1 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:11,480 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International 2 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,600 Church Podcast where we seek to love all nations, equip the 3 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,560 church, mobilize the equipped and serve all. 4 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:21,080 We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever 5 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:23,760 you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get 6 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,440 your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe 7 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:28,680 some tea and get ready to receive. 8 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:38,680 Let's get into it. Hallelujah. 9 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:44,000 Come on, give your neighbor a high 5, say Happy New Year. 10 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:48,440 Come on, one more. Time happy new year. 11 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:55,800 You could be seated in the presence of a mighty mighty, 12 00:00:55,800 --> 00:01:00,000 mighty God. Hallelujah. 13 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:04,480 Well, some of y'all just made it right on time. 14 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:07,040 I'm just letting you know we going to change things a little 15 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:11,600 bit and for those people that like, you know, just straggling 16 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:17,480 in and just like whatever we are starting off the morning, every 17 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:21,840 experience with some exhortation that will lead us into some 18 00:01:22,080 --> 00:01:25,440 organic praise. We don't know what we singing at 19 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:27,600 the top. We always going to be prepared, 20 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:29,880 but we're going to start off with the word. 21 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:32,120 We're going to start off with exhortation. 22 00:01:32,720 --> 00:01:36,800 This is a House of prayer. If it's if it's not a House of 23 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:38,600 prayer, it's not a House of miracles. 24 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:42,880 In the beginning was the word and the word was God and the 25 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:46,520 word was with God. I've come to find out that in 26 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:49,920 this region we're just super casual with the presence of God. 27 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:54,240 We show up whenever we like. Oh, they just singing songs. 28 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:57,040 We can come in a little later. That's on you. 29 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:01,600 What I do realize is by the time we get to the word there, 30 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:05,280 there's not enough hunger and thirst from a lot of us. 31 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:11,240 And so I feel like on one end, we want to break the familiarity 32 00:02:11,960 --> 00:02:16,040 of, oh, we just singing, we, we drinking coffee while we 33 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:17,760 worship. And we're not necessarily you 34 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:18,760 get what I'm saying? There's nothing wrong. 35 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:21,720 I don't want to mess with your coffee, but I'm I'm we're in the 36 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:26,480 presence of a King, right? And and we wonder why certain 37 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:30,280 continents see the glory of God all the time. 38 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:34,640 It's because they have understood that without him, 39 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:39,760 it's death like God is truly life or death for some people. 40 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,760 So when they have a chance to meet with him again as 41 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:47,400 especially come together with brothers and sisters and and the 42 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:52,520 faith is higher than it is, then when I'm by myself, there's a 43 00:02:52,520 --> 00:02:55,000 reference, There's an expectation. 44 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:57,920 And in Northern America, we don't come with expectation. 45 00:02:57,920 --> 00:02:59,720 We just casual. We just like, I'm going to 46 00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:02,720 church to see my friends and it's almost like a gym. 47 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:06,400 Like when you go to church to see your friends at the gym or 48 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:07,560 whatever, you know what I'm saying? 49 00:03:07,560 --> 00:03:11,240 And I'm just like, man, I don't want to be that church. 50 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:13,960 I don't want to be the church where we start off and then take 51 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:16,520 a break. Go get your coffee, shake a few 52 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:18,800 hands, then come back and get a cute little message. 53 00:03:19,040 --> 00:03:21,840 People are dying right in that alleyway. 54 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,920 We need prayer warriors, we need prophetic words from God. 55 00:03:26,920 --> 00:03:30,520 We we need God to move. And so we got to create an 56 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:33,920 atmosphere for that. And so right at 9:00, we are 57 00:03:33,920 --> 00:03:37,320 starting off with exhortation and then we going to see where 58 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:39,200 it goes. But the word is always going to 59 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:42,680 be at the top and worship will be a response to the word. 60 00:03:43,720 --> 00:03:46,880 So you not staring at our worship team no more. 61 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:52,240 It is not the worship team Job. I, I, I get it, but we have 62 00:03:52,240 --> 00:03:56,600 caused and forced churches to entertain you and worship has 63 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:59,960 become something we do until everybody get in the church. 64 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:05,640 No, no, no, no, no, you need to, you need to be here early 65 00:04:05,920 --> 00:04:11,040 praying and preparing your heart and like, no, no, no, no, what, 66 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:14,800 what this anointing from our worship team, It's, it's too 67 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:18,399 precious to just come up here and beg people to engage. 68 00:04:18,959 --> 00:04:22,760 And so we're going to start off and exhort because that's going 69 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:25,240 to draw the people who really want presents. 70 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:29,720 And then we going to go from exhortation to the Word, and 71 00:04:29,720 --> 00:04:31,520 then we'll see where we go on the back end. 72 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:35,560 But we going to do worship from faith, not from observation. 73 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:39,080 I'm done. This is God's house. 74 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:41,640 This is the. Temple of the Most High this is, 75 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:45,720 this is a House of miracles. You could play with them if you 76 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:50,560 want to, but I, I am believing for this city to know Jesus. 77 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:54,160 I am believing that somewhere across the world people will 78 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:59,120 hear about a revival that has broken out in, in in wall-e and 79 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:02,240 they going to fly out here because there's people that is 80 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:08,240 stewarding the fire of God. And I get it, we got a lot of 81 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:11,960 spectators, but all I need is a few more people to take the 82 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:17,040 presence of God serious. And so meet us here at a little 83 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:19,640 before 9. Get in your seat, get here, get 84 00:05:19,640 --> 00:05:20,960 cozy. You want a coffee? 85 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:25,160 Get it before 845 Cafe will be closed. 86 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,680 Not playing with God's presence. He is holy. 87 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:35,640 He deserves our attention. He deserves our best outfit. 88 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:38,520 He deserves our best, our best energy. 89 00:05:38,520 --> 00:05:42,960 God is, He's faithful, He's everything, and in this dying 90 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:47,520 world, if you don't know how to Revere God, you will be lost, I 91 00:05:47,520 --> 00:05:52,080 promise you. And calling on somebody you 92 00:05:52,080 --> 00:05:55,120 don't know when you in trouble is torture. 93 00:05:56,480 --> 00:05:59,000 I don't got to guess if God is with me. 94 00:06:02,280 --> 00:06:06,960 Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Amen. Can I get a few more 95 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:17,840 hallelujahs? Yes, come on, just lift your 96 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:23,800 hands right where you are and invite them into your seat. 97 00:06:24,280 --> 00:06:26,280 Invite them into your neighbor's seat. 98 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:32,560 Vitamin to your heart. I'm excited we jumping in the 99 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:34,760 word. I feel anticipation in here. 100 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:39,800 I feel like there's some people in here ready for not just a new 101 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:47,040 year, but a dominant year, but a dominant year. 102 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:54,320 Somebody say dominant. Lord, I thank you for ears to 103 00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:57,680 hear and eyes to see us. Thank you. 104 00:06:57,680 --> 00:06:59,960 We're free from air. I thank you that our hearts is 105 00:06:59,960 --> 00:07:05,520 good soil, good ground. It produces, it produces, Lord, 106 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:10,720 this room is prepared for you. Have your way, Lord God, have 107 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:13,240 your way. Expose our blind spots. 108 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:17,840 Lord God, forgive us for being too comfortable, too familiar, 109 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:21,120 too casual with the Creator of the earth. 110 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:27,440 Oh God, thank you for this time. I thank you for freedom, Thank 111 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:46,250 you for salvation today in Jesus name in Jesus name today I'm 112 00:07:46,250 --> 00:07:49,410 talking to you from we understand those that wasn't 113 00:07:49,410 --> 00:07:52,890 here New Year's Eve. We started the the word for New 114 00:07:52,890 --> 00:07:58,410 Year's Eve is the year of the host the the year of the host, 115 00:07:58,410 --> 00:08:02,050 the Lord of hosts. And sure, on one aspect we are 116 00:08:02,210 --> 00:08:05,290 hosting his presence, but what I've come to realize is there 117 00:08:05,290 --> 00:08:08,290 needs to be a change of thought. He's actually hosting us this 118 00:08:08,290 --> 00:08:10,480 his house. You get that? 119 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:14,240 This is his house. So if anybody hosting, he is 120 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:17,920 hosting us and we are hosting our preparation. 121 00:08:18,800 --> 00:08:22,520 We are stewarding our preparation, OK. 122 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:27,680 We are making sure that we are postured in such a way that as 123 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:34,000 God attends to us, as God sees us, as God communes with us and 124 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:39,760 and inhabits our praise, we are prepared to not just sit in his 125 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,559 presence, but receive from his presence. 126 00:08:44,039 --> 00:08:48,480 And so today I just want to start off talking from this 127 00:08:48,600 --> 00:08:55,000 conversation, this topic of. Open up the gates, Psalm 24. 128 00:08:55,000 --> 00:09:02,800 Lift up your heads, oh you gates, and be lifted up you age 129 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:08,920 abiding doors, that the King of glory may come in. 130 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:17,760 Who is the King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the 131 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:27,040 Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O you gates. 132 00:09:27,400 --> 00:09:35,400 Yes, lift them up, you age abiding doors, that the King of 133 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:40,400 glory may come in. This is not verse 8 again, this 134 00:09:40,400 --> 00:09:44,920 is the next verse. Who is he then? 135 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:50,240 This King of glory, the Lord of hosts. 136 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:58,000 He is the King of glory. Say LA pause and think of that. 137 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:04,520 Say He is the King of glory. We did not start this year by 138 00:10:04,520 --> 00:10:10,720 asking God to bless it. No, no, no, we started it by 139 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:16,320 opening the gates. We did not start the year by 140 00:10:16,320 --> 00:10:20,200 asking God bless it, bless it, bless it, bless us, bless us. 141 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:24,920 We started this year off and we are starting off this year 142 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:30,520 opening the gates. Say, open up the gates, because 143 00:10:30,520 --> 00:10:38,520 this is the year of the hosts. The gates weren't lifted to let 144 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:42,960 him in. He was already coming. 145 00:10:45,160 --> 00:10:48,760 Watch this. This was not a private devotion, 146 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:56,320 but a corporate enthronement. What we have to see here is that 147 00:10:56,920 --> 00:11:02,000 this is how they dealt with a king or someone of authority 148 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,920 arriving. They weren't second guessing. 149 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:08,880 They weren't doubting if it was a king. 150 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:18,200 It's kind of like when I say God is good all the time, or it's 151 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:22,800 like if we was hanging out. If if you ever ask somebody a 152 00:11:22,800 --> 00:11:25,800 question, knowing the answer, but it's a call and response 153 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:29,080 question, it's not a wondering thing. 154 00:11:29,680 --> 00:11:32,960 It's a question that's making an announcement. 155 00:11:34,120 --> 00:11:39,920 Who is the king of glory? There's people talking to the 156 00:11:39,920 --> 00:11:43,040 gates and then there's people responding. 157 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:52,760 Who is the king of glory, right? But they say right there, it's a 158 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:56,480 call and response. It's not a doubt it's an 159 00:11:56,480 --> 00:12:00,360 announcement. This scripture is all about an 160 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:04,680 announcement. The king has arrived, so he's 161 00:12:04,680 --> 00:12:09,800 telling us, since he's coming, since he's arriving, lift up 162 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:14,920 your heads, O you Gates. So I'm not just lifting my head, 163 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:24,000 I'm also opening my heart. Hallelujah, we see this is an 164 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:30,640 invitation to make Rome. It's not an invitation. 165 00:12:31,560 --> 00:12:33,480 It is an announcement of takeover. 166 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:38,360 If he was here Sunday, I mean a New Year's Eve, this is 167 00:12:38,360 --> 00:12:41,000 continuation. This is not your year. 168 00:12:42,360 --> 00:12:47,480 This is his year. And if it's my father's year, 169 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:54,480 then he got his kids in mine. This is not about you being 170 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:56,760 promoted. This is not a year about you 171 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:00,040 blowing up. This is not about your business. 172 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:04,680 This is the year that God is going to show up in your life 173 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:09,080 and He's going to do things that cause you to give him the glory. 174 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:13,160 This is a year where God gets the glory, not you get 175 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:15,400 recognition. Come on. 176 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:19,440 This is and when you fix your heart on making sure this is the 177 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:22,960 year he going to get glory out of my life by any means 178 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:25,600 necessary. It's going to go well for you. 179 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:32,160 So Psalm 24 is saying lift up your heads, O ye gates open up. 180 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:37,440 The king has arrived. Watch this. 181 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:43,600 He didn't come because we invited him, He's come because 182 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:52,680 he's decided to come. Lift up your heads, O ye gates. 183 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:58,680 This signifies that authority is coming through the gates. 184 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:08,360 This is access control. This is this is about who you're 185 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:11,520 allowing in. Gates at that time wasn't just 186 00:14:11,520 --> 00:14:14,400 about architecture. It was it was about these 187 00:14:14,400 --> 00:14:18,480 ancient gates represented who was coming in and who was going 188 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:19,960 out. You just wasn't walking through 189 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:26,440 the gates with any old status. OK, let me let me just modernize 190 00:14:26,440 --> 00:14:29,200 it for you. Not everybody get in VIP line. 191 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:33,720 Not, not not everybody. You don't know sometime the 192 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:35,800 most, one of the most famous people in the world could be in 193 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:37,720 the restaurant. But they got a entrance in the 194 00:14:37,720 --> 00:14:41,560 back and they got a dining hall in the back. 195 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:46,080 You didn't even know, but they got a different entrance. 196 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:51,840 They got a different gate. This is not like you. 197 00:14:51,920 --> 00:14:54,600 You pull through that, you're not going to see Deacon Roger. 198 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:59,160 Well, maybe you will, maybe you will, but it's not that gate. 199 00:14:59,720 --> 00:15:01,240 This is the gate, the King. Comes. 200 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:04,080 Through and they're acknowledging it. 201 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:11,040 Lift up your heads O you gates. We are the gates people. 202 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:15,160 We are the gates and what he's saying to us. 203 00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:20,120 It is time that we are being told to realign existing 204 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:25,680 structures must expand and current posture is insufficient 205 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:30,560 for who is coming. If you are here today and you 206 00:15:30,560 --> 00:15:35,040 still got 2025 mindset and you're not doing anything to 207 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:40,080 interrupt it, you not ready. So the verse says lift up your 208 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:44,040 heads. It's a new year or I'm doing a 209 00:15:44,040 --> 00:15:46,160 new thing. Do you not discern it? 210 00:15:47,080 --> 00:15:53,560 We're in the new year and I've been walking through yesterday, 211 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:55,400 today. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 212 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:58,480 The same way we're interrupting a lack of excellence, we're 213 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:01,880 interrupting mindsets that interrupt the glory of God in my 214 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:04,240 mind. No, no, no, He gave me a word 215 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:06,360 about peace. Anything that comes against my 216 00:16:06,360 --> 00:16:07,920 peace, I'm going to open my mouth. 217 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:11,280 No, it stops right now. I'm not going to get to my peace 218 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:15,080 in two hours right now. If I don't got peace, we ain't 219 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:17,640 meeting and we not moving forward till my peace. 220 00:16:17,880 --> 00:16:28,840 I realign my mind with peace. Hallelujah age abiding doors, 221 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:34,120 everlasting doors. These doors means and represents 222 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:38,360 old systems, old way of doing things, traditional patterns, 223 00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:45,440 ancient structures. Watch this super practical. 224 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:47,600 We're not starting service the same no more. 225 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:51,720 Ancient patterns like this. Real time stuff, y'all. 226 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:55,800 What have you decided to do since the new year has come? 227 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:58,200 Different? What habits have you 228 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:00,520 interrupted? Look, look. 229 00:17:00,520 --> 00:17:02,920 Some of y'all, some of y'all may have changed your furniture and 230 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:06,319 your house around, but have you changed some habits around? 231 00:17:07,119 --> 00:17:09,160 Have you changed some relationships around? 232 00:17:10,079 --> 00:17:11,240 Amen. Look at your neighbors, say you 233 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:13,000 need to smile a little bit. You scaring PT? 234 00:17:15,079 --> 00:17:20,160 Yeah, you scaring PT? Anybody that can frown in the 235 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:21,720 presence of the Lord. Something wrong? 236 00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:24,280 Amen. I don't need to see your teeth, 237 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:26,520 but I for sure don't need to see your wrinkles on your forehead. 238 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:27,920 Don't you, man? Hallelujah. 239 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:33,240 Watch this. God's presence requires space. 240 00:17:33,240 --> 00:17:39,240 Beyond old limitations, God's presence requires space. 241 00:17:40,640 --> 00:17:42,680 What? Are you moving right? 242 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:44,640 I was talking to somebody yesterday, or I was. 243 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:47,640 I forget what day it was, but I put the alcohol down because I 244 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:50,720 want it more than God. I wanted more of God. 245 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:52,760 I understood where God was calling me to. 246 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:54,120 That couldn't go with me. Watch this. 247 00:17:54,280 --> 00:17:58,520 The alcohol was taking up space. The weed was taking up space. 248 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:01,560 For some of you, the pornography is taking up space. 249 00:18:01,760 --> 00:18:03,360 Watch this. You think it's about 250 00:18:03,360 --> 00:18:05,360 pornography? It's really about space. 251 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:09,040 You think it's about that girl or that boy? 252 00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:12,400 No, it's about space. God is like man, please, I 253 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:15,160 already died for you. The blood covers your addiction. 254 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:18,600 You didn't hear that The blood covers your addiction. 255 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:21,080 I actually want relationship. I don't want behavior 256 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:24,840 modification. So the priority is you not 257 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:28,120 stopping that habit. The priority is you making space 258 00:18:28,120 --> 00:18:31,720 for me and that habit is in the way of me and you. 259 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:38,000 So when I realized that I needed to put that down to be closer to 260 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:46,480 him, that's a way bigger why then I need to stop because it's 261 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:51,880 a bad habit. Covenant always Trump's habits. 262 00:18:54,800 --> 00:18:58,320 If your why is just about habits, then guess what? 263 00:18:58,320 --> 00:18:59,480 You're going to find a new habit. 264 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:04,160 But if your why is about creating space, then even that 265 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:07,080 new habit showing up can't find space because the space is 266 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:09,840 taken. Somebody say I'm taken. 267 00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:19,480 Age abiding doors. What worked before is not tall 268 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:22,320 enough. It's not wide enough or even 269 00:19:22,320 --> 00:19:29,160 strong enough for what's coming. Guys, God's presence requires 270 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:34,040 space. Watch this. 271 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:38,480 When the King of Glory walks through the door, he shows up as 272 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:42,320 victory. So when God shows up, I'm not 273 00:19:42,640 --> 00:19:45,840 praying for victory. Victory showed up. 274 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:48,640 Matter of fact, I'm praying to victory. 275 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:52,960 So if I'm praying to like if, if, if I'm in a swimming pool, 276 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:55,120 I'm not asking the pool to make me wet. 277 00:19:55,120 --> 00:19:57,720 No, no, no, no, no, no Pool is wet. 278 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:00,720 White water is wet. Got to got what I'm saying. 279 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:03,720 So you got to understand when I'm praying to victory, I don't 280 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:07,560 got to ask for victory. All I need to do is make space 281 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:10,400 for him. Right, some of y'all won't 282 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:13,880 healing, but you ain't making space for he the healer. 283 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:17,200 He is healing. He not he not Santa Claus, he 284 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,200 not just he don't just got a bag of healing. 285 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:23,440 The woman touched the hem of his garment. 286 00:20:23,600 --> 00:20:28,680 He is healing. Hallelujah. 287 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:34,320 He arrives as victory and triumphant king. 288 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:42,720 Watch this, this scripture David is writing. 289 00:20:43,080 --> 00:20:45,800 Watch this. And this is what they're they're 290 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:48,000 bringing the ark through the gates. 291 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:54,080 Second, second Samuel. They're carrying the ark into 292 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:58,920 the city. They're carrying presents and 293 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:03,040 David writes this and he says, who is the king of glory? 294 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:05,960 He's entering the city. And when we go back to second 295 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:09,600 Samuel and we see what happens when he brought the presents, 296 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:14,160 the ark into the city, the joy he had, we will sing. 297 00:21:14,360 --> 00:21:19,320 We will dance right with these not these songs, guys, we're 298 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:21,400 dancing because the king is here. 299 00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:23,760 Like what are you? And this is what I'm saying, 300 00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:30,720 folks, this the king is here, right? 301 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:36,000 Like I can't show up in 2025 with the same the king is here. 302 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:38,560 I got new revelation. That's how the devil messed up, 303 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:43,120 because I shouldn't have ever found out that the king is that 304 00:21:43,120 --> 00:21:47,040 despite my falls, despite my mistakes, the king is here 305 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:52,600 triumphant in victory. So the Ark represents someone 306 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:58,080 who's already won the battle. They're not carrying around a 307 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:02,240 battle. They're carrying around the king 308 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:05,080 who won the battle. Hallelujah. 309 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:07,440 Yeah, it is. Yeah, it is. 310 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:13,320 This, this, this. And then we see it. 311 00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:14,800 Repeat. Somebody say repeat, repeat. 312 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:20,560 When you see a repeat, it's to escalate it. 313 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:26,240 It is to bring finality and to let you know it's urgent. 314 00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:31,560 He's here he not showing up for you to just to get a job. 315 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:36,520 You think the king is showing up so you can you can make two more 316 00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:39,840 dollars an hour. You think the King's showing up 317 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:44,080 so you can get a car? Watch this You think the King's 318 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:45,560 showing up so you can get a spouse. 319 00:22:49,040 --> 00:22:52,600 What if that barren womb? Is the very thing that God 320 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:55,200 allowed so you can keep space for Him. 321 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:57,960 Because he knew you would make your baby a idol. 322 00:23:00,120 --> 00:23:07,680 Hallelujah, he repeats it. Somebody say he repeats it. 323 00:23:11,280 --> 00:23:16,840 The first command addressed external resistance. 324 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:25,440 The second is internal reluctance, and as I write here, 325 00:23:25,440 --> 00:23:29,400 Grace speaks again. I don't know about you, but 326 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:36,840 thank God he repeated itself. I don't know about you, but I 327 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:41,720 ran from God a long time and he kept reminding me he still 328 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:45,320 called me. I doubt it if he loves me. 329 00:23:45,360 --> 00:23:47,720 Thank God he repeated himself as his son. 330 00:23:47,720 --> 00:23:51,960 I'm not going nowhere. Can can anybody thank God for 331 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:56,520 him repeating himself? Right, not not leaving you 332 00:23:56,520 --> 00:24:01,520 wandering, but he repeated himself to, to, to help you 333 00:24:01,520 --> 00:24:06,640 understand how urgent being prepared is how, how urgent it 334 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,440 is for you to be ready for him. God showing up. 335 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:11,880 See, a lot of people want God to come through. 336 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:20,000 A lot of people want revival. What would you do? 337 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,240 Some of us don't have space. We too busy for revival. 338 00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:29,680 Hallelujah. Have you ever thought about if 339 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:36,720 God just like broke out? Like I got, I got. 340 00:24:36,720 --> 00:24:39,240 Friends who's willing to leave their careers, not their job, 341 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:44,000 leave their careers the moment God say so to answer the call. 342 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:55,800 How many people in here, if revival broke out today and God 343 00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:59,880 said yeah, you, you, you going to keep the fire lit or what? 344 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:03,880 What you what? What have you made space to do 345 00:25:03,880 --> 00:25:13,890 to respond to revival? I promise you, half the room 346 00:25:13,890 --> 00:25:16,730 would empty, be gone after a while because we got to get back 347 00:25:16,730 --> 00:25:20,610 to to work. We got to get back to all the 348 00:25:20,610 --> 00:25:26,320 stuff we've crowded around us. Right for all you entrepreneurs, 349 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:29,760 one of your biggest whys for your business is so that you 350 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:36,560 have more space for God. The the reason you want your own 351 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:40,080 business is so you have more flexibility to do what God needs 352 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:43,040 you to do at any time because you running the you run the 353 00:25:43,040 --> 00:25:46,760 thing. The number one priority is not 354 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,680 more money, even if it's more money, it's so that I can do 355 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:56,200 more in the Kingdom. But a part of God blessing 356 00:25:56,200 --> 00:26:01,120 entrepreneurs in the Kingdom is so that you not only have 357 00:26:01,120 --> 00:26:04,600 financial freedom, but you also have freedom. 358 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:14,540 To go where he needs you to go. Thank God for the grace nudge, 359 00:26:19,420 --> 00:26:26,000 it says. Who is he then, this king of 360 00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,960 glory? They asked this question. 361 00:26:30,120 --> 00:26:33,400 It wasn't doubt, it wasn't wandering. 362 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:36,320 They knew exactly who was in it would say. 363 00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,760 They would say, who is then this king of glory? 364 00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:43,320 I can, I can hear like a, like a cheerleading squad doing this. 365 00:26:43,640 --> 00:26:49,200 Who is the king of glory? Who is the king of glory? 366 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:56,400 Who is the King of Glory? Who is the King of Dory? 367 00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:02,280 The Lord of Host, The Lord of No, No, no, no, no. 368 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:07,600 UCLA though you UCLAUCLA. Amen. 369 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:10,640 The Lord of hosts, that's how it was. 370 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:20,670 It's called a response. It's like if you said. 371 00:27:20,670 --> 00:27:22,990 Who said I wasn't going to make it? 372 00:27:24,950 --> 00:27:27,190 Like it's not like you doubting yourself. 373 00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:31,480 You're asking a question so the answer can be revealed. 374 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,960 The the Lord of hosts, He is the king of glory. 375 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:49,720 He's the ruler of the heavens. The Ark did not carry a tribal 376 00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:54,120 God. It carried the commander of 377 00:27:54,120 --> 00:27:58,640 heaven's armies. Yeah, I think so. 378 00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:00,040 I think so. I think so. 379 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,440 The the Ark did not carry a tribal God. 380 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:10,440 It carried the commander of heaven's armies. 381 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:14,360 Can I can just just just understand that they weren't 382 00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:17,000 carrying a casket. Hallelujah. 383 00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:19,520 Come on. They wasn't. 384 00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:23,760 These wasn't not armor bearer, but pallbearers. 385 00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:28,920 These were glory carriers. We got any glory carriers in 386 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:36,240 here that understand what you carry in Moses? 387 00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:37,080 You and your wife. Come on. 388 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:38,440 It's two seats right up here, buddy. 389 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:39,360 It's two seats. Come on. 390 00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:40,600 Up here. Come on. 391 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:42,680 You slipped in. Slipped in a little late. 392 00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:43,520 Got that. Got that. 393 00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,280 Got them after hours seats say man. 394 00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:51,080 Come on, come. On Hey, you like whatever, watch 395 00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:55,320 this I I disciple Moses. This is called discipleship, 396 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:02,080 right? I'm committed to a daughter in 397 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:05,600 the house to make sure she got a good husband, right? 398 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,600 My wife is committed to a daughter in the house to make 399 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:12,200 sure he got a Good Wife. It's called discipleship, right? 400 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:19,320 Thank you, Sir. The, the ark didn't carry a 401 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:23,240 tribal God. It carried the commander of 402 00:29:23,240 --> 00:29:29,320 heaven's armies. We are not hosting a feeling in 403 00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:35,640 2026 or, or a or a season. We are yielding to a governing 404 00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:39,280 king. We are yielding to a governing 405 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,920 king. This will not be this will watch 406 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:44,560 this. This will be some of y'all's 407 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:48,760 least emotional year. Yeah, some of y'all need to 408 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,400 receive that with your emotional self. 409 00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:53,240 Some of y'all need to see that you cried too. 410 00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:57,240 Yo, please keep crying. But you be dramatically crying. 411 00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:03,520 No tears, no tears. You just make the face and then 412 00:30:03,520 --> 00:30:06,280 you realize no tears come out. So you get all eating in. 413 00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,120 Yeah, you dramatic. You are dramatic. 414 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:11,120 Stop it. This will be your least 415 00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,240 emotional year. Watch out. 416 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:15,800 You will not need the closure. You thought you need it. 417 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:20,200 You will not need the approval you thought you need it, right? 418 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:23,040 Watch this. You will not have manipulative 419 00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:30,160 tears that hits that hit home for some people. 420 00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:32,800 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 421 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,280 We not we not throwing adult tantrums. 422 00:30:36,200 --> 00:30:38,720 Watch this. Here's an emotional reaction 423 00:30:39,400 --> 00:30:44,640 when my emotions is going. The dreaks keep coming. 424 00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:50,080 You might not be crying, but you crutch it. 425 00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,680 That's an emotional reaction. So when I say this will be your 426 00:30:56,680 --> 00:30:59,920 least emotional year, your responses? 427 00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:02,120 To your emotions will be different. 428 00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,120 Hallelujah. Thank, thank you, thank you. 429 00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:07,520 Can I give you a high 5? Can I give you a high five? 430 00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:11,080 You can give give your neighbor a high 5 because, because, 431 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,560 because they need the support. They need the support. 432 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:16,760 They need to support and watch this. 433 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,800 If they didn't want to give you a high 5, they're just having an 434 00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:22,080 emotional tantrum right now. That's it, That's it. 435 00:31:22,160 --> 00:31:26,280 They didn't want to participate. That's OK, that's OK. 436 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:28,600 But there's breaking in participation. 437 00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:35,240 We are not hosting this feeling. We can't be governed by our 438 00:31:35,240 --> 00:31:39,400 feelings. Psalm 24 is not an invitation. 439 00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:43,480 It is an announcement of takeover. 440 00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:48,760 God is taking over. If you don't I, I think some of 441 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,800 your greatest problems this year will come from the areas you 442 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:56,440 don't let God take over. That is a word. 443 00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:58,000 Yeah. Yeah. 444 00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,000 You don't want to box with God this year. 445 00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:03,240 You don't want to box with God this year. 446 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,120 Watch this because he ain't going to box with you. 447 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,360 This is crazy. When he wrestling with you, 448 00:32:08,360 --> 00:32:11,800 that's good news. When God stop wrestling with 449 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,920 you, that's dangerous. This ain't the year. 450 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:19,240 God begging you or wrestling with you, He's coming to 451 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,480 produce. He wrestled with you last year. 452 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,360 Some of y'all he'd been wrestling for 10 years. 453 00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:30,120 The wrestling match is over. Ding Ding Ding Ding is over. 454 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:40,800 The Lord of hosts. He is the king of glory. 455 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:53,440 Watch this First Kings eight first Kings 8 When the priests 456 00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:56,920 had come out of the holy place, she goodbye. 457 00:32:57,520 --> 00:33:00,400 Lift our hands real quick. Those that don't mind, lift your 458 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:04,760 hands real quick. The King of Glory is here, Lord, 459 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,160 We take a moment to just acknowledge your presence. 460 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:15,040 Lord, there's safety wrapped around us, there is favor 461 00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:21,400 wrapped around us, there is peace abiding within us and it 462 00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:25,480 is all because of you. We pause. 463 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:31,720 We acknowledge your presence. We say LA or we we. 464 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:41,120 We will not miss it this year. What you're about to do in this 465 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:51,280 year is going to take us into 5 generations, a favor, abundance, 466 00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:59,160 blessing and glory. When the priest had come out of 467 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,880 the holy place, When the priest had come out of the holy place, 468 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:04,920 the cloud filled the Lord's house. 469 00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:10,320 So the priest could not stand to minister because of the cloud. 470 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:14,280 For the glory of the Lord have filled the Lord's house. 471 00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:17,400 Man, I love this. This is not just a picture. 472 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:21,239 This is like for real glory. This is a people who prepared a 473 00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:24,199 place for the glory to come in the house. 474 00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:31,040 And God kissed the altar like I was saying this last week. 475 00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:34,719 I don't know how many people actually really hungry for 476 00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:39,440 presents, how many really pursuing. 477 00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:41,800 And that's why we can't do church the same. 478 00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:44,719 Watch this. When we put presents first, 479 00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:50,000 we're more efficient. No, it's all about him. 480 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:53,040 It's not about entertaining people. 481 00:34:54,159 --> 00:34:56,719 It's about his presence. Watch this. 482 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:04,240 When the priests had come out of the holy place, the cloud filled 483 00:35:04,240 --> 00:35:07,960 the Lord's house, so the priest could not stand. 484 00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:18,480 They couldn't stand. The Lord of hosts hosted their 485 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:23,440 preparation. Watch this when the priest had 486 00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:26,880 come out of the holy place means he inhabits. 487 00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:31,120 Our preparation What? What if I told you praise was 488 00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:36,160 preparation, not just a song? We sing songs. 489 00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:40,000 We sing for 20 minutes and then we sit down and yeah, yeah, 490 00:35:40,200 --> 00:35:43,840 yeah. He inhabits our preparation. 491 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:47,400 Watch this. If you're not preparing for him, 492 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:54,600 you're not praising him. If you are not preparing for 493 00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:58,440 him, you are not praising him. The Lord of hosts hosted their 494 00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:00,760 preparation. Watch this. 495 00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:07,760 Everything depends on who you believe is entering the room. 496 00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:14,680 I see more people turning to see who's at church then checking to 497 00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:19,560 see if God is here. For some of us, church was good 498 00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:23,880 based on how many of our friends showed up, based on how good the 499 00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:31,040 latte was. Well, guess what? 500 00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:33,360 The Lord's here every single week. 501 00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:36,560 Guess what, This is his house. So He here when you ain't here, 502 00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:40,120 but guess where else He is wherever you go. 503 00:36:41,720 --> 00:36:45,240 But if you do not perceive you, I thought that I was back in the 504 00:36:45,240 --> 00:36:47,840 day. I'm like, whoa, that's a scary 505 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:51,600 thing when you can send and not blink about it. 506 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,920 Because what happened in your mind, you had no awareness that 507 00:36:55,920 --> 00:37:01,000 the Lord lives here. You actually what it takes to 508 00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:07,320 the darkness you have to live in to override his presence, to 509 00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:14,600 ignore the person to ignore your Savior and that it might grieve 510 00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:20,440 him override that. Matthew 6 calls that like gross 511 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:26,720 darkness to be like, Nah, I'm about to cuss you out anyway. 512 00:37:26,720 --> 00:37:29,080 I don't care who you is. I don't care if God, this ain't 513 00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:30,520 you. You're not even thinking this is 514 00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:32,440 God's house. You're not even thinking this is 515 00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,760 God's tongue. He's just like, this is my 516 00:37:35,760 --> 00:37:37,600 tongue right now. And he's like, sure, go ahead. 517 00:37:43,980 --> 00:37:47,580 Who do men? This is like, Who is the king of 518 00:37:47,580 --> 00:37:49,140 glory? And then we see the king say, 519 00:37:49,140 --> 00:37:54,660 Who do men say I am? Who do men say that I am? 520 00:37:55,520 --> 00:38:00,400 Because when you know who just walked in, you understand why 521 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,640 everything is about to change. Yeah. 522 00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:08,320 When you know who walked in the room, that's why we can walk up 523 00:38:08,320 --> 00:38:10,400 here and be bold like God's about to do something. 524 00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:11,760 Because I know who walked in the room. 525 00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:15,520 That's why I can confidently say healing is in this place. 526 00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:17,080 Because I know who walked in the room. 527 00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:19,880 That's why I can say the depression you walked in with 528 00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:23,240 today, you absolutely don't have to walk out with it because I 529 00:38:23,240 --> 00:38:26,920 know who walked in the room. That's why I can declare that 530 00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,920 there will be household salvation for your family 531 00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:32,000 because I know who walked in the room. 532 00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:36,080 When you know who walks in the room and you understand why 533 00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:39,920 everything has changed, right? When you when you get on the 534 00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:42,720 airplane and it's turbulence, you're not freaked out. 535 00:38:42,720 --> 00:38:44,920 Why? Because you know who walked in 536 00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:47,840 the room with you? You know who's on the plane with 537 00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:49,760 you. When people walk out your life, 538 00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,160 you're not thinking it's the end of your life. 539 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:56,160 You're not chasing after toxicity because you know who is 540 00:38:56,160 --> 00:39:01,720 with you. It is important in 2026, if 541 00:39:01,720 --> 00:39:05,080 we're talking about the King of Glory, that you know who the 542 00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:08,080 King of glory is. You know who's going to bring 543 00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,160 your blessing? You know who's going to heal 544 00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:13,080 you. No, no, it's not Doctor Tom. 545 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,000 It's the Lord. It's the King of glory. 546 00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,600 It wasn't your great driving skills. 547 00:39:18,720 --> 00:39:21,120 It was the Angel army protecting you. 548 00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:25,480 Wasn't you that saved your marriage. 549 00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:28,120 It was the loving God who saved your marriage. 550 00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:32,480 It wasn't the IT wasn't you or it wasn't your smarts who saved 551 00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,880 your child. It was the saving grace of God 552 00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:39,560 who saved your child. It is important to know The Who. 553 00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:44,520 How am I going to make it without this crutch? 554 00:39:44,720 --> 00:39:47,040 That means you don't know who's in your life. 555 00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:53,600 You don't know once he walks in your life, you don't need no 556 00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:56,360 vices. You don't need no crutches 557 00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:03,200 today. I'm not here arguing a point, 558 00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:07,520 people. I'm not here to teach framework. 559 00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:09,800 I'm not here to give you any steps today. 560 00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:14,960 I'm not here to give you instructions today. 561 00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:21,560 I'm actually here to help us understand The Who. 562 00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:30,840 The first Sunday of this year we going to understand who Matthew 563 00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:34,480 1613, he says. Who do they say that I am? 564 00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:42,320 And then he says, watch this before he gave keys or 565 00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:46,480 authority, before he announced keys or authority, he announced 566 00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:49,120 keys and authority to the one who knew. 567 00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:52,880 Who he was, because he said you don't got keys if you don't know 568 00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,360 The Who. You don't got authority if you 569 00:40:55,360 --> 00:41:01,440 don't know The Who. So he asked this question. 570 00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:05,840 So what if I told you that everything God is going to do 571 00:41:05,840 --> 00:41:10,720 today, today, and beyond is going to depend on if you know 572 00:41:10,720 --> 00:41:19,880 who? Scripture does not introduce him 573 00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:24,040 here as helper or motivator or consultant. 574 00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:28,840 It introduced him in Psalm 24 as the Lord of hosts. 575 00:41:29,160 --> 00:41:34,520 He is the King of glory. That title, the Lord of Hosts, 576 00:41:34,640 --> 00:41:41,160 is in Scripture over 250 times. Host means armies, ordered, 577 00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:45,320 ranks, forces, powers. He is the one who commands 578 00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:48,840 angelic hosts, Psalm One O 320 says. 579 00:41:49,120 --> 00:41:53,200 He is the one that is the heavenly council, Daniel 710 580 00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:57,640 says. And he is ruling all unseen 581 00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:02,480 authorities. Colossians 116 says this is 582 00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:06,120 command authority, this is governmental authority. 583 00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:10,520 When the Lord of hosts enters a space, he does not negotiate 584 00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:13,160 with resistance. He establishes rule. 585 00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:18,200 He he does not negotiate with resistance or rebellion. 586 00:42:18,440 --> 00:42:23,000 He establishes rule. The Lord of Hosts is not just a 587 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:26,800 fighter, he is a governor. You can put the title slide up. 588 00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:30,240 There will be no more slides. The Lord of Hosts is not just a 589 00:42:30,240 --> 00:42:34,560 fighter, he is a governor. That's why Scripture holds two 590 00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:38,600 names together without contradiction, the Lord of Hosts 591 00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:46,280 and the Prince of Peace. If, if, if you want peace, you 592 00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:54,040 got to let him be Lord of Hosts. My peace does not come without a 593 00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:58,120 battle being won. But the battle's not mines, it's 594 00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:02,800 the Lord's. He wages war against what steals 595 00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:06,080 peace, so peace can rule within covenant people. 596 00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:14,520 When he governs, anxiety loses authority, striving expires and 597 00:43:14,520 --> 00:43:22,280 peace becomes the the arbiter. Watch this because he rules some 598 00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:24,760 of you praying for peace. What if I told you don't got to 599 00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:28,960 pray for peace, you just got to let him rule, right? 600 00:43:28,960 --> 00:43:31,880 So you want to do the traditional religious thing 601 00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:33,920 because it feels funny not praying. 602 00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:37,600 No pray. But the Bible tells us exactly 603 00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:40,640 how to pray. Our Father who art in heaven, 604 00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:42,480 hallowed be thy name, thy Kingdom come. 605 00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:47,240 You are to pray with Thanksgiving and with praise. 606 00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:50,920 Watch this and knowing who. That's why he says pray like 607 00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:53,680 this. Our Father who art in heaven, 608 00:43:54,880 --> 00:44:02,640 hallowed be thy who exactly how you praying and don't know who 609 00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:07,240 watch this Who is at the top of the prayer. 610 00:44:08,720 --> 00:44:13,280 So no wonder you can't pray past two minutes because you don't 611 00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:17,360 know who and you if you don't know who, you ain't praying with 612 00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:22,440 gratitude. He fights so his people can 613 00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:25,000 rest. Now watch this. 614 00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:26,600 I'm going to brag on him for a bit. 615 00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:31,560 This is the God who part sees when his people were trapped 616 00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:35,000 enemy behind them, water in front of them. 617 00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:39,320 The Lord drove the sea back by a strong E wind and the waters 618 00:44:39,320 --> 00:44:42,720 were divided. Exodus 1421 through 22. 619 00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:47,120 No debate, no resistance. Creation obeys when the host 620 00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:50,320 speaks. OK that wasn't good enough. 621 00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:54,000 He shuts lions mouths. Watch this. 622 00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:57,760 Daniel never fought. Watch this devil. 623 00:44:57,800 --> 00:45:03,600 Daniel rested in the lions. Then Daniel 622 says My God sent 624 00:45:03,600 --> 00:45:07,840 his Angel and shut the lions mouths. 625 00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:14,080 What was meant to devour him was restrained by authority. 626 00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:17,280 Yeah, he dries up. Hemorrhaging. 627 00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:22,200 A woman spent 12 years bleeding. Money was gone, strength was 628 00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:28,920 gone, Hope was gone. But she touched authority and 629 00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:32,320 immediately her flow of blood dried up. 630 00:45:32,320 --> 00:45:35,440 Watch this. Her blood didn't gradually dry 631 00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:38,800 up, and it did not eventually dry up. 632 00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:46,800 Her blood immediately dried up. Because when the host arrives, 633 00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:51,320 long standing issues lose permission to remain. 634 00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:59,560 He takes out 185,000 soldiers in one night. 635 00:46:00,640 --> 00:46:02,920 Watch this. Judah did not fight. 636 00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:07,080 Hezekiah prayed. Watch this. 637 00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:11,320 The Bible says that he got a letter and he took the letter 638 00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:13,080 and laid it in front of the Lord. 639 00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:17,080 He didn't write them back. He didn't call a meeting. 640 00:46:17,200 --> 00:46:19,600 He took the letter, He took the threat. 641 00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:24,400 It was psychological warfare and he took the letter and he laid 642 00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:27,680 it before the Lord. Bible says that night the Angel 643 00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:33,360 of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the 644 00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:38,120 Assyrians. Watch this second Kings 1935. 645 00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:41,920 Here it is one night, 1 Angel, one outcome. 646 00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:46,640 When the Lord of hosts takes over, empires collapse quietly. 647 00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:52,280 Yeah, he he sends demons running. 648 00:46:52,720 --> 00:46:57,080 When Jesus stepped into regions under spiritual oppression, the 649 00:46:57,080 --> 00:47:00,160 demons begged him, saying send us. 650 00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:03,400 There was no argument, there was no delay. 651 00:47:03,720 --> 00:47:08,080 Principalities recognized higher authority immediately. 652 00:47:09,240 --> 00:47:13,160 No arguing. He breaks chains and opens 653 00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:18,240 prisons while the church prayed. Suddenly there was a great 654 00:47:18,240 --> 00:47:21,720 earthquake and immediately all the doors were opened and 655 00:47:21,840 --> 00:47:24,360 everyone's bonds were unfastened. 656 00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:26,840 Acts 1626. It's in the Bible. 657 00:47:27,160 --> 00:47:32,800 Watch this change broke No key, no guard, no resistance. 658 00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:37,000 He does not just fight battles, he governs realms. 659 00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:41,520 He doesn't just defeat enemies. He doesn't just heal bodies. 660 00:47:41,720 --> 00:47:45,560 He doesn't just silence devils. He establishes order. 661 00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:50,520 The Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. 662 00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:56,080 When he shows up, storms obey, chaos calms and fear exits 663 00:47:56,320 --> 00:48:02,320 because his rule produces rests. This is a covenant reality, you 664 00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:05,000 guys. And the Lord will fight for you, 665 00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:07,920 and you shall hold your peace. Watch this. 666 00:48:08,240 --> 00:48:10,880 You shall hold your peace. I can't hold nothing. 667 00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:15,680 I don't got I gave it to you. Now we learned, he gave us 668 00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:17,200 peace. Now we're learning. 669 00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:20,640 He said hold on to it. While I fight, you just hold 670 00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:24,200 peace. While I go after your kids, you 671 00:48:24,200 --> 00:48:27,320 hold peace. While I while I heal your Mama, 672 00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:31,000 you hold your peace. While I work out the financial 673 00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:32,960 breakthrough, you hold your peace. 674 00:48:33,240 --> 00:48:36,320 While I work out building permits, you hold your peace. 675 00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:39,840 While you waiting for your spouse, you hold your peace. 676 00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:43,360 While the devil torment your uncle, your Mama, your daddy, 677 00:48:43,520 --> 00:48:46,320 your Co worker, you hold your peace. 678 00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:50,240 When he governs, you stop fighting what he already 679 00:48:50,240 --> 00:49:02,360 decided, you stop striving for what he already secured and you 680 00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:05,120 stop reacting to what he already rules over. 681 00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:09,360 Peace wasn't the feeling, peace was the evidence. 682 00:49:13,640 --> 00:49:15,840 Peace is evidence that he's with me. 683 00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:20,200 So what is when it when people can't see peace on your life? 684 00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:22,320 What is the evidence? What is it proving? 685 00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:25,360 What is it showing? You wonder why PT sometime look 686 00:49:25,360 --> 00:49:26,840 at y'all and say, man, you should smile. 687 00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:30,760 I remember my pastor told me back home, he could tell me this 688 00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:31,800 right? He's big man. 689 00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:33,480 He was, he was he not big man? Let me. 690 00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:36,080 He was tall, lean man, big, tall man. 691 00:49:36,080 --> 00:49:38,120 OK. He, he, he was a part of the 692 00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:40,560 Black Panther Party. And I remember he would allow me 693 00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:42,960 to come up and do certain things in the service. 694 00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:46,480 And I remember one time I came off the platform and and I stood 695 00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:47,880 next. To him and he whispered, he 696 00:49:47,880 --> 00:49:51,520 said, bro, you know, he said, he said, Terence, you got a smile. 697 00:49:51,760 --> 00:49:55,920 You're a tall black man. I know a lot of y'all won't 698 00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:57,280 understand that. That's that's OK. 699 00:49:57,280 --> 00:49:59,240 That's totally right. He didn't say that to you, he 700 00:49:59,240 --> 00:50:02,240 said it to me. But I understood something. 701 00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:09,000 This, this is opening up the gates. 702 00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:14,280 This is lifting my head. You, you thought church was all 703 00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:18,120 about you, but if you saved and you got the King of glory in you 704 00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:20,560 and you looking at me all stank face in front. 705 00:50:20,680 --> 00:50:23,120 Now I'm just talking about the look I'm telling you here. 706 00:50:23,120 --> 00:50:25,440 So when you go out there, you can have a whit. 707 00:50:25,440 --> 00:50:34,100 Let your light shine. You are the salt of the earth. 708 00:50:34,100 --> 00:50:35,860 Don't you shouldn't look like you eating salt. 709 00:50:38,020 --> 00:50:46,160 Hallelujah, right? We are fishers of men, and when 710 00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:49,480 people look at you, it should look like you know something. 711 00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:54,360 When people look at you and they follow you, they should be 712 00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:57,080 curious about why you so different. 713 00:50:57,240 --> 00:50:59,080 Watch this. You're not different because 714 00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:01,160 you're smiling. You're different because you 715 00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:06,840 keep smiling. Why you? 716 00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:09,760 You not different because you got up once you got you 717 00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:14,320 different because you keep getting up right that that that 718 00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:18,280 people are watching you. So when I see you Sunday after 719 00:51:18,280 --> 00:51:21,480 Sunday and we got to say, hey, the Lord is here. 720 00:51:24,720 --> 00:51:28,320 It might seem like control for some people, but no, this is the 721 00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:32,880 good news. You tell me what your face look 722 00:51:32,880 --> 00:51:36,080 like when you get a phone call about some unexpected money. 723 00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:41,840 What's your face look like when somebody walk up to you and 724 00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:44,200 you've been you've been wondering if your outfit cute or 725 00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:47,320 if you cute today and somebody grace you with a compliment and 726 00:51:47,320 --> 00:51:49,040 say, wow, you look beautiful today. 727 00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:57,520 You don't right to this. When you when you right, your 728 00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:00,040 face should not look like the Dead Sea. 729 00:52:01,280 --> 00:52:04,120 Oh, Hallelujah, Hallelujah. I see some people like trying to 730 00:52:04,120 --> 00:52:06,280 straighten their face. Nah, Nah, Nah, you, you right. 731 00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:09,560 You got to keep doing it because some of it is your resting face. 732 00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:12,160 I'm trying to help you. It's your resting face. 733 00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:15,840 So watch, watch this your face. That's your habit. 734 00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:18,920 That's how your face rests. So watch this. 735 00:52:19,080 --> 00:52:22,560 I'm not saying you mean, but your resting face look mean. 736 00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:28,920 And if your face is the gate to your heart, then, then, then you 737 00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:32,360 going to have to practice so you can lift up. 738 00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:36,720 You got to lift up the gates because you've been, you've 739 00:52:36,720 --> 00:52:41,400 allowed yourself watch this for too long to rest in sorrow, 740 00:52:43,720 --> 00:52:44,680 right? You, you, you. 741 00:52:44,680 --> 00:52:47,920 You can tell when someone's not thinking about something good. 742 00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:51,040 You can tell when someone's thinking about something dirty 743 00:52:52,240 --> 00:52:54,160 right there. Sometimes my wife might be on 744 00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:56,440 the phone or I'll be on the phone and she'll start smiling 745 00:52:56,440 --> 00:52:58,520 because she texted and I'll be like what you smiling for? 746 00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:02,360 And then she'll tell me, right? I can tell she's looking at 747 00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:06,960 something and her joy on her face is making me want to 748 00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:10,880 experience what she's experiencing, right? 749 00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:12,240 Did anybody ever show you your phone? 750 00:53:12,240 --> 00:53:16,200 Look, look right, look right. And then when you show them, now 751 00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:20,320 you're laughing together. If you can make people laugh 752 00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:22,280 with you, you can make people sad with you. 753 00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:30,840 What you going to do in 2026, right? 754 00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:35,600 If God was like, if you don't smile 30 times a day, I'm taking 755 00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:40,000 your teeth. They they just going to fall out 756 00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:43,160 on #29 time up. Teeth just fall out. 757 00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:54,840 Our teeth just fall out right? If you don't got no teeth, even 758 00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:58,880 more reason to smile. Show me what you're working 759 00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:04,400 with. If you got one tooth, man, open 760 00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:14,430 up the gates. Peace was not the feeling, it 761 00:54:14,430 --> 00:54:17,430 was the evidence, your joy. Watch this. 762 00:54:17,790 --> 00:54:21,510 Peace is the fruit, the evidence of the spirit. 763 00:54:23,630 --> 00:54:25,590 So this year is not about doing more. 764 00:54:25,590 --> 00:54:32,280 Guys, calm down. Watch this. 765 00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:36,520 Prepared people have already set the table. 766 00:54:37,440 --> 00:54:40,520 Watch this. This is not the year to gather 767 00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:46,160 jars and barrels. This is the year he feels it. 768 00:54:52,510 --> 00:54:56,950 This is the year he feels it making room not just for his 769 00:54:56,950 --> 00:55:01,080 presence before his government. Lift up your head. 770 00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:07,960 O ye Gates, Lord of Hosts is the commander of angelic army. 771 00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:12,640 Psalm One O 320 Prince of Peace, King of Glory. 772 00:55:17,930 --> 00:55:23,810 Guys, we, we, we have the greatest gift and he's fighting 773 00:55:23,810 --> 00:55:27,050 for us. This is the year. 774 00:55:28,610 --> 00:55:36,520 Now, you can keep gathering jars and barrels, but man, he's been 775 00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:38,280 telling us to enlarge our tent page. 776 00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:42,640 He's been telling us to bring as many vessels as possible. 777 00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:46,520 He's been inviting us to give like, watch this if you are 778 00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:53,360 sower, keep sowing, but expect to reap a great harvest this 779 00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:55,600 year. Come on. 780 00:55:55,600 --> 00:55:57,440 Your servant has not been in vain. 781 00:55:58,240 --> 00:56:00,600 Your remnant seed has not been in vain. 782 00:56:00,960 --> 00:56:03,280 Watch this. You loving people has not been 783 00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:06,480 in vain. You trying over and over again 784 00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:10,000 has not been in vain. You continuously praying and 785 00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:12,840 interceding for family has not been in vain. 786 00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:15,880 I don't know what your harvest is, but it's coming. 787 00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:19,560 This year you will see aunties and uncles walk through the 788 00:56:19,560 --> 00:56:22,960 door. Watch this and when you see your 789 00:56:22,960 --> 00:56:26,480 prayer walk you through the door, don't you dare give God 790 00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:32,920 the same old dusty praise. Yo, your bucket list person is 791 00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:35,920 coming in. Your poverty is being broken 792 00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:38,840 right now. Your wholeness. 793 00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:41,720 You're not Watch this. You're not just being healed 794 00:56:41,720 --> 00:56:45,760 this year, you are being fully restored this year. 795 00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:51,040 You, you getting your strength back, you getting your bounce 796 00:56:51,040 --> 00:56:53,520 back. You're getting your clarity 797 00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:56,280 back. You're getting your hope back. 798 00:56:56,600 --> 00:56:59,000 You're getting yourself discipline back. 799 00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:02,040 You're getting healthy relationships back. 800 00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:04,760 This is the year. Watch this. 801 00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:09,080 He's going to do it and he's already been doing it. 802 00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:13,440 I've been hearing testimonies. I'm talking about no sooner than 803 00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:19,920 we walked out of here New Year's Eve, somebody text me said it's 804 00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:25,240 already happening. Come on, like, like we, we don't 805 00:57:25,240 --> 00:57:27,400 got to do nothing. We got to just keep doing what 806 00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:29,720 he's called us to do. But man, this ain't the year 807 00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:32,120 striving. This ain't the year. 808 00:57:32,120 --> 00:57:34,040 I'm just grinding. I'm just grinding. 809 00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:38,960 No, watch this, watch this. Anointed people can work hard 810 00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:45,520 and it looks effortless when you know who is your strength. 811 00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:49,080 Don't nobody hear you complaining, right? 812 00:57:49,080 --> 00:57:53,320 You still you tired, but you showed up early and they think 813 00:57:53,320 --> 00:57:55,120 you showed up early because you got energy. 814 00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:58,560 What you showed up early because they don't watch this. 815 00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:00,760 Your Co workers don't know you hosting presents. 816 00:58:03,160 --> 00:58:05,440 They like why you early? You must got some good sleep 817 00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:07,000 last night. Actually last night I didn't get 818 00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:09,880 no sleep. I went to bed. 819 00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:13,040 I don't know what time I went to bed like 3 or 230 or something. 820 00:58:13,360 --> 00:58:17,000 3:00 Went to bed laughing with my wife because she crazy funny, 821 00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:23,400 right she and then I woke up alarm around 5:00 Hop in the 822 00:58:23,400 --> 00:58:26,240 shower, hop in the cold plunge, hop in the shower, hop in the 823 00:58:26,240 --> 00:58:28,960 cold plunge. And then I go and I show I ain't 824 00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:31,120 a two hours sleep. He was here all day yesterday. 825 00:58:32,320 --> 00:58:36,560 But when you know who is carrying you, right? 826 00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:38,880 It's not you just carrying his presence. 827 00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:44,880 It's him carrying you as well. So then we can come here, man, 828 00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:50,520 pumped up like we got all kinds of sleep, but rest is from his 829 00:58:50,520 --> 00:58:52,800 presence more than it's from sleep. 830 00:58:54,040 --> 00:58:57,160 And then I know once I'm done today, I'm going to be done 831 00:58:57,160 --> 00:59:04,360 today, man, we about to step into this fast. 832 00:59:04,360 --> 00:59:07,040 This this year, this this Tuesday. 833 00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:11,400 It's called make room. Watch this. 834 00:59:11,680 --> 00:59:15,280 I prepare. I was up all night EJ preparing 835 00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:23,800 a message. Called whose house and I was 836 00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:27,080 going to deal with. I thought it was very fitting 837 00:59:27,080 --> 00:59:30,640 for going into the fast and and I'm not going to preach on it, 838 00:59:30,680 --> 00:59:34,760 obviously, but I got I got I got the slides ready and everything. 839 00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:36,840 Go in there and download the slides real quick. 840 00:59:36,840 --> 00:59:39,280 I'm not going to preach them. I just want to want to encourage 841 00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:43,480 the people. It was about lust. 842 00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:52,200 And I was like, watch this. Families were destroyed from the 843 00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:57,080 beginning because of lust and we've been tricked to think lust 844 00:59:57,320 --> 01:00:01,720 is merely about sex. Everybody in here lust in 845 01:00:01,720 --> 01:00:04,200 something. Watch this. 846 01:00:04,920 --> 01:00:16,440 You've demonized desire, but ask God if he got a problem you 847 01:00:16,440 --> 01:00:20,640 lusting him. Ask God if he has a problem. 848 01:00:20,640 --> 01:00:26,120 You lusting after your wife. Go look up what lust is. 849 01:00:27,480 --> 01:00:30,480 Watch this. Lust is the gateway for 850 01:00:30,480 --> 01:00:34,000 governing. Whatever you lust governs you 851 01:00:35,600 --> 01:00:36,920 lust. Watch this. 852 01:00:37,440 --> 01:00:43,280 Lust is not Lust does not start at glance. 853 01:00:45,360 --> 01:00:49,200 The problem is, is we start lusting what we glanced at. 854 01:00:50,520 --> 01:00:52,280 I figured out a long time ago, I'm married. 855 01:00:52,880 --> 01:00:55,840 I'm I'm not going to feel guilty because a a, a, a beautiful 856 01:00:55,840 --> 01:00:59,920 woman walked in front of me and I'm like, Oh my God, like when, 857 01:00:59,920 --> 01:01:02,560 when guys do that, Oh my God, you don't got no control. 858 01:01:02,560 --> 01:01:04,640 You came to like, wow, that's a beautiful woman and keep it 859 01:01:04,640 --> 01:01:08,600 pushing When you, you, you 50 years old. 860 01:01:08,600 --> 01:01:11,800 Why are you doing this? That's what we did to little 861 01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:13,560 kids in the movies that cover their eyes. 862 01:01:13,560 --> 01:01:14,920 Cover their eyes. Cover your eyes. 863 01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:17,360 Couldn't find a babysitter? Cover your eyes. 864 01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:23,840 No, there's lust in your heart. And whatever you lust, watch 865 01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:27,120 this. That's who's sitting on the 866 01:01:27,120 --> 01:01:31,160 throne. Some of us is food, Some of us 867 01:01:31,160 --> 01:01:35,480 you lusting after attention. Lust deals with you. 868 01:01:35,640 --> 01:01:37,880 You. You're longing to the point of 869 01:01:37,880 --> 01:01:43,000 wanting to possess. I want that car so bad. 870 01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:46,400 You're lusting after it. You can't stop thinking about 871 01:01:46,400 --> 01:01:49,080 it. And then sometimes lust leads to 872 01:01:49,080 --> 01:01:51,120 manipulation because you want it so bad. 873 01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:56,360 And we don't realize how much lust separates us from God. 874 01:01:57,320 --> 01:02:01,760 Watch this, watch this. The tree was not evil. 875 01:02:02,600 --> 01:02:06,440 Watch this. We fail because she lusted after 876 01:02:06,440 --> 01:02:16,100 something good. It says she looked at the tree 877 01:02:16,460 --> 01:02:20,720 and saw that it was good for wisdom. 878 01:02:21,560 --> 01:02:24,560 It was good. Yes, they look good. 879 01:02:25,040 --> 01:02:28,400 Yes, that makes you feel good. Yes, that's Mormon. 880 01:02:28,480 --> 01:02:33,200 Yes, it's it's good. But the Bible says everything 881 01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:37,920 good. It might be permissible, but 882 01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:44,640 it's not beneficial. And I'm like, whoa, if we don't, 883 01:02:44,640 --> 01:02:47,680 if we're going to host and if he's going to host us and if 884 01:02:47,680 --> 01:02:49,920 we're going to stay prepared, watch this. 885 01:02:50,080 --> 01:02:54,240 It's called Watch the throne because the Bible in Proverbs 886 01:02:54,240 --> 01:02:59,120 tells us to guard our hearts. Jesus tells his disciples to 887 01:02:59,200 --> 01:03:00,480 keep watch. Watch. 888 01:03:00,520 --> 01:03:01,840 And what? Pray. 889 01:03:03,720 --> 01:03:09,000 And as many of us do not watch the throne, but rather you watch 890 01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:11,640 it or not, or not something sitting on it. 891 01:03:12,520 --> 01:03:14,880 Have you ever heard people like, how did I get here? 892 01:03:16,040 --> 01:03:23,080 You wasn't watching the throne. Watch this. 893 01:03:27,480 --> 01:03:34,120 Desire is the door to governance, James. 894 01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:38,080 One tells us you desire it, but then you start lusting after it 895 01:03:39,440 --> 01:03:43,080 and then that's then you sin and sin gives have babies. 896 01:03:44,360 --> 01:03:49,040 It's a process. So we got to be careful this 897 01:03:49,040 --> 01:03:53,160 year. Maybe your maybe your issue 898 01:03:53,160 --> 01:03:57,160 ain't women, fellas. Maybe you have no sexual issue. 899 01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:02,640 Maybe it's alcohol, maybe it's money, maybe it's attention. 900 01:04:04,320 --> 01:04:07,000 Maybe you're just lusty. What the Bible says, don't. 901 01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:09,240 Covet. Send the 10 command. 902 01:04:09,240 --> 01:04:14,360 Do not covet. There's jealousy, right? 903 01:04:14,360 --> 01:04:17,960 You're not satisfied with now, so you're lusting after the 904 01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:23,960 future. But man, I've learned my wife. 905 01:04:25,560 --> 01:04:29,440 I will intentionally trust me if you if you going to stay married 906 01:04:29,440 --> 01:04:34,960 for a long time, you're going to have to actually learn how to 907 01:04:35,240 --> 01:04:39,200 engage and romanticize and all even when you don't feel like 908 01:04:39,200 --> 01:04:41,080 it. Now you don't tell your spouse 909 01:04:41,080 --> 01:04:42,520 today. I don't feel like, you know, 910 01:04:42,520 --> 01:04:44,240 cuddling with you, but I'm going to do it anyway. 911 01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:48,240 No no no no no. Watch it because the same way 912 01:04:48,240 --> 01:04:55,080 sin gets birthed, if I learn to long for herd I might start not 913 01:04:55,080 --> 01:04:59,000 feeling like it, I might not start feeling like loving. 914 01:04:59,960 --> 01:05:08,280 But I will give birth to a shift and before I know it, because I 915 01:05:08,280 --> 01:05:11,960 lusted after her. I lusted to honor her and honor 916 01:05:11,960 --> 01:05:16,000 God like I was pursuing. I lusted to be a great father. 917 01:05:18,120 --> 01:05:21,800 See, even when you say the word lust, it just sounds nasty 918 01:05:23,960 --> 01:05:25,800 because you've tied lust with sex. 919 01:05:26,720 --> 01:05:29,000 Watch this. She ate off a tree. 920 01:05:29,200 --> 01:05:38,000 She didn't have sex. So then you look at people and 921 01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:40,400 you like, oh, they nasty. They sleeping around. 922 01:05:40,400 --> 01:05:48,600 OK, what you you eat a lot. What you. 923 01:05:48,600 --> 01:05:54,800 Doing in secret, right? You lusting after a career. 924 01:05:56,480 --> 01:05:58,640 You thirsty? You want somebody to look at you 925 01:05:58,640 --> 01:06:00,400 and love you and make you feel cute? 926 01:06:00,600 --> 01:06:07,640 It's lust, focus on preparing a room for God and I promise you 927 01:06:07,680 --> 01:06:14,720 he'll fill the gaps that trauma created and boy, you'll find out 928 01:06:14,720 --> 01:06:17,560 your life is satisfied and by the time whatever it is you 929 01:06:17,560 --> 01:06:19,600 desire. Desires aren't evil. 930 01:06:20,320 --> 01:06:23,360 But that's why he says delight in me. 931 01:06:23,600 --> 01:06:25,160 I'll give you the desires of your heart. 932 01:06:25,400 --> 01:06:29,200 Seek me first. All these things will be added. 933 01:06:32,000 --> 01:06:40,600 So today, guys, you win because he's won the King of Glory. 934 01:06:40,600 --> 01:06:44,720 Come on, lift your hands. Let him in. 935 01:06:45,680 --> 01:06:49,880 Take the next 62. Take the next two minutes. 936 01:06:52,320 --> 01:06:57,080 Take the next two minutes. Right, you see, watch the 937 01:06:57,080 --> 01:07:00,200 throne. This is not the year of the Co 938 01:07:00,200 --> 01:07:04,840 host. This is the year of the host. 939 01:07:04,840 --> 01:07:06,440 God does not battle. He does. 940 01:07:06,440 --> 01:07:08,480 He is not about to wrestle with the Co host. 941 01:07:10,720 --> 01:07:13,000 Whatever is sitting on the throne, that's not of him. 942 01:07:13,560 --> 01:07:18,000 Dethrone it today. No Co host allowed. 943 01:07:19,840 --> 01:07:22,040 Come on, open your mouth, Saints, if you don't mind. 944 01:07:23,000 --> 01:07:24,800 Come on, open your mouth. We thanking the Lord. 945 01:07:24,800 --> 01:07:28,600 The King of Glory is here. Psalm 24 was a moment of praise. 946 01:07:28,600 --> 01:07:31,960 It was a moment of gratitude. It was a moment of recognition. 947 01:07:31,960 --> 01:07:34,800 It wasn't somber. It wasn't, it wasn't chill. 948 01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:38,680 No, the King of Glory is here. And that means when the king 949 01:07:38,680 --> 01:07:41,040 walks in the room, everything changes. 950 01:07:41,440 --> 01:07:43,920 Everything changes. Mindsets change. 951 01:07:44,280 --> 01:07:47,200 When the King of Glory walks in, everything changes. 952 01:07:47,200 --> 01:07:51,720 Everything shifts. Hallelujah. 953 01:07:53,160 --> 01:07:55,080 Where's the hungry and thirsty people at? 954 01:07:56,880 --> 01:08:01,440 We glorify you. We honor you, Lord Jesus, the 955 01:08:01,440 --> 01:08:05,360 King of glory. Take your seat in this place, 956 01:08:05,360 --> 01:08:08,440 Lord God. Take your seat in this place, 957 01:08:08,440 --> 01:08:11,280 Lord God. Take your seat in our lives. 958 01:08:11,280 --> 01:08:18,960 Lord God, come on, come on, come on. 959 01:08:18,960 --> 01:08:27,840 If you unashamed. Come on, do we have any 960 01:08:27,840 --> 01:08:31,240 worshippers in here? Do we have any worshippers in 961 01:08:31,240 --> 01:08:35,800 this place? Do we have any worshippers? 962 01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:45,399 We worship you. Come on, Do we have any 963 01:08:45,399 --> 01:08:47,359 worshippers? We worship you. 964 01:08:57,000 --> 01:08:59,240 Thank you so much for tuning into this week's sermon. 965 01:08:59,240 --> 01:09:02,600 We pray you were challenged, equipped and encouraged. 966 01:09:02,840 --> 01:09:04,800 Make sure to follow us on all platforms. 967 01:09:04,800 --> 01:09:08,840 That's love quest Intl church. We out here for real. 968 01:09:08,960 --> 01:09:11,240 We're really doing it. That's Facebook, Instagram, 969 01:09:11,240 --> 01:09:14,439 YouTube and TikTok. You can find us anywhere you 970 01:09:14,439 --> 01:09:16,760 need to find us. But until next time, you know 971 01:09:16,760 --> 01:09:18,960 the drill. You know the motto, get your 972 01:09:18,960 --> 01:09:21,200 love fixed man and we'll see y'all real soon.