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 --> 00:00:41,680 It's go time. Let's get into it. 9 00:00:41,680 --> 00:00:46,800 How? Y'all doing the Father is here. 10 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:52,000 Yeah, No, I'm not. You know what I'm saying No, the 11 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:56,920 like the the creator of the heavens of the earth is here and 12 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:03,840 he's ready to do something. Luke, Luke put up Luke 2432 13 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:12,100 please. I think it's 2432. 14 00:01:12,620 --> 00:01:16,060 God desires the same thing he desired in the first experience 15 00:01:16,060 --> 00:01:29,000 for the second experience. And if I know this is a crazy 16 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,520 analogy, it's not like this holy analogy. 17 00:01:31,520 --> 00:01:36,120 So if it if it shakes you a little bit, I apologize, but. 18 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:40,320 If you go, if you. And if you intentionally go to a 19 00:01:40,320 --> 00:01:47,480 restaurant that sells nothing but chicken, you probably don't 20 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:54,200 expect to leave with what chicken, right? 21 00:01:55,800 --> 00:02:02,520 So you have to come to a point where you stop coming to church 22 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:06,600 and don't leave with transformation. 23 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:10,759 That's that's all that's at church. 24 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:14,720 Where where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is. 25 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,720 You, you and I got to stop. Going into the church house, 26 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:28,240 encountering Jesus and leave the same now. 27 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:34,920 Now mind you, you can have increased knowledge and stay the 28 00:02:34,920 --> 00:02:41,320 same, but new information could make you feel like you've 29 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:47,040 changed just because you know something you know more. 30 00:02:47,480 --> 00:02:50,040 You're like, oh, I didn't know that right You, That's an 31 00:02:50,040 --> 00:02:54,880 encounter. At bare minimum, an encounter 32 00:02:54,880 --> 00:02:59,600 can be left at I left church knowing something I didn't know 33 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:03,080 before, or I read a scripture I didn't even know was in the 34 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:06,760 Bible. So you walk away like I learned 35 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:11,680 something today, but there is nothing that God teaches or 36 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:15,200 reveals for you to merely just learn something. 37 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:24,120 You should lead to transformation, Bible says they 38 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:29,520 said to one another. Were not our hearts greatly 39 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:34,280 moved? Somebody say moved and burning, 40 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:41,360 say burning within us while he was talking with us on the road 41 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:45,400 and as he opened and explained to us the sense of the 42 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,200 Scriptures. Right. 43 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:52,920 He, he, he, he, He opened the scriptures and he made it plain. 44 00:03:54,160 --> 00:03:58,240 What I can say at this? This church is we make it as 45 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:03,160 plain as possible and relatable without compromise and 46 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:08,280 practical. Try to weave in as many 2025 47 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:12,320 stories as possible. Try to share my life, be 48 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:14,440 vulnerable. We we, we try to do it all. 49 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:16,600 He, he made sense of the Scriptures. 50 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:22,440 But I want to go back, they said to one another. 51 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:26,320 Were not our hearts greatly moved? 52 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:34,680 If you enter the presence of God, you should be greatly 53 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:38,520 moved. Now I think. 54 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:43,360 What's very hard for really smart people to do is to 55 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:53,000 approach the scriptures ignorant because you already have trouble 56 00:04:54,960 --> 00:05:00,800 being OK not knowing, because you pride yourself on how smart 57 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:03,720 and brilliant you are and how educated you are. 58 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:06,440 And you can't approach the scriptures that way. 59 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:09,400 You have to approach the scriptures like even if it's a 60 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:12,520 scripture you've read 100 times, you have to approach it as a 61 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:19,320 newborn every time. If God is going to reveal 62 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:23,560 something to you that is going to move you greatly, you have to 63 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:26,760 approach Him every time with a hunger. 64 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:33,920 To know and watch when we put a. Scripture up there that you've 65 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:37,800 read before, there's going to be this relaxation. 66 00:05:37,800 --> 00:05:40,520 Like, let's be honest, I've done it before. 67 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:44,480 I've read a scripture very quickly that I've read before. 68 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:48,560 I've skimmed through it. It's almost like John 316 is not 69 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:53,680 worth reading. But if you go to John 316 and 70 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:58,360 spend some intentional time and it's like, I know it by heart, 71 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:02,280 but I don't know what that love means or I don't know what that 72 00:06:02,280 --> 00:06:04,680 means. When God say He loved the world, 73 00:06:04,680 --> 00:06:07,240 what does that mean if you don't really allow the word to? 74 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:16,640 Minister to you, it won't move you past the last move and I 75 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:18,520 don't want to waste my time or yours. 76 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:26,600 So 100% the word of God. Has planned and the presence of 77 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:35,880 God has planned that 100% of the people leave different your your 78 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:42,320 lack of change is your choice, no one else's, not God's or the 79 00:06:42,320 --> 00:06:46,680 devil's. And you and I have to ask 80 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:50,680 ourselves at some point with all the word we're getting or any 81 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:53,880 word. Why haven't it seeped into that 82 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:56,040 part of my life like. You can be very. 83 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:59,320 Intentional right now and say God, today's word number one. 84 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:03,480 I wanted to I wanted to change something you feel needs to be 85 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:06,120 changed. I wanted to minister in the area 86 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:11,320 I might have a blind spot in, but also, God, I direct the Word 87 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:17,200 to this dead spot in my life. Lord, I direct the Word today to 88 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:20,360 this anger issue. Lord, I direct the Word today to 89 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:23,720 this insecurity. Lord, I direct the Word to this 90 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:27,000 orphan spirit. I directed like you have to be 91 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:28,480 intentional. You just don't come to church 92 00:07:28,480 --> 00:07:33,480 and see your brothers and sisters in Jesus like all we got 93 00:07:33,480 --> 00:07:35,680 is chicken here. You got at least and leave with 94 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:42,800 some grease on you like, but just like like I'm I'm this is a 95 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:47,240 this is an Apostolic burden that there is way too many people 96 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:50,120 coming to church week after the week, week after week, 97 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:57,720 struggling with the same issues. So before we get, before we open 98 00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:03,040 our mouth and speak to you, you have to ask this man, why am I 99 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:09,680 still stuck there when God has revealed this to me? 100 00:08:14,480 --> 00:08:18,480 So his word should move you, it should advance you, it should 101 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:27,040 mature you, it should grow you. And he says, and it burns like, 102 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:29,360 like, can God create a furnace in your heart? 103 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:34,159 Because. I don't know about you, but 104 00:08:34,159 --> 00:08:38,240 like, I don't want to. I don't want to follow anything 105 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:43,159 that keeps me dry, and some of your dryness is not because 106 00:08:43,159 --> 00:08:47,720 God's not on fire, He is fire all consuming. 107 00:08:52,520 --> 00:08:57,200 I believe the word today should move you should challenge you, 108 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:03,320 and my prayer is that there is a some type of burning that 109 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:07,680 happens in your heart, even if it's just a little ember, but 110 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:18,200 something ignites you to at bare minimum evaluate yourself times 111 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:24,560 out for taking the church, let alone Jesus in vain. 112 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:30,120 The church is the great aside from Jesus, the church, which is 113 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:35,200 his body, his bride, is the greatest gift to the world. 114 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:43,760 And and we we walk with so much awe and honor walking into steak 115 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:48,200 houses. Like, think of how we dress when 116 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:50,800 we go. Out oh, the steak house. 117 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:55,400 Get your best fit, go out on a date, get there's places we walk 118 00:09:55,400 --> 00:10:00,240 around with Ah and then we come to the House of God, like yes, 119 00:10:00,240 --> 00:10:05,560 home. But there's a posture that we 120 00:10:05,560 --> 00:10:09,400 come with that's like, I'm walking into the House of God 121 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:16,920 and I am ready to contribute to someone's change, and I am ready 122 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:22,040 to be changed by someone else's contribution. 123 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:28,000 And as we sit in this room, there's enough accumulative 124 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:35,840 power to radically impact not just your life, but there's 125 00:10:35,840 --> 00:10:40,200 enough power in this room to change generations. 126 00:10:48,780 --> 00:10:57,500 So, Lord, I pray that we give you the space to move us, but 127 00:10:57,500 --> 00:11:04,700 that we even see Your word as something so special. 128 00:11:06,180 --> 00:11:11,080 A part of you changing us, or part of your Word changing us is 129 00:11:11,080 --> 00:11:15,760 how we view your Word. If your Word to us is just mere 130 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:24,240 rich literature, and we don't see the Word as your life, the 131 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:32,920 Word became flesh. So the same Jesus we worship in 132 00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:37,160 humanity is the same Jesus. We're reading today. 133 00:11:42,720 --> 00:11:46,880 So may we quickly. Fix our eyes and our hearts and 134 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:52,680 our minds on the value of. Being able to read. 135 00:11:55,320 --> 00:12:02,760 Truth and experience that men and women died for to get to us. 136 00:12:03,840 --> 00:12:08,280 May we not listen in vain and casually. 137 00:12:10,360 --> 00:12:13,320 May we understand as you have anointed and since your 138 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:20,600 servants, we are hearing from our Father today and the Father 139 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:24,920 shows up to do one thing, bless his children. 140 00:12:30,160 --> 00:12:31,760 So I thank you, we have ears to hear. 141 00:12:38,340 --> 00:12:42,420 Thank you that we are free from error, both speaking and hearing 142 00:12:43,020 --> 00:12:47,120 and error. And Lord, for those that aren't 143 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:51,080 as familiar with you, may you anoint me. 144 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:58,040 Anoint us to speak in a way that even the youth can understand 145 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:02,320 it. Anoint me to communicate 146 00:13:02,320 --> 00:13:13,560 practically as Jesus did. The Kingdom is like you. 147 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:18,120 You wasn't dumbing down the word, you actually cared about 148 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:26,080 us understanding. So I pray today that the word 149 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:37,440 becomes unlocked and the word lacks confusion today, that we 150 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:41,720 could just get it as Paul prayed. 151 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:50,400 I pray that you illuminate eyes of our hearts today so that we 152 00:13:50,400 --> 00:14:00,720 can walk out of this place with an inner encounter, something 153 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:06,000 that will push us closer to you as our Father, not merely our 154 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:11,520 provider. Father, reveal your heart to 155 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:15,800 your children. Jesus name. 156 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:18,720 Let's sing a little bit of this mighty war. 157 00:14:40,670 --> 00:14:50,960 Come on, sing out, Saints. Forbid double their fortune, 158 00:14:53,360 --> 00:15:00,600 Roaring waters rushing wind running like a fountain moving 159 00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:08,400 every mountain. Break you over the architect out 160 00:15:09,080 --> 00:15:12,000 bed Omega. Holy weight. 161 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:16,320 Mega we see. Onto the Great Isle. 162 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:22,240 With everything I have. Until the great I am. 163 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:24,960 I'm stringing. I'll pray it's your day. 164 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:29,800 Until the great I am. With everything I have. 165 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:33,520 Until the great I am. I'm stringing. 166 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:37,160 I'll pray it's your day. Come on, let's go. 167 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:42,680 Want the world. Brain of life. 168 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:53,040 Body was broken, no resurrected. What else? 169 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:37,400 Lifted high risen Messiah. Oh boy, I'll pray for Jordan. 170 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:46,670 We'll freeze the bride of cuter. We'll freeze the lamb with 171 00:16:46,670 --> 00:16:50,590 slains. Take ya way we love you. 172 00:16:50,830 --> 00:16:54,310 Thy way we love you. We'll freeze the rock. 173 00:16:54,630 --> 00:17:03,270 To be this We'll freeze the God. We say seek thy way we love you. 174 00:17:03,310 --> 00:17:05,790 Thy way we love you. Don't be this our salvation. 175 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:11,839 Teach us the King of Kings now. Way we love you. 176 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:16,480 That way we love you. Your favorite resurrection. 177 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:22,319 Your name means everything. That way we love you. 178 00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:27,760 The way you are. Yeah. 179 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:33,680 Way we love you the way you are. That way we love you. 180 00:17:33,680 --> 00:17:49,000 That way we love you. We pour out our love today, or 181 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:53,280 we pour out our love today. The rocks will not cry out for 182 00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:55,880 us. We pour out our love today. 183 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:01,200 We pour out our love today. We pour out our love today. 184 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:12,360 All Jesus, holy fire, comfort, peace within The Cave. 185 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:16,320 How ISIS? Come on, church. 186 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:18,640 Breath of Heaven, Breath of thin. 187 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:28,200 Now this sounds very sounds like I'll bring your name. 188 00:18:28,280 --> 00:21:00,120 I'll bring in your paper. I'll see you do it. 189 00:21:00,120 --> 00:21:06,400 I'll see you do it. I'll see you do it. 190 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:14,280 I'll see. You do it. 191 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:25,610 I can be seated right? You, you. 192 00:21:25,690 --> 00:21:32,280 You ever have somebody that's trying to encourage you or have 193 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:37,360 you ever said to yourself, man, you know, whatever I put my mind 194 00:21:37,360 --> 00:21:42,760 to, I could do it? A few people, you ever try to 195 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:44,320 encourage them? Like man, whenever you put your 196 00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:46,560 mind to it or, or do you know somebody like that? 197 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:48,760 It's like it almost seems like they could do anything as long 198 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:52,120 as they put their mind to it. Yes, I just need a few. 199 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:53,800 Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep. 200 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:59,320 But like, when's the last time? Because this is what the Bible 201 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:02,920 telling us. When you put your mind to God 202 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:10,120 who can do anything, when you fix your mind on the God of the 203 00:22:10,120 --> 00:22:12,920 impossible, anything is possible. 204 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:17,160 But then in your carnality you will tell yourself anything I 205 00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:21,720 put my mind to I could do it. Some of y'all can accomplish so 206 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:27,960 much and the enemy doesn't bother you in that area, but 207 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:30,960 when it comes to you becoming the son or daughter God has 208 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:35,200 called you to be, where's that same mind that you put to the 209 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,000 test to do anything? Where's that same mind? 210 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:40,400 Some of y'all in here can get wealth. 211 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:44,400 You didn't got diplomas, you didn't started businesses. 212 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:48,520 Because you put your mind to it. You got married because you put 213 00:22:48,520 --> 00:22:51,480 your mind to it. You imagine a family with 214 00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:54,840 children and a husband and a wife and because you put your 215 00:22:54,840 --> 00:22:57,160 mind to it. And then when you finally got 216 00:22:57,160 --> 00:22:59,520 it, you was like, oh God, why did I put my mind to it? 217 00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,920 Because the very thing that I thought about and imagined and 218 00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:09,480 desperately pursued and grind about and had grit about is the 219 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:14,640 very thing I live in now. And then you struggle stick, 220 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:18,480 taking that same principle when it comes to the Lord. 221 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,760 What if you took that same energy and got in the Word? 222 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:28,280 What if you took that same energy and dealt with those 223 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:32,080 thoughts of yours and those the sin of yours or those 224 00:23:32,080 --> 00:23:34,160 insecurity? What if you attacked your 225 00:23:34,160 --> 00:23:37,120 bondage in the whatever you put your mind to? 226 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,200 What if he was like, man, if I put my mind in my freedom, I 227 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:45,560 could be free. Yet that same mind that got you 228 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:49,200 that business is that same mind that can get you broken off that 229 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:58,480 lust. Yeah, we've been dealing with 230 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:02,640 this crying out. And as I said before, it's like 231 00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:06,160 we think of crying out as when we're sad, when trauma happens 232 00:24:06,360 --> 00:24:08,520 and when bad things happen we cry. 233 00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:14,040 But but man, the real cry out is a a need. 234 00:24:14,040 --> 00:24:16,840 For God, a realization that I need God. 235 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:22,200 And not just any God, I need Yahweh, I need Jehovah, I need 236 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:29,800 LL yon, I need the creator of the heavens and the earth that 237 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:33,480 that's who I need. And I desperately need you every 238 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:36,440 day, every hour. I need thee. 239 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,920 But then that cry out also is is my grata. 240 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:47,640 It's the the voice of my Thanksgiving. 241 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:55,200 Through the good, he's good. Through the bad, he's good. 242 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:59,000 Through the worst, he's good. Through the storms, he's good. 243 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:03,040 Through the the sun, he's good. When it's up, he's good. 244 00:25:03,120 --> 00:25:06,040 When it's down, he's good. In the valley, he's good. 245 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:09,600 On the mountain top, he's good. He is always good. 246 00:25:12,120 --> 00:25:16,080 I cry out because he's good. I cry out because I need him, 247 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:19,520 can't live without him, can't do nothing that I'm called to do 248 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:21,680 without him. I can't father without him. 249 00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:24,960 I can't husband without him. I can't pastor without him. 250 00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:26,720 I can't entrepreneur without him. 251 00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:31,160 And I'm not talking about I keep a daily dose of His word. 252 00:25:32,120 --> 00:25:36,040 I'm talking about a life of following and obeying and 253 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:40,200 responding to pressure in God like fashion. 254 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:47,720 I'm talking about Him consuming my life, not having the word as 255 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:55,560 a crutch, something not having the word as something I'm 256 00:25:55,560 --> 00:26:02,160 affiliated with versus something I am made by. 257 00:26:04,360 --> 00:26:10,760 Some of you are affiliated with the word, you Christian, but has 258 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:15,200 the word made you? Has it made your responses? 259 00:26:15,200 --> 00:26:19,920 Has it made your temper? Has it transformed your nature? 260 00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,680 Has it gotten into your conversation? 261 00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:27,280 Has it gotten into your mind? Has the word interrupted your 262 00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:32,000 anxiety? How has the word shaped you and 263 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:34,160 made you? Because for sure you don't 264 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:35,400 disagree. It saved you. 265 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:44,800 You used it for that Bible calls just living epistles. 266 00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:49,920 And as I say, men like if we have more people cry out, we see 267 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:55,080 less mental illness, You go. Cry out to a counselor, they 268 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:58,680 give you some medications and you're like, whoa. 269 00:27:00,120 --> 00:27:01,840 But then you're not happy with the side effects. 270 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:06,440 But what if you took that same energy, got some Christian 271 00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,880 counseling? Let's take it deeper. 272 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:13,600 Some spirit LED counseling. Why you need spirit LED 273 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:15,520 counseling? Because some of it is just a 274 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:19,720 demon, right? You don't need to just rehearse. 275 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,960 It's good you've detected where the trauma came from. 276 00:27:23,120 --> 00:27:25,800 It's good you can recite. Oh, when I when I got raped, 277 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:32,640 this happened to me. OK, now what medication coping 278 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:38,560 mechanisms for for a bondage that wasn't there until uncle. 279 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:45,080 So if bondage can come, then bondage can go. 280 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:53,640 So now, so now there's this billion and trillion dollar 281 00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:59,560 industry that is making money off a lack of deliverance. 282 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,840 I'm, I'm not, I'm not Listen, I am not saying that mental 283 00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:09,680 illness is not real. Everybody got a form of some 284 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:13,920 crazy in them. But we've all made mental 285 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,760 illness about crazy here. Here's a mental illness. 286 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:23,120 Indecisiveness. OK, here's a mental illness. 287 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,080 Sex addiction. Here. 288 00:28:26,080 --> 00:28:28,880 Here's another mental illness. Secrecy. 289 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:33,200 Here's another mental illness. Just how we handle food. 290 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,440 Here's another mental illness. You notice how you pick up the 291 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:39,160 phone and you scroll without even knowing? 292 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:52,160 We there now. Here's another mental illness, 293 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,800 but they ain't got no medication for they're not going to do 294 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,160 identity crisis. You don't even know who you are. 295 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:04,720 That's a mental problem, right? Let's not go so extreme that we 296 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:08,480 can't even see how it's in the practical. 297 00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:14,200 You're like, well, I don't got schizophrenia, OK? 298 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,240 I don't smoke crack. I smoked weed, but I didn't 299 00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:17,080 smoke crack. Guess what? 300 00:29:17,360 --> 00:29:21,280 Weed was enough for me. Clearly weed wasn't enough for 301 00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:25,040 the crackhead. Some people don't do crack or 302 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,680 weed, they do alcohol. Some people don't do alcohol, 303 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,200 they do other stuff. Some people sniff paint. 304 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:37,080 Like what are you talking about? We got to go all the way extreme 305 00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:40,360 because if we go extreme then no, I don't. 306 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:43,400 I don't. I don't really need to because 307 00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:47,200 it's easier to say I'm not that. Oh well. 308 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:51,520 Well, I don't murder nobody. I just slapped her. 309 00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:58,960 What? You, You, you, you, you just. 310 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,720 Hit some, you just hit a woman, you just hit somebody. 311 00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:06,040 Domestic violence, murder, same prison. 312 00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,040 They they don't got slapped, jailed. 313 00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:18,960 They don't got slapped, jailed. Same, same jail, depending on 314 00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:22,800 what jurisdiction you in you, you fool around, get, get, get 315 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:25,720 life being in getting in prison that many times. 316 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:31,720 But when we make it here, here's the here's here's the here's why 317 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:36,920 we make stuff extreme so we can't see ourselves as a 318 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:41,040 problem. Oh, I just drink a little bit. 319 00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:46,000 I'm not an alcoholic like my daddy was but you also ain't 320 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:52,480 getting it out your bloodline like your daddy didn't and 321 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:55,240 because you keeping it alive in your bloodline, watch your 322 00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,800 daughter or your son be the addict your daddy was 323 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:10,360 comparison. It also hides you from the 324 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:20,920 reality of your toxicity. So we, we should be crying out 325 00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:22,600 more. You don't know how bad you need 326 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:25,200 your local church. You don't know how bad you need 327 00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:29,080 midweek service, right? You don't. 328 00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:31,200 You don't know how bad you need to come to the altar. 329 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,440 You don't know how bad you need to serve. 330 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,040 You don't. You don't really know. 331 00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,560 And most of the time, what prompts us to get right is bad. 332 00:31:43,600 --> 00:31:46,320 Get fired from your job you like hey, I'm put me, I'll serve 333 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,960 wherever I got nothing but time now wait, why you got nothing 334 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:54,160 but time now? But when you got the job, God 335 00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:56,920 bless you with you all of a sudden don't got no time. 336 00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:00,680 But now you got you lost the job and now you got time. 337 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:04,280 And that's when the wise pastor going to say no, This is time 338 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:08,960 for you to get discipled. Because you can't hide behind 339 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:18,510 serving either. Serving should have been your 340 00:32:18,510 --> 00:32:20,950 first option, not your response to lack. 341 00:32:23,190 --> 00:32:30,670 Now you serving to sew instead of serving to just. 342 00:32:30,670 --> 00:32:35,470 This is Father's business now you serving because you sewing 343 00:32:35,470 --> 00:32:46,120 for something. Yeah, so to really cry out is 344 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:50,880 like it signifies the willingness to trust in God's 345 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:51,680 power. Don't worry. 346 00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,280 It's no, it's not a slide. So don't don't worry. 347 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:58,360 We'll get there. The trust in God's power and 348 00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:00,720 provision even in the midst of suffering. 349 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:04,360 I love this, EJ, even in the midst of suffering, which lets 350 00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:07,640 you know that crying out is not just when you're going through 351 00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:10,280 it. Crying out is a practice. 352 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,800 And here's the here's the truth about it is you should probably 353 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,960 get more practice crying out when it ain't nothing wrong 354 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:23,000 because sometimes you don't want to hear nobody tell you the Lord 355 00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:24,480 gone. It's going to be all right, 356 00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:25,560 baby. Have faith. 357 00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:27,920 You don't want a faith talk sometime when you down. 358 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:35,440 The only way David can encourage himself when he's going through 359 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:38,280 it is because he encouraged himself when he was. 360 00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:44,240 Some of us are trauma. We are we. 361 00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:49,080 We are trauma responders. We respond to God when we are in 362 00:33:49,080 --> 00:33:54,200 trouble. That can't be. 363 00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,840 We have to cry out and not spaz out. 364 00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:04,360 We got to cry out and not. Pass out. 365 00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:08,639 We got to cry out and not complain out. 366 00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:12,120 We got to cry out and not bail out. 367 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,040 We got to cry out and not give out. 368 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:17,199 We got to cry out and not run out. 369 00:34:17,199 --> 00:34:19,280 We got to cry out and not offend out. 370 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,679 We got to cry out and not burn out. 371 00:34:41,639 --> 00:34:43,320 I guess this is for this experience. 372 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,199 There is there's something I wrote down this morning. 373 00:34:45,199 --> 00:34:49,120 There is a group of people. Who? 374 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,840 Because, and they need you to listen very carefully. 375 00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:56,400 There is a group of people in here that because you have kept 376 00:34:56,400 --> 00:35:01,680 the faith and you have kept the hope and you have not given up 377 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:09,480 on God, there's a part of you that feels like you ain't went 378 00:35:09,480 --> 00:35:18,440 through nothing. That's worth believing for the 379 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:24,400 promise to the Endurer. Here's the power of faith. 380 00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:28,160 There's faith will have you feeling. 381 00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:31,120 Like at times, you ain't enduring nothing like you, 382 00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:35,280 you've overcome. Like you don't feel it the same 383 00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,160 way as people who don't walk by faith. 384 00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:43,160 Like, like, like for a person whose hope has not deferred. 385 00:35:43,920 --> 00:35:49,840 You don't feel the valley like someone whose hope deferred. 386 00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:54,480 The person who has gotten up from their depression and is 387 00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:58,240 choosing to walk with a smile, to encourage others instead of 388 00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,440 searching to be encouraged. The one who is speaking faith 389 00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,280 when they need faith spoken to them. 390 00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,600 But you'll never know it because they're not complaining. 391 00:36:06,600 --> 00:36:09,040 Their posture looked like they got it all together. 392 00:36:09,440 --> 00:36:13,480 Sometimes it's hard for that person to look at. 393 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:18,760 They've endured something. So you will lack the 394 00:36:18,760 --> 00:36:25,840 intentionality in believing for the promise because it almost 395 00:36:25,840 --> 00:36:32,520 feels like you making it through with joy is the promise and and 396 00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:36,320 that is and that's why your breakthrough's going to even be 397 00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:39,840 more explosive because you didn't wait for the breakthrough 398 00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:48,560 to trust God, have joy to keep enduring to serve just because 399 00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:50,320 you kept the faith. Here it is. 400 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:56,080 And you practice joy you. Practice joy so tough people 401 00:36:56,080 --> 00:37:03,800 thought you really had it. They didn't know you was 402 00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:09,600 actually depressed, but you chose joy. 403 00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:14,440 They didn't know you actually was suffering with anxiety, but 404 00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:16,720 you chose peace. Here's what the Bible says. 405 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:22,160 I leave you peace. It's the peace the world can't 406 00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:26,480 give you. This is a peace that transcends 407 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:33,240 all understanding, which means, oh, I could be dealing with 408 00:37:33,240 --> 00:37:38,960 anxiety, but I can choose to let the peace of God protect me and 409 00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:45,080 lead me and guide me. See where you mess up is you 410 00:37:45,080 --> 00:37:49,000 think because you feel anxious, you don't have peace. 411 00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:51,360 You don't have it because you don't choose it. 412 00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:56,280 See, here's the piece of God that you could choose to receive 413 00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:59,600 and put on the World Peace. You got to get something in 414 00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:03,400 order to experience it, like to experience joy. 415 00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:07,520 I got to I got to be celebrated or I got to go to a ball game or 416 00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:13,080 I got to go on a vacation. But but I can live in. 417 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:17,720 In, in, in, in a continent, in this world, in extreme poverty 418 00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:35,200 and have a joy. How we got 95% more than a whole 419 00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:40,400 lot of people on this earth and they've tapped into a joy that 420 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:48,000 we can't even scratch. Oh, that's, that's the piece, 421 00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:51,840 That's the joy that you choose to put on. 422 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,240 How do I choose it? Because he left it for me. 423 00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:56,800 I don't. I don't got to wait for joy 424 00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:00,400 every two weeks. Thank God it's Friday, I can 425 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:05,640 finally breathe on on Friday. 5 days you weren't breathing. 426 00:39:08,920 --> 00:39:10,360 So. So you mean to say that you 427 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:14,800 allowed Saturday to be way more? Fun than Monday through Friday. 428 00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:19,040 You wasn't enjoying life till Saturday. 429 00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:23,440 And then for some of us like Dang, but I got to go to church 430 00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:27,680 and work on Sunday. So you got one day, one day that 431 00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:30,360 you really enjoy. You let your hair down one day 432 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,280 you're not finding no rest. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, 433 00:39:33,280 --> 00:39:36,840 Thursday, Friday. You ain't living. 434 00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:41,680 Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. 435 00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:44,920 You get up, you wake up, you work, take care of kids, you 436 00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:50,520 cook, you eat, maybe workout. For sure. 437 00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:55,920 Scroll, watch ATV show, go to bed. 438 00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:03,600 Do it again. And then Saturday and then two 439 00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:23,820 days later, that's your life. Sometime I have to remind myself 440 00:40:23,820 --> 00:40:28,020 because I can't say that I've been raised in a family of faith 441 00:40:29,180 --> 00:40:34,740 spiritually, but I also was raised in a family of just grit 442 00:40:34,740 --> 00:40:38,380 because from where I'm from and culturally. 443 00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:49,360 And ethnically, there's a level of of tenacity you need if you 444 00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:54,480 going to make. It out of the statistics that 445 00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:59,680 fence you and your people in so not only spiritual faith, but 446 00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:06,320 also raised by people that was trying to break the chains of 447 00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:10,520 some real life bondage. Not just spiritual bondage, but 448 00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:17,680 real life bondage, right? Generations of fatherlessness, 449 00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:23,840 generations of poverty, generations of ignorance and 450 00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:31,160 lack of education generations. And I see some people who didn't 451 00:41:31,160 --> 00:41:35,760 have that and I'm like, Dang, that's like some churches and 452 00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:40,280 some people, they'll get mad at the prosperity message, not 453 00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:43,720 understanding because you ain't preaching to poverty. 454 00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,880 You're you're preaching to people who got tons of money, 455 00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:56,000 who haven't had a care in their life, who ain't got pulled over 456 00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:59,200 by the cops and harassed. They need like you got people in 457 00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,640 those kind of situations and God bless you if you didn't have to 458 00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:05,240 deal with certain things. That's not a that's not bad. 459 00:42:05,480 --> 00:42:10,000 That's a blessing. But then understanding how the 460 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:15,080 gospel hits different cultures and that's why there's a group 461 00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:21,360 of people who are unashamed to cry out and, and, and mess, they 462 00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:24,120 lashes up and they wigs fall off and all that. 463 00:42:24,240 --> 00:42:26,920 And then you'll get around a certain group of people and it's 464 00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:29,040 super passive. And it's like, huh? 465 00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:33,080 And then now we title it and that's the charismatic people. 466 00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:36,640 And that's gospel music and that's CCM and that's, that's 467 00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:40,080 country and and that's Blues and that's the that. 468 00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:46,080 So because you don't understand me, I'm Pentecostal. 469 00:42:48,560 --> 00:42:54,960 I thought the whole New Testament was how, how I'm 470 00:42:54,960 --> 00:43:02,080 Pentecostal, how I'm why you ain't charismatic, right? 471 00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,760 So this is huge divide in the body of Christ. 472 00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,600 And when we look at the angels crying out, that's what they do 473 00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:10,560 up there. Holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, 474 00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:12,240 holy. That's what they do. 475 00:43:19,520 --> 00:43:22,160 And we literally will go to stadiums and watch our 476 00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:32,000 generation cry out over superstars, pour their emotions 477 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:36,760 out. And we wonder why this 478 00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,400 generation don't want to fool with the church. 479 00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:51,040 Because we ain't excited. You tell me what restaurant you 480 00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:54,960 went to somebody told you about that was and you was like, how 481 00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:56,440 was it? And they was like, it's cool. 482 00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:01,400 Anytime a waitress come to my table and I ask her, hey, how's 483 00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:05,480 how's the carbonara? She's like, I'm like, that's OK, 484 00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:13,960 That's that's OK, that's OK. And that's how our witness is. 485 00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:19,240 It's like, how's it being saved? It's like it's cool. 486 00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:23,360 He's good. I just know when I die, where 487 00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:27,640 I'm going it's. Like, that's it. 488 00:44:28,760 --> 00:44:31,040 And then the world is like, well, I know why I'm living. 489 00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:34,320 I'm turning up. And then we was like, oh, you 490 00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:41,160 demons. And here's the other thing. 491 00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:51,480 The Bible says that a Kingdom divided cannot stand. 492 00:44:51,480 --> 00:45:00,000 And us, we're so divided. And although most of us believe 493 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,840 in the basics. We're arguing over things that 494 00:45:03,840 --> 00:45:11,440 aren't essential. And we've turned on our sails, 495 00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:15,320 we expose each other and then blame it on exposing this and 496 00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:17,320 exposing the Faustat and exposed. 497 00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:20,400 Hey, go tap that man on the shoulder and talk to him. 498 00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:27,120 And don't just bring your scripture, bring your bring 499 00:45:27,120 --> 00:45:37,320 context, but really bring love. And now as believers, we just 500 00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:40,600 hunting for people who we feel is bad and false. 501 00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:52,480 And at the end of the day, for those that really see what kind 502 00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:56,760 of day we're in, instead of exposing each other, ripping the 503 00:45:56,760 --> 00:46:01,320 blankets off of each other, we should probably try to cry out 504 00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:05,960 together and then let God reveal what He wants to reveal. 505 00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,240 But if you don't want to worship with me, don't come here and try 506 00:46:09,240 --> 00:46:18,440 to criticize me. You, you can't rebuke me from 507 00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:22,160 skepticism. You, you, because the moment you 508 00:46:22,160 --> 00:46:26,120 come in skeptical, you're not hearing from the Holy Ghost. 509 00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:32,800 As I said this morning is the way we approach the gospel is 510 00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:41,440 I'm here to learn something I've never learned before, but I'm 511 00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:47,760 rooted enough to if something is false that hits my ears, it will 512 00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:50,440 not impact my love. Towards my brother or sister. 513 00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:57,360 Then we have a conversation and I show them, I explain to them, 514 00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:00,560 I give them my context. Because sometimes scripture and 515 00:47:00,560 --> 00:47:03,880 what someone is saying, misunderstanding comes because 516 00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:06,200 they're saying it from their experience. 517 00:47:09,720 --> 00:47:14,840 Like how God has revealed to himself to someone in in in the 518 00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:22,160 absolute ghetto, and how he's revealed himself to someone in 519 00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:25,560 the greatest, fattest parts of White Rock could be totally 520 00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:30,160 different. And now you got White Rock 521 00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:35,040 coming to listen to ghetto sermon and they judge him. 522 00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:43,280 But I like to do it this way. Follow my walk. 523 00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:47,600 Follow your walk and see who walks with Jesus versus walking 524 00:47:47,600 --> 00:47:53,520 with knowledge. I will say the world or the 525 00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:58,840 devil is not killing us, we killing ourselves and as a body 526 00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:01,600 we need intercession more than any. 527 00:48:05,720 --> 00:48:11,520 I encourage you to go listen to this morning so this second-half 528 00:48:11,520 --> 00:48:17,520 makes sense to you. I left last experience with this 529 00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:25,520 statement. My cry is the water the Potter 530 00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:32,560 needs to shape the clay. My cry is the water that the 531 00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:42,680 Potter needs to shape the clay. My cry provides the water the 532 00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:47,960 Potter needs to shape the clay. So I went to the Potter's house 533 00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:54,560 and sure enough, the Potter was there, working away at his wheel 534 00:48:55,280 --> 00:49:02,000 whenever the pot the Potter was working on turned out badly, as 535 00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:06,560 sometimes it happens. When you are working with clay, 536 00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:13,400 but Potter would simply start over and use the same clay to 537 00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:14,680 make another pot. Here it is. 538 00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:16,640 Watch this, watch this. Don't go, don't go, watch this, 539 00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:18,920 watch this. I love this part you guys. 540 00:49:20,240 --> 00:49:25,440 Sometimes it says the Potter was working on or whenever the pot 541 00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:28,560 the Potter was working on turned out badly. 542 00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:35,800 Here's a very important part for you as sometimes working with 543 00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:42,360 frail humans, the clay gets messed up. 544 00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:49,760 So sometime in our attempt to walk this thing out, guess what, 545 00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:55,760 the clay gets messed up. But to you snarly Christians who 546 00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:59,440 want to put your finger on somebody, watch what my father 547 00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:01,080 does. I don't know about yoga, but 548 00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:06,040 watch what my father does. The Potter would simply while 549 00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:12,080 you are dealing harshly, he simply while you're throwing me 550 00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:21,080 away, he's simply using the same clay to make another pot. 551 00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:29,400 And that's why no matter how much you've tried to sabotage 552 00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:39,120 purpose, God's like I can still use you as I think one of the 553 00:50:39,120 --> 00:50:44,120 statements we left off with last service is your emotions are an 554 00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:47,360 offering. And you walk in here trying to 555 00:50:47,360 --> 00:50:51,320 be tough and act like you got this life all together and you 556 00:50:51,320 --> 00:50:55,600 so strong. And God's. 557 00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:57,960 Like, wow, you just going to come in here and sing a song 558 00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:02,600 then with no heartfelt cry, no heartfelt emotion. 559 00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:07,480 It's just all head. It's all performance. 560 00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:13,640 Purse is like I came in there. Look, if I understand how broken 561 00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:15,400 I am, I ain't got no time to critique you. 562 00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:19,040 I didn't come to church to critique you. 563 00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:21,760 I came to get my bag. I came in here to encounter the 564 00:51:21,760 --> 00:51:26,800 fuck because I messed up so I don't got no time to figure out 565 00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:30,400 if you are doing this right or singing that note right or you 566 00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:33,320 are wearing the right clothes and you you you preaching out 567 00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:37,480 the right translation. The stuff we arguing over is 568 00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:42,880 stupid instead of realizing man if if God don't help me in this. 569 00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:44,520 Situation. And I'm not talking about 570 00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:47,040 getting me out of situation. I'm a good dad. 571 00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:49,800 And guess what? I need God to be a good dad 572 00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:55,800 today because kids is kids. I'm a good husband, but I need 573 00:51:55,800 --> 00:52:00,480 God to be a good husband today and tomorrow because marriage is 574 00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:03,080 marriage and human is human is flesh is flesh. 575 00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:09,960 So I need, I need, I need, I need, I need God in every 576 00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:14,520 situation. So I'm evolving into who He's 577 00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:19,880 called me to be. Some of us we don't evolve 578 00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:25,600 because we don't involve God all the time. 579 00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:34,000 Everybody in here is here at a certain measure of growth from 580 00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:38,200 when God first touched you. Why you stop letting him touch 581 00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:41,240 you? How did you have encounter to 582 00:52:41,240 --> 00:52:47,960 get saved now you got educated. It was the Spirit that brought 583 00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:50,400 you to the Father. Now you going to maintain your 584 00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:52,640 salvation through nothing but head knowledge. 585 00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:03,680 I love my father. Simply start over. 586 00:53:04,640 --> 00:53:08,160 Oh, you messed up there. We can simply start over and use 587 00:53:08,160 --> 00:53:08,680 it. Here it is. 588 00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:13,680 We going to start over. But we use it in the same clay. 589 00:53:15,640 --> 00:53:17,200 I love it. He don't throw nothing away, he 590 00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:18,120 just reshapes. You. 591 00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:21,120 He just reshaping you and I love it. 592 00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:25,240 He's using all the components and that's why I said like like 593 00:53:25,240 --> 00:53:31,200 there is nothing bad in your past that does not have value 594 00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:39,600 for good for y'all that's trying to throw away your past. 595 00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:44,800 No, God's like give me that like like if I just use how good you 596 00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:46,640 are now that's a boring testimony. 597 00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:50,680 Like like I couldn't be like the scripture couldn't read and now 598 00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:57,600 I see no, I need to know you was blind, right? 599 00:53:57,600 --> 00:53:59,480 I can't just show up found. Wait a minute. 600 00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:06,200 I need to know I was lost. Now I'm found, right? 601 00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:11,640 I, I, I, I fell 10,000 times, but I got up the righteous get 602 00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:14,360 back up. Like I need to know the story. 603 00:54:14,520 --> 00:54:18,600 I needed to see the Egyptians and I needed to see God's 604 00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:21,320 children and I needed to see the tension. 605 00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:24,400 What movie? It's just good the whole way 606 00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:27,800 right? You need the bad guy. 607 00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:30,640 You need the good one. You need a story plot. 608 00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:33,760 Your past is a part of the testimony. 609 00:54:37,280 --> 00:54:41,880 The Potter is why I cry out, because I'm I still understand 610 00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:50,280 that God you, if you didn't turn that to good, if you didn't turn 611 00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:53,000 my lack of education, if you didn't turn my stupidity. 612 00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:55,760 If you didn't. If you didn't turn that that 613 00:54:56,000 --> 00:54:59,080 that that idolatry. If you didn't turn that sin into 614 00:54:59,080 --> 00:55:01,160 something beautiful. If you didn't. 615 00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:11,820 Turn those ashes, see, So I don't need trauma to cry out. 616 00:55:16,940 --> 00:55:19,100 I don't. I don't need bad kids to cry 617 00:55:19,100 --> 00:55:24,320 out. I don't need divorce to cry out, 618 00:55:27,840 --> 00:55:30,400 said. Then God's message came to me. 619 00:55:33,840 --> 00:55:36,760 Can I do just as this Potter does? 620 00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:41,160 Is God talking? People of Israel, God's decree? 621 00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:46,520 Watch this Potter. Now he's pointing to the 622 00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:50,160 practical watching. In the same way that this Potter 623 00:55:50,160 --> 00:56:00,190 works his clay. I'll work on you, right? 624 00:56:00,190 --> 00:56:02,310 You, you trying to come up into the Potter's hand. 625 00:56:02,310 --> 00:56:05,830 Perfect. Like just this beautiful. 626 00:56:05,830 --> 00:56:09,590 Piece of of of of work. You. 627 00:56:09,590 --> 00:56:11,830 You can't you. Trying to come to God with the 628 00:56:11,830 --> 00:56:13,070 wheat. You want, but you want him to 629 00:56:13,070 --> 00:56:14,390 be. Able to pour coffee into you 630 00:56:14,390 --> 00:56:17,710 right away. You want to eat cereal out of 631 00:56:17,710 --> 00:56:21,600 you right away. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 632 00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:24,720 He's like, no, we got to work this thing because I'm not just 633 00:56:24,720 --> 00:56:28,280 trying to get to an end of a of a piece of art. 634 00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:37,680 You're not just a piece of art. Then you go over to Italy and 635 00:56:37,680 --> 00:56:40,400 you see art, and that art speak to you. 636 00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:47,120 It make you feel away. Any peace that God finishes it 637 00:56:47,120 --> 00:56:54,280 should make humanity feel away. So sometimes this is going, 638 00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:56,720 you're going to slip out his hand and sometimes you're going 639 00:56:56,720 --> 00:57:01,000 and he's working it no matter how. 640 00:57:01,240 --> 00:57:08,440 And somebody, OK, we're going to start over saying Clay, same 641 00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:13,640 story, same frustrations. You wondering why God ain't just 642 00:57:13,640 --> 00:57:17,000 snatched it from you. You wonder why he ain't just 643 00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:20,560 healed you from it. He's like, no, no, no, that's a 644 00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:23,840 part of the that's a part of the pottery. 645 00:57:25,080 --> 00:57:29,960 No, that imperfection you want me to take is an imperfection 646 00:57:29,960 --> 00:57:38,080 that's going to make the pot communicate to another life and 647 00:57:38,080 --> 00:57:43,000 say, oh, wow, you made that. Have you ever seen just just 648 00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:51,520 freakish creatives and you like you made that out of that you 649 00:57:51,520 --> 00:57:55,600 just grabbed a piece of wood in the back and made that beautiful 650 00:57:55,600 --> 00:58:03,920 shelf that witnesses so when we come to him, understand that 651 00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:10,280 your insufficiency insufficiencies and frailties he 652 00:58:10,280 --> 00:58:13,560 wants. Them and when you understand 653 00:58:13,560 --> 00:58:17,680 that your cry is not based on hitting bottom. 654 00:58:23,640 --> 00:58:27,160 At any moment I may decide to pull up a people or country by 655 00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:32,640 the roots and get rid of them, but if they repent or if they 656 00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:37,840 cry out of their wicked life lives, I will think twice and 657 00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:42,400 start over with them if my people who were called by my 658 00:58:42,400 --> 00:58:55,400 name would humble themselves. Your cry is a fruit of your 659 00:58:55,400 --> 00:59:14,540 repentance. There's three things that your 660 00:59:14,540 --> 00:59:22,700 cry represents. 3 things. Number one, your cry is 661 00:59:22,700 --> 00:59:28,380 evidence. Your cry is evidence. 662 00:59:30,940 --> 00:59:41,680 Your cry is evidence. Your cry is evidence that I've 663 00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:49,480 been sustained by the Potter. I've been sustained by the 664 00:59:49,480 --> 00:59:57,280 Potter. What has kept me is my cry. 665 00:59:57,680 --> 01:00:01,760 What kept my grandma and what kept my Mama, and what kept them 666 01:00:01,760 --> 01:00:05,160 rooted and what kept them going. What kept them fighting For 667 01:00:05,160 --> 01:00:10,800 generations they've been sustained by the Potter. 668 01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:23,520 They, they, they remained in the hands of the Potter #2 My cry is 669 01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:29,120 my superpower. I dare you to read the Bible 670 01:00:29,120 --> 01:00:36,080 front to back, even skim through it just Google and see how much 671 01:00:36,080 --> 01:00:43,680 cry, rejoice, call those things pop up in the Bible. 672 01:00:44,560 --> 01:00:48,680 I'll tell you this, they pop up more than the word hell does or 673 01:00:48,680 --> 01:00:55,720 she'll. Why, why why is God constantly? 674 01:00:59,240 --> 01:01:02,320 Compelling his people to cry out, call out. 675 01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:11,400 It's my superpower, he says. That I've been shaped by the 676 01:01:11,400 --> 01:01:24,000 Potter and #3 My cry is my victory song. 677 01:01:29,720 --> 01:01:32,800 My cry is my victory song. Here it is. 678 01:01:32,800 --> 01:01:34,200 I need you to pay close attention. 679 01:01:34,840 --> 01:01:39,200 It says that I've been sent by the Potter. 680 01:01:39,200 --> 01:01:44,240 Here it is the fact that I came out on the other side of the 681 01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:47,760 valley. Number one says I came out 682 01:01:47,760 --> 01:01:52,600 victorious, but there's nothing. God is not bringing you through 683 01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:58,760 without an assignment to send you to that deliverance wasn't 684 01:01:58,760 --> 01:02:06,560 for free for all for all the for all the What do you call it when 685 01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:11,840 people just. Leech off of, you know, all the 686 01:02:11,840 --> 01:02:15,760 people who get delivered and don't think they got to live for 687 01:02:15,760 --> 01:02:20,600 God, don't think they got to correct how they talk for God, 688 01:02:20,600 --> 01:02:23,600 don't think they got to stop rolling their eyes at people, 689 01:02:23,600 --> 01:02:25,800 don't think they got to stop gossiping for God. 690 01:02:26,040 --> 01:02:29,040 Man, if he delivers you, you can at least stop gossiping, all 691 01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:35,520 right? Stop messing with somebody. 692 01:02:37,680 --> 01:02:40,160 Here it is. My cry is my evidence. 693 01:02:40,840 --> 01:02:43,760 I've been sustained by the Potter. 694 01:02:43,840 --> 01:02:50,000 Watch this, for by what shall it be known that I and your people 695 01:02:50,160 --> 01:02:55,200 have found favor in your sight? Is it not in your going with us 696 01:02:55,920 --> 01:03:00,800 so that we are here? It is distinguished I and your 697 01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:04,760 people from all the other people. 698 01:03:05,120 --> 01:03:10,360 Up on the face of the earth, remember, my cry is my evidence, 699 01:03:10,680 --> 01:03:15,320 so I can conclude that if Moses is concerned about God going 700 01:03:15,320 --> 01:03:15,960 with. Him. 701 01:03:16,720 --> 01:03:21,480 Once he is sent, he will continue to need God. 702 01:03:23,720 --> 01:03:28,720 So as he goes, if his concern is I'm not going unless you go with 703 01:03:28,720 --> 01:03:34,000 me, it lets me know that when he goes, he will continue to depend 704 01:03:34,000 --> 01:03:37,960 on God. And guess who's going to see 705 01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:40,200 that? The people. 706 01:03:41,240 --> 01:03:49,560 My dependency on God is evidence that he has sustained me. 707 01:03:51,760 --> 01:03:53,400 Here's here's here's what David says. 708 01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:56,600 He says I've been young now I'm old. 709 01:03:57,600 --> 01:04:00,200 I've never seen the righteous forsaken. 710 01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:02,080 Now, now, let me let's go to young part. 711 01:04:02,760 --> 01:04:07,120 He too young to know like to be up out here real like a little 712 01:04:07,120 --> 01:04:09,400 kid, like God. It's Hard Out Here. 713 01:04:09,400 --> 01:04:12,040 No, he saw God sustain his family. 714 01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:17,520 I've been young, never seen my righteous family forsaken. 715 01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:20,400 Now I'm old, I got my own testimony. 716 01:04:21,640 --> 01:04:25,440 I've never seen the same God that kept them is the same God 717 01:04:25,680 --> 01:04:29,440 that is keeping me right. So what I understand is my 718 01:04:29,440 --> 01:04:36,160 dependency on God. It's my evidence to you that He 719 01:04:36,160 --> 01:04:38,680 has kept me. Here it is if I don't have a 720 01:04:38,680 --> 01:04:41,440 revelation. He has kept me and He is my 721 01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:45,080 keeper. I promise you that I cannot be 722 01:04:45,080 --> 01:04:47,520 faithful. How God needs me to be faithful 723 01:04:47,520 --> 01:04:52,200 to His people without a revelation to know that He is 724 01:04:52,400 --> 01:05:02,290 faithful. Watch this even when you pat 725 01:05:02,290 --> 01:05:05,810 when your path takes me through the valley of deepest darkness. 726 01:05:07,250 --> 01:05:11,000 That's crazy. God, even when your path takes 727 01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:14,920 me through the valley of deepest dark, When your path takes me 728 01:05:14,920 --> 01:05:20,080 through deep darkness, God, when your path takes. 729 01:05:20,080 --> 01:05:22,160 Me through the valley of deepest darkness. 730 01:05:22,320 --> 01:05:28,240 Fear will never conquer me, for you already have. 731 01:05:29,920 --> 01:05:31,800 Fear can't conquer me because God has. 732 01:05:36,800 --> 01:05:41,920 Anxiety can't conquer me because his peace already has right? 733 01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:45,800 Hate, bitterness cannot conquer me because his love has already 734 01:05:45,800 --> 01:05:48,960 conquered me. Your authority is my strength 735 01:05:49,640 --> 01:05:53,640 and my peace. The comfort of your love takes 736 01:05:53,640 --> 01:05:58,440 away my fear. I've never I'll never be lonely, 737 01:05:58,640 --> 01:06:01,680 for you are near. Here's this here, here's this 738 01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:05,200 this crazy he writing stuff like this when he feels alone. 739 01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:12,880 David, he, he writing stuff like this when he's feeling betrayed. 740 01:06:15,080 --> 01:06:21,120 You see his cry, his praise is from his cry. 741 01:06:21,280 --> 01:06:24,640 Not because of his cry, not because of his pain, right? 742 01:06:24,640 --> 01:06:29,640 His praises is coming from his cry, but his cry or his pain is 743 01:06:29,640 --> 01:06:33,360 not dictating his decision. He's like, no matter what we see 744 01:06:33,360 --> 01:06:36,080 this with Paul, no matter what I'm going through, I'm still 745 01:06:36,080 --> 01:06:39,280 speaking good of God. Here it is. 746 01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:49,480 Here it is doubting. God, I let him put it this way. 747 01:06:53,320 --> 01:07:01,920 Silencing yourself when God seems absent is just as equally 748 01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:08,280 damaging as doubting God when I only can confess his goodness 749 01:07:08,280 --> 01:07:09,400 when it's. Going my way. 750 01:07:13,640 --> 01:07:17,120 See it with Paul. See it with Deacon Stephen. 751 01:07:17,120 --> 01:07:21,000 Stephen, you see it throughout the Bible. 752 01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:26,600 Men and women, they never, no matter what they were going 753 01:07:26,600 --> 01:07:30,040 through, they still had a testimony about God's goodness. 754 01:07:34,840 --> 01:07:37,160 Comfort of your love takes away my fear. 755 01:07:38,160 --> 01:07:42,640 So then we have #2 My cry is my superpower. 756 01:07:43,280 --> 01:07:46,320 I've been shaped by the power, Potter. 757 01:07:46,600 --> 01:07:51,760 I've been shaped by the Potter. Watch this but the fruit of the 758 01:07:51,760 --> 01:07:55,160 Holy Spirit, the work which his presence within account. 759 01:07:55,160 --> 01:07:56,760 You see that you see the Potter's hand on you. 760 01:07:57,000 --> 01:07:59,880 That's the Holy Ghost. He's the hand of the Father. 761 01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:03,480 Oh, how did you think the fruit of the Spirit comes? 762 01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:05,520 You thought because she was Christian. 763 01:08:05,520 --> 01:08:07,760 You just got that in your first time attendees bag. 764 01:08:10,000 --> 01:08:12,080 Now we don't give our fruit of the spirit at the Cafe. 765 01:08:12,080 --> 01:08:14,920 We give our muffins and and and A and a coffee drink. 766 01:08:14,920 --> 01:08:16,560 But waiting fruit of the Spirit no name. 767 01:08:17,960 --> 01:08:19,520 You got to let him keep his hands. 768 01:08:20,640 --> 01:08:23,399 Look what he says. Remember, it's my superpower. 769 01:08:23,680 --> 01:08:26,160 It's not. The word is not a superpower in 770 01:08:26,160 --> 01:08:28,439 your life until the word has shaped you and changed you, 771 01:08:29,760 --> 01:08:34,319 right? Yeah, God is powerful, but how 772 01:08:34,319 --> 01:08:36,560 is His power manifested in your life? 773 01:08:36,560 --> 01:08:38,640 But the fruit of the Holy Spirit, the work which His 774 01:08:38,640 --> 01:08:47,359 presence within accomplish is and we know the story, love, 775 01:08:47,359 --> 01:08:52,080 peace. It's what changes. 776 01:08:53,240 --> 01:08:54,279 You're right. You might hear people. 777 01:08:54,279 --> 01:08:56,760 Man, if, if if you caught me back in the day, I would have 778 01:08:57,600 --> 01:09:00,279 you lucky. I'm not that person no more, 779 01:09:00,279 --> 01:09:06,000 because I would have. Thank right, Thank you Lord, 780 01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:07,920 Some of y'all know what I'm saying Some of y'all you know 781 01:09:07,920 --> 01:09:11,359 whatever right some of y'all like steel like I don't care if 782 01:09:11,399 --> 01:09:15,600 I'm see and that's the that's the sad part is it's like if 783 01:09:15,600 --> 01:09:19,399 somebody touched your humanity, your humanity becomes. 784 01:09:19,640 --> 01:09:23,080 An excuse to not walk in the supernatural power of God. 785 01:09:24,359 --> 01:09:27,080 And it's like, no, I don't got to cuss you out no more because 786 01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:30,120 his power has been working on my life. 787 01:09:30,120 --> 01:09:33,160 And I like like, I'm not in. I'm not in. 788 01:09:33,359 --> 01:09:36,040 I don't have to prove to you that I'm a man. 789 01:09:38,399 --> 01:09:39,399 Oh, you ain't going to say nothing. 790 01:09:39,920 --> 01:09:41,600 No, I'm not going to say. I'm going to choose not to say 791 01:09:41,600 --> 01:09:43,319 nothing today because I'm going to keep my pieces more 792 01:09:43,319 --> 01:09:45,600 important. Than trying to prove to y'all, I 793 01:09:45,600 --> 01:09:49,000 ain't no punk. Now I'm not going to let you put 794 01:09:49,000 --> 01:09:59,050 no hands on me or my family or some other people right? 795 01:09:59,050 --> 01:10:05,290 It's it's, it's like I as a believer, I'm going to protect. 796 01:10:05,290 --> 01:10:09,050 But some of the stuff we get in arguments about and we for what? 797 01:10:12,800 --> 01:10:15,600 Oh, you're not preaching? OK, sure, believe it. 798 01:10:15,600 --> 01:10:16,680 Whatever. Don't come here. 799 01:10:16,680 --> 01:10:18,280 Like that's fine. I don't got to. 800 01:10:18,280 --> 01:10:23,280 Prove nothing to you. But if it was back in the day, 801 01:10:23,600 --> 01:10:26,040 on the flip side, my insecurity would have been like, hold on, 802 01:10:26,040 --> 01:10:28,720 can we get some coffee so I can tell you what I meant? 803 01:10:28,720 --> 01:10:32,440 I don't care. I don't care if if if I'm not 804 01:10:32,440 --> 01:10:34,440 called to you. I don't care what you think I 805 01:10:34,440 --> 01:10:41,240 meant. Right, Jesus wasn't walking 806 01:10:41,240 --> 01:10:44,080 around trying to explain himself to everybody and he says some 807 01:10:44,080 --> 01:10:47,200 stuff that that even his followers was tripping on like 808 01:10:47,200 --> 01:10:53,640 what? But when God, the fruit of the 809 01:10:53,640 --> 01:10:58,720 spirit is something that happens when the Potter, this is what I 810 01:10:58,720 --> 01:11:01,080 love. This is this, this is not a 811 01:11:01,120 --> 01:11:06,200 fruit you produce. This is a fruit you allow to be 812 01:11:06,200 --> 01:11:12,240 produced. This is you don't get this fruit 813 01:11:12,240 --> 01:11:15,720 from being good. You get this fruit from being 814 01:11:15,720 --> 01:11:20,800 obedient and steal. You get this fruit from shutting 815 01:11:20,800 --> 01:11:23,040 up and letting him. Fight your enemies. 816 01:11:24,680 --> 01:11:27,920 You, you get, you get, you get this fruit from when you want to 817 01:11:27,920 --> 01:11:31,080 cuss somebody out, you want to do a drive by, you want to do 818 01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:35,600 whatever and you go and drop, you do a drive by gift drop off. 819 01:11:35,600 --> 01:11:43,200 You just you bless your enemy with a gift, right? 820 01:11:43,480 --> 01:11:46,280 But but hey, that's a superpower. 821 01:11:52,480 --> 01:11:56,280 You, you, you become my delicious feast even when my 822 01:11:56,280 --> 01:12:00,040 enemies dare to fight. You anoint me with the fragrance 823 01:12:00,040 --> 01:12:03,960 of your Holy Spirit. You give me all I can drink of 824 01:12:03,960 --> 01:12:07,520 you until my cup overflows. So why would I fear the future? 825 01:12:07,720 --> 01:12:09,440 Here's the message. Says it this way. 826 01:12:09,640 --> 01:12:14,680 You serve me a six course dinner right in front of my enemies. 827 01:12:14,840 --> 01:12:19,480 You revive my drooping head. My cup brims with blessings for 828 01:12:19,480 --> 01:12:22,240 those of people who, like we only want the King James 829 01:12:22,240 --> 01:12:26,160 Version, or at least have. OK, but look, you prepare a 830 01:12:26,400 --> 01:12:32,640 you're saying the same thing. You prepare a table or you 831 01:12:32,640 --> 01:12:36,120 become our delicious feast. I love the picture because he's 832 01:12:36,120 --> 01:12:41,200 saying that his presence becomes what I focus on and what I am 833 01:12:41,200 --> 01:12:44,720 nurtured by versus focusing on my enemies. 834 01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:50,640 I am nurtured by your presence. I am OK, we see Jesus say this 835 01:12:50,760 --> 01:12:52,920 in John four. He said they like, hey, you 836 01:12:52,920 --> 01:12:57,840 didn't want no sandwich. Jesus, He, like my nourishment, 837 01:12:58,240 --> 01:13:01,080 comes from doing the will of my Father. 838 01:13:02,400 --> 01:13:05,160 You prepare a table in the presence. 839 01:13:05,280 --> 01:13:07,000 See some of y'all read that. Is he? 840 01:13:07,280 --> 01:13:09,040 He? He brings the promises. 841 01:13:09,200 --> 01:13:11,640 He going to bless me in the presence of my enemies. 842 01:13:12,040 --> 01:13:14,800 No, What if he just sits you down in peace in the presence of 843 01:13:14,800 --> 01:13:18,600 your enemies? No breakthrough, no new career, 844 01:13:18,600 --> 01:13:20,640 no new house, no spouse, nothing. 845 01:13:20,640 --> 01:13:24,000 You just got peace. Oh you ready? 846 01:13:24,160 --> 01:13:26,160 Write it down. Is peace enough? 847 01:13:28,960 --> 01:13:30,720 Hey, guess what? That's why we got weed shops 848 01:13:30,720 --> 01:13:32,880 popping up everywhere, because everybody looking for peace. 849 01:13:39,120 --> 01:13:45,120 Hallelujah. Yeah, I take peace all day. 850 01:13:45,880 --> 01:13:48,280 I didn't been in the club, I didn't been drunk, I didn't been 851 01:13:48,280 --> 01:13:52,240 high, I didn't fooled around with the woozy Woos and I didn't 852 01:13:52,240 --> 01:13:54,320 get all of the I didn't get all of this stuff. 853 01:13:56,400 --> 01:14:02,560 I'm telling you the piece that I have when I go to sleep, right? 854 01:14:02,560 --> 01:14:04,280 Just a little. Nice little walk around the 855 01:14:04,280 --> 01:14:09,080 neighborhood, does it? Now how did you get that anxious 856 01:14:09,080 --> 01:14:10,800 spirit? You always got to do something. 857 01:14:11,640 --> 01:14:14,440 What's poppin? We're the next event Who coming 858 01:14:14,440 --> 01:14:17,560 over y'all want to get together for the game you want? 859 01:14:17,640 --> 01:14:20,720 Like we always just trying to do something and have a party and 860 01:14:20,720 --> 01:14:28,360 it's just like like PJ was out. She she heard the she she left 861 01:14:28,360 --> 01:14:50,560 me and see what they they out. Amen. 862 01:14:51,480 --> 01:14:53,840 And I'm at the house and then Michael went to some party 863 01:14:53,840 --> 01:14:56,520 yesterday and I'm just walking around the house and this is new 864 01:14:56,520 --> 01:14:57,840 y'all. This is like I walked around the 865 01:14:57,840 --> 01:15:00,160 house and I'm like and I got a lot of stuff done. 866 01:15:00,160 --> 01:15:02,800 I had to remind I was like just before we got married, like I 867 01:15:02,800 --> 01:15:04,800 had my own place. Like, I know how to clean up. 868 01:15:04,880 --> 01:15:08,080 Like I know how to. I know how to make it by myself. 869 01:15:08,080 --> 01:15:09,440 I'm good. Like why? 870 01:15:09,480 --> 01:15:11,520 I took her on a tour. I'm like, look at what I did. 871 01:15:14,160 --> 01:15:19,960 Yeah, look at it, right? No, look at keep looking, keep 872 01:15:19,960 --> 01:15:20,880 looking. Remember this. 873 01:15:21,160 --> 01:15:22,800 Not even putting away boxes and all that. 874 01:15:22,800 --> 01:15:24,120 Like, you know what I'm saying? But I'm. 875 01:15:27,480 --> 01:15:29,320 But then I was at the house by my I was finished. 876 01:15:29,320 --> 01:15:30,640 My day was done. I relaxed. 877 01:15:30,640 --> 01:15:35,720 I watched the game and I was like, I'm getting to bed early. 878 01:15:35,720 --> 01:15:38,360 Michael was gone. And then I was like, and I'm not 879 01:15:38,360 --> 01:15:41,320 going to turn the TV on. I am just going to sit here in 880 01:15:41,320 --> 01:15:43,880 silence. And then I was Facetiming them 881 01:15:43,880 --> 01:15:47,520 and we was goofing off and me and her was tired of talking to 882 01:15:47,520 --> 01:15:49,960 each other. And I was just like, OK, fine, 883 01:15:50,200 --> 01:15:53,560 let me talk to my son. And he was like call me. 884 01:15:53,720 --> 01:15:56,560 And then I called him and like she's sitting over there on the 885 01:15:56,560 --> 01:15:58,600 couch. He's studying for his homework, 886 01:15:58,600 --> 01:16:01,360 me and him Facetiming and now she want to talk to me. 887 01:16:03,040 --> 01:16:04,920 On the other. Side so I was ignoring I was 888 01:16:04,920 --> 01:16:06,360 like huh he was like you hear mom? 889 01:16:06,360 --> 01:16:08,560 I was like Nah, I didn't hear what she said she didn't want to 890 01:16:08,560 --> 01:16:14,160 talk she was done so I'm done and yeah I was like is she 891 01:16:14,160 --> 01:16:16,200 talking and want to share it How all of a sudden you got more to 892 01:16:16,200 --> 01:16:19,640 talk about now but when you get married you get tired of talking 893 01:16:19,640 --> 01:16:21,520 to each other. Sometimes you just need silence. 894 01:16:21,520 --> 01:16:24,240 You just need to stop talking, OK? 895 01:16:24,240 --> 01:16:25,840 We talked to each other 10 times. 896 01:16:25,920 --> 01:16:32,720 It's a lot, OK? And so I just laid. 897 01:16:32,720 --> 01:16:38,440 I just laid there and I was just like, yeah, y'all get the more. 898 01:16:38,440 --> 01:16:48,200 Wherever the moral of the story went, y'all get this, Yeah, 899 01:16:48,800 --> 01:16:51,120 Y'all can finish the story. Y'all can finish it up. 900 01:16:59,560 --> 01:17:02,600 Sometime I don't like to bring my stories to a conclusion 901 01:17:02,600 --> 01:17:05,520 because I wanted to reach more people. 902 01:17:09,640 --> 01:17:12,840 OK lastly, my cry is my victory song. 903 01:17:14,480 --> 01:17:18,680 I've I've I've been sent by the Potter. 904 01:17:20,200 --> 01:17:24,600 I will tell you I have not been sent to Canada because I have a 905 01:17:24,600 --> 01:17:32,360 dry Christianity. I believe that one of my 906 01:17:32,680 --> 01:17:46,720 greatest purposes here is to be an example of what being a kid 907 01:17:46,720 --> 01:17:55,280 before the Lord looks like in my mistakes, in my trying to figure 908 01:17:55,280 --> 01:18:04,920 it out, in my clumsy parts of leadership, in sharing my like 909 01:18:04,920 --> 01:18:07,400 stories. Like then you don't really hear 910 01:18:07,400 --> 01:18:10,760 those stories from the pulpit, just stuff about kids struggle. 911 01:18:11,160 --> 01:18:15,840 You don't hear that stuff, but the vulnerability is trying to 912 01:18:15,840 --> 01:18:19,640 give you a glimpse at like. From if I have a slide up. 913 01:18:19,640 --> 01:18:21,320 There, and the word is misspelled. 914 01:18:21,320 --> 01:18:26,640 I'm not like just like, yeah, this anointed man misspells 915 01:18:26,640 --> 01:18:29,280 words. I know how to spell it. 916 01:18:29,720 --> 01:18:35,160 I was auto corrected, OK, or I was rushing. 917 01:18:37,360 --> 01:18:42,760 But the point is it's like we have created this this space 918 01:18:42,760 --> 01:18:47,000 where. The only people up here is the 919 01:18:47,000 --> 01:18:55,560 people that figured it out. And when I read the word, God 920 01:18:55,560 --> 01:18:57,360 didn't pick people who figured it out. 921 01:18:58,320 --> 01:19:01,040 He actually picked people that was bold enough and courageous 922 01:19:01,040 --> 01:19:03,960 enough to say, wow, God the Potter is working on me. 923 01:19:04,400 --> 01:19:06,440 I want. You to see a few times how he 924 01:19:06,440 --> 01:19:10,520 just, I can't make that bowl, I can't make that pot. 925 01:19:11,760 --> 01:19:13,560 But you see me stay in his hands. 926 01:19:14,320 --> 01:19:16,520 And if you stick around long enough, you're going to see the 927 01:19:16,520 --> 01:19:21,720 finished product, right? And that's what God needs more 928 01:19:21,720 --> 01:19:26,280 of in leadership. It's just like when we bring pro 929 01:19:26,280 --> 01:19:30,000 athletes into schools, it's always the ones who had a 930 01:19:30,000 --> 01:19:33,480 career. What about the ones who started 931 01:19:34,160 --> 01:19:37,600 and got cut or didn't make it or Blue Day money? 932 01:19:38,880 --> 01:19:44,120 Those stories will save more people than only bringing in 933 01:19:44,120 --> 01:19:49,920 Steph Curry. More people would be disciples 934 01:19:50,720 --> 01:19:55,760 if they were discipled by people that got some and not. 935 01:19:55,760 --> 01:20:02,320 No wonder the father picked a Paul and not a Peter. 936 01:20:05,040 --> 01:20:10,320 Oh oh why Paul is like I'm the only one that didn't walk with 937 01:20:10,320 --> 01:20:17,320 Jesus. But I'm the one that got the 938 01:20:17,320 --> 01:20:25,440 most ink. So you can see a murderer, you 939 01:20:25,440 --> 01:20:29,320 can see where I was, you can see you want to talk mental illness, 940 01:20:30,840 --> 01:20:34,560 not only what it takes to kill someone, but what it takes to 941 01:20:34,560 --> 01:20:38,320 just look at the dead body, what it takes to look at the families 942 01:20:38,440 --> 01:20:40,240 who are. Crying, the children that are 943 01:20:40,240 --> 01:20:45,640 screaming at their fathers being stoned, the trauma not just to 944 01:20:45,760 --> 01:20:50,320 the family inflicted, but the trauma that must be going on in 945 01:20:50,320 --> 01:20:52,640 the heart and the mind of the murderer. 946 01:20:56,640 --> 01:21:01,040 And you mean you go, let's let's not just apostle Paul sick. 947 01:21:01,160 --> 01:21:07,240 Paul gets to a place like that, that quick, that quick. 948 01:21:07,400 --> 01:21:11,800 How quick God changed his heart and how quick God changed his 949 01:21:11,800 --> 01:21:17,800 mind, that encounter with Jesus. And we're preaching. 950 01:21:23,600 --> 01:21:27,440 And that's the part we forget when we're approaching people 951 01:21:27,440 --> 01:21:30,000 with the Scriptures. We forget who wrote it. 952 01:21:31,560 --> 01:21:35,560 We we want to put apostle in front of a pastor and teacher 953 01:21:35,560 --> 01:21:38,120 and we forget man, that man's mind. 954 01:21:39,320 --> 01:21:45,320 If he did not cling to Jesus after his transformation, what 955 01:21:45,320 --> 01:21:48,800 would these letters look like? What we even get them? 956 01:21:50,920 --> 01:21:56,120 But he shared his vulnerability. The man that wrote to us was not 957 01:21:56,120 --> 01:21:59,520 the man who could boast about how he hung out with Jesus every 958 01:21:59,520 --> 01:22:03,320 day. He he didn't take 2. 959 01:22:03,320 --> 01:22:09,360 Fish and five loaves. He didn't see a Red Sea part. 960 01:22:12,640 --> 01:22:17,280 This is a man who was murdering and on his way to murder got 961 01:22:17,280 --> 01:22:21,840 knocked off. Few days later he filled with 962 01:22:21,840 --> 01:22:30,320 the Holy Ghost, brand new eyes, can see color again and he gets 963 01:22:30,320 --> 01:22:32,320 around some people, he gets discipled. 964 01:22:32,880 --> 01:22:43,160 And to this day, but that's not what we put in front of people. 965 01:22:48,710 --> 01:22:58,040 And I think if we had more. Paul's willing to share their 966 01:22:58,040 --> 01:23:05,760 soul. Jesus couldn't make disciples. 967 01:23:08,040 --> 01:23:14,560 From being Christ alone, Jesus had to make disciples. 968 01:23:15,320 --> 01:23:25,720 From experiencing all that we experienced, Paul had to be 969 01:23:25,720 --> 01:23:29,960 Saul. Don't take what God is bringing 970 01:23:29,960 --> 01:23:31,680 you from and keeping you from for granted. 971 01:23:34,400 --> 01:23:38,440 The letters that you are writing every day through your obedience 972 01:23:38,440 --> 01:23:41,520 or lack thereof, someone will read them. 973 01:23:44,120 --> 01:23:47,000 And I don't know about you, but I want my life to read how 974 01:23:47,000 --> 01:23:52,800 Paul's is reading today. And I'm not going to hide that I 975 01:23:52,800 --> 01:23:59,080 was a murderer because Apostle Paul couldn't write those 976 01:23:59,080 --> 01:24:13,170 letters without being solved. But my cry out is my victory 977 01:24:13,170 --> 01:24:15,770 song. Here it is. 978 01:24:16,250 --> 01:24:19,890 Then Moses and the Israelites sang the song to God, giving 979 01:24:19,890 --> 01:24:23,570 voice together. I'm singing my heart out to God. 980 01:24:23,570 --> 01:24:26,650 What a victory this is on the other side of the Red Sea. 981 01:24:27,240 --> 01:24:30,000 He pitched horse and rider into the sea. 982 01:24:30,000 --> 01:24:33,960 God is my strength, God is my song, and yes, God is my 983 01:24:33,960 --> 01:24:37,240 salvation. This is the kind of God I have. 984 01:24:37,440 --> 01:24:40,480 And I'm telling the world this is the God of my Father. 985 01:24:40,640 --> 01:24:43,840 I'm spreading the news far and wide. 986 01:24:44,240 --> 01:24:46,480 Remember on the other side they were crying. 987 01:24:46,480 --> 01:24:49,160 They were afraid they were about to lose their lives. 988 01:24:50,400 --> 01:24:53,680 So you cry out for God when you in trouble. 989 01:24:54,200 --> 01:24:57,960 But then on the other side of the trouble, can he still get 990 01:24:57,960 --> 01:25:03,360 the same intensity? You see, David, David prayed to 991 01:25:03,360 --> 01:25:07,160 God, the words of this song after God saved him from all his 992 01:25:07,160 --> 01:25:11,200 enemies and from Saul. God is bedrock under my feet, 993 01:25:11,360 --> 01:25:16,200 the castle in which I live, my rescuing night, my God, the the 994 01:25:16,200 --> 01:25:21,280 high crag where I run for dear life, hiding behind the 995 01:25:21,280 --> 01:25:25,000 boulders, safe in the granite hideout, my mountain, my 996 01:25:25,000 --> 01:25:26,840 mountaintop refuge. He. 997 01:25:27,000 --> 01:25:31,920 Saves me from ruthless man. I sing or I cry, or I rejoice, 998 01:25:31,920 --> 01:25:41,840 or I call to God the praise lofty, and find myself safe and 999 01:25:41,840 --> 01:25:47,080 saved. See, in my distress I cried out 1000 01:25:47,080 --> 01:25:50,840 to you, the delivering God, and from your temple throne you 1001 01:25:50,840 --> 01:25:57,080 heard my troubled cry, and my sobs went right into your heart. 1002 01:25:59,880 --> 01:26:02,600 I think This is why David is the David we know. 1003 01:26:02,600 --> 01:26:07,160 It's because he wasn't afraid to be broken before the Lord. 1004 01:26:07,560 --> 01:26:11,440 He wasn't glorifying his sin. He had a revelation. 1005 01:26:11,440 --> 01:26:19,680 That man, what you have done for me and he also did not let his 1006 01:26:19,680 --> 01:26:24,480 sin steal the vision nor the desire to build God a house, 1007 01:26:25,640 --> 01:26:28,480 even knowing he couldn't be the one to build. 1008 01:26:31,800 --> 01:26:35,360 It some of you, God is delivering you just to simply 1009 01:26:35,360 --> 01:26:41,000 hand the vision off. I know that's not too popular 1010 01:26:41,000 --> 01:26:42,760 because you want to be a part of all of it. 1011 01:26:44,400 --> 01:26:47,760 Some stuff God is saving you for us to hand something off. 1012 01:26:48,680 --> 01:26:51,560 Not be the maker of it. Not be the founder. 1013 01:26:53,240 --> 01:26:55,640 Can God trust you with a vision for a business? 1014 01:26:55,680 --> 01:27:03,340 For someone else? Don't allow your monetary 1015 01:27:03,340 --> 01:27:08,020 comfort to keep your soul in solitary confinement because you 1016 01:27:08,020 --> 01:27:11,620 are too prideful or timid to cry out. 1017 01:27:12,420 --> 01:27:16,240 Don't block your life of a rich soul treasure that can only be 1018 01:27:16,240 --> 01:27:19,160 retrieved and experienced through the cry out. 1019 01:27:21,000 --> 01:27:31,960 Now end with this Psalm 118. Thank God because he's good, 1020 01:27:34,960 --> 01:27:37,560 right? Just thank God because he's good 1021 01:27:37,920 --> 01:27:42,680 because his love never quits. Tell the world Israel tell the 1022 01:27:42,680 --> 01:27:46,320 world love quest his love never quits. 1023 01:27:47,040 --> 01:27:51,600 And you, clan of Aaron, tell the world his love never quits. 1024 01:27:51,600 --> 01:27:53,960 And. You who fear God, join in. 1025 01:27:53,960 --> 01:27:56,000 Just join in His. I love this. 1026 01:27:56,000 --> 01:27:59,520 Because they're still. This is what all of heaven is 1027 01:27:59,520 --> 01:28:02,720 singing even right now. His love never quits. 1028 01:28:02,880 --> 01:28:06,920 So he tells us, join in. His love never quits. 1029 01:28:07,120 --> 01:28:10,360 Pushed to the wall. I called to God, I cried to God, 1030 01:28:10,520 --> 01:28:12,800 I sobbed to God. I rejoiced to God. 1031 01:28:12,800 --> 01:28:15,760 I sang to God from the wide open spaces. 1032 01:28:15,880 --> 01:28:19,560 He answered. God's now at my side and I'm not 1033 01:28:19,560 --> 01:28:22,760 afraid. Who would dare lay a hand on me? 1034 01:28:22,760 --> 01:28:26,480 God, my strong champion. I flick off my enemies like 1035 01:28:26,480 --> 01:28:29,360 flies. Far better to take refuge in God 1036 01:28:29,560 --> 01:28:33,240 than trust in people. Far better to take refuge in God 1037 01:28:33,440 --> 01:28:38,480 than the trust in celebrities hemmed in by Barbarians. 1038 01:28:38,480 --> 01:28:42,160 In God's name I rub their faces in the dirt. 1039 01:28:42,160 --> 01:28:47,040 Hemmed in and with no way out, In God's name I rub their faces 1040 01:28:47,240 --> 01:28:48,760 in the dirt. In Jesus name. 1041 01:28:48,760 --> 01:28:54,440 Peer on, get out of my face. Like swarming bees, like 1042 01:28:54,440 --> 01:28:57,280 swarming bees, like wild Prairie fire. 1043 01:28:57,480 --> 01:29:01,640 They hem me in. In God's name, I rub their faces 1044 01:29:01,920 --> 01:29:05,120 in the dirt. I was right on the Cliff edge, 1045 01:29:05,120 --> 01:29:10,560 ready to fall when God grabbed and held me. 1046 01:29:11,720 --> 01:29:15,360 God's my strength. God's my strength. 1047 01:29:16,520 --> 01:29:22,400 He's also my song, and now He's my salvation. 1048 01:29:22,640 --> 01:29:28,360 Hear the shouts and hear the trumpet songs in the camp of the 1049 01:29:28,360 --> 01:29:31,880 saved. There's supposed to be a sound 1050 01:29:31,880 --> 01:29:34,920 coming out of the camp of the saved. 1051 01:29:39,280 --> 01:29:42,360 The hand of God has turned the tide. 1052 01:29:43,200 --> 01:29:49,200 The hand of God has to Man lost, now found, blind, now see. 1053 01:29:49,280 --> 01:29:53,440 The hand of God has turned the tide. 1054 01:29:57,200 --> 01:29:58,960 The hand of God has turned the tide. 1055 01:29:59,240 --> 01:30:04,120 The hand of God is raised in victory, and the hand of God has 1056 01:30:04,120 --> 01:30:07,080 turned the tide. I love how they're repeating 1057 01:30:07,080 --> 01:30:08,640 this stuff. It's very simple. 1058 01:30:10,720 --> 01:30:13,600 The hand of God has turned the tide. 1059 01:30:13,600 --> 01:30:17,640 The momentum has shifted. You ready? 1060 01:30:17,720 --> 01:30:18,600 You ready? You ready? 1061 01:30:18,600 --> 01:30:19,680 You ready? I've been ready. 1062 01:30:19,920 --> 01:30:21,200 I didn't die. I lived. 1063 01:30:23,640 --> 01:30:24,800 OK. Maybe you get more excited 1064 01:30:24,800 --> 01:30:27,600 because it's in the Bible. I didn't die. 1065 01:30:27,720 --> 01:30:28,280 I lived. See. 1066 01:30:28,320 --> 01:30:29,480 See. This Here it is. 1067 01:30:29,600 --> 01:30:30,840 Here it is. I want you to see this. 1068 01:30:31,040 --> 01:30:32,600 Feel the energy in the room. EJ. 1069 01:30:33,080 --> 01:30:36,640 Right. We're so reading, right? 1070 01:30:37,080 --> 01:30:37,720 And I'm. I'm just. 1071 01:30:37,720 --> 01:30:38,400 I'm just. I'm just. 1072 01:30:38,440 --> 01:30:40,240 I'm just. Can I can I just can I just 1073 01:30:40,800 --> 01:30:42,560 little teaching moment, discipleship moment? 1074 01:30:42,960 --> 01:30:50,080 We're so reading and we're so feeding off of PT has to I 1075 01:30:50,080 --> 01:30:52,560 didn't die now. Now what I could do is I could 1076 01:30:52,560 --> 01:30:55,680 keep repeating it with passion and then eventually people going 1077 01:30:55,680 --> 01:31:04,320 to start getting excited, right? Versus when I see this, I 1078 01:31:04,320 --> 01:31:12,160 immediately go to, yeah, I was in some stuff, but I'm here. 1079 01:31:12,800 --> 01:31:19,760 You see, my cry out is based on my memory, not based on my now. 1080 01:31:19,760 --> 01:31:22,360 Right now, if we was in a funeral, you'll hear all kind of 1081 01:31:22,360 --> 01:31:26,840 crying out. So what we do is we cry out only 1082 01:31:26,840 --> 01:31:30,520 when something pains us. Don't know. 1083 01:31:30,520 --> 01:31:33,120 But all you need to do is get bad news. 1084 01:31:33,160 --> 01:31:37,200 Nobody got to stir you up. So how can you quickly respond 1085 01:31:37,200 --> 01:31:40,200 to bad news with emotion? But when it comes to good news, 1086 01:31:40,680 --> 01:31:44,080 you got to be pumped up. Now I want you to just check 1087 01:31:44,080 --> 01:31:49,000 what is that inside of us that we're so casual to good news. 1088 01:31:49,920 --> 01:31:52,960 But to bad news, if you got a phone call that your father 1089 01:31:52,960 --> 01:31:54,760 passed right now, you would hit the floor. 1090 01:31:55,040 --> 01:32:00,880 You will say I got to go because it's so bad, but this news ain't 1091 01:32:00,880 --> 01:32:06,200 so good. This news don't bring you to 1092 01:32:06,200 --> 01:32:09,600 your feet without a band getting big and excited and people 1093 01:32:09,600 --> 01:32:11,240 singing and you getting stirred up. 1094 01:32:11,440 --> 01:32:14,880 We got to stir up your emotions to remember his goodness. 1095 01:32:18,200 --> 01:32:22,560 And you wonder why in some parts of the world they see revival. 1096 01:32:24,560 --> 01:32:26,920 I don't know about you man, but I don't want to have to live in 1097 01:32:26,920 --> 01:32:37,200 extreme poverty to be desperate. That's the problem in some parts 1098 01:32:37,200 --> 01:32:39,880 of the world. With the church, we got to be 1099 01:32:39,880 --> 01:32:44,240 stirred up all the time. We don't live with the 1100 01:32:44,240 --> 01:32:46,720 revelation on our mind and in our lips. 1101 01:32:47,440 --> 01:32:48,800 This is it. Is it too hot? 1102 01:32:49,800 --> 01:32:50,600 Is it cold? Is it? 1103 01:32:50,600 --> 01:32:51,880 Raining. Is it snow? 1104 01:32:54,240 --> 01:32:56,800 No, I'm pretty good, right? We're reasoning. 1105 01:32:57,120 --> 01:32:58,600 I don't feel like shouting. We did that early. 1106 01:32:58,600 --> 01:33:06,440 We got some good worship in. I'm good, but the angels cry. 1107 01:33:07,600 --> 01:33:13,320 Holy, holy, holy. I didn't die. 1108 01:33:13,320 --> 01:33:18,320 I live and and and and and here's and here's and here's the 1109 01:33:18,320 --> 01:33:21,920 thing. It's what we what we make praise 1110 01:33:21,920 --> 01:33:27,920 about is if I feel like praising, right? 1111 01:33:27,920 --> 01:33:30,480 And then sometime when you get bad news here it is you 1112 01:33:30,960 --> 01:33:42,040 overreact when you going to. Overreact to the word What, 1113 01:33:42,040 --> 01:33:43,360 what, what what's going to hurt you? 1114 01:33:43,360 --> 01:33:51,520 But boy, good news don't really get like, unless it's like self 1115 01:33:51,520 --> 01:33:55,240 like somebody call you right now like I want to donate to you 1116 01:33:55,840 --> 01:34:01,160 $1,000,000. You act a fool. 1117 01:34:01,840 --> 01:34:08,240 It's worthy to praise, right? But man, when you was here, 1118 01:34:10,960 --> 01:34:12,720 right? If we got real graphic, like if 1119 01:34:12,720 --> 01:34:15,360 we got real about it, when you was opening your legs, when you 1120 01:34:15,360 --> 01:34:18,400 was laying down with her, when you was drunk, when you was 1121 01:34:18,400 --> 01:34:21,440 high, when you was all those different things, you were you. 1122 01:34:21,440 --> 01:34:24,160 Yeah, right. You, you was, you either cried 1123 01:34:24,160 --> 01:34:29,080 out or you was acting a fool in your foolishness then now God 1124 01:34:29,080 --> 01:34:33,200 brought you out of it. I don't know about you, but when 1125 01:34:33,200 --> 01:34:35,960 I partied, I partied, I drank, I smoked, I sinned. 1126 01:34:36,160 --> 01:34:38,760 My mind was sinful. It didn't, I didn't turn sand 1127 01:34:38,760 --> 01:34:43,120 off. But man, we, we do. 1128 01:34:43,480 --> 01:34:47,440 We'll turn off some praise. And does this mean we're running 1129 01:34:47,440 --> 01:34:50,280 around all the time? I'm talking about the Spirit in 1130 01:34:50,280 --> 01:34:56,640 the room. Why so many churches have to 1131 01:34:56,640 --> 01:35:00,320 perform acrobats or we're just totally dead too. 1132 01:35:00,320 --> 01:35:03,320 And then we called that stirring up manipulation. 1133 01:35:03,320 --> 01:35:04,640 And it's really not. It's biblical. 1134 01:35:04,640 --> 01:35:06,520 Stir it up. It's good news. 1135 01:35:09,520 --> 01:35:11,880 When's the day we can read something like this? 1136 01:35:11,880 --> 01:35:16,160 I didn't just pause. Like I shouldn't be able to even 1137 01:35:16,160 --> 01:35:20,520 get to the end if you got the revelation. 1138 01:35:23,240 --> 01:35:26,040 I didn't die, let alone he's using me. 1139 01:35:32,330 --> 01:35:40,010 This is the awe of God, man. I wanted to commit suicide, but 1140 01:35:40,010 --> 01:35:50,490 I didn't die. And so now I'm telling the world 1141 01:35:51,730 --> 01:35:54,250 what God did. And here's for some of you 1142 01:35:54,250 --> 01:35:57,880 Christians and some of you, you think 'cause you up here singing 1143 01:35:57,880 --> 01:36:01,400 or playing instruments, people, people automatically know that 1144 01:36:01,400 --> 01:36:09,480 you, you think God good. Our praise is relentless because 1145 01:36:09,480 --> 01:36:13,400 there's somebody that don't get they need to keep seeing this 1146 01:36:13,400 --> 01:36:14,320 picture. He says. 1147 01:36:14,520 --> 01:36:24,600 Now I'm 1505050150 50 books to tell us souls to God. 1148 01:36:25,640 --> 01:36:28,480 Why is the biggest book souls to God? 1149 01:36:34,690 --> 01:36:36,290 But he didn't hand me over to death. 1150 01:36:37,810 --> 01:36:45,690 So swing, swing, swing wide the righteous gates. 1151 01:36:46,690 --> 01:36:49,970 Now now look, Leslie, before I read this line, I want to make 1152 01:36:49,970 --> 01:36:51,850 sure people you could take this out of here. 1153 01:36:52,370 --> 01:37:00,560 I want to make sure people know that PT, it's a burden. 1154 01:37:01,640 --> 01:37:04,800 So when you praise and when you do all that, like own it for 1155 01:37:04,800 --> 01:37:09,040 yourself, Don't, don't praise because I'm telling you to or 1156 01:37:09,040 --> 01:37:10,880 praise because I'm telling you to. 1157 01:37:11,000 --> 01:37:14,120 Because if I told you, go down the street, turn right, you'll 1158 01:37:14,120 --> 01:37:17,160 have one of the best steaks you've ever tasted in your life. 1159 01:37:17,320 --> 01:37:19,440 You're going to go down the alley and turn right and go to 1160 01:37:19,440 --> 01:37:21,960 the steakhouse. So don't act like because 1161 01:37:21,960 --> 01:37:24,680 somebody is encouraging you to do something, you got to be 1162 01:37:24,680 --> 01:37:30,880 cautious. Don't have selective obedience 1163 01:37:32,120 --> 01:37:35,160 because you'll hop on Yelp in a minute and trust somebody's 1164 01:37:35,160 --> 01:37:43,640 testimony about a pancake. House But the Bible is full of 1165 01:37:43,640 --> 01:37:46,120 people, men and women, telling us to try God. 1166 01:37:49,080 --> 01:37:53,000 Try God, taste this seed, man. He did it for me. 1167 01:37:53,160 --> 01:38:04,360 Why is it full of testimonies? Because he's telling us one of 1168 01:38:04,360 --> 01:38:07,080 the greatest one. I would say one of the greatest 1169 01:38:07,080 --> 01:38:09,440 sermon series I've ever been a part of. 1170 01:38:10,080 --> 01:38:12,360 One of the greatest, if not the greatest. 1171 01:38:12,560 --> 01:38:16,480 And it wasn't just because of the content back home. 1172 01:38:16,960 --> 01:38:20,160 Me and my wife, we were we we at our church, we were youth 1173 01:38:20,160 --> 01:38:22,920 pastors, whatever. But our pastor, every Sunday 1174 01:38:22,920 --> 01:38:25,120 night he taught on a series on praise. 1175 01:38:25,120 --> 01:38:29,040 He's probably like 5-6 months every night. 1176 01:38:29,840 --> 01:38:35,480 Sounds super simple, but the simplicity of the revelation of 1177 01:38:35,480 --> 01:38:41,160 praising God and when people went after it, it I can say is 1178 01:38:41,160 --> 01:38:43,960 one of the sermon series that radically changed my life. 1179 01:38:44,440 --> 01:38:49,560 When I understood the power of praise, the power of thanking 1180 01:38:49,560 --> 01:38:57,000 God, and it was week after week after week after week after week 1181 01:38:57,160 --> 01:39:02,760 after week after week, He's saying week after week and it 1182 01:39:02,760 --> 01:39:04,720 what? What was the series about praise 1183 01:39:04,720 --> 01:39:08,360 after? Week after week after week after 1184 01:39:08,360 --> 01:39:12,120 week after week and after month and after month praise every 1185 01:39:12,120 --> 01:39:17,280 every single Sunday night. And it just did something in my 1186 01:39:17,280 --> 01:39:25,920 heart when I understood and if I have to pick anything out of the 1187 01:39:25,920 --> 01:39:35,520 word to just encourage people to do and be over relationship 1188 01:39:35,520 --> 01:39:41,200 goals and all that. Man is the fear of God and to 1189 01:39:41,200 --> 01:39:43,680 restore all and wonder in your heart for him. 1190 01:39:46,760 --> 01:39:49,840 Praise is wonderful because I don't necessarily have to feel 1191 01:39:49,840 --> 01:39:53,880 like it to do it, but when I do it, it'll lead to me feeling 1192 01:39:53,880 --> 01:40:00,600 like it. You got to praise your way into 1193 01:40:00,600 --> 01:40:09,640 needing to praise God. I'll walk right through and 1194 01:40:09,640 --> 01:40:16,800 thank God this temple gate. Belongs to God, so the victors 1195 01:40:17,080 --> 01:40:35,480 can enter we. Want the? 1196 01:40:38,680 --> 01:40:40,920 Thank you so much for tuning into this week's sermon. 1197 01:40:40,920 --> 01:40:44,280 We pray you were challenged, equipped and encouraged. 1198 01:40:44,520 --> 01:40:46,480 Make sure to follow us on all platforms. 1199 01:40:46,480 --> 01:40:50,520 That's Lovequest Intl church. We out here for real. 1200 01:40:50,600 --> 01:40:52,880 We're really doing it. That's Facebook, Instagram, 1201 01:40:52,920 --> 01:40:56,120 YouTube and TikTok. You can find us anywhere you 1202 01:40:56,120 --> 01:40:58,400 need to find us. But until next time, you know 1203 01:40:58,400 --> 01:41:00,600 the drill. You know the motto, get your 1204 01:41:00,600 --> 01:41:02,880 love fixed man and we'll see y'all real soon.