him, not singing your favorite song or 531 00:38:51,640 --> 00:38:55,400 gospel or CCM or black music or white music or whatever that 532 00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:58,760 stupidity is. You don't go. 533 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:03,160 To church for a genre of music. I have somebody that was shocked 534 00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:04,760 at a couple who goes to our church. 535 00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:06,840 They don't look like they should go here, I guess. 536 00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,960 And and it was the man that that is not a part of the Christian 537 00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:12,800 faith who said to them, you go to that. 538 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:15,600 Church. The black church. 539 00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:20,240 So our whole church is black because I'm black? 540 00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:26,680 That's wild. A lot of us probably would have 541 00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,280 thought the little moment of praise there was charismatic and 542 00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,240 Pentecostal. No, it was just joy. 543 00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:34,200 It's just freedom is what freedom looks like. 544 00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:38,080 And if if freedom looks like black, then first of all thank 545 00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:49,720 you. But but at the same time, I'm 546 00:39:49,720 --> 00:39:54,960 like, I'm like, why would you want to hand freedom to one 547 00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:58,680 group of people? I'm here to tell you, this 548 00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:01,720 brother is telling you that this joy that I have, you can have it 549 00:40:01,720 --> 00:40:04,160 as well. It's a choice. 550 00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:11,200 It's a choice. I'll close with this Hebrews 11 551 00:40:11,200 --> 00:40:13,720 and 29 and I saw this, and I pray it blesses you. 552 00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:19,720 Hebrews 11/29 I just saw the. Scripture in a. 553 00:40:19,720 --> 00:40:22,000 Different way. We've all heard of the story of 554 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,080 the Red Sea. Yeah. 555 00:40:25,720 --> 00:40:28,560 If not, I mean, come on. Like, there's cartoons, there's 556 00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:33,120 there's 10 commandments. Like, if you ain't like right, 557 00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:37,360 there's every, like you at least have heard of the Red Sea. 558 00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:43,080 OK. I want you to see something that 559 00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:49,720 I did not see. Urged on by faith, say by faith, 560 00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:54,920 say, urged on. The people crossed the Red Sea 561 00:40:55,240 --> 00:41:01,440 as though on dry land. I want you to hear this in 562 00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:05,760 reality. It was dry for God's children. 563 00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:13,920 It was not dry for the enemy to go across, and because what it 564 00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:18,800 was for you, the arrogance of the enemy thought he had the 565 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:27,600 same access. But when the Egyptians tried to 566 00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:33,840 do the same thing, they were swallowed up by the sea. 567 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:40,040 Now, not to throw a damper in there, but I had an uncle on my 568 00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:47,360 dad's side who was set up. By female and he was murdered in 569 00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:51,520 my young age and. It was a young. 570 00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:56,640 Lady he was dating and she called him to the house and said 571 00:41:56,640 --> 00:42:01,040 come over and and his fate was there. 572 00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:05,480 He showed up and her president, boyfriend or whatever murdered 573 00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:14,320 him and it was this like setup. It was this, this, this. 574 00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:21,760 He thought he was going for one reason to and then to find out 575 00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,400 he would be swallowed up by death. 576 00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:29,040 Now this isn't a somber thing, but but it's it's somber for the 577 00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:35,120 Egyptians because we see this story about the Red Sea being 578 00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:40,680 for us. And I have now seen that the Red 579 00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:44,360 Sea was God's strategy to swallow up the enemy more than 580 00:42:44,360 --> 00:42:52,240 it was about getting us across. OK, because in Egypt I still had 581 00:42:52,240 --> 00:43:01,360 freedom. Sometimes God will take you 582 00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:08,040 peculiar routes because there's an enemy pursuing you, and the 583 00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:11,280 route he's called you to take is really not about you. 584 00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:13,280 That's why you're frustrated with the route. 585 00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:18,400 But there's an enemy on your tail that he is seducing to come 586 00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:22,360 away, and God is setting him up because there is some enemies in 587 00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:26,440 your life in 2025 that are about to be swallowed up. 588 00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:42,160 Somebody shout out, swallowed up that sea wasn't merely in the. 589 00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:49,200 Children of Israel's way it was opened up, or a foolish devil 590 00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:55,880 who was about to try and touch God's anointed, and God is 591 00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:59,120 trying to show you what he will do to get you out. 592 00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:03,280 But if God. Goes through all these measures 593 00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:06,720 to get you out. Understand he is also on the 594 00:44:06,720 --> 00:44:10,240 back end putting a end to what has been tormenting your life. 595 00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:17,320 Here it is. But are you willing and I can go 596 00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:20,560 through so many scriptures. Are you willing to do the 597 00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:26,840 abnormal to experience a lifestyle of supernatural once? 598 00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:33,120 You walk across a dry sea. There is no denying that God is 599 00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:39,160 God and I believe this is what God wants to do in our lives is 600 00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:47,560 something so supernatural, but he's looking for some Moses that 601 00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:54,160 are willing stick their rod out and lead the people across. 602 00:44:54,840 --> 00:45:00,720 He's looking for some Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and as much 603 00:45:00,720 --> 00:45:04,360 as it doesn't make sense go on the fiery furnace so he can put 604 00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:10,240 it because it's about his glory. He's looking for a Mary to say. 605 00:45:10,240 --> 00:45:12,880 I know it don't make sense but I needed to. 606 00:45:12,880 --> 00:45:16,800 Find a virgin because I need to. Birth a savior and you are the 607 00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:19,200 perfect candidate. You've been serving me. 608 00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:21,880 I need your womb because I hear it is. 609 00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:24,840 I need your womb to get something in the earth for the 610 00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:30,840 world. I don't see too many normal ways 611 00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:34,480 God answers. Here it is. 612 00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:36,920 I'm not talking about day-to-day answers. 613 00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:41,080 If you truly want to see your your city know Jesus. 614 00:45:41,800 --> 00:45:44,320 There's no normal way to get them to know Jesus. 615 00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:47,160 I've got this in my spirit a few years back. 616 00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:51,320 God if you don't do something supernatural, your these 617 00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:53,800 children, these people will be lost because coming up here 618 00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:57,400 preaching every week, I promise you it's anointed. 619 00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:01,680 But why is it more people responding to the word? 620 00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:07,960 God has to do something. Signs and wonders is to bring 621 00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:12,680 color back in the picture. It's not for the believer to 622 00:46:12,680 --> 00:46:15,640 just sit around and just be hyper spiritual and always want 623 00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:17,320 to see legs growing in gold dust. 624 00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:21,800 And, and a lot of times we want revival to to, to so heaven can 625 00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:24,880 tickle us. We not really want revival to 626 00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:31,240 change our city and so love quest. 627 00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:34,680 It's been in my spirit, it's on my heart. 628 00:46:35,240 --> 00:46:36,640 We going to do something different. 629 00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:49,040 I as your leader will not continue to let us be too 630 00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:54,520 familiar with God. We stroll in late, the church 631 00:46:56,840 --> 00:47:00,040 come for prayer, we get like 15 people, same people. 632 00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:04,880 And I'm telling you, this is 7 years here and this is going to 633 00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:06,560 other churches. It's a pattern. 634 00:47:06,720 --> 00:47:09,240 But there's parts of the world, folks show up hours early to 635 00:47:09,240 --> 00:47:12,360 church and they're all in there praying before the worship team 636 00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:15,320 come out. Like the people here take an 637 00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:17,880 initiative to get the atmosphere ready and by the time the 638 00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:19,440 worship team come out, they ain't got nothing. 639 00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:24,440 For what? So we come like we're going to a 640 00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:27,840 production, a movie, and then you wait for the worst routine 641 00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:30,480 to come out and then Elder John or somebody got to pray. 642 00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:35,920 Come on, isn't God good? Come on, clap your hands. 643 00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:37,800 All right, Hold on, Judy. Hold on, Judy. 644 00:47:38,240 --> 00:47:40,240 Has God done any like we got to do that? 645 00:47:40,240 --> 00:47:44,360 Over and over. Is there like anybody aside from 646 00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:48,400 leaders that will come in early enough and you lead the way and 647 00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:51,120 come in here and be on your knees and come in here and lift 648 00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:58,840 your hands and come in here and spark a fire and God's like I am 649 00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:00,680 just looking for. People that's willing to do the 650 00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:03,840 abnormal because I have a strategy for revival. 651 00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:09,240 Thank you God, but we got to let the soil rest. 652 00:48:09,240 --> 00:48:12,640 One thing when God says let the soil rest, he is saying that you 653 00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:19,160 guys have sown. You're a sewing church and we 654 00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:24,960 pursue God, We pursue them here, we pursue them back there, we 655 00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:29,600 pursue God. So the issue is not that, but 656 00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:34,000 what we will not do is we will not let people make this into 657 00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:38,400 some North American punked out church where you just kind of 658 00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:41,360 throw fits when it's too long or when if you don't like 659 00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:42,840 something, you go to another church. 660 00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:46,560 Good go. But if there's a people here 661 00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:50,080 that are willing to be tried by the fire and be hungry and 662 00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:54,240 thirsty and pursue Jesus for generations to come, and for 663 00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:57,280 your city and for your region and for your nation, and you're 664 00:48:57,280 --> 00:49:00,960 willing to. To sometimes look silly for the 665 00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:02,840 glory of God when I read these stories. 666 00:49:03,040 --> 00:49:05,080 Hey. Hey, Ezekiel, You think these 667 00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:08,680 bones can live? Bro, I ain't never looked at no 668 00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:11,400 chicken that I just demolished and looked at them bones and 669 00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:14,040 like, man, you think some meat going to hop back on them bones? 670 00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:20,920 No, once I get yeah, I'm done. Can you imagine God lead you out 671 00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:26,000 into a valley a dry bones. This wasn't even Lazarus with 672 00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:29,440 just stinking body dead. He's no meat dead. 673 00:49:30,240 --> 00:49:32,800 He like you think them can live and I love his answer. 674 00:49:32,800 --> 00:49:39,680 He like you know, and then God said, because you put your faith 675 00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:43,720 in me and you know, I know I'm. Going to put my words of knowing 676 00:49:43,720 --> 00:49:51,400 on your tongue. His brother speaks to these 677 00:49:51,400 --> 00:49:53,680 bones and prophecy. And then there was he. 678 00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:56,760 He told him to speak to him first any toll that came 679 00:49:56,760 --> 00:49:59,680 together and then he he said now now prophesied that the wind 680 00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:05,920 comes. Bury famine, go sow in that 681 00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:07,800 land. I know it don't make sense, it's 682 00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:10,040 famine. But in the same year in the same 683 00:50:10,040 --> 00:50:12,000 land, you're going to receive 1000 times back. 684 00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:16,240 Come on, 2 fish, 5 loaves. I know it's 10,000 plus people 685 00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:19,040 that need to get fed and we only got 2 fish, 5 loaves. 686 00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:20,840 Just put it in my hands. Just put it in my hands. 687 00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:27,000 Put your plans in my hands and we could just shout out all 688 00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:31,200 these Elijah calls down rain. Abraham, go kill your son. 689 00:50:31,240 --> 00:50:33,200 No, no, no, no, no, no. I got a sacrifice. 690 00:50:33,200 --> 00:50:34,680 I just want to see if you was willing. 691 00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:37,560 I was just trying to find somebody in the earth that that 692 00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:41,680 is agile and that is not afraid of people, but more fear God 693 00:50:41,680 --> 00:50:43,960 than they do man. And somebody that I can set up 694 00:50:43,960 --> 00:50:46,920 generations for, that I can get some things through the earth 695 00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:57,480 that is free unto me. We can go on and on and on and 696 00:50:57,560 --> 00:51:00,480 on. Jesus, Hey, go, go, go ask your 697 00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:04,360 son if he can revitalize this water and turn it into wine. 698 00:51:07,480 --> 00:51:08,920 Strategy. Hey, get me some buckets. 699 00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:12,480 Like there's all nothing but strategy. 700 00:51:12,480 --> 00:51:14,480 There's just nothing but weird stuff. 701 00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:18,760 Unpopular stuff. When was the last time you seen 702 00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:20,120 a church? And I know they're out there. 703 00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:22,760 How many, you know that do unpopular stuff? 704 00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:28,000 Everything's programmed to be convenient for the family and 705 00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:32,280 for you to check in, check out, and is administratively perfect. 706 00:51:32,280 --> 00:51:35,040 And it's all these things and there's a place for all that. 707 00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:38,040 But we have let it take the place of presence. 708 00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:42,680 When's the last time we paid that much attention to detail? 709 00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:46,320 See, I'm pursuing God and He's given me some details about His 710 00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:51,320 presence and there might be somebody administratively better 711 00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:57,200 than me, but where I'm at I am going to always put presents 712 00:51:57,200 --> 00:51:59,200 1st. And I think that's why he picked 713 00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:05,240 people who wasn't the smartest, but they were intelligent and 714 00:52:05,240 --> 00:52:07,600 they were willing to follow Jesus. 715 00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:13,080 What a strategy I'm. Going to go get these fishermen 716 00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:16,920 to get the gospel to the rest of the world. 717 00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:20,600 I'm going to go get this murderer who murdered Christians 718 00:52:20,800 --> 00:52:22,840 and I'm going to get him to write letters to the church 719 00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:27,000 about love. Somebody who hated Christians. 720 00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:30,120 I want his pen to tell the church how how to love. 721 00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:38,560 Can you please find me something normal in the Bible, please? 722 00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:43,400 And then we trying to normalize Jesus and we have we have 723 00:52:43,400 --> 00:52:47,960 normalized his presence out. So what Love Quest is going to 724 00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:56,080 do is next Sunday, next weekend will be our first, our last full 725 00:52:56,080 --> 00:53:02,200 weekend for about 3 weeks. I think it's three weeks. 726 00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:06,760 So next Saturday we have our pop up shop and that finance, those 727 00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:09,080 finances are going fully to our remnant project. 728 00:53:09,080 --> 00:53:11,760 We got some fine clothes. It's going to be set up next 729 00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:13,400 door. Team is working hard. 730 00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:16,000 We'll have music in there. We'll have food truck here. 731 00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:18,920 Please come out and support. It's going to be some nice 732 00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:21,320 clothes. And I'm telling you, look, if 733 00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:23,800 you buy some of my clothes, just come ask me how to rock it. 734 00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:27,200 Because if I see you wearing it all jacked up, I might, I might 735 00:53:27,200 --> 00:53:30,520 buy it back from you because Amen. 736 00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:33,440 Please, please don't. I don't want to look at you and 737 00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:35,320 be like, no, don't come talking to me, bro. 738 00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:37,920 You got my pants all you can't even fit them pants. 739 00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:44,320 What are you doing? So that's Saturday and then the 740 00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:48,840 next day we have we'll have our two morning experiences. 741 00:53:49,840 --> 00:53:54,560 Believe, invite, pack it out so that people can encounter the 742 00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:58,120 joy, the Lord, the life of the bride, and then we'll have our 743 00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:00,400 pop up shop in between both experiences. 744 00:54:00,720 --> 00:54:03,440 Then in the evening we're calling all creatives. 745 00:54:03,720 --> 00:54:08,280 God has pressed on my heart that in this year I need to really 746 00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:10,920 focus on gathering the creatives. 747 00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:14,640 There's a revival, there's a fresh win for Kingdom Art and 748 00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:21,320 it's artists. Artists is a prophetic weapon 749 00:54:21,320 --> 00:54:25,320 and voice for the Kingdom of God and it's why during COVID who 750 00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:27,200 suffered the most? I get it, it was a lot of 751 00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:31,560 suffering but just speaking culture, the arts suffered big 752 00:54:31,560 --> 00:54:35,400 time right? The enemy muzzled muzzled the 753 00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:42,880 mouth as much as he could. OK, all you creatives in here, 754 00:54:43,280 --> 00:54:46,000 it is not God's plan that you take your gifts to the world and 755 00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:50,080 let them pervert it. I apologize that the church has 756 00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:53,200 not created a space for creatives that does not just use 757 00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:57,000 you for Sunday or want to turn you into a worship leader or 758 00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:01,800 make you be Jesus or merry on Christmas or Easter. 759 00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:03,800 Like there's more for your gift than that. 760 00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:07,080 We are a church that's called to the marketplace and we will have 761 00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:10,280 production company that the world will come and try and get 762 00:55:10,280 --> 00:55:12,320 jobs. We will have music a record 763 00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:13,760 late. We will have all of that. 764 00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:21,640 At a very high capacity. And so next Sunday night it will 765 00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:25,080 play as the after party of the pop up shop. 766 00:55:25,240 --> 00:55:27,520 We'll meet in here. We're we're flipping the room. 767 00:55:27,520 --> 00:55:30,400 It's going to be lounge like it's going to be dope and we 768 00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:33,360 have some super creative fun stuff. 769 00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:38,760 And then we're bringing Tommy Zuko from Cali out here. 770 00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:42,200 And if you've ever seen heard his music or seen him before 771 00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:46,920 perform live, he that that brother got all all kind of 772 00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:48,920 sauce. That brother is too cool and 773 00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:50,640 he's fired. They'll put the flyer up in the 774 00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:52,360 mid. That's not Tommy Zuko, guys, 775 00:55:52,360 --> 00:55:54,400 That's I don't know who she is. There you go. 776 00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:56,120 You see Tom, Hey, he's saved too. 777 00:55:56,120 --> 00:55:58,000 He's saved too. So don't be acting like because 778 00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:00,960 he wearing shades and got got swag, he ain't saved right. 779 00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:04,160 We taking all that back for our creatives like keep your swag, 780 00:56:04,160 --> 00:56:07,240 keep your drip, keep keep your fine, keep your handsome. 781 00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:10,800 God made you that way. Bible said David was a handsome 782 00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:13,200 one. Come on, somebody just say I'm 783 00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:15,120 handsome. Not me, but you, right? 784 00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:19,640 You know what I'm saying. What you and he's married to Mel 785 00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:22,120 elder Roseanne want to make sure you ladies knew he was married, 786 00:56:28,280 --> 00:56:28,840 OK? Amen. 787 00:56:28,920 --> 00:56:32,320 Hallelujah. A part of the reason he's coming 788 00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:37,680 out here is because also he and I made I think we got 1. 789 00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:40,480 So so so listen y'all, I've been cooking. 790 00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:42,720 I got a book coming out. I'm going to have to push the 791 00:56:42,720 --> 00:56:45,560 day back, but I also have a album coming out. 792 00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:49,480 So a lot of y'all and never seen me like like really get out and 793 00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:53,360 I'm telling you, I'm Pastor T but but like like show me your 794 00:56:53,360 --> 00:56:56,280 favorite rapper and I promise you I'll go toe to toe with your 795 00:56:56,280 --> 00:56:58,520 favorite rapper. OK, All right, I'll write some 796 00:56:58,520 --> 00:57:01,880 good. I really good songs, OK, right. 797 00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:05,240 And that's why the kings, the three kings been asking me to 798 00:57:05,240 --> 00:57:07,480 come up and do stuff and I'm like, no, because I'm just when 799 00:57:07,480 --> 00:57:09,720 I come out, I'm I'm about to smack you over the head. 800 00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:12,000 I'm telling you right, I'm telling you. 801 00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:14,920 So I know it's time because as God releases me, I understand my 802 00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:20,200 gift is because he's ready to activate a generation and and 803 00:57:20,200 --> 00:57:22,960 man, I think we got one. Like I think yesterday I 804 00:57:22,960 --> 00:57:30,600 recorded my 29th song and and I'm all 29 is firing man. 805 00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:33,440 Can we make some noise for Adam Stanton? 806 00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:37,480 And thank you, Sir. Thank you, Sir. 807 00:57:40,680 --> 00:57:42,400 All right, all right, all right, sit down because I still got 808 00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:46,280 some more. He's he's he's one of the best 809 00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:51,600 engineers in the city and probably the province and he's 810 00:57:51,600 --> 00:57:57,200 he's like top notch and he is the husband of Carolyn, who was 811 00:57:57,200 --> 00:57:59,480 a day Warner and their beautiful family. 812 00:57:59,840 --> 00:58:08,000 Thank you, thank you, thank you. And he and I have some really, 813 00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:11,440 really dope chemistry and it's really good is to be like a 814 00:58:11,440 --> 00:58:13,720 third album or so. He and I worked on this to be 815 00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:15,880 like my 13th album that I've ever put out. 816 00:58:15,880 --> 00:58:18,520 I have put out a lot of albums before there was Instagram. 817 00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:20,960 So don't age me, but look, it's good. 818 00:58:22,320 --> 00:58:25,720 But but Tommy's coming here so we can shoot a music video for 819 00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:29,040 one of our songs. And I promise you it's like 820 00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:37,520 it's, it's, it's a it's so good. And we're going to shoot a video 821 00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:40,640 at the hub and we're calling people out because we need to 822 00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:45,160 turn the hub into a club. And we want to get at least 80 823 00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:48,560 people in there. We'll do 100, but we want to at 824 00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:51,000 least get 80. Now, look, this is not a yoga 825 00:58:51,000 --> 00:58:52,400 pants night. Like you got it. 826 00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:55,200 You got to do elevated urban. You got to, this is the only 827 00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:57,840 analogy I can get. You got to come out like you 828 00:58:57,840 --> 00:59:00,400 going to, all right. Let me, let me just let me, let 829 00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:04,320 me just say this, OK? Stop shaking your head, babe. 830 00:59:04,320 --> 00:59:06,080 No, OK, because I'm not about to say nothing bad. 831 00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:10,400 Have you have you guys ever heard of the song Past the 832 00:59:10,400 --> 00:59:14,040 Courvoisier by Busta Rhymes or whatever? 833 00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:15,440 OK, it's the secular song. Whatever. 834 00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:17,160 So what? Don't judge me. 835 00:59:17,160 --> 00:59:18,800 I don't really care. You look at worse stuff than 836 00:59:18,800 --> 00:59:21,320 that, right. Anyway, but but it's like 837 00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:23,160 elevated. It's like, you know how when 838 00:59:23,160 --> 00:59:26,040 they do these music videos and and there's like they're like 839 00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:29,400 dressed up and it's fun. They're out there elegant. 840 00:59:29,400 --> 00:59:32,880 It's it's fun. That's the kind of party is 841 00:59:32,880 --> 00:59:36,520 going to be like, but but it's from that era, like the what 842 00:59:36,520 --> 00:59:41,000 year was that 90s like 2002 thousands like like you can find 843 00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:43,080 me that a that that time right there. 844 00:59:43,160 --> 00:59:48,720 So big glasses and big hair and like fun and we going to shoot a 845 00:59:48,720 --> 00:59:50,120 music video. That's going to be dope. 846 00:59:50,120 --> 00:59:51,240 And guess what that's going to do? 847 00:59:51,240 --> 00:59:53,200 We going to get out there to the world and they're going to be 848 00:59:53,200 --> 00:59:56,680 like, wow, these people look good and they have so much joy. 849 00:59:58,520 --> 01:00:03,000 It's a church, yeah. The lyrics are wholesome. 850 01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:06,480 Where they at? Canada is the pastor. 851 01:00:07,720 --> 01:00:12,720 Where they at? Vancouver, Canada right now is 852 01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:17,560 waiting I guess a wide open spot for us y'all. 853 01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:23,560 So we'll give you some info next week, but we looking for some 854 01:00:23,560 --> 01:00:26,160 folks to help us pack the place out and it's going to be dope. 855 01:00:26,160 --> 01:00:27,760 That's going to be for next Saturday night. 856 01:00:28,280 --> 01:00:33,440 After that weekend, there will be no Saturdays, no Sundays. 857 01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:40,960 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, we're going to 858 01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:43,640 be right here. And what it's going to look 859 01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:44,760 like. It's going to look like prayer 860 01:00:44,760 --> 01:00:47,320 and worship like you did before the week of revival. 861 01:00:48,320 --> 01:00:50,960 OK, Don't come in. We're going to pray. 862 01:00:50,960 --> 01:00:52,680 Why? God promised that there will be 863 01:00:52,680 --> 01:00:55,040 a revival of prayer in this house. 864 01:00:55,920 --> 01:00:59,360 And so we're getting rid of the idol of Sunday. 865 01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:02,400 Are we going to see who really love church? 866 01:01:03,240 --> 01:01:06,520 Who really, or let me put it this way, is going to obey the 867 01:01:06,520 --> 01:01:09,600 word when it says don't forsake the gathering of the Saints? 868 01:01:10,640 --> 01:01:12,880 And then are you going to be like the people who made 869 01:01:12,880 --> 01:01:15,120 excuses? I got a job, I got a new 870 01:01:15,120 --> 01:01:17,760 property, I got a house, I got to work. 871 01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:20,120 I'm too far. Are you going to be one of them 872 01:01:20,120 --> 01:01:21,320 people? Are you going to start moving 873 01:01:21,320 --> 01:01:23,920 stuff around like you move stuff around for other stuff? 874 01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:30,040 I'm sorry. But the gathering of the Saints 875 01:01:30,440 --> 01:01:34,240 and God's church is a part of loving Jesus. 876 01:01:37,080 --> 01:01:39,400 So stop trying to separate the two. 877 01:01:39,920 --> 01:01:44,600 And be like, God knows my heart. He knows you don't want to obey 878 01:01:44,600 --> 01:01:47,680 his word. You want to pick and choose what 879 01:01:47,680 --> 01:01:51,080 you want to obey. And as I said, if you want to 880 01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:54,000 use those Sundays to go to another church, if you're 881 01:01:54,000 --> 01:01:56,840 looking for another church, if you feel God's taking you out of 882 01:01:56,840 --> 01:01:59,080 this church, man, it's the perfect time to do that. 883 01:02:00,640 --> 01:02:05,320 But for those that really say God's called me here from 9:00 884 01:02:05,320 --> 01:02:11,600 AM to 10:00 AM in your private space, you are going to worship. 885 01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:15,360 You're going to read a scripture or two or study some of the Word 886 01:02:15,360 --> 01:02:18,920 in the house, and you're going to pray, and you're going to 887 01:02:18,920 --> 01:02:23,200 know from 9:00 to 10:00 your church is doing the same thing 888 01:02:23,200 --> 01:02:28,080 wherever they are on Sunday. So not next Sunday, but the 889 01:02:28,080 --> 01:02:30,960 three Sundays following. That's what we're doing. 890 01:02:31,000 --> 01:02:33,520 I pushed out. I canceled traveling. 891 01:02:34,720 --> 01:02:36,960 Zuko was supposed to come. We were supposed to go there. 892 01:02:37,320 --> 01:02:43,440 I pushed our anniversary celebration into March because 893 01:02:43,520 --> 01:02:48,440 it's all belongs to him. You can't tell me. 894 01:02:49,200 --> 01:02:51,640 That if this is your church. Home you can't at least come 895 01:02:51,640 --> 01:02:58,840 twice a week out of five. That's what we doing. 896 01:02:58,840 --> 01:03:01,520 And if I don't see you, I'll see you when we get back to Sundays. 897 01:03:02,160 --> 01:03:05,400 But just remember and examine your heart. 898 01:03:06,520 --> 01:03:11,480 Why have you only given God one day, 2 hours, 3 hours? 899 01:03:12,120 --> 01:03:15,920 And then when you go to work every day, when you up at night 900 01:03:15,920 --> 01:03:24,240 worried about promotions, school, whatever, I believe God 901 01:03:24,240 --> 01:03:28,120 has given us something. And he said, son, will you trust 902 01:03:28,120 --> 01:03:30,960 me? Will you do something abnormal? 903 01:03:32,840 --> 01:03:37,880 I know your biggest attendance in church is Sundays, but I'm 904 01:03:37,880 --> 01:03:42,160 your biggest supporter. I know most people just give on 905 01:03:42,160 --> 01:03:47,720 Sundays, but I'm your supplier, I'm your provider. 906 01:03:49,080 --> 01:03:52,600 Will you trust me? And so I say yes, Dad, yes, 907 01:03:52,600 --> 01:03:55,840 Father, I'm going to trust you from 9:00 to 10:00. 908 01:03:55,840 --> 01:04:00,320 I'm going to be right in my secret place being unified by 909 01:04:00,320 --> 01:04:03,040 the Spirit with those that feel called and know they're called 910 01:04:03,040 --> 01:04:05,280 to this church and go take this time serious. 911 01:04:06,080 --> 01:04:08,840 Some will be fasting during that time, but we are not calling a 912 01:04:08,840 --> 01:04:12,680 fast as a church. We encourage you to, but God 913 01:04:12,680 --> 01:04:16,840 also said you need to fast beyond when the church calls a 914 01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:19,280 fast. You need to worship. 915 01:04:19,280 --> 01:04:24,720 Beyond when the church tells you to lift your hands, then our 916 01:04:24,720 --> 01:04:29,560 teams will be meeting once out of those three weeks just to get 917 01:04:29,560 --> 01:04:35,960 together, pray, search their hearts as a ministry and come 918 01:04:35,960 --> 01:04:38,440 back different, come back burning. 919 01:04:40,040 --> 01:04:42,560 We will not go next door into this building the same. 920 01:04:43,680 --> 01:04:46,480 We are being trusted with something very holy and very 921 01:04:46,480 --> 01:04:50,320 precious, and we have a responsibility to carry it to 922 01:04:50,320 --> 01:04:53,120 the next generation. And I do believe that. 923 01:04:53,120 --> 01:04:58,400 I have a few people in this house that says, pastor, we got 924 01:04:58,400 --> 01:05:00,480 your back, your front, and we are with you. 925 01:05:01,480 --> 01:05:08,480 Yeah, those, those, those as we close this fast, this is not to 926 01:05:08,480 --> 01:05:18,400 separate or divide, but I do want to pray for those that do 927 01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:23,360 feel they want to take the gospel serious and they want to 928 01:05:23,360 --> 01:05:26,000 take the vision and mission of their church serious. 929 01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:28,600 I'm going to have Elder John come up. 930 01:05:28,600 --> 01:05:42,270 I'm going to have my wife come up and I'll have you guys pray 931 01:05:42,990 --> 01:05:51,150 as a closing prayer specifically over those that says, man, I 932 01:05:51,150 --> 01:05:55,160 want to see different as well. I can admit I've contributed to 933 01:05:55,160 --> 01:06:02,480 the lukewarmness of the church, but I do believe that God has 934 01:06:02,480 --> 01:06:05,760 sent us some people. That's like, let's carry the 935 01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:11,080 urgency. Let's advance the body of Christ 936 01:06:11,720 --> 01:06:14,040 through the strength he gives us and they know anything he gives 937 01:06:14,040 --> 01:06:19,360 us and then we'll close. But the days of begging people 938 01:06:19,360 --> 01:06:25,760 to give, begging people to serve, begging people to stay. 939 01:06:31,410 --> 01:06:39,130 Fear of man is is dead cannot have fear of God and the fear of 940 01:06:39,130 --> 01:06:48,150 man. They do not go inside and this 941 01:06:48,150 --> 01:06:54,630 joy that we have here. I believe that God is he's just, 942 01:06:54,870 --> 01:06:56,790 he's just getting our roots very deep. 943 01:06:58,880 --> 01:07:01,440 I think there's something he's doing in this place and in this 944 01:07:01,440 --> 01:07:07,480 city that no government, no, no demon could ever destroy. 945 01:07:12,120 --> 01:07:14,960 May the work in this church be an offering to our King. 946 01:07:17,280 --> 01:07:23,080 And when he returns, may he find us in faith. 947 01:07:24,720 --> 01:07:26,280 May he find our children in faith. 948 01:07:27,480 --> 01:07:28,640 How far are we entering this moment? 949 01:07:28,640 --> 01:07:33,400 Because 24 hours fasting and praying, Love quest. 950 01:07:33,400 --> 01:07:35,720 Let me tell you something. Not every church, not every 951 01:07:35,800 --> 01:07:40,160 Christian is setting aside 21 days and ending it with 24 952 01:07:40,160 --> 01:07:43,760 hours. There's a true hunger in this 953 01:07:43,760 --> 01:07:47,080 church for more. And it's not more stuff. 954 01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:49,680 It's not. Hurry up and get us in the 955 01:07:49,680 --> 01:07:53,800 building. I see you guys dancing and I 956 01:07:53,800 --> 01:08:00,360 see, I know the testimonies. It doesn't mean that everyone 957 01:08:00,360 --> 01:08:05,120 serves the same hours and as many hours, but it's not just 958 01:08:05,120 --> 01:08:12,800 about these four walls. We actually need everybody to do 959 01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:19,080 the work inside and outside. So I want to say as we close 960 01:08:19,080 --> 01:08:24,520 this time, it's 24 hours. Thank you for those that 961 01:08:24,520 --> 01:08:27,479 couldn't even make it, but you were praying for us and you were 962 01:08:27,479 --> 01:08:29,880 praying with us. I understand life, I understand 963 01:08:29,880 --> 01:08:32,680 work, I understand family. But I'm telling you these 964 01:08:32,680 --> 01:08:36,359 things. I'm speaking to the excuses, not 965 01:08:36,359 --> 01:08:41,359 the reality of your situations. I want to make sure you purify 966 01:08:41,359 --> 01:08:43,399 and sift through what's an excuse? 967 01:08:43,399 --> 01:08:48,760 Where can I make more room for God and His church not being 968 01:08:48,760 --> 01:08:53,800 insensitive to daily life. Things happen. 969 01:08:53,800 --> 01:08:56,479 You got to go out of town. I have kids, I get it. 970 01:08:56,880 --> 01:09:00,279 But there are some sacrifices my my wife and I like. 971 01:09:00,279 --> 01:09:05,720 My wife is about to fly out with my boys in a few hours to go be 972 01:09:05,720 --> 01:09:08,600 in Calgary. And I got to be here because I'm 973 01:09:08,600 --> 01:09:12,479 called here and I miss my wife and I miss my children. 974 01:09:12,760 --> 01:09:16,640 And in this time, our family is separated, our daughters in 975 01:09:16,640 --> 01:09:19,439 Arizona, my wife and two sons are in Calgary. 976 01:09:19,600 --> 01:09:24,680 And I'm here because I have an assignment like I'm walking this 977 01:09:24,680 --> 01:09:30,680 thing with y'all. But why we have peace in our 978 01:09:30,680 --> 01:09:34,880 family is because we know that to obey God is way better than 979 01:09:34,880 --> 01:09:41,000 sacrifice. So when you wonder why there's 980 01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:43,720 the anointing and you wonder why our marriage is what it is, you 981 01:09:43,720 --> 01:09:49,800 wonder why our kids make pride and paying the cost. 982 01:09:50,479 --> 01:09:52,920 That's not a brag. I'm just being real with you. 983 01:09:54,279 --> 01:09:59,320 It hurts sometimes. I want to hop on that plane. 984 01:09:59,320 --> 01:10:01,440 I was joking What I said. Babe, I don't want you to go. 985 01:10:01,880 --> 01:10:07,480 I really don't want her to go, but she has to. 986 01:10:09,440 --> 01:10:11,240 And she really don't want me to stay. 987 01:10:12,960 --> 01:10:17,760 But I have to. And why? 988 01:10:19,400 --> 01:10:22,720 Because as much as I'm called to them, I'm called to you. 989 01:10:24,040 --> 01:10:27,800 And that's why I can't play with you, especially if you don't 990 01:10:27,800 --> 01:10:38,810 understand what it costs for us to be here, for you to have 991 01:10:38,810 --> 01:10:44,890 leaders who say God, whatever you need, found some. 992 01:10:46,290 --> 01:10:48,490 I want you to understand it's our call. 993 01:10:49,890 --> 01:10:54,890 And I understand it's not everybody's call, but pay the 994 01:10:54,890 --> 01:11:03,560 price for what your call costs. And I'm forever grateful for the 995 01:11:03,560 --> 01:11:09,440 ones that hold our family down. That's not separation, but those 996 01:11:09,920 --> 01:11:13,480 that really pray for us. Stand in the gap, make it easy 997 01:11:13,480 --> 01:11:21,360 to lead. Thank you for holding us up and 998 01:11:21,360 --> 01:11:27,880 not pulling us down. And as we end this fast, thank 999 01:11:27,880 --> 01:11:31,440 you for those that helped carry the rate, the weight and the 1000 01:11:31,440 --> 01:11:32,680 burden of the vision and mission. 1001 01:11:32,680 --> 01:11:36,240 Elder John, after Julia, come on over here. 1002 01:11:42,880 --> 01:11:45,000 Thank you so much for tuning into this week's sermon. 1003 01:11:45,000 --> 01:11:48,320 We pray you were challenged, equipped and encouraged. 1004 01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:50,560 Make sure to follow us on all platforms. 1005 01:11:50,560 --> 01:11:54,600 That's love quest Intl church. We out here for real. 1006 01:11:54,720 --> 01:11:56,960 We're really doing it. That's Facebook, Instagram, 1007 01:11:57,000 --> 01:12:00,200 YouTube and TikTok. You can find us anywhere you 1008 01:12:00,200 --> 01:12:02,480 need to find us. But until next time, you know 1009 01:12:02,480 --> 01:12:04,720 the drill. You know the motto, get your 1010 01:12:04,720 --> 01:12:06,960 love fixed man and we'll see y'all real soon. 1011 01:12:09,880 --> 01:12:15,080 There is a river of life flowing down from the world. 1012 01:12:16,760 --> 01:12:21,000 Can you see? Earth. 1013 01:12:21,040 --> 01:12:24,360 There is a sound off the shore, far from heaven.