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0:00I didn't know what else to do.
0:03So I said, "God,
0:07I don't know what it is you want, but
0:09whatever it is, you can have it."
0:15And the presence of his love
0:19came on me
0:22like I've never felt before. I've felt
0:24it since many times.
0:27Feeling it right now.
0:30>> [snorts]
0:31>> I met him that day.
0:35Now [snorts] I met him.
0:39I came to know him.
0:45Today we're going to be talking about
0:47taking your place.
0:51Last time I was here, how many of you
0:53were here? The last time I was here, we
0:54spoke about get up. Get up. Stand up.
0:58Get up. Get up. Don't stay where you
1:01are. Get up. [snorts]
1:02And then God started talking to me when
1:04I had the invitation to come back and he
1:06said, "Tell them to sit down." I'm like,
1:07"God, they're going to think I'm crazy."
1:12Sit down in the sense of take your place
1:16because there's something that happens
1:18when you get up. And we're going to talk
1:19about that. We're going to talk about
1:21hearing, believing, knowing. [snorts]
1:24We're going to talk about the love of
1:25God. And we're going to go from Genesis
1:27to Revelation. So, I told one of my
1:28sisters, "Y'all need to have a grocery
1:30cart handy because we're going to run
1:32through the aisles and we're going to
1:33throw stuff in and we're going to let
1:35Holy Spirit apply it to our lives. Is
1:37that okay?" Remember years ago, I did a
1:40message on Joy as the ox that pulls the
1:42plow over and I think it was in Parker
1:44and and uh God just was dropping some
1:47things in my spirit and I asked a
1:49friend, a very close friend of mine how
1:50how I did and he said, "I thought all
1:52three of those messages were
1:54phenomenal."
1:56So, I'm going to do my best not to do
1:58that to you guys today, but let's get
2:01started in Hebrews
2:04[snorts]
2:05chapter 10.
2:08Hebrews [snorts] chapter 10 verse 11.
2:11Now, we're going to roll. So, we're
2:13going to we're going to teach and preach
2:14a little bit and you may want to take
2:16notes or mark your Bible pages um
2:21because all of this ties together and
2:23builds on each other. I want to talk to
2:25you about how God sees you. Because how
2:28many of you know the key
2:30is for you to see yourself the way God
2:33sees you?
2:35[snorts] There's a whole lot of things
2:37that will break loose in your life.
2:39Young people, older people, more
2:41seasoned people will break loose in your
2:44life for you when you start seeing
2:46yourself the way God sees you.
2:49Because we have three voices
2:53that try to speak into our hearts.
2:56We have the father's voice. We have our
2:59adversar's voice, Lucifer. And we have
3:02our voice.
3:04Okay? [snorts]
3:05Day after day, every priest in Hebrews
3:08chapter 10 11 stands and performs his
3:11religious duties again and again and he
3:12offers the same sacrifices which can
3:15never take away sins. It was the Old
3:18Testament, a picture, a pattern, but not
3:21the solution. It covered, it did not
3:25cleanse.
3:27[snorts]
3:28>> But when this priest Jesus had offered
3:30for all time one sacrifice for sins, he
3:36sat
3:38down
3:42at the right hand of God. And since that
3:45time, he waits
3:48for his enemies to be made his foottool.
3:56>> What's he waiting on? His enemies to be
4:00made his foottool.
4:04Now, Holy Spirit, I trust you 100%.
4:08But he and I are going to have a little
4:09conversation. If you keep dropping new
4:12stuff in here, this is gonna take a
4:13whole lot longer than
4:18he's the boss, not me, folks.
4:22He sat down. What did he say on the
4:25cross? It is finished. His work
4:32is done.
4:37But there's a work.
4:40Did you hear what I said? There's a work
4:43that he does in us.
4:48And he waits
4:50until
4:52we make his enemies through God. Not by
4:56our own power, not by our own ability,
4:59but by his using of us, his enemies as
5:02foottool.
5:04How many of you remember teachings and
5:06and things on Bible prophecy? Let me see
5:08your hand real quick. We got some I know
5:10we have probably some Bible prophecy
5:12enthusiasts in here. [snorts] Wars,
5:14rumors of wars, famine, drama,
5:16earthquakes, all of these things, right?
5:20But [snorts] there's something else that
5:21I want to tell you about that we're
5:23still waiting to happen. And that's what
5:25I'm excited about sharing with you
5:26because I believe this is a message that
5:28God's wanting to speak to his people all
5:30over the world. Let's keep going on this
5:32verse. So he he sat down and he's
5:35waiting, right? But listen to this.
5:39Since that time, he waits for his
5:40enemies to be made his foottool. Because
5:44by one sacrifice, he has made perfect
5:50forever those who are being made holy.
5:54Say, "That's me."
5:57He sees me as perfect.
6:02Perfect.
6:05Now y'all looking at me like,
6:09really? You don't you don't you don't
6:11know me, man. No, I don't.
6:15You don't know me.
6:20He sees us as perfect knowing we have
6:25not yet arrived because we're being
6:30in the process of made holy.
6:36How is all think about it cause your
6:40mind will blow up. It's the work of the
6:42Holy Spirit in you. In you. It's him
6:46working in you. His work is done up
6:49there, but he's working in us presently,
6:52right now. And he sees us AS PERFECT.
6:57YEAH, BUT I FLUNKED THE TEST LAST WEEK.
6:59SO WHAT?
7:02He sees YOU AS PERFECT. YEAH, BUT I GOT
7:05MAD AT MY KIDS. YEAH, OKAY. But he sees
7:08you as perfect as you're being made
7:12holy.
7:14That person cut me off on the way to
7:16church this morning. I'm telling YOU
7:17RIGHT NOW. OKAY. BUT HE SEES you as
7:20perfect.
7:22How does he see you?
7:26Perfection.
7:32He sees you the way I see my son.
7:47>> [snorts]
7:48>> I love him
7:51and he is perfect to me.
7:55[snorts]
7:56He ain't holy,
8:01but he's working on it. God's working on
8:04it. And God's working on daddy, too.
8:08It's a great adventure.
8:11Amen. [snorts]
8:14Go to Ephesians. We'll move quick.
8:18Ephesians chapter 5.
8:21How does your heavenly father see you?
8:24He sees you as perfect. But I don't
8:28understand how he can see me as perfect.
8:31Well, you don't have to understand it.
8:35You just have to believe it. And to
8:38believe it, you first have to hear it.
8:40And this morning you are hearing it. So
8:43believe it. Because if you believe it,
8:46then you will start working on knowing
8:49it.
8:52Somebody tell me where the book of
8:53Ephesians is. Oh, here it is. [snorts]
8:56Ephesians chapter 5 verse 25. It's okay.
9:00Husbands, just take a deep breath and
9:02exhale. You're okay. It's a safe place
9:05in the church of God this morning. Okay.
9:08Husbands, love [snorts] your wives just
9:10as Christ loved the church and gave
9:14himself up for her.
9:19How does he make us holy?
9:22I'm glad you asked. to make her holy,
9:26cleansing her by the washing
9:29[snorts] with water through the word,
9:33and to present her to himself as a
9:36radiant church without stain or wrinkle
9:41or any other blemish, but holy and
9:46blameless.
9:48THAT IS THE WORK that he's doing in you
9:53right now.
9:58>> Oh, I don't I don't but I don't feel
10:00that. Ain't it great that your feelings
10:02have nothing to do with it?
10:09>> Nothing to do with it.
10:11[snorts]
10:12I didn't even read my Bible that much.
10:14That doesn't have anything to do with
10:16it. Reading your Bible is good. It's
10:18good.
10:19But stop doing the check mark algorithm.
10:22If I get the algorithm right, then God's
10:25got TO DO SOMETHING. GOD AIN'T GOT TO DO
10:27NOTHING, BABY.
10:29>> NOTHING.
10:31He wants to do something.
10:34>> But you start taking his word, and
10:36that's one of the golden calfs in the
10:40church that we have got to tip over. You
10:43cannot take his word and hold him up
10:46with it. He is the word of God.
10:54This is imperatively important to us to
10:57meditate on, to listen to, to read, to
11:01study, to listen, to hear, to hear, to
11:06hear, then believe, then know.
11:11But you better let him define what he
11:14means and not assume anything.
11:22He is God Almighty
11:27and he loves
11:31you.
11:35[snorts] Yeah, but you don't know. I'm
11:37telling you, it doesn't matter what
11:38you've done. Do you realize who wrote
11:40this book? I mean, God wrote the book.
11:43Do you remember the pens that he he used
11:45to write this? Do you? Murderers,
11:50adulterers,
11:51drunkards,
11:54and prophets and kings and women.
12:00Well, about women.
12:05men imperfect, unpure, completely and
12:09totally unholy.
12:12But God used them
12:16because it is about what he wants to do
12:20in you.
12:26Y'all get anything out of this?
12:29Listen. Got to hurry.
12:34what God does for us, how he sees us,
12:38what he does for us. He sees us as
12:41perfect as we're being made holy. And
12:43right here, it tells us that by him
12:45giving of himself, that is what makes us
12:49holy. That is the work that he is
12:51currently doing in us if we will allow
12:56him.
13:02How many of you realize
13:04God's coming back for a bride? When he
13:07splits the east, I completely believe in
13:09the rapture. When it's going to happen,
13:11I have no idea. And I'm not taking up my
13:13time worrying about it because I need to
13:14occupy and make his enemies his foottool
13:16right now. [applause]
13:20And it's not about kingdom now. It's not
13:21about the shephering movement, any of
13:23those things. It's a It's about
13:24believing what his word says
13:28and stepping out in that and allowing
13:31him to perfect me into his image as his
13:34son.
13:36That is how he perfects his bride. And
13:39folks, as far as I understand, and
13:41listen, this is I, not the Lord, but as
13:43far as I understand scripture, the only
13:45thing it seems like he's waiting on is
13:47for that bride to become without spot or
13:50wrinkle. Cuz
13:54there are wars, rumors of wars. There
13:56are earthquakes, disaster, there all
13:58that stuff. Is it not happening right
14:00now?
14:02What's he waiting on? It seems as though
14:04he's waiting on his church to grow up.
14:12How many know he's not coming back for a
14:14child bride?
14:16He won't do that. Nope.
14:19But we've got to become a child to enter
14:21the kingdom of God and that innocence.
14:23But then we've got to start hearing,
14:25believing, growing to knowing, growing
14:28up in him where after a while we
14:31understand
14:35it's time to sit down and take our
14:37place.
14:40Let's keep going.
14:42[snorts]
14:44Ephesians chapter 2.
14:48And God raised us up with Christ. Verse
14:50six, Ephesians chapter 2:6. God raised
14:53us up with Christ and seated us with him
14:55in heavenly seated seated seated us
14:58seated us with him in heavenly realms in
15:02Christ Jesus in order that in the coming
15:04ages he might show the incomparable
15:07riches of his grace expressed in his
15:10kindness to us in Christ Jesus.
15:15One of my favorite verses. For it is by
15:18grace you have been saved through faith.
15:22And this is not from yourselves. It is
15:25the gift of God, not by works so that
15:29anyone can boast. For we are all God's
15:31workmanship created in Christ Jesus to
15:34do good works which God prepared in
15:36advance for us to do.
15:40How does God see us? What is the work
15:43that he does in us?
15:45Where does he place us?
15:51Go with me over to Romans chapter 8. I
15:54knew the father was was was
15:57the Holy Spirit is so awesome because
15:58y'all were on this Wednesday night.
16:02Romans chapter 8.
16:05[snorts]
16:08Oh, praise God.
16:12[snorts]
16:16I want you to go with me to verse 22.
16:21For we know that the whole creation has
16:23been groaning.
16:25The whole creation has been groaning as
16:27in the pains of childbirth right up to
16:29the present time. Not only so, but we
16:32ourselves who have the first fruits of
16:34the spirit grown inwardly as we wait
16:40eagerly for our adoption as sons, the
16:42redemption of our bodies. Verse 24. For
16:44in this hope we were [snorts] saved. But
16:47the hope that is seen is no hope at all.
16:49Who hopes for what he already has? But
16:52if we hope for what we do not yet have,
16:54we wait for it patiently. Hang on. In
16:57[snorts] the same way, the spirit helps
16:58us in our weaknesses. How many of you
17:00have ever felt weak? How many of you
17:02have ever just felt like you blew it?
17:07The spirit of God doesn't abandon you
17:11when you abandon the spirit of God.
17:15Cuz if he did, then he would never show
17:18up for you when you were a heathen and
17:20didn't know God and didn't want God. I'm
17:22so tired of my brothers and sist God
17:25don't listen to no sinner. How in the
17:26world do we any of us get saved?
17:30You got to clean yourself up before you.
17:32No hush hush fist. I was listen God
17:36showed me something the other day and I
17:37was like that I just started that is so
17:39pheriseical and I heard him giggle. I
17:41heard him laugh. I said
17:45why are you why are you giggling at that
17:48father? He said I just find it funny
17:49that you use a term from when my son
17:52walked the earth.
17:55Well, why would that be? He said, "I
17:58might have used assembly
18:01or baptis baptisal or catholical."
18:06Every generation has its tendencies to
18:10start getting into rules
18:14instead of relationship with him.
18:18What is he telling you to do?
18:25Do that.
18:28Do that.
18:30Please, please, please do that because
18:36in doing that, you're following him.
18:40And that is what all of us are called to
18:44do. [snorts] Some of us are following
18:46him in hearing. Some of us are following
18:48him and believing. Some of us are
18:50following him and knowing. Some of us
18:52are in the process of standing up. Some
18:54of us are in the process of sitting
18:55down. And some of us are in the process
18:57of doing all of that in various areas in
18:59our own lives. Oh, come on, somebody.
19:01Now you know why we need a God. Now you
19:03know why we need a living creator. AND
19:06MY LIFE IS SO MESSED UP. THERE IS NO WAY
19:09I can fix it. I need him to guide me, to
19:13teach me, to call to me so I can follow
19:16his voice.
19:19>> Yeah, I love that song. He's been good.
19:25Oh, he's been so good. He's been so
19:28good. He's been so good.
19:32Oh, he's been so good. Even when I don't
19:34deserve it, he's still good. He's still
19:36good. He's still good.
19:40[snorts] I'm sorry. I get a little drunk
19:42up here. I apologize. He's good.
19:46[snorts]
19:49Hope.
19:52Hope.
19:54Hope.
19:57But the Listen to this. The whole
20:00creation groans for the children of God.
20:04That's you and me, folks.
20:06To be revealed.
20:09To be revealed.
20:12All right, let's go deeper. Genesis
20:14chapter 1. [snorts]
20:17Genesis chapter 1. voices.
20:24In the beginning, God created the
20:25heavens and the earth. And now the earth
20:26was formless and empty, and darkness was
20:29over the surface of the deep, and the
20:30spirit of God was hovering over the
20:32waters. [snorts] Did y'all get that? Did
20:35y'all see that word? Now,
20:39let's go back.
20:42Verse one, in the beginning, God created
20:43the heavens and the earth. [snorts]
20:48Verse two starts with now.
20:52How many of you know if there's a now,
20:53there probably was a then.
20:56And now says that the earth was formless
20:58and empty and darkness was over the
21:00surface of the now. Does that sound like
21:01anything God has ever created?
21:07Does it?
21:09[snorts]
21:12So the question is what happened between
21:14Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2?
21:17How many of you [snorts] want to know?
21:18I'm going to tell you what he showed me
21:20and you you talk to him about it. But go
21:21with me. Go with me to Luke chapter 10.
21:26I think that's where I need to go.
21:29Luke chapter 10.
21:31For those of you that want to know, Luke
21:32is in the New Testament.
21:37Luke 10:18. He replied, "Jesus replied,
21:41this is written in red in my Bible. I
21:42saw Satan fall like lightning from
21:45heaven.
21:48And I have given you authority to
21:49trample on snakes and scorpions and to
21:51overcome all the power of the enemy, and
21:53nothing will harm you. However, do not
21:55rejoice
21:56that the spirits submit to you, but
21:59rejoice that your names are written in
22:01heaven."
22:04We [snorts] got a whole lot of improper
22:06rejoicing going on in the body of
22:08Christ.
22:09And I will come back to that if he
22:11allows me to. Otherwise, maybe I can
22:13come some other time. But we need to
22:16rejoice in the relational things, not
22:19the work things. We need to rejoice in
22:22the majesty things, not the miracle
22:25things. Do you understand? All of that
22:28stuff's great and it's good and it's
22:29part of the kingdom of God. But when you
22:31get it out of kilter and you get it out
22:32of priority, it becomes a weight to you
22:36and a hindrance.
22:38Just talk to the seven sons ofKeva.
22:43Just look it up. I don't have time.
22:45[snorts] Revelation 12. I told y'all we
22:47were going from Genesis to Revelation.
22:53We're going to lay some groundwork
22:57for you to talk to Holy Spirit about.
23:01Okay, [snorts]
23:02just talk to Holy Spirit about it.
23:05[clears throat]
23:06Oh, wow. Y'all got it up there. Y'all
23:08had this the whole time. And I've been
23:10Revelation 12 verse 7.
23:15[snorts and clears throat]
23:17Then a war broke out in heaven. Michael
23:19and his angels fought against the
23:20dragon. And the dragon and his angels
23:22fought back. But when he was not strong
23:25enough, they lost their place in heaven.
23:27The great dragon was hurled down. That
23:29ancient serpent called the devil or
23:31Satan who leads the whole world astray.
23:33He was hurled to where? Where was he
23:36hurled?
23:38>> And his angels with him.
23:43[snorts]
23:45Oh, Holy Spirit help me.
23:51[snorts] Now listen,
23:54God
23:56hurled Lucifer to the earth.
24:01Amen.
24:04Let's go on to the next slide. Who will
24:06we hear?
24:08Who will we hear? Who will we listen to?
24:15Because let me tell you something you
24:16need to understand. And remember I told
24:18you, you need to understand that God
24:19loves you, that he sees you as perfect.
24:21That's how your heavenly father sees
24:23you. He knows more about you than you
24:26know about yourself. And he still calls
24:29you perfect.
24:31That's how you need to see yourself
24:33because he's making you holy as long as
24:35you stay surrendered to him.
24:43The Lord God formed man in the dust of
24:45the ground and breathed into his
24:47nostrils the breath of life, and man
24:49became a living being. Now, I want you
24:51to picture this. I'm setting up the
24:53stage because this is important. You
24:55need to understand how much God loves
24:57you. And you need to not be ignorant of
25:00[music] the enemy's devices that
25:02absolutely hates your guts. Hates you.
25:08Hates you more than I could even come.
25:10we can even comprehend. Hates you, WANTS
25:14TO DESTROY you
25:18cuz you look like him.
25:24Oh, you look like him.
25:29I'm telling you right now,
25:33our father
25:35is no wimp.
25:37Our
25:39father's no wimp. Our father's not a
25:42milktoast [music] type of leader. Come
25:43on, somebody. He Satan said, "I shall
25:47arise." And God said, "No, you won't."
25:55He had the highest position in heaven
25:59other than God,
26:01but that wasn't enough.
26:05I'm going to rise up. And God said, "No,
26:06you won't."
26:12I think that happened between Genesis
26:141:1 and Genesis 1:2.
26:18Now, I don't know how long it is between
26:22Genesis 1:1 and Genesis 1:2,
26:26but all of these scientists that keep
26:28trying to disprove the Bible keep
26:30proving the Bible to be the living word
26:34of God. In my opinion, maybe it was a
26:37million years, maybe it was a gazillion
26:38or whatever they're saying it's supposed
26:40to be. But I know this
26:44sent him to earth. That's what the Bible
26:46says. Then
26:49God
26:50being the awesome father that he is
26:55took us and made man's image in the
26:59wilderness
27:03right in the prison cell where Lucifer
27:07was imprisoned.
27:12Are y'all getting me?
27:15Well, it's actually not me. It's him.
27:16That's a word. I'm gonna make an image
27:19right here in this prison cell
27:22and I'm going to make it look like
27:25[snorts]
27:26me
27:30where there is not
27:33a day that goes by
27:36that even when I don't summon him to
27:38come and give an account as in the book
27:40of Job even when I even on those days
27:43when he's still here he still sees me
27:46everywhere He turns. He sees me
27:50everywhere.
27:52[screaming]
27:52>> Come on, somebody.
27:54>> He sees you as perfect.
28:01[sighs]
28:03And then he says,
28:06"And I don't want just a reflection
28:10of me.
28:14I don't want something that just looks
28:17like me.
28:19I want something that acts
28:22like me, sounds
28:25like me, moves like me,
28:30speaks
28:31like me.
28:37And man became a living being.
28:45>> [snorts]
28:46>> Oh man,
28:50let's keep going.
28:52Who will we hear? Are we going to listen
28:53to the enemy that hates you, that wants
28:56to destroy your family, wants to destroy
28:59your marriage, wants to destroy your
29:01health, wants to destroy your future,
29:03are you going to listen to him or are
29:05you going to listen to your father?
29:08And listen to me. You do not have to
29:11bless your heart. I just got this
29:13picture.
29:17[groaning and screaming]
29:18Please, God tell me please. No. No. No.
29:21No. No. No. Live. Live.
29:26Live. Have fun.
29:29He's good. Live. Live. Live. Play.
29:37Enjoy. have life more abundantly. I want
29:41my son to have a good life. I want him
29:43to play. I want him to enjoy what he
29:45wants to enjoy. He doesn't Joseph, have
29:48you ever strained and ever JUST OH, I
29:52WISH I KNEW what my daddy told me to do.
29:54Do you have you ever had a day like
29:56that? He's shrinking down in his chair.
29:57I'm sorry, son. No, he has never done
29:59that. Because you know why? I'm the
30:01daddy.
30:02When I want him to know something, what
30:04does daddy do? I tell him.
30:08I tell him. Why? Cuz I love him.
30:12Hello. Why do you have to strain over
30:15hearing your father? You don't have to.
30:17If you're straining, stop.
30:22Who will you hear? Let's keep going.
30:26Thank you [snorts] guys.
30:30Genesis 3, the serpent was more crafty,
30:33all the wild animals. And he speaks. How
30:36does the enemy operate in our lives?
30:39He speaks.
30:42Did God really say? And she said, "We
30:44may eat a fruit of the trees in the
30:46garden, but God did say you must not eat
30:48fruit." Why are you engaging him in
30:49conversation?
30:54>> She is cuz she didn't know better.
30:58We know better cuz we have an an example
31:01in our elder brother. Come on somebody.
31:05We have an example in our elder brother.
31:09Remember Jesus in the wilderness? What
31:11did he say? It is written. It is
31:14written.
31:15And finally he said, "You shall not
31:17tempt the Lord thy God. Get away from
31:18me."
31:22But she
31:24heard.
31:27And when she heard, now
31:31what happened? For God knows that when
31:33you eat from it, your eyes will be
31:34opened, and you will be like God,
31:36knowing good and evil. Is that the truth
31:37or a lie?
31:42It's a truth.
31:46The enemy oftent times mixes truth and
31:51deception.
31:53The truth is they would be like God
31:57knowing good and evil
32:00which is what would take them out
32:03because they are not God. You will be
32:10like,
32:16but can't handle it.
32:24Stay away from the knowledge of good and
32:26evil.
32:28Stay away from the knowledge of good and
32:30evil. Concentrate on the tree of life.
32:35Stay under the tree of life.
32:38Are y'all with me? Is this good?
32:41Let's keep going.
32:44You'll be like God, knowing good and
32:45evil. Now look at this.
32:51God has to put them out
32:54cuz they've eaten.
32:56How many of you know that was in his
32:57plan?
33:01See, now I'm going now I'm going to make
33:02some of y'all mad at me. All right,
33:05Heather, you may have to pull a car
33:07around over here to the back door right
33:08here and get it running. He
33:12when he created
33:16and formed the earth, put it back into
33:20order. What did he call it?
33:26Come on, you're right. I'm not trying to
33:28trick you. He called it good.
33:33But there was a prisoner
33:36there and his angels there.
33:41Now, don't get me wrong. God's not
33:43saying the enemy is good.
33:52But he's saying
33:54the purpose of the enemy
33:59is good.
34:01Cuz [snorts]
34:04how can you have a refining fire
34:09without heat?
34:16It le you don't need to be ignorant of
34:19the enemy's devices. You need to be
34:21aware of your enemy's devices. But stop
34:23glorifying Lucifer.
34:27>> He is nothing compared to our God.
34:33There is no equal opposite to him.
34:38>> There is no equal opposite to our
34:39father.
34:42I think I did this exercise last time
34:43real quick. You know, you got high,
34:47short, low, you got big, you got small,
34:50you got black, you got white, you got
34:52night, you got day, you got Superman,
34:54you got Lex Luthor, you got Batman, you
34:56got the Joker, YOU GOT GOD, YOU GOT THE
34:57DEVIL. NO, YOU DON'T.
35:00HE IS NOT THE antithesis of God. HE IS A
35:04CREATED BEING CAST DOWN BY OUR FATHER.
35:09[applause]
35:12Might say, "Why are you screaming like
35:13this?" because it will change your life
35:17AND THE LIFE OF THE generations coming
35:19after you if YOU WILL GET THIS DOWN
35:23INSIDE OF YOU AND LET HIM COOK IT IN YOU
35:26UNTIL IT BECOMES who you are.
35:36>> I'm not I'm not yelling cuz I'm mad. I'm
35:40jealous because I'm so
35:44knowing what I know
35:48that I haven't arrived by any means.
35:51Just [snorts] ask my mom and dad, ask my
35:52brother, ask my son. Haven't arrived.
35:55Work in progress here. Amen. Hello. My
35:57name is Robert Carroll and I am a work
35:59in progress. [snorts]
36:00[sighs]
36:02Are y'all with me?
36:09The other thing is the enemy is one of
36:12the three archangels. There's still two
36:15archangels with all their all on our
36:17side. But even without them, we got God.
36:21So where does the enemy get all this
36:23power?
36:27us,
36:31mankind,
36:33those that the earth is groaning,
36:38remember to be revealed,
36:42those that have not yet been seated,
36:45have not heard, have not believed, do
36:48not yet know.
36:51He who has ears to hear, let him hear.
36:54[sighs]
36:56God has given
36:58to his image
37:01in the earth.
37:03Every image
37:06in the earth, male, female, his image
37:13in the earth,
37:16a measure
37:18of
37:20faith.
37:23Faith.
37:26What does faith become when you believe
37:30a lie?
37:33Fear.
37:38The enemy has convinced how many in the
37:41world to take their God-given faith and
37:45believe and sew that into his lies?
37:51We've got to rise up, church.
37:54We've got to get up.
37:56We've got to take our place. Are y'all
37:59hearing this this morning? Come on. For
38:01your kids' sake, rise up. Take your
38:02place. Let him speak to you. Listen, if
38:06chew if you need to, it's okay. Just
38:07chew. If you can't swallow, it's all
38:09right. Just talk to Holy Spirit. And he
38:13will bring you exactly where you need to
38:15be 100% of the time. Amen.
38:19All right, let's go to the next slide.
38:21Is this good?
38:22>> [snorts]
38:24[clears throat]
38:25>> In Genesis 5:2, it said, I don't I don't
38:27think this is in there, but it might be,
38:29is it?
38:31>> Oh, yeah. Here we go. So, when the woman
38:33saw that the fruit of the tree was good
38:34for food and pleasing the eye, and also
38:36desirable for gaining wisdom, she took
38:38some and ate it, and also gave some to
38:40her husband, who was what?
38:44Men?
38:46Be a man.
38:49Be a man.
38:52Don't be a wuss. Don't be milk toast.
38:56I'm not saying look at me. I am I am I
38:59can take I I guarantee you most of y'all
39:00can't do this. I want
39:06Now here I am. This bean pole up here
39:08that can take his hands and wrap it all
39:10the way around and overlap his finger. I
39:12have a tiny small frame and I've always
39:13been that way and I'm great. I ain't
39:16worried about it. I don't give a flip
39:18what anybody thinks about me. Listen to
39:21me. Be a man. Stand up. Lead your own
39:24way. Not like anybody else. Come on,
39:27somebody. Come on. My dad was a
39:29wonderful leader. And I have taken and
39:32gleaned. But not everything that he did
39:34do I do. And that's okay. My son is
39:37going to grow up and be a powerful
39:38leader, but not everything I did will he
39:40do. And that's okay. Why? Because we
39:42need to listen to Holy Spirit. We need
39:44to follow him.
39:47Men, follow him.
39:50follow him.
39:51Okay.
39:54Adam was there with her.
39:57She ate it. Nothing happened. Huh?
40:01He must be right.
40:03Adam, nothing happened.
40:07And what does it say? When Adam ate, not
40:10when she ate and all the ladies breathe.
40:14Man, the women have been beat up for
40:16thousands of years over Eve. Eve had
40:18nothing to do with it. was Adam. If Adam
40:20would have taken the fruit, we don't
40:21know if it was an apple or it's always
40:22painted as we don't know if it was an
40:23apple or not, but the fruit if Adam
40:25would have taken the fruit and threw it
40:26to the ground, grabbed the serpent,
40:29said, "You don't belong in this garden
40:30anymore. I know you were cast down here,
40:32but get out of this garden and don't
40:33ever come back." You know what would
40:35have happened? He'd have been gone
40:38because God told them to replen. That's
40:41another thing that's kind of
40:42interesting. God didn't tell them to
40:43plenish the earth.
40:45He said replenish.
40:48Just another side note. Now listen. So
40:52they had to get out.
40:54They had to get out.
41:00Sin had ended the world.
41:04But God said that was
41:06it's okay. Part of my plan. Part of my
41:09plan.
41:12Because the scriptures say that before
41:15the foundations of the world were
41:16formed, the lamb was slain.
41:20God knew what he was doing the whole
41:22time.
41:23[snorts]
41:24God help me.
41:27Right now,
41:30whatever you have going on in your
41:31lives,
41:33he still knows exactly what's going on
41:36and has a plan.
41:39May [snorts] not look like it, may not
41:40feel like it. You may not like the plan.
41:44Never said you had to like the plan,
41:48but his plan works every single time.
41:54Submit to his plan.
41:56For the sake of time, we're going to run
41:58through Abraham.
42:05[gasps]
42:06Y'all laughing. Listen,
42:10God had to find now a legal way into the
42:12earth, didn't he?
42:15Earth doesn't belong to him no more. He
42:18gave it to who? Who did God give the
42:20earth to?
42:22Man. Who did man give it to?
42:26Satan. So God can't come down there and
42:28say, "Okay, take two back to the dirt."
42:31No. Doesn't belong to him. And God is a
42:34gentleman and a law abider.
42:37he will conform to his word.
42:43So he has to find a way to create an
42:46entrance for a savior.
42:49What's the only way on the earth for
42:52there to be a man created?
42:55The womb of a woman.
43:00Come on, somebody.
43:03But God then couldn't just pick any. He
43:06couldn't go he couldn't go straight to
43:07Mary
43:09cuz Mary's fallen. What he had to do was
43:12find someone
43:15that would give him a seed
43:17because it was man that turned it over
43:19and it was man that needed to partner
43:22with him.
43:24Come on somebody.
43:29Genesis.
43:31[laughter]
43:32Oh help me Lord. Bring me there. Guys,
43:35are y'all Do y'all have it?
43:37[clears throat]
43:38Oh, this is good. Is it up? Thank you.
43:41Genesis 15:1. After this, the word of
43:43the Lord came to Abraham in a vision. Do
43:45not be afraid, Abram. I'm your shield,
43:47your very great reward. But Abram said,
43:49sovereign Lord, what can you give me
43:51since I remain childless and the one who
43:52will inherit my state of a laser of
43:54Damascus? And Abram said, you've given
43:55me no children. So a servant in my How
43:57many of you ever had that day? Come on,
43:59God, what you doing? God, why? God win.
44:04Oh, God. Oh, come on, Lord. I just Y'all
44:07want me to stop, don't you? That is
44:09annoying, isn't it? Imagine how God
44:12feels. How many people does he have
44:13doing that every single day?
44:18But hey, he sees us as
44:21perfect as we're being made holy. Do not
44:25be afraid, Abraham. I'm your shield,
44:27your very great reward. Keep going.
44:30[snorts]
44:32Then the word of the Lord came to him.
44:33This man will not be your heir, but a
44:34son who is your own flesh and blood will
44:36be your heir. And he took him outside
44:37and said, 'Look up. Sometimes you got to
44:39change your perspective. Sometimes you
44:41got to reframe things. Come on,
44:43somebody. Why is it taking so long, God?
44:45Because you're not ready yet. And if he
44:47gives you what you want now, it will
44:49take you out and not lift you up.
44:57Abraham believed. Say believed.
45:00Now Abraham heard and moved out of
45:04Terara
45:06and moved to Canaan.
45:08Now Abraham believes. Hearing comes
45:11first, then believe.
45:14Come on. Faith comes by hearing. Hearing
45:17by the word of God. So you have to hear
45:20before you can believe. But Abraham
45:22believes. And look at what belief means.
45:24Belief means God credits it to you as
45:27righteous. Now, how many of you woke up
45:29this morning and you just saw yourself
45:31as righteous? I'm righteous.
45:37Hopefully, we all did
45:40because our righteousness, yes, is as
45:42filthy rags, but our righteousness is
45:44not what I'm talking about. It's in
45:46Christ Jesus. See, if we keep thinking
45:49about us,
45:51we're still believing. We need to get
45:52over into knowing so we can sit down.
45:58All right, let's keep going. Where was
46:01that? 15.
46:04[clears throat]
46:05Oh, Lord.
46:07Now, let me show you this.
46:11[sighs]
46:13He also said to him, "I'm the Lord who
46:15brought you out of the of the Chaldanss
46:16to give you this land to take possession
46:18of." But Abram said in verse 8, "How can
46:21I know?" We talked about this last time
46:24a little bit. How can I know?
46:27How many of you want to know? How many
46:29know is different from believing?
46:32Come on. See, believing is important.
46:35There's a lot of people this morning
46:37that have moved from hearing to
46:39believing. A team that was two and 10
46:43last year. We heard a whole lot of
46:46stuff, but now we've seen some things
46:49and we've started believing.
46:53Just
46:55It's no different in every other area of
46:57our lives, guys. If we trust God,
47:01Jeremy, I told you I'd try to work it
47:02in. All right, listen. That it's just
47:04humor. Just humor. Listen.
47:09You hear what you hear, what you
47:12meditate on, what you give hearing to,
47:15your faith will create in your life.
47:20Faith or fear. What is fear? False
47:24evidence appearing real.
47:27But if you put your faith into it, you
47:29will kill yourself trying to get away
47:30from a snake
47:32because you believe that snake's gonna
47:34kill you and you run slap out in the
47:36road and a car hits you. It wasn't a
47:37snake, but it was the fear. Y'all get
47:39the point?
47:41Fear will make you do some weird things.
47:44>> Don't be afraid.
47:47[cough]
47:48How [clears throat] can I know? This is
47:49where God gives access gets access to
47:51man's seed. This is where God gets
47:53access to be able to send a savior
47:55through Jesus. But he needs a man that
47:58will listen partner with him. A man that
48:02will partner with him. Are you with me?
48:07Now God says, Abram says, sovereign
48:09Lord, how can I know know that I will
48:11gain possession of it? And the Lord said
48:12to him, "Oh, this is what I've been
48:14waiting on. This is the Oh, this is the
48:16moment. This is what I've been waiting
48:17on. Bring me this, this, this, this." It
48:19was a blood covenant. Very common back
48:21in those days. basically meaning that I
48:24am going to enter into you into a
48:25partnership and whatever I have that you
48:28need, all you have to do is ask and I
48:30have to give it. And anything that you
48:32have that I need, all I have to do is
48:34ask and you must give it.
48:37It's a it's an equal exchange. Come on,
48:40somebody. Come on.
48:43God said, "I got the guy. Got the guy."
48:45And then he says to Abram, "Listen,
48:46listen. Bring all this." And he brings
48:47it and there's blood flowing between all
48:49the halves. Covenant blood. Blood of the
48:52lamb, salvation. Come on, somebody. So
48:54now God says to Abram, "Listen now. You
48:56can't do this. So I, God Almighty,
49:00Yahweh, I'm going to declare the
49:03blessings and cursings on my side. I'm
49:06going to stand in yourstead,
49:09on your side, because you can't take
49:11what I'm about to say. So I'm going to
49:14put you in a deep sleep." When did he
49:15put somebody else into a deep sleep and
49:19bring something out of that person like
49:25he did with him when he
49:29and in Genesis 5:2 he called them male
49:32and female Adam like we call them God.
49:38So
49:40the covenant is made. The covenant is
49:43made.
49:44Now God, now God needs, he has the seed
49:49of Abram.
49:52See, some of y'all think y'all not good
49:54enough for God. You know how old Abram
49:57was?
50:00Do you realize all the trouble he got in
50:03because he wasn't tip-top shape?
50:06Come on, somebody. Now, I'm not gonna
50:08get into all the details, but y'all
50:10y'all y'all got it. He had some some
50:13trouble
50:17until God said, "Now
50:21you're ready
50:24this time next year." And Sarah laughs.
50:30You're
50:32we've heard this so long.
50:35Hello.
50:38Sarah laughs.
50:40Then Isaac's born.
50:43I don't have time to go through all of
50:45them, but listen, between Isaac being
50:46born,
50:48he gets to be, we think, about 12 years
50:50old where the promise
50:53of the nations through the seed can
50:58happen, that Isaac has grown to the
51:01point where he can reproduce.
51:06that God
51:08gives this wonderful news. How many of
51:11you glad when God gives you wonderful
51:13news?
51:16Take your son, your only son, Isaac,
51:17take him to the Mount of Mariah and
51:19bring him there and offer him as a burnt
51:20offering to me.
51:26And I want to go there because I want to
51:28read this part.
51:30He goes through divine visitation. He
51:33goes through a name change after the
51:34covenant. Come on, somebody. He goes
51:36through fulfillment and fallout of
51:38partnership in these chapters. He goes
51:41through a fear versus faith when the
51:43partner wins and then the partner's
51:45promises fulfilled and circumcision of
51:47sooulish things, manifested favor.
51:52All of this, you read these chapters
51:54after this covenant, and this is
51:56Abraham's life. Anybody can relate,
51:59>> huh? I'm up. I'm down. I'm up. I'm down.
52:01God, woo, God. Oh, God. What you doing?
52:03I love Jesus. Oh, he's so good. I don't
52:05understand what he's doing.
52:10This was Abraham's life. It was our It's
52:12our life. And he sees us as perfect
52:17as we're being made holy.
52:25And the Bible says
52:28verse three, Genesis 22:3,
52:32early the next morning, Abraham got up.
52:34Early the next morning, Abraham got up.
52:37Got up. Get up. Get up. Get up. Get up.
52:40Get up. Don't stay where you are. Stop
52:42mllyrubbing about your situation. Change
52:44your mindset. Get into where you're
52:47hearing, believing, and knowing what God
52:49is doing in your heart and life. And get
52:51up in him. Amen. He went to the
52:54mountain, had the servants, told the
52:56servants, "You stay here. The boy and I
52:58are going up and I'm going to bring home
53:01a box of ashes.
53:05We
53:07We
53:09will return.
53:11We me and my boy
53:15will return." Why? Because God's got to
53:16do it through Isaac. God has to do it
53:19through Isaac. and I'm going to do what
53:20he's told me to do because I have come
53:23to understand that when he says
53:25something, even if you don't understand
53:27it, even if it breaks your heart, even
53:29if it challenges everything that you
53:33believe in your heart, if he has said
53:35it, then that is what I must do.
53:39>> And walking up, Isaac, he's not quite
53:41far along in this thing as Daddy Abraham
53:45is. And he said, "Dad, uh, how you know
53:48the enemy sometimes will use those that
53:50are closest to you to try to find an
53:54opportune moment.
53:57Don't take it out on them." Isaac didn't
53:59know.
54:01God didn't talk to Isaac that we know
54:03of. He talked to his dad. But Isaac's
54:06going, "Dad, I see this
54:09fire pot and I'm carrying this wood and
54:14[clears throat] I see that big old knife
54:15there in your belt and
54:19uh where's the sacrifice?"
54:22What does Abram say? What does he say?
54:26God
54:29God himself will provide a sacrifice.
54:35>> [snorts]
54:35>> He didn't re Maybe he did, maybe he
54:38didn't. But I'm telling you right there,
54:39through the ages, through time, it
54:43echoed before time began and echoed past
54:46WHEN TIME STOPS. THAT THAT SPOKE TO the
54:49lamb of God slain before the foundations
54:52of the world.
54:55>> He was speaking of Jesus.
54:59got to the top, bound Isaac. Dads,
55:12raises [snorts] a knife up and God
55:14speaks. Says, Abram, Abraham, don't. Now
55:19I know.
55:23But now now, now I what? What?
55:28Now what? No. Oh, come on. Oh, come on,
55:32somebody. [snorts]
55:37When one partner knows,
55:41sometimes it takes a while for the other
55:43partner to know, [snorts] but when both
55:46partners get into a place OF KNOWING,
55:52BABY, WATCH OUT, DEVIL.
55:56>> [applause]
55:57>> GOD SAYS, "I [screaming]
55:59THE ALMIGHTY NOW know
56:04you
56:06and I." And he goes on and on and then
56:08he speaks to him again.
56:11[snorts] Now
56:13I want to talk to you about the message.
56:16[laughter]
56:17[snorts]
56:20When you come to a place of knowing,
56:24it is imperative
56:26that you take your place.
56:32Because had Abraham not took his place,
56:38God would have had to find another legal
56:40entry. But because Abram gave
56:44his only begotten
56:48son,
56:50the covenant demanded
56:53because Abram represented mankind
56:58that God
57:01would have to give his only begotten
57:03son,
57:07which was the plan all along.
57:11Because what God wants is for us to love
57:14him by choice.
57:18[snorts] For us to love him by choice.
57:23Some people say the angels don't have
57:24free will. They got free will. [snorts]
57:26They just have one.
57:29You going to obey him or you're not.
57:32Lucifer proved they had free will.
57:36I mean, right? He said, "I'm going to
57:38decide to do this." And God said, "Okay,
57:40if that's what you want,
57:42but they don't have grace. They don't
57:44have mercy." Can you imagine? Can you
57:47imagine? Can you imagine? Can you
57:49imagine? Can you imagine in the theater
57:52of your mind
57:54the devil's absolute delight when Adam
57:58partook?
58:00Go there with me. Go there with me in
58:02the theaters. And he ptook.
58:05And Lucifer's watching when the light
58:08bulb comes on
58:11for Adam and Eve. And he realizes,
58:14Lucifer realizes that Adam and Eve now
58:16know what he knows.
58:20Yeah.
58:22Separation.
58:26Separation. And he thinks, "Uhhuh.
58:31You're putting that image here on this
58:33earth and look what I did. I've ruined
58:36it.
58:38I might not be able TO GET YOU, BUT I
58:40GOT THEM.
58:43And then God comes down and slays an
58:45animal, spills blood, covers their
58:49shame, and puts them out before
58:54before they could take of the tree of
58:57life and be stuck that way for eternity.
59:01And the devil goes,
59:07"Wait a wait, wait a minute. Wait a
59:08minute. Wait a minute. What's going on?
59:09What's going on? What's what's going on?
59:11I thought I thought I had the algorithm
59:13figured out." Don't act like the enemy.
59:18Come on, somebody. You don't You don't
59:20understand God. Come on. His ways are
59:23higher than our ways. His thoughts above
59:25our thoughts. Come on, somebody. Now, he
59:27will give us understanding as he deems.
59:29He will give us wisdom. He will give us
59:31knowledge. Absolutely, 100%. He will be
59:34with us through season in and season
59:36out. As the seasons change, God will be
59:38with us.
59:40But you got to let him be God.
59:43See, he is the senior partner
59:48who gives his life to make us holy. We
59:52are the minor partner, but a partner
59:55nonetheless
59:58as the bride of Christ.
1:00:05Go with me
1:00:07to the cross.
1:00:11Now the enemy is salivating
1:00:14cuz now now it's not just a creation.
1:00:19It is the creator
1:00:21clothed in creation.
1:00:25And he's been here before.
1:00:27He's done this before. He knows how this
1:00:30goes. All I got to do is get the
1:00:34creation on him. Then I can I can get
1:00:37him. Can you imagine
1:00:39as they're fgging him, the angels,
1:00:42twothirds,
1:00:43Gabriel, Michael, what are they doing?
1:00:47They're they're looking at the father
1:00:48like, "BUT WE'RE READY. WE'RE READY.
1:00:51WE'RE READY."
1:00:53THEY'RE DRIVING NAILS THROUGH HIS HANDS,
1:00:56PUTTING A CROWN OF THORNS ON HIS HEAD.
1:00:58THE ALMIGHTY.
1:01:00AND THE angels are waiting on a word.
1:01:05AND JESUS GIVES IT UP.
1:01:08SAYS, "It's done.
1:01:13Why have you for He didn't
1:01:17HE DIDN'T SAY, "WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN
1:01:20ME?" Because he didn't know why he
1:01:23forsook him. HE SAID, "WHY HAVE YOU
1:01:27FORSAKEN me for IT TO BE RECORDED
1:01:31THROUGH THE ANALS OF TIME IN THE BIBLE?"
1:01:34SO WE KNOW THAT HE TASTED SEPARATION.
1:01:40That is death.
1:01:42It's not die. That's not death.
1:01:48I'm sorry I'm taking you on a roller
1:01:49coaster, y'all. Everybody Okay, got just
1:01:51a few more minutes.
1:01:53I want to show you some clips to bring
1:01:55this stuff home. Is that okay? How many
1:01:58of you ever seen the movie The Matrix?
1:02:01[snorts] And some of y'all might be from
1:02:02old schools where we used to say if you
1:02:04went to the movies, you went to hell.
1:02:06[snorts] But we're about to show you a
1:02:07clip from one.
1:02:10How many know there were beheadings and
1:02:11stabbings and blood and all that stuff
1:02:13in the Bible, right?
1:02:15So, in the movie The Matrix, remember
1:02:17the first part of the movie, the
1:02:18character Neo, he's in the Matrix and
1:02:22he's this computer dude, right? He's
1:02:25decoding all this stuff and he's asleep.
1:02:27All of a sudden, all of the stuff stops
1:02:31and up pops up, wake up, Neo. And
1:02:34because all the green noise and white
1:02:35noise has stopped, he wakes up. Says,
1:02:38you're in the matrix.
1:02:40Like, what? What?
1:02:43Yeah, you're in the matrix.
1:02:46We're coming for you. Follow the right
1:02:49white rabbit. Y'all y'all get this.
1:02:50Remember some of you seen it? Knock
1:02:52knock knock. And then there's a knock at
1:02:54the door.
1:02:56And the girl has a little pendant or
1:02:58tattoo or something. A white rabbit. And
1:02:59he goes, "Oh, oh, okay." He Heard.
1:03:04That's the beginning. He heard.
1:03:08Now, [snorts] the story line for those
1:03:10of you that don't know,
1:03:12computers have taken over the world
1:03:15and we block the sun. So, the computers
1:03:17decided that they're going to make us
1:03:19their batteries. So, they start
1:03:21incubating humans in these coes and
1:03:24pulling the heat for their energy. And
1:03:27they put us while we're in these coes in
1:03:29this matrix with this little jack in the
1:03:32back of our head. And we think we're
1:03:33living in 1999,
1:03:36but we're not. We're just batteries.
1:03:39But then he starts acting differently
1:03:42because of what he heard. Let's play
1:03:44that clip, guys.
1:03:48I love that.
1:03:51That's the wrong one.
1:03:54Wrong one. We're going to come to that.
1:04:03The one where he believes. That's the
1:04:04wrong one. You don't don't know. Okay.
1:04:06All right. So, [snorts] right here,
1:04:09pause it right there. Back it up if you
1:04:10would.
1:04:13Normally what they do when these agents
1:04:15in the matrix
1:04:17come to them and find them when they're
1:04:19in the matrix doing this stuff that
1:04:21we're not supposed to do, they run from
1:04:23them.
1:04:25And they find a phone
1:04:27and the phone takes them out of the
1:04:28matrix back to the futuristic world that
1:04:31they're in.
1:04:33So now, can you back that up
1:04:38to the beginning and just pause it?
1:04:42He's decides because the they destroy
1:04:44the phone booth that he's got to fight
1:04:47and they ask they say, "What in the
1:04:48world does he do?" And the and the main
1:04:50character Morphia says, "He's starting
1:04:51to believe.
1:04:53He's starting to believe." My point in
1:04:56trying to show that particular clip is
1:04:58this. Just because you believe doesn't
1:05:00mean everything is just going to be
1:05:02hunky dory. How many of you have found
1:05:03that to be true? Just because you start
1:05:06following God and you start believing in
1:05:08Jesus and you start worshiping and
1:05:10praying and paying your tithes and
1:05:11offerings and all of these things, we
1:05:13everything is not just going to be
1:05:14perfectly fine. There are going to be
1:05:16hills and there going to be valleys and
1:05:18all of those are in the form of belief
1:05:20and sometimes even carry over just like
1:05:22Abraham after the covenant of knowing
1:05:25into the covenant of knowing to teach us
1:05:28to mature us to get us to grow up
1:05:31without spot or wrinkle.
1:05:35Are y'all with me?
1:05:38So here he is.
1:05:40This is him in real life. His character
1:05:42is back getting shot
1:05:44because he went for the phone.
1:05:48He went to get out. Sometimes we're in
1:05:51too much of a hurry to get out.
1:05:54Get me out. Get me out. Get me out. Get
1:05:56me out. Get me out. I want this over. I
1:05:58want this stopped. I don't like this.
1:05:59Get me out. Get me out. What if God's
1:06:01purpose is for you to stay right there
1:06:02and change it?
1:06:06Hello? What if his purpose is for you to
1:06:09stay right there and change it? So, he
1:06:11opens the door thinking he's going to
1:06:12grab the phone and get out and not have
1:06:14to run for his life. Hello. How many of
1:06:18y'all tired of running?
1:06:23He opened THE DOOR THAT GOD TOOK HIM TO.
1:06:26TRINITY, the character, and an agent
1:06:29standing there and says, "I knew you
1:06:30were coming." Boom. Anybody ever felt
1:06:32like that?
1:06:34This door you took me to, God, and now
1:06:36I'm getting shot. Y'all saw that little
1:06:39clip. He backs up against the wall like,
1:06:40"Well, that ain't that ain't that ain't
1:06:41supposed to that ain't supposed to
1:06:43happen." But then he says, "Wait a
1:06:45minute. No, I believe. I'm the one. I'm
1:06:47called. I'm chosen. God sees me as
1:06:50perfect even though he's making me holy.
1:06:52No, I ain't doing this." And he bows
1:06:54back up and they agent says, "Okay, if
1:06:56that's what you want." Boom boom boom
1:06:57boom boom boom boom. Opens the opens
1:07:02all the bullets up against the wall. He
1:07:04falls down. And in real life, it's over
1:07:06with. He dies.
1:07:11Are y'all with me
1:07:14like Jesus
1:07:17on the cross?
1:07:20But is he dead?
1:07:24Picture Jesus
1:07:26going into Hades.
1:07:28Death and hell come rattling those
1:07:31chains being so glorious.
1:07:35We got you.
1:07:37We got you. We got you. We got you.
1:07:40And then something strange starts to
1:07:43happen to the lamb of God.
1:07:46He starts turning into the lion of Judah
1:07:50and he bows up and he says,
1:07:54"Those were not my sins.
1:08:00Those were not my sins."
1:08:05So he dies. You want to play it from
1:08:06here? Let's see what we got.
1:08:13[snorts]
1:08:14His heart stops beating. He flat lines.
1:08:16This character is Trinity. That's
1:08:17Morpheus. Can't be. Listen.
1:08:24I want to ask you to pause it in just a
1:08:25second.
1:08:27Just pause it.
1:08:29I want you to be so much trouble for the
1:08:32devil that when he thinks he's taking
1:08:35you out, he says to his little cronies,
1:08:39"No, check him." Come on, somebody.
1:08:44Keep going.
1:08:46In the Matrix,
1:08:49he's gone. It's over. They thought he
1:08:53was the one to destroy the machines, to
1:08:55change everything, to bring the kingdom.
1:08:58Goodbye, Mr. Anderson. Pause it. The
1:09:02enemy will always call you what you're
1:09:03not.
1:09:08The enemy will always call you what
1:09:11you're not, not what you are.
1:09:15A different part of the movie, he says,
1:09:17"My name is not Mr. Anderson. My name is
1:09:20Neil."
1:09:22All right. Now, in the real world, the
1:09:24machines have found where the captain
1:09:27is, and he's taken out the ship. But
1:09:29this neo character is the guy that's
1:09:31supposed to be this the the Jesus type
1:09:33character to save everything, turn
1:09:35everything around. And it's funny
1:09:37because I found out that the lady that
1:09:38actually written the book, one of the
1:09:39ladies that wrote this book in
1:09:40Terminator, this is actually a type she
1:09:42believes that God gave her of Jesus,
1:09:44just in a different way to try to
1:09:46communicate that to people. But look,
1:09:47look at this. So then, keep going. It
1:09:50looks bad.
1:09:52The enemy's there. But what does Trinity
1:09:55say? Turn it up.
1:09:58>> I'm not afraid anymore.
1:09:59>> I'm not afraid.
1:10:03I'd fall in love.
1:10:07The man that I love would be the one.
1:10:15>> You can't be dead.
1:10:18Can't be. No.
1:10:22Because pause.
1:10:25Because Because of why? Because I love
1:10:28you. Because I love you. Because I love
1:10:32you. Because I love you.
1:10:37Because he loves us. That's why he did
1:10:42what he did. and he is still doing what
1:10:46he's doing because he loves us.
1:10:52LOVE IS THE FOUNDATION OF EVERYTHING in
1:10:56the kingdom of God.
1:10:59And new church,
1:11:02meditate on that in the season you're
1:11:05in. Board members, in the season you're
1:11:07in when you're looking for the pastor.
1:11:10Listen, God's already called him. God's
1:11:11already talked to him. God's already got
1:11:14him ready. And God will show you in love
1:11:18and they will bathe that in love. Come
1:11:20on, somebody. HE KNOWS WHAT HE'S DOING.
1:11:23NOTHING TAKES HIM BY SURPRISE.
1:11:26Out of everything that you've been
1:11:28through in your life, all the heartache
1:11:30that every single one of you have been
1:11:32through, every heartache, every trauma,
1:11:35every person that's harmed you,
1:11:37everything that's been done to you by
1:11:39others and by yourself, family, friends,
1:11:42businesses, girlfriends, boyfriends,
1:11:44husbands, WIVES, CHILDREN, PARENTS,
1:11:46LISTEN, GOD LOVES YOU. He's got a plan
1:11:50for you.
1:11:52Believe him when he says he loves you.
1:11:54Keep going.
1:11:56We're getting there.
1:11:59[clears throat]
1:12:05Kissy face. How you know God likes to
1:12:08kiss on us?
1:12:20And he breathed into him the breath of
1:12:21life.
1:12:23What does she say? Listen. Keep going.
1:12:28Keep going.
1:12:29>> Get up.
1:12:29>> Get up. What does she say?
1:12:33>> Get up. Don't stay where you are. Get
1:12:36up. UH-OH. WAIT A MINUTE. STOP.
1:12:41PAUSE.
1:12:43PAUSE. PAUSE.
1:12:54NO,
1:12:56that is not my reality.
1:13:00No,
1:13:03>> no, [applause]
1:13:05no, it's not my reality. Keep going.
1:13:14This is where he moves from believing to
1:13:17knowing.
1:13:24Now, think about your own life. Think
1:13:25about the own bullets, the your own
1:13:27bullets that the enemy is firing against
1:13:29you. Think about it. Think about what
1:13:32the enemy is designed to try to take you
1:13:33out.
1:13:36>> God believes in you. You are the miracle
1:13:40of heaven that heaven has been waiting
1:13:41on.
1:13:47But the enemy is not done, is he? Just
1:13:49cuz we know, right? But
1:13:54in quietness and rest is my strength. No
1:13:58weapon formed against me will prosper.
1:14:03>> [laughter]
1:14:05>> This
1:14:07is where he sits down
1:14:11and takes his place.
1:14:17Keep going.
1:14:22Our weapons are not of this world.
1:14:26The light
1:14:28shines in the darkness.
1:14:33And the darkness comprehends it not.
1:14:38>> Keep going.
1:14:46Sit down and take your place.
1:14:55You guys want some?
1:14:58Nope. Darn it.
1:15:03in your lives. Let me tell you something
1:15:06and I'm going to close.
1:15:11Can't believe we did that. Thank you,
1:15:12Holy Spirit.
1:15:16Meditate on this. I'm going to speak to
1:15:19new church for just a moment. I believe
1:15:22I have heard from the father that he is
1:15:25well pleased with you.
1:15:28You're not perfect in yourselves, but he
1:15:32sees you as perfect
1:15:34and you are working on the things that
1:15:37he wants you guys to be working on and
1:15:40you are moving in the right direction
1:15:43following him. Please continue to do
1:15:47just that. Whatever he says, you follow
1:15:51him and he has you 100% and your best
1:15:56days are yet ahead of you.
1:16:00[applause]
1:16:06Father, in Jesus name, [music] right
1:16:07now, help us all, every single one of us
1:16:14to sit down and take our place.
1:16:18help us all.
1:16:20In some areas, we're hearing in other
1:16:23areas of our life. Maybe in our
1:16:24finances, we're believing in our
1:16:26marriage we're knowing. Or maybe we're
1:16:28we're hearing in our in our parenting
1:16:30and we're believing in other areas in
1:16:32our health. Whatever those areas are,
1:16:35God, help us to not fret it,
1:16:41not worry over it.
1:16:44Help us not [music] to sweat it, not to
1:16:45move at the arm of our own strength, not
1:16:48to stress out over it, and help us to
1:16:51forget it when [music] we don't do those
1:16:53two things. If we keep fretting and if
1:16:55we keep sweating, we're going to wind up
1:16:57making mistakes. And when we do, help us
1:17:00to forget it and see [music] ourselves
1:17:02the way you see us.
1:17:04See ourselves as perfect [music] as you
1:17:07are making us holy.
1:17:10We are the tools that you want to use in
1:17:12the earth to manifest your glory and
1:17:15your love to a lost and dying world.
1:17:17Help us to see the world. Help us to see
1:17:20our church family. [music] Help us to
1:17:22see our spouses and children the way
1:17:24that you see them.
1:17:30Father, I want to take my place as
1:17:31[music] a man, as your son, as a
1:17:34husband, as a father.
1:17:36I want to take my place and I want to
1:17:39sit down and follow you in all that I do
1:17:43in Jesus name. If that's you, [music]
1:17:46just say amen.
1:17:48Amen. We want to give you an opportunity
1:17:50to give this morning. You can give by
1:17:53bringing up your offerings [music] and
1:17:54there's buckets here. There's the app
1:17:56that you can use. I believe there may
1:17:58even be a a box out front if if I'm
1:18:00right. But we want to give [music] you
1:18:02an opportunity to give. Please prepare
1:18:03to do that as we close out in worship.
1:18:06And
1:18:07>> [music]
1:18:07>> uh we're going to sing this just a
1:18:08little bit and then we're going to make
1:18:10our declaration. And I understand I know
1:18:12we didn't do an altar call, but [music]
1:18:13guys, your altar call is all through the
1:18:15week. Okay? This is something I want you
1:18:18[music] to meditate on and really listen
1:18:20to Holy Spirit and let him weave his
1:18:25work [music] in you. You say, "Amen."
1:18:28Amen. Go ahead, guys. Come and give us
1:18:30unto the Lord if you don't mind.
1:18:35Worship with them as you do.
1:18:51[music]
1:18:54>> Where [singing] my heart is set free
1:18:57from all shame and guilt. Chains [music]
1:19:00are undone.
1:19:05Take [music]
1:19:07me there.
1:19:10Take me there.
1:19:17Take me to [music] the place where your
1:19:20peace and your love [singing]
1:19:21overflow.
1:19:27Where my heart [singing and music] is
1:19:28set free from all shame and guilt.
1:19:32Chains are undone.
1:19:37Take [singing]
1:19:39me there. [music]
1:19:43Take [singing] me there.
1:19:46Oh,
1:19:48take me there.
1:19:54Take [singing] me there.
1:19:58[music] Cuz I [singing] want to know
1:20:01what it feels like when heaven touches
1:20:05earth and I come
1:20:08in [music] between. [singing]
1:20:10I want to know what it feels like. Glory
1:20:15of [singing] the Lord fall. [music]
1:20:24[singing and music]
1:20:26>> Jesus take us here.
1:20:36Hallelujah. Are you ready for that? Take
1:20:38it there. Right.
1:20:40[music]
1:20:41Bless you. Pull up our declaration.
1:20:46We [music] try to say this
1:20:49and mean it. Know it. Amen.
1:20:54I am the righteousness of God in Christ
1:20:56Jesus. The faith of God is in me and the
1:21:00[music] favor of God is on me. I have
1:21:02favor with God and man. Father, I bless
1:21:07them. Give us [music] a great week in
1:21:08you and help us to manifest you to
1:21:11others in Jesus name. God bless you.