1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:03,440 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:06,560 Church podcast where we seek to love all nations, equip the 3 00:00:06,560 --> 00:00:09,520 church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all. 4 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:13,040 We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever 5 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:15,760 you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get 6 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:18,440 your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe 7 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:20,640 some tea, and get ready to receive. 8 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:22,680 It's go time. Let's get into it. 9 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:25,480 Some people might be asking what are y'all doing? 10 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:30,720 Well, I'm doing the same thing you do at a ball game or a Super 11 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:35,480 Bowl party or at the club. You know, I mean, I told people 12 00:00:35,480 --> 00:00:40,760 that all the time I went in when I partied, like all the way in. 13 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:44,680 So this guy, you see up here, he saw me out in the world in the 14 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:47,400 club. He saw me smoking and drinking 15 00:00:47,400 --> 00:00:50,360 and turning up and all that good old stuff. 16 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:56,120 This, that guy. And then one day something 17 00:00:56,120 --> 00:01:00,720 happened in my heart and I didn't let religion in. 18 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:08,440 Religion is not going to do it. But I did let the only one that 19 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:12,720 could actually fix me and heal me. 20 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:16,600 And then the scales was removed. You can sit down. 21 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:19,480 You can sit down. Scales was removed from my eyes, 22 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:27,200 and now I can see. Yeah. 23 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:38,160 All right. When I was when I was blind, you 24 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:40,120 couldn't tell me nothing. I thought you was tripping. 25 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:44,520 I thought you was blind. My grandma would pray for me and 26 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:46,960 she'd be singing and doing all that good old stuff. 27 00:01:46,960 --> 00:01:48,440 And I'm like, Grandma, calm down. 28 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:53,240 And then when I let the same Jesus that was making her happy 29 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:55,480 in my heart, I was like, I get it now. 30 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:01,440 And so I'm glad my children will have an inheritance of faith, an 31 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:05,960 inheritance of praise. I'm glad that our children will 32 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:08,680 grow up. Not, not. 33 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:15,400 This world is getting crazier, OK? 34 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:25,960 And I'm just like for who I am. I don't know about you, but I am 35 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:34,800 way too unique to have just come out of a boom or like, you're 36 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:41,960 too intelligent. You look too good to just be 37 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:44,680 passing through every person here. 38 00:02:45,080 --> 00:02:48,240 It's created with intent. You can be seated worship team. 39 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:56,960 We've been in this series called the good fight, say good fight 40 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:04,400 of finishing faith. And we started this like, I 41 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:06,200 don't know, I think it was like 3 weeks ago. 42 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:14,520 And here's the idea, not everybody finishes their life 43 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:19,480 strong. There's many great men, many 44 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:23,520 great women that. Seemingly have it all together 45 00:03:23,520 --> 00:03:28,160 for a while and then the end comes and the only thing that 46 00:03:28,160 --> 00:03:30,840 they can leave. Behind is some monetary things 47 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:32,720 and some. Tips on how to keep it and make 48 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:37,320 it but they end empty and broken. 49 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:45,680 And a lot of our goals in this world is all monetary and. 50 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:48,160 If we get those monetary things, then I have. 51 00:03:48,160 --> 00:03:53,040 Peace I have, happiness I have, I feel good, all these different 52 00:03:53,040 --> 00:03:58,240 things, but deep inside the crevices of our soul there are 53 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:04,280 some places that cannot be filled without the one who died, 54 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:12,560 lived, rose to fill them. So when I. 55 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:19,040 Am talking today underneath. It all, we're talking legacy, 56 00:04:20,279 --> 00:04:22,320 like just in a little. Bit we got about 12 people 57 00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:24,880 getting baptized. One of those are my Yeah. 58 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:32,000 OK, good, good, good. You know what I mean? 59 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,360 That water represents someone being born again. 60 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:37,040 I get I get you born a certain way. 61 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:39,320 I get that you think a certain way. 62 00:04:39,320 --> 00:04:41,480 I get you a raised a certain way. 63 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:44,720 But there is a thing called being born again. 64 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:47,480 I get the. Privilege Today, out of the 12 65 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:52,440 people to baptize my son, my son is getting ready to do some cool 66 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:55,840 things with his life. And he was just like. 67 00:04:55,840 --> 00:05:01,320 Dad, like I got baptized before and you know, I kind of 68 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:06,760 understood concept before, but watching him coming to his own, 69 00:05:07,920 --> 00:05:11,440 nothing pushed on him just. This ain't because he a pastor's 70 00:05:11,440 --> 00:05:13,880 kid. This. 71 00:05:13,880 --> 00:05:17,440 Brother loves the Lord, He's sending me an encouragement. 72 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:22,040 Then we had. A young man up here. 73 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:24,920 Stand up real quick, Adam. Hold her. 74 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,200 You 23? I didn't know an Adam since he 75 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:30,480 was old, 1516, something like that. 76 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:32,000 You can sit back there. I just want them to see you. 77 00:05:32,000 --> 00:05:36,240 He came up here and man. We should be celebrating. 78 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:39,240 Young men. Who had a young. 79 00:05:39,280 --> 00:05:44,120 Age and doing what he. Does to just be rooted in the 80 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:47,840 Lord and just like yes. I have some young man stuff 81 00:05:47,840 --> 00:05:50,840 going on, but there's. Something bigger than me. 82 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:54,000 This young. Man is going to go out there and 83 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,880 do some great work, not because he's dope. 84 00:05:56,920 --> 00:05:58,360 Not because he's handsome. Not. 85 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:02,200 Because it's because he know who's he who's he is. 86 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:06,280 And he's going to be able to. Help a lot of people. 87 00:06:06,720 --> 00:06:09,440 In the soul realm of their lives. 88 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:19,760 Many men say many men. Wish that. 89 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:21,080 No, no, I'm not going. I'm not going to. 90 00:06:26,920 --> 00:06:28,640 All right, Stop. Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. 91 00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:29,400 Don't do it. Don't do it. 92 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:30,920 Don't do it. We got to stay focused today, 93 00:06:30,920 --> 00:06:34,040 OK? We got to stay focused. 94 00:06:34,840 --> 00:06:44,560 We got to stay focused. Here we go. 95 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:49,640 Here we go. Many men do not finish or women 96 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:55,360 do not finish well. Because they do not. 97 00:06:55,360 --> 00:07:02,720 Survive the storms of life. They manage but never mature. 98 00:07:03,600 --> 00:07:10,040 They elevate but never evolve. Life is not merely about 99 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:15,200 survival of the fittest, but it's about maturing in my 100 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:19,440 witness. Realize it or not, follow Jesus 101 00:07:19,520 --> 00:07:24,280 or not, God has been good to everybody. 102 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:31,320 Failure is not failing God, but failure, true failure, is 103 00:07:31,320 --> 00:07:36,080 robbing yourself from experiencing the unconditional, 104 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:39,760 immovable, unbreakable love of God. 105 00:07:42,040 --> 00:07:45,760 Why? In order to fulfill self 106 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:53,440 gratifying life and goals, I would say a selfish life is a 107 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:56,960 failure's life. You can look good. 108 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:02,440 All the way to the end. You can be rich at the end, you 109 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:07,960 can impress people until the end, you can be popular until 110 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:10,720 the end. You could be all these things to 111 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:14,040 man and for yourself, family and friends. 112 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:20,800 But at the end, in the the solitude of your last moments in 113 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:27,560 this life, it will be you and God the creator conversations 114 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:31,760 reflecting on the opportunities of your lifetime. 115 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:37,840 You will sit there on your bed. What did I do? 116 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:42,440 What should I've done? Did I live out the fullness of 117 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:45,920 my life? Did I give more than I took? 118 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:52,480 Did I love or did I hate and did I live free or did I live found? 119 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:58,160 Did I live with masks on, hiding my brokenness and my pain that 120 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:02,960 were camouflage With the things man approves as success? 121 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:09,640 Everything we're working for, striving for in this life, there 122 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:15,320 will be a day that none of it matters when you on your bed, if 123 00:09:15,480 --> 00:09:19,640 health is failing and if your body is weakening and when 124 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:25,320 people are. Visiting you when you become a 125 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:35,680 dependent again, You nor. I once sprinkled in the dialogue 126 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:40,680 of our last days conversations of warnings. 127 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:45,680 Towards friends and family and. Children that were leaving 128 00:09:45,680 --> 00:09:51,680 behind warnings like son if I could have did. 129 00:09:51,680 --> 00:09:57,520 This I would do this differently or should have did this 130 00:09:57,520 --> 00:10:02,920 differently. The joys of your last moments 131 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:07,960 are laced and should be laced with the fruits of God's lips, 132 00:10:08,160 --> 00:10:11,880 saying, Well done thy good. And faithful son. 133 00:10:12,920 --> 00:10:15,080 You. Fought the good fight, you 134 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:20,360 fought the good fight. You persevered, not merely 135 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:24,440 survived. You finished. 136 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:27,880 Not just. Went with the wind or? 137 00:10:27,960 --> 00:10:30,680 Fulfilled your family's dreams for you. 138 00:10:31,240 --> 00:10:36,840 You passed on heavenly baton. What's left in your children's 139 00:10:36,840 --> 00:10:40,120 hands is an advanced work of the. 140 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:44,600 Father's purpose and plans. You've left trails. 141 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:48,720 Of victory or two victory. You've left inspiration to 142 00:10:48,720 --> 00:10:53,800 pursue me, and you've left evidence that I am alive. 143 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,840 We need finishers, not mere fighters. 144 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:01,600 We need more than conquerors, not mortal cowards. 145 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:05,240 We need sons and daughters, not orphans and slaves. 146 00:11:05,560 --> 00:11:08,800 We need the redeemed of the Lord, not the religious with 147 00:11:08,800 --> 00:11:11,320 swords. And we need the vibrant, 148 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:18,200 vigorous, vivacious, valiant and victorious to rise up and take a 149 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:19,440 stand. In a. 150 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:23,080 Falling World, Dark World. That's. 151 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:28,440 Looking for hope? We need fighters fighting to the 152 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:38,520 finish, not fighting to avoid the fumble, living a life to 153 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:44,560 make sure you don't see me broken, bruised or not 154 00:11:44,560 --> 00:11:48,160 successful. So I must live this certain way 155 00:11:48,400 --> 00:11:54,640 to assure that y'all know that I'm the man or y'all, No, I'm 156 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:56,920 not a failure. Every man in here. 157 00:11:56,920 --> 00:12:00,400 Is a failure if your soul is failing. 158 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:07,720 Wait, wait. Like like like, like, let's just 159 00:12:07,720 --> 00:12:13,360 put religion aside. Do you love yourself leaving 160 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:19,480 yourself in pieces? When are you going to attend to 161 00:12:19,560 --> 00:12:24,680 you? And there's some stuff. 162 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:31,480 Money came by, sex came by, a bad one on your hip came by. 163 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:35,320 A mansion came by. You can be in the biggest house 164 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:41,560 in the world, still on the inside with the tiniest, tiniest 165 00:12:42,760 --> 00:12:47,880 sense of worse and purpose. Question if you strip away 166 00:12:48,080 --> 00:12:52,600 everything you have. Who are you? 167 00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:59,120 We're in a very busy world. And the key of the. 168 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:04,120 Enemy's success is to keep us busy long enough to where even 169 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:07,160 when we got time, it ain't no more time left. 170 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:15,120 To get me through my younger days, my vibrant days, all the 171 00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:20,200 way to the days I become a little dependent again and I 172 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:23,560 look back and say, man, if I would have been able to do. 173 00:13:23,560 --> 00:13:25,880 This I would have did this differently. 174 00:13:31,680 --> 00:13:36,120 We see Timothy here. Telling us to be alert to all 175 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:41,120 these things and overcome every form of evil. 176 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:43,240 Overcome it. It's coming. 177 00:13:43,480 --> 00:13:48,920 Overcoming carry in your heart. The passion of your calling. 178 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:51,520 As a church planter and evangelist. 179 00:13:51,560 --> 00:13:55,120 And fulfill your ministry or. Carry the passion of your 180 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:58,280 calling. As a blank, whatever it. 181 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:01,640 Is you don't got to serve in the church, you don't got to be a 182 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:05,320 pastor, you don't got to be a worship leader, you don't got to 183 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:09,440 work in the parking lot. Wherever you are, there's a 184 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:12,360 calling. And my question is, is do you 185 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:16,600 only serve people or need people ask customers and opportunities, 186 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:18,920 or do you know the person you're doing business with? 187 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:21,840 They're broken and they need a little bit of hope, a little bit 188 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:24,680 of positivity. And they need somebody to look 189 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:26,360 past what they can offer you and. 190 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:31,680 They need somebody to hear the cry in their soul that they may 191 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:36,720 be too scared and too prideful to say I really need some help. 192 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:48,160 I want my son, my daughter to go on and do great things, but 193 00:14:48,160 --> 00:14:52,200 never be bound to things. Never be bound. 194 00:14:52,200 --> 00:14:56,680 No, the NBA, if that's where you make his son, will not be your 195 00:14:56,680 --> 00:15:00,600 identity. Too many professional athletes 196 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:02,920 absolutely lose. Their mind when the lights shut 197 00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:04,800 off and they're not the man or the woman, no. 198 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:11,640 More Why is that? Partially it's us, our fault. 199 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:15,480 Because we make people idols and we no longer need them. 200 00:15:16,280 --> 00:15:21,040 Then they're left looking for someone to see those wounds they 201 00:15:21,040 --> 00:15:23,480 never dealt with. Because we put band aids on 202 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:26,840 them. We say you're the man, but not. 203 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:29,480 Really. You're. 204 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:32,160 Broken. You lost your children. 205 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:36,440 Your marriage sucks. Can we just say it like that? 206 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:44,600 You're mean. You're angry all the time. 207 00:15:44,600 --> 00:15:47,720 You're bitter. You're snappy, quick, tempered. 208 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:50,920 Have you? Ever seen quick tempered people? 209 00:15:51,440 --> 00:15:53,680 Have you ever if you're a quick tempered person, have you ever 210 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:55,320 stopped and be like, that's not OK. 211 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:59,480 You ever know you know somebody with a nasty attitude and you 212 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:01,200 probably sit next to him. Just look straight. 213 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:07,760 Don't say nothing. But man, I love me, my wife and 214 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:11,680 I, We, we, we look at we had talked last week was like, babe, 215 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:17,800 we've hit the ceiling of where our marriage can go or where our 216 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:20,440 marriage is. It's like you just get married 217 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:23,800 and you just stop growing for each other. 218 00:16:23,800 --> 00:16:27,440 You just become business partners and plan for things, 219 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:33,160 not understanding that I am to evolve for you so I can be more 220 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:37,320 to you. So let's talk about why we so 221 00:16:37,320 --> 00:16:40,920 familiar with each other, why it's OK that I look at you and 222 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:44,240 say something to you or you asked me to go get something 223 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:46,520 from downstairs and I'm like not right now. 224 00:16:47,400 --> 00:16:50,200 But when we was dating I would have did it in a snappy. 225 00:16:53,280 --> 00:16:56,200 But now we married, the effort is not the same. 226 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:59,720 The battery is not charged like it should be. 227 00:16:59,960 --> 00:17:07,119 Why would we stop right here? Because the deal is sealed. 228 00:17:07,280 --> 00:17:09,240 So we had a conversation and while. 229 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:11,920 We're fasting and praying. We're talking to each other 230 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:17,000 about how can we improve. That's what we got married for, 231 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:20,440 to partner in God. 'S work for each other. 232 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:25,760 Not so I can get some and I can get somebody to cook or look 233 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:27,000 for. Look at a baddie. 234 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:29,080 No, no, no. Let me tell you, you might have 235 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:36,320 a baddie now. She might be bad now, but it's 236 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:45,480 gonna be bad later. We know here at Love Quest 237 00:17:45,640 --> 00:18:02,840 Curves, what swerve? They swerve trying to trying to 238 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:07,320 trying to raise up a group of young people and even older 239 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:10,920 people that that's like, you know what? 240 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:17,520 When I get to the altar, I want to offer that person something 241 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:21,560 that is richer than financial security. 242 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:24,800 No, don't get me wrong. That's, that's that's good. 243 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:26,360 That's good. You need that. 244 00:18:27,240 --> 00:18:31,720 But man, yo, I do. Can only go so far. 245 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:37,520 So I told my son, look, son, look buddy, you ain't got to go. 246 00:18:37,560 --> 00:18:39,960 You ain't got to run through no girls to find one. 247 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:43,040 I'm I'll call my son nasty in a minute. 248 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:46,760 No, no, no. If she's not. 249 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:50,320 Yours, you're helping prepare her for whoever's she is. 250 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:52,920 That's a real man understanding that she's going to be 251 00:18:52,920 --> 00:18:58,040 somebody's wife. So handle her tenderly and with 252 00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:00,960 respect and honor. And even if she want to throw 253 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:05,000 herself at you, throw it back. Not you, her back. 254 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:11,720 OK, right. Just be like. 255 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:17,600 Come pick yourself. Up girl, come pick yourself up, 256 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:21,640 right? Because if you can, walk to this 257 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:29,720 altar and tell that woman's son girl I saved. 258 00:19:29,880 --> 00:19:34,120 All of this for you. You know when you get a car with 259 00:19:34,120 --> 00:19:37,640 not that many miles on it? Somebody talk to me. 260 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:41,000 Somebody talk to me. Write that new car smell. 261 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:47,880 All right, that's. Not even what we supposed to be 262 00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:53,360 talking about today, OK. Now, now listen. 263 00:19:53,360 --> 00:19:56,000 Finishing, finishing. Well in life has everything to 264 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:57,480 do with who you running the race with. 265 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:01,280 You know what I'm saying? Because I'm not just inheriting 266 00:20:01,640 --> 00:20:04,440 my my my family issues. I'm inheriting a whole nother 267 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:06,400 family issues and how many people know the? 268 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:09,040 Family of who you marry and matters. 269 00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:13,320 Right, all y'all single. People like, yeah, dude, you 270 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:19,640 don't know, OK, you better find outlook. 271 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:22,320 You don't mean you're not going to marry her, but if her like if 272 00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:24,360 everybody in her family got mental illness? 273 00:20:24,360 --> 00:20:30,240 You need to pause a little bit, you know what I'm saying? 274 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:34,800 We got to figure out if she she healed. 275 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:36,360 OK? OK. 276 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:39,040 If there's anybody in here dating somebody that's crazy, 277 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:41,760 I'm. I'm gonna pray for you right 278 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:43,120 now. OK? 279 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:50,120 No. Because you crazy too, you know, 280 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:51,640 you know the. People that stay with the crazy 281 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:55,440 person, you crazy too. Look at your neighbor somebody. 282 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:56,400 Don't do that. Don't do that. 283 00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:01,160 I declare this over myself, and I hope you can declare this over 284 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:02,840 yourself as well. That I am. 285 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:06,880 I'm a fighter, fixed, focused and fortified, full of faith, 286 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:10,000 fanning the flames of my furnace, facing my mountains, 287 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:12,360 flourishing through. Adversity, always. 288 00:21:12,360 --> 00:21:14,560 Finishing fiercely fulfilling the call. 289 00:21:14,760 --> 00:21:18,680 Not flailing in fear, but fashion to his fit, to his will 290 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:23,000 I am fascinated with. The Father now you see the in my 291 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:27,640 OK down by bilingual we all nation cake so this. 292 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:30,360 Is the my is. For the Italian speakers and 293 00:21:30,360 --> 00:21:33,080 this one is for my Speck cake. So both of these here, that's 294 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:35,120 not an accident, OK, that's on purpose. 295 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,240 So whichever one sees the father or my father. 296 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:40,480 OK, so we're going to read. This together and you pick 297 00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:42,800 whichever one you want to pick. Got it. 298 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:45,640 Now I'm just playing that was a mistake in when I was doing my 299 00:21:45,640 --> 00:21:48,720 slides. But still pick 1K, pick one. 300 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:53,760 Don't say the my father. OK, all right, let's read. 301 00:21:54,440 --> 00:21:57,920 I am a fighter. Fixed, focused and fortified. 302 00:21:58,120 --> 00:22:02,240 Full of faith, fanning the. Flames of my furnace, facing my 303 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:06,200 mountains, flourishing through adversity, always finishing. 304 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:15,760 Fear. I am fascinated with my father. 305 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:25,720 All right, let's make some headway. 306 00:22:26,280 --> 00:22:30,400 I'm not saying that I have this all together that I haven't 307 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:37,040 made, but I am well on my way, reaching out for Christ who has 308 00:22:37,040 --> 00:22:39,640 so wondrously reached out for me. 309 00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:45,840 Friends, don't get me wrong, by no means do I count myself an 310 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:54,000 expert in all of this, but I've got my eye on the goal where God 311 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:59,720 is beckoning us onward to Jesus. I'm off and running. 312 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,600 And I'm not turning back, shout out, I'm not turning back. 313 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:05,320 Come on, say I'm not turning back. 314 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:11,680 So let's keep focus on that goal. 315 00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,000 Those of us who want everything God has. 316 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,880 For us. If any of you you have something 317 00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:21,160 else in mind, something less than total commitment, God will 318 00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:25,600 clear your blurred. Vision you'll see it yet now 319 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,800 that we're. On the right track, let's. 320 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:32,600 Stay on it. Stick with me friends, keep 321 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:36,080 track of those you see running the same course. 322 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:40,600 Headed for the same goal. There are many out there taking 323 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:44,320 other paths, choosing other goals, and trying. 324 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:48,920 To get you. To go along with them, but I 325 00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:51,520 press on towards the goal to what? 326 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:58,480 Shout it out when the supreme in heavenly prize to which God in 327 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,880 Christ Jesus is calling us where upward? 328 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:06,200 Paul is saying I am pressing towards the mark. 329 00:24:06,360 --> 00:24:10,160 Some of us in here need to be clear on the goal. 330 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:12,800 Where are you? Heading. 331 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:16,160 I'm here to tell. Every Christ follower, every 332 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:20,120 Christian, you did not become a. Christian to be religious. 333 00:24:20,840 --> 00:24:24,200 You did not become a Christian. To get a bumper sticker. 334 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:28,360 Or a T-shirt or to. Sound religious and distinct 335 00:24:28,360 --> 00:24:31,560 from your friends? This is. 336 00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:36,080 A. Faith walk with a person. 337 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:42,800 That literally lived here. He struggled here, he died here 338 00:24:42,800 --> 00:24:47,640 and he rose. And there's all kinds of 339 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:52,720 religions and there's all kind of people pursuing spirituality, 340 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:59,000 but just make sure I could stay in control here, Paul says. 341 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:02,400 Who was a murderer of Christians? 342 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:04,880 He says. No, my eyes have opened. 343 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:08,800 I press toward the goal, the goal. 344 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:12,440 To win the Supreme and Heavenly prize. 345 00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:13,920 I'm not saying look, I got goals. 346 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:15,800 I got I got I. Got some goals? 347 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,040 Right. I want nice things, I like nice 348 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:25,960 things, but my goals have like shifted. 349 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:36,560 God first, my family first, love first, and I'm gonna grind with 350 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:37,560 the best of them. I'm gonna. 351 00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:40,480 Work hard. We're gonna be well off. 352 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:45,120 We're gonna do all of that, but when, when, when, when the hit 353 00:25:45,120 --> 00:25:52,680 the. Fan, I ain't say nothing. 354 00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:55,720 Your mind's fit. It filled in the blank. 355 00:25:55,880 --> 00:26:01,560 OK. What are you rooted in? 356 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:07,320 Are you susceptible to the distractions of today? 357 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:10,720 How many? Distractions do we have today. 358 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,040 Look at me up here with three devices. 359 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:16,960 Anybody got one of these devices right? 360 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:19,680 How much time does this device get? 361 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:20,720 Are you a? Consumer. 362 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:24,480 Or a contributor to the world that is on here. 363 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,040 I would say most people don't really post and contribute. 364 00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:32,520 This platform is for you to do this and you're consuming 365 00:26:33,240 --> 00:26:36,480 opinions, fears, doubts. And. 366 00:26:36,480 --> 00:26:40,680 Some of you are making your decisions based on the trends of 367 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,200 today. Nehemiah says it this way. 368 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:46,120 I can't come down. He had this. 369 00:26:46,120 --> 00:26:50,640 Burden to build a wall around the city so that men and women 370 00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:54,120 and their. Children can return home OK. 371 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:58,000 And as he was doing the work. There was some hate. 372 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:02,560 Going on and they were trying to manipulate him into coming down 373 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,320 from the wall. He comes to this place and he 374 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:11,800 says I cannot come down now. I can't tell y'all why a young 375 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:16,680 man from Oakland, CA came here several years ago and God 376 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,800 flipped the script on me. I thought we was going home. 377 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:21,480 Now we're here, we're in the garage. 378 00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:24,480 We've been in New West, we've been in Vancouver, we've been in 379 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:27,120 Langley. Now he said, hey, I want you to 380 00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:30,600 get this abandoned building over here on this corner where 381 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:34,280 prostitution, pimping, drugs, all of that. 382 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:38,640 That's a reputation around here, Wally, and they're gonna try to 383 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:43,720 call it another name. City Center, Civic Center. 384 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:52,560 I want to call it redeemed. I'm like, I'm like God, I'm 385 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,160 just, I'm just here just to disciple people. 386 00:27:55,160 --> 00:28:00,320 And and encourage people like. Ain't no church planter just 387 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,160 gonna roll by an abandoned building and be like this. 388 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:10,160 The one we're really not that much money, right? 389 00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:14,680 We built, we, we, we started this, this community from the 390 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:18,120 ground up. So it's not like we're connected 391 00:28:18,120 --> 00:28:20,520 some huge denomination. Or no. 392 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:24,440 We, It's us. It's us. 393 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:27,240 You think we going to go next door? 394 00:28:27,240 --> 00:28:29,240 We're going to as soon as we open the doors. 395 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,160 Birds flying around. Bird. 396 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:36,520 Poop on the floor. Floor is uneven building leaning 397 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,160 like this you think? We're going to walk in. 398 00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:49,400 There after a pandemic and say this is God no that wouldn't be 399 00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:53,120 my choice but as I'm led by the spirit of. 400 00:28:53,120 --> 00:28:55,520 God. I realized that these buildings 401 00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:58,960 are less about the building and what he's doing to the building. 402 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:02,320 He wants to demonstrate that's what he's doing to you and I. 403 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,520 He is rebuilding the ruins. Everybody like the fixed thing, 404 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:08,760 A beautiful thing already done thing. 405 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:12,560 It's not too many gritty, grinding folks that's willing to 406 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,160 take something. Nasty. 407 00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,920 For the church and go in, I want you guys to walk by there on 408 00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,920 your way out and you'll see they're cutting into the ground. 409 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,880 All these stones, they're cutting into the foundation 410 00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,400 they're redoing. They're putting a new 411 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:30,800 foundation. I'm going to say it again. 412 00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:34,040 They're they're, they're laying a new foundation. 413 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,520 And in October it will be 3 years. 414 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:43,040 We've had this space and have not been in it. 415 00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:52,920 Who does that and still believe? And the enemy, how many times 416 00:29:52,920 --> 00:30:00,280 he's come and say, hey, that's not God, hey, y'all can't finish 417 00:30:00,280 --> 00:30:03,440 that. And here's my message back to 418 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:05,280 him. I can't come down. 419 00:30:05,800 --> 00:30:07,680 I can't entertain the conversation. 420 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:10,800 I won't be intimidated. I won't be moved. 421 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,720 I won't be distracted. I won't be destroyed. 422 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,440 I won't be pumped. I won't be a quitter. 423 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:23,160 I won't be the last experience we saw first Peter. 424 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,960 And he says to cast our hope, the whole of our cares and our 425 00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:33,000 anxieties, all our worries, all our concerns, once and for all. 426 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,480 What is once and for all me? Can we just get it over with? 427 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:43,800 For he cares for you affectionately and cares about 428 00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:48,520 you watchfully. So be well balanced, temperate, 429 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,840 sober of mine. Be vigilant. 430 00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:54,000 And cautious. At what? 431 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:55,880 Come on. At what? 432 00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:01,360 For that. Enemy of yours, The devil roams 433 00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:06,640 around like a lion roaring, seeking somebody to seize upon 434 00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,960 and devour. Shout out that one word, 435 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:14,880 withstand. Be firm in faith against his 436 00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:18,240 onset. Rooted, established, strong, 437 00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:22,600 immovable. And what determine knowing that 438 00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:27,280 the same identical sufferings are pointed to your brotherhood? 439 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:33,440 Did that say appointed? Did he say suffering is 440 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,280 appointed? Did he say suffering is 441 00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:41,280 appointed to all? And that's why when we come in 442 00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:45,680 here together, the power is we're all coming in here going 443 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,280 through. And. 444 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:51,400 After you have suffered a little, somebody said a little 445 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,360 while. Come on a little while. 446 00:31:56,200 --> 00:32:00,040 Why is it a little while? Because the glory is way bigger 447 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:05,200 and way longer than the little sufferings we go through. 448 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,200 The God of all grace, who imparts all blessing and favor, 449 00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:12,880 who has called you to His own eternal glory in Christ. 450 00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:17,360 Jesus will himself say himself say he takes it personal, 451 00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,880 complete. And make you what you ought to 452 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:23,520 be. I need y'all to hear this. 453 00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:27,200 If God's a finisher, you must be. 454 00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,160 If God's a finisher. You must be. 455 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:38,320 I love it because he takes it personal to finish what he 456 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:42,400 started but not only complete it here. 457 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,400 Here we go. Establish us Love Quest 458 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:52,360 establish you Richmonds establish you Lydiots Establish 459 00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:57,440 you Thompson's establish you Riveras see, that's when you. 460 00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:01,640 Speak it over yourself. God's going to establish me and 461 00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,120 he's. Going to ground you securely and 462 00:33:04,120 --> 00:33:07,880 strengthen and settle you. Not one more person in my 463 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:11,320 bloodline will walk on unstable grounds. 464 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:20,760 To him be the dominion, power, authority, rule, forever and 465 00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:22,120 ever. Amen. 466 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:24,280 We need. I need. 467 00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:30,040 Fighters on my side, fighting to finish, not fighting to avoid 468 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:35,360 fumbling. That's why he tells us to fling, 469 00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:39,800 not away, your fearless. Confidence for your fearless 470 00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:45,680 confidence carries a great and glorious compensation. 471 00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:53,880 So be patient. And endurance fully 472 00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:55,600 accomplished. Look at them. 473 00:33:55,600 --> 00:34:00,600 Words fully accomplished. Finishing does not mean 474 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:02,840 finishing. Unblemished. 475 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:04,520 Come on, talk to me. Stay. 476 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,680 Locked in, stay locked in. Finishing does not mean where do 477 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:15,280 we get that success does not have wounds. 478 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:19,719 I'm here to tell you, if you've been winning with no wounds, you 479 00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:24,480 ain't won. Am I talking to anybody in here? 480 00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:28,440 If you are winning with no wounds, you ain't won. 481 00:34:28,960 --> 00:34:37,800 What have you overcome? So I'd like to tell you that 482 00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,159 they get compensated for your suffering. 483 00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:47,960 I remember some of the stuff I used to do when I was acting a 484 00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,840 fool and I'm like. No, I can't. 485 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:54,000 Be a certain age still doing that stuff like I'm here to talk 486 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:56,000 to some of y'all today. When when is enough going to be 487 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:57,680 enough you? Two you, two you 2. 488 00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:03,440 Old you two older. You two older to still be doing 489 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:05,440 that. And we like, well, I don't 490 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:07,120 drink. You two older to be. 491 00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:10,080 Talking like that. You're too old to be so mean. 492 00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:16,200 Still, when are we tired of carrying on with childish 493 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:22,760 behavior? I don't know. 494 00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:26,400 About you But I've been too much, been through too much to 495 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,680 not get compensated for what I've been through. 496 00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:35,320 My children have sacrificed, and they've sacrificed too much to 497 00:35:35,320 --> 00:35:37,400 not seek. Do you know what a life looks 498 00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,160 like to drag our children through all that we've been 499 00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:41,520 through? Our little faith journey. 500 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:43,120 Hey kids, we're moving to Canada. 501 00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,360 Say bye to your friends and your grandma. 502 00:35:47,240 --> 00:35:49,360 And then they don't see. God do nothing. 503 00:35:52,800 --> 00:35:57,720 How dare you drag your kids to church every week and don't show 504 00:35:57,720 --> 00:36:04,280 them the benefits? How dare you ask your kids to 505 00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:07,920 serve God all the days of their life with no benefits? 506 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:11,640 How many people didn't work? A job with no benefits? 507 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:17,200 Yeah, we didn't have to. But you quickly right? 508 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:20,480 There's a season you have to do what you have to do so you can 509 00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:23,360 get. Promoted to get some benefits 510 00:36:24,880 --> 00:36:27,360 and how many people didn't have some old janky benefits? 511 00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:30,000 Benefits is benefits, but benefits ain't benefits. 512 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,920 There's something you ever had that friend with better benefits 513 00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,520 than you? You get what I'm saying? 514 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:39,640 But but, but but but but man, I'm here to tell whoever has 515 00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:41,320 been. Going through it, you're not. 516 00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:43,480 Just getting. Through it for the testimony. 517 00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,960 Let me tell you this, it ain't no testimony if there ain't no 518 00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:52,040 benefits. Testimony ain't. 519 00:36:52,240 --> 00:36:57,600 I once was lost. I'm close to being found. 520 00:37:00,200 --> 00:37:03,400 Or I once was lost, but now I'm found. 521 00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:11,160 But you found and what you found and still immature because how 522 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:17,440 many people you know got saved? But they still lost, still 523 00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:23,760 doubting, still double minded, still living wild, still on 524 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:27,800 drugs, but saved. The goal is not to get. 525 00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:34,600 Found it's the finish. OK, so, so so, so this is like 526 00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:36,400 some of us when we worship. We just sit at the. 527 00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:40,720 Cross. We worship the cross, cross, 528 00:37:40,720 --> 00:37:42,760 cross, cross and. We sit at the feet of Jesus and 529 00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:44,960 he's not there. He's there for the world. 530 00:37:46,240 --> 00:37:49,760 The cross is for the world. Resurrection is for the church. 531 00:37:49,760 --> 00:37:51,320 We supposed to be a God of people. 532 00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:55,200 We supposed to be a resurrected people. 533 00:37:55,720 --> 00:38:00,880 A confident people and when I look at Jesus. 534 00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:03,920 I said this is a group of guys before group of athletes and 535 00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:06,720 they almost, they, I could tell when I said it, they looked at 536 00:38:06,720 --> 00:38:09,400 me funny. But I pray for them today. 537 00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:19,520 I said Jesus was competitive. You say it's like competition in 538 00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:29,000 these parts is almost evil. Jesus said I came to destroy the 539 00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:31,400 works of the enemy. Lord, if it's not about. 540 00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:32,920 Competing. Why you call me overcome? 541 00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:40,200 I'm not competing with you, but I for sure am contending for my 542 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:42,800 generation. I'm contending for my family. 543 00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:45,160 I don't know. No, I don't know. 544 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:47,560 No overcomer. That's not a competitor. 545 00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:52,240 How you overcome alcoholism? How you overcome? 546 00:38:52,240 --> 00:38:56,960 Has anybody overcome something you had to fight, something you 547 00:38:56,960 --> 00:38:59,680 have to say to yourself, I am not. 548 00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:02,720 I am not that. I am this. 549 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,400 Look at Steph Curry in the Olympics. 550 00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:18,280 I'm like, that's a born again Christian out there. 551 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:22,920 And then there's some. Christians looking at him like 552 00:39:23,720 --> 00:39:26,360 we shouldn't do that. What? 553 00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:32,720 How many people you reach today? How many people want to follow 554 00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:36,080 Jesus? Because of you today, what's 555 00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:39,080 your what's your platform look like Who? 556 00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:41,360 Calling you who? Booking you to come speak? 557 00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:44,640 Who? Who Who Calling you to come 558 00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:45,800 visit? Them in the hospital. 559 00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:51,440 Who wants your autograph? Well, it's not about autographs. 560 00:39:52,720 --> 00:39:55,520 Yeah, if when they see the. Autograph. 561 00:39:55,640 --> 00:40:01,800 It reminds them of Jesus living. Epistle light of the world. 562 00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:06,680 So you get what I'm saying. Competition is not evil. 563 00:40:08,720 --> 00:40:13,840 It teaches people good lessons, No if I'm a. 564 00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:14,840 Coach here. I'm sorry. 565 00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:17,440 If I ever coach out here and your son or daughter play for my 566 00:40:17,440 --> 00:40:20,120 team, if they ain't good, they not playing. 567 00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:23,920 Some folks ain't coming back no more. 568 00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,200 I can get that already, OK? I say. 569 00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:27,280 It's all good. It's all good. 570 00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:29,520 Some of us listen. They will practice, OK? 571 00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:39,360 They will play in practice, OK? Just kidding. 572 00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,240 Just kidding. It's just our parents, man. 573 00:40:42,240 --> 00:40:45,280 Aren't these parents? Is is like instead? 574 00:40:45,280 --> 00:40:47,680 Of working with your kid and developing them and instead of 575 00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:49,520 telling them the truth. Like son, you don't know the 576 00:40:49,520 --> 00:40:53,440 place, you shouldn't play, you're not a good teammate. 577 00:40:55,240 --> 00:40:57,560 We go to the coach and Jack them up like they already not 578 00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:03,360 stressed out. I tell my son, look son, you 579 00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:06,080 should be sitting down right now with that attitude. 580 00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:10,360 I'll be mad at you as coach. If my son talked back to you and 581 00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:15,080 you don't sit him down. What does this have to do with 582 00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:19,200 anything? Jesus didn't save you just for 583 00:41:19,200 --> 00:41:24,680 you to sit on the bench and watch people die, watch people 584 00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:29,000 not know Him. We're not competing. 585 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,800 Like I'm not competing to get your friends and I'm not 586 00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:37,000 competing against your Instagram page, but I am competing for 587 00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:40,600 your soul. There is a devil that has a hold 588 00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:43,440 to you. And there's a God that wants 589 00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:45,640 you, and he's. Put me in your life. 590 00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:51,320 To contend for your. Soul to compete right and fight 591 00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:55,000 for you. We can't say we're fighting if 592 00:41:55,000 --> 00:42:03,280 we're not competing, finishing. Validates my scars and brings 593 00:42:03,280 --> 00:42:08,280 value to my wounds and my scars. On the other side of the finish 594 00:42:08,280 --> 00:42:14,400 line are my receipts. Quite frankly, I don't know how 595 00:42:14,400 --> 00:42:19,720 impactful I would be if I didn't have a story and if I didn't 596 00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:22,720 live a vulnerable life for some of y'all. 597 00:42:22,720 --> 00:42:25,720 Y'all can care less. I smoked weed and I went to jail 598 00:42:25,720 --> 00:42:27,760 and I did these days. I didn't go to jail last week, 599 00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:36,840 OK, or two weeks ago. But here's the point. 600 00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:44,920 There was a grace to go through my dark times so that I can come 601 00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:50,000 out on the other side and those that are going through it, I can 602 00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:54,000 be that voice in the end and they can see my receipts and 603 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,280 say. OK, that's just not a person 604 00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:58,000 telling me to come on, you can make it. 605 00:42:58,000 --> 00:42:59,280 And they made it through nothing. 606 00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:04,480 They got receipts that they fought the good fight of faith. 607 00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:09,040 They got receipts that they was ready to get a divorce, but they 608 00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:12,240 got on their knees and called on the name of Jesus. 609 00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:17,240 They got receipts that they were about to lose their mind, but 610 00:43:17,240 --> 00:43:20,520 they kept going and the Lord preserves him. 611 00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:26,520 They got receipts that they were blind and now they see they have 612 00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:29,040 receipts. Say I got receipts. 613 00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:41,320 My scars mean nothing if all they did was scar me. 614 00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:53,000 We need a butt God. And sometimes This is why we 615 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:58,640 love secular music. We think people are relating to 616 00:43:58,640 --> 00:44:02,320 us, but they're leaving you right in your pit because you 617 00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:06,080 want to listen to music that tell you I'm depressed and I 618 00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:08,440 know what it's like to be depressed. 619 00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:13,040 And the song ends without a but God. 620 00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:19,200 And This is why you Christians need to get behind young 621 00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:24,200 Christian artists, because they're on the front lines of a 622 00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:26,720 culture presenting an alternative. 623 00:44:26,720 --> 00:44:35,920 And God is moving in the music industry because in the end, 624 00:44:35,920 --> 00:44:43,360 it's all a worship war. It's like I don't. 625 00:44:43,360 --> 00:44:45,920 Want to be stuck there? I hung around friends and we was 626 00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:49,120 high together and we was this together and we was womanizing 627 00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:51,800 together and we was doing this and it was cool to hang around 628 00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:55,760 blind people because we was all blind and being around people 629 00:44:55,760 --> 00:45:00,320 that could see me and I had to try to see myself and I wasn't 630 00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:03,720 ready to see so I hung around people who couldn't see either. 631 00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:10,920 And This is why in this day and time, man, I beseech you 632 00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:16,240 brothers and sisters to let your light shine because there is 633 00:45:16,240 --> 00:45:21,760 such huge Gray area, because believers are starting to look 634 00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:30,800 just as lost as the world. Somebody has to be a clear sign 635 00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:36,480 leave you with a couple thoughts and the scripture of failure is 636 00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:42,000 when a person who has failed, fumble and fallen but have not 637 00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,400 been able to cash in. And when I say cash, I'm not 638 00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:49,840 talking money, but the cash in on the experience of that 639 00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:55,240 valley. I can tell you the first five 640 00:45:55,240 --> 00:46:00,560 years of my marriage, my wife and I throwing rings and 641 00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:07,560 threatening to be to to divorce and leaving for a night or using 642 00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:10,400 the child as a no. I'm going to take the daughter. 643 00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:13,480 I'm going to take the no. It was terrible. 644 00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:19,960 What I realized is some people love dysfunction, but it's not 645 00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:23,440 God's will. If I didn't go through those 646 00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:31,480 five years though standing here, I would not have the the. 647 00:46:31,480 --> 00:46:36,200 Roots. And the vigor and the, the the, 648 00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,880 the, the, the. Strength and the passion. 649 00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:43,200 That I have and I'm sorry for. Some of you, if you may not 650 00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:46,280 really understand the grace of. God and what he's brought you 651 00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:48,760 through. But we sing how we sing. 652 00:46:48,760 --> 00:46:57,080 We dance how we dance. Because he's been good, right? 653 00:46:57,080 --> 00:47:05,000 And if somebody can taste a piece of Key Lime Pie and say if 654 00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:10,840 you can express yourself over a ball game or you ready in the 655 00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:16,920 bedroom, or when you get lit, or when your favorite team score or 656 00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:21,600 you have some really good food. Then when we're worshiping and 657 00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:26,960 you capture Revelation and you agree with God is good, then you 658 00:47:26,960 --> 00:47:42,080 should give God a taste and see that God is good this next 659 00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:44,800 season. Is for the remnants. 660 00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:47,960 This next season is not for everybody. 661 00:47:48,880 --> 00:47:53,240 This next season. Is for the knee scrapers. 662 00:47:55,200 --> 00:48:00,320 The ones who have pursued God. Even when wanting to give up, 663 00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:04,000 they kept pursuing God. I'm I'm speaking to you right 664 00:48:04,000 --> 00:48:08,280 now. This next season is for the 665 00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:14,600 compensation of the pursuer, the one who wanted to give up. 666 00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:17,800 Anybody ever wanted to give up over the last few years but did 667 00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:21,200 not give up? And you're still fighting, some 668 00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:23,880 of you. God is going to do magnificent 669 00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:26,640 things in your life, not necessarily because you were 670 00:48:26,720 --> 00:48:30,320 engaged in the comeback, but you hung around the comeback. 671 00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:36,080 There's some people in here that you sown the best you can sow 672 00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:39,200 and you didn't even think that it was enough. 673 00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:43,680 And you're gonna get the reward of those that sold much because 674 00:48:43,720 --> 00:48:47,160 you believe God this next season is. 675 00:48:47,160 --> 00:48:52,560 For the remainders, the. Ones who didn't compromise under 676 00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:57,080 pressure. The one who stood in front of 677 00:48:57,080 --> 00:49:01,040 the enemy's face and still declared my God is good. 678 00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:06,240 The ones who stood in front of the pressure and said even if 679 00:49:06,240 --> 00:49:10,880 God don't come in the fiery furnace, he's still my God. 680 00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:16,800 The ones who still made disciples when they needed to 681 00:49:16,800 --> 00:49:20,280 be. Disciples, the ones who kept 682 00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:24,200 someone else in the fight when they needed strength themselves. 683 00:49:24,840 --> 00:49:28,680 This next season. Is for the not fainters, the 684 00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:33,320 ones that did not faint in well doing. 685 00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:38,760 But even in your fatigue, you said, don't faint. 686 00:49:39,280 --> 00:49:40,600 You didn't say don't be fatigued. 687 00:49:41,920 --> 00:49:48,480 Even in your fatigue, you kept. Pursuing the devil can never 688 00:49:48,480 --> 00:50:00,240 finish you because Jesus, that's finished your story the. 689 00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:08,240 Only end of my story is glory. I'll leave. 690 00:50:08,240 --> 00:50:10,960 You with this this is. God's Word. 691 00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:16,200 And when it's God's word, it's done, he said. 692 00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:21,160 I'll show up and take care of you as I promised and bring you 693 00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:23,880 back home. I know what I'm doing. 694 00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:26,440 Come on, receive it. I know what I'm. 695 00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:29,040 Doing Do you know what? He's saying when he says I know 696 00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:31,880 what I'm doing, he's saying even in your struggle. 697 00:50:32,240 --> 00:50:35,760 I know what I'm doing even with. Allowing you to go through tough 698 00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:37,640 times. I know what I'm doing. 699 00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:39,920 By permitting. You to go through this pain. 700 00:50:40,240 --> 00:50:43,160 I know what I'm. Doing I have it all planned. 701 00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:47,560 Out plans to take care of you, not abandon you. 702 00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:51,440 Plans to give you the future you've hoped for. 703 00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:53,720 Here's what. Always says to you. 704 00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:57,680 I know all about the marvelous destiny I have in store for you, 705 00:50:58,000 --> 00:51:01,520 a future planned out. Here it is in detail. 706 00:51:03,680 --> 00:51:08,840 My intention is not to harm you, but to surround you with peace 707 00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:14,280 and prosperity, and to give you a come on, a beautiful future 708 00:51:14,720 --> 00:51:19,040 glistening with hope. Turn me up a tiny bit. 709 00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:27,120 Satan has no finishing power because if he did, he would have 710 00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:35,200 kept Jesus in the grave. I'm gonna read it one more time. 711 00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:39,880 I'm gonna read it one more time. Satan has no finishing power 712 00:51:40,240 --> 00:51:44,760 because if he did, he would have kept Jesus in the grave when he 713 00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:55,640 had them down. Let let let me make it a little 714 00:51:55,640 --> 00:51:59,960 personal for you. Satan has no finishing power 715 00:52:01,720 --> 00:52:07,080 because if he did, he would have took advantage of you when you 716 00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:12,640 were down. What's that song? 717 00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:14,880 I'm standing on the grave I once was in. 718 00:52:20,200 --> 00:52:21,880 Yep, Yep, get ready. But not yet. 719 00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:33,840 Satan has no keys. Jesus took him. 720 00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:37,200 Now when the Lord said this. Sometimes God will say 721 00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:39,440 something, give me words. And I'm like, OK, what that mean 722 00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:40,120 that's. Pretty deep. 723 00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:41,600 That's pretty dope. You have to. 724 00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:43,720 Unlock this one. For me, Satan has no keys, he 725 00:52:43,720 --> 00:52:47,280 only has past codes. And in this season? 726 00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:50,520 All he is getting. Is access denied? 727 00:52:53,640 --> 00:52:55,280 OK, here you go. Here you go. 728 00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:59,160 Here you go. DNA gets transferred. 729 00:53:00,040 --> 00:53:02,800 It's literally real. It's real information in your 730 00:53:02,800 --> 00:53:07,600 blood, right? It's the oxygen iron Southern. 731 00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:10,760 City and X ordinary DNA. OK. 732 00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:16,560 DNA, you understand. So right now you can go to the 733 00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:18,600 doctor, they get your blood sample and they can tell some 734 00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:20,800 history. Just fight your blood. 735 00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:22,320 That's why we got to understand the power of the. 736 00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:25,760 Blood of Jesus, so so. Now when the enemy. 737 00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:28,760 Reads your blood or reads your life. 738 00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:30,960 He can't. That's why we got to be. 739 00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:34,640 In Jesus, because when the. Enemy, he can't mess with you in 740 00:53:34,720 --> 00:53:37,480 Jesus because he gets a access denied. 741 00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:40,960 He gets a wrong read. He's like, wait a minute, I used 742 00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:44,840 to have a pulse on the Adam but I can't find a post no more 743 00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:52,360 because I'm dead to you. This is why the enemy is banking 744 00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:55,720 on you acting like your Mama and your daddy. 745 00:53:57,040 --> 00:53:58,760 Why? Because the same behavior. 746 00:53:59,880 --> 00:54:02,000 It's a code. Oh, you talk just like your 747 00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:03,960 Mama. You talk just like your dad. 748 00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:06,200 Oh, you got fear issues just like your Mama. 749 00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:08,120 Fear issues just like your daddy. 750 00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:15,760 Oh he only has passcodes. So This is why if I am to be 751 00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:26,400 transformed by the renewing or the changing of my code, when I 752 00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:30,800 am transformed he no longer has a read on me. 753 00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:40,560 Satan has no keys, so the past slide says Satan has. 754 00:54:40,560 --> 00:54:44,400 No finishing power because Jesus has finished your story. 755 00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:52,400 Here Satan has no keys, he only has pass codes and This is why. 756 00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:57,360 God said it's finishing season. Have you, have you ever got a A? 757 00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:03,880 Debit card code changed or somebody preached security in 758 00:55:03,880 --> 00:55:05,840 your in your bank account. And what did they ask you to 759 00:55:06,040 --> 00:55:11,800 change your code? I don't, I don't know. 760 00:55:11,800 --> 00:55:16,360 We got any code changes today. And this is what the enemy's 761 00:55:16,360 --> 00:55:18,120 been trying to keep you from doing. 762 00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:21,440 He's been trying to keep you from knowing that you're an 763 00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:25,720 overcomer, that you are more than a conqueror, that you are 764 00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:29,080 the redeemed of the Lord. That's why he's wanted you to be 765 00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:34,040 stuck in fear, because he knows the fear in your bloodline, but 766 00:55:34,040 --> 00:55:36,560 he does not know the faith in your bloodline. 767 00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:42,840 Come on, talk to me, talk to me. Come on. 768 00:55:43,120 --> 00:55:45,320 God is changing your clothes right now. 769 00:55:46,120 --> 00:55:49,600 The Holy Spirit. You've been in a season where 770 00:55:49,640 --> 00:55:52,640 God has been changing your clothes. 771 00:55:55,680 --> 00:56:01,680 Come on, lift your hands up. Yeah, it's been frustrating. 772 00:56:04,680 --> 00:56:09,480 Just like when somebody preaches your privacy, you got to change 773 00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:15,040 the code. Grace always tease me because 774 00:56:15,040 --> 00:56:18,880 almost everything I need to log into got the same code. 775 00:56:20,440 --> 00:56:25,360 Even nowadays with these phones, they will offer you a very hard 776 00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:32,280 code so that the enemy can't steal, kill and destroy. 777 00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:35,760 So when God brings you the seasons where it's time to 778 00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:44,760 evolve, he's saying it's time to change the what cold me and my 779 00:56:44,760 --> 00:56:48,800 wife made it decision. We go change the codes on our 780 00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:52,920 marriage. We go talk in a different code. 781 00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:57,160 We go love, we go touch in a different code, and God is 782 00:56:57,160 --> 00:57:04,120 trying to change the codes. This is why family and friends 783 00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:08,080 sometimes get frustrated with your growth, because they no 784 00:57:08,080 --> 00:57:13,760 longer they rather know you with who you was than to acknowledge 785 00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:19,040 who you are. And This is why sometimes God 786 00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:20,360 will bring you around new people. 787 00:57:21,960 --> 00:57:24,760 You know, there's new people. There's a fresh start. 788 00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:28,960 The cool thing about going to new places is you got new. 789 00:57:29,040 --> 00:57:36,640 Codes. Some of you have to be in 790 00:57:36,640 --> 00:57:41,120 uncomfortable places because God has changed the codes. 791 00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:47,560 Do not fight the new thing. It's nothing but a code upgrade. 792 00:57:49,400 --> 00:57:51,640 I just declare over your life right now in the enemy. 793 00:57:52,720 --> 00:58:01,160 It's for sure defeated. I declare with the enemy meant 794 00:58:01,160 --> 00:58:15,520 for good, evil God is using. You have no rival, you have no 795 00:58:15,760 --> 00:58:20,120 equal. I declare the enemy is under 796 00:58:20,120 --> 00:58:26,960 your feet. You are the victor, not the 797 00:58:26,960 --> 00:58:36,320 victor, right? And we don't got to sing it now, 798 00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:39,760 but This is why they say nothing but the blood of Jesus like it's 799 00:58:39,760 --> 00:58:42,120 nothing but the blood of Jesus, right? 800 00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:43,400 And this is you. You think about it. 801 00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:46,280 God switched the code, he says. Yeah, I don't. 802 00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:47,720 Even look at you I. Look at my son. 803 00:58:49,280 --> 00:58:53,200 And that's why everything is in Christ, because Jesus is the 804 00:58:53,200 --> 00:58:58,440 passcode and the enemy can't pass when you're in Jesus, but 805 00:58:58,440 --> 00:59:02,680 when you're in your flesh, He has access all day. 806 00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:08,720 Lord, we thank you for this time. 807 00:59:09,560 --> 00:59:15,480 Thank you for this opportunity, Thank you for your word, and we 808 00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:19,040 bless your name in Jesus name, Amen. 809 00:59:19,440 --> 00:59:24,120 Give God a hand if you receive. Come on, you can do better than 810 00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:25,480 that. Give God some praise. 811 00:59:32,400 --> 00:59:34,480 Thank you so much for tuning into this week's sermon. 812 00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:37,800 We pray you were challenged, equipped and encouraged. 813 00:59:38,040 --> 00:59:40,000 Make sure to follow us on all platforms. 814 00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:44,080 That's Lovequest Intl church. We out here for real. 815 00:59:44,160 --> 00:59:46,440 We're really doing it. That's Facebook, Instagram, 816 00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:49,680 YouTube and TikTok. You can find us anywhere you 817 00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:51,960 need to find us. But until next time, you know 818 00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:54,160 the drill. You know the motto, get your 819 00:59:54,160 --> 00:59:56,400 love fixed man and we'll see y'all real soon.