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- 0:12Speaker 1: I want you to get your Bible and go to
- 0:14Speaker 1: the Book of Exodus. Chapter number four is fourteen, verse
- 0:18Speaker 1: four through nine, and then we're going to skip down
- 0:20Speaker 1: to thirteen through eighteen. The Book of Exodus, chapter number fourteen,
- 0:24Speaker 1: verse four through nine, and then we're going to go
- 0:26Speaker 1: through nine through thirteen. But before we read it, I
- 0:30Speaker 1: want you to, if you can, in your mind and
- 0:32Speaker 1: your heart and your spirit, in order to feel the
- 0:35Speaker 1: impact of the text. Once you have it, stand to
- 0:38Speaker 1: your feet for the reading of the word, and after
- 0:42Speaker 1: this you can sit the rest of the time. I
- 0:45Speaker 1: didn't tell you to wear it in shoes. Don't blame
- 0:50Speaker 1: me looking cute and as expensive. Amen. Amen, I want
- 0:56Speaker 1: you to go back in your mind. I want to
- 0:59Speaker 1: put the text in context. These are the people of God,
- 1:05Speaker 1: but they haven't really been the people of God for
- 1:08Speaker 1: a long time. They have been in captivity for four
- 1:13Speaker 1: hundred years in Egypt. They have been in Egypt four
- 1:18Speaker 1: hundred and thirty years, but the last four hundred years
- 1:22Speaker 1: they have been enslaved. Now we consider the fact that
- 1:27Speaker 1: forty years is typically in scriptures, a generation. Ten generations
- 1:33Speaker 1: are living off of the memory of God. There is
- 1:39Speaker 1: some memory of God left because they knew enough about
- 1:43Speaker 1: him after ten generations to still call on him. But
- 1:49Speaker 1: their faith and their theology and their understanding of God
- 1:52Speaker 1: is diluted by time and polluted by association with the Egyptians.
- 2:00Speaker 1: This is proven because later when they get in the
- 2:02Speaker 1: wilderness and they try to build an image of God,
- 2:04Speaker 1: they build the image of the Egyptian's God, because who
- 2:09Speaker 1: you hang out with does affect you. And yet, with
- 2:16Speaker 1: just a little bit of faith that they had left
- 2:19Speaker 1: enough to call on God by reason of the intense
- 2:23Speaker 1: bondage that was placed on them, they cried unto God,
- 2:26Speaker 1: and God heard them. I'm so glad that you don't
- 2:29Speaker 1: have to be perfect or have everything right for God
- 2:34Speaker 1: to hear you. You don't earn the right to be heard.
- 2:39Speaker 1: God heard them. They were struggling, but God heard them.
- 2:43Speaker 1: They were broken, but God heard them. They didn't even
- 2:47Speaker 1: have full understanding of who he was, but God heard
- 2:51Speaker 1: them and sent Moses to deliver them. Now, Moses was
- 2:55Speaker 1: somebody they should have known, But Moses has been on
- 2:58Speaker 1: the back side of the desert for four years. So
- 3:02Speaker 1: whereas the old people might have remembered him, the young
- 3:06Speaker 1: people didn't even know who he was, and Moses has
- 3:10Speaker 1: the responsibility of leading the people that he is kin
- 3:13Speaker 1: to but not familiar with. Okay, now he is leading
- 3:19Speaker 1: them out of bondage and away from Fhaarroh. And they
- 3:23Speaker 1: have told Pharaoh, let my people go, that they may
- 3:26Speaker 1: worship me in the wilderness. And as they begin to leave,
- 3:33Speaker 1: Pharaoh changed his mind. Oh is right, And as they're
- 3:38Speaker 1: trying to escape, and they're trying to flee, Pharaoh now
- 3:42Speaker 1: sets out to take them back, at least that maybe
- 3:49Speaker 1: kill them. This is not a democracy. There are no
- 3:54Speaker 1: court systems. There will be no litigation. They can't foul charges.
- 4:00Speaker 1: Whatever Phaarroh decides to do to them, it's done. So
- 4:07Speaker 1: as they are fleeing and they since fhaar Reroh coming,
- 4:12Speaker 1: who knows what is going to happen. So as you
- 4:15Speaker 1: step into this text, I want you to step into
- 4:18Speaker 1: it as them, and then it will be my responsibility
- 4:23Speaker 1: to make it relative to you. But you can't appreciate
- 4:28Speaker 1: what the text means until you go back to the
- 4:31Speaker 1: utter fear of leaving everything that is familiar and being
- 4:36Speaker 1: on the run, the vulnerability of not being protected, having
- 4:41Speaker 1: neither socio or economic power or political status or a
- 4:47Speaker 1: voice to fight back, and here comes a bigger force
- 4:50Speaker 1: coming against you than you've ever had. On six hundred
- 4:56Speaker 1: chosen chariots. You walking, you can hear the hum prince
- 5:08Speaker 1: of the chariots of your past about to overtake you.
- 5:15Speaker 1: And they're on a horseback, and you got on a
- 5:19Speaker 1: pair of nikes. That's what's going on in this text.
- 5:25Speaker 1: Now put the text on the screen. Let's take a
- 5:26Speaker 1: look at it. And God says, and I will harden
- 5:29Speaker 1: Pharaoh's heart, and he will pursue them, but I will
- 5:34Speaker 1: gain glory for myself through Pharroh and all his army,
- 5:39Speaker 1: and the Egyptians will know that I am the Lord.
- 5:44Speaker 1: So the Israelites did this. When the King of Egypt
- 5:49Speaker 1: was told that the people had fled, Pharroh and his
- 5:52Speaker 1: officials changed their minds about them and said, what have
- 5:55Speaker 1: we done. We have let the Israelites go and have
- 5:59Speaker 1: lost them their services. So he had his chariots mate
- 6:04Speaker 1: ready and took his army with him. He took six
- 6:09Speaker 1: hundred of the best chariots along with all the other
- 6:14Speaker 1: chariots of Egypt, with officers over all of them. The
- 6:20Speaker 1: Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, King of Egypt. The Lord,
- 6:25Speaker 1: wait man. The Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh, king
- 6:34Speaker 1: of Egypt, so that he pursued the Israelites who were
- 6:38Speaker 1: marching out boldly. The same God who told them to
- 6:46Speaker 1: go hardened the heart of the one who's chasing them.
- 6:54Speaker 1: The Egyptians, all Pharaoh's horses and chariots, horsemen and troops
- 6:59Speaker 1: pursued the Israelite overtook them as they can't by the
- 7:02Speaker 1: sea of pie Old, let me try it. Harad of
- 7:08Speaker 1: opposite bel Zaphon. That Harald was hard spent me on
- 7:16Speaker 1: with a few hours of sleep. Moses answered, the people,
- 7:19Speaker 1: do not be afraid. Stand firm, and you will see
- 7:28Speaker 1: the deliverance the Lord will bring you today. The Egyptians
- 7:34Speaker 1: that you see today you will never see again. Oh
- 7:45Speaker 1: I can stop right there. You could go home right there.
- 7:49Speaker 1: The Egyptians that you see today, you will never see
- 7:53Speaker 1: them again. Come on, the Lord will fight for you.
- 7:58Speaker 2: Watch.
- 7:59Speaker 1: You need only be stilled. Then, the Lord said to Moses,
- 8:05Speaker 1: why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites.
- 8:17Speaker 1: Tell the Israelites to move on, Come on, give me
- 8:21Speaker 1: the rest of it. Raise your staff and stretch out
- 8:26Speaker 1: your hand over the sea to divide the water, so
- 8:29Speaker 1: that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.
- 8:34Speaker 1: I will harden the heart of the Egyptians so that
- 8:37Speaker 1: they will go in after them. And I will gain
- 8:40Speaker 1: glory through Phariaroh and all his army, through his chariots
- 8:46Speaker 1: and his horsemen. The Egyptians will know. They will know
- 8:52Speaker 1: that I am the Lord. When I gain glory through Phaiaoh,
- 8:58Speaker 1: his chariots and his horsemen. Somebody say, Man, I want
- 9:05Speaker 1: to use for a subject remain standing for just a
- 9:07Speaker 1: few more minutes. I want to use for a subject
- 9:10Speaker 1: keep it moving because the Lord said, tell Israel.
- 9:20Speaker 2: To move on.
- 9:23Speaker 1: But I'm scared. Lord move on, but I don't know
- 9:29Speaker 1: what's going to happen. Move on, but I'm in danger.
- 9:35Speaker 1: Lord move on, but I'm feeling vulnerable. Lord, move on.
- 9:44Speaker 1: How do you keep it moving when all hell is
- 9:47Speaker 1: breaking loose in your life? How can God set this
- 9:53Speaker 1: situation up and put me if you love me, how
- 9:57Speaker 1: could you put me in a situation like And you
- 10:01Speaker 1: know I'm human, and you know I'm scared, and yet
- 10:05Speaker 1: you still say move on. Look at your neighbor on
- 10:12Speaker 1: your left and your right and say keep it moving.
- 10:19Speaker 1: I know the conditions are not everything that you want
- 10:22Speaker 1: them to be. I know all the circumstances are not
- 10:24Speaker 1: the way you would like for them to be. I
- 10:27Speaker 1: know that there are impending dangers that threaten your progress.
- 10:31Speaker 1: I know that you don't have the insurance of an outcome.
- 10:35Speaker 1: And when you don't have insurance, it is difficult to
- 10:38Speaker 1: have assurance. All you have is God's command in your life,
- 10:43Speaker 1: that God said, keep it moving. Let's pray about this,
- 10:47Speaker 1: and then we're going to talk about it. Father, in
- 10:49Speaker 1: the name of Jesus, we approach that throne of God,
- 10:52Speaker 1: and we honor you, and we bless your name because
- 10:54Speaker 1: you are God. If you don't do anything, we still
- 10:57Speaker 1: honor you, just because you are God. And besides you,
- 11:01Speaker 1: there is no other. Open up the volume of the
- 11:04Speaker 1: book and speak to us in such a way, Lord,
- 11:06Speaker 1: that we understand more clearly your word, the profundity of
- 11:10Speaker 1: your word, the relevance of your word, the power of
- 11:12Speaker 1: your word, but most importantly, the spirit of your word.
- 11:16Speaker 1: For what shall it profit us to understand the letter
- 11:19Speaker 1: of your word and then fail to understand the spirit
- 11:23Speaker 1: and the intent in which it is derived. Speak out
- 11:26Speaker 1: of the volume of the book, Oh God, speak to
- 11:29Speaker 1: us in such a way that we will have strength
- 11:31Speaker 1: for the week. We call it done in Jesus' name.
- 11:36Speaker 1: Somebody shall a man? All right, you can sit down.
- 11:40Speaker 1: You don't have to get up till tomorrow. So I'm
- 11:45Speaker 1: in the airport the other day and I ran into
- 11:49Speaker 1: a fellow clergyman, a pastor here in the city, and
- 11:52Speaker 1: we were exchanging pleasantries. How you doing, How I hire you,
- 11:55Speaker 1: so forth, and so on, and he said, I want
- 11:56Speaker 1: to ask you a question. I said, okay. He said,
- 11:59Speaker 1: how do you keep it fresh? He said, you always
- 12:04Speaker 1: seem excited, you always got a fresh word, You're always
- 12:06Speaker 1: going for it. He said, how do you keep it fresh?
- 12:09Speaker 1: And I kind of didn't exactly know how to answer
- 12:12Speaker 1: that because I hadn't really thought about it like that.
- 12:16Speaker 1: It's not like I was trying to be fresh. I'm afresh. Yeah,
- 12:28Speaker 1: It's not like I get up in the morning and
- 12:30Speaker 1: pray Lord help me to keep it fresh. And then
- 12:35Speaker 1: my daughter text me in. She said, one of the
- 12:37Speaker 1: things that I admire about you is that you're never
- 12:41Speaker 1: afraid to be a sophomore again. You know. She has
- 12:46Speaker 1: a way of saying stuff that you just takes you
- 12:49Speaker 1: into deep thought. A sophomore again, that you're not afraid
- 12:52Speaker 1: to recreate yourself, that you're not afraid to be adventurous,
- 12:55Speaker 1: that you're not afraid to be back at one again,
- 12:57Speaker 1: like one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eighty nine, ten,
- 13:01Speaker 1: eleven is one again on the next level, Twenty one
- 13:04Speaker 1: is one again on the next level, thirty one is
- 13:06Speaker 1: one again on the next level, forty one is one
- 13:09Speaker 1: again on the next level, fifty one is one again
- 13:11Speaker 1: on the next level, sixty one is one again on
- 13:14Speaker 1: the next level. And some people don't grow because they're
- 13:17Speaker 1: not willing to give up the ten to be one again.
- 13:25Speaker 1: And if you're not willing to give up the ten,
- 13:27Speaker 1: you'll stay where you are for the prestige of having
- 13:31Speaker 1: reached ten and not willing to go back to one again.
- 13:36Speaker 1: You fail to grow to what your capacity was meant
- 13:40Speaker 1: to be because you don't want to be a sophomore
- 13:42Speaker 1: once you've been a senior. You don't want to say
- 13:47Speaker 1: I don't know again. You don't want to do anything
- 13:50Speaker 1: that's out of your comfort zone again. You don't want
- 13:53Speaker 1: to go into the unfamiliar again, and you stop growing
- 13:58Speaker 1: because you stop going. In order to keep brewing, you
- 14:07Speaker 1: have to keep going. Are you following what I'm saying?
- 14:12Speaker 1: And you cannot love the prestige of ten to the
- 14:16Speaker 1: degree that you failed to come to eleven. Eleven puts
- 14:21Speaker 1: you in a room with twenties. And some people can't
- 14:28Speaker 1: stand to be in a room with twenties once they
- 14:30Speaker 1: have reached ten. They'd rather be a big fish in
- 14:34Speaker 1: a small pond than to swim into a bigger stream
- 14:38Speaker 1: and be surrounded by whales and sharks and dolphins and
- 14:42Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. They like image more than reality.
- 14:48Speaker 1: Speaking of fish, you know, I was reading this thing
- 14:51Speaker 1: about right now salmon, and they were talking about how
- 14:55Speaker 1: the polar bears are starving because we're eating up all
- 14:58Speaker 1: their food. Salmon has become so popular all over the
- 15:03Speaker 1: world that now when the polar bears get ready to
- 15:05Speaker 1: fish for food and go eat, they can't eat the
- 15:08Speaker 1: salmon that they normally eat because it's on all of
- 15:11Speaker 1: our restaurant menus and it's all over the world. And
- 15:14Speaker 1: I don't mean to make you feel guilty if you're
- 15:16Speaker 1: eating salmon, because I know you're trying to lose weight
- 15:19Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, I get it,
- 15:22Speaker 1: but we're eating up the polar bear's food, and they
- 15:24Speaker 1: were talking about salmon. But before salmon was so popular,
- 15:28Speaker 1: it used to be cod, and everybody was eating cod.
- 15:33Speaker 1: And cod was on the East coast. Don't worry. This
- 15:35Speaker 1: doesn't sound like I had nothing to do with it,
- 15:37Speaker 1: but it will in a minute. Cod was on the
- 15:40Speaker 1: East coast and people on the East Coast were all
- 15:42Speaker 1: eating cod. And back then, in order to get it
- 15:46Speaker 1: to the West coast, because the West Coast started wanting
- 15:48Speaker 1: dishes that were made from cod, they had to put
- 15:52Speaker 1: it on train, and it took a long time to
- 15:55Speaker 1: get it from the East Coast to the West coast.
- 15:58Speaker 1: So what they did they started putting the cord on ice.
- 16:03Speaker 1: But by the time they got it to the West
- 16:04Speaker 1: Coast and tried to cook it, it had lost its
- 16:08Speaker 1: taste and its texture, and it wasn't fresh. So they said,
- 16:13Speaker 1: I tell you what we'll do. We won't put it
- 16:17Speaker 1: on ice. We'll leave them alive and we'll put them
- 16:20Speaker 1: in big fish takes and we'll send them on the
- 16:23Speaker 1: train and they'll travel by train, and then when they
- 16:26Speaker 1: get them there, they'll be fresh. And they did that,
- 16:28Speaker 1: and when they got there and they got ready to
- 16:30Speaker 1: cook the cord, it still didn't taste right and the
- 16:35Speaker 1: texture wasn't right. They couldn't find a way to ship
- 16:39Speaker 1: it and get it to be fresh. Now, I can
- 16:42Speaker 1: understand why it wasn't fresh once it was frozen, but
- 16:46Speaker 1: to be alive and not be fresh was confusing. Yeah,
- 16:56Speaker 1: I'm back. How can you be alive and not be fresh,
- 17:07Speaker 1: traveling and not be fresh, swimming and not be fresh?
- 17:11Speaker 1: Raising a family and not be fresh? Look fresh but
- 17:15Speaker 1: not be fresh, dress fresh but not be fresh, smile
- 17:19Speaker 1: fresh but not be fresh. When they tasted it, it
- 17:24Speaker 1: wasn't fresh. So in a last ditch effort to try
- 17:29Speaker 1: to fix the problem, they decided to put some catfish
- 17:32Speaker 1: in the tanpe. Now, catfish are natural predators to cod,
- 17:40Speaker 1: and putting a few catfish in the tanke meant that
- 17:43Speaker 1: all the while they were traveling, the cord had to
- 17:45Speaker 1: be on the run, and when they finally got them
- 17:57Speaker 1: there this time now they were still fresh, because in
- 18:01Speaker 1: order for the cod to be fresh, it had to
- 18:04Speaker 1: be in an environment of catfish. The Lord knows exactly
- 18:10Speaker 1: what kind of catfish to put in your life to
- 18:15Speaker 1: keep you fresh. And even though fresh means being uncomfortable,
- 18:20Speaker 1: and even fresh means being on the run, and being
- 18:24Speaker 1: fresh means that you're being chased. I know you've been
- 18:31Speaker 1: praying for tank with no catfish, but God uses the
- 18:38Speaker 1: catfish to keep you fresh. And if you think about it,
- 18:45Speaker 1: in your life, all your life, you've had something chasing you.
- 18:50Speaker 1: You don't really pray right until something is after you.
- 18:56Speaker 1: You don't really seek his face until something is it's
- 19:00Speaker 1: out to you, don't really call on his name until
- 19:03Speaker 1: something is out to you. You don't really reach your
- 19:05Speaker 1: potential of greatness until something is behind you saying you
- 19:10Speaker 1: gotta go all the way. You gotta finish that class,
- 19:13Speaker 1: you gotta graduate, you gotta get your degree. You gotta
- 19:16Speaker 1: open up that business. You gotta make this marriage work.
- 19:19Speaker 1: You gotta get this stuff together. It's not because you're
- 19:22Speaker 1: always so happy with things, but it's in dead gum catfish.
- 19:30Speaker 1: Shake ahead when somebody saying, what are your catfish? Yeah?
- 19:37Speaker 1: What are your What are your what are your? What
- 19:46Speaker 1: are your catfish? Pharaoh was Israel's catfish, and God heartened
- 20:01Speaker 1: his heart so that they could see his glory, and
- 20:10Speaker 1: he created the situation to put them in a predicament
- 20:15Speaker 1: that they couldn't get out of, so that they would
- 20:19Speaker 1: know that it's not by might nor by power, but
- 20:22Speaker 1: by my spirit, saith the Lord that brings you out
- 20:25Speaker 1: of every dungeon, every trap, every device that the enemy
- 20:30Speaker 1: comes up against you. If you didn't have opposition, if
- 20:34Speaker 1: you didn't have opposition, you would think you got there
- 20:36Speaker 1: by yourself. But thank God for the catfish that lets
- 20:40Speaker 1: you know. Can you imagine the utter terror of having
- 20:52Speaker 1: a two year old in one hand and a newborn
- 20:55Speaker 1: baby in your arms, and being a slave on the
- 21:01Speaker 1: run from a pharaoh who doesn't just come after you,
- 21:09Speaker 1: but he gets his best chariots. See, some of you
- 21:13Speaker 1: are crying out in distress, but you have to understand.
- 21:18Speaker 1: Other people look at you and say you're whining, but
- 21:21Speaker 1: they don't understand. You're not running from horses. You're running
- 21:24Speaker 1: from six hundred chosen chariots. Satan has shot his best
- 21:31Speaker 1: shot trying to take you down. And you're not in
- 21:34Speaker 1: trouble because you're weak. You're not in trouble because you're
- 21:38Speaker 1: not consistent. You're in trouble because the enemy has loosed
- 21:42Speaker 1: assassins to utterly annohligate you. And you are in a
- 21:53Speaker 1: fearful atmosphere and you're moving forward, but you're under attack.
- 22:01Speaker 1: The train is still rolling, but the catfish are still
- 22:04Speaker 1: nipping at you. You can you can see when you're
- 22:07Speaker 1: gaining ground, but you keep looking back because you know
- 22:10Speaker 1: that you got to keep moving because you got some
- 22:14Speaker 1: chasing you. Somebody in this room has got a devil
- 22:16Speaker 1: to fight. I know in the church's out. Some people
- 22:20Speaker 1: come because they got a nice dress to wear, and
- 22:22Speaker 1: some people come because they're looking for a girlfriend, and
- 22:25Speaker 1: some people come because they want to do business. But
- 22:28Speaker 1: some of us are here because of the catfish. Some
- 22:36Speaker 1: people are here because they're curious, but other people are
- 22:39Speaker 1: here because you got catfish chasing you. And you're saying,
- 22:43Speaker 1: give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us
- 22:45Speaker 1: our trust fighters that we give you those who try
- 22:47Speaker 1: to lead us not in today's And by the way, Lord,
- 22:50Speaker 1: please deliver us from me them. These people are fleeing
- 23:03Speaker 1: from oppression, and they're going where they've never been to
- 23:10Speaker 1: do something that they have never done, with someone leading
- 23:14Speaker 1: them that they have never met. I've been here ten years.
- 23:19Speaker 1: I never shall kill hand Mosas has been gone forty years.
- 23:25Speaker 1: It's not like he's been hanging out at Starbucks with
- 23:28Speaker 1: these people and they are up under his leadership, and
- 23:34Speaker 1: he has led them to a scary place. I would
- 23:39Speaker 1: like to submit for your consideration that you are not
- 23:42Speaker 1: living until you have been living in a scary place.
- 23:51Speaker 1: You don't know who you are until you've been in
- 23:53Speaker 1: a scary place. You don't know what God can do
- 23:57Speaker 1: until you've been in a scary place. You know what
- 24:00Speaker 1: faith is until you've been in a scary place. You
- 24:03Speaker 1: don't know how powerful your God is until you've been
- 24:06Speaker 1: in a scary place. Other up until it is just
- 24:09Speaker 1: religion and doctrine and theology, and it's the women Sunday
- 24:14Speaker 1: and the men Sunday and the catfries Sunday. But when
- 24:17Speaker 1: you're in a scary place, it changes what church feels
- 24:21Speaker 1: like to you because of the catfish, which brings me
- 24:33Speaker 1: to this whole fear that they had. And what's funny here,
- 24:43Speaker 1: it's the cohabitation of faith and fear. They had enough
- 24:50Speaker 1: faith to go, so we can't say they didn't have faith.
- 24:53Speaker 1: They packed up everything they had and left in the
- 24:56Speaker 1: building of the Knights and the dictates of the whole
- 25:00Speaker 1: Spirit to go someplace they'd never been. That took faith.
- 25:05Speaker 1: It took faith to go, and God brought them out.
- 25:09Speaker 1: The Death Angel had passed through that night, and the
- 25:12Speaker 1: Bible says that every house that didn't have blood on it,
- 25:15Speaker 1: the death Angel had stepped in and taken a son
- 25:18Speaker 1: out of the house, of son out of the house.
- 25:20Speaker 1: That's quite an offering. I might give you a chicken
- 25:23Speaker 1: or something. But they had the faith to believe God
- 25:30Speaker 1: to go, and they were doing real good until they
- 25:34Speaker 1: ran into the fear factory. In President Obama's book The
- 25:42Speaker 1: Audacity of Hope, he wrote a line that stays with
- 25:46Speaker 1: me all the time. The presence of faith is not
- 25:50Speaker 1: the absence of doubt. You have to think about that
- 25:55Speaker 1: a man. The presence of faith is not the absence
- 26:00Speaker 1: of doubt. That doubt and faith can live in the
- 26:05Speaker 1: same space. I believe you, but I'm worried. I trust you,
- 26:13Speaker 1: but I'm nervous. I know it's gonna be all right,
- 26:16Speaker 1: but I'm still up at two o'clock in the morning. Now,
- 26:20Speaker 1: this message is for the real people. Church people are
- 26:25Speaker 1: not going to own up to the fact that there
- 26:27Speaker 1: are some things that can happen to you. I don't
- 26:30Speaker 1: care how many scriptures you know, I don't care how
- 26:32Speaker 1: long you've been in church. I don't care if you
- 26:34Speaker 1: can quote the entire New Testament. There are some things
- 26:38Speaker 1: that can happen in your life that makes your heart
- 26:40Speaker 1: start beating in your chest until it looks like your
- 26:43Speaker 1: dress is jumping, and you do like Peter, and you say,
- 26:50Speaker 1: tear us our lot that we perish. We like to
- 26:57Speaker 1: think that people are good or evil, and right wrong
- 27:00Speaker 1: or up and down. The believers are unbelievers. But the
- 27:03Speaker 1: truth of the matter is believers have doubt and they
- 27:14Speaker 1: get scared sometime. Maybe we're not supposed to. But when
- 27:21Speaker 1: you hear the hoof prints of something that you dreaded,
- 27:27Speaker 1: that you had had four hundred years of trauma with
- 27:32Speaker 1: and you finally thought you got away, and all of
- 27:36Speaker 1: a sudden you hear the hoof prints of something trying
- 27:39Speaker 1: to overtake you that you have dedicated and risked everything
- 27:43Speaker 1: in your life to escape. It's hard to be cool
- 27:47Speaker 1: and scared. You can look cool, Sarah. Are some people
- 27:54Speaker 1: that can look like nothing bothers them, And you say, Lord,
- 27:59Speaker 1: I wish I was like them. Stop praying prayers where
- 28:02Speaker 1: you wish you were more like people, Because you can't
- 28:05Speaker 1: tell what's going on inside of me by looking at
- 28:08Speaker 1: my face.
- 28:10Speaker 2: The truth of the.
- 28:11Speaker 1: Matter is I can look cool and still be frightened
- 28:16Speaker 1: out of my wits. Pharroh had absolute power. He had
- 28:22Speaker 1: no Congress, he had no sin, he had no Supreme Court,
- 28:25Speaker 1: he had nobody to check him. He could kill him.
- 28:33Speaker 1: And absolute power produces absolute terror. If I know I'm
- 28:39Speaker 1: totally at your mercy and I don't know how things
- 28:42Speaker 1: are going to end up, it's terrifying. I want to
- 28:47Speaker 1: speak to your worry. I want to speak to your fear.
- 28:50Speaker 1: I want to speak to your anxiety. I want to
- 28:53Speaker 1: speak to the thing that speaks to you when church
- 28:57Speaker 1: is over. I want to speak to the thing that's
- 29:05Speaker 1: got you up at two o'clock in the morning. I
- 29:08Speaker 1: want to speak to you about the thing that you
- 29:10Speaker 1: can't speak to other people about because it's too personal
- 29:15Speaker 1: and it's too scary and it's too dangerous and you
- 29:17Speaker 1: don't even want to talk about it. But it's chasing
- 29:20Speaker 1: you around your tank, it's chasing you around your tak fear.
- 29:28Speaker 1: I'm not about real fear. I was in South Africa.
- 29:33Speaker 1: I'm gonna get back to it in a minute. I'm
- 29:34Speaker 1: gonna talk to you. I was in South Africa and
- 29:37Speaker 1: one of the Brothers that was in South Africa. It's
- 29:39Speaker 1: scared of monkeys, and the monkeys are all over the
- 29:42Speaker 1: place in South Africa, you know, So if you're eating
- 29:44Speaker 1: breakfast out on the terrace or something like that, the
- 29:47Speaker 1: monkey is waiting on you to move because they will
- 29:51Speaker 1: come in and take your role. While before you can
- 29:54Speaker 1: put butter on it, they'll come in and take your
- 29:55Speaker 1: role and laugh at you. I thought the monkeys was cute.
- 30:00Speaker 1: He was having a spasm and he said, I'm scared
- 30:04Speaker 1: a monkey's It didn't really bother me like that because
- 30:09Speaker 1: I figured I'm bigger than the monkey, and if it
- 30:12Speaker 1: came down to it and we had to knuckle, I
- 30:18Speaker 1: know it might not be Christian, but I will fight
- 30:20Speaker 1: a monkey, especially if I'm hungry. I will flat out
- 30:26Speaker 1: punch a monkey or down on my rights to gred here,
- 30:32Speaker 1: pray for my strength of the Lord. If you're not
- 30:38Speaker 1: paying for that breakfast, put my role down.
- 30:43Speaker 2: That's where I was about it.
- 30:45Speaker 1: I would you know, y'all would have been reading about
- 30:47Speaker 1: me in the South African Telegram where you're pastor punch
- 30:52Speaker 1: down a monkey over a road. So I wasn't scared
- 30:57Speaker 1: at a monkey. I thought they were cute, But I
- 31:06Speaker 1: am scared of some things. And just because I'm not
- 31:10Speaker 1: scared of what you're scared of doesn't mean that your
- 31:13Speaker 1: fear is not real. Because everybody's scared of something. I
- 31:18Speaker 1: look like a hero in that moment, I said I'll
- 31:21Speaker 1: protect you. I saided that the monkey wasn't but that
- 31:26Speaker 1: be you know, it wasn't like it was a gorilla
- 31:29Speaker 1: or nothing like that. That would have changed I would
- 31:31Speaker 1: have took this out of the sermon. I wouldn't even
- 31:40Speaker 1: Fear does stuff to the body. Living under constant fear.
- 31:46Speaker 1: Though it is an emotion, it actually takes toll on
- 31:51Speaker 1: the body. It affects your physical health. It even weakens
- 31:57Speaker 1: your immune system, affects your digestive tract, does damage to
- 32:03Speaker 1: you cardiovascular system. Fear does stuff that doctors can detect
- 32:10Speaker 1: in the body that you have no reason to be sick,
- 32:13Speaker 1: and yet your body is responding to something that the
- 32:16Speaker 1: doctor cannot detect. They're just seeing the effects of fear
- 32:21Speaker 1: on the body. Ear to bile syndrome, all kinds of
- 32:23Speaker 1: stuff happening to you. Decrease fertility because you're a fread
- 32:27Speaker 1: because your body is taking all of your blood and
- 32:30Speaker 1: directing it toward fight or flight, increasing your sight so
- 32:36Speaker 1: you can see, and your legs so you can run.
- 32:39Speaker 1: The blood that normally feeds your body and your functions
- 32:43Speaker 1: is fleeing because you are in fight or flight mode.
- 32:52Speaker 1: So fear takes a toll on you, because our primal
- 32:56Speaker 1: instinct is to flee.
- 33:01Speaker 2: Or fight.
- 33:03Speaker 1: But fear doesn't just take a toll on your body.
- 33:05Speaker 1: It also takes a toll on your mind. They call
- 33:10Speaker 1: it a migdala hijack. It affects your mind. It hijacks everything.
- 33:15Speaker 1: Your brain perceives everything differently when you're Fred. You can't
- 33:21Speaker 1: trust your judgment. When you're Fred. You see everything that's negative.
- 33:28Speaker 1: When you're Fred. It affects. It affects everything about your decisions.
- 33:34Speaker 1: When you're Fred. We used to call it paranoia. You're
- 33:38Speaker 1: just paranoid. Is there anybody in here that's ever just
- 33:42Speaker 1: been paranoid? The vone rings in your jumps, or you
- 33:47Speaker 1: just feel like something is about to happen. My wife
- 33:49Speaker 1: describes it as if feeling like a balloon is about
- 33:53Speaker 1: full of water, it's about to bust up under over
- 33:55Speaker 1: your head, and you don't know who's got the pen
- 34:02Speaker 1: Anxiety it affects everything, and if you're up under it
- 34:07Speaker 1: long enough, it causes the brain, now hijacked, to remember
- 34:14Speaker 1: certain things like how something smelt or sight or sound,
- 34:21Speaker 1: will take you right back to that spot, so you
- 34:25Speaker 1: end up with post traumatic stress disorder. It's over, but
- 34:29Speaker 1: it's not over for you, and there are triggers that
- 34:34Speaker 1: can take you right back to that space, and you
- 34:37Speaker 1: will react off a trigger though the problem is gone.
- 34:45Speaker 1: I want you to think about that, because I think
- 34:47Speaker 1: what I'm teaching right now has destroyed more marriages and
- 34:51Speaker 1: more ministries than anything we could talk about. It's not
- 34:54Speaker 1: what's going on, it's that what is going on is
- 34:57Speaker 1: triggered something that went on. Nobody ever got the story
- 35:04Speaker 1: by hoofbeats, but the sound of the hoofbeats is a
- 35:10Speaker 1: trigger and reminds him of the abuse of four hundred years.
- 35:20Speaker 1: And Pharaoh has actually hurt nobody, but they heard him
- 35:24Speaker 1: coming and they were struck with terror. You have to
- 35:28Speaker 1: be careful. We were singing a minute ago. The devil
- 35:31Speaker 1: is a liar, and he is, but the lie can
- 35:34Speaker 1: be a trigger, and when he brings up what could happen,
- 35:39Speaker 1: and you remember something that did happen, it's almost as
- 35:42Speaker 1: if it is happening. Oh, and all of a sudden,
- 35:50Speaker 1: you overreact in the situation, and people who haven't been
- 35:53Speaker 1: through what you've been through don't understand why you are
- 35:57Speaker 1: flipping out over this situation. But it's a trigger and
- 36:06Speaker 1: you're horrified. And it doesn't always have to be a
- 36:11Speaker 1: horse coming. It can be a heartbreak, it can be
- 36:17Speaker 1: a disappointment. It can be a lost job, it can
- 36:22Speaker 1: be a lost opportunity. And all of a sudden, instead
- 36:26Speaker 1: of being rational and saying, well, I have to find
- 36:28Speaker 1: me another job, you want to kill yourself. Oh god,
- 36:32Speaker 1: my life is over. I'm cursed. That goes right, you're
- 36:34Speaker 1: your god and you just spadle them out and fall
- 36:42Speaker 1: hadn't even touched you. You just heard hook friends, and
- 36:50Speaker 1: your life, your joy, your peace, amigdala has hijacked the opportunity.
- 36:57Speaker 1: You have to be happy right now because it keeps
- 37:00Speaker 1: dragging you back into something that you are actually out of. Oh, y'all,
- 37:09Speaker 1: y'all miss that. Y'all miss that. See, the end of
- 37:12Speaker 1: the Bible said the enemy comes to kill, steal, and destroy,
- 37:16Speaker 1: and one of the things he will do is still
- 37:18Speaker 1: the piece of where you are with the threat of
- 37:21Speaker 1: where you've been, and all of a sudden, when you
- 37:24Speaker 1: hear the hump prints coming, it's not like he got you,
- 37:27Speaker 1: but it reminds you that he used to have you,
- 37:30Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, he said, if you're already dead,
- 37:36Speaker 1: now they're cursing where they're at and wishing for where
- 37:40Speaker 1: they've been, and said, why didn't you leave us in Egypt?
- 37:47Speaker 1: Why didn't you leave us where we just got through
- 37:50Speaker 1: praying to get out of because if you're not careful,
- 37:55Speaker 1: fear will cause you to be stuck at ten rather
- 37:59Speaker 1: than risk or to eleven. Oh God, who am I
- 38:02Speaker 1: talking to? I'm talking to somebody. I don't know who
- 38:04Speaker 1: I'm talking to. Somebody's getting ready to step until the
- 38:08Speaker 1: next dimension. And God is getting you ready for something,
- 38:11Speaker 1: and he needed you to hear dismissa nurture. They're gonna say,
- 38:22Speaker 1: don't get stuck because fear can paralyze you, Fear can
- 38:29Speaker 1: shut you down, fear can immobilize you, fear can make
- 38:32Speaker 1: you run everybody away, even people who were gonna help you.
- 38:36Speaker 1: But the fear that you might get hurt again. I
- 38:39Speaker 1: just get out, just got I tell stuff and get
- 38:41Speaker 1: out of here, just like my Daddy, God, get out.
- 38:46Speaker 1: I'm not going through this again all ready. And fear
- 38:51Speaker 1: can make you drive away people who are trying to
- 38:54Speaker 1: help you. And so now the Israelites are made. And
- 39:00Speaker 1: this because your perception of who's with you and who's
- 39:07Speaker 1: against you can be disrupted by fear. Fear rejection, fear
- 39:21Speaker 1: of disappointment, Fear of failure can make you not try.
- 39:28Speaker 1: Fear of fault that can make you not climb, feel
- 39:32Speaker 1: of being fear being defeated can make you not fight.
- 39:36Speaker 2: There are a lot of you.
- 39:37Speaker 1: You're not as passive as everybody thinks you are, and
- 39:40Speaker 1: you're not as apathetical as they define you to be.
- 39:43Speaker 1: It's just that you're afraid you fall. So maybe I
- 39:49Speaker 1: shouldn't climb. If I don't climb, it don't fall. If
- 39:56Speaker 1: I don't go, I won't have to go back. If
- 39:59Speaker 1: I'm a sl I wouldn't have to deal with this.
- 40:01Speaker 1: Take me back. And all of a sudden, the sights,
- 40:05Speaker 1: the sounds, the smells become triggers that make us forfeit
- 40:11Speaker 1: what God has in front of us. And yet, in
- 40:16Speaker 1: spite of all of this, in spite of what fear
- 40:19Speaker 1: has done to the mind, in spite of what fear
- 40:21Speaker 1: does to the body, In spite of all of these circumstances,
- 40:26Speaker 1: the Bible says that God is going to get some
- 40:29Speaker 1: glory out of this. Now, I want you to say
- 40:37Speaker 1: that with me. God is going to get some glory
- 40:41Speaker 1: out of this. It's about to say, here, let's do
- 40:46Speaker 1: it again. God is going to get some glory out
- 40:50Speaker 1: of this. I want you to think about whatever your
- 40:53Speaker 1: this is, whatever your catfish are, whatever your favor oh
- 40:57Speaker 1: he is, whatever that thing that kept you up at
- 40:59Speaker 1: night said again, God is gonna get some glory out
- 41:04Speaker 1: of there. Now get in thirty seconds. I'm crazy praise.
- 41:20Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah
- 41:25Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, yes, yes, yes, yes.
- 41:41Speaker 2: Yes.
- 41:47Speaker 1: See the reason I got your praising him. I'm trying
- 41:49Speaker 1: to break that paralysis. I'm trying to break that paralysis
- 41:54Speaker 1: that's got you stuck in the same spot. Buffer and
- 41:58Speaker 1: buffer and butffer and buffer and buffering, worrying, worry and worrying, upset, upset, upset.
- 42:05Speaker 2: Moon swings, moon swings, moon swag.
- 42:07Speaker 1: If you're praising, you'll break that paralysis. I'm gonna praise
- 42:26Speaker 1: until I get my family back. I'm gonna praising until
- 42:30Speaker 1: I get my courage back. I'm a praising until I
- 42:33Speaker 1: get my strength back. I'm appraising until I get my
- 42:36Speaker 1: fight back. I'm gonna praise them until I get a
- 42:38Speaker 1: sense of direction back. I'm a praising until I get
- 42:41Speaker 1: him off the floor. I'm a praising until I stand
- 42:44Speaker 1: up and start walking somebody I've been praising. That's three
- 43:03Speaker 1: people that are being blessed around you. I say, keep
- 43:05Speaker 1: it moving, keep it moving, keep it moving, keep moving,
- 43:09Speaker 1: keep it moving, keep it moving.
- 43:27Speaker 2: When you don't know what.
- 43:29Speaker 1: To do, when you don't know where to go, when
- 43:37Speaker 1: you're worried about what might happen, when the enemy is
- 43:41Speaker 1: stretting your feel hilpl when your past has trying to
- 43:45Speaker 1: overtake you. Oh my god, I feel you preaching to me.
- 43:50Speaker 1: That's boy, than I feel you preaching to me. This boy,
- 43:53Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm preaching to you, or you're
- 43:55Speaker 1: preaching to me, or maybe we're already sharpening eyes. He
- 44:00Speaker 1: is serving the gods serving Oh so Moses and said,
- 44:19Speaker 1: I'm just talking to you. I'll tell you didn't have
- 44:20Speaker 1: to get up my mom. Moses, Moses is talking to
- 44:33Speaker 1: God because sometimes you don't have nobody else to talk to.
- 44:38Speaker 1: He can't talk to Pharaoh is chasing him, and he
- 44:45Speaker 1: can't talk to Israel because I'm mad at him.
- 44:51Speaker 2: And sometimes.
- 44:54Speaker 1: In the fearful place, the worst part of the fear
- 44:58Speaker 1: is that there's nobody to talk too. And maybe I
- 45:04Speaker 1: wouldn't be so afraid if I could just talk about it.
- 45:12Speaker 1: And Moses has nobody to talk to, so he cries
- 45:19Speaker 1: out to God. The best prayer meetings come out of
- 45:26Speaker 1: the worst situations. You don't have a great prayer meeting
- 45:31Speaker 1: because it's Wednesday. You have a great prayer meeting because
- 45:35Speaker 1: all hell is breaking loose. You have a great prayer
- 45:38Speaker 1: meeting because the catfish are in your task. You have
- 45:41Speaker 1: a great prayer meeting because flavor is after your high ends.
- 45:45Speaker 1: It will make you different. I know, all your conservative,
- 45:47Speaker 1: and you're quiet, and you're just not that kind of
- 45:49Speaker 1: plession and you know, but if you get in enough trouble,
- 45:53Speaker 1: if you get enough trouble going out to you, trouble
- 45:56Speaker 1: will make you act like you've come across too, whether
- 45:59Speaker 1: you are or not. You don't have you running around
- 46:02Speaker 1: your house talking in togs that I wish I had
- 46:09Speaker 1: a witness in this class, and mother is looking up
- 46:24Speaker 1: to God like, I didn't.
- 46:26Speaker 2: Sign up for this.
- 46:28Speaker 1: Have you have a told God? I didn't sign up
- 46:30Speaker 1: for this. I didn't ask for this stuff that's happening
- 46:36Speaker 1: in my life right now. You didn't tell that I
- 46:42Speaker 1: was gonna get this school, my parents were gonna get
- 46:44Speaker 1: a divorce. I didn't sign up for this. You didn't
- 46:49Speaker 1: tell me my husband was going cheat on me. I
- 46:51Speaker 1: didn't sign up for this. You didn't tell me my
- 46:54Speaker 1: baby was gonna be born deformed. What do you do
- 47:04Speaker 1: when you find yourself in something that you didn't sign
- 47:06Speaker 1: up for because you know something I found out about God.
- 47:10Speaker 1: God is weak on details. He don't tell you all
- 47:20Speaker 1: the details. Just go down that and tell Pharaoh to
- 47:23Speaker 1: let my people go. He didn't mention he gonna try
- 47:29Speaker 1: to kill you when you do it. The little details
- 47:32Speaker 1: kind of help a brother out. I would kind of
- 47:36Speaker 1: like to know if you're gonna sign six hundred hit
- 47:39Speaker 1: men to come kill me before I get started. I
- 47:43Speaker 1: didn't sign up for this, and he looks up to God?
- 48:00Speaker 1: What am I supposed to do? The people you send
- 48:03Speaker 1: me to help, they don't even like me. The people
- 48:09Speaker 1: I'm trying to help don't like me, my own child,
- 48:16Speaker 1: don't like me, My mama, don't like me, my dad.
- 48:19Speaker 1: The people who are supposed to be on my team,
- 48:24Speaker 1: I say, I don't mind having to fight the devils,
- 48:28Speaker 1: but the people they don't. Oh, y'all ain't ready for me.
- 48:33Speaker 1: I'm done. Y'all wanted me to come home. What do
- 48:37Speaker 1: you do when the ban people that you're trying to
- 48:40Speaker 1: help don't even appreciate you. I don't mind fighting my enemis,
- 48:48Speaker 1: but I didn't want to have to fight you too.
- 49:02Speaker 1: And then God says the strange sending him. He calls
- 49:07Speaker 1: on God to help, and God does absolutely nothing. Now,
- 49:16Speaker 1: preachers don't preach about that. They preached dis sermons where
- 49:20Speaker 1: you called on the Lord and the Lord moved. I
- 49:25Speaker 1: don't really need you to tell me what to do
- 49:27Speaker 1: when I call on the Lord and the Lord moves.
- 49:30Speaker 1: I need somebody to tell me what to do when
- 49:33Speaker 1: I call on the Lord. I want to take series
- 49:43Speaker 1: on vacts. What do you know when you ask him
- 49:49Speaker 1: to heal and he doesn't, and you're asking for prosperity
- 49:55Speaker 1: and they take your call. What do you do when
- 50:01Speaker 1: things aren't turning out the way you had in mind.
- 50:07Speaker 1: I'll tell you what you do. Keep it moving. Oh,
- 50:16Speaker 1: y'alln't hear what I'm saying. You don't hear the power
- 50:20Speaker 1: of what I'm saying. You don't understand that some of
- 50:24Speaker 1: the release of the power of God can only be
- 50:27Speaker 1: released if you Yeah, if you don't keep it moving,
- 50:33Speaker 1: it's not going to work. The enemy is trying to
- 50:35Speaker 1: shut you down and leave you paraly But the Lord said,
- 50:39Speaker 1: I don't.
- 50:40Speaker 2: Care what triggers you here.
- 50:42Speaker 1: I don't care what sound you had. So God says, Moses,
- 51:01Speaker 1: tell the people to keep it moving. And God said
- 51:06Speaker 1: to me to tell you keep it moving. I know
- 51:19Speaker 1: you're scared, but keep it moving. I know the enemy
- 51:24Speaker 1: is playing your triggers, but keep it moving. I know
- 51:28Speaker 1: you don't know the outcome of this situation, but keep
- 51:31Speaker 1: it moving. I know you wish I would clear to
- 51:34Speaker 1: take all the catfish, but keep it moving. I'm God,
- 51:39Speaker 1: and I know what you need, and I know what
- 51:41Speaker 1: it takes to keep you fresh. When I know what
- 51:44Speaker 1: it takes to get the glory out of your life.
- 51:47Speaker 1: And it's my job to be God, and it's your job.
- 52:07Speaker 1: I made it all the way. I started preaching when
- 52:10Speaker 1: I was nineteen, and they said it wouldn't last two weeks,
- 52:15Speaker 1: and I made it all the way to sixty two.
- 52:24Speaker 1: I'm chasing you. I ain't got there yet, but I'm
- 52:26Speaker 1: on your heels, buddy. I'm coming out to you because
- 52:30Speaker 1: you can't go ahead if you don't keep it moving.
- 52:35Speaker 1: So I kept it moving when I was broke, and
- 52:40Speaker 1: I kept it moving when I had some money. And
- 52:44Speaker 1: I kept it moving when things were going right. And
- 52:47Speaker 1: I kept it moving when things were going bad. And
- 52:49Speaker 1: I kept it moving when I had the faith, and
- 52:52Speaker 1: I kept it moving when I was scared out of
- 52:54Speaker 1: my mind to all of it, I just I know
- 52:57Speaker 1: you scared, but keep it moving, keep it moving. What
- 53:01Speaker 1: I got planning will only work if you see. I
- 53:06Speaker 1: got something set up down the road that's gonna fix
- 53:10Speaker 1: this whole problem. But you've got to be in the
- 53:13Speaker 1: right place in order for my plan to activate. If
- 53:17Speaker 1: you stop right here, I can't get no glory out
- 53:21Speaker 1: of your life. But if you'll just keep it moving
- 53:24Speaker 1: right down the road, I got a set up for
- 53:28Speaker 1: everything that's trying to.
- 53:29Speaker 2: Attack you right now. Poor I'm reaching too.
- 53:45Speaker 1: You see. What I'm trying to get you to understand
- 53:47Speaker 1: is that if they would have stopped right there, Pharaoh
- 53:51Speaker 1: would have overtook him, he would have destroyed him. The
- 53:57Speaker 1: miracle was in the movement.
- 54:02Speaker 2: The miracle.
- 54:04Speaker 1: Was in the movements. The miracle was in the movements.
- 54:10Speaker 1: The miracle was in the movement. The miracle is in
- 54:14Speaker 1: the movement. And there's somebody this morning that the enemy
- 54:17Speaker 1: is trying to paralyze you with fear, and he's causing
- 54:21Speaker 1: all your triggers to go off. And the Lord said,
- 54:23Speaker 1: if you just keep it moving, you're gonna walk right
- 54:27Speaker 1: into the power of God. And God's gonna get the glory. See,
- 54:35Speaker 1: we always preach about what happened in the Red Sea,
- 54:38Speaker 1: but you got to get to the Red Sea in
- 54:41Speaker 1: order for that to happen. And the enemy doesn't even
- 54:44Speaker 1: want you to make it to the Red Sea. Another thing,
- 54:59Speaker 1: the other reason and God didn't say anything, is that
- 55:03Speaker 1: he wanted Moses to discover what was in his hand.
- 55:16Speaker 1: God didn't need to do anything else because he had
- 55:20Speaker 1: already equipped Moses for where he was at this stage
- 55:25Speaker 1: in his life. And I don't know who I'm preaching to,
- 55:29Speaker 1: but God has already equipped.
- 55:31Speaker 2: You, and his grace is sufficient.
- 55:39Speaker 1: Somebody talked to me this morning.
- 55:41Speaker 2: His grace.
- 55:44Speaker 1: I know it's painful, but his grace is sufficient. I
- 55:48Speaker 1: know your crying all night, Lord, but his grace is sufficient.
- 55:57Speaker 1: I already put enough stuff in your hand that if
- 56:03Speaker 1: you learn to use what I gave you, no weapon
- 56:10Speaker 1: formed against you, she'll be able to profer. In fact,
- 56:17Speaker 1: I set this up so you could see what you got.
- 56:25Speaker 1: I heartened his heart so you could see what you got.
- 56:29Speaker 1: I made him chase you so you could see what
- 56:32Speaker 1: you got. I sent him after you so you would
- 56:36Speaker 1: stay test. What I'm trying to say is that Pharah
- 56:46Speaker 1: is your catfish, and God put him in the tape.
- 56:57Speaker 1: The devil didn't put him in the tape. The Bible
- 57:00Speaker 1: doesn't say that the devil said. Fah, it said the
- 57:05Speaker 1: Lord hardened Pharaoh's heart. You'll never know what you got
- 57:16Speaker 1: until God puts catfish in your tail. You'll never know
- 57:21Speaker 1: what you got until Pharaoh comes after you. And everything
- 57:27Speaker 1: in your head told you. You don't think right when
- 57:29Speaker 1: you're scared, says, go back to something that you're trying
- 57:34Speaker 1: to get out of us, because it don't seem like
- 57:39Speaker 1: this church thing is working. This Jesus thing ain't working
- 57:50Speaker 1: out for me right now. The Lost in my house,
- 57:54Speaker 1: had to move back here with my mama. This is
- 57:56Speaker 1: Jesus thing. It don't see this tithing thing, it ain't
- 58:00Speaker 1: It ain't working for me. This this praying thing, this
- 58:07Speaker 1: living for Jesus' stuff. My husband left me because I
- 58:13Speaker 1: was living for Jesus. It seemed like the people in
- 58:21Speaker 1: the world were nicer than the people. And so all
- 58:34Speaker 1: God says to Moses is to tell the people to
- 58:38Speaker 1: keep it moving and use what you got. If you
- 58:48Speaker 1: use what I gave you, you will find that it
- 58:52Speaker 1: is more than what you thought. You thought. I gave
- 59:00Speaker 1: you this stick so when you got tired, you could
- 59:03Speaker 1: lean on it. But there are tricks in your stick. Surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise.
- 59:25Speaker 1: I dispised my power in ordinary things so that in
- 59:30Speaker 1: the time of trouble, the enemy won't even know what
- 59:35Speaker 1: hit him. But if you stretch forth whatso, Yeah, I
- 59:40Speaker 1: don't know touch a neighbors say I got something. I
- 59:45Speaker 1: know it don't look like much, but I got something. Yeah.
- 59:48Speaker 1: I know it don't look dangerous, but I got something.
- 59:52Speaker 1: If you won't tut up your chariots, at least let
- 59:55Speaker 1: me brag about my stick. I got something that God
- 59:59Speaker 1: gave me that would I'll last all of your ship.
- 1:00:10Speaker 1: Slap your nigh and say, there's tricks in your stick.
- 1:00:15Speaker 1: Don't give it up, don't throw it away, don't cast
- 1:00:17Speaker 1: it aside, don't count it out, don't give it up
- 1:00:20Speaker 1: as trivial, because God will put tricks in your stick.
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: If it would have looked like a weapon, the enemy
- 1:00:40Speaker 1: would have took it. But God will I not fulfil
- 1:00:50Speaker 1: like creature. Over here, Jessy, where I started reading the Bible,
- 1:01:06Speaker 1: and almost every miracle in the Bible came out of
- 1:01:10Speaker 1: something that they already had a handful of meal, a
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: pot of oil, two fish and five blows of bread,
- 1:01:23Speaker 1: a rag and a rock. How let Louyah to jump,
- 1:01:28Speaker 1: How let Louyah the coup, Let Louyah the collar. You're
- 1:01:34Speaker 1: not in this thing by yourself. You're not in it
- 1:01:37Speaker 1: by yourself. In fact, it is Pharoh chasing you that
- 1:01:51Speaker 1: activates the tricks in your stick. Now keep it moving,
- 1:02:00Speaker 1: and when you get to the right spot, stretch out
- 1:02:04Speaker 1: what I gave you. And the Bible said that when
- 1:02:11Speaker 1: Moses stretched out is wrong, that the rat sea got
- 1:02:18Speaker 1: up and started walking hither and thither to quote it, exactly.
- 1:02:27Speaker 1: God sent a strong wind to blow back the Rat
- 1:02:32Speaker 1: Sea so the children of Israel could walk false. And
- 1:02:38Speaker 1: not only did he let him go through it, he
- 1:02:41Speaker 1: didn't even let him get muddy. The bibe a side.
- 1:02:52Speaker 2: That they walked through.
- 1:02:54Speaker 1: Oh dry, right, whoever I'm preaching to, I said, you're gonna.
- 1:03:01Speaker 2: Go through it dry drive. They'll a dry drown pray.
- 1:03:30Speaker 1: And you would never in trouble anyway, because if you
- 1:03:34Speaker 1: read the text, the closer they got to the Red Sea,
- 1:03:40Speaker 1: the Bible says a god sid an angel to get
- 1:03:43Speaker 1: behind them, so fair Ah couldn't have gotten them anyway,
- 1:03:52Speaker 1: because God's already got you coming slap your neighbor's side
- 1:04:03Speaker 1: got back up. I'm not in it by myself. I'm
- 1:04:12Speaker 1: not fighting by myself. I'm not living by myself. I'm
- 1:04:18Speaker 1: not preaching it by myself. So my brothers and my sisters,
- 1:04:34Speaker 1: Party's house family. When the winds came and blew back
- 1:04:41Speaker 1: the Red Sea, and they stepped down into the seabed,
- 1:04:50Speaker 1: walking on dry ground. They were walking in between two
- 1:04:56Speaker 1: walls of water. Now picture that with me. God has
- 1:05:03Speaker 1: made away. But even the way he made it's scary
- 1:05:13Speaker 1: because I got my baby in this water. I got
- 1:05:16Speaker 1: my mama in this water. I got my grandmama in
- 1:05:20Speaker 1: this water. I got my children in this water. And
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: then the wall on this side, and there's the wall
- 1:05:27Speaker 1: on that side. And if they crash in, they're gonna
- 1:05:31Speaker 1: kill me. So whatever be time, I gotta keep it moving.
- 1:05:39Speaker 1: Slap your neighbor and say, keep it bulling. This is
- 1:05:54Speaker 1: what I want you to see it. I'm almost finished.
- 1:05:58Speaker 1: Even when God makes a way, it's scary. Even when
- 1:06:07Speaker 1: God performs a miracle. The miracle is now when we
- 1:06:16Speaker 1: read about it and we preach about it, we shout
- 1:06:19Speaker 1: about it. But if you were walking through with your
- 1:06:23Speaker 1: children through two walls of water so high you can't
- 1:06:28Speaker 1: see over them, and you don't see nothing holding it up,
- 1:06:35Speaker 1: but you're making it. I want to talk to somebody
- 1:06:41Speaker 1: that's going through something right now. You don't see nothing
- 1:06:44Speaker 1: holding it up, and your finances don't work out on paper.
- 1:06:52Speaker 1: It don't make no sense that you're still here, but
- 1:06:57Speaker 1: something is holding it up. Wow.
- 1:07:04Speaker 2: And the Lord.
- 1:07:08Speaker 1: Told Moses, tell the people keep it moving, and the
- 1:07:15Speaker 1: wind held up the water to the last Israelite had
- 1:07:30Speaker 1: crossed over. Later in the New Testament, Paul, when he
- 1:07:33Speaker 1: preaches in Corinth would call it baptism. Said they were
- 1:07:37Speaker 1: baptized on to Moses in the cloud and in the sea.
- 1:07:41Speaker 1: That means they went in one way and they came
- 1:07:43Speaker 1: out another. They stepped in slaves, but they came out sons.
- 1:07:52Speaker 1: They stepped in as runaways, but they came out as
- 1:07:55Speaker 1: a nascon. You, who were not a people, became a people.
- 1:08:06Speaker 1: Then he says to Moses, close it up, and the
- 1:08:16Speaker 1: same rod. This is the dual nature of God. The
- 1:08:28Speaker 1: same God that opens doors close his doors. The funny
- 1:08:37Speaker 1: thing about it was when he opened the way, they
- 1:08:41Speaker 1: didn't shout. See we always shout when God makes the way,
- 1:08:53Speaker 1: but the Bible said that they didn't shout until God
- 1:08:58Speaker 1: shut the door. I need to take a moment and
- 1:09:04Speaker 1: thinking for the doors he shut.
- 1:09:15Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yes, yes, I want to think it.
- 1:09:24Speaker 1: For the doors he shut, for the job I didn't do,
- 1:09:30Speaker 1: for the business that didn't want out, for the girl
- 1:09:34Speaker 1: I didn't marry it. Thank you Lord for the door
- 1:09:39Speaker 1: you shut. If I'd have got it, it would have
- 1:09:43Speaker 1: killed me. Thank you Lord for shut shut, shut shut
- 1:09:49Speaker 1: the dog. When God shut the door, the enemy that
- 1:10:07Speaker 1: was chasing them drown in the red Sea. But not
- 1:10:15Speaker 1: only did he drown the enemy, he drowned any potential
- 1:10:21Speaker 1: the enemy had to pursue them any further. So the
- 1:10:26Speaker 1: Bible say, the enemies that you see today, you shall
- 1:10:34Speaker 1: see them, y'all do him, y'all know him, y'all don't
- 1:10:54Speaker 1: hear me.
- 1:10:55Speaker 2: There's some stuff you had to fight with that God's
- 1:10:59Speaker 2: had you, sir, see them no more? Tell you the
- 1:11:05Speaker 2: crazy dad you the more I want you to move.
- 1:11:32Speaker 1: I look where you are and to seven people that say.
- 1:11:35Speaker 2: No more, no more, no more, no more, booze, no
- 1:11:43Speaker 2: more chee the movie no mo you s seeing no
- 1:11:49Speaker 2: more you so fighting?
- 1:11:51Speaker 1: No more?
- 1:11:52Speaker 2: You sall having no more?
- 1:11:59Speaker 1: Je me something home, no stud, take me to church.
- 1:12:02Speaker 1: I'm really kind of thank afie.
- 1:12:30Speaker 2: No more, no.
- 1:12:35Speaker 1: No more, no on. So Mariam driving the tabarine, I
- 1:12:49Speaker 1: begin to beat that thing to the glorious.
- 1:12:52Speaker 2: God for favor.
- 1:12:54Speaker 1: And his armies got drowned in the red sea. So
- 1:13:00Speaker 1: it puts your hands together and just God sur face
- 1:13:22Speaker 1: no more, no more, no more. Get it in your spirit,
- 1:13:29Speaker 1: get it in your mind, get it in your mouth,
- 1:13:32Speaker 1: get it in your heart. No more. I tell you,
- 1:14:20Speaker 1: if the enemy has been out to you, and you've
- 1:14:24Speaker 1: been up under attack. I dare you to take just
- 1:14:28Speaker 1: a minute and thank God like he's drowned in it
- 1:14:32Speaker 1: in the red seat. I dare you to drown to
- 1:14:36Speaker 1: him in a phrase and tell the devil dobot no no, no.
- 1:15:02Speaker 2: No whoop.
- 1:15:21Speaker 1: Jim him a place, I said, give him a place.
- 1:15:32Speaker 1: If you know how to place, just try to place.
- 1:15:37Speaker 2: A price, a price compris jip a lot of place?
- 1:15:49Speaker 2: You how me blank you today? Do you give me being?
- 1:15:57Speaker 1: No more?
- 1:15:59Speaker 2: Do you see them?
- 1:16:28Speaker 1: I hear the sound of victory in the house. Some
- 1:16:39Speaker 1: people think that praising God like that is a denominational thing.
- 1:16:46Speaker 1: Maybe it's a Pentecostal thing, maybe it's an ethnic thing.
- 1:16:52Speaker 1: But the Bible said that the children of Israel got
- 1:16:56Speaker 1: tambourines and start beating them at the Red Sea, and
- 1:17:01Speaker 1: they started dancing in the presence of God. And while
- 1:17:06Speaker 1: they were dancing, the devils were drowning. So there are
- 1:17:20Speaker 1: three reasons I'll say this and I'm out. There are
- 1:17:24Speaker 1: three reasons that he closed the Red Sea. One was
- 1:17:30Speaker 1: to drown the present danger. Two was to drown the
- 1:17:38Speaker 1: potential of the danger continuing. But the third one to
- 1:17:44Speaker 1: me is the most important one. When he closed the
- 1:17:48Speaker 1: Red Sea. He drowned any potential they had of ever
- 1:17:53Speaker 1: going back. No matter whatever they had to deal with
- 1:18:07Speaker 1: the rest of the journey, going back was off the
- 1:18:10Speaker 1: table because God had shut down the Red Sea. Joint hands.
- 1:18:20Speaker 1: When somebody leave no one untouched, span the house, leave
- 1:18:30Speaker 1: no one untouched except somebody who don't want to be touched,
- 1:18:35Speaker 1: leave them alone. Thank you, Thank you. My wife and
- 1:19:08Speaker 1: I been married thirty eight years. We had good days
- 1:19:17Speaker 1: and bad days. We had happy days and crime days.
- 1:19:22Speaker 1: We had nervous days and scared days. We didn't eat
- 1:19:26Speaker 1: it up in years, we ate it up in days.
- 1:19:29Speaker 1: The trick to being married thirty eight years is to
- 1:19:32Speaker 1: keep it moving. You look around and it's thirty eight years.
- 1:19:38Speaker 1: You look around, and you've been married fifty years. You
- 1:19:41Speaker 1: look around. If you just keep it moving, Yeah, squeeze
- 1:19:46Speaker 1: at hand, because the person you're touching is got some things.
- 1:19:51Speaker 1: They're scared of us. And God sent this message to
- 1:20:04Speaker 1: them today because they've been in positions where they didn't
- 1:20:09Speaker 1: know what to do. The triggers that upset them, they
- 1:20:21Speaker 1: can smell them, or see them or hear them. Approach it,
- 1:20:28Speaker 1: and this is a prophetic word in their life. Lord
- 1:20:33Speaker 1: that all you have to do to get the victory
- 1:20:37Speaker 1: is keep it moving. Squeeze that hand. God is going
- 1:20:50Speaker 1: to drown any potential you had of going back to
- 1:20:56Speaker 1: being who you were. You will never be that again.
- 1:21:15Speaker 1: You will never go through that again. You might have
- 1:21:21Speaker 1: to fight something else, but you will never have to
- 1:21:23Speaker 1: fight that again. Lord, this Sunday morning, I speak to trauma.
- 1:21:46Speaker 1: This Sunday morning, I speak to triggers. There are some
- 1:21:57Speaker 1: traumas that we have been through, and some we might
- 1:22:01Speaker 1: be going through that were meant to paralyze us, but
- 1:22:09Speaker 1: we will not be paralyzed. There are some triggers that
- 1:22:13Speaker 1: when they come up, we react in predictable ways because
- 1:22:17Speaker 1: of the traumas. But this day I pronounce those triggers
- 1:22:23Speaker 1: are defeated. And I thank you Lord because you allow
- 1:22:37Speaker 1: these things to happen to keep my prayer life fresh.
- 1:22:44Speaker 1: Not only will I be delivered, but I'll be fresh
- 1:22:47Speaker 1: when I get there. Most of all, we thank you
- 1:22:54Speaker 1: Lord because you shut the door on any possibility of
- 1:23:01Speaker 1: me going back.
- 1:23:08Speaker 2: To who or what or how.
- 1:23:12Speaker 1: I used to be. And so as I stand in
- 1:23:16Speaker 1: this church this morning, I rebuke the terror, the terrorsts
- 1:23:30Speaker 1: we don't talk about. I rebuke the terrorists we don't
- 1:23:37Speaker 1: tell about the terrorists that threaten us and discombobulate us,
- 1:23:46Speaker 1: make us hard to get along with because it looks
- 1:23:50Speaker 1: like we're evil, but really we're scared. Squeeze that hand.
- 1:23:56Speaker 1: I pray that every believer in this room would know
- 1:23:59Speaker 1: that they are not alone. That God sent an angel
- 1:24:06Speaker 1: in between you and what you're afraid of. Glory. This
- 1:24:22Speaker 1: is what signs would call a controlled experiment. That God
- 1:24:28Speaker 1: has not lost control of your situation, in spite of
- 1:24:33Speaker 1: the hoof Prince, in spite of the sound, in spite
- 1:24:38Speaker 1: of how you feel that your feelings cannot be trusted.
- 1:24:44Speaker 1: Your feelings are reacting to pass trauma. Regardless to how
- 1:24:51Speaker 1: you feel, Lord, I pray that they would just keep
- 1:24:54Speaker 1: it moving. That the victory is in the movement, The
- 1:25:01Speaker 1: miracle is in the movement, The provision is in the movement.
- 1:25:06Speaker 1: The grace is in the movement. Hallelujah. The answer is
- 1:25:12Speaker 1: in the movement. The new door is in the movement.
- 1:25:17Speaker 1: The promised Land is in the movement. The prophecy is
- 1:25:21Speaker 1: in the movement. I thank you, Lord. I'm not gonna
- 1:25:25Speaker 1: have to spend the rest of my life looking back
- 1:25:27Speaker 1: over my shoulder, because you're gonna settle these chariots right here,
- 1:25:31Speaker 1: how you're gonna fix these horses right now. You're gonna
- 1:25:36Speaker 1: shut down this situation. You're gonna shut it down. I'm
- 1:25:41Speaker 1: not gonna be up every night the person you're touching
- 1:25:55Speaker 1: right now, God is shutting down things, gonna drown them
- 1:26:00Speaker 1: till you see them drown, the Bible said. The dead
- 1:26:04Speaker 1: bodies were all up on the side of the bank,
- 1:26:07Speaker 1: and Maryam started dancing over top of them because she
- 1:26:10Speaker 1: saw the enemy destroyed. And I rebuke the spirit of fear.
- 1:26:22Speaker 1: I rebuke the paralysis. I rebuke the anxiety. I rebuke
- 1:26:28Speaker 1: the physical manifestations of your stress, the rashes, the diseases,
- 1:26:36Speaker 1: the dysfunctions, the disorder in your body, in your bowels,
- 1:26:42Speaker 1: in your stomach, in your heart, in your corniovascular system,
- 1:26:48Speaker 1: in your behavior, in your sleep patterns. I rebuke it now.
- 1:26:55Speaker 1: I rebuke it now. I rebuke it now. I rebuke
- 1:27:00Speaker 1: it now. And your cognitive functions, your brain, your memory,
- 1:27:09Speaker 1: your emotions, I rebuke it now. Years of being in stressed,
- 1:27:13Speaker 1: the enemies we're controlling, I rebuke it now, physical infirmities,
- 1:27:19Speaker 1: emotionally infirmities. I rebuke it now now, Lord, restoring us
- 1:27:29Speaker 1: the joys of our salvation, and we give you praise
- 1:27:33Speaker 1: for it in Jesus' name. Give him all the praise
- 1:27:38Speaker 1: you got