1 00:00:00,680 --> 00:00:03,440 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International 2 00:00:03,440 --> 00:00:06,560 Church podcast, where we seek to love all nations, equip the 3 00:00:06,560 --> 00:00:09,480 church, mobilize the equipped and serve all. 4 00:00:09,840 --> 00:00:13,040 We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever 5 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:15,760 you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get 6 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:18,440 your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe 7 00:00:18,440 --> 00:00:20,680 some tea and get ready to receive. 8 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:22,640 It's go time. Let's get into it. 9 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:34,920 Let's let's turn our attention to the video screens, please. 10 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:47,240 That was an. Absolute disaster. 11 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:54,240 He has eased up far, far, far too early, and half the field 12 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:56,800 swept past him before the finish line. 13 00:00:57,120 --> 00:01:01,400 This is going to be a lesson learned the very, very hard way. 14 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:07,040 After what was for 150 meters a masterful display of sprinting, 15 00:01:49,310 --> 00:02:04,720 the Speaking of not fun, we move on 16 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:10,039 to the women's 20K race walk, European Championships and 17 00:02:10,039 --> 00:02:13,600 devastating 3rd place finish. Devastating. 18 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:19,160 We got Laura Garcia Caro here, Spanish racer #103 just twisting 19 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:23,960 them hips, walking, not running, walking, not running behind her 20 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:28,520 Ukrainian racer you Dumina Orano Bosta. 21 00:02:28,600 --> 00:02:31,800 So the two Italians, they've already got first and 2nd. 22 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:34,480 Now there's a race for 3rd, a race walk. 23 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:37,720 She already pulled the flag out. She starts. 24 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:40,640 Oh my goodness. Watch the replay here. 25 00:02:40,640 --> 00:02:44,560 The Spanish racer all smiles. The tongue's out. 26 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:46,720 She's excited, she's enjoying life. 27 00:02:46,720 --> 00:02:50,280 She pulled a flag already. She's going to get the flag off 28 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:52,160 her shoulder. She's celebrating. 29 00:02:52,280 --> 00:03:02,960 Oh. It's like how they get blessed. 30 00:03:14,950 --> 00:03:22,710 So the first one we see a young man who was winning fashionably, 31 00:03:24,430 --> 00:03:37,920 fashionably, like he was about to crossover and he just pulls 32 00:03:37,920 --> 00:03:46,740 up like, yeah, we got this remedy project over here and 33 00:03:46,740 --> 00:03:53,140 that's the corporate effort. But Lord, when he gave me this 34 00:03:53,420 --> 00:03:56,740 finishing faith message, the good fight of finishing faith, 35 00:03:59,420 --> 00:04:04,300 He gives us a corporate assignments to handle really big 36 00:04:04,300 --> 00:04:08,920 things. But as you are involved, how 37 00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:14,600 many people know the spotter still carries weight as you? 38 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,000 What happens when God gives us these things corporately? 39 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:31,200 You're able to give maximum effort with minimal loss because 40 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:35,480 you're covered. And most of us practice 41 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:38,680 independence more than we practice corporate, not 42 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:41,080 understanding that the strength is in the corporate. 43 00:04:43,280 --> 00:04:49,080 Jesus couldn't get to the finish line without Simon carrying his 44 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:56,400 cross. And there are things for your 45 00:04:56,400 --> 00:05:02,600 individual bloodline, not just you, but your bloodline with 46 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:05,280 every corporate assignment God gives us. 47 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:08,840 It is not meant to bless this building. 48 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:14,480 It's meant to bless your life. So yeah, we're going to talk 49 00:05:14,480 --> 00:05:16,640 about finishing there, but even deeper. 50 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:20,520 There's some things in here, people we just not finishing. 51 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:30,270 The grave is full of great starters, but how they end. 52 00:05:30,830 --> 00:05:34,430 A lot of the legends, we celebrate how they life and 53 00:05:34,430 --> 00:05:44,360 Whitney, Michael Marvin, like you can go down the line and 54 00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:50,080 then an NBA player, a great athlete, they'll retire and we 55 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:52,400 celebrate them. And then years later we see in 56 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:54,920 an interview and because of depression and all these 57 00:05:54,920 --> 00:06:02,040 different things, alcohol, suicide, drugs, whatever, and 58 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:04,880 let's go into the church. Within just even the last couple 59 00:06:04,880 --> 00:06:08,560 of years, we have seen great gargantuan churches. 60 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:14,880 We sing their songs. We know they're pastors, but the 61 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:22,360 founders couldn't finish. There's marriages that started 62 00:06:22,360 --> 00:06:29,600 off like, whoa, I do honeymoons, 10s and 10s of thousands of 63 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:33,720 dollars. Only to come to years later. 64 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:39,960 Can't finish, don't want to finish, can't see a finish. 65 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:46,040 How does it start here? Bible says you started off in 66 00:06:46,040 --> 00:06:48,600 the Spirit. The Spirit is the one that saved 67 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:53,360 you years ago and then all of a sudden you have lost your way 68 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:57,200 because of church hurt, because of of some kind of failure, 69 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:00,960 whatever it may be. How did you get started here? 70 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:03,640 And you have ended up way over here. 71 00:07:05,840 --> 00:07:10,040 God did not save you to not finish. 72 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:16,120 He finished the outcome. He didn't finish your part. 73 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:25,120 So although there is a safety net, we don't live by safety 74 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:31,600 net, we live by faith. And you barely, rarely find 75 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:34,840 people who actually have the goal to finish. 76 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:36,640 And if I asked you where do you want to finish? 77 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:38,800 Where do you want to finish? Most people want to finish with 78 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:43,000 a certain amount of money, with a certain amount of land, with a 79 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:49,200 certain amount of. Mammon, but what are your kids 80 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:51,320 left with? Your kids? 81 00:07:51,320 --> 00:07:53,800 You can leave your kids broke. They can get rich. 82 00:07:53,800 --> 00:08:00,520 A lot of us in here are way better off than where we 83 00:08:00,520 --> 00:08:06,400 started. Our provision is not based on 84 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:13,880 where our parents left us. But don't you leave your kids. 85 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:20,320 Where you don't want to be left. And. 86 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:23,440 Here's what the enemy understands is he cannot stop 87 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:27,640 us. He cannot contend with a 88 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:32,039 fighter. He can't contend the enemy. 89 00:08:32,039 --> 00:08:36,880 Knows the outcome more than us some of us believers the enemy 90 00:08:36,880 --> 00:08:39,880 actually has more faith in the outcome than. 91 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:41,960 Some of us, he know he's defeated. 92 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:46,560 How is a defeated foe going to convince you? 93 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:52,880 You defeated? How does he continuously get us 94 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:56,360 to entertain that it ain't going to work, that we're defeated? 95 00:08:56,520 --> 00:08:59,320 Or maybe God don't see me. Maybe God don't hear me. 96 00:08:59,520 --> 00:09:05,000 How does a defeated foe convince a victor? 97 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,840 How does an orphan tell you? How? 98 00:09:12,840 --> 00:09:15,160 Good it is to have biological parents. 99 00:09:17,240 --> 00:09:19,160 This is what this is what the prodigal son says. 100 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:23,240 How am I in this pig pen and their slaves back home eating? 101 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:25,400 Better than I am in my father's house. 102 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:29,040 How are all these people out here that don't follow Jesus 103 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:35,440 winning seemingly? So we're chasing their patterns. 104 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:40,680 We're believing politics, politicians more than prophets. 105 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:47,800 Where do you want to finish? How? 106 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:51,800 Are you going to? Finish and what do you want to 107 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:55,480 finish is. Your greatest goal is to retire 108 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:57,520 with a certain amount of. Is that your goal? 109 00:10:03,090 --> 00:10:05,290 There's a book out there called God's Generals. 110 00:10:06,010 --> 00:10:08,210 The. Book talks about what God. 111 00:10:08,210 --> 00:10:12,610 'S generals, but it talks about a lot of generals that don't 112 00:10:12,610 --> 00:10:15,400 finish. Do you? 113 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:21,240 Really want to get to the end of your life and. 114 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:25,360 Still have a God To Do List. And. 115 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:29,600 You want to see checks by yo-yo To Do List and then God show you 116 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:33,480 his To Do List and it's like. No bubbles filled. 117 00:10:35,360 --> 00:10:36,680 Now, right now, you might be young. 118 00:10:36,680 --> 00:10:38,960 You might be, so you might like I got time. 119 00:10:38,960 --> 00:10:40,760 No, you don't. Give. 120 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:44,080 Me, one person in here that could tell me how long you going 121 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:48,160 to live. One person in here you tell me 122 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:50,360 how long you going to live. I ain't talking about my faith 123 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:54,680 because according to where long life, Yeah, I got, I declare 124 00:10:54,680 --> 00:10:59,160 long life too. But who in here can tell me when 125 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:04,280 it's over? Nobody. 126 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:13,520 In his life it's way too many sudden deaths and death ain't 127 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:16,320 after just old quite. Frankly, it's more younger 128 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:18,640 people dying than death. They they grandparents is 129 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:21,120 burying their kids, their grandkids. 130 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:24,240 Like. The sobering thought, the 131 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:27,600 thought that we avoid. But what I do understand is 132 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:31,200 Jesus wasn't afraid of death so much to the point that he tells 133 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:34,160 us to die. As. 134 00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:37,520 An analogy he uses. You need to die to yourself. 135 00:11:38,800 --> 00:11:42,960 Because there's a reality. If you can, in a healthy way, 136 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:49,840 understand the reality that you will die someday, then it can 137 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:55,360 put context to the urgency of your life. 138 00:11:55,360 --> 00:12:00,200 You don't have time to be doing work that will prosper you today 139 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:07,080 but leave you dead tomorrow. You don't have time to be in 140 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:11,480 relationships with people that do nothing but drain you and 141 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:18,520 steal from you and doubt you. You don't have time to to to 142 00:12:18,560 --> 00:12:21,440 hold grudges in and be angry at people. 143 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:23,880 That person that you won't apologize to. 144 00:12:24,120 --> 00:12:26,920 That person that you OK. Plan the silent treatment. 145 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:30,920 I guarantee you if you love them, if you got that phone 146 00:12:30,920 --> 00:12:36,480 call, your words that you got to live with the rest of your life, 147 00:12:36,520 --> 00:12:43,000 I wish I said I love you. One more time I. 148 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,240 Wish I spent more time with you now. 149 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:48,720 All of a sudden overtime ain't worth it. 150 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:53,040 Now all of a sudden a second job ain't worth it. 151 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:55,800 Why are you willing to sacrifice now? 152 00:13:02,760 --> 00:13:06,160 And God's calling us out of the temporary into eternity in this 153 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:09,280 hour. All. 154 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:13,160 Of God's work is eternal. All. 155 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:18,320 The world's work is temporary. And. 156 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:21,000 Over 50% of the people in this room is stressed out. 157 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:25,240 Over. Stuff that ain't giving you no 158 00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:35,000 life back, even if it was good. While you wait on the money, 159 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:43,960 worship disciple, you getting the church, being disciple, 160 00:13:43,960 --> 00:13:47,680 getting accountability, getting mentors, working on your soul. 161 00:13:47,680 --> 00:13:55,400 Wealth is as is is a top tier priority because what you find a 162 00:13:55,400 --> 00:13:59,040 lot of people, they spend their younger, healthy, vibrant lives 163 00:13:59,280 --> 00:14:07,160 grinding and forgetting God. When they get older, they want 164 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:14,960 to be close to Jesus. God's calling us in this season 165 00:14:14,960 --> 00:14:20,440 to finish some stuff. It's not just the building. 166 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:23,360 Lord says. There's some relationships that 167 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:25,880 he's asked you to get out of, that you keep letting linger. 168 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:30,320 There's some addictions that he's asked you to lay down that 169 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:33,880 he. Said I need them finished. 170 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:37,080 There's anger issues that he says I need. 171 00:14:37,560 --> 00:14:41,360 No, the excuse season is over. God working on me. 172 00:14:41,360 --> 00:14:46,080 He been working on you, now you working on you. 173 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:52,480 There. There, there's some, there's 174 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:57,960 some, there's some hobbies that it's like it's, it's finished. 175 00:14:59,120 --> 00:15:01,480 It in in the in the way. Here's what you got to 176 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:03,040 understand. I'm a Hooper. 177 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:09,520 I do music, but certain things are finished in the way that I'm 178 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:14,360 not going to miss out on the main thing trying to fit into 179 00:15:14,360 --> 00:15:18,280 the old thing. That stuff got to fit into the 180 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:22,800 new me. I can't keep trying to pull old 181 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:29,920 tea into the new tea. No, no, no, no. 182 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:31,680 You don't need the same kind of man. 183 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:36,320 Throw your elementary dream list away you. 184 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:38,960 Didn't know who you was when you wrote down what you wanted for a 185 00:15:38,960 --> 00:15:41,800 spouse? And. 186 00:15:41,800 --> 00:15:44,520 You holding on to that dream and I tell you all the time, some of 187 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:48,560 y'all spouse is coming in a way different package than you, you, 188 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:51,320 you you won't. I don't want to go to because 189 00:15:51,320 --> 00:15:54,160 that's not what the word is about, but but you got to finish 190 00:15:54,160 --> 00:15:58,520 some mindsets. Can I help you you? 191 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:01,200 Got to finish some mindsets and stop asking God to send you 192 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:03,080 people who will cater to your mindsets. 193 00:16:06,480 --> 00:16:09,920 Let me tell you, you deserve. An upgrade in your friendships, 194 00:16:09,920 --> 00:16:13,600 whoever that's for. Yeah. 195 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,280 Yeah, some of y'all know who. If you want to shame, just say 196 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:17,760 holla at me. Just say holla at me. 197 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:18,360 You. You. 198 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:20,080 Yeah. Thank you, thank you, thank you. 199 00:16:20,240 --> 00:16:22,560 You deserve. No, I didn't say you need. 200 00:16:23,480 --> 00:16:25,480 I. Say you deserve an upgrade. 201 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:28,640 You. Holding on to certain friends 202 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:32,200 because it's familiar. And. 203 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:36,000 I promise you some of the people that you will never be revealed 204 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:37,840 to, some of the people that you hang out with. 205 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:44,560 Some. Of y'all got lid friendships lid 206 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:49,000 LID friendships lid. They won't let you grow. 207 00:16:51,440 --> 00:16:53,440 They're intimidated by your growth. 208 00:17:00,320 --> 00:17:03,160 Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus to the Lord 209 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:06,280 Almighty, King of Kings, to the Lord of Lords. 210 00:17:13,109 --> 00:17:15,790 It's easier to finish a fight when it's a good fight. 211 00:17:17,349 --> 00:17:18,910 I. Heard I heard LeBron James say 212 00:17:18,910 --> 00:17:20,230 something the other day in the Olympics. 213 00:17:20,230 --> 00:17:23,390 It was during the like, like before they got I think this is 214 00:17:23,390 --> 00:17:25,790 the trial game. I forget it was, but the team 215 00:17:26,069 --> 00:17:28,470 that shouldn't have took him to to the edge, took him to the 216 00:17:28,470 --> 00:17:31,670 edge. You know what I'm saying? 217 00:17:31,670 --> 00:17:36,480 And look right. Yeah, Jay took us to the edge. 218 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:41,640 Look, look, look, look. LeBron was walking through the 219 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:45,880 tunnel with with with Curry and he said I love them type of 220 00:17:45,880 --> 00:17:48,960 games. I love them type of games. 221 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:54,160 Those the games right there that I live for, those the games that 222 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:58,600 make me better and those the games that helped me discover 223 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:03,800 stuff about me, my teammates. And he said, no, I love the nail 224 00:18:03,800 --> 00:18:07,440 biters. I love the pressure. 225 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:14,120 You don't get greatest of all time without nail biters, 226 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:18,640 without scars, without persecution, without hate, 227 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:22,320 without cutting stuff off. You don't become the GOAT. 228 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:25,800 Without cutting your social media off during playoffs. 229 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:29,320 You, you don't. You don't become the GOAT 230 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:36,720 without switching friend groups and let them call you bougie. 231 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:43,280 So many people mad at I'm about to call him Jehovah Jay-Z. 232 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:53,800 They they like really hating on this billionaire, old friends 233 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:58,200 and all of that, but he does not get to where he's at without 234 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:02,600 saying bye to some friends that don't even have a plan to be 235 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:07,680 where he's called. No, you got to get rid of the 236 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:12,520 friends that you keep hearing saying hold up, wait for me. 237 00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:16,760 Some of y'all could be honest. You've been waiting. 238 00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:18,800 Some of y'all been waiting on your Mama. 239 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:22,480 You've been waiting on your daddy. 240 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:23,960 You've been waiting on your spouse. 241 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:42,400 The wait is over WEIGHT the. Wait is over, I see some of 242 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:48,160 y'all in bondage right now. You like PTI don't want to do 243 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:49,680 that. I like bondage. 244 00:19:55,680 --> 00:19:57,800 Hey, you like bondage, like you know what I'm saying? 245 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:02,360 That type that like like that tight, that tight, uncomfortable 246 00:20:02,360 --> 00:20:06,040 dress. But it's super cute so you just 247 00:20:06,040 --> 00:20:09,240 going to endure for a few. Hours to walk because you just 248 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:12,000 want to you hold your stuff and then you, you ever, I've been 249 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:13,480 there. You ever forget to hold your 250 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:17,200 stomach in and he's like, take that picture over. 251 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:24,280 Take that picture over that's. How we like bondage because we 252 00:20:24,280 --> 00:20:27,760 love, we love the clothes of bondage. 253 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:33,720 So we'll, we'll, we'll we'll alter to the to the outfit 254 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:38,840 instead of making the outfit. Hey, I maybe I need some new 255 00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:41,000 custom suits because I'm changing. 256 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:45,840 Come on, I can't wear this no more. 257 00:20:46,840 --> 00:20:50,840 Maybe you need to some of y'all need to get resized in this 258 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:57,360 season. Come on my measurements are 259 00:20:57,360 --> 00:21:01,120 changing. God is expanding my territory. 260 00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:11,050 I don't think the same no more Come on somebody say my 261 00:21:11,050 --> 00:21:15,050 measurements is changing. Now look back at your neighbors, 262 00:21:15,050 --> 00:21:24,310 say show is. Look, look, look, look. 263 00:21:24,310 --> 00:21:25,670 I ain't going to lie. I ain't going to lie. 264 00:21:26,280 --> 00:21:27,760 Am I preaching yet? Am I preaching yet? 265 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:29,640 All right. Like I'm not going to lie. 266 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,560 Look. I was some of y'all seen me on 267 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:36,880 social media yesterday and and if you. 268 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:38,640 Didn't you lying, you just didn't like it. 269 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:40,520 You just you just kept scrolling. 270 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:44,560 I thought you so I was wearing this suit. 271 00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,040 I love this. This suit is cold. 272 00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:49,080 The jacket is cold, but I've been on the road for a month. 273 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:53,880 Don't look at me like you don't eat vacation snacks. 274 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:03,160 Right, I went to. America, I didn't go like the 275 00:22:03,160 --> 00:22:05,800 Switzerland and nothing like I. I went to where like you. 276 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:10,440 The. Options ain't slim. 277 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:15,040 Hey man, let me tell you that. So look, I know how to manage, 278 00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:18,720 and thank God I'm tall, right? So when you tall. 279 00:22:18,720 --> 00:22:21,960 You got, you got, you got room. You got a little room to work it 280 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:26,400 OK, right? Thank God. 281 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:29,760 Oversized teas is in in. In in all right now anyway. 282 00:22:29,760 --> 00:22:30,960 Listen, listen, listen. I'm good. 283 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,080 I'm good. But. 284 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:35,600 Boy, I, I, I messed up. I went all the way to 285 00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:37,160 Victoria's. The only suit I took, I was 286 00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:39,400 officiating a wedding. It was in the sun. 287 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:41,920 It was like with a bunch of amazing people. 288 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:46,880 And when I went to go put my suit on I was like I forgot to 289 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:50,760 try it on. Like, I know I'm I'm good, but 290 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:53,200 you know when it's just tight? Thank. 291 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:55,600 God it what if it was a worship service I for sure would have 292 00:22:55,600 --> 00:23:00,520 been like. So I have my iPad here just 293 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:06,880 right, right around here and I tried it on. 294 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:09,080 I was like, we for sure wearing the vest. 295 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:15,040 And it looked good, but my. Shirt kept riding, my shirt kept 296 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:17,120 rising a little bit, so I just kept having to pull it down a 297 00:23:17,120 --> 00:23:18,520 little bit. Kept having to pull it down a 298 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:20,560 little bit. Some of y'all like PT really 299 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:24,040 vulnerable right now. I am, I am, I am because some of 300 00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:25,520 y'all be trying to tuck it in too. 301 00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:37,800 You know what I'm saying? Come on and it was hot Now look, 302 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:40,400 if I would have just let it go. I play with my wife sometime and 303 00:23:40,400 --> 00:23:43,920 I'll go like this. I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. 304 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:46,280 You can I can expand I can expand, but I'm. 305 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:48,720 This is my normal size. Look at you some of y'all like. 306 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:51,880 Wow. You got ashamed of me for a 307 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:52,920 second. He was like, don't do that, 308 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:53,680 babe. Don't do that. 309 00:23:53,680 --> 00:23:55,400 Don't do that. Wow. 310 00:23:56,040 --> 00:24:00,240 All right. Anyways, so she she. 311 00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:02,520 I. Was up there and I was just 312 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:05,080 like, like I was good. But. 313 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:07,920 I felt the whole time I I felt like conscious. 314 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:10,720 I was like this is too tight. Like I had. 315 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:18,560 No room for error. Now that's where some of your 316 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:22,320 bondage is. Like you, you you one poke from 317 00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:23,960 the enemy. You. 318 00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,880 One rub up against that bruise you keep living with. 319 00:24:27,760 --> 00:24:29,640 The enemy like you losing your mind. 320 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:31,280 Are you flipping out on somebody? 321 00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:38,880 And I was just like, but this suit though, and I'm just, I'm 322 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:42,320 just being vulnerable with y'all because I'm like, some of us is 323 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:44,920 like that every day we choose to put that suit on. 324 00:24:44,920 --> 00:24:48,120 And just like, I'm going to live with it. 325 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:51,200 I'm going to tuck it in. I'm going to suck it in and 326 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,240 ain't nobody going to know I'm struggling. 327 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,400 I'm going to take pictures on this side because it's my good 328 00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:01,800 side. Right, hurry up. 329 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:11,080 The Lord says. Why are you settling? 330 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:17,960 For a temporary fix, temporary moments of happiness when we 331 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,080 could just cut it. And. 332 00:25:21,080 --> 00:25:23,440 Let's trim. This is what Hebrews 12 says is 333 00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,920 get rid of the unnecessary weight. 334 00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:29,960 Why? Are we OK with just our 335 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:33,880 household on knowing we got anger issues but then when we 336 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:39,320 come to church our whole family is like that is not him at home? 337 00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:41,160 How? He talked to me and then you, 338 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:44,000 you mess it up with your with your spot, you mess it up 339 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:47,200 because then everybody know that's not how nice you really 340 00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,760 are. Won't you just finish it? 341 00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:54,080 Because here you is if you can come here and be. 342 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:59,160 Then. This is in you if you can come 343 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:02,360 to church and not cuss, why you not cussing here? 344 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:07,520 If you can not cuss for two hours, sometime three, sometime 345 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:09,520 4. You. 346 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:13,600 Cannot cuss. What is it in US that when we 347 00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,880 get in a certain part of our world, we want to let it all 348 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:18,680 hang out? But. 349 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:21,840 Then there's something in us that says there's a way to act 350 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:28,000 or I wouldn't go nowhere where I had to alter to good. 351 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,720 Something's in you that's saying this is the way I'm called to 352 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:39,480 be. Look, I encourage you, you 353 00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:43,840 smoke, you smoke weed, you smoke it, smoke it here. 354 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:47,600 Julie, stop looking. Stop. 355 00:26:47,880 --> 00:26:49,800 Keep that saying no, I'm saying here's what I'm saying. 356 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:52,640 This is not a pastor encouraging smoking. 357 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,920 What I'm trying to do is what is that in you saying that is not 358 00:26:56,920 --> 00:27:00,200 cool and what is that in you that's saying? 359 00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:05,160 But I still want it if it's good behavior. 360 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:08,400 And. If it's God approved and he made 361 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:12,440 it then then bring it to his house. 362 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:19,160 Now rather we tell you you can't smoke on the premises. 363 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:28,400 That's another thing. But I'm saying you can't live in 364 00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:34,120 total freedom with secrets and you can't live in total freedom 365 00:27:34,120 --> 00:27:39,040 with a compartmentalized life to where you're this over here and 366 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:42,920 you're this over here and the excuse that I just won't come to 367 00:27:42,920 --> 00:27:45,400 church because I don't want to be fake. 368 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:49,200 I think your fallen nature is the fake nature. 369 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:55,400 Who you come here and you are, That's your real nature. 370 00:27:55,400 --> 00:28:01,640 You just fighting against that person fully awakening person 371 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:04,200 you trying to be for the world is the fake you. 372 00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:12,760 It's the lowlife you. It's the lesser part of you we 373 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:16,600 don't have time to. Cut ourselves in half. 374 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:22,400 When he died for wholeness. We. 375 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,960 Love. Great finishes. 376 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:28,680 We. Love a great comeback story. 377 00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:36,520 As humans we saw in that second film this brother was exhausted. 378 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,600 I'm coming for some of y'all. This. 379 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,040 Brother was cramping, ready to pass out. 380 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:46,880 You saw him did y'all? Did y'all saw him y'all? 381 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,360 See him? OK, He was ready. 382 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:55,280 He was limp. And his teammates, who, if he 383 00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:57,880 won it, would have counted for his win. 384 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:08,880 He stopped, compromised his victory, let another nation go 385 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,360 by him. That's how the enemy is. 386 00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:13,560 He just like. How you feel? 387 00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:15,840 Good on that win. I get like in competitive sports 388 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:17,320 it don't matter if I win is a win. 389 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,240 OK, But he was just like, Oh no, you was beat homeboy. 390 00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:24,680 This dude was just about to die. OK, his. 391 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:26,560 Teammate picks him up and this is the kind of people I'm 392 00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:29,280 looking for in this, in these last six months of this year, 393 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:32,360 this is who I'm looking for. His teammate comes and picks him 394 00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:33,880 up. And. 395 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:37,880 He's exhausted. I. 396 00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,200 Don't know if y'all noticed the one that went limp. 397 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:43,920 He was just like. He. 398 00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:48,920 He. Got some strength from 399 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:52,560 somewhere. This this I all know about 400 00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:53,960 y'all. That's why I can't miss church, 401 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:58,000 because you don't know when I walk in, maybe I don't tell you 402 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:01,280 how weak I'm feeling, but when I walk in, your, your, your faith 403 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,000 and your singing and your dancing, your hello and your 404 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:05,560 thank you is you. Be you. 405 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,280 Don't see me in the Spirit like this. 406 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:10,800 You don't see me in the Spirit, Barely. 407 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:13,960 Crossed so you need the friends that don't need to be before 408 00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,000 you. They can sometime bring you to 409 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,840 the finish line and say you go first. 410 00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:22,880 Because when you win, I win. When you down, I'm down. 411 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:35,120 When you up, I'm up. So unfortunately for some of us 412 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:38,960 in here, this is bad news. To finish this race you need 413 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:48,640 help and you also need to be submitted to your help because 414 00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:50,200 homeboy could have been like no you go. 415 00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:53,200 I don't want your help. I'm. 416 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,720 Dead. He was like, well, if you 417 00:30:55,720 --> 00:31:00,760 believe I could finish, then I'm going to believe your faith 418 00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:03,640 because right now I can't even believe. 419 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:07,680 I'm so exhausted. Anybody ever been so exhausted 420 00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:12,600 they couldn't even believe? As. 421 00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,480 Sports fans, we live for great finishes. 422 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:20,800 As movie critics we live for great dramatic endings, and as 423 00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:22,920 foodies, we live for the dessert. 424 00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:27,480 Have you ever had a good meal? And then that dessert came or 425 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:31,240 something gave you a bad experience, right? 426 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,960 They was killing it. Were you ever had a waitress 427 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:36,400 that was on top of it? Then all of a sudden, they 428 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:39,600 disappear. They don't come back to the 429 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:46,040 table for a long time, right? We all live for happy endings. 430 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:48,120 As romantics, we live for happy endings. 431 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:51,680 How something ends determines. I need you to hear this. 432 00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:57,120 How something ends determines the value of the weight. 433 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:07,120 See, see, Hell has to pay for messing with me. 434 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,160 See, see, see my my uncle's in here. 435 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:16,880 My uncle's 70 years old, my uncle still who been my uncle 436 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:21,200 was addicted to drugs for a long time and then he got free. 437 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:27,120 But understand it wasn't God's goal to just get him off drugs. 438 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:31,080 The. Brothers, since he been off 439 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:35,480 drugs, have been pursuing God, he's been in the Word and now 440 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:38,520 his wounds have crossed the finish line. 441 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:45,320 Now when he testifies he say I was young now I'm old. 442 00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:48,600 He can say I was lost now I'm frown. 443 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:54,240 I was blind now I see. Here's the story. 444 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:57,920 It's not good enough to say I was blind. 445 00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,720 Now I got a cane. Now I got a a walking stick. 446 00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:05,160 Some of y'all ain't hear what I just said. 447 00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:10,080 You you happy blind with a walking stick and the city put 448 00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:13,440 some some some beats on the thing so you know when to walk 449 00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:19,280 across. You happy with being assisted 450 00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:24,240 blind instead of being broken free? 451 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:31,000 What I mean, some of the friends understand you're blind. 452 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,240 They blind too. And. 453 00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:39,360 Y'all love hanging out because y'all both understand each 454 00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:44,600 other's blindness. Jesus says the blind that. 455 00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:48,840 Ain't good, but then we're too insecure about our blindness 456 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:53,720 that we don't want to hang out with people that got 2020 but. 457 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:57,120 But how many people know? Don't None of us got 2020? 458 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:01,720 Only Jesus do. Only God does. 459 00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:04,400 Only the Holy Ghost do. But. 460 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:07,840 It's probably good for you to hang out with people who can see 461 00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:12,239 higher than you, further than you, wider than you, and deeper 462 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:15,239 than you. I don't know about you, but I've 463 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,679 hung out with some blind folks. Whole pack of us. 464 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,440 You. Asked where they at now, Some of 465 00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,800 them still blind. Some of them got one one eye, 466 00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:30,840 that's good. Some of them got two walking 467 00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:35,920 sticks and some of them is getting beat up by their sin. 468 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:38,760 Still. Committing the same sins. 469 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:46,040 What is it you need to finish before the year is over that you 470 00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,360 had in your New Year's resolutions? 471 00:34:51,199 --> 00:34:55,760 Was it worth the wait? Some of y'all waiting on a man 472 00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:57,280 and when he show up it ain't worth it. 473 00:34:59,240 --> 00:35:01,640 Some of y'all waiting for a wife and when they show up it ain't 474 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:05,280 worth it, right? I don't know. 475 00:35:05,280 --> 00:35:06,840 You've been there. You've been waiting for some of 476 00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:11,160 you got it and two years later you like I want to redo on the 477 00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,960 waiting. What are you fighting for every 478 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,360 day? What are you praying for? 479 00:35:16,360 --> 00:35:19,040 What are you fasting for? Is it worth it? 480 00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:23,480 Because at the end of the thing, you're going to find out if it 481 00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:25,440 was worth it. At. 482 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:27,520 The end of the relationship at the end of your life, We're 483 00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:29,960 going to find out. Was it worth being prideful? 484 00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:34,720 Was it worth not? Going to church and spending 485 00:35:34,720 --> 00:35:37,320 Sundays doing all these other things was. 486 00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:39,240 It worth not getting involved in the church. 487 00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:40,760 Is. It worth it. 488 00:35:47,430 --> 00:35:52,870 How it finishes for us or for you is up to you because. 489 00:35:52,870 --> 00:35:54,950 He's already finished his. Work. 490 00:35:56,590 --> 00:35:58,110 There's. Happy endings, frustrating 491 00:35:58,110 --> 00:36:01,150 endings, confusing endings, very dumb endings. 492 00:36:01,150 --> 00:36:02,630 You ever watch a movie that's like. 493 00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,360 And the credits? Just pop up out of nowhere you 494 00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:10,840 like. What kind of ending was this? 495 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:17,280 There's bitter endings, but The thing is, is in the Kingdom all 496 00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:19,280 finishes. Are. 497 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:24,400 To be continued until the author and finisher returns for the 498 00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:28,120 final finish. In Christ, there's no wasted 499 00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:31,520 finishes. There's no bad finishes, you 500 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:37,920 just got a what finish? Forget how ugly the last leg of 501 00:36:37,920 --> 00:36:43,800 the race is, but watch how beautiful it is when you finish. 502 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,600 How? Many people have sabotaged 503 00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:51,960 finishes. 4 people See you got a bunch of liars in here. 504 00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:58,720 Sabotage finishes too afraid to get in the relationship. 505 00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:02,560 You didn't came this far and you like I'm going to get out while 506 00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:07,880 while I got time. You prayed, you sowed, you was 507 00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:11,120 faithful in the church and then you got offended and then you 508 00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:13,360 know what? I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm cool. 509 00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:18,400 You're sabotaging finishes. That. 510 00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:23,560 Relationship could be very prosperous if you can work 511 00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:28,880 through the obstacles. But you don't want to finish. 512 00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:35,680 Finish the argument, finish the conversation, Finish digging for 513 00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:38,960 what is in the root of the destruction of your life, your 514 00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:45,440 spouse's life, your family. What? 515 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:51,920 Is it that we need to finish? I remember I got to the .1 day I 516 00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:54,840 was like man I've been smoking for some people I. 517 00:37:54,880 --> 00:38:00,640 I started smoking I think 10th grade summer school just want to 518 00:38:00,640 --> 00:38:04,400 try it. And I kept trying it for for I 519 00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:08,080 think like 20 years till I was 2930 something like that. 520 00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:14,960 And I was like man, 15 years smoking is a long time. 521 00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:26,320 At what point am I done? I'm grown, I got kids, I need my 522 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:31,080 brain, I'm getting older and naturally some stuff going to 523 00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:35,240 start not working possibly. I'm not going to help my down 524 00:38:35,240 --> 00:38:40,040 spiral. I want to be healthy. 525 00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:43,360 God didn't make me dependent on nothing else but Him. 526 00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,560 What do I? Need this for that's the issue. 527 00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:50,280 What am I afraid of? That's the issue. 528 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:54,320 What are you putting off? Do the work. 529 00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,520 No, it's not good to just have a therapist. 530 00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:02,400 You don't need to just talk about it. 531 00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:06,920 You need to get free from it. Can I help somebody to this 532 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:11,440 therapist, this acknowledgement of mental illness generation? 533 00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:17,920 Just because we're now creating space to talk about it don't 534 00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:24,800 mean it's finished. How long we going to talk about 535 00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:26,160 it? When the narrative going to 536 00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:28,840 change? When am I going to not need help 537 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:31,520 talking? When am I going to rise above my 538 00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:35,520 stronghold? Get therapy, we need it. 539 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:37,120 Did y'all hear me say this on record? 540 00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:41,640 We need and can use it's beneficial therapy. 541 00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:51,480 Some of us in here depend on therapy more than the word 542 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:56,120 you're. Going. 543 00:39:56,120 --> 00:40:00,160 To need a therapist at your funeral if you don't add the 544 00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:06,320 word into your life what a lot of people may use therapy for. 545 00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:12,200 Is to be understood. Not necessarily to be delivered. 546 00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:17,480 I didn't say everybody some. Because. 547 00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:19,480 Here's what I understand. If you want to be delivered, 548 00:40:19,480 --> 00:40:21,520 then where's your spiritual advisors? 549 00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,080 When's the last time you talked to Pastor Elder? 550 00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:30,280 When the last time you had brought the word to the root of 551 00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:35,000 your issue versus talking about the scientific side of it and 552 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:38,120 the history of your trauma, Let's talk about the history of 553 00:40:38,120 --> 00:40:43,600 the blood. Let's talk about the history of 554 00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:45,240 the cross. Why? 555 00:40:45,240 --> 00:40:46,760 Aren't we willing to have that come? 556 00:40:46,760 --> 00:40:50,000 Why aren't we willing to spend 150 an hour for that? 557 00:40:56,680 --> 00:41:01,880 Hallelujah. I'm just telling you guys, the 558 00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:10,320 world system, it's prophets. God said it's destructing. 559 00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:12,440 It's. Getting darker you We can't 560 00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:18,240 change God's word. We can't keep depending on a 561 00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:21,640 world. That. 562 00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:33,070 Has no bottom. Come on, say I got to finish a 563 00:41:33,070 --> 00:41:38,190 good fight. Is well worth it fight like 564 00:41:38,190 --> 00:41:40,510 fighting for my marriage was a good fight. 565 00:41:41,110 --> 00:41:46,240 Great payoff. When we were fighting, fighting, 566 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:50,160 we didn't know that this person was in that person. 567 00:41:57,430 --> 00:41:58,590 Was it worth it? Yeah. 568 00:41:58,590 --> 00:42:01,870 Because guess what? Our kids got both their parents 569 00:42:01,870 --> 00:42:04,510 in the house. Thank the man they. 570 00:42:04,510 --> 00:42:06,910 See their parents have a great relationship. 571 00:42:07,150 --> 00:42:10,350 They see their parents sometime beefing, but they see their 572 00:42:10,350 --> 00:42:18,240 parents also talk it out. They go to bed feeling safe, but 573 00:42:18,240 --> 00:42:24,760 the work started back then we could have terminated. 574 00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:27,000 The. Journey to the finish. 575 00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,240 But there was some things in me and some things in her that had 576 00:42:30,240 --> 00:42:31,280 to. Be. 577 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:36,320 Finished. A good fight is an honorable 578 00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:40,960 fight. A good fight is a memorable 579 00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:45,680 fight. All God fights are good because 580 00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:51,200 all God fights are one. They're one before I enter the 581 00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:54,840 fight. All God fights result in 582 00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:56,960 salvation. They result into freedom, 583 00:42:56,960 --> 00:43:00,480 reconciliation, healing, deliverance, nations being 584 00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:03,760 saved, walls being rebuilt, cities being reclaimed. 585 00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:06,640 A good fight. A God fight. 586 00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:10,800 Always finishes with Mama's embracing their sons again and 587 00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:13,200 fathers embracing their daughters again. 588 00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,440 All good fights. All good God fights in with 589 00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:21,520 prison doors opening and demons fleeing, cancer reversing, 590 00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:25,120 poverty being broken. A good fight Always finishes 591 00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:29,080 with testimonies that will transcend the times and leave 592 00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:32,720 the enemy's plans demolished, destroyed, obliterated. 593 00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:35,920 Void canceled, failed, frustrated. 594 00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:39,160 All I got to do is get to the finish line. 595 00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:48,560 There's a joy that only comes through going through suffering. 596 00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:51,960 Not staying and suffering, but going through suffering. 597 00:43:56,680 --> 00:43:58,320 As. A result of having finishing 598 00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:01,600 faith in God. We. 599 00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:05,720 See the salvation of the Lord at work in our daily lives. 600 00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:10,920 The Kingdom is advanced. A good fight is an excellent 601 00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,600 fight. A good fight, it does include 602 00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:16,240 some some scars. Can I talk to you? 603 00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:19,880 A good fight does include some scars. 604 00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:22,440 It does include some embarrassments. 605 00:44:22,440 --> 00:44:25,920 It does include some pain. But that pain, that 606 00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:29,840 embarrassment in those bruises, aren't signs of defeat or 607 00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:32,480 weakness. But signs of endurance and 608 00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:36,360 perseverance in overcoming. It's just why you got it man. 609 00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:40,600 If you going to go through bumps and bruises, why wouldn't you 610 00:44:40,600 --> 00:44:44,880 finish? Like I've been through too much 611 00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:49,040 to not finish. I'm not going to go through all 612 00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:51,720 that I've been through and not see a harvest for it. 613 00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:54,400 I'm. Not going to pray, I'm not going 614 00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:57,200 to do 24 hour prayer just to quit. 615 00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:05,080 It was finished at the cross, but quickly we see hell lost. 616 00:45:06,440 --> 00:45:08,640 If. You can just get to the finish 617 00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:13,040 line you. Will see the glory of the Lord 618 00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:16,520 like never before. I don't know who this is for, 619 00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:19,240 but you've sown too much not to see a harvest. 620 00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:23,920 You've cried too much not to experience joy, you've forgiven 621 00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:28,440 too much not to encounter love. You've stood too long not to see 622 00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:32,800 the hand of God, and you've endured too much to not taste 623 00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:44,200 and see your due season. The next generation will not 624 00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:50,040 have to slow down or turn back or break stride to receive the 625 00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:52,160 baton. We. 626 00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:56,920 Will finish our leg of the race. He's doing a new thing, say 627 00:45:56,920 --> 00:46:03,160 that, yes, but the new thing is a finished thing. 628 00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:08,080 Don't get it twisted thinking God's just up there just 629 00:46:08,080 --> 00:46:10,720 creating new stuff like world. It's. 630 00:46:10,720 --> 00:46:12,720 Going to be awesome. Let me get this. 631 00:46:12,720 --> 00:46:15,320 Let me roll this idea out. God is not apple. 632 00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:21,760 Everything God reveals to us is a finished thing. 633 00:46:21,760 --> 00:46:24,600 Everything he asked us to go through and endure, it's a 634 00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:29,360 finished thing. Can you wrap your mind about 635 00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:32,120 around this? That you and I were God's 636 00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:36,000 finishing touch and creation. OK, OK. 637 00:46:36,000 --> 00:46:40,120 If you read your Bible, he got to the 7th day and he said I 638 00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:44,640 deem it very good. It was not very good until you 639 00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:51,040 were finished. Who are you that he couldn't 640 00:46:51,040 --> 00:46:59,550 rest until you were finished? There's no authority and 641 00:46:59,550 --> 00:47:01,430 dominion without the ability to finish. 642 00:47:02,550 --> 00:47:04,870 We can't be in the generation where I'm going to go, this 643 00:47:04,870 --> 00:47:06,430 ain't working. I'm just go try a new thing. 644 00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:08,560 Oh, this ain't working on me. Just go try a new thing. 645 00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:12,000 When are you going to see it through? 646 00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:14,720 When are you going to see it through? 647 00:47:14,720 --> 00:47:23,280 Until God says He's finished, finishing leaves trails and 648 00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:35,360 traces of evidence to victory. No, testimony is not a testimony 649 00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:37,880 unless what you're testifying about is over. 650 00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:42,560 You. Don't have a testimony till it's 651 00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:48,440 finished. This is why God's keeping you 652 00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:50,920 out of some places, because He's saying if you can finish it, we 653 00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:54,080 can have a testimony. You. 654 00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:55,000 Think you need money? No. 655 00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,080 You need a testimony. Your testimony is going to draw 656 00:47:57,080 --> 00:48:01,800 that. Testimonies do draw resources. 657 00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:14,720 You have the DNA of a finisher I need some finishing partners say 658 00:48:14,720 --> 00:48:17,440 that. See. 659 00:48:17,440 --> 00:48:20,280 I need, I need, I need some partners around me. 660 00:48:20,280 --> 00:48:24,520 That was when I'm cramping, dehydrated and ready to give up. 661 00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:28,880 They going to pick me up, not lay on the ground with me and 662 00:48:28,880 --> 00:48:31,880 say what's wrong? Let. 663 00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:34,920 Me pray for you. Oh, did pastor just say praying 664 00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:38,440 for people is wrong? No, even God told Moses, get 665 00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:40,280 your butt up, stop praying and just go. 666 00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:43,320 I. Need some friends in this season 667 00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:47,640 that's going to say PT. See you. 668 00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:49,760 Guys blessed my heart. A lot of times when I remember 669 00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:52,480 the tents tore down and it was destroyed and I had to walk up 670 00:48:52,480 --> 00:48:55,360 in here and I kept the faith. But watching Troy and watching 671 00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:58,080 some of you others, that was just like, we got this PT. 672 00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:01,520 Oh. You mean I don't have to carry 673 00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:04,640 you through this? When I don't have to carry, you 674 00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:06,680 hear me? When I don't have to carry you, 675 00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:09,880 you're carrying me. See. 676 00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:12,480 I need some friends that's like, I know I'm going through 677 00:49:12,480 --> 00:49:15,680 something, but I'm just going to have to get my deliverance 678 00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:20,600 through helping you. OK, OK, OK. 679 00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:24,320 I'm I'm not about to sit here and wait for help when I can 680 00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:30,040 help you. Don't you don't think that boy 681 00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:33,360 was tired too? They both were in the same race, 682 00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:38,640 but he says there's no finish if we don't finish. 683 00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:42,680 Am I talking to somebody? There's no finish this why God 684 00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:46,520 will send men and women who are patient what you may not like 685 00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:50,600 the way they do it, but. They're that friend that's like, 686 00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:54,960 I can't finish without you. But then it comes a season where 687 00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:56,920 God says we just going to have to finish and they're going to 688 00:49:56,920 --> 00:50:00,160 have to come later. This is season for some of 689 00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:02,400 y'all. You can't drag people to the 690 00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:06,120 finish line. You notice homeboy didn't drag 691 00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:09,320 him to the finish line. He said if we going to finish, I 692 00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:12,080 know your legs wobbly, but we just don't need you to pick them 693 00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:15,960 up and move them. Some of y'all just want to drag 694 00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:19,280 your toes to the finish line. And have you ever tried to carry 695 00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:22,280 dead weight? The season of carrying dead 696 00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:25,000 weight is done. If they don't want help, leave 697 00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:28,120 them alone. Some of y'all codependent people 698 00:50:28,120 --> 00:50:30,760 can I tell you if they don't want, they keep telling you they 699 00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:34,920 don't want to read the Bible. Stop reading the Bible and stop 700 00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:39,320 being manipulative about it. Or stop sliding scriptures and 701 00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:41,200 hiding little sticky notes in places. 702 00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:42,600 No, no, no, no. They. 703 00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:48,520 Don't want it? You've tried, you've prayed, and 704 00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:51,160 they have communicated to you what they want and what they 705 00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:54,880 don't want. And I'll tell you this one. 706 00:50:56,440 --> 00:51:01,440 Believe them. I was that person that was like, 707 00:51:01,720 --> 00:51:05,440 somebody be like, I can't do this and I'll be like, yes, you 708 00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:08,680 can. And for three years I can't do 709 00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:11,400 this. I'll be like, yes, you can. 710 00:51:11,680 --> 00:51:15,960 And to me, I'm a good leader because I'm not giving up on you 711 00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:18,720 and God like, no, you're, you're a silly leader. 712 00:51:21,440 --> 00:51:23,880 He was like, I even left folks alone that didn't want to follow 713 00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:30,280 me so. Maybe God's asking some of you 714 00:51:30,280 --> 00:51:34,120 to end codependence and be dependent on him. 715 00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:40,200 I need some partners that will finish with me. 716 00:51:41,280 --> 00:51:43,840 Do I have a few? I have a few. 717 00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:45,320 I don't. I don't want the head bomber. 718 00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:48,800 No, a head bomber can get can get talked out of it because 719 00:51:48,800 --> 00:51:50,400 it's like they had no verbal commitment. 720 00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:53,040 They're just like, yeah, because you can go like this. 721 00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:55,960 No, I don't need circle commitments. 722 00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:59,640 I don't need that. Well, I'll tell you this, 723 00:51:59,640 --> 00:52:03,800 whether you with me or not, I'm going to finish with you. 724 00:52:06,240 --> 00:52:08,280 I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight with you. 725 00:52:08,280 --> 00:52:19,740 All right, You have John 20 on there. 726 00:52:19,860 --> 00:52:22,300 And for Samuel 17, you have those lights. 727 00:52:22,300 --> 00:52:27,940 All right, we'll read those two. We'll go to the cafe. 728 00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:34,200 So the disciples informed him. We have seen the Lord with our 729 00:52:34,200 --> 00:52:37,320 own eyes. I've seen it with my own eyes. 730 00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:48,070 I've seen it with my own life. Now pause. 731 00:52:49,830 --> 00:52:52,190 Because they're like I seen it with my own eyes. 732 00:52:52,190 --> 00:52:56,190 But still unconvinced, Thomas replied. 733 00:52:56,190 --> 00:52:58,550 This is the side of the Scripture I want to preach today 734 00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:02,840 is that there are some people around you that are unconvinced 735 00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:08,800 that this God you keep talking about is alive and real and is 736 00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:13,240 the only way. There's no way I'm going to 737 00:53:13,240 --> 00:53:16,400 believe this unless y'all got to hear me. 738 00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:22,160 I personally see the wounds of the nails. 739 00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:28,160 Y'all y'all got to see this. You got to see this. 740 00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:30,120 I'm gonna explain it, but I want you to get no go back. 741 00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:32,160 I just want you to see this real quick. 742 00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:34,880 They're like I seen it with my own eyes. 743 00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:38,240 They're boasting in their experience. 744 00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,440 But then there's someone else who wasn't there. 745 00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:47,720 He says you know what? There's no way I'm going to 746 00:53:47,720 --> 00:53:52,000 believe unless I personally see the wounds. 747 00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:56,720 And how many of us in here are always trying to hide our flaws? 748 00:53:58,640 --> 00:54:03,600 Once you see this next verse in His hands, touch them. 749 00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:08,520 I want to touch them with my finger and put my hand into the 750 00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:12,600 womb of his side, where he was pierced, where he was afflicted, 751 00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:16,480 where he was traumatized. There's. 752 00:54:16,480 --> 00:54:19,200 Some of y'all in here have not yet been able to share the 753 00:54:19,200 --> 00:54:23,080 depths of your trauma as a young person. 754 00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:26,760 Why? Why have you been so afraid of 755 00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:29,160 telling what you have been through? 756 00:54:31,680 --> 00:54:37,880 Are you really healed because you not communicating what 757 00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:42,160 you've overcome? Is a sign you have not overcome. 758 00:54:42,840 --> 00:54:46,680 You're standing at the finish line, but you have not crossed 759 00:54:46,680 --> 00:54:51,680 it. Someone needs to hear the story. 760 00:54:52,440 --> 00:55:00,400 Of a finished work, Thomas said that's good y'all was there 761 00:55:01,360 --> 00:55:08,560 that's good he touched you but I need to see it for myself for 762 00:55:08,560 --> 00:55:13,080 some people the the the verbal God is good is enough but. 763 00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:17,320 There's some folks that just won't believe until they see the 764 00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:23,520 evidence of Jesus in your life. The world is full of fake. 765 00:55:25,320 --> 00:55:30,640 The church is full of fake. Can I see some real overcoming? 766 00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:33,720 What have you been through? Let me see it. 767 00:55:33,720 --> 00:55:36,120 Let me touch it. Let me walk, Paul said. 768 00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:36,880 Follow me. You. 769 00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:38,000 Going to see my. Change. 770 00:55:38,200 --> 00:55:40,720 You going to see my scars? You going to see me cry? 771 00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:44,960 I'm not just giving instructions to the Church of what to do and 772 00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:47,680 how to be a perfect Christian. I'm letting you know I'm broke. 773 00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:48,680 Down. I'm sad. 774 00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:52,080 I'm ready to give up, but I won't. 775 00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:55,200 Look how vulnerable his letter was. 776 00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:57,360 It just wasn't. Get saved. 777 00:55:57,520 --> 00:56:01,280 Read your Bible, go to church, lift your hands. 778 00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:04,480 It was man. I want to give up. 779 00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:09,440 I was down, but I wasn't out. I was crushed, but I wasn't 780 00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:13,440 giving up, Right? That's what he said. 781 00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:16,520 I can't just leave you at man. I was raped. 782 00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:21,800 No, I was raped. Now I'm free. 783 00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:24,840 I'm not angry. I'm not in unforgiveness. 784 00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:27,560 I'm not bitter. I'm a child of God. 785 00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:34,560 I'm a daughter. It's not enough to just be 786 00:56:34,560 --> 00:56:39,400 relatable. You don't need to overcome to be 787 00:56:39,400 --> 00:56:44,280 relatable. People need to see a finished 788 00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:56,560 work in your life. The eight days later Thomas 789 00:56:57,320 --> 00:57:00,160 Thomas and all the others were in the house together and even 790 00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:03,840 though all the doors were locked meant Elder John. 791 00:57:03,840 --> 00:57:06,440 I feel like we heading into a season where every door that was 792 00:57:06,440 --> 00:57:10,400 locked, I ain't going to say it was the devil. 793 00:57:11,000 --> 00:57:16,560 Some doors was locked by God the master key he he kept it locked 794 00:57:17,800 --> 00:57:22,360 because he closes doors that no man can open and you like the 795 00:57:22,360 --> 00:57:26,840 devil is a lot you going to open the devil It is a lie and 796 00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:29,760 Godzilla. The devil ain't got nothing to 797 00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:32,880 do with this closed door I. Shut it. 798 00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:44,040 What if I told you in the season you've been in, some of your 799 00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:48,040 frustrations have not been the devil and it has not been your 800 00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:50,560 sin? What? 801 00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:52,760 If the father loves you so much, he's saying not yet. 802 00:57:57,480 --> 00:57:59,920 It says Jesus suddenly stood before them. 803 00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:03,080 Peace to you, he said. And. 804 00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:07,640 Looking in Thomas's eyes, he said put your finger here, since 805 00:58:07,640 --> 00:58:12,520 that's what it's going to take. Here put. 806 00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:15,280 Your hand into the wound in my side here, touch it. 807 00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:17,520 You said that's you said you'll believe. 808 00:58:17,600 --> 00:58:22,480 See God, He know when you're bluffing, you know when you 809 00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:25,000 saying God break me through and I promise I'll serve you all the 810 00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:27,520 days of my life. Why you ain't showed up because 811 00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:31,120 he sees something in your heart you ain't for real Lord heal my 812 00:58:31,120 --> 00:58:34,880 child and I promise you I'll follow you, Thomas said. 813 00:58:34,920 --> 00:58:38,280 I'm not going to believe unless you show me and what Jesus do, 814 00:58:38,800 --> 00:58:40,040 he said. Here, touch it, because that's 815 00:58:40,040 --> 00:58:44,400 what you asked for, Thomas. Don't give in to your doubts any 816 00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:49,400 longer. Just believe. 817 00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:53,120 Just believe, somebody say. Just believe. 818 00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:55,800 Watch. This finishing. 819 00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:59,760 You ready say? Finishing validates my scars. 820 00:59:05,240 --> 00:59:07,720 Finishing. OK, finishing. 821 00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:11,400 Validates my scars. You ready my scars. 822 00:59:11,480 --> 00:59:15,440 On the other side of the finish line are my receipts. 823 00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:22,360 It's my receipts that God is who he says he is. 824 00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:25,120 It's my receipts. I'm actually really strong. 825 00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:27,640 It's my receipts. I'm actually, it got to go from 826 00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:33,920 declaration to receipts, right? See what you got to understand 827 00:59:33,920 --> 00:59:36,800 about this building next door when this church finishes that. 828 00:59:37,880 --> 00:59:39,320 We're. Going to have receipts that 829 00:59:39,640 --> 00:59:42,720 we're for real to whoever that needs to be a receipt for. 830 00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:46,520 Oh, you guys are really leaders. Like you guys would be surprised 831 00:59:46,720 --> 00:59:50,360 how many conversations, how many doors, how many meetings 832 00:59:50,480 --> 00:59:53,760 happened because people saw they made it through the pandemic. 833 00:59:54,400 --> 00:59:57,280 Oh, they worshipped and nothing stopped them. 834 00:59:57,400 --> 00:59:59,880 They're made different. Those are receipts. 835 01:00:03,520 --> 01:00:05,840 But you got to understand there's blessing out there for 836 01:00:05,880 --> 01:00:08,560 you, but people need to see receipts. 837 01:00:10,080 --> 01:00:12,640 Can I trust you with tough times? 838 01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:19,440 Just because you're standing doesn't mean you're still alive. 839 01:00:28,300 --> 01:00:41,360 Yeah, Mannequin Stand. My scars. 840 01:00:42,680 --> 01:00:49,240 This bless me, my scars don't mean nothing if all it did was 841 01:00:49,680 --> 01:00:58,200 scar me. I got a burn on my chest from 842 01:00:58,200 --> 01:01:00,920 when I was one years old and I pulled down some really, really 843 01:01:00,920 --> 01:01:08,600 hot grease. They burn me, but if two years 844 01:01:08,600 --> 01:01:14,640 later I went back and grabbed the grease again, all that did 845 01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:16,720 was scar me. It didn't teach me. 846 01:01:18,120 --> 01:01:23,200 What good is your scars if all you are are scarred, not 847 01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:30,600 matured, not free? Like, like, like you got to make 848 01:01:30,600 --> 01:01:35,960 the rapist pay. You. 849 01:01:35,960 --> 01:01:39,880 Got to make the abuser pay. And you don't make them pay by 850 01:01:39,880 --> 01:01:41,600 being bitter. You make you pay by being 851 01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:45,760 bitter, right? Because you can't take it 852 01:01:45,760 --> 01:01:48,560 personal. You got to take it personal on 853 01:01:48,560 --> 01:01:50,400 hell. Who? 854 01:01:50,400 --> 01:01:54,960 Used a vulnerable person to hurt you and the last thing you know 855 01:01:54,960 --> 01:01:57,840 how you pay hell back? First stage. 856 01:01:58,000 --> 01:02:04,480 Be healed. Secondly testify thirdly. 857 01:02:04,840 --> 01:02:08,040 Help. Other people to their healing I. 858 01:02:08,360 --> 01:02:11,400 Got any competitive people in here like you going to pay? 859 01:02:11,400 --> 01:02:15,320 For not messing with, for messing with me like. 860 01:02:15,320 --> 01:02:18,080 I don't like losing, but I love the lessons. 861 01:02:18,520 --> 01:02:20,520 I love the lessons. Lose and teach. 862 01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:23,800 There is no champion who have not lost well. 863 01:02:24,640 --> 01:02:29,440 A true champion will take a loss and use it as gasoline to come 864 01:02:29,440 --> 01:02:38,000 back better. A true champion has to 865 01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:40,440 reorganize their planned offseason. 866 01:02:42,720 --> 01:02:45,680 Oh, I was going to go to the Bahamas in this offseason, but 867 01:02:45,680 --> 01:02:49,240 we lost game seven and I don't like that feeling. 868 01:02:49,240 --> 01:02:52,560 So I'm going to stay home and I'm going to get in the gym. 869 01:02:53,120 --> 01:02:55,680 Because this time next year I'm going to go to the Bahamas 870 01:02:55,680 --> 01:02:59,200 because I won. Not because I need a break. 871 01:03:06,880 --> 01:03:11,960 Take a picture of this. A failure is when a person who 872 01:03:11,960 --> 01:03:19,560 has failed, fumble and fallen but haven't been able to cash in 873 01:03:19,560 --> 01:03:27,260 on the experience. How many people been through 874 01:03:27,260 --> 01:03:31,620 something in their lives? Raise your hand and put your 875 01:03:31,620 --> 01:03:36,100 hand down. How have you cashed in on that 876 01:03:36,100 --> 01:03:42,800 pain? How has that pain LED you to 877 01:03:42,800 --> 01:03:51,710 your freedom? Here's where we will leave you 878 01:03:51,710 --> 01:03:53,030 at first. Samuel 17. 879 01:03:53,030 --> 01:03:57,270 David, who was talking to the men standing around him, asked 880 01:03:58,110 --> 01:04:03,350 what's in it for the man who I want to throw this towel at 881 01:04:03,350 --> 01:04:08,240 somebody who kills that Philistine and gets rid of this 882 01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:16,360 ugly blot on Israel's honor? Who does he think he is anyway, 883 01:04:16,800 --> 01:04:24,280 this uncircumcised Philistine taunting the armies of God 884 01:04:24,640 --> 01:04:31,480 alive? David. 885 01:04:31,600 --> 01:04:37,080 Ended. A stronghold for an entire 886 01:04:37,080 --> 01:04:42,720 nation. If David didn't decide me and 887 01:04:42,720 --> 01:04:43,680 Elder John was talking about this. 888 01:04:44,040 --> 01:04:46,960 David's father didn't send him to go fight. 889 01:04:49,920 --> 01:04:52,880 David wasn't looking for a fight ready. 890 01:04:53,040 --> 01:05:00,520 He saw an opportunity next door. Is just an opportunity they're. 891 01:05:00,520 --> 01:05:03,040 Tagging our building. They're breaking in. 892 01:05:03,040 --> 01:05:05,640 They broke a window. They're tearing our, our, our, 893 01:05:05,920 --> 01:05:09,400 our, our, our, our electrical panel down. 894 01:05:09,560 --> 01:05:11,680 Right now it's over there, torn down. 895 01:05:14,720 --> 01:05:18,960 I'm like devil. You really taunting me and some 896 01:05:18,960 --> 01:05:22,880 of us would be like God, build your church, build your church. 897 01:05:23,400 --> 01:05:24,440 And. He's like, let's do it. 898 01:05:29,880 --> 01:05:32,680 Let's. Do it See, I look at stuff like 899 01:05:32,680 --> 01:05:35,400 that and I'm like, Goliath, you are we're we are kicking you out 900 01:05:35,400 --> 01:05:40,080 of this neighborhood and I'm like David, I'm showing up and 901 01:05:40,080 --> 01:05:45,360 I'm like, what's in it for me? Number one, it's OK to say God 902 01:05:46,200 --> 01:05:47,360 if I'm going. To go through all. 903 01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:49,960 This to see victory for your people. 904 01:05:50,840 --> 01:05:57,680 What's in it for me? Do you find it worth it to 905 01:05:57,680 --> 01:05:59,800 finish? David said. 906 01:05:59,800 --> 01:06:03,080 Is there not A cause? Do you find it worth it working 907 01:06:03,080 --> 01:06:05,040 out your marriage, working out your relationship? 908 01:06:05,040 --> 01:06:07,080 Do you find it worth it getting sober? 909 01:06:09,400 --> 01:06:16,840 Is it worth it, God? 'S not asking you to go through 910 01:06:16,840 --> 01:06:19,160 it. For nothing. 911 01:06:23,600 --> 01:06:30,120 What's in it for the man or the woman who kills that philistine? 912 01:06:30,120 --> 01:06:33,400 You know what the philistine is in the New Testament? 913 01:06:34,840 --> 01:06:37,680 It's. A stronghold, spiritually 914 01:06:37,680 --> 01:06:42,360 speaking, for the same way Goliath was taunting David and 915 01:06:42,360 --> 01:06:46,000 his and the children of Israel. The same way. 916 01:06:46,240 --> 01:06:51,440 Whatever you got going on up here, the lies the insecurities 917 01:06:51,680 --> 01:06:54,760 how long when you going to get aggressive about when you going 918 01:06:54,760 --> 01:06:58,200 fast about it when you going like I'm talking about fast like 919 01:06:58,360 --> 01:07:02,560 you know what I ain't drinking no juice until like some of 920 01:07:02,560 --> 01:07:05,040 y'all is just juice like you just addicted to grape juice. 921 01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:10,240 Like you just won't punch Snickers coffee. 922 01:07:10,520 --> 01:07:14,240 Something like I am going to take this one thing in my life, 923 01:07:15,040 --> 01:07:19,760 create an altar and I'm not going back to it until. 924 01:07:21,560 --> 01:07:23,360 I. Have the trophy in my hand. 925 01:07:24,280 --> 01:07:33,160 What did David do? Why is that important? 926 01:07:34,160 --> 01:07:37,120 Clearly, it looks like God. Wants you to finish it. 927 01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:43,200 And walk through the city, walk through your job and say look 928 01:07:43,200 --> 01:07:46,760 what I've overcome, right? Not just look what I've been 929 01:07:46,760 --> 01:07:48,440 through. Look what I've overcome. 930 01:07:48,880 --> 01:07:51,080 And it's over. It's dead. 931 01:07:51,240 --> 01:07:53,120 My mental illness, I'm free from it. 932 01:07:53,960 --> 01:07:57,080 Yeah, I was bipolar, but no, in the name of Jesus, I no longer 933 01:07:57,080 --> 01:07:58,200 need those. There's people giving 934 01:07:58,200 --> 01:08:00,480 testimonies. I'm not on that medication no 935 01:08:00,480 --> 01:08:02,600 more. I'm not on that high blood 936 01:08:02,600 --> 01:08:04,200 pressure. No, you no forget it. 937 01:08:04,200 --> 01:08:06,720 Like leave fried food alone if it means you can get off your 938 01:08:06,720 --> 01:08:08,320 medication. We. 939 01:08:08,320 --> 01:08:10,160 Don't want medication so I can eat chicken. 940 01:08:18,279 --> 01:08:22,399 I'm going to give you a couple minutes to just write it down. 941 01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:28,479 What are you tolerating in your life? 942 01:08:33,040 --> 01:08:35,240 You ready? I'm going to come down 943 01:08:35,240 --> 01:08:38,319 somebody's street. I'm saying, and I'm not sorry. 944 01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:42,399 There's a few of you in here. Don't need to sip. 945 01:08:45,319 --> 01:08:49,479 You know why? Forget is do you go to hell if 946 01:08:49,479 --> 01:08:52,640 you drank? No, you go to hell for rejecting 947 01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:56,080 Jesus. OK, here you go. 948 01:08:57,080 --> 01:08:58,600 My. Question is why you do it? 949 01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:01,880 And let's remove. Oh, it's just, it's just a nice 950 01:09:01,880 --> 01:09:04,120 little recreational thing. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. 951 01:09:04,120 --> 01:09:06,120 Why do you do it? And. 952 01:09:06,120 --> 01:09:09,840 If you have made a sip, your Lord, your healer. 953 01:09:10,479 --> 01:09:15,520 Your. Taker the edge off if you have 954 01:09:15,520 --> 01:09:23,040 replaced substance. For Rafa then. 955 01:09:23,040 --> 01:09:28,520 Your substance is your God for that area of your life so. 956 01:09:28,520 --> 01:09:31,080 That's why you need to put it down, so God can come in and 957 01:09:31,080 --> 01:09:32,760 take the place. Then let's see if you need it. 958 01:09:34,880 --> 01:09:37,840 God does not need your assistance in that area. 959 01:09:38,080 --> 01:09:40,680 What He needs is your obedience and your willingness. 960 01:09:41,240 --> 01:09:43,000 You'd. Be surprised how many Christians 961 01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:50,640 will fight to keep sipping. Why is it a fight? 962 01:09:51,800 --> 01:09:52,960 You're not going to hell. You could. 963 01:09:53,359 --> 01:09:54,880 You can sip all the days of your life. 964 01:09:56,520 --> 01:09:57,840 But I'm not going to be that guy. 965 01:09:59,360 --> 01:10:02,800 We got too many drunk Christians, way too many. 966 01:10:04,440 --> 01:10:07,160 And it's a mockery to God because what we're saying, cool, 967 01:10:07,160 --> 01:10:10,360 I can still be with you one day and still do me today. 968 01:10:11,840 --> 01:10:13,120 Why? Are we still trying to find out 969 01:10:13,120 --> 01:10:16,040 what we could do, how close we can get to the line and then you 970 01:10:16,040 --> 01:10:18,600 got pulpits afraid to tell you, you tripping. 971 01:10:20,880 --> 01:10:31,440 No, I love you, you groan. The Lord wants to finish some 972 01:10:31,440 --> 01:10:37,480 things in your life. Question is, are you, are you 973 01:10:37,480 --> 01:10:45,360 willing and Are you ready since we're in that vain starting? 974 01:10:49,200 --> 01:10:50,600 Your church is going to help you out. 975 01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:56,720 August 12th we. Are doing a fast call the good 976 01:10:56,720 --> 01:10:59,680 fight. I want y'all to read up there 977 01:10:59,680 --> 01:11:08,880 how long the fast is till we walk in that door. 978 01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:11,000 And like I told the first service, if you going to put 979 01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:15,440 down porn the day after we walk into the building, that's the 980 01:11:15,440 --> 01:11:18,360 one. You just need to let it go, OK? 981 01:11:18,600 --> 01:11:20,840 There's just some stuff that God's like, get rid of it. 982 01:11:20,840 --> 01:11:25,160 It's not going to work at all. But if it's like I love sugar. 983 01:11:27,760 --> 01:11:30,040 This. Is A to me, an easy one, but it 984 01:11:30,040 --> 01:11:36,200 requires A level of discipline. It is simply no sugar, no 985 01:11:36,200 --> 01:11:42,440 processed food, no junk food, no fried food. 986 01:11:42,440 --> 01:11:44,600 What else in Italia? That's it. 987 01:11:46,120 --> 01:11:48,520 You. Like I love my red meat, eat all 988 01:11:48,520 --> 01:11:52,160 the red meat you want to and take your blood pressure 989 01:11:52,160 --> 01:11:57,200 medicine. You. 990 01:11:57,200 --> 01:11:59,600 Do your chicken. You can do all that but the. 991 01:11:59,600 --> 01:12:03,360 Chips and what they baked, but they process. 992 01:12:04,680 --> 01:12:07,280 OK, here it is. Here's the here's the fun part. 993 01:12:08,040 --> 01:12:12,800 The discipline with food is only Monday through Friday, Saturday, 994 01:12:12,800 --> 01:12:16,520 Sunday. You can do all you want to. 995 01:12:18,720 --> 01:12:22,320 If you got a birthday on Monday. Do your thing man, it's not 996 01:12:22,320 --> 01:12:27,400 religious. But I want you to, I want you to 997 01:12:27,400 --> 01:12:30,720 observe the behavior of wanting to cut corners. 998 01:12:33,440 --> 01:12:37,280 I want you to observe the behavior of looking for a reason 999 01:12:37,280 --> 01:12:41,000 to break discipline. Oh, it's my, it's my cousin from 1000 01:12:41,000 --> 01:12:46,400 back in the day. Birthday, you know, you don't 1001 01:12:46,400 --> 01:12:53,280 even know that when the last time you seen them, August 12th. 1002 01:12:57,040 --> 01:12:59,840 You could do it. Not do it, but corporately, as a 1003 01:12:59,880 --> 01:13:07,160 church on waging war on however hell has its hands. 1004 01:13:08,800 --> 01:13:14,560 In the completion of this project, we are standing with 1005 01:13:14,560 --> 01:13:21,080 God and we're taking it serious and I hope I got a few people 1006 01:13:21,920 --> 01:13:25,400 with me. And. 1007 01:13:25,400 --> 01:13:28,560 Then the other part of it is you are going to deal with something 1008 01:13:28,560 --> 01:13:32,160 that God's been telling you to finish for a long time, and 1009 01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:34,280 that's personal. It could. 1010 01:13:34,280 --> 01:13:38,000 Be shopping, it could be. Eating habits, it can be. 1011 01:13:38,000 --> 01:13:41,160 Anger it could be so I'm just like this. 1012 01:13:41,160 --> 01:13:43,200 I'm going to do the silent treatment with my spouse. 1013 01:13:43,200 --> 01:13:48,360 I'm it could be secrets. You. 1014 01:13:48,360 --> 01:13:51,160 Are going to fight like hell, even if it brings you a little 1015 01:13:51,160 --> 01:13:56,160 bit of embarrassment and you are going to uproot these things. 1016 01:13:56,160 --> 01:14:02,760 And when we walk through those doors on that day, we're not 1017 01:14:02,760 --> 01:14:08,120 just celebrating the finished work of this building, we're 1018 01:14:08,120 --> 01:14:10,200 going to walk in there with a finished work within this 1019 01:14:10,200 --> 01:14:19,090 building. Hey, man, the personal thing is 1020 01:14:19,090 --> 01:14:22,970 not Monday through Friday. It's seven days. 1021 01:14:25,490 --> 01:14:29,570 We will have a full little situation information, sorry, 1022 01:14:29,570 --> 01:14:32,490 Wednesday, and we will post it online. 1023 01:14:34,450 --> 01:14:38,640 But I'm waging war and I'm telling you first hand, you can 1024 01:14:38,640 --> 01:14:40,160 ask my wife. She ain't going to give you all 1025 01:14:40,160 --> 01:14:41,640 the details. But there's some things in my 1026 01:14:41,640 --> 01:14:45,320 life I want to finish. It's some, it's some things in 1027 01:14:45,320 --> 01:14:46,960 my life. I will tell you, man, I'm like 1028 01:14:46,960 --> 01:14:49,920 good. Like I've overcome so much, 1029 01:14:49,920 --> 01:14:56,600 grown so much, evolved so much. But there's still things like I 1030 01:14:56,600 --> 01:15:00,720 want to be done. I want my marriage to get keep 1031 01:15:00,720 --> 01:15:03,080 getting better. It's good, but I want it to get 1032 01:15:03,080 --> 01:15:05,800 sweeter. I want to be a better pastor. 1033 01:15:05,800 --> 01:15:07,320 I want to be a better communicator. 1034 01:15:07,480 --> 01:15:10,480 I want to be a better son. I want to be a better father. 1035 01:15:10,640 --> 01:15:13,080 Like there's so much to keep growing in. 1036 01:15:13,080 --> 01:15:22,800 And so we're about to finish this year strong in Jesus name. 1037 01:15:31,310 --> 01:15:33,350 We're starting a new series on Wednesday. 1038 01:15:34,400 --> 01:15:37,360 Dealing with open heaven and dealing with how do we walk with 1039 01:15:37,360 --> 01:15:40,080 God, What does that look like? What does it look like to walk 1040 01:15:40,080 --> 01:15:43,320 in the blessing, to walk in favor, to walk with God, not 1041 01:15:43,320 --> 01:15:45,080 just call on him, but walk with him. 1042 01:15:45,560 --> 01:15:49,920 And so we're going to deal with that starting Wednesday evening. 1043 01:15:49,920 --> 01:15:51,240 And I hope you were blessed today. 1044 01:15:51,600 --> 01:15:57,040 I would like to say I said it this morning, but these people 1045 01:15:57,040 --> 01:16:00,080 spoke, they held it down for two services while we were gone for 1046 01:16:00,080 --> 01:16:04,560 a month. I had a pastor say son. 1047 01:16:06,040 --> 01:16:07,880 It. Is rare for a pastor to be able 1048 01:16:07,880 --> 01:16:11,800 to leave his church for a month and it's standing and healthy 1049 01:16:11,800 --> 01:16:14,360 and thriving. You don't know how proud I was 1050 01:16:14,920 --> 01:16:19,880 to First off, see the people come up here and I'll say it 1051 01:16:19,880 --> 01:16:23,480 like this. See, the women come up here as 1052 01:16:23,480 --> 01:16:26,440 well, because if you can go to a church where the women's mouths 1053 01:16:26,440 --> 01:16:29,560 aren't muzzled, but also the women aren't trying to prove 1054 01:16:29,560 --> 01:16:32,040 something, they're just walking in their anointing. 1055 01:16:32,400 --> 01:16:43,270 That's a healthy church, man. There was not one person that 1056 01:16:43,270 --> 01:16:45,670 got up here. That. 1057 01:16:45,670 --> 01:16:54,130 Didn't keep me listening when I was listening to the word and 1058 01:16:54,130 --> 01:16:59,410 you can't just feed me anything and I saw the DNA taking. 1059 01:17:00,880 --> 01:17:02,680 I. Was like look at this them. 1060 01:17:02,680 --> 01:17:06,960 Our children, that's them, them, them as our disciples. 1061 01:17:13,530 --> 01:17:18,570 If you understand the Kingdom, these are signs that when it's 1062 01:17:18,570 --> 01:17:23,610 time for PJ and I and the elders to go on with whatever God is 1063 01:17:23,610 --> 01:17:26,730 calling us to, this church will stand. 1064 01:17:28,970 --> 01:17:32,530 The next generation is going to thrive. 1065 01:17:33,000 --> 01:17:36,320 There's some children that's going to have some mighty women 1066 01:17:36,320 --> 01:17:49,960 of God as Mamas, and you can give a pastor anything is the 1067 01:17:49,960 --> 01:17:52,720 fruit of their labor to see that. 1068 01:17:52,760 --> 01:17:57,600 Oh, finally, I don't mind getting in the pit with you, but 1069 01:17:57,600 --> 01:18:01,560 can we see some fruits? And I'm telling you, as we were 1070 01:18:01,560 --> 01:18:06,040 watching and listening, we saw nothing but Rich fruits. 1071 01:18:06,360 --> 01:18:09,440 Super. Proud of Love Quest Church. 1072 01:18:16,560 --> 01:18:19,400 Super. Proud and although they fall in 1073 01:18:19,400 --> 01:18:21,160 this bunch. It's. 1074 01:18:21,160 --> 01:18:25,920 A blessing to us to be able to have elders that love us, that 1075 01:18:26,440 --> 01:18:38,240 care for us, that a snitch on some of y'all to know that God 1076 01:18:38,240 --> 01:18:40,920 will call us from another country only knowing our family. 1077 01:18:42,200 --> 01:18:44,960 And then to find out our family is here and our friends. 1078 01:18:44,960 --> 01:18:49,480 And thank you for everybody that love us enough to carry the 1079 01:18:49,480 --> 01:18:52,880 vision. Trust me when you understand 1080 01:18:52,880 --> 01:18:56,680 that we have laid our entire lives down to follow this 1081 01:18:57,000 --> 01:19:00,320 assignment. There is no Plan B for our 1082 01:19:00,320 --> 01:19:03,320 lives. So if it doesn't work, it's on 1083 01:19:03,320 --> 01:19:05,560 us, not y'all. It's kind of on y'all. 1084 01:19:05,560 --> 01:19:09,000 But you get what I'm saying. Y'all could leave but we still 1085 01:19:09,000 --> 01:19:11,640 here. Y'all can get offended but we 1086 01:19:11,640 --> 01:19:13,920 still God saying but but love them, love them. 1087 01:19:14,960 --> 01:19:18,280 So stand to your feet mighty men and mighty women to God. 1088 01:19:18,280 --> 01:19:21,320 Can we give it up for our first time attendees one time? 1089 01:19:22,480 --> 01:19:24,520 Thank you so much for tuning into this week's sermon. 1090 01:19:24,520 --> 01:19:27,840 We pray you were challenged, equipped, and encouraged. 1091 01:19:28,080 --> 01:19:30,040 Make sure to follow us on all platforms. 1092 01:19:30,040 --> 01:19:34,120 That's Lovequest Intl church. We out here for real. 1093 01:19:34,200 --> 01:19:36,480 We're really doing it. That's Facebook, Instagram, 1094 01:19:36,480 --> 01:19:39,720 YouTube, and TikTok. You can find us anywhere you 1095 01:19:39,720 --> 01:19:42,160 need to find us. But until next time, you know 1096 01:19:42,160 --> 01:19:43,760 the drill. You know the motto. 1097 01:19:44,040 --> 01:19:44,360 Get. Your. 1098 01:19:44,360 --> 01:19:46,600 Love fixed man and we'll see y'all real soon.