1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:04,440 What's going on everybody? You are now listening to the 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:07,280 Lovequest International Church Sermon Podcast. 3 00:00:07,720 --> 00:00:11,200 It's a brand new season. Matter of fact, it's homecoming 4 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:13,480 season. Sons and daughters are coming 5 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:15,480 home. So you know what to do. 6 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:19,040 Get your Bible, get your water, get some coffee, get some tea 7 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:21,480 and get yourself ready to receive. 8 00:00:21,760 --> 00:00:25,880 The time is now and if you don't know the drill, then you better 9 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:28,280 learn the motto. Did you love things, man? 10 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:50,560 Lord, like bastard, why are we singing so much? 11 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:52,320 To get your heart ready for the word. 12 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:56,280 Come on, I need you to put your hand over your heart, and I need 13 00:00:56,280 --> 00:01:04,440 you to say my heart is good soil and I am ready to not just 14 00:01:04,440 --> 00:01:08,960 receive the word, but produce a harvest from the word. 15 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:12,360 Shout out. I am so ready. 16 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:17,600 Come on a little louder. I am so ready at a volume that 17 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:20,360 get on your neighbors nerves say I am so ready. 18 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:23,840 Born ready. Live. 19 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:25,000 Ready. Walk. 20 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:26,200 Ready. Talk. 21 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:27,400 Ready. Move. 22 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:28,640 Ready. Stand. 23 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:30,280 Ready. Dress ready. 24 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:32,280 Sleep ready. Wake up. 25 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:33,880 Ready. I'm being ready. 26 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:37,480 I was made ready I was made ready I was made ready. 27 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:39,920 I was made ready I was made ready. 28 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:42,280 I was more time. I'm ready. 29 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:44,720 Live ready. Walk ready. 30 00:01:45,040 --> 00:01:46,680 Talk Ready. Move. 31 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:47,880 Ready. Stand. 32 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:49,080 Ready. Dress. 33 00:01:49,120 --> 00:01:50,720 Ready. Sleep ready. 34 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:52,600 Wake up ready. I'm being ready. 35 00:01:52,640 --> 00:01:54,200 I'm stay ready. I'm stay ready. 36 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:58,800 I'm stay ready. I'm stay ready. 37 00:02:00,600 --> 00:02:06,040 Joseph replied, Don't be afraid. Do I act for God? 38 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:12,680 Don't you see? You planned evil against me, but 39 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:18,640 God used the same plans for my good. 40 00:02:18,640 --> 00:02:25,160 I want you all to see this. He didn't say God changed plans 41 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:31,400 he had to use, and he loves to use the same plans. 42 00:02:32,440 --> 00:02:36,880 So whatever tried to steal your sanity, God's going to use the 43 00:02:36,880 --> 00:02:40,040 same plans. Whatever tried to destroy your 44 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:43,280 family, God's going to use the same plans. 45 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:47,520 Whatever tried to inflict your body with sickness, God's going 46 00:02:47,520 --> 00:02:52,800 to use the same plans. Whatever tried to knock you out, 47 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:54,760 discredit you? Whatever. 48 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:58,160 Persecution. The same haters, the same 49 00:02:58,160 --> 00:03:03,560 persecution, the same rejection, the same abandonment, the same 50 00:03:03,560 --> 00:03:09,040 rape, the same molestation, the same foster home situation, the 51 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,800 same injustice. God is going to use the same 52 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:15,720 plans. The question is, can you make it 53 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:20,400 through the plan? Can you understand that? 54 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:26,400 Anything that is and has, was and about to happen to you is 55 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,480 happening because God allowed it. 56 00:03:29,760 --> 00:03:33,360 He allowed you to almost lose your mind. 57 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:37,440 He allowed you to almost kill yourself. 58 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:41,440 He allowed you to almost lose everything. 59 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:46,480 He allowed you to. Almost have a successful suicide 60 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:50,560 attempt. He allows you to almost become 61 00:03:50,560 --> 00:03:53,040 an alcoholic and never break the habit. 62 00:03:53,080 --> 00:03:57,760 Almost addicted to porn. Almost let it take you out, 63 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,960 almost make you homeless. But he says no, no, no, no, no. 64 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:06,840 You only get to almost because I have to establish it is what it 65 00:04:06,840 --> 00:04:09,800 is. I gotta let it get stinky. 66 00:04:12,760 --> 00:04:15,760 I I gotta let it get to the point where doctors can't help 67 00:04:16,320 --> 00:04:19,880 your spouse, can't help the pastor seemingly can't help the 68 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:22,200 word ain't good enough. Quite frankly. 69 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:27,720 I gotta let Lazarus get past helping. 70 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:33,600 I I gotta, I gotta wait until everybody is doubting me. 71 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:41,440 And right at the 4th day when it looks impossible, when you don't 72 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,720 even hear the people that say it's too late, I can't help 73 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:47,080 them. You don't even hear the other 74 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:50,080 spouse who is saying I don't want to be in this marriage no 75 00:04:50,080 --> 00:04:54,040 more. I got to let it get to to, to to 76 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:59,400 rotten, to bottom, to to hurting, to piercing, to even 77 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:02,040 question. God does not find it getting to 78 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:05,440 questioning him. It's like, quite frankly, that's 79 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:10,360 a pretty cool place, 'cause you just are asking me, am I who I 80 00:05:10,360 --> 00:05:14,480 say I am? Can you really do what you did 81 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:18,200 before? Can you do it right now? 82 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:22,840 Are you the same God you notice? These aren't necessarily 83 00:05:22,840 --> 00:05:27,840 questions of doubt, but now he's used trauma to cause you to seek 84 00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:30,960 him. Those are questions of seeking. 85 00:05:32,120 --> 00:05:35,640 Those are quite that's probably you don't feel good, but finally 86 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:40,120 you're talking to him. So to you, it feels like you're 87 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:42,960 giving up on God. But if he was giving up, why 88 00:05:42,960 --> 00:05:46,440 would you even talk to him? Why would you even care if he's 89 00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:49,600 the same God? See, doubt is tricky because 90 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:53,000 doubt can make you think you've given up. 91 00:05:54,480 --> 00:06:03,120 But sometime God will use your doubt as the means of a contrite 92 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:07,480 heart, and all of a sudden you find yourself. 93 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:13,040 God is showing you the blueprint for after he break you through, 94 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:18,720 how He wants you to seek him. Oh oh, the same way you sought 95 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:23,320 Him when you was in trouble. When he brings you to the other 96 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:26,440 side of the Red Sea, seek him the same way. 97 00:06:28,200 --> 00:06:34,160 See, sometimes being at the bottom, it begins to cause you 98 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:41,160 to create new habits of seeking. See how bad do you really want 99 00:06:41,160 --> 00:06:43,800 it? Everybody talk about they want 100 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:50,400 to see revival, but how many people want to be the sacrifice? 101 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,160 Or you just want to attend a revival everybody laid down 102 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:59,120 their life for. Oh, you want to see revival come 103 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:01,640 a couple nights during the 40 days while we're here seeking 104 00:07:01,640 --> 00:07:05,840 God's face. What I do understand is a lot of 105 00:07:05,840 --> 00:07:07,520 people don't really want to see revival. 106 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:11,760 They want, they want us. You You think revival is God's 107 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:15,280 bailout plan? No. 108 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:19,760 This is the dangers for when revival comes, responsibility 109 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:23,440 comes. Do you really want God to touch 110 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:27,480 you? Who much is given? 111 00:07:28,720 --> 00:07:31,280 So ask yourself, do you really want breakthrough? 112 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:35,080 Because on the other side of breakthrough is responsibility 113 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:39,040 not back to normal? Because if you go back to normal 114 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:41,920 after breakthrough 7 times stronger is coming. 115 00:07:42,360 --> 00:07:45,520 So you think you depressed. Now let them break you through 116 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:50,560 and you go back. You see, Joseph? 117 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:51,760 You say. Nah. 118 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:55,680 Nah, Nah Nah Nah no. No, no, no need to apologize. 119 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:59,360 You should have been here this morning, but it's not too late. 120 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:02,000 You can go listen to the sermon this morning. 121 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:04,360 I advise you. I advise you. 122 00:08:05,200 --> 00:08:09,320 You listen to everything else. Put the sermon in rotation. 123 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:16,040 You need the word. He said no, don't apologize. 124 00:08:16,040 --> 00:08:19,800 I know you tried to kill me. I want y'all to pay attention to 125 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:24,360 something Joseph is now serving. Everybody who made his life 126 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:27,080 hell. Everybody that made his life 127 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:29,200 hell is now coming to him because they have a need. 128 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:33,039 They tried to kill his dream but didn't know that God gave him 129 00:08:33,039 --> 00:08:38,720 the dream for them. I won't even go there because 130 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:40,400 you just got to go listen to this morning. 131 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:45,920 But he says what you meant for evil, God is going to turn it 132 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:50,440 around for good. No weapon formed against me 133 00:08:52,360 --> 00:08:56,760 shall prosper. No need to change the script. 134 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:01,320 When God is about to flip the script, is that the administer 135 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,960 administer to anybody? This morning I received this 136 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:09,120 word for myself. Lord says that the appointed 137 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:13,280 time has come for your prophetic promises to be fulfilled. 138 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:18,400 There is a specific time in everyone's lifetime where God is 139 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:22,280 about to fulfill prophecy. I don't know. 140 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:25,640 I don't know about you. But I know I'm stepping into 141 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:29,520 some big words that's been spoken over my life and I just 142 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:33,560 believe God. He says now is the time, right? 143 00:09:33,560 --> 00:09:37,000 He says now is the time. Shout out now is the time. 144 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:40,920 It is about that time. It is about that time. 145 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:45,520 Ecclesiastes reminds us that there's a season and a appointed 146 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:50,640 time for everything, a time for every delight and event purpose 147 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:56,080 under heaven we see Acts 17. He sets the boundaries of people 148 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:59,680 and nations determining their appointed times in. 149 00:09:59,680 --> 00:10:01,520 History. In other words, the family you 150 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:06,840 was born in wasn't an accident. I'm sorry you like California 151 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:10,720 better, but if God wanted you to be raised or born in California, 152 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:13,600 guess what? But for some reason, he wanted 153 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:15,720 you to be raised in the freezing cold. 154 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:21,720 Now, let me tell you, because you was raised here, you don't 155 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:23,320 know if you would like California. 156 00:10:24,080 --> 00:10:28,720 You only like California because you don't like here, right? 157 00:10:28,720 --> 00:10:31,200 It's very dangerous when you like something because you don't 158 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:35,880 like something else, right? That's how some of you got 159 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:38,280 married and picked a friend because you didn't like that 160 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:41,520 type. That that's not a good way to 161 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:46,560 find out what you do like because then the motivation is 162 00:10:46,560 --> 00:10:49,840 not pure, right? God. 163 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:53,000 God intentionally had you raised, born wherever you was 164 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:55,640 raised and born. Move wherever you was moved and 165 00:10:55,640 --> 00:10:57,800 wherever God has called you to be. 166 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:00,880 There is everything you need in that place. 167 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:10,640 Your blessing. It has a location, Galatians 6 168 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:13,080 says In due time, the appointed season. 169 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:17,160 Keep your courage. The fullness of time is here and 170 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:21,200 now revival has landed. Angels have been dispatched. 171 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:23,320 I want y'all to notice some of you guys this first time you've 172 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:25,600 heard this word right here, this this. 173 00:11:26,080 --> 00:11:28,360 But some of you a second time. Third time for some of you is 174 00:11:28,360 --> 00:11:31,640 like the 20th time. We got this, we got we. 175 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:32,840 The Lord gave us this. What? 176 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:35,240 How long ago? Strathcona. 177 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:38,280 You know, why are we still saying the same word after four 178 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:40,040 years? Because it's a word that he 179 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:44,240 promises to be fulfilled. See, when God speaks something 180 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:45,760 into your life, you have a response. 181 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:47,320 That's what I'm saying to you won't revival. 182 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:51,600 Revival comes after stewarding the seed He gave you. 183 00:11:53,760 --> 00:11:59,040 Angels have been dispatched, promises have been released, and 184 00:11:59,040 --> 00:12:03,920 the enemy has been devoured. It is really go time. 185 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:08,720 Go time means that I have permission to go. 186 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:11,360 This is what you have to understand. 187 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:15,600 When you're at a red light and then you get a green light, you 188 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:24,920 have permission to go. Your Your insurance works best 189 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:31,080 when you are the person that has been struck and you were 190 00:12:31,080 --> 00:12:37,920 following permission. Insurance covers the legal 191 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:44,000 right, not the violation. Then we're up the chapstick 192 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:45,760 while you say lie on that one, OK? 193 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:51,960 And most of us want God to cover our violations. 194 00:12:54,560 --> 00:12:57,320 The reason why it feels like he's not helping you overcome 195 00:12:57,320 --> 00:12:59,920 what you got into because he never told you to get into it in 196 00:12:59,920 --> 00:13:02,840 the 1st place. So the same way you crawled in, 197 00:13:02,840 --> 00:13:05,240 you got to crawl out. But there's a grace to crawl. 198 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:10,520 So take the grace to crawl and trying to get grace to run. 199 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:15,360 Because what God is telling you he is trying, He can't rush you 200 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:20,400 out of something that you lived in for so long because you have 201 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:24,480 to unlearn some stuff. See, see. 202 00:13:24,640 --> 00:13:29,080 So not only do you have permission to go in the season 203 00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:32,360 of go time, but you have a legal right. 204 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:37,760 And when you have a legal right to go, there is a word, there is 205 00:13:37,800 --> 00:13:43,600 a law that covers your goal. OK, Lord, look, I want you to 206 00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:46,840 pray this. Lord, please give me eyes to see 207 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:50,400 and give me. Ears to hear. 208 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:56,320 Pass what this man is saying, Lord, I need revelation right 209 00:13:56,320 --> 00:14:01,800 now. I just said something very 210 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:05,920 important. When there is an announcement, 211 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:09,360 it's go time, right? Let me ask you this, the way 212 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:11,800 some of you might be looking. Do you look at a green light 213 00:14:11,800 --> 00:14:12,960 like that? Yes, you do. 214 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:17,400 Have anybody ever sat at a green light? 215 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:21,960 And most of the time you sat at a green light because you were 216 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:26,120 what, distracted? And has anybody ever, what 217 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:29,000 happens at the people sit, what are they doing? 218 00:14:29,760 --> 00:14:31,280 They're they're what? Honking. 219 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:34,560 You see I'm honking because I'm having to remind you, you have 220 00:14:34,560 --> 00:14:37,720 permission to go in this season. Understand. 221 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:41,120 So, but you're distracted. Some of you can't really hear go 222 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:48,600 because in your mind you responded to a text and it's 223 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:51,360 more important to get back to that person or find out what 224 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:55,000 that person said or look at the score of the game or then to 225 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:58,360 focus on. God said it's go time and I have 226 00:14:58,400 --> 00:15:02,800 a legal right. I spent a season at my red light 227 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:05,120 watching. Others have they season of a 228 00:15:05,120 --> 00:15:08,000 green light right when you sit, just watch traffic going. 229 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:10,760 Everybody else gets to go. Are you tired of sit? 230 00:15:10,760 --> 00:15:13,360 Have you ever set out a red light, like a long red light? 231 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:16,600 Have you ever set at the red lights and then it only then it 232 00:15:16,600 --> 00:15:18,600 turned green and only two cars get to going. 233 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:20,760 You you was happy you was ready to go. 234 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:25,520 Hey, that's the season 2 and sometimes you think you ready to 235 00:15:25,520 --> 00:15:28,200 go. But the way that light is 236 00:15:28,200 --> 00:15:36,640 scheduled. Hey, the way the light is 237 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:43,680 scheduled, as frustrating as you as it is, there's a grace for 238 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:48,680 two cars to go. But man, can you celebrate that 239 00:15:48,680 --> 00:15:54,120 you next? So for some of y'all, it's a 240 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:57,160 green light and it's time for you to go through the light. 241 00:15:57,840 --> 00:16:01,640 Thank you, Holy Spirit. For some of you, it's a green 242 00:16:01,640 --> 00:16:05,000 light for you, but it's just going to get you closer to your 243 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:09,040 turn. Either way, everybody body 244 00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:16,160 making progress in this season. Everybody is making progress in 245 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:20,840 this season. See, because you don't want to, 246 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:23,640 you don't want to go through the light and deal with what the 247 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:25,720 people going through the light is about to deal with. 248 00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:31,200 See, the beautiful part about a red light is for the most part 249 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:35,800 you safe and if somebody rear ends you, you're covered. 250 00:16:39,360 --> 00:16:41,880 You get what I'm saying. But if you ain't paying 251 00:16:41,880 --> 00:16:47,480 attention and you doing the rear ending, 'cause you're in a rush 252 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:52,440 and you got your foot on the gas when you should be slowing down, 253 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:58,160 y'all with me. This is a green light season, 254 00:16:58,840 --> 00:17:05,839 but you can't be focused on my green light because a lot of 255 00:17:05,839 --> 00:17:09,560 times you can focus on two cars ahead of you and not the one in 256 00:17:09,560 --> 00:17:12,119 front of you. You going to fool around and 257 00:17:12,119 --> 00:17:18,160 rear end somebody, You get what I'm saying, It's green light 258 00:17:18,160 --> 00:17:21,760 season. It's not try to make it through 259 00:17:21,760 --> 00:17:34,040 a yellow light season, it is green light, so you have a legal 260 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:39,600 right to move forward, not run through stuff. 261 00:17:45,560 --> 00:17:46,720 God's plan. God's time. 262 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:49,760 God's plan has a proper time, acceptable time, fullness of 263 00:17:49,760 --> 00:17:52,520 time, due season, and a mandated time. 264 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:55,760 We are in a mandated time that nobody can stop you from moving 265 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:58,400 forward. I'm telling. 266 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:02,640 You you might see way down the street, but we're not trying to 267 00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:04,920 rush through a yellow light to get way down the street. 268 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:08,400 Because if you get way down the street in this season, you going 269 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:11,080 to show up at a corner that don't got your stuff. 270 00:18:14,360 --> 00:18:17,040 See, when I show up to where I'm called to show up, my stuff 271 00:18:17,040 --> 00:18:20,600 going to be there because I'm right on time, right. 272 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:23,840 So there's some things that got God is clearing traffic and he's 273 00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:26,080 there. There's a street you call to 274 00:18:26,120 --> 00:18:32,160 that's still under construction. I'm talking. 275 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:36,920 I'm talking to somebody. Let me, let me, let me, let me, 276 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:39,760 let me. Yeah, please, please look at 277 00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:42,240 your neighbor and say you really got to go listen to the day's 278 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:56,320 sermon tomorrow or Tuesday. I didn't say that many words. 279 00:18:56,320 --> 00:19:03,840 I didn't say that many words. That was not a conversation. 280 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:06,760 It was just a statement. OK, All right. 281 00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:08,160 So we going to pick up here tonight. 282 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:09,640 We going to pick up here tonight. 283 00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:18,160 This morning we we stopped at wow, that's so good. 284 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:21,160 The the children, the children of the Red Sea short. 285 00:19:21,160 --> 00:19:24,360 We'll we'll do that. They got across and on the other 286 00:19:24,360 --> 00:19:30,560 side they begin to praise the Lord and they made it through a 287 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:36,520 very traumatic experience and a very traumatic pastime. 288 00:19:37,960 --> 00:19:40,720 You follow? And they they get out of 289 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:43,840 slavery. They're faced with either going 290 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:46,760 back or they're faced with the impossible. 291 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:50,280 That is an amazing season to be in. 292 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:55,360 Scary, but amazing when you can go back here. 293 00:19:55,360 --> 00:20:00,320 Here's the idea. So my family, we're immigrants 294 00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:03,720 here, OK? And so as we work on our 295 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:06,720 permanent residence all, all of that stuff, right, we, we have 296 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:08,520 work permit and things of that nature, OK. 297 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:16,120 And we came here by faith. We were sent here by nobody but 298 00:20:16,120 --> 00:20:21,360 God. And I can't get another job. 299 00:20:24,600 --> 00:20:30,960 In other words, I either go back home for my provision or stand 300 00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:36,280 here. The children of Israel can go 301 00:20:36,280 --> 00:20:42,280 back home because Egypt was a home or they can face the 302 00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:46,160 impossible. Why is that the best place to 303 00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:48,960 be? Because God got to do something 304 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:52,840 He has got. You have gotten in a place in 305 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:57,760 your life where if God don't make a way, ain't no way going 306 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:01,400 to happen. That is a scary place for most 307 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:02,920 people. That's why you got to be in 308 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:05,960 control. So not many people. 309 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:09,600 You'd rather stay in the Egypt and work for the world than to 310 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:13,720 stand on the shore and face the impossible and let God split the 311 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:16,760 sea for you. And that's OK. 312 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:22,840 Not everybody is called to walk across the split sea, but boy is 313 00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:27,120 that such a place where it's primed for miracles and signs 314 00:21:27,120 --> 00:21:29,680 and wonders. So at this place and they go 315 00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:34,120 across and and they begin a praise party. 316 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:40,080 And then they not by choice but have to fast for three days. 317 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:42,720 They couldn't find no water for three days. 318 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:46,600 And then God says Moses. He didn't say stick out the rod. 319 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:50,520 He says Stick out your hand right? 320 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:56,800 Close to sea. And then he gets to Mara and 321 00:21:56,800 --> 00:22:01,160 it's a it's bitter water, it's a bitter season. 322 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:08,520 And then God points him to a stick and he says, just throw it 323 00:22:08,520 --> 00:22:11,800 in there. And the bitter water was turned 324 00:22:12,120 --> 00:22:16,640 sweet. God made what was undrinkable. 325 00:22:19,720 --> 00:22:25,600 Now we can sip and there's some bitter stuff that God is about 326 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:26,920 to turn around. No, no, no, no. 327 00:22:26,960 --> 00:22:28,880 Same. Hey, hey. 328 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:35,240 You ready? Same circumstances the devil 329 00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:38,680 will use for evil. God's going to use the same same 330 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:42,680 bitter water I'm using. I'm just going to turn it sweet 331 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:47,560 Yet no. No no filter, no no 9.5. 332 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,160 I got better than 9.5 Alkaline not. 333 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,840 This is as alkalinized as it can get. 334 00:22:59,000 --> 00:23:01,400 Oh, you could have found a waterfall or something but no. 335 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,280 We going to use I'm I'm leading you to bitter water. 336 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:10,440 Can you find people in a bitter place. 337 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:12,960 And because of what I put on your life you can turn it to 338 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:19,080 sweep right everybody looking for the finished product. 339 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:22,280 Instead of understanding that what God has put into you. 340 00:23:22,440 --> 00:23:27,160 He wants you to use what you got and turn the situation all the 341 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:32,280 way around. Get up in here. 342 00:23:32,440 --> 00:23:34,200 And we going to turn the garage around. 343 00:23:34,200 --> 00:23:38,040 What used to be a crack house, now it's a praise house. 344 00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:41,680 It's a place of worship. Come on, shout out. 345 00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:49,200 I am anointed. And so as we celebrating and God 346 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:53,280 is providing and we like whoa, we going to the other side and 347 00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:56,320 we going to see the promised land and they came up on this 348 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:59,520 one point man we have confessed. Y'all can't say pastor. 349 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:02,400 Yeah, no, no, no. I have been like we going to do 350 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:05,920 this and we going to do that and we have shouted and we are 351 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:07,320 believing. I don't know about you with my 352 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:12,560 faith on high and we ready to do this thing and we ready and then 353 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:15,760 God this morning was like yes, y'all ready. 354 00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:20,560 But I need you to see this part, he says. 355 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:25,320 Warning, he says. Attention, he said. 356 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:28,960 That's the place where I provided the water, where I 357 00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:33,840 turned everything right after I showed them how powerful I was. 358 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:40,520 That was the place that God set rules and procedures. 359 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:43,840 That's where he started testing them. 360 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:52,880 Breakthrough. And I'm here to tell you the 361 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:56,200 declaration of you're ready. It's not just to receive 362 00:24:56,200 --> 00:25:04,640 blessing, it's to pass testing. You think you've been through 363 00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:07,480 all of that just to come out and get blessed? 364 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:09,640 No. No, no, no, no. 365 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:15,400 Every season has to be. How you going to know? 366 00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:19,240 That you're fruitful without fruit being tested. 367 00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:23,640 How you going to know you stronger? 368 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:26,360 You're not going to know you stronger cause ain't nothing 369 00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:31,440 happening and you're not about to get tempted by God. 370 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,160 You're about to get proven in in. 371 00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:38,920 In other words, he's perfected you for the next season. 372 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:44,520 He's about to prove to you what he's done. 373 00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:50,920 That's why this season the most important thing to do is stand, 374 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:55,600 because as you stand you're about to see all I've been 375 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,280 through. I'm really stronger now. 376 00:25:59,480 --> 00:26:03,920 All I've been through, oh, the devil can't play the same tricks 377 00:26:03,920 --> 00:26:06,560 on me. You ever get to that point where 378 00:26:06,560 --> 00:26:10,000 that person try to get that same little attitude and you like? 379 00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:12,560 Not today, Betty. I just. 380 00:26:12,560 --> 00:26:14,280 I'm not falling for that no more. 381 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:16,680 I don't. I'm not affected by you no more. 382 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:21,120 You can't hurt me no more. You can't 'cause me to quit no 383 00:26:21,120 --> 00:26:23,160 more. You can't cause me to doubt 384 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:27,520 myself no more. You can't cause me to see myself 385 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:33,000 lesser than what God says. I have made it through the Red 386 00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:40,960 Sea and now I know who I am. So this this is not a season 387 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:45,400 where you're about to just just just be tested and go through. 388 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:48,200 No, no, no, no. There's a level of testing for 389 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:54,440 development and then there's a level of testing for proving God 390 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,480 knows what He put in you. You don't. 391 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,680 So in order order for you to find out you're really strong, 392 00:27:02,360 --> 00:27:04,800 Gideon. You can really win this war, 393 00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:13,160 Jeremiah. You can really speak, Daniel, 394 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:14,880 all that fast and ain't for nothing. 395 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:18,160 You can really walk in the lion's den and not freak out. 396 00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,000 Oh, you're not afraid like you used to be? 397 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:26,640 Oh, no. You really got to get around 398 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,800 some dope again to see that it don't tip you no more. 399 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:33,120 I remember the first. I remember soon after I I put 400 00:27:33,120 --> 00:27:36,920 marijuana down. It wasn't about me because I 401 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,160 tried for years. You know how y'all are. 402 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:45,880 You know this is going to be the last time we've been wanting to 403 00:27:45,880 --> 00:27:51,600 quit for a few years. But I had God had to show me. 404 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:53,800 He snaps the taste out of my mouth. 405 00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,720 So I remember one day on purpose we was walking down the street I 406 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,160 I think Julia or something at the time. 407 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,080 She she wasn't PJ at the time, but she was PJ on the inside, 408 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:07,720 right? You gonna say she was doing 409 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:12,120 something and I was in front of a like, oh, this guy came out of 410 00:28:12,120 --> 00:28:13,680 the weed spot or something. That's it. 411 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:15,120 I want some weed and I said yeah. 412 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:21,800 I just want to hold it. And that was the first time I 413 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:23,560 looked at it. I held it. 414 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:31,080 I smelled it. And when I smelled it, what used 415 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,920 to go off in my body wasn't there no more. 416 00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:45,880 The the smell couldn't find. Yeah, you get. 417 00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:49,200 I'm saying like like when you can go, when you can go back 418 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:53,320 around that person you was lusting over and like oh you you 419 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:57,000 fine. But like you you just my sister 420 00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:59,240 and brother and cried like I'm I'm good. 421 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:02,800 I respect you to where you where God does something in your heart 422 00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:07,280 towards the thing that was holding you back when when you 423 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:12,040 get around that person that broke your heart and and that 424 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:18,160 thing don't come up where you want to just kill them, right. 425 00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:21,240 So I'm letting you know in this season you gonna get around some 426 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:24,920 people who really hurt you. But what you gonna find out is 427 00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:28,840 they can't hurt you no more. They can't hurt. 428 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:33,200 You no more. And I I just want you, I just 429 00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:35,160 want you. When you see that man or when 430 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:38,200 you see that woman and you see him and they're like hi. 431 00:29:38,200 --> 00:29:40,000 And they think they still got a hold on you. 432 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:43,880 You like, hey, how you doing? And when the moment the Holy 433 00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:48,400 Spirit says see, you don't need that no more, I just want you to 434 00:29:48,400 --> 00:30:00,440 do a one. 2341234123412. 3/5. 123 123123112. 435 00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:01,520 You get what I'm saying, alright? 436 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:02,840 You get what I'm saying. I want. 437 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:04,680 I want you. They ain't gonna even know 438 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:05,880 they're gonna like what you're doing. 439 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:12,720 And you guys. Boy, if you only knew you. 440 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:14,360 You. I used to be afraid of you. 441 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:16,600 I you. You used to really intimidate 442 00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,360 me. But if you only knew. 443 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:25,840 If you only knew. If you only know. 444 00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:32,240 If you only know. If you only know. 445 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:34,160 All right. Right. 446 00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:38,360 So if you only knew like like you you not, hey, you going, you 447 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,960 going to go to that dinner that you can't avoid with family and 448 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,000 you're going to be sitting across the table with people 449 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,720 that may have even molested you that may have and you going to 450 00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:48,960 be sitting there and just with your under the table. 451 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,200 You're just going to be. If you only knew. 452 00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:57,360 If you only know. Hey, if you only know. 453 00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:04,440 Hey, if you only know. All right, all right, all right. 454 00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:07,200 So, so. So you got to get the point that 455 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:12,960 that's where because a lot of times we make testing scary, but 456 00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,320 no one has to worry about a test teacher. 457 00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,320 Fe when they've, when they've went through. 458 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:26,360 When they've went through like, you know the answers now this is 459 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:33,080 an open book. This is an open book test. 460 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:37,160 This is an open book test, he said. 461 00:31:41,600 --> 00:31:47,320 The scripture, the Scripture says that God won't allow me 462 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:50,720 religion. One word can be tweaked like the 463 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:53,560 devil did. If you test God if you know, the 464 00:31:53,560 --> 00:32:01,640 scripture says if God won't allow you to go through anything 465 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:05,560 you can't bear. Not God won't put anything on 466 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,800 you. There's a big difference between 467 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:12,040 God putting it on you and allowing you. 468 00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:18,800 It's the red light God has made sure before he gave you to go to 469 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:23,440 go through it. You've already passed this. 470 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:29,920 You got to understand. You've passed the test in 471 00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:31,920 eternity. You passed the test. 472 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:36,560 We're stepping into a finished work test. 473 00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:43,280 That's why going through tests without God is dangerous, 474 00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:47,080 because he's only finished what he started, not what you 475 00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:53,600 started. Come on see, I'll be getting 476 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:55,280 stuck. I'll be getting stuck. 477 00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:58,840 Being stuck. So you see what he says He says. 478 00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:05,560 He says God said if you listen obediently to how God tells you, 479 00:33:05,560 --> 00:33:08,880 you notice he said he's this is where he gave them rules and 480 00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:11,840 procedures. So we are stepping in a season. 481 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,720 I don't care if all your life you ain't never followed the 482 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:18,560 principles of God. This is the year you actually 483 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:22,240 need to get in. You can be have been disobedient 484 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:27,680 for 35 years but be obedient for one year and watch the payback. 485 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:30,720 This is the year. This is why you got to stay in 486 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:34,240 the house and get a word. Ask anybody who's been here 487 00:33:34,240 --> 00:33:38,000 every night during the fast how much word I'm talking about 488 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,080 right now. Word like God is giving 489 00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:44,040 instructions and strategies. I don't you know what I'm 490 00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,600 saying. Even somebody came at the last 491 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:49,040 minute, 5 minutes left and they got something. 492 00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:56,840 This is the year that we have to really do it God's way. 493 00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:02,600 Keep the swag, keep your head. You know what I'm saying? 494 00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,200 We got swag and we got people with swag and all these little 495 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,239 swag, you know what I mean? God ain't saying go put on a 496 00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:15,600 collar and a long skirt and a turtleneck in the turbine, even 497 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:18,080 in even as how cold it is. That's too much. 498 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:24,440 All right, I got to tell y'all this next series we're about to 499 00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:26,639 start is going to radically change your life. 500 00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:29,320 It's going to radically change your life. 501 00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,080 God. God said my people need to hear 502 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:38,960 about holy and righteousness. They need to know that we are 503 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:43,040 holy and righteous and. Holiness is not what church has 504 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:49,159 made. In like you, women don't wear 505 00:34:49,159 --> 00:34:50,960 pants. That's not holiness, because we 506 00:34:50,960 --> 00:35:01,560 now have some devils in skirts. But boy, when you get this holy, 507 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:08,920 don't do it. Don't do it. 508 00:35:10,720 --> 00:35:13,320 You know, he's calling his people back to royal royalty. 509 00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:17,360 If you if you're a royal people, it means you're a holy nation. 510 00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,960 You can't be a holy people, a royal people and not a holy 511 00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,520 people. And we're not just holy because 512 00:35:23,520 --> 00:35:27,200 he's holy. He's if we are holy because he's 513 00:35:27,200 --> 00:35:30,080 holy because the Bible says so. But there's a lifestyle of 514 00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:31,920 holiness that's actually really fun. 515 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:36,040 That holy lifestyle is like you got some standards and homie 516 00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,400 can't just come in your life and just you have no, no, no, no. 517 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:43,280 You see the price on holy like I'm holy, you can't find this in 518 00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:45,640 Fendi, a product of nothing. Fendi ain't holy. 519 00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:50,240 I'm holy, right. So when you put a price tag on 520 00:35:50,240 --> 00:35:54,920 you and it says holy, Can you imagine if you was, if you were 521 00:35:54,920 --> 00:35:59,040 selling yourself and you had a price tag on and and and and 522 00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,960 guys was coming over and reading it and said holy, first of all 523 00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:07,640 they'll say what's that? And that's when you'd be like 524 00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:12,520 you ain't the right. 1 You see that standard right there? 525 00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:18,840 Obeying His commandments and keeping all His laws, then I 526 00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:23,000 won't strike you with all the diseases that I inflicted on the 527 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:26,640 Egyptians. I am your healer. 528 00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:30,480 I am God, your healer. Now bear with me. 529 00:36:31,800 --> 00:36:35,920 Be careful. While guarding your heart, you 530 00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:41,360 don't hearten your heart. Can we can we can we dive in a 531 00:36:41,360 --> 00:36:44,280 little bit now? Can we can we can we get serious 532 00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:45,240 right now? Yeah. 533 00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:47,160 I see you grabbing your notebooks and all this at the 534 00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:48,520 time. This is the right time, OK? 535 00:36:48,960 --> 00:36:51,880 Be your heart is so ready to receive this accountability. 536 00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:54,640 Be careful while you're guarding your heart. 537 00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:00,440 You don't harden your heart. And a lot of people in here, you 538 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:02,880 have to be honest and let the Holy Spirit speak to your heart. 539 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,840 You think you're guarding your heart? 540 00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:13,280 But you really are hardening it because when you guard your 541 00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:16,160 heart, love can still go in and out. 542 00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:23,240 When you harden it, you actually can't let anyone in, and you 543 00:37:23,240 --> 00:37:27,200 still need to understand that you can let people in your. 544 00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:29,400 Heart. Without them having your heart, 545 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:29,680 that's. Right. 546 00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:36,440 Understand what I'm telling you. You've learned and you have to 547 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:41,400 go all the way back to where you learned how to be strong. 548 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:49,000 Most of us didn't learn how to be strong in a Kingdom manner. 549 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:56,440 Most of us, trauma taught us how to be strong because we are 550 00:37:56,440 --> 00:38:02,400 naturally wired to survive our body automatically. 551 00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:06,200 It sends us signals. It it, it guards itself. 552 00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,680 It protects itself. It heals itself. 553 00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:13,000 So when you went through whatever you went through, when 554 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:17,960 you got in that breakup, that relationship, what you did is 555 00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:23,640 you had to harden your heart, especially when you don't know 556 00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,320 better. There's a grace for hardening 557 00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:32,680 for an ignorant person because you know no better and that's 558 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:36,560 God's way of allowing you to make it through till you meet 559 00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:41,920 him. I can't guard my heart a God way 560 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:47,120 when I don't know his way. So some of you as young kids had 561 00:38:47,120 --> 00:38:50,960 to make it through some very traumatic experiences. 562 00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:57,080 Some of you have been hurt really bad, Some of you have 563 00:38:57,080 --> 00:39:00,640 been abandoned, Some of you have been, you dealt with church hurt 564 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:04,960 leaders and and people have have hurt you and spouses have hurt 565 00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:08,320 you, right. And sometimes when you're giving 566 00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,960 people a second chance, you're giving them a second chance with 567 00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:16,280 a hard heart, and it's not really a chance. 568 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:22,920 If it's from a hard place, quite frankly, if your heart is hard, 569 00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:31,200 they don't have a chance. Because you see, you see out of 570 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:36,200 a hard place. You're not seeing out of an 571 00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:41,440 unconditional place. So you are loving while bracing. 572 00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:52,360 Jesus did not brace himself. He completely gave himself while 573 00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:55,560 being hurt. And what you don't understand, 574 00:39:55,760 --> 00:40:01,640 you may have had to harden your heart for one reason, but that 575 00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:06,960 doesn't make it OK. It doesn't make a safe place for 576 00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:11,720 God's blessing. And the danger is the devil can 577 00:40:11,720 --> 00:40:14,160 harden your heart over here because he knows you're called 578 00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:19,160 over here. So you walk into a church with a 579 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:23,920 hard heart because you have a perception of right. 580 00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:27,680 So somebody teach on giving automatically your hard heart 581 00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:29,280 says be careful. That's the prosperity. 582 00:40:29,280 --> 00:40:32,920 Preacher. Right. 583 00:40:32,920 --> 00:40:35,960 Media shows you certain images of certain cultures. 584 00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:40,600 So when you come across certain cultures or ethnicities, you 585 00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:45,040 automatically brace yourself for what your perception believes 586 00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:49,960 them to be. So you don't let people in until 587 00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:55,960 you scout them out. Jesus said while you was yet a 588 00:40:55,960 --> 00:41:01,040 Sinner. I gave you my life and and you 589 00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:05,800 can guard your heart and not harden your heart without. 590 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:12,880 Let me do it this way. The difference is boundaries 591 00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:21,560 versus walls. God has boundaries but he don't 592 00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:23,680 have walls. He tears walls down. 593 00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:29,720 Boundaries are do it for everybody. 594 00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:34,480 And then when people don't have boundaries, ain't it funny how 595 00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:37,960 you're hard in your heart for certain things, but you don't 596 00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:42,360 have boundaries for other things, right? 597 00:41:42,360 --> 00:41:44,640 You'll be like, you ain't going to talk to me like that. 598 00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:49,640 But then the music you listen to be drop dad, right? 599 00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:52,720 You get what I'm saying, Slap. You get what I'm saying? 600 00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:57,720 It's it's funny how we'll be hard towards some stuff and 601 00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:02,840 right we'll be hard towards a parent trying to love us that 602 00:42:02,840 --> 00:42:06,400 pay for everything. But we won't have no boundaries 603 00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:14,200 with our boyfriend. You get what I'm saying? 604 00:42:15,080 --> 00:42:21,680 You got an amazing dad who's trying to take care of you, but 605 00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:23,840 then homeboy ain't got to have no standards. 606 00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:31,400 You you harden your heart towards your parents, but lower 607 00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:33,960 your standard towards some dude that's just or some girl. 608 00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:36,280 You get what I'm saying? It's it's weird how we could do 609 00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:39,880 that. And we play with standards and 610 00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:43,480 boundaries and and walls. And we we roll up the limousine 611 00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:46,080 window on who we want to. And then we'll let people sit in 612 00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:49,000 the limousine that we want to and and we'll go on rides with 613 00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:51,360 people we want to and we'll let certain people in our heart, 614 00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:54,000 even if they toxic. How do? 615 00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:59,400 You How do you lower your standards for toxicity but raise 616 00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:12,960 it for accountability? Be careful while you're guarding 617 00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:17,400 your heart, you don't hearten your heart, Roberts 4 says. 618 00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:21,400 Keep vigilant watch over your heart. 619 00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:26,240 That's a militant word. That's where life starts. 620 00:43:26,240 --> 00:43:29,560 And when we're talking heart, we're not talking. 621 00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:34,000 Baboom, Baboom, the Baboom, Baboom, Baboom feels the pain of 622 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:37,280 the real heart. Your soul, your suitcase, your 623 00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:40,520 thinker, your feeler and your chooser. 624 00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:45,600 Guard your heart. That's where life starts. 625 00:43:46,240 --> 00:43:49,760 Then the Bible says in the message, So above all, guard the 626 00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:52,240 affections. What has your affections? 627 00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:56,800 I tell my Garner and I tell my kids like, do you know the price 628 00:43:57,080 --> 00:44:00,840 of your affections? No, no, no, ain't no exclusivity 629 00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:05,040 relationship. As a teenager, I'm sorry parents 630 00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:12,520 who allows it instead of saying it's OK to go out and have fun 631 00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:16,520 and like somebody. But as a dad, I'm supposed to 632 00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:19,200 give your heart away. I'm supposed to give you away. 633 00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:25,400 As a son, let me guide you so that you don't break a woman's 634 00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:30,560 heart. I'm going to support a 16 year 635 00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:33,600 old to exclusively take a young girl. 636 00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:40,120 And I know my son is not ready to take her father's spot. 637 00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:47,440 So my job is OK. You can like her. 638 00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:49,480 I get it. I'm glad you like her. 639 00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:59,160 But hey, when you go to their movies, go with a group of 640 00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:03,920 friends like it's good. Talk to me about what? 641 00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:05,560 What's going on? What you feeling, Dad? 642 00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:07,880 I want to. She wanted me. 643 00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:08,360 Hey. Hey. 644 00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:09,840 But son, here's the price of that. 645 00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:14,000 When you have sex with a girl, this is what happens. 646 00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:15,480 And this is where her feelings go. 647 00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:17,680 Are you ready to handle those feelings? 648 00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:23,160 Hey, how's her relationship with her dad? 649 00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:26,360 Does she honor her dad? Does she honor her parents? 650 00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:27,840 What's her standards? What's her morals? 651 00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:30,760 What is she? Man, this Northern American way 652 00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:33,560 of raising kids to just let them figure it out They self got you 653 00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:35,880 When you see God, let me tell you. 654 00:45:36,120 --> 00:45:38,800 Now here's the key. My kids going to do whatever 655 00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,560 they want to. So since they going to do 656 00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:44,400 whatever they want to do, let me just tell them what I'm supposed 657 00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:49,320 to tell them because I got to give an account for raising my 658 00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:58,640 kids in the way they should go. Hallelujah. 659 00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:05,520 They pay attention, pay attention for they affect all 660 00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:09,480 that you are your affections of your heart. 661 00:46:09,480 --> 00:46:14,680 They affect all that you are. Pay attention to the welfare of 662 00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:22,040 your innermost being. Are we teaching our kids how to 663 00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:25,440 guard their heart? Are we teaching them to give it 664 00:46:25,440 --> 00:46:27,480 away? And then if you get hurt, we 665 00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:32,800 hear for you. Or from there flows the 666 00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:40,760 wellspring of life. But God told Samuel, looks 667 00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:48,040 aren't everything. Are we teaching our kids how to 668 00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:52,640 assess a heart? Don't be impressed with his or 669 00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:59,480 her looks or they stature. I've already eliminated him. 670 00:47:01,520 --> 00:47:04,920 That brother went down the whole sibling line and God said I 671 00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:06,680 don't want him. Yeah, be fine to them, but I 672 00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:07,600 don't. I don't want him. 673 00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:15,200 God judges persons differently than humans do, men and women. 674 00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:18,480 Look at the face. I'll eat my. 675 00:47:18,880 --> 00:47:22,960 Oh, girl, you see. Got the men at the gym just 676 00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:30,360 working overtime just to show you a little body, man. 677 00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:31,920 I can't sit in the gym that long, man. 678 00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:35,160 I'm like guys, guys be like. And then you throw some girls in 679 00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:44,080 there, you know, You know, Andrew, they can't even move 680 00:47:44,120 --> 00:47:50,400 just walking around like this holding a little bro DJ. 681 00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:13,200 God looks into the heart. It is a dangerous time that 682 00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:18,040 we're in that we don't know how to look past the physical. 683 00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:27,280 We have to make a choice of who and what will be allowed to nest 684 00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:34,360 in our hearts in this season. We have to be very selective and 685 00:48:34,360 --> 00:48:40,120 wise in who and what we allow to nest in our hearts. 686 00:48:42,760 --> 00:48:50,400 Like today, not next week, not after I read a book like 687 00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:54,280 tonight. You have to make a choice that 688 00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:56,200 some stuff you allowed in your heart. 689 00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:59,520 You will no longer let it in your heart, at least until 690 00:48:59,640 --> 00:49:02,680 you're strong enough and you have boundaries. 691 00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:06,240 Boundaries are beautiful because it does some sifting for you. 692 00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:10,120 Boundaries keep you from having to repeat yourself. 693 00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:17,600 You just got to repeat the boundary for again, the 694 00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:21,400 scripture says to you people, if only today you would listen to 695 00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:24,000 his voice. Don't make him angry by 696 00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:28,760 hardening your hearts as you did in the wilderness or the last 697 00:49:28,760 --> 00:49:32,880 season. In this new season, you got to 698 00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:35,360 have a tender heart. Is it? 699 00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:36,680 Is it? Is it risky? 700 00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:39,440 Absolutely. Is he vulnerable? 701 00:49:39,440 --> 00:49:41,680 Absolutely. But a vulnerable heart is a 702 00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:49,320 healthy heart. It's a healthy heart, Elijah 703 00:49:49,320 --> 00:49:52,480 challenged the people. How long are you going to sit on 704 00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:56,240 the fence? If God is the real God, then 705 00:49:56,240 --> 00:49:59,600 follow him. If the world is the real world, 706 00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:01,680 then, then, and the real God then. 707 00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:07,400 Make up your mind today. Forget a New Year's resolution. 708 00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:12,840 Make up your mind to follow God or not not be religious and just 709 00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:14,280 go to church. Follow. 710 00:50:14,480 --> 00:50:18,880 God, nobody said a word. Nobody. 711 00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:22,160 Made a move. Because it's a serious decision. 712 00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:30,320 You go on, he says. How long will you hesitate 713 00:50:30,320 --> 00:50:36,520 between two opinions? He goes on to Deuteronomy and 714 00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:41,640 says I place before you life and death, blessing and curse. 715 00:50:42,440 --> 00:50:47,160 Choose life, I suggest to you so that you and your children will 716 00:50:47,160 --> 00:50:50,320 live. Your choice of how you choose to 717 00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:54,000 live will have generational ramifications. 718 00:51:01,880 --> 00:51:08,400 And then I saw this a long life settled on the soil that God, 719 00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:13,840 your God, promised to give your ancestors, the soil, the soil. 720 00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:19,040 Not everybody will be land owners or soil owners, but you 721 00:51:19,040 --> 00:51:22,640 do have a soil that you have responsibility for and it's 722 00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:27,040 called your heart. And then we've been reading this 723 00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:27,880 scripture. For a long. 724 00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:31,080 Time Haven't we Love Quest. Make the road straight and 725 00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:36,920 smooth. A highway fit for our God. 726 00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:38,920 I want you to see this part highlighted. 727 00:51:39,240 --> 00:51:47,080 Clear out the rocks. Clear out the rocks. 728 00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:52,520 Clear out the rocks. Understand. 729 00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:54,280 Clear out the rocks. Shout it out. 730 00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:55,280 Can you? Can you? 731 00:51:55,280 --> 00:51:57,360 Can you just? No, no, that don't mean say it 732 00:51:57,360 --> 00:51:59,200 dude, that's fine. You can say it and if you want 733 00:51:59,240 --> 00:52:01,720 to can y'all just make a nice little Just just going to play 734 00:52:01,720 --> 00:52:03,480 with the play DoH for right. Play DoH right now. 735 00:52:03,480 --> 00:52:05,720 Clay DoH whatever you want on Waco. 736 00:52:05,720 --> 00:52:09,480 Whatever say clear out the rocks you see. 737 00:52:10,000 --> 00:52:12,840 Listen, listen. Get the road ready. 738 00:52:15,320 --> 00:52:18,680 Repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand. 739 00:52:19,800 --> 00:52:24,640 Repent means turn. It means this is the scripture 740 00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:28,440 as well. It means get the stones out your 741 00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:35,520 heart, unhearden your heart, turn away from wickedness, clear 742 00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:43,600 out the rocks, and then we go. Matthew 4 from the time on that 743 00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:46,840 Jesus began to proclaim his message with with these words 744 00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:52,000 keep turning away because the Kingdom is now accessible and 745 00:52:52,000 --> 00:52:56,280 what's important is to remember he's saying turn away because 746 00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:59,520 the Kingdom is accessible or it's available for you. 747 00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:03,480 Why is he saying repent? Why is he saying get the stones 748 00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:05,600 out your heart? It's because when they asked the 749 00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:09,040 question about where's the Kingdom coming from, he says the 750 00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:12,160 Kingdom is not discovered in one place or another for God's 751 00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:14,640 Kingdom. Realm is already expanding. 752 00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:19,800 Where within some of you? Why some of you? 753 00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:24,160 Because not everybody got the stones out of their hearts. 754 00:53:24,760 --> 00:53:29,080 And with a hard heart, Kingdom can expand, he says. 755 00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:32,920 The Kingdom is within you, in your hearts. 756 00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:34,680 Why do you need to have your heart ready? 757 00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:37,640 Get the road ready. It's your heart. 758 00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:41,160 Because your heart is the road into the earth. 759 00:53:44,000 --> 00:53:49,640 Your heart is the road into the earth, and here's where it 760 00:53:49,640 --> 00:53:52,520 lands. Then he said to them, if you 761 00:53:52,560 --> 00:53:58,320 don't understand this parable, how will you understand anything 762 00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:01,960 I'm saying? Because he said, I speak through 763 00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:05,520 parables so that whoever has ears, let them hear. 764 00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:09,120 Whoever has eyes, let them see. If you really want to see God's 765 00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:13,440 truth, you are going to have to live and look in such a way that 766 00:54:13,440 --> 00:54:14,760 you're going to have to deny self. 767 00:54:14,760 --> 00:54:16,120 You're going to have to fast and pray. 768 00:54:16,240 --> 00:54:18,840 You're going to have to ask the right questions, and it's going 769 00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:19,640 to. You have to be right. 770 00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:25,440 By revelation, the farmer sows the message of the Kingdom. 771 00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:30,080 Everything God has for you starts with a sown word. 772 00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:31,640 Right. This is, this is. 773 00:54:32,080 --> 00:54:36,920 I asked my man to bring me some seeds this morning, and I love 774 00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:41,120 how his little young mind was. The brother brought me sunflower 775 00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:48,800 seeds and I'm looking for plant seeds, but we going to use them 776 00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:58,360 anyway. So the message is sewn week 777 00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:01,480 after week in the church like this, man. 778 00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:04,480 You get word on Monday, you get word on Tuesday, you get word on 779 00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:06,840 Wednesday, you get word on Thursday, you get word on 780 00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:14,800 Friday, You get what I'm saying. I'm sorry. 781 00:55:14,880 --> 00:55:19,120 Guest services, I'm sorry. You get word all week. 782 00:55:20,360 --> 00:55:22,920 You get word coming in different kind of ways, different type of 783 00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:25,080 voices, right? And where is it falling? 784 00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:28,720 It's falling, right? And even between the mats and 785 00:55:28,720 --> 00:55:31,920 here is different types of soil. You didn't hear that, did you? 786 00:55:38,280 --> 00:55:42,320 That's a hard heart. They're going to have to look 787 00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:44,640 for that. I want. 788 00:55:44,720 --> 00:55:57,480 I want you to listen, right? But too many, too many times we 789 00:55:57,480 --> 00:56:01,240 come to church because we think we have to and it's some good 790 00:56:01,240 --> 00:56:03,120 word that happens. So you want to know why we 791 00:56:03,120 --> 00:56:09,200 worship for an hour so we can soften this because when it's 792 00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:20,920 like that all the enemies like 12345678 hey but he but but, but 793 00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:23,640 if it was on at least a different type of soil he'll 794 00:56:23,640 --> 00:56:28,920 have to right? He got a. 795 00:56:29,080 --> 00:56:32,520 He got a He got a feel for it. You get what I'm saying. 796 00:56:34,360 --> 00:56:37,240 So when we're worshipping, it's so we can, I'm not worried. 797 00:56:37,240 --> 00:56:39,560 That's why we can't just give you 3 songs and and then this 798 00:56:39,560 --> 00:56:45,080 perfected message and it's perfected when it's LED because 799 00:56:45,080 --> 00:56:47,880 they and This is why we do music in between because there's a 800 00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:50,480 word that goes forth and then what we're trying to do is 801 00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:52,680 through the music and having these moments of breakout. 802 00:56:52,680 --> 00:56:56,680 It's it's just get it in there get it deep. 803 00:56:56,800 --> 00:57:02,520 Listen I'm really a farmer not just a shepherd and I'm anointed 804 00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:07,120 to farm and so I'm killing it. I don't mind if you leave the 805 00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:09,080 church because it takes too much time to till. 806 00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:14,520 But if people do their own tilling and come to church 807 00:57:14,520 --> 00:57:16,880 ready, we don't have to take as long to get to your heart, 808 00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:21,440 because God's after the. Heart. 809 00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:29,240 So he says the message of the Kingdom, it's what falls on the 810 00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:35,040 beaten path, represents who hear the message, but immediately, 811 00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:39,760 immediately, immediately, like even during service. 812 00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:46,760 I see people get on their phone during service the word going 813 00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:52,120 forth and you what we eating later on steal the word, right? 814 00:57:52,120 --> 00:57:55,720 Because you hear the word it lands, boy, you got to write it 815 00:57:55,720 --> 00:57:58,680 because when you write it, it does something, it it, it, it 816 00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:02,480 engraves it on your memory. And then I can't just write it, 817 00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:05,920 but I got to look at it and then I got to look at it and get it 818 00:58:05,920 --> 00:58:08,880 in my mouth and then I got to digest it and then I got to 819 00:58:09,080 --> 00:58:11,080 protect it. And then some of you, it gets 820 00:58:11,080 --> 00:58:15,400 stolen as soon as you get in the car, and some of you get stolen 821 00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:16,360 as soon as you get. Home. 822 00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:19,880 Some of you might get stolen Monday. 823 00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:25,520 That's why we come to midweek, so we can get it back in there 824 00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:32,960 or replace it quickly. So he says Satan appears and 825 00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:38,040 snatches it from their hearts. He didn't snatch it from the 826 00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:42,920 farmer, he snatched it from the soil. 827 00:58:44,480 --> 00:58:48,360 I'm good. Thank God you come to a church 828 00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:51,120 where somebody is going to really, really like, not just 829 00:58:51,120 --> 00:58:52,720 throw seeds at you. Say bye, bye. 830 00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:56,240 No, we're trying to get this word in your heart so you can be 831 00:58:56,240 --> 00:59:00,040 transformed and he says. And what is sown on gravel? 832 00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:02,760 Right. You see? 833 00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:04,720 You see that? I mean one day we're going to 834 00:59:04,720 --> 00:59:06,480 have like big displays and stuff. 835 00:59:06,480 --> 00:59:08,520 You get what I'm saying. But when we look at gravel, 836 00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:14,240 gravel is is, it's loose, right? It's a lot of places and it and 837 00:59:14,240 --> 00:59:19,320 it could get the sea, can get lost in the gravel, but it never 838 00:59:19,320 --> 00:59:23,080 gets into the soil. Like having a gravel heart. 839 00:59:23,080 --> 00:59:26,160 Having a Stony heart is not right. 840 00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:28,400 Give me. Give me some. 841 00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:30,520 Clay, give me some. Clay. 842 00:59:30,520 --> 00:59:32,280 I love how you made a heart. Do you know what I'm saying? 843 00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:34,040 Laura was moving on your heart, huh. 844 00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:38,040 Right. You're like, this is how your 845 00:59:38,040 --> 00:59:43,480 heart. For some of you your heart looks 846 00:59:45,200 --> 00:59:49,000 right. It looks like that like 847 00:59:49,080 --> 00:59:54,440 bitterness is taking up space in your heart like and God is 848 00:59:54,440 --> 00:59:58,160 constantly like, can we just. Can we just get that out? 849 00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:00,920 And sometime that comes with accountability and hearing hard 850 01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:03,480 things. But I'd much rather hear hard 851 01:00:03,480 --> 01:00:07,920 things and make room for God than to do this. 852 01:00:09,760 --> 01:00:13,960 Leave my stones alone. Right. 853 01:00:14,440 --> 01:00:25,960 And then this is what happens. The farmer comes and it's just 854 01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:31,240 hitting stones. It it, it doesn't have a true 855 01:00:31,240 --> 01:00:40,400 place to dig into, so the devil's like I can't stop what 856 01:00:40,400 --> 01:00:43,280 God does, but boy, if I can get them. 857 01:00:43,560 --> 01:00:48,120 In a relationship that starts off super promising and they 858 01:00:48,120 --> 01:00:52,960 later hurt them. Because that kid doesn't have 859 01:00:52,960 --> 01:00:56,280 the support group you have. That kid doesn't have parents 860 01:00:56,280 --> 01:01:01,360 like you have. You see, you get it in there. 861 01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:08,080 And here's the power while it's in there. 862 01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:14,600 This is made to nurture it. It just got to get in the ground 863 01:01:16,160 --> 01:01:20,280 and then the soil does what it was created to do, right? 864 01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:24,400 And so we go forward and it says that it gets in the gravel, 865 01:01:24,400 --> 01:01:29,400 Listen, who hear the message and receive it joyfully, right. 866 01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:32,480 That's why, like, I'm not like, I love when the people are like, 867 01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:33,840 like, a lot of they're always joyful. 868 01:01:33,840 --> 01:01:41,720 And there's some people standing up and like, Oh yeah, and they 869 01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:43,640 dance with me. That's what we supposed to do. 870 01:01:44,560 --> 01:01:47,520 That's what we supposed to do, because look what happens. 871 01:01:47,920 --> 01:01:54,560 But because their hearts fail to sink a deep root, this is 872 01:01:54,560 --> 01:01:57,640 important. They don't endure for long. 873 01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:03,160 So receiving it joyfully is good, because I at least endure 874 01:02:03,160 --> 01:02:07,360 for a while. But we got to we got to begin to 875 01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:11,640 lengthen the time we know how to endure or we can't endure, so 876 01:02:11,640 --> 01:02:15,600 they don't endure for long. This is why you don't endure for 877 01:02:15,600 --> 01:02:18,120 long. And this how you know how far 878 01:02:18,120 --> 01:02:22,600 the seed is went for when trouble or persecution comes. 879 01:02:23,600 --> 01:02:29,120 It don't come because people really hate you, but the enemy 880 01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:33,040 that's using. Them is coming for the seed. 881 01:02:34,760 --> 01:02:37,000 It's like these sunflower seeds or any seed. 882 01:02:37,440 --> 01:02:42,880 The potential is in the itty bitty seed and you gotta some 883 01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:48,400 season spend time away from hate to spend time away off of social 884 01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:53,800 media so you can allow the seed to grow to a point where it's 885 01:02:53,800 --> 01:03:00,640 too late to damage it. Can you withstand a season long 886 01:03:00,640 --> 01:03:04,480 enough so a seed can produce fruit? 887 01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:08,560 Now it's too late because your seed had babies. 888 01:03:09,760 --> 01:03:14,560 Now instead of messing with one of us, you messing with, right 889 01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:18,200 We we got to endure through this building process because if we 890 01:03:18,200 --> 01:03:21,200 endure through the building process, there's hundreds of 891 01:03:21,200 --> 01:03:27,000 more of us coming. So the enemy want to try to 892 01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:30,960 discourage us with delay in the building process and building 893 01:03:30,960 --> 01:03:34,440 permits and see, no, no, no, no. But we've went through a period 894 01:03:34,440 --> 01:03:40,040 of exercise where we pastor T and Pastor Julia was proven 895 01:03:40,040 --> 01:03:43,400 through the pandemic. Not knowing the pandemic was 896 01:03:43,400 --> 01:03:49,400 preparing us for the city. You you notice how God didn't 897 01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:55,000 give us nothing until we passed and we was faithful over 898 01:03:55,000 --> 01:04:03,360 somebody elses? But when trouble came, it says 899 01:04:03,360 --> 01:04:05,640 they immediately wilt away. And you wonder how people 900 01:04:05,640 --> 01:04:07,160 listen. You don't get offended. 901 01:04:07,160 --> 01:04:08,480 See em. We don't get offended when we 902 01:04:08,480 --> 01:04:10,960 see people. Who are like whoo I'm on your. 903 01:04:10,960 --> 01:04:13,000 Team. And then one day you don't see 904 01:04:13,000 --> 01:04:18,200 em. It speaks to the soil I'm 905 01:04:18,200 --> 01:04:20,320 talking about when you ain't did nothing wrong. 906 01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:30,040 What is sown amongst thorns? Thorns won't get that out for me 907 01:04:32,040 --> 01:04:36,480 represents those who hear the message, but they allow the 908 01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:44,040 cares of this life and the seduction of wealth and the 909 01:04:44,040 --> 01:04:51,160 desires for other things to crowd out and choke the message 910 01:04:51,440 --> 01:04:58,560 so that they produce nothing. This is the people with unkept 911 01:04:58,560 --> 01:05:04,920 weeds in their heart and thorns. And when I think of thorns, I 912 01:05:04,920 --> 01:05:08,880 think the Lord is saying people that don't let the word get too 913 01:05:08,880 --> 01:05:10,800 close to a more accountability order. 914 01:05:11,400 --> 01:05:15,000 Divine leaders in your life. You just keep them at a 915 01:05:15,000 --> 01:05:18,640 distance. Keep them at a distance. 916 01:05:18,640 --> 01:05:21,960 You keep your thorns up and you keep your thorns out because 917 01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:25,760 you're too afraid to let go of the cares of the world and your 918 01:05:25,760 --> 01:05:30,480 selfish ambitions. Not knowing that selfishness 919 01:05:30,480 --> 01:05:38,520 will always choke out the word. And you produce nothing but what 920 01:05:38,520 --> 01:05:44,960 is sown on good soil. Should have got some good soil. 921 01:05:47,240 --> 01:05:50,840 It represents those who open their hearts. 922 01:05:51,960 --> 01:05:56,080 That's me, is that we got anybody over here That's like my 923 01:05:56,080 --> 01:06:00,040 heart is open. They open their hearts to 924 01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:04,960 receive the message, and their lives bear good fruit. 925 01:06:06,400 --> 01:06:10,760 Some yield a harvest of 3060 even a hundredfold. 926 01:06:10,760 --> 01:06:12,800 This is based on levels of faith. 927 01:06:14,480 --> 01:06:17,600 An open heart is what God is after. 928 01:06:18,160 --> 01:06:24,200 Those sown on good, well adapted soil are the ones who hear the 929 01:06:24,200 --> 01:06:27,720 word, receive it and accept it and welcome it, and bear fruit. 930 01:06:28,240 --> 01:06:33,240 Here's what I need to tell you. Your soil is no good if you 931 01:06:33,240 --> 01:06:38,720 church hop. Your soil is no good if you 932 01:06:38,720 --> 01:06:40,200 can't get rooted in a church home. 933 01:06:41,120 --> 01:06:44,120 Your soil is no good if you're offended with the farmer. 934 01:06:46,960 --> 01:06:49,080 So if you're offended with the farmer, it doesn't matter how 935 01:06:49,080 --> 01:06:52,560 much you sit in church and say that was good, but it won't be 936 01:06:52,560 --> 01:06:56,560 good for you because you can't get over whatever you're 937 01:06:56,560 --> 01:07:04,560 offended about. We, our hearts must be tilled 938 01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:08,360 for every season, and every season is meant to have a 939 01:07:08,360 --> 01:07:12,040 tilling patch taking us from glory to glory. 940 01:07:12,040 --> 01:07:16,280 Every season will have a moment in it where God needs your heart 941 01:07:16,280 --> 01:07:20,840 tilled. Every season, every season. 942 01:07:21,640 --> 01:07:28,080 The goal is you, not it. Hated by family, left for dead 943 01:07:28,080 --> 01:07:32,800 by siblings, accused of rape. Forgotten in prison. 944 01:07:33,240 --> 01:07:39,520 He still had a heart for his siblings that left him for dead. 945 01:07:40,080 --> 01:07:44,400 My question to you is how is the soul of your heart? 946 01:07:46,680 --> 01:07:51,600 Where is your heart at? You got bitterness anywhere in 947 01:07:51,600 --> 01:07:55,000 your life. You have unforgiveness anywhere 948 01:07:55,000 --> 01:08:00,160 in your life. Do you have a hard heart versus 949 01:08:00,320 --> 01:08:01,760 A? Guarded heart. 950 01:08:04,400 --> 01:08:06,480 You have boundaries or do you have walls? 951 01:08:08,520 --> 01:08:11,120 What, what, how? How does your heart really look 952 01:08:12,320 --> 01:08:13,880 tonight? Are you willing to say, Lord, 953 01:08:13,880 --> 01:08:21,240 come in and do heart surgery and get these stones out my heart so 954 01:08:21,240 --> 01:08:26,560 you can make room for seeds? See some of you that you can't 955 01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:30,479 even see it. So you got to spend a season so 956 01:08:30,479 --> 01:08:38,920 God can dig in there like, oh there's another stone And then 957 01:08:38,920 --> 01:08:45,399 there's seasons where his hands he will do this in your life and 958 01:08:45,399 --> 01:08:47,240 you like can we just get on to the blessing? 959 01:08:47,240 --> 01:08:52,200 And he's like, no, I'm rubbing up against you. 960 01:08:52,920 --> 01:08:55,319 I'm putting you in some circumstances. 961 01:08:56,120 --> 01:09:03,080 So you know, the coast is clear for me to come in 2024. 962 01:09:03,479 --> 01:09:06,319 Everything you've been through, Troy, everything you've been 963 01:09:06,319 --> 01:09:10,920 through, Annabeth, every challenge you've been in Bianca, 964 01:09:10,920 --> 01:09:17,439 every everything that we've been through has been God preparing 965 01:09:18,479 --> 01:09:22,600 your heart. What you're going to find out 966 01:09:22,600 --> 01:09:35,520 before this year is over is that you are moldable, and what God 967 01:09:35,520 --> 01:09:41,479 wants is moldable Children. Not resistant children, but 968 01:09:41,479 --> 01:09:43,520 children that will. Get in the hands of the. 969 01:09:43,520 --> 01:09:47,000 Potter. And let them shape their lives. 970 01:09:48,920 --> 01:09:51,880 And in every season there's a different form that he may need 971 01:09:51,880 --> 01:09:54,400 you to be. But OK, PT. 972 01:09:54,400 --> 01:09:55,840 And this is what people don't understand. 973 01:09:55,840 --> 01:10:01,880 I'm sorry if being LED is inconvenient to some people, but 974 01:10:01,880 --> 01:10:06,040 I've given my life to the Lord. And when you get the stones out, 975 01:10:07,160 --> 01:10:11,400 then I'm on the Potter's will, not yours. 976 01:10:13,080 --> 01:10:18,800 And I don't know about you, but you should follow leaders who 977 01:10:18,800 --> 01:10:23,480 are in the Potter's hands and on the masters time. 978 01:10:25,200 --> 01:10:27,200 Stop trying to get people in your hands. 979 01:10:27,200 --> 01:10:29,080 This you want to do this to people. 980 01:10:30,560 --> 01:10:32,960 Shape them around your time and your schedule. 981 01:10:33,360 --> 01:10:35,800 And God said, I promise you what you trying to shape up? 982 01:10:36,720 --> 01:10:42,200 You ain't going to want it. Our question is. 983 01:10:42,200 --> 01:10:43,280 If you were. Honest. 984 01:10:44,040 --> 01:10:52,630 Can God do this with your heart or you? 985 01:10:52,630 --> 01:11:02,670 Is your heart like this towards your spouse all right? 986 01:11:02,950 --> 01:11:09,750 Or does it look like this? All right, Looks like this. 987 01:11:09,750 --> 01:11:19,880 But it's the moment something poke at it that's revealed right 988 01:11:20,040 --> 01:11:22,600 when things are all good, you lovey dovey, You say all the 989 01:11:22,600 --> 01:11:28,400 nice things right, but the moment they rub you the wrong 990 01:11:28,400 --> 01:11:33,160 way. Oh, there that stone go again. 991 01:11:33,160 --> 01:11:34,600 No. No, no he didn't. 992 01:11:34,600 --> 01:11:42,920 Die so we can cover the stone. He died so he can remove the 993 01:11:42,920 --> 01:11:47,880 stone. Papa was a Rolling Stone. 994 01:11:51,320 --> 01:11:57,000 I don't know about you tonight, but I feel some people in their 995 01:11:57,000 --> 01:12:05,000 hearts are like, I'm scared. I don't know how it's going to 996 01:12:05,000 --> 01:12:06,960 look. There's some of you in here. 997 01:12:08,720 --> 01:12:11,880 You've never had this because here, here you go. 998 01:12:11,880 --> 01:12:17,680 To your credit, you've had to be so strong, but but the same way 999 01:12:17,680 --> 01:12:22,840 that we had to lead differently out of Covic than being in 1000 01:12:22,840 --> 01:12:30,240 Covic, there's a way you have to live out of trauma than in 1001 01:12:30,240 --> 01:12:32,840 trauma. And I'm here to tell you, if you 1002 01:12:32,840 --> 01:12:36,880 can believe me, that your trauma is over and has been defeated, 1003 01:12:39,280 --> 01:12:40,560 then you you. Actually. 1004 01:12:40,560 --> 01:12:44,360 Have a new heart and a new life to live, waiting for you. 1005 01:12:45,440 --> 01:12:49,160 We were in the back and a man right here was helping someone 1006 01:12:49,160 --> 01:12:56,200 with some back pain and he was talking about how he did some 1007 01:12:56,200 --> 01:12:59,560 release work on a few people. But one person in particular, 1008 01:12:59,920 --> 01:13:05,760 and and help me if I'm wrong, he released whatever was going on, 1009 01:13:07,080 --> 01:13:10,720 but the person couldn't feel the release or the results of the 1010 01:13:10,720 --> 01:13:14,840 release. So then he did it again. 1011 01:13:15,640 --> 01:13:23,240 And I think you had her do an exercise or something where not 1012 01:13:23,240 --> 01:13:30,200 only was she doing this, but she had to lean into the trauma and 1013 01:13:30,200 --> 01:13:33,200 then it was released. Because your body, although 1014 01:13:33,200 --> 01:13:39,440 something is released, it will hold the memory, am I right? 1015 01:13:39,960 --> 01:13:43,840 It will hold the memory. So you are responding to a 1016 01:13:43,880 --> 01:13:50,720 memory versus a fact, right, 'cause you're you've been 1017 01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:53,440 holding on? You you get what I'm saying. 1018 01:13:53,600 --> 01:13:56,920 You have to understand the way this looks. 1019 01:13:58,160 --> 01:13:59,640 Right. Let me let me do it this way. 1020 01:14:00,960 --> 01:14:03,040 Right. This is the way it looks. 1021 01:14:06,560 --> 01:14:08,520 You got it. It's the way it looks. 1022 01:14:08,520 --> 01:14:11,200 One day we'll have cameras, big old screen, and you, the camera 1023 01:14:11,200 --> 01:14:12,360 going to zoom up and it's going to be. 1024 01:14:12,360 --> 01:14:14,840 But I ain't got to do this right. 1025 01:14:17,000 --> 01:14:19,600 This is the way it looks. This is the way. 1026 01:14:19,760 --> 01:14:22,280 No, no, no cameras. Not for people at home, but but 1027 01:14:22,280 --> 01:14:23,960 it's going to be on the screen. You know what I'm saying? 1028 01:14:24,240 --> 01:14:29,280 But for you at home. This is the way it looks you got 1029 01:14:29,280 --> 01:14:32,400 it. Is this helping anybody? 1030 01:14:33,400 --> 01:14:37,240 OK And what happens is the release work happens. 1031 01:14:37,640 --> 01:14:44,160 Help me Lord, make this work. You have really been released. 1032 01:14:45,480 --> 01:14:56,200 What you're experiencing is the whole and God's like, no, now I 1033 01:14:56,200 --> 01:15:02,240 can feel it. You know what I'm saying? 1034 01:15:02,240 --> 01:15:08,040 And and So what you're experiencing right after freedom 1035 01:15:08,040 --> 01:15:14,120 is vulnerability because technically it hasn't been 1036 01:15:14,120 --> 01:15:16,440 replaced. Because you might not have the 1037 01:15:16,440 --> 01:15:19,520 new language, you might not have the scriptures, you might not 1038 01:15:19,520 --> 01:15:22,360 have the new relationship. You might have just got somebody 1039 01:15:22,440 --> 01:15:25,360 out of your life or a thought that's been there a bondage 1040 01:15:25,360 --> 01:15:26,760 this. You've been there for so long, 1041 01:15:26,960 --> 01:15:29,080 so you haven't gotten the replacement. 1042 01:15:31,840 --> 01:15:34,600 So you're experiencing this, and the temptation is. 1043 01:15:34,960 --> 01:15:45,120 To go back and fill it. That's why it says that the you 1044 01:15:45,120 --> 01:15:50,920 got free and the enemy came back and said, let me go back home to 1045 01:15:50,920 --> 01:15:54,720 my house. And he looked in the windows and 1046 01:15:54,720 --> 01:16:00,160 he saw it was still available because you didn't feel it. 1047 01:16:03,480 --> 01:16:06,480 And it came back seven times stronger because the devil 1048 01:16:06,480 --> 01:16:08,800 remember the last time he got kicked out. 1049 01:16:10,240 --> 01:16:15,800 So he like this time I got to come a little stronger and get 1050 01:16:15,800 --> 01:16:18,120 deeper roots. That's why when it comes back, 1051 01:16:19,040 --> 01:16:21,080 it's stronger than it was before. 1052 01:16:22,560 --> 01:16:26,920 And I feel like there's a grace for you and there's a 1053 01:16:26,920 --> 01:16:31,040 courageousness for you to not be afraid of this. 1054 01:16:36,440 --> 01:16:41,280 No, filling it with alcohol, filling it with drugs, filling 1055 01:16:41,280 --> 01:16:45,440 it with pornography, it it really won't help. 1056 01:16:48,640 --> 01:16:54,040 The Lord is saying, will you allow me to take that stone and 1057 01:16:54,040 --> 01:17:01,880 I promise you, I'll fill the hole and replace it with an even 1058 01:17:01,880 --> 01:17:07,920 stronger muscle. I don't know who I'm talking to, 1059 01:17:09,520 --> 01:17:15,040 but if you are honest, vulnerable, not emotional, but 1060 01:17:15,040 --> 01:17:20,680 you could be like that's facts. I know I've been always 1061 01:17:20,680 --> 01:17:26,960 protecting myself because I have had to and that's how my parents 1062 01:17:26,960 --> 01:17:29,480 had to like. I grew up in a family that had 1063 01:17:29,480 --> 01:17:33,160 to survive. If that's you. 1064 01:17:33,160 --> 01:17:38,800 Or, and you like. No, I want to depend on God. 1065 01:17:39,680 --> 01:17:42,960 I want to let go of the chains of having to have control. 1066 01:17:43,880 --> 01:17:48,080 I want to let go of that orphan spirit and being afraid of being 1067 01:17:48,080 --> 01:17:53,600 abandoned in this moment, If that is you and I could pray 1068 01:17:53,600 --> 01:17:59,960 with you. If I could pray with you and we 1069 01:17:59,960 --> 01:18:03,720 can pray with you. I really believe that God's 1070 01:18:03,720 --> 01:18:08,440 about to do a great work in your life, and he's about to do a 1071 01:18:08,440 --> 01:18:11,760 great work in your family's life. 1072 01:18:15,280 --> 01:18:19,840 But while I'm waiting, I'm going to get these stones out of my 1073 01:18:19,840 --> 01:18:23,640 heart. And every stone that comes out 1074 01:18:23,640 --> 01:18:25,640 of my heart, I'm getting stronger. 1075 01:18:28,480 --> 01:18:35,560 If that's you, I want to pray for you. 1076 01:18:38,040 --> 01:18:44,240 I don't care if you serve it. I don't want people serving with 1077 01:18:44,240 --> 01:19:02,400 stones in their heart. Lord your servant, ask the Stone 1078 01:19:02,400 --> 01:19:05,920 of Fear. We lay it down tonight. 1079 01:19:07,200 --> 01:19:14,640 The Stone of Anxiety. We lay it down tonight, Lord, 1080 01:19:14,640 --> 01:19:19,960 roll away the Stone of Lies. And we believe that we're not 1081 01:19:19,960 --> 01:19:25,120 good enough. That's a lie and we won't make 1082 01:19:25,120 --> 01:19:26,880 it. That's a lie. 1083 01:19:32,760 --> 01:19:35,520 I'm not qualified. That's a lie. 1084 01:19:38,000 --> 01:19:44,640 And I'm not worth anything good. That's a lie, and I'm not worth 1085 01:19:44,640 --> 01:19:46,800 living. That's a lie or I'm not loved. 1086 01:19:47,080 --> 01:19:52,880 That's a lie. Tonight, Lord, your children are 1087 01:19:52,880 --> 01:20:06,920 here to lay our stones down. And if that's you tonight, if 1088 01:20:06,920 --> 01:20:11,320 you have any stones to lay down. Stand to your feet. 1089 01:20:12,480 --> 01:20:16,800 I want to pray with you, and I'm promise you if you don't. 1090 01:20:17,040 --> 01:20:20,440 Please, That is amazing. You need to be praying for us. 1091 01:20:32,120 --> 01:20:37,760 Some of you I want. I want this to be a moment of 1092 01:20:37,760 --> 01:20:46,480 last. I really want you to, and I want 1093 01:20:46,480 --> 01:20:48,480 you. There's a grace to fill it 1094 01:20:49,680 --> 01:20:51,920 because you're about to get rid of it. 1095 01:20:53,080 --> 01:20:57,800 Hear what I'm telling you? There's a grace right now, and 1096 01:20:57,800 --> 01:21:00,120 the Holy Spirit's going to move on your heart and there's going 1097 01:21:00,120 --> 01:21:01,680 to be an emotion that comes with it. 1098 01:21:03,400 --> 01:21:05,600 But this is going to be a moment where you have permission and a 1099 01:21:05,600 --> 01:21:14,400 safe place to admit I am scared. And then you're within yourself. 1100 01:21:14,440 --> 01:21:18,040 I am scared of what? And then this is going to be a 1101 01:21:18,040 --> 01:21:19,960 place where you can admit safe place. 1102 01:21:19,960 --> 01:21:22,360 The Holy Spirit, I'm telling you why we're going to tap into that 1103 01:21:22,560 --> 01:21:26,360 is because he's here to take it. I am so angry. 1104 01:21:29,760 --> 01:21:31,880 I am so angry that you put me through that. 1105 01:21:31,880 --> 01:21:34,320 That person may be here. That person may not be here. 1106 01:21:34,440 --> 01:21:37,160 It's not for you to tell them that, but it's for you to tap 1107 01:21:37,160 --> 01:21:39,160 into that thing. No, I am still angry. 1108 01:21:39,160 --> 01:21:42,000 Why do you need to tap into it? Because it is a stone. 1109 01:21:42,800 --> 01:21:47,840 I am so angry with you. Yes, I forgive you, but I'm 1110 01:21:47,840 --> 01:21:49,640 still angry. You put us through that. 1111 01:21:55,120 --> 01:21:57,680 You may be in here. You like, man, I am so afraid to 1112 01:21:57,680 --> 01:22:00,960 dying because too many people in my community, too many people in 1113 01:22:00,960 --> 01:22:03,200 my family. I've had several people in my 1114 01:22:03,200 --> 01:22:08,720 family die of cancer or or or colon cancer or or or hepatitis, 1115 01:22:08,720 --> 01:22:10,640 any anything, brain tumors, whatever. 1116 01:22:10,760 --> 01:22:14,200 I am scared to death. See, those are things that cause 1117 01:22:14,200 --> 01:22:17,000 us in order to live another day. We got to harden our hearts. 1118 01:22:18,160 --> 01:22:21,400 I'm so angry. I am so ticked that my parents 1119 01:22:21,400 --> 01:22:26,840 left me. And when I say these things, if 1120 01:22:26,840 --> 01:22:33,880 nothing comes up, amazing. But there's some of you I I 1121 01:22:34,040 --> 01:22:37,640 here's one, I am so angry that my parents didn't take care of 1122 01:22:37,640 --> 01:22:39,600 themselves and that's why they're sick. 1123 01:22:40,880 --> 01:22:47,080 And now I got to deal with it. I'm so angry. 1124 01:22:47,080 --> 01:22:52,040 They weren't responsible with money or I'm so angry that they 1125 01:22:52,040 --> 01:22:57,320 beat me. I'm so angry and my husband or 1126 01:22:57,320 --> 01:22:59,920 my wife doesn't think it's important enough to let those 1127 01:22:59,920 --> 01:23:05,200 drugs go, let that alcohol go. I'm angry, I'm ticked. 1128 01:23:05,800 --> 01:23:09,760 I'm bitter. I'm afraid. 1129 01:23:09,760 --> 01:23:17,240 Whatever it is, I can't believe my children did that. 1130 01:23:18,280 --> 01:23:20,040 I can't believe that pastor did that. 1131 01:23:21,000 --> 01:23:22,640 I can't believe my uncle did that. 1132 01:23:22,680 --> 01:23:26,520 I am angry. Here's the scripture, Lord. 1133 01:23:26,840 --> 01:23:33,880 Lord, search my heart. And that's the heart. 1134 01:23:33,880 --> 01:23:35,520 The posture we're taking right now. 1135 01:23:35,520 --> 01:23:41,600 Lord, Lord, search my heart and you at home. 1136 01:23:41,600 --> 01:23:45,760 Lord, search my heart. Expose anything that's in my 1137 01:23:45,760 --> 01:23:47,680 heart. Even if it's a little Pebble, 1138 01:23:49,240 --> 01:23:52,600 may I not stand here with pride and and sit here and be looking 1139 01:23:53,600 --> 01:23:54,960 and asking the wrong questions? Huh. 1140 01:23:55,080 --> 01:23:58,120 I think I'm good. Is it anything wrong with me? 1141 01:23:58,280 --> 01:24:04,160 No, that's the wrong question. Lord, what do you see in me that 1142 01:24:04,160 --> 01:24:07,360 you want? That's the question. 1143 01:24:08,160 --> 01:24:10,240 That pride. That fear, That ego. 1144 01:24:20,040 --> 01:24:21,720 I'm scared for my family back home. 1145 01:24:23,000 --> 01:24:26,520 I'm. I'm scared I can't come through 1146 01:24:26,520 --> 01:24:38,360 for my family. That's you in here, man. 1147 01:24:40,480 --> 01:24:43,080 Just surrender it all and lift your hands. 1148 01:24:43,080 --> 01:24:46,880 Or you can bow to your knees. Or you can come to the altar. 1149 01:24:47,920 --> 01:24:50,520 If it's too late for you, you can go home, do whatever you got 1150 01:24:50,520 --> 01:24:52,000 to do. Your altar can be in your car, 1151 01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:55,920 Whatever you got to do. But we will not get out of these 1152 01:24:55,920 --> 01:24:59,600 40 days without leaving some stones behind. 1153 01:25:02,480 --> 01:25:05,840 I want you to put your hand on your neighbor's shoulder because 1154 01:25:05,840 --> 01:25:07,520 you don't know they're processing. 1155 01:25:16,920 --> 01:25:19,960 I feel like there's some people in here who are afraid of 1156 01:25:19,960 --> 01:25:24,200 messing up. I think one of the biggest 1157 01:25:24,200 --> 01:25:27,160 things in our society these days is people that are afraid of 1158 01:25:27,160 --> 01:25:34,160 failing. But I ask the same question my 1159 01:25:34,160 --> 01:25:36,160 father asked Adam. Who told you that? 1160 01:25:37,800 --> 01:25:39,000 Who told you you was going to fail? 1161 01:25:39,920 --> 01:25:45,680 What standard has been placed on you that's so big that you feel 1162 01:25:45,680 --> 01:25:51,600 like it's unreachable? Are you afraid of hard work? 1163 01:25:54,560 --> 01:25:58,320 Have you lived trying to hide your lack of education? 1164 01:26:04,160 --> 01:26:08,080 We can celebrate all day, but I feel like love quest. 1165 01:26:08,080 --> 01:26:10,880 We're going to be able to celebrate in even a greater, 1166 01:26:10,880 --> 01:26:14,040 greater way, especially when the stones are removed. 1167 01:26:19,040 --> 01:26:23,920 Just take a few moments. I want you to see yourself. 1168 01:26:24,120 --> 01:26:25,920 Everything that the Holy Spirit brings up. 1169 01:26:27,360 --> 01:26:28,960 When he brings it up. Say I lay it down. 1170 01:26:28,960 --> 01:26:31,520 If it's I lay it down. I lay that stone down. 1171 01:26:33,240 --> 01:26:38,520 I lay that stone down. I lay that stone down. 1172 01:26:40,840 --> 01:26:43,880 Some of you have a stone of shame. 1173 01:26:45,560 --> 01:26:50,880 You have a stone of shame. You're so shameful of some of 1174 01:26:50,880 --> 01:26:57,600 the actions that you've done. I want you to know you're 1175 01:26:57,600 --> 01:27:13,460 forgiven. Some of you are. 1176 01:27:13,700 --> 01:27:15,700 Some of you. There's a few people in here. 1177 01:27:16,180 --> 01:27:26,820 You are so hard on yourself. That's a stone. 1178 01:27:29,800 --> 01:27:31,440 The Lord's doing work right now, guys. 1179 01:27:34,960 --> 01:27:37,320 And if you feel that that you feel that in your belly, you 1180 01:27:37,320 --> 01:27:40,560 feel that he's that he's removing the stone. 1181 01:27:40,560 --> 01:27:44,160 Even if you're feeling sadness, some of you are feeling for the 1182 01:27:44,160 --> 01:27:49,160 first time in a while, come on in your marriages. 1183 01:27:49,240 --> 01:27:55,920 I I just pray that that love is not just restored, but there's 1184 01:27:55,920 --> 01:28:00,200 an increased grace in your marriage that you see your 1185 01:28:00,200 --> 01:28:03,120 spouse as. God sees their child. 1186 01:28:04,320 --> 01:28:17,820 Come on. Some of you have worked so hard 1187 01:28:18,500 --> 01:28:21,460 to make sure you don't end up like your parents did. 1188 01:28:21,460 --> 01:28:24,180 Let me tell you, that's a bad that's a bad motive. 1189 01:28:25,300 --> 01:28:32,600 I want to free you right now of being a workaholic because 1190 01:28:32,600 --> 01:28:37,320 you're afraid to fail. Some of you have been spending 1191 01:28:37,320 --> 01:28:42,600 money on education because you've had pressure from your 1192 01:28:42,600 --> 01:28:44,440 parents. I want to free you right now and 1193 01:28:44,440 --> 01:28:46,800 let you know, even if you went the opposite way. 1194 01:28:47,920 --> 01:28:50,760 As long as it's in Jesus, you will not fail. 1195 01:28:56,160 --> 01:28:59,720 I, I, I break the spirit of generational idolatry. 1196 01:29:05,240 --> 01:29:07,800 Lord, tenderize our hearts tonight. 1197 01:29:09,320 --> 01:29:11,080 Come on, tenderize. That's our prayer, Lord. 1198 01:29:11,080 --> 01:29:17,880 Tenderize our hearts tonight, Lord, you have access to our 1199 01:29:17,880 --> 01:29:18,880 hearts. Lord we. 1200 01:29:18,880 --> 01:29:20,280 Leave that gap. Open. 1201 01:29:20,280 --> 01:29:23,320 We leave that wound open for you to fill it. 1202 01:29:41,400 --> 01:29:44,200 This, this is, this is the greatest blessing you are going 1203 01:29:44,200 --> 01:29:45,840 to receive this year as wholeness. 1204 01:29:47,720 --> 01:29:50,000 It's not going to be the car. It's not going to be the spouse. 1205 01:29:50,000 --> 01:29:52,560 It's not going to be the great you are getting your wholeness 1206 01:29:52,560 --> 01:29:54,880 back this year. Some of you are going to 1207 01:29:54,880 --> 01:29:58,360 experience joy like you've never experienced joy before. 1208 01:29:59,960 --> 01:30:05,080 Yeah, come on, lift your hands up. 1209 01:30:05,080 --> 01:30:21,360 Lift your hands up. If you want my heart. 1210 01:30:22,320 --> 01:30:25,200 You got it. You got it. 1211 01:30:26,920 --> 01:30:33,800 Surgery takes a long time. I want to. 1212 01:30:33,800 --> 01:30:40,560 I want to help some people out. I want to help some people out. 1213 01:30:40,560 --> 01:30:42,600 Not so. I know people get mad at me 1214 01:30:42,600 --> 01:30:46,880 about you know, I I will not let up. 1215 01:30:47,720 --> 01:30:52,000 I remember one time my my pastor back home, Doctor G, he came to 1216 01:30:52,000 --> 01:30:55,560 me. He said, Boy, you need to smile. 1217 01:30:55,560 --> 01:31:00,680 More. You're dark skinned in and 1218 01:31:00,680 --> 01:31:04,200 you're tall, he said. And then this is what some 1219 01:31:04,200 --> 01:31:09,360 people that Y'all need to know. You look intimidating with a 1220 01:31:09,360 --> 01:31:14,520 Stony face. I don't believe people's default 1221 01:31:14,520 --> 01:31:21,680 face is frowning for no reason. That's your resting when your 1222 01:31:21,680 --> 01:31:26,800 resting face. It says, unhappy. 1223 01:31:27,480 --> 01:31:30,600 Let me help you. You got some stones in your 1224 01:31:30,600 --> 01:31:39,360 heart, right? Right. 1225 01:31:39,360 --> 01:31:43,920 Right when when I am supposed to be a display of the gospel. 1226 01:31:45,280 --> 01:31:50,160 I'm not saying I smile all the time, but my face is for sure on 1227 01:31:50,160 --> 01:31:56,480 the verge of joy I love. That how I see you every week 1228 01:31:56,480 --> 01:32:00,880 and you got a mean mug on your face and you expect me to trust 1229 01:32:00,880 --> 01:32:04,600 you? No, no, no. 1230 01:32:04,760 --> 01:32:10,400 Not when I pour joy into you. See, when I pour joy into you, I 1231 01:32:10,400 --> 01:32:12,800 know I got good seed. And when I'm not getting joy 1232 01:32:12,800 --> 01:32:20,120 from you stones, it means the joy that I'm sowing into you. 1233 01:32:20,880 --> 01:32:27,680 It's not finding rest when you come in a House of celebration 1234 01:32:27,920 --> 01:32:32,080 and the celebration hasn't yet come back. 1235 01:32:33,120 --> 01:32:39,280 It's not Finding Rest. Stones. 1236 01:32:43,520 --> 01:32:47,120 Stones. Lift your hands right where you 1237 01:32:47,120 --> 01:32:48,800 are. Why am I lifting my hands? 1238 01:32:49,080 --> 01:32:51,840 Because my hands up is signifying something. 1239 01:32:55,560 --> 01:32:59,320 You should get to a point where you're lovesick in. 1240 01:32:59,440 --> 01:33:02,680 Jesus, because he's lovesick with you. 1241 01:33:11,040 --> 01:33:18,240 I want to take the next 5 minutes and I don't know if you 1242 01:33:18,240 --> 01:33:20,840 have a piece of paper. I don't know if you have a 1243 01:33:20,840 --> 01:33:22,360 phone. Well, of course you got a phone, 1244 01:33:24,240 --> 01:33:26,720 but what stone are you laying down tonight? 1245 01:33:26,720 --> 01:33:30,680 Now, please be mature in this. If you're not ready to lay it 1246 01:33:30,680 --> 01:33:34,000 down, don't write it down. Just hold on to it. 1247 01:33:35,800 --> 01:33:44,200 Just hold on to it. But if you're saying I'm laying 1248 01:33:44,200 --> 01:33:46,440 this stone of fear down. I'm laying this stone of 1249 01:33:46,440 --> 01:33:49,040 resentment down. I'm laying the stone of jealousy 1250 01:33:49,040 --> 01:33:52,640 down. I'm laying the stone of envy 1251 01:33:52,640 --> 01:33:56,560 down. I'm laying the stone of victim 1252 01:33:56,560 --> 01:34:01,120 down. I need you to write it down. 1253 01:34:01,120 --> 01:34:14,360 Now the hard part about it being 1254 01:34:14,360 --> 01:34:18,840 written in your phone is, unless you want to get your whole phone 1255 01:34:18,840 --> 01:34:22,160 to the altar, ain't nowhere to lay it down. 1256 01:34:28,480 --> 01:34:30,720 We're done. It's the last part. 1257 01:34:33,600 --> 01:34:36,240 I guess just and there's going around with a piece of paper and 1258 01:34:36,480 --> 01:34:38,360 I'm totally fine. If you feel like you don't got 1259 01:34:38,360 --> 01:34:40,760 no stones or you want to live with stones, that's totally 1260 01:34:40,760 --> 01:34:51,480 fine. And when you finish, I want you 1261 01:34:51,480 --> 01:34:54,600 to say a prayer over it and I want you to come and lay it at 1262 01:34:54,600 --> 01:34:56,880 the altar. Elder John, can we get a bucket? 1263 01:34:56,880 --> 01:35:00,400 Because we're going just like we have these names for salvation, 1264 01:35:00,400 --> 01:35:12,160 we want to have a stone bucket. You have been listening to the 1265 01:35:12,160 --> 01:35:16,280 Love Quest International Church Sermon Podcast, and we're so 1266 01:35:16,280 --> 01:35:18,600 happy you're here. If you're brand new to Love 1267 01:35:18,600 --> 01:35:22,600 Quest, we are here to love all nations, equip the church, 1268 01:35:22,720 --> 01:35:27,160 mobilize the equipped and serve to stay tuned with everything we 1269 01:35:27,160 --> 01:35:30,880 got going on in the community. Follow us on IG at Lovequest 1270 01:35:30,920 --> 01:35:32,520 INTL. Church. 1271 01:35:32,720 --> 01:35:35,800 We out here? OK, so stay tuned. 1272 01:35:36,120 --> 01:35:39,040 We got more on the way. Welcome to the homecoming season 1273 01:35:39,280 --> 01:35:40,680 and you don't need another reason. 1274 01:35:40,840 --> 01:35:43,440 And if you don't know the drill, then you better learn the motto 1275 01:35:43,960 --> 01:35:45,200 Did you love Fix Man?