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0:00Oh, the grace [music] that breaks every
0:03besus
0:08Christ the [music] lamb of God.
0:12>> Hebrews chapter 10 11 [snorts]
0:15every priest stands and performs his
0:18religious duties. Again and again he
0:19offers the same sacrifices which can
0:22never take away sins. [music]
0:24Now how would you like that job? Now,
0:26this is the Apostle Paul writing to
0:29Jewish Christians in Israel, the book of
0:32Hebrews, and he's [music] talking to
0:34them about the priests, okay? And the
0:38priests have to go in, it says here, day
0:40after day and perform religious duties
0:43again and again and offer the same
0:45sacrifices which can never take away
0:48sins.
0:50Why did they do it? Because in the Old
0:54Testament, it covered but it didn't
0:56clean.
0:59Let's move on.
1:01Now, we're in the Y'all get this now.
1:03We're in the grocery store. You got
1:05Everybody got your cart? We're going to
1:08grab and go. Y'all ready? Y'all going
1:10Y'all going to cook this at home with
1:12Holy Spirit? And you're going to let
1:15Holy Spirit cook this meals, the the the
1:18items that we're going to put in the
1:19cart. And Holy Spirit's going to break
1:21it down specifically for the nutritional
1:23value that you need in that meal. Come
1:25on, somebody.
1:29[clears throat]
1:30Y'all ready? But when this priest, what
1:33is this priest? He's talking of Jesus,
1:35had offered for all time one sacrifice
1:39for sins. He sat down at the right hand
1:42of God.
1:45Say he sat down.
1:48So that means you got to get up.
1:53Did he say it is finished?
1:56And that qualifies you. Ding, ding.
1:58Bells on. You step in the ring. Get up.
2:03Look at what he says next. Since that
2:06time, he waits for his enemies to be
2:09made his foottool.
2:12Who does that?
2:16>> [snorts]
2:19>> God
2:21makes Jesus's enemies
2:24Jesus's enemies.
2:27Jesus's enemies his foottool.
2:31God does it
2:34by us.
2:38By us.
2:41I'm talking about you. Get up.
2:46Stand.
2:49Get up.
2:55I don't know if I like the direction
2:57this is heading. We're too late now.
3:02Get up.
3:06Stop waiting on God to do what he is
3:11expecting and has already empowered you
3:14to do. Get up.
3:21This is what I want you to see. Because
3:24verse 14,
3:26by one sacrifice
3:28he has made perfect forever those who
3:33are being made holy.
3:39I love this verse.
3:43By one sacrifice,
3:45by one act,
3:49by one moment of obedience,
3:54he made perfect.
3:58Say perfect.
4:00>> How do you see yourself?
4:03I guarantee you it is not perfect.
4:09I got a big mirror. Tell me. I I didn't
4:11know. But how does God see me? Perfect.
4:17How does God see me? Perfect.
4:22For
4:24ever.
4:27Perfect
4:28for
4:30ever.
4:34Those who are being
4:38made holy. Now, let me get that throat
4:42cleared for it. Cuz some of y'all like
4:51can't do it.
4:54Jesus
4:57with the act that he did of surrender
5:00and submission. Our elder brother. Yes.
5:03Our Lord and Savior. 100%. Son of God,
5:07son of man. 100%. What Jesus did for us
5:12was an example.
5:18We follow in his footsteps.
5:25We do what he did.
5:29And he got up.
5:35[snorts] For by one sacrifice, Jesus,
5:37that one sacrifice was Jesus. He He who
5:41Jesus the father, the Holy Spirit has
5:43made perfect, meaning we were not
5:45perfect, but we were then made perfect.
5:48Come on, somebody forever
5:52those who are being.
5:56And that's the struggle.
5:59We focus on the being part in our lives
6:03and we forget about the made perfect
6:05forever part that he says. What are you
6:09talking about?
6:11You struggle with your sins.
6:14You struggle with your anger. You
6:16struggle with your disappointment. You
6:18struggle with your misunderstanding.
6:21Let me just say it like this. We
6:23struggle
6:30Well, I understand that, Robert, but you
6:32don't you don't understand what I go I
6:34ain't got to understand what you're
6:36going through.
6:38I'm not the one to understand what
6:39you're going I don't understand what any
6:41of y'all going through. I don't
6:43understand what what y'all don't
6:45understand what I'm going through. Why
6:46do we use that? You don't understand.
6:50We're not supposed to understand. Would
6:53we please stop comparing ourselves
6:55amongst ourselves to ourselves? That is
6:58absolute insanity.
7:00God is going to talk to you completely
7:02different than he talks to me. He's
7:04going to call you to do things
7:06completely other than what he calls me
7:08to do. And he may call me and my brother
7:10to do the same thing, but I'll guarantee
7:12you this, it'll be different because
7:14he's different from me and I'm different
7:16from him.
7:17>> Hello. Stop comparing yourselves. Well,
7:20IT WORKED FOR THEM. WHY DOESN'T IT STOP
7:22TRYING TO do what they did?
7:27>> What do you do? You be you
7:31and get up in your father's lap and
7:33stare into his eyes until you hear from
7:35him and do that.
7:41Hello. Well, he ain't said nothing. Then
7:44do the last thing he said and you'll be
7:47safe, sweetie. I guarantee you.
7:50do the last thing he said. But I can't
7:53remember what the All right, then.
7:54Worship.
7:57Worship. It ain't complicated.
8:01You just got to get up.
8:04You got to get up.
8:09Is made perfect forever.
8:11[laughter]
8:14Those who I'm sorry you guys. I'm a
8:17little drunk up here already.
8:20made perfect forever. Those who are
8:22being made ho being being well, you
8:26don't know what my husband did. He's
8:28being made holy. You don't know how my
8:32wife what my wife's like. She is being
8:36made holy. My youngest about to drive
8:38me. They are being MADE. MY BOSS SAYS
8:42THEY ARE being can do we need to go on
8:48being made holy. Do you mean God sees me
8:52as perfect even though I am yet to be
8:54made holy?
8:58What?
9:03He's
9:05God,
9:08not you.
9:12Not me. Hallelujah.
9:16Cuz I would have been gone. I would have
9:17zapped myself.
9:22Hello.
9:24He's God.
9:26He is God.
9:31Not you.
9:35And he
9:39sees you as perfect
9:43as you're being made in his hands with
9:46his Holy Spirit, walking with him,
9:49sitting in his lap, staring into his
9:51face. Come on, somebody. Being made.
9:58Yeah, but I just I taken so long and and
10:01I don't I don't if they would just
10:02change. You know they you don't have the
10:05power over them
10:07and you hardly have any power over you.
10:10What you worried about somebody else
10:12for? Come on somebody.
10:17Well, I'm believing God for my marriage.
10:18Then change yourself.
10:23Hello. Get up.
10:27Yeah. Yeah. Get up. Go to the take
10:30yourself to the doctor's office of Holy
10:32Spirit. Sit yourself down in the waiting
10:35room of the scriptures. Come on. Let
10:37them begin to come in and then take you
10:40through the training ground of the
10:42various things that God has been
10:43speaking into your life. And let you
10:45give an account and a cause for what you
10:48have done with what God has said to you.
10:57God help me with the time.
11:01because you'll be like the rich young
11:03ruler. I'll guarantee you. Some of us
11:06would say, "Oh, well, I've done all of
11:08that, Lord." Okay. Well, here's Let's
11:10just Let's just cut to the chase. Here's
11:13one thing. Go do this.
11:17Uh, I don't know if I can do that.
11:22God
11:24is in control.
11:33And he
11:35loves
11:37you.
11:41You don't know what I've done. I I don't
11:42care. Do we have to go over this again?
11:46He knows you
11:50better than you know yourself
11:54and loves
11:56you unconditionally.
12:02If that scripture bring it back up,
12:03guys, if you would. I know. Thank you
12:05guys. Y'all trying to motivate. Go on to
12:06the next one.
12:10Get this into your vision.
12:13Put this in your glasses, your eyeballs.
12:16This is how you see yourself because
12:19this is how your father sees you.
12:24He sees you as perfect, though he knows
12:27you're a stinker and he loves you
12:28anyway. And he's going to work on your
12:30stink cuz he's got plenty of soap.
12:34Are y'all with me?
12:36>> This should be how you see yourself.
12:38[snorts]
12:39But we've got a problem, don't we?
12:42If I was to say, how many of you want to
12:44raise your hands? If this is how you see
12:46yourself, hardly any hands will be
12:48raised. Although by faith, many of you
12:49would. And that's okay because faith is
12:52how the kingdom runs. Go with me to
12:54Genesis chapter 1.
12:57So God sees us how?
13:00As perfect.
13:07But there's someone that doesn't see us
13:09as perfect. Anybody
13:13know who that someone is?
13:16Come on. Who said that? Who said that?
13:25Better be careful. I've been known to
13:26tackle people.
13:30That's it. That's it. That's the
13:34kingdom. That's someone who gets up. Are
13:38you with me?
13:40Doesn't matter what the adversary says
13:42about me.
13:48I am of the ones that will judge angels,
13:52not he.
13:58But we got to get up, folks.
14:01He's coming for a bride,
14:04not a bunch of snotty-nosed kids.
14:08Now, don't get me wrong, he loves us. He
14:10loves his sons. He loves his daughters.
14:12He loves his little babies. But the goal
14:15is for us
14:18to get up.
14:20Hello.
14:25Genesis 1 verse one. In the beginning,
14:27God created the heavens and the earth.
14:31[snorts]
14:32Now, the earth was formless and empty,
14:34and darkness was over the surface of the
14:36deep. And the spirit of God was hovering
14:38over the waters.
14:40Have you ever known God to create
14:42something
14:43formless,
14:45empty,
14:47dark?
14:49Have you? I've never known God to create
14:52something like that.
14:55Kind of leads me to believe that there
14:57was a beginning creating of the heavens
15:00and earth and then something happened
15:01between Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2. I
15:04wonder what that might be.
15:09Well, it says in Luke 10:18, Jesus 18
15:12Luke 10:18, I think it is, that
15:15Jesus said, "I saw Lucifer."
15:18I saw Jesus said, "Lucifer fall like
15:21lightning."
15:26Where did he fall? To
15:29the earth. Because in Revelation 12
15:347 and 9, they'll bring that one up. It
15:38talks about it specifically how there
15:40was a war in heaven and Michael overcame
15:42and Lucifer and all his angels were
15:44thrown out of heaven to the earth.
15:48Imagine what kind of impact that might
15:49have on the earth. Imagine what
15:53condition
15:54an entity
15:56that was guarding the throne of God,
16:00worshiping God,
16:02but iniquity was found in him.
16:07And he rose up.
16:10See, he got up
16:13and he shouldn't have.
16:21I want the Bible teaches us that we are
16:25not to be ignorant of our adversaries
16:28devices.
16:30So I'm going to teach you a little bit
16:32just we're just going to throw it in the
16:33cart. I ain't even got time to blanch
16:35it. Okay? We're going to throw it in the
16:37cart and we're going to run and you ask
16:38Holy Spirit how to apply this to your
16:40life. But the devil is a liar.
16:46That's why it don't matter what he says.
16:49Because everything he says is a lie.
16:53Even when he tries to mix truth in it,
16:55it's still a lie.
16:58Did God really say, "Well, you'll be
17:00like him, knowing good and evil." Yeah,
17:02there's some truth to that, but it's
17:04still a lie because I'm not God.
17:08I can't handle the knowledge of good and
17:10evil. Thank you very much. That's why he
17:12wanted me to stay away from the tree.
17:19And guys, stop blaming the women. It
17:21ain't Eve's fault.
17:26Just a side note for all of you watching
17:28us online. We appreciate all of our
17:31online audience watching us.
17:34It's not the woman's fault.
17:36When a Eve ptook of the fruit, their
17:39eyes were still shut.
17:42They were still in innocence. Read the
17:44scripture.
17:46When Adam
17:48took it, when Adam fortook, then
17:54their eyes were open.
17:57So all you ladies get say, "Aha."
18:01All Adam had to do was say, "Sweetheart,
18:04I appreciate it." But you that's that's
18:05not
18:07hello.
18:10But I got a whole another message I
18:11don't want to get into because Eve
18:13didn't know what it was like to be
18:14alone.
18:18Adam did.
18:32Do you know why God loves you so much?
18:41cuz he knows what it's like to be alone.
18:51[snorts and clears throat] And he would
18:52rather send his son
18:56to a garden
18:59to choose to take the fruit, the cup,
19:04and beg.
19:10Please, there's any other way.
19:14But nevertheless,
19:17[snorts]
19:21it's my time to get up.
19:24Your will be done.
19:28And he willingly fortook
19:33to redeem us
19:36back.
19:38So he is not alone.
19:49The enemy is constantly
19:53constantly
19:54talking.
19:58You know,
20:01[snorts]
20:02you really don't have to believe a word
20:04he says. You know that, don't you?
20:09You know what he's after in you.
20:12He's after your power.
20:19Now understand something. Let me make it
20:21perfectly clear.
20:23All of us,
20:25all of us have sinned.
20:29All of us have fallen short of the glory
20:32of God.
20:35All of us. Our righteousness is as
20:37filthy rags.
20:41Now, have I just just just talked out of
20:44the side of my mouth or was I using
20:46scripture? And and scripture, we're
20:49supposed to believe and we're supposed
20:51to stand on it and build and get up with
20:54it, right?
20:56But go back to that first verse.
21:00as we're being made holy,
21:06as God's working with us, as we are
21:09getting up.
21:11God's working with us on our addictions.
21:14God's working with us on our anger.
21:16God's working with us on our trauma.
21:18God's working on restoring relationships
21:20with our kids. God's working on Do you
21:23get the idea? He's working on all of
21:26that.
21:28While he's doing that, he sees us as his
21:30kids and we're perfect.
21:36[snorts]
21:40That is how I want you to see yourself.
21:44[snorts]
21:44I do not want you to see yourself the
21:46way the enemy comes and talks to you
21:48like he did in Genesis chapter 3. For
21:50now, the serpent was more crafty than
21:52any of the wild animals the Lord God had
21:54made. And he said to the woman, "Did God
21:55really say?
21:58Did he really
22:01say, "Oh, you hearing that message come
22:04about Tuesday, Wednesday,
22:07cuz tomorrow y'all be busy with the with
22:09the grills and all of that." [snorts]
22:12By the way, we thank God for those that
22:14have given their lives for our for our
22:17country and our freedoms. Amen.
22:21And I know it's not Veterans Day, but we
22:22appreciate those of you here that have
22:24have chosen to do that with your life,
22:26and we greatly appreciate you. And in a
22:30way, this message is about memorials.
22:33Thank you, Holy Spirit.
22:36Because the enemy wants you to believe
22:38one memorial.
22:40Go to your worst place in your life.
22:44That's who he wants to tell you you are.
22:49But see, God says, "I'm beyond your best
22:52day."
22:54>> Oh, you don't you you you you going to
22:58look at your best day and say, "Okay,
22:59that's how I'm going to view." No, no,
23:01no, sweetheart. No, sweetheart.
23:02Sweetheart, you don't understand. You
23:03don't you don't see yourself the way I'm
23:05telling you, you're way beyond that.
23:08You're way you are you are
23:12you you are perfect in my eyes.
23:18What's the enemy going to tell somebody
23:20that believes they are perfect IN THEIR
23:23DADDY'S EYES? WHAT CAN he say?
23:29>> It's almost like he's been disarmed.
23:34Could it be?
23:39>> Yeah.
23:42The enemy is not your problem.
23:46You just need to get up.
23:51>> Get up.
23:53Well, you don't know. That is That is
23:55just That is selfish. That is That is
23:58just You You have no I You You You need
24:01to step in my shoes. No, I don't. I got
24:03funky feet. You don't want my feet in
24:05your shoes.
24:08Stop comparing yourselves to one
24:10another. All I'm saying is your father
24:15is more than enough.
24:18More than enough.
24:20But how he chooses to use is in you, in
24:25you, in you, in you, in you, then out of
24:30you.
24:34But if you're not willing to get up,
24:39why isn't God doing anything?
24:42I just don't understand.
24:45I've been here just waiting on the Lord.
24:49I'm trusting.
24:52I'm abiding in his eye. Claim the word.
24:55I Yep. God's going to do it.
24:58Meanwhile, the Father
25:01and Jesus
25:03are seated
25:05in heaven.
25:07And the Holy Spirit is like me with my
25:09son.
25:14Hey, it's time to get up.
25:18It's time to get up. Come on, let's go.
25:21Got some fun things.
25:25Hello.
25:27Come on. It's time to get up.
25:31Not Not just get up.
25:34Not just get up from your sleep. And
25:37some of us are. We're comfortable. We We
25:40Oh,
25:43dare I?
25:48[snorts]
25:54Lucifer says, "Did God really say?"
25:58And she said, "Yeah, God did say in
26:00verse three, and that we must not touch
26:02it." Verse four, "You will not surely
26:07die.
26:10For God knows that when you eat it, your
26:11eyes will be opened and you'll be like
26:13God, knowing good and evil." Is that
26:17what happened?
26:18Yes. Did they die?
26:22Yes and no.
26:24They died in separation from God. Had to
26:27be put out of the garden. And death,
26:30that's why sin leads to death. That's
26:32what separation is. Death is not death
26:35is separation from God. Do you guys
26:37realize every single one of you are
26:39living eternally right now?
26:42Right now. You're eternal being.
26:47Right now.
26:52That's why we don't have to fear death.
26:55We just hang this clothes up and put on
26:57some a different, trust me, a lot better
27:00clothes because I'm not this. Trust me,
27:04I'm much bigger than this.
27:07Do you guys understand what I'm saying?
27:08You're living forever right now. You are
27:10an eternal being right now.
27:13So, if we are an eternal being right
27:16now,
27:19why are we so consumed with this
27:21temporal world we're living in?
27:26It's time to get up.
27:29It's time to stand.
27:32It's time to hear the voice of your
27:34father and do something about your
27:37situation.
27:39Now, what do you do? This is a good
27:42part.
27:45[clears throat]
27:46You hear
27:48and obey.
27:51There you go.
27:53The more you know
28:00and you rest.
28:04Rest.
28:10What got Adam and Eve was this be like
28:14God. That's a good thing. Yeah.
28:18When you're mature,
28:21when you can handle it,
28:24but when you can't handle good and evil,
28:26you don't need to know good and evil.
28:27Therefore, stay away from the tree.
28:33All right.
28:36So, he's going to try to paint a
28:38picture, but he's been disarmed.
28:42But he has his wily ways. Do not be
28:46ignorant of the enemy's devices.
28:51He talks to you.
28:54tries to find a way to find one little
28:58pattern of influence,
29:00one little way of
29:04some type of divisiveness between a
29:06husband and wife or parents and their
29:08kids or stress on the job or maybe it's
29:12a health issue.
29:15some way of getting in and starting to
29:17whisper cuz he wants your power
29:23because God has given every person a
29:26measure of faith
29:30that
29:31he doesn't have.
29:36But if he can tell you a lie
29:39and get you to believe the lie
29:42instead of the scripture that says you
29:44are seen as perfect forever.
29:48If you believe the lie now you are
29:50taking your Godgiven creative
29:52supernatural faith and you're empowering
29:56the lie of the enemy to manifest in your
29:58life.
30:03Just put it in the grocery cart. talk to
30:05him about it later. It'll be all right.
30:09Okay.
30:12So, what do I do? Stop listening to the
30:14enemy.
30:16Understand he's a liar.
30:20And understand that you can't change the
30:22world in which you live except by
30:24changing you. You
30:27have limited control over, but you do
30:29have control because God gave you free
30:31will. And that is everything.
30:36Everything your choice.
30:40Your choice.
30:42Do you believe or do you know?
30:50Do you believe? Well, yeah, I believe
30:53that. Sounds about Yeah, that that yeah,
30:56that I I believe that. But then when you
30:59say you believe something, how many of
31:01you have found out that once you start
31:02talking to God and you say, "Yeah, God,
31:04I believe you." What happens,
31:08days of contradiction,
31:12weeks of contradiction, months, years of
31:16contradiction, where everything around
31:18you looks exactly opposite the way you
31:22believe it is supposed to be.
31:28But you're not God, sweetie.
31:33You are not the master painter.
31:39You're the canvas.
31:42No, it's supposed to look like, can you
31:44imagine?
31:46You know, Bob Ross said up there. We're
31:47going to put a happy little tree over
31:48here
31:52and the canvas the canvas comes off
31:54grass. No, it's supposed to look like
31:55this.
31:58We are the canvas. What is the canvas
32:02supposed to do when the greatest artist
32:05in the universe is painting a picture of
32:09your life on your canvas? What do you
32:11need to do?
32:15Get up
32:18and be still.
32:24But he's taken too long. Is he?
32:29Is he?
32:31As defined by who? Who gets to define
32:35the timeline of our lives? Surely.
32:38Surely. Surely God would not trust me
32:42with my own timeline.
32:44That would be Thank you. that would be
32:47an absolute She knows. That would be an
32:49absolute disaster. Cuz I'm telling you
32:52right now, I'm the kind of guy we shoot
32:55and go see what we hit. Is there
32:58anything down there? Let's jump in and
33:00see. Ask my brother. He'll tell you.
33:04What's that sound? Let's go find out.
33:08My timeline would be Oh, it would be
33:10horrible.
33:12Thank God
33:14he's in control of my timeline.
33:18Thank
33:19God he's in control of my timeline.
33:24And you may be in a situation where this
33:27doesn't make any sense. And I might be
33:28making you matter and matter every
33:30little bit we go. But I'm telling you,
33:33if you will get up, get in your father's
33:36presence, listen to his voice, he will
33:40give you everything you need to know.
33:53Abraham
33:56believed. Go with me over to Genesis
33:58chapter 15. Got to wrap it up.
34:05Abraham. What is Abraham called?
34:08The father
34:11of our
34:13faith. Right? Father of faith. the guy
34:15that got it all started.
34:18[snorts]
34:19Genesis chapter 15.
34:22After this, verse one, after this, the
34:24word of the Lord came to Abram in a
34:26vision. Do not be afraid, Abram. I am
34:28your shield, your very great reward. How
34:29many times has God said in scripture, do
34:32not be afraid.
34:36Do not be afraid.
34:38No fear.
34:40Fear says, "You don't know me."
34:43Fear says you're not aware of me. Cuz if
34:47you knew me,
34:50you would not fear.
34:53If you had a revelation
34:56of who I really am and how much I love
34:58you, you would never be afraid another
35:00day in your life.
35:03Not another day.
35:08Not another day.
35:11He loves you unconditionally and
35:14forever.
35:17And perfect love
35:20drives out all fear.
35:24Fear is the antithesis of faith. It is
35:27the enemy's attempt to get your power to
35:30create a world that is antirist.
35:38That's why he's after you. You have
35:40something he needs.
35:44And he can't really create anything at
35:46all. All he can do is distort
35:50and warp.
35:55I don't want to listen to him. I want to
35:57listen to what God says. Do not be
35:59afraid, Abram. But Abram said, "Oh
36:02sovereign Lord, what can you give me
36:04since I remain childless and the one who
36:05will inherit my state is Eleazar of
36:07Damascus?" And Abram said, "You were g
36:09you have given me no children. So a
36:11servant in my household will be my
36:12heir." Then the word of the Lord came to
36:14him, "This man will not be your heir,
36:16but a son coming from your own body, he
36:18will be your heir." And he took him
36:20outside and said, "Look up at the
36:22heavens and count the stars, if indeed
36:23you can count them." Then he said to
36:25him, "So shall your offspring be."
36:27Listen to this. Verse six. Abram
36:30believed the Lord, and he credited it to
36:33him as a righteousness. Abram believed
36:36God.
36:38And God said, "You're a righteous man.
36:43He credited it to Abram's account as
36:46righteousness."
36:48How many of you have read the story of
36:49Abraham?
36:51Does the story say Abraham was
36:53righteous?
36:58Kind of sounds like he needs to be on
36:59Jerry Springer, honestly.
37:03In the natural world,
37:06in our culture, the way we in this
37:09natural temporal
37:12world view things, yes,
37:17but God thinks differently.
37:21God credits belief as righteousness to
37:26our account. How many y'all ready to get
37:28up?
37:30Yeah. I'm going to stop believing so
37:32much in my situations and my
37:33circumstances and I'm going to start
37:35believing what the voice of God says to
37:37my heart. I'm going to believe that.
37:40Amen.
37:42But there's a difference in believing
37:44and knowing.
37:48I don't want to camp out at believing.
37:49Believing is good. It's absolutely
37:52crucial. I want to move from belief
37:56to knowing
38:00because belief almost gives the in
38:02connotation that I believe but I'm not
38:04to the finished destination yet. I'm not
38:08quite there. I believe we're heading in
38:10that direction. We're going that way.
38:14Yahoo.
38:17Knowing we're there even if we ain't
38:19there.
38:21I can go to sleep in the back seat and
38:23know that we're going to arrive at our
38:24destination because I know because I
38:27know God's got me. God's got me. God's
38:31got my family. Some of you right in
38:32Jesus name. Right now, I pray over every
38:34single family represented here. I pray
38:37over every single family watching
38:39online. Father, right now I thank you
38:42for your will, for your plan, for your
38:44purpose in every single family. God from
38:47great-grandparents, great great
38:49grandparents, great-grandparents,
38:50grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles,
38:53cousins, nieces, nephews, children,
38:56grandchildren, great grandchildren,
38:58great great grandchildren right now.
38:59Father, I thank you that your plan will
39:01prevail. I declare and decree and
39:03partner with you right now that your
39:05plan is going to prevail. No, your plan
39:08has prevailed already. Your plan. Your
39:13plan. No matter what the storms say, no
39:15matter what the child says out of their
39:17mouth, no matter what they come home
39:19looking like, God, your plan will
39:22prevail.
39:24Amen. In Jesus name.
39:27Paul said
39:302 Timothy 1:12,
39:34I know whom I have
39:38believed.
39:41I now know.
39:46I used to believe.
39:48Now it's much more than just believing.
39:52See, Paul had been through some things.
39:56Anybody in here been through some
39:58things?
40:00Some ups, some downs,
40:04some lifealtering
40:06events take place in your life.
40:10Yeah, you've been through some things.
40:12So did Paul. And Paul come to the point
40:14on the opposite side of those storms and
40:16said, "I now
40:19know
40:22used to believe. Now I know settled
40:27fact." Amen.
40:30So Abram says
40:33in verse eight, "But Abram said,"Oh
40:36sovereign Lord, how can I know that I
40:38will gain possession of it?" We're
40:40getting ready to close.
40:42How can I know?
40:44I want to know. Now, God's credited his
40:47belief as righteousness to him, but he
40:50wants to know. So what does God say? God
40:53says,
40:55"Bring me a hepher, a goat, a ram, each
40:57three years old along with a dove and a
40:59young pigeon." Now, what those things
41:00represent, if you're taking notes, is
41:02the [snorts] heer represents strength,
41:04wealth, life. The goat represents
41:07unbelief and a carrier of sin.
41:11A ram represents protection.
41:14A dove represents pet peace and mercy.
41:17And a pigeon represents fidelity and
41:20trust. So God is giving Abraham
41:22symbolically this menu of items to bring
41:25before God and lay them in halves.
41:29And then God does something very
41:31interesting. Some of you already know
41:32this story. He brought all of these in
41:34verse 10, arranged them in two, arranged
41:36the halves opposite each other. The
41:37birds, however, he did not cut to half.
41:39And the birds of prey came down the
41:40carcasses, but Abram drove them away.
41:42What did Abraham do? He got up and drove
41:46them away.
41:47As the sun was setting, Abram fell into
41:49a deep sleep, and a thick and dreadful
41:51darkness came over him. Then the Lord
41:53said to him, "Know for certain that your
41:55descendants will be strangers in a
41:56country not their own, and they will be
41:58enslaved and mistreated 400 years, but
42:00I'll punish the nation they serve as
42:02slaves, and afterward they will come out
42:04with great possessions. And you,
42:05however, will go to your father in peace
42:07and buried at a good old age, and in the
42:09fourth generation of your descendants,
42:11they will come back here, for the sin of
42:12the Amorites has not yet reached its
42:14full measure." Sounds like your father
42:17has things under control. Did it sound
42:19like God did not know what was going on?
42:23Did it sound like anything was taking
42:25him by surprise?
42:27Same is true in your life right now.
42:30Wherever you find yourself, whatever
42:32emotions you're feeling, whatever life
42:34events you're encountering, the same is
42:37true. Your God has a plan and his plan
42:42is to use you. So you can't lay down.
42:47You can't give up. You can't quit. You
42:51need to get up.
43:00When the sun had set, verse 17, darkness
43:02had fallen. a smoking firepot
43:06with a blazing torch appeared and passed
43:08between the pieces. On that day, the
43:12Lord made a covenant with Abraham.
43:16On that day that Abraham said, "I need
43:21to know."
43:22See, some of you guys are afraid to ask
43:25God questions.
43:29My son is not afraid to ask me
43:32questions.
43:35He is an inquisitive little booger.
43:38And that's all right. I think he's might
43:40have an engineering mind or something.
43:42But
43:44some of us feel like it's not Well, I
43:45don't want to ask God. I want God. How
43:47many, you know, it's okay to It's okay
43:49to ask God why.
43:52Read the Psalms.
43:57What are you doing?
44:01Yeah.
44:04What are you doing, God? Why?
44:09Hello. But then he would always come
44:11around. But I've never seen the
44:13righteous forsaken.
44:16Come on. Some of Some of us are a little
44:18constipated because we need to get some
44:19things out.
44:22Y'all didn't think a preacher would say
44:24that, did you? Hey, I'm just wanting to
44:26be real. You stuff stuff and stuff stuff
44:29and stuff stuff and you wonder why you
44:31come to church looking like.
44:35None of y'all came in like that this
44:37morning. I'm just kidding. But you get
44:39the idea. We You need to get it out.
44:42Talk to God. I'M AFRAID. I'M MAD AT YOU.
44:47I never will forget one of the most
44:49intimate conversations I ever had with
44:50God was me telling him off.
44:54And I told him,
44:56I'm not bragging about this. I'm being
44:58vulnerable and open and transparent so
45:01you'll understand
45:03it's okay to talk and be real with your
45:05God. Do you think you have ever had a
45:07feeling God didn't know you had? Do you
45:09really think you've ever had a thought
45:11God didn't know you had?
45:14Does he not know us in and out? But oh,
45:16we can't say it through him.
45:20Really?
45:22What lie did that come from?
45:26I told him, I said, "I'm so mad at you.
45:28I know. I know I couldn't. I know I
45:31couldn't, but if you were here
45:33manifested physically right now, I I
45:36would I would I I would I would."
45:42And he gave me a picture.
45:47Rocky movie, boxing ring,
45:50one light. God's in the ring standing
45:52like 12 stories tall almost hitting the
45:55little light up there you know shining
45:56and I'm this little ant
45:59step in the ring lights down one beam
46:02boom him and I
46:04and I hear this like arcade game fight
46:06you know ding the bell God
46:12steps out of the
46:16fight son is not with me.
46:21It's with the one in the ring.
46:28I bald, cried, I think I went through
46:31six boxes of Kleenex. Just just He will
46:34talk to you
46:36if you talk to him.
46:40Good,
46:42bad,
46:44ugly. Cuz that conversation was ugly. I
46:47was just bad. That was ugly.
46:52Hello.
46:56But he loves me.
47:00He loves me.
47:03And I'm sure he's not threatened with a
47:055950 lb little boy.
47:09He loves me
47:12and knows what I needed to hear, exactly
47:14how to turn the light on.
47:19So I could get down
47:23so I could get up.
47:26Are you with me?
47:28So Abram, real quick, thank y'all for
47:31bearing with me. [snorts]
47:33So he's in covenant. God himself,
47:36Abraham was not able to stand it. So God
47:39stood on one side and just bestowed
47:41blessings and cursings and then walked
47:43through as a flaming firep pot and he
47:46spoke blessings and cursings. So he
47:48represented Abraham for Abraham in a
47:50covenant with himself.
47:54So now Abraham is a partner with God.
47:58How many of you have ever had partners
48:00that didn't get up? No. Don't raise your
48:02hand. Don't raise your hand.
48:04Don't raise your hand.
48:07It it's it's frustrating
48:11and sometimes I think the heart of God.
48:16Scripture even declares
48:20how the earth groans
48:25groans
48:29for the revelation
48:31of the sons of God. Would somebody
48:36please get up?
48:40Get up.
48:45We don't realize the power we have in
48:49not in ourselves through him.
48:53He is not going to come down until it's
48:55time for him to come down. Until then,
48:58it's on us.
49:02Hello. Now, he'll use us. He'll send
49:04angels. He'll empower us. It is him. It
49:06is him. It is him. It is him. But we are
49:08the tools.
49:12We are the tools.
49:15And we have to get up and be willing to
49:17be used to change the situation in our
49:21home, on our job, in our bodies, no
49:24matter what it is. And no, we will not
49:27always understand the outcome. We may
49:29not even understand what the
49:30instructions are today. But if the
49:32instructions came and you know those
49:34instructions are for today, do it.
49:38It is not up to us to control. You have
49:42never been nor will you ever be in
49:46control of your life.
49:49News flash.
49:52You don't belong to you.
49:55It's so funny. We say, "God, use me."
49:57And then when he starts using said, "No,
49:59not like that.
50:04I don't don't ask me to do that. No. Did
50:06Didn't you say use me?
50:09Didn't he redeem you with the blood of
50:11his son? Don't you belong to him?
50:15I tell everybody nothing I have is mine.
50:17I am just a steward.
50:20But I listen to the master best I can.
50:23Do I make mistakes? You better believe
50:25it. I never one one day he actually told
50:27me. He said, "Boy, you messed that one
50:28up." Literally, I that from the father,
50:33but he knew I could handle it. You know
50:35what I did? I said, "Okay, you're right,
50:37God. How do I clean it up?
50:42What you want me to do?"
50:44All right.
50:46So, Abram's a partner in covenant.
50:48Genesis said, "Everything's good now,
50:50right? He's in covenant. He's a partner.
50:51Everything's going to go swimmingly. Oh,
50:53there will be roses and tulips and
50:56everything is just phenomenal.
50:59No, now he goes and gets I is I ishma.
51:05Uhhuh.
51:07And then God says, "Okay, now it's time
51:08for you to cut away some things that are
51:10unnecessary in the covenant
51:12circumcision."
51:14You everybody went through some cutting?
51:17Anybody ever went through some
51:18discipline with your daddy? He
51:20disciplines those he loves. Oh, you see
51:22y'all? [music] I snuck it in there,
51:23didn't I? See y'all? Oh, the love of
51:25God. The love. Yeah. And he disciplines
51:28those he loves. And his discipline is a
51:31masterpiece.
51:36Keep moving.
51:38After the covenant of circumcision,
51:40there's Sodom and Gomorrah. God comes
51:42and talks to him [music] first.
51:46You mean the guy that went and got
51:47Ishmael? Yeah.
51:49Hagar. Ishmael. Yeah.
51:52And then
51:54he's got a problem with a king named
51:56Aimilec. Now, honey pie, you still you a
51:59good-looking sweetheart for your age,
52:00and we about to go see this king. So,
52:02you now you just you just don't tell the
52:04truth. It's called a lie.
52:09He's in partner.
52:12He's in partnership with Yahweh.
52:16And this is how he's conducting himself.
52:20Be careful
52:22cuz I'm going to say sound familiar.
52:28Huh?
52:30Oh, God. I got this. I got this. God, I
52:32got this. Do you?
52:35Abram. Abram.
52:38Birth of Isaac.
52:40Isaac finally is born.
52:44And theologians say that about the time
52:46he was going through puberty and had the
52:48ability to reproduce,
52:51God says,
52:53"Abram,
52:56here I am," he replied. Then God said,
52:57"Take your son, your only son, Isaac,
52:59whom you love, go to the region of
53:00Mariah, and sacrifice him there as a
53:02burnt offering on one of the mountains
53:04I'll tell you about."
53:08Y'all with me?
53:13You mean now?
53:15You mean now, God?
53:18You want me to sacrifice my son?
53:22My promised son. That's what you That's
53:24what you
53:31He sees us perfect forever while we're
53:34being made holy.
53:41How many of you believe that the master
53:43knows when you're done?
53:48There was none of that.
53:51None of that in Abram.
53:54None.
53:56Verse three. Early the next morning,
53:58Abraham
54:00got up.
54:03Early the next morning, Abraham
54:06got up. Not late, not snooze button.
54:08Early the next morning, Abram got up and
54:12for the sake of time, let me let me cut
54:14to the chase here.
54:16They go to the mountain with the
54:17servants. They get to the foot of the
54:19mountain. He tells the servants, "You
54:20stay here.
54:23You stay here. You ought to look it up.
54:24You stay here. The boy and I are going
54:26up to worship and the boy and I will
54:29return."
54:32Cuz I've moved beyond belief. I know
54:35this is the seed. This is the promise.
54:38this is the one. So, I'm going to go up
54:40and I'm going to do exactly what God
54:42told me to do because that's what a
54:44partner does.
54:47That is what someone who is mature does.
54:50That is what someone who has been with
54:52Hagar, had Ishmael, fought with Aimilec,
54:55gone through all this rigomearo, ups and
54:58downs and rounds and rounds, God stays
55:00with him, making him into the man he
55:04wants him to be. And when the time
55:06comes,
55:08then God says, "Greatest ask
55:14cuz you have something.
55:18You have something that I need."
55:23And that's what God is saying to the
55:25body of Christ. Now, you have something
55:29that I need. In Abram, it was Isaac. I
55:34need him. I can't go and take dirt. It
55:38doesn't belong to me.
55:42Adam turned it over.
55:45I have to find a legal way into the
55:48earth to redeem you. And your son is
55:51what I need because we're partners.
55:55And whatever you require of me,
55:58I can require of you. And whatever I
56:02require of you, you can require [music]
56:05of me.
56:09I need your son. So Abram said, "We're
56:12staying here. Me and Isaac are going up.
56:15Isaac's going up." And Dad, uh, I see
56:18the wood. I see [snorts] the fire.
56:22See that big knife?
56:25I don't see the sacrifice.
56:27God himself [music]
56:30will provide.
56:31God himself will provide. [music]
56:35God himself will provide.
56:39Now, I believe that Abram was determined
56:41to slay Isaac. He bound him cuz that's
56:45what you have to do. Cuz anybody that's
56:46done any homesteading or slaughtering of
56:49animals, you understand they they don't
56:51just go willingly when the blood is
56:54gone. There's nervous reactions [music]
56:56and you want him to stay on the altar.
56:59So he binds him and puts him on the
57:02altar, raises the knife. Then God speaks
57:09and says,
57:11"Thank you.
57:15[snorts] Thank you.
57:18I'm tired of being alone.
57:21I'm tired of not having the fellowship.
57:24>> [music]
57:25>> with my creation that I want my sons and
57:28my daughters. Thank you.
57:32And he provides a ram.
57:34You know the story.
57:38And I'm here to tell you today, you're
57:40the one that God wants to use.
57:44You may not know how, and it doesn't
57:46matter if you understand. Just
57:49understand that God wants to use you.
57:52You don't have to know how. You don't
57:54have to know when. Listen to his voice.
57:58New church is headed for some great
58:00things. God has not brought you through
58:02the storms that he's brought you
58:04through. And yes, he brought you
58:06through.
58:10He hasn't done that for it to waver, but
58:13for it to build, for it to grow, for
58:16more people's lives impacted.
58:23Are you willing to get up?
58:28I have a clip that I was going to show,
58:29but I I don't think we have time.
58:35It's a good illustration, but it's from
58:36the movie The Matrix. At the end of the
58:38movie,
58:42you know, it's beyond the part where Neo
58:44is starting to believe. Instead of
58:46running, he starts fighting, right?
58:48Anybody seen the movie?
58:51There at the end, he's wore out, tired.
58:55He knows his exit is the phone, and he's
58:58running to try to find the phone that'll
59:00get him out of the matrix and back to
59:01safety.
59:03Too many times as Christians, we're
59:05looking for the exit.
59:08Get this test over with, God.
59:11Tired, God.
59:13Make it stop, God.
59:18So, he goes and looks for the sound. The
59:20phone rings. He opens the door where the
59:22phone's ringing and the agent standing
59:24there with a gun shoots him. And at
59:27first, it's complete confusion.
59:30And he staggers and he sees blood. And
59:34this this isn't supposed to happen. This
59:36is [music] not This is not This is not
59:38it. Has there ever been a season in your
59:41life where it didn't go the way you
59:43wanted it to go?
59:45Didn't go the way you expected it to go?
59:47Things didn't turn out the way that you
59:49had pictured in the brochure when you
59:50signed up. Guys, that's all of us. All
59:54of us. Abram, Ishmamail, Hagar,
59:58Aimilec, all this stuff in everybody's
1:00:01life. Saul killing Christians before he
1:00:04writes twothirds of the New Testament.
1:00:05Hello.
1:00:09Come on.
1:00:11He staggers back against the wall and
1:00:14then he gets mad and realizes, "No, this
1:00:16ain't this ain't going to happen." So,
1:00:17the guy unloads the whole gun on him. He
1:00:20falls over and he dies in the movie. But
1:00:23there's a character in the movie called
1:00:24the Trinity.
1:00:29And the Trinity, this lady says to him,
1:00:31"You can't be dead because I"
1:00:36And there's a prophecy that I would fall
1:00:37in love with the one that changes all of
1:00:39this and I'm in love with you, so you
1:00:41can't be dead. And she kisses him.
1:00:47Breath comes back into him.
1:00:50Then she says,
1:00:52"Get up.
1:00:56Get up."
1:00:58So he gets up.
1:01:01But now things are different. It's not
1:01:02just belief.
1:01:05It's knowing.
1:01:09It's knowing.
1:01:11The agent comes running at him and he
1:01:13just
1:01:14Y'all remember?
1:01:17And then he decides to do something a
1:01:19little different.
1:01:21He goes instead of fighting the agent,
1:01:25he gets inside the agent and destroys
1:01:27him.
1:01:28Doesn't have to fight him anymore.
1:01:34When you realize the love of God,
1:01:39there will [music] be fights.
1:01:41There will be battles.
1:01:45But let me say it this way. The fight
1:01:50will be gone.
1:01:54You have to walk it out. Do the [music]
1:01:57things that God's told you to do. But
1:02:00now you know
1:02:04there is no struggle.
1:02:07There is no struggle.
1:02:09The fight's gone
1:02:11because I belong to him.
1:02:14Whatever the outcome, I belong to him.
1:02:19Greater is he that is in me than he that
1:02:21is in the world. What weapon formed
1:02:23against me can prosper. Amen. Bow your
1:02:27heads with me if you would. Lord in
1:02:29Jesus name right now.
1:02:33Thank you for the gracious time my
1:02:34brothers and sisters has given me to try
1:02:36to deliver
1:02:38what you put in my heart. But God, I
1:02:41know it's not what I have said, it's
1:02:43what they have heard from you that is
1:02:45most important. So this [music] morning,
1:02:50I pray
1:02:52that you would help all of us take this
1:02:55message and give it [music] to you. And
1:02:58God, what parts of this message do I
1:03:00need to apply to my life? What parts of
1:03:02this message do I need to glean?
1:03:08What parts do I need to work on? And I
1:03:10need you to help me with that because my
1:03:13work is not going to be the arm of the
1:03:14flesh. My work is going to be listening
1:03:17to your spirit. Speak to my heart and
1:03:20obey your voice.
1:03:23Because man doesn't live by bread alone,
1:03:25but every word that proceedth. God
1:03:28continues to speak.
1:03:31And we will hear the word that you want
1:03:33us to apply to our lives. And we will
1:03:35apply it. And we will get up in our
1:03:38[music] homes. We will get up in our
1:03:40church. We will get up on our jobs. We
1:03:43will get up with our family. We will get
1:03:45up with our friends at the baseball
1:03:48game, at the grocery store, at the gas
1:03:50station. Wherever you lead us, whatever
1:03:54you desire for us to say, we will listen
1:03:57to your voice. Father, thank you for
1:04:00loving us completely and totally.
1:04:04I thank you, God, that you see us as
1:04:06perfect forever
1:04:10as you're making us
1:04:32What does that mean? Asking him to come
1:04:33in and be the Lord of your life.
1:04:36Surrender. Surrendering to him [music]
1:04:39because he loves you completely and
1:04:40perfectly. I want to ask you to do that
1:04:43this morning.
1:04:45If you would just say this prayer with
1:04:47me. Father God
1:04:49in Jesus name. I ask you to come into my
1:04:52heart. I ask you to show me.
1:04:56Give me a picture. Give me a revelation
1:05:01of how much you love me. How much you
1:05:04care [music] for me. Help me
1:05:08to be who you want me to be.
1:05:12Only by relying on you, not my own
1:05:16strength,
1:05:19but [music] relying on you in Jesus
1:05:22name. And Father, I pray for those here
1:05:25that need a touch in their physical
1:05:27bodies right now. I ask God that you
1:05:29would heal. [music] I ask that you would
1:05:31strengthen. I ask that you would touch
1:05:33joints, ligaments. I pray father right
1:05:36now that you would touch digestive
1:05:37[music] systems God headaches in Jesus
1:05:40name someone seems to have a pulled
1:05:43muscle in the right side of their back
1:05:45right now Jesus name I thank you for
1:05:47bringing healing God bring restoration
1:05:50bring peace father for those that aren't
1:05:52sleeping well I bless them because I'm
1:05:55your partner
1:05:59I bless them I bless every man and woman
1:06:03every child here right now with [music]
1:06:04sweet slumber. Rest, Father, as they
1:06:08rest that their bodies, that their
1:06:10spirit, [music] their soul is being
1:06:12recharged and aligned with you in Jesus
1:06:14name. Hallelujah.
1:06:17Someone's had a
1:06:20I don't know who you are, but someone's
1:06:22[music] having some job difficulties.
1:06:23Seems like there's been some career
1:06:25changes. Either you've lost your job or
1:06:26you found out you're going to be.
1:06:28Father, in Jesus name, [music] right
1:06:29now,
1:06:32I thank you. It doesn't take you by
1:06:35surprise. You're well aware
1:06:38and you have already made a plan. So,
1:06:41Father, where there is anxiety, I thank
1:06:44you for thankfulness. Father, where
1:06:46[music] there's fear, I thank you for
1:06:48bringing in waves of faith.
1:06:50Father, you love us unconditionally. And
1:06:53there's nothing [music] that takes place
1:06:54in our lives that you're not aware of
1:06:57and that you have not already made a way
1:06:59in a plan. And Father, I thank you for
1:07:01that right now. God, I pray for our
1:07:04families and our marriages again.
1:07:07Strengthen our [music] marriages. Look,
1:07:09help us look at ourselves and bring
1:07:12ourselves to you and ask you to help us
1:07:16be the best husband. ask you to help us
1:07:19be the best wife, the best father, the
1:07:21best mother that we can be in the areas
1:07:24of frustration and angst. I pray that
1:07:26you'd give us a spirit of gratitude and
1:07:29help us have hearing ears [music] to
1:07:30hear what your voice is going to say to
1:07:32us about us in Jesus name.
1:07:38Be with [music] pastor as he's with his
1:07:40family. God, bless him. Help him rest.
1:07:42Help him make memories. Bring him home
1:07:45safe. And Father, all of us with our
1:07:48families and friends [music] tomorrow,
1:07:50we we're we're so grateful, God,
1:07:53thankful for you and your kingdom. You
1:07:56love us and we love you, Lord. Amen.
1:08:01Amen. God bless you. Oh, the grace that
1:08:06breaks every border.
1:08:10Jesus Christ, [music]
1:08:13the lamb of God.