Latest / Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE / Keep the Peace - Bishop T.D. Jakes

Transcript

Keep the Peace - Bishop T.D. Jakes · Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE

• 0:11
  Speaker 1: So we're in the fourth chapter of the book of Philippians,
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: and it is very interesting. I have had a very
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: interesting day today. I interviewed a young lady named Nicole Avant.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: Her father was known as the godfather of He had
• 0:29
  Speaker 1: done so many amazing things, Mr. Avant, in the area
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: of music. And she herself has done quite a lot,
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: his daughter, in the area of production. And she, in
• 0:40
  Speaker 1: the middle of the night, got a phone call. You'll
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: hear the interview. It's going to be on YouTube. Telling
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: her that her mother had been murdered. And it was
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: all over the news. The Jacqueline Avant story. had been murdered.
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: You can imagine how difficult it was, how shocking it
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: was for this family who were like black royalty to
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: find themselves suddenly thrust into the spotlight in a chaotic
• 1:14
  Speaker 1: way and couldn't even grieve properly because there was an
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: investigation and court sessions and all of the things that
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: go along with murder. And the last words her mother
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: wrote to her was, think you'll be happy. Think you'll
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: be happy. She just wrote a book called Think You'll
• 1:36
  Speaker 1: Be Happy. And it's just powerful. Then the Ad Council
• 1:41
  Speaker 1: asked me to help them coordinate something on mental health.
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: And we did that. And it's out there on YouTube
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: as well. So my mind went to the scriptures. thinking
• 1:57
  Speaker 1: about peace. Yeah, thinking about peace. The times we're in,
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: the season we're in, where happiness is advertised to us.
• 2:19
  Speaker 1: Romantic fireplaces lit up. couples laying on bare skin rugs,
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: celebrating their holidays with Chablis and caviar. And your rent
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: is two months backed up. And you're hugging a 10-year-old pillow.
• 2:44
  Speaker 1: And sometimes it's hard to be happy and to have
• 2:47
  Speaker 1: peace because you have trouble And you think everybody got
• 2:52
  Speaker 1: something you didn't get. Am I right? So it can
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: be difficult. You got a family coming over and the
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: other side is coming. And you got to get your
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: mind ready. Because you know you got that one cousin
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: that's going to say something. I don't care what you do.
• 3:15
  Speaker 1: These green beans ain't right. They don't taste right. They
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: don't care what you do. And all of a sudden,
• 3:23
  Speaker 1: but isn't that a lot of power to give a
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: person to let them steal your peace? One day, one holiday,
• 3:37
  Speaker 1: one moment, steal your peace. A holiday that the world
• 3:42
  Speaker 1: didn't even have it. Most countries don't even celebrate Thanksgiving
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: and it will steal peace. your peace. A commercial you saw,
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: something on Instagram, and it stole your peace. Somebody doesn't
• 3:58
  Speaker 1: like you, and it stole your peace, even if they're
• 4:03
  Speaker 1: related to you. I love you, but I cannot let
• 4:10
  Speaker 1: you steal my peace. So tonight we're going to learn
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: how to keep the peace. Look at somebody and say,
• 4:19
  Speaker 1: keep the peace. Begin at verse four and let's study
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: the word of God tonight. I'm still in the vein
• 4:29
  Speaker 1: of studying the word of God that we might grow thereby.
• 4:32
  Speaker 1: Rejoice in the Lord always. Delight. Take pleasure in him again.
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: I will say rejoice. Let your, now listen how he
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: describes you. Let your gentle spirit your graciousness, unselfishness, mercy, tolerance,
• 4:58
  Speaker 1: and patience be known to all people. Look at your
• 5:02
  Speaker 1: neighbor and say, is that you? I mean, in a
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: society that rewards you for being hard, tough, mean, quick-witted,
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: outspoken is that you your gentle let let let let
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: your gentle spirit let that means you have an option
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: let your gentle spirit your graciousness unselfishness mercy tolerance and
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: patience be known to all people not just your people
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: I got people yeah but them other people uh-huh and
• 5:47
  Speaker 1: then he almost comes off of this gentle challenge with
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: a warning. The Lord is near. Can you feel it?
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: The Lord is near. So if you're going to let
• 6:07
  Speaker 1: your gentle spirit out, you're going to have to make
• 6:11
  Speaker 1: a decision to be gracious. You can't afford to let
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: somebody set you off right now you can't afford to
• 6:29
  Speaker 1: be merciless full of gossip you cannot fill your head
• 6:37
  Speaker 1: with trash and then pray for treasure oh yeah we
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: already into it it's gonna be good And then he
• 6:50
  Speaker 1: warns us, don't be anxious or worried about anything, but
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: in everything, every circumstance and situation, by prayer and petition,
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: with thanksgiving. Wait, wait, wait, Paul, this can't be right.
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: This can't be right. in every circumstance and situation, I'm
• 7:21
  Speaker 1: supposed to have a problem I'm praying about and be
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: petitioning God and do it with thanksgiving. So I can't pout.
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: I can't fall out and kick. I can't walk around
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: and let everybody know I'm just not feeling you today.
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: That's what's wrong. Don't roll up on me because if
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: you roll up on me, you're going to limp back
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: because I gotta pray and have a spirit of thanksgiving
• 7:56
  Speaker 1: continue to make your requests specific requests specific don't just
• 8:04
  Speaker 1: pray God bless me God bless me how God bless
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: her how specific requests known to God and the The
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: peace of God. That peace which reassures the heart. That
• 8:24
  Speaker 1: peace which transcends all understanding. That peace which stands guard
• 8:34
  Speaker 1: over your heart and your mind in Christ Jesus is yours. Finally, believers,
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: Whatever is true, whatever is true, stop lying to yourself.
• 8:59
  Speaker 1: This is a pathway to peace. Whatever is true, whatever
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: is honorable and worthy of respect, whatever is right and
• 9:09
  Speaker 1: confirmed by God's word, whatever is pure and and wholesome,
• 9:12
  Speaker 1: whatever is lovely and brings peace, whatever is admirable and
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: of good repute. If there is any excellence, if there
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: is anything worthy of praise, think continually on these things.
• 9:28
  Speaker 1: He didn't say there weren't other things going on. But
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: train your mind to think on whatever is true, whatever
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: is honorable, whatever is worthy of respect, whatever is right,
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: whatever is of God's word, whatever is pure, whatever is wholesome,
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: whatever is lovely and brings peace. That's why you can't
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: sleep at night because you're laying in the bed thinking
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: about what's wrong. But God says, I want you to
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: train your mind to focus on whatever is admirable and
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: of good repute. And if there is any excellence, if
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: there is anything worthy of praise, think continually on these things.
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: Center your mind, your mind, your mind, put your mind,
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: put your mind on them and implant them in your life.
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: heart the things which you have learned and received and
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: heard and seen in me practice practice practice I didn't
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: know we could do that I didn't know we could
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: practice these things in daily life and the God who
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: is the source of peace and well-being will be With you.
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: Somebody shout amen. Father, as we go into the word
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: of God tonight, let the word of God go into us.
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: As we go into the word of God, let the
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: word of God go into us. As we learn the
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: word of God, let us practice what we are learning tonight.
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: That it might be seen, for we are the only
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: Bible many people will ever read. I thank you in
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: advance for what you're about to do. Have your way
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: in this place. In Jesus' name we pray. Somebody shout amen.
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: You may be seated. Chill. Relax. Take a load off.
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: When we start talking, and there is a couple of
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: ground rules that I need to be sure that you know,
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: that most of you know, some of you know, but
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: somebody might not know, that God formed man from the
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: dust of the earth. from the ground so we're made
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: out of dirt so don't try to pass yourself off
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: as being more than you are you're a dirt bag
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: that's all you can be according to scriptures you're a
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: dirt bag in a suit a dirt bag in blue
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: jeans a dirt bag a bald head A dirt bag
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: with a clergy collar on. You're made out of dirt.
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: That's what you're made out of. That's why you have
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: to bathe all the time because the dirt comes out.
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: You're made out of dirt. God formed man out of
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: the dust of the earth and breathed into him. He
• 12:33
  Speaker 1: breathed into him the breath of life. The breath of
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: the Lord is spirit. It's spirit. In the Greek it's pneuma.
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: That's why when you get sick and can't breathe, they
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: tell you you got pneumonia. So spirit in the Greek
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: is pneuma. He breathed into him the breath of lives.
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: In the Hebrew is zoe. He gave him the breath
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: of lives and he became a living soul. The soul
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: in Hebrew is nephesh. He became conscious, aware. What we
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: call alive is to be aware. So I am triune
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: in the sense I live in a body. I am
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: a spirit and I have a soul. Okay, stay with me.
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: I'm going somewhere. My body tells me when it's cold.
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: My body tells me when the wind is blowing. My
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: body body tells me all the experiences I have without
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: external circumstances I am informed by my body because in
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: my body I have world consciousness in my spirit I
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: have God consciousness God is a spirit and they that
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: So I approach God in my spirit. If I'm a Christian,
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: I'm born again in my spirit. If any man be
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: in Christ, he is a new creation. But I still
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: got a corn and I still got a bunion. So
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: he didn't recreate my feet. So if I was bowlegged
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: before I got saved, I'm bowlegged after I got saved.
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: He didn't change my legs, my bones, my skeletal frame
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: or structure. Okay, so in my body I have world consciousness.
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: In my spirit I have God consciousness. And my spirit
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: is born again. It's together. It's good. I'm not being saved.
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: I am saved. I have eternal life. I've been delivered.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: Except in my mind. In my soul, I have self-consciousness.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: And that's an interesting bag too. So in my soul,
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: I have self-consciousness. That's where my memories, affections, appetites, disappointments, scars,
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: wounds live in my soul. In my soul. I am,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: Jesus says, I am exceedingly sorrowful. Those are emotions. We
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: have emotions in my soul. Oh gosh, Lord at the emotions,
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: regulating the emotions. My soul is not emotions, but it
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: houses emotions. So all of my emotions, memories, good or bad,
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: all live in my soul. The word soul in the
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: Greek is where we get psyche, where we get the
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: word psychology, where we get mind. Let's see what's in there.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Aren't you glad? Now, it's just me and you here
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: so we can talk, okay? Aren't you glad that God
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: didn't put your mind on loudspeakers? At any given place,
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: even in a place like this, I still wouldn't want
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: my mind to be miked. Not even in church. Not
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: even in church, I wouldn't want my mind to be miked.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Because at any given moment, my mind will be thinking
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: something that I'm glad I can keep it to myself. Yeah,
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: I want to keep it to myself. I want to
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: keep it to myself. I'll deal with it. I'm going
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: to deal with it. I'm going to rebuke it. I'm
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: going to bind it. I'm going to plead the blood
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: on it. But I don't want you to hear me
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: wrestling with myself about myself because my self is just,
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: it's a ball of confusion. Of all parts of me,
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: that God would want to use, the Bible said it
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: is with the mind that we serve the Lord. It
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: is with the mind that we serve. No, that ain't it.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: It is when you get through dancing, it is with
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: the mind that we serve the Lord. So if I
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: was Satan and I was going to attack you anywhere,
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: it would be in the mind. Because if your mind
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: is up under attack, then your service is up under attack.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Then you respond under attack. Then you snap at people.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: And there is a constant battle because God wants your
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: mind to be changed And the enemy wants your mind
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: to be stuck. It doesn't matter how old you get
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: if you don't get better. It doesn't matter how many
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: scriptures you quote if you don't get better. And if
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: I'm going to get better, I have to get better
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: in my mind because that's my consciousness. I have to
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: live in here. I have to live in here. I
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: have to process in here. And as long as I
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: have self-consciousness, I'm alive. Because when I lose self-consciousness, they
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: don't want me anymore. I don't care how much you're
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: in love with me. If I lose self-consciousness, if my
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: soul goes and all that's left is my body, we
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: bury it. Because as many times as I hugged you,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I wasn't really hugging you when I touched your body.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: What I was hugging was what came out of your soul.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I love your soul. I might express it with my body,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: but I love your soul. I love your essence, who
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: you are on the inside. We show up in the
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: world from a soulish perspective. perspective. The mother who made
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: mistakes for 20 years, now more seasoned and more mature,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: same mother comes back to the daughter wiser and says,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: I know I said some things that may have hurt you,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: but I may look the same, but I'm not the same.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: I've been changed in my soul. Changing my soul is
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: a difficult process. Changing my hair is easy. I'm bald-headed,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: but I can change it. Yeah, I got a few quarters.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: I can go down there and have dreadlocks if I
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: want them. You know what I'm saying? I got big
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: old jaws. I was born with big jaws. I can
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: change them. I can take this off my jaws and
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: put it back in the mood. stuff around but I'm
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: still me because moving things around from place to place
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: I mean I ain't gonna look at nobody cause y'all
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: all that stuff been moved around but you still you
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: didn't marry the container you married the content So people
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: are attracted to the box, but they go home with
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: the product. Okay. So you can change the container, but
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: if you don't change the content, I show up and
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: experience the world based on the healthiness of my soul.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: The CVS of the day. They don't have anything for
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: my David said, no man cared for my soul. They
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: wanted my money. They wanted my body. They wanted my time.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: They wanted my attention. They wanted my influence. They wanted
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: my affluence. No man cared for my soul. We're going
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: to get into some stuff tonight. I got you listening.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: I like my church quiet. My church is at its
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: best when it's quiet. Because when you're quiet, you're thinking.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: When you're shouting, you're responding. When you're quiet, you're thinking.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: How healthy is your soul? You fine. You fine. You fine.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: I give it to you.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: How fine is your soul? How healthy are you in
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: your thought life? Let's talk about it tonight.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Romans 12, one through three and look
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: at it for just a moment. Here, Paul is writing
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: to the church at Rome. The church at Rome will
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: become very, very important because the epicenter of spirituality is
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: has been in Jerusalem, but it's about to shift to Rome.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: And so it's very important that Rome be rooted and
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: grounded because Christianity thrived in Rome, not in Jerusalem. It
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: was birthed in Jerusalem, but it did not strive till
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: it got to Rome. So you had the Roman Catholic Church,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: and out of that you had Martin Luther and the
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: 96 Theses and the Protestant movement, protest, And everything Protestant, Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: whatever you want to call yourself, Lutheran, all was in protest. Protestant, Protestant,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Protestant church comes out of Rome. It all comes out
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: of Rome. So the letter written to Rome is extremely important.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: And Paul who speaks, who is a citizen of Rome,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: but is of the tribe of Benjamin and is a
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Hebrew by birth, is sent to Rome, which is largely Gentiles,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: to minister to them. And Paul is of the upper
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: echelon of Rome. He has influence. He is known by
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: the dignitaries. He is sought after as a scholar, a thinker,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: a theologian. He is mighty. And here in Romans 12
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: and 1, this man who spoke, in several different languages,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: starts this text out on his knees saying, I beseech you.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: I beseech you. I beg you, brethren, by the mercy,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: beseech means to beg, by the mercies of God, that
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: which is your reasonable service. Come on. And do not
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: be conformed to this world. Now, let's go into this.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Do not be conformed to this world. Do not be
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: conformed to this world. Yes. Do not be conformed to
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: your world. In other words, don't let what you're going
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: through get to you. When Jesus was asleep on the
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: bow of the ship, when Jesus was asleep in the
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: bottom of the ship and the storm was raging around
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: the ship and Peter gets flustered and Peter lets the
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: storm that's on the outside get on the inside till
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: he doubts the sleeping Jesus. The sleeping Jesus in the
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: middle of a hurricane is a picture of the peace
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: of God. That God can go through storms and snore.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: is indicative of how strong his peace is. He is
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: not conformed to the weather. He does not react to
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: the climate. He does not respond to external circumstances. Jesus
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: is the only one asleep on the boat. Peter goes
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: down there, knocks on the door, says, get up, Jesus,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: carest thou not that we perish?
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Shh.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: And Jesus gets up and rebukes the winds and the waves,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: wipes sleep out of his eye and says, oh ye
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: of little faith. What did he do wrong? His emotions
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: conformed to his environment. I'm just not happy. I thought
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: I'd be married by now. So you're going to delay
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: your peace forever. Waiting on Mary. Oh, excuse me. I'm
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: not happy because I am Mary. So you're going to
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: let your spouse have your peace. The storm on the
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: outside has gotten on the inside. That's what makes boats sink.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Clearly the storm had not gotten on the inside lest
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Jesus would have been wet. And if Jesus would have
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: been wet, he would have been woke. So we have
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: a dry Jesus in a hurricane. Asleep on a pillow.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: I don't care how deeply you sleep. If I turn
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: the shower on you, you're going to wake up. We
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: have a sleep Jesus and a wet boat. The boat
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: is wet on the outside, but dry enough on the
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: inside that Jesus is asleep and Peter is panicked because
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: the storm that's on the outside has gotten in his soul.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: So the sleepy Jesus wakes up and says to Peter,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: O ye of little faith, He rebukes not only the
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: winds and the waves, he rebukes Peter because Peter has
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: let the external become internal. Watch this. So when we
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: read this text, do not be conformed to this world.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: It means more than that. whether you listen at hip
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: hop or not, or whether you keep up with the
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: latest fashions or not, or all the things that we
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: take it to mean, it may mean that. It means
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: more than acquiescing to the culture. It may mean that.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: But tonight it also means don't let your world affect you.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: But be ye transformed from conformed to transformed in the
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Greek metamorphosis where we get metamorphosis. In other words, your
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: mind must constantly be going through a metamorphosis. Be transformed
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: by the renewing of your mind. So since my mind
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: isn't new, though my spirit is new, or he wouldn't
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: have called me brethren. in chapter one, and I presented
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: my body a living sacrifice in chapter one, he's not
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: talking to sinners. He's talking to Christians who are being
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: renewed in their mind. Tap your neighbor and say, he's
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: not finished with me. I am saved in my spirit.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: I shall be saved in my body. I am being
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: saved in my mind. I have been delivered in my spirit.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: If I take you through Corinthians, I can prove it.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: I have been delivered in my spirit. I am being
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: delivered in my mind. That's why I don't want no
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: mic on my head right now because it's not finished
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: with me yet. I shall be delivered when this mortality
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: puts on immortality. I shall be delivered in my body.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: So my mind, you're catching me. In the middle of
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: a metamorphosis, you're catching me while I'm spinning. I'm in
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: the potter's house, yeah, but I'm also on the potter's wheel.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: And it depends on which side you look. Well, you're
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: catching me where he may have shaped this part, but
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: not that part. He could have shaped my talent differently.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: and still be working on my character. He could have
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: shaped my character and still be working on my discipline.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: He could have shaped my discipline and still be working
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: on my mouth. You're catching me in a metamorphosis. Come on,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: real people, real people, real people talk to me tonight.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: My mind is being renewed, transformed, but transformed. I'm so
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: glad I'm in my church tonight because I named the
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: church the Potter's House, not only because the Lord said so,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: but because I knew that I was called to preach
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: to people who weren't there yet. Let all the people
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: who are strong enough to admit you're not there yet
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: clap your hands. So everybody should be clapping except the
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Pharisees and the Sadducees who don't have the strength enough
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: to admit that God is not finished with me yet.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: There's still some work that he's got to do in
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: my life, but I want to stop making excuses and
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: get it done so I can be transformed by the
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: renewing of my mind. So I can stop moving all
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: of this stuff around, fixing up all of this stuff
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: that's going to die anyway. What I got to be
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: working on is the renewing of my mind because it
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: is with the mind that I serve the Lord. It
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: is with the mind that that I make choices. It
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: is with the mind that I make decisions. It is
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: with the mind that I react to you at any
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: given moment. And I would like to show you the
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: best of me, but sometimes you catch me in a
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: turn and I show you the worst of me. Come on, somebody,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: you catch me spinning or you trigger me or you
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: say something and I don't respond to you. in the
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: meek quietness that I should have like Philippians talks about
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: I want to be in Philippians but I'm stuck in
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Romans I want to live in Philippians, but I am
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: stuck in Romans. I visit Philippians, but most of the
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: time I live in Romans. I am trying to go
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: through the metamorphosis of being transformed by the renewing of
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: my mind. And you don't know it because you don't
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: go home with me, but if you went home with
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: me and you watched me long enough, you're going to
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: catch me in a turn forever. And that's why y'all
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: ended up married to who you got married to. You
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: bought the container and you went home with the contents. Yeah, yeah.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Keep sitting there. I'm going to get them toes tonight.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: I'm going to get every one of them. Take your
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: shoes off so you can get ready. I'm coming right
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: down your aisle. Glory to God. Look at her. Man,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: have you ever seen anything so fine in all of
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: your life? That's the box. That's the body. But you
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: got to go home with the content. Some of the
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: finest people can be some of the meanest, rattlesnake, cut
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: your head off people you ever saw in your life.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: For man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: on the heart. And if we are to be the
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Christians that Philippians says we ought to be, we've got
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: to have some surgery on the way we think. But
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: if we do, Romans says, that you may prove what
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: is that good thing. and acceptable and perfect will of God.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: That if you change your mind, God will change your life.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: If you change your mind, God will change your life.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: The prodigal son took his father's wealth. The first thing
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: he did wrong, he would rather have his father's blessing
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: than his father's presence. In other words, daddy, I can't
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: wait on you to die. Give me the portion of
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: goods that fall into me now. What father wants to
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: hear his son say, I can't wait on you to
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: die to get the house. Give it to me now.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: What a heartbreaking relationship between a father and a son
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: that the son is looking at his watch waiting on
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: you to die so he can get your stuff. But
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: this is reality. And he got out there and he
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: got a bunch of prostitutes. Jesus says he got harlots
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: and friends who were only friends as long as he
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: had something to give them. Watch out for people who
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: don't see you as anything other than an opportunity. And
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: you think you got followers and you think you got
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: friends and you talk about how many people friended you
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: on Facebook and how many people are following you on
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: X and how many people you got following you on
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: TikTok and how many people love you and adore you.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: You better be careful because most of them, most of
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: them will disappoint you. Because they have a hidden agenda.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: And it is very difficult to discern somebody who really
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: just wants you for you. Or are they waiting for
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: the portion of goods that falleth unto them? And the
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Bible says that when he ran out of stuff, he
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: ran out of friends. And all of the harlots that
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: slept with him left him before he got to the
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: hog pen. And by the time he ends up in
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: the hog pen, he's in the hog pen alone. And
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: then it says the most amazing metamorphosis happened in the
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: most unlikely places. For a Hebrew boy to be caught
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: in a hog pen is like being in a slum
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: in the gum. Hebrews don't eat pork. And he's not
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: only about to eat the pork, he's about to eat
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: what the pork eats. Amen. He couldn't be in the worse,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: more worse place. And yet God doesn't care how bad
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: the place is to transform the mind. For the Bible
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: said his body didn't move, but his mind moved. His
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: flesh didn't move, but his thoughts moved. His legs didn't move,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: but his mind went through a metamorphosis. And the Bible
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: said he came back. To himself. In the hog pen.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: He came. He had an awakening. He had an illumination.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: He had a moment where he came to himself and
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: finally the potter has touched the head. And he has
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: been transformed by the renewing of his mind. And he
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: came to himself, and I know his mind was new
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: because he had the same life, same father, same hog pen,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: same slop that he was about to eat. The only
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: thing that changed in the story was his mind. And
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: the moment his mind changed... His decisions changed, and he said,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: I will arise and go to my father's house. Aren't
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: you the guy that just left your father's house, ripped
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: him off, took all his stuff and been with whores
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: and laying in the bed with sluts and tramps, and
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden... Just when you were about to
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: eat what the swine did eat, he came to himself.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: His appetites change. His decisions change. His directions change. His
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: thought process change. And what he left now looks good.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Be careful who you leave because you may leave who
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: you need and have to come back to him again.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: And he's trying to practice because now that he's come
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: to himself again, The only thing that has changed is
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: his mind. His father is still his father. He has
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: to practice. How am I going to explain that I
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: may look the same, but I am not the same?
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: I have come. to myself. I have come. That's a journey.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: To Damascus? No. Jerusalem? No. I came to myself. The
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: journey to myself may be longer than the journey to
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: my father. There are a lot of people that have
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: made a journey to the Father that have not made
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: a journey to themselves. So they like to be in
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: religious places and say religious things and have religious recitations.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: And they spout religious colloquialisms because the journey to the
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Father may not be as far as the journey to yourself.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: You can say the right things and go home in turmoil.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Because until you come to yourself, then how can you
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: fully come to your father? Because you don't really know
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: who you are. How can you love me when you
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: don't love you? Oh, it's going to be tough tonight.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: So Paul says, for I say through the grace given
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: to me to everyone who is among you not to think,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: not to think, not to think, not to think of
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: himself more highly than he ought to think, but to
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: think solely. He didn't tell you to think bad about yourself.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: He just said, don't be arrogant. I found out most
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: arrogant people are insecure. You have to be strong to
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: be humble. Some people cannot compromise enough to be humble
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: because they aren't strong enough. They don't feel safe enough
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: to be vulnerable. They have not come to themselves and
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: they don't know whatsoever things are true. Whatsoever things are true,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: the truth, is what sets you free. Not your ideals,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: not your principles, but grappling with your realities. I am
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: where I am. I am the age that I am.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: I am the skin that I'm in. I am who
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: I am until I embrace the truth of what happened
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: to me. The truth liberates me. Denial incarcerates me. Truth
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: is the emancipator. So I have to come to myself
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: so I can come to God and present my body
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: a living sacrifice. How can I present something if I
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: don't know what it is? Somebody sent me a gift
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: and I just got a gift before I came here.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: And the first thing I said, let's open it up.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Because I didn't come to see the box. I want
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: to see what's on the inside. So if you're going
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: to be a gift to God, God said, let's open
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: him up. So if you get in a good ministry,
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: a good ministry will open you up. A good ministry
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: will make you come to yourself. A good ministry will
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: make you confront where you are. A good ministry will
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: strip you. That's why Jesus died naked on the cross
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: because all things are naked before him with whom we
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: have to do. And I don't care how much you
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: paid for your clothes. They cannot cover you, Adam. A
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: naked savior died for a naked world. And the man
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: and the woman were both naked and not ashamed. I'm
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: in Genesis now. And so that naked Adam who sinned
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: is redeemed by the last man, Adam. And he had
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: to come on in the form of the first man, Adam.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: So they stripped him. And there on the cross, the
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Lamb of God was at his best when it looked
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: like he was at his worst. There are moments... That
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: the gospel will strip you. It will strip you. It
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: will take your clothes right off of you. It will
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: strip your mask off. It will mess up your makeup.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: It will get in your business. It will get in
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: your life because we have a naked Savior. Stripped. He
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: poured out of himself his glory and his honor. He
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: laid aside his garments. Over and over you see Jesus
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: taking it off. And now if our Jesus is taking
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: it off, why are you so busy in a cover-up
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: trying to put it on when God is trying to
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: take it off? Who told you you were naked? God
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: says to him, what other animal makes clothes but us?
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: because we have not ever gotten over our need to
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: cover up and we go through a lot of expense
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: to look good if you had back all the money
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: you spent on looking good rather than being good can't
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: nobody beat us looking good We always did. We look good.
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Even all the way back to slavery, we look good.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: Big hats on, nice clothes coming, your Sunday go to
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: meeting clothes. We were focused on looking good rather than
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: being good. Other folks spend less on looking good and
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: are more concerned about being good. Which one are you?
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Are you a look good or are you a be
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: good person? Are you more focused on how you show
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: up in the world rather than how you are inside
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: the And maybe that's why you can't sleep at night.
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: Because most of us sleep without. So strip down to
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: who you really are. Are you good with you? Peace
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: means to be at one With oneself. To be aligned.
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: With oneself. I'm good with me. I don't want your nose.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: I don't want your toes. I take what he gave me. This.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: This text in Philippians toggles between piety. Piety is the
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: quality of being religious or reverent like us. Piety. Sometimes
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: it has a negative connotation as pious, self-righteous, but it primarily,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: piety means to be religious, to be God-conscious. Philippians 4,
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: 4-9 says, wrestles between piety and practicum. Practicum is where
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: we get curriculum, where we practice what we've been taught.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: There is a difference between being religious and practicing what
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: you've been taught. Have you ever noticed that we can
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: have 20 Sundays and the same people come up every Sunday?
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: You can set your watch. Some of you are going
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: to come up in every daggone altar call every week.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: If you have to come up every Sunday, you don't
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: have a practicum for your piety. You're schizo. You're bipolar.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: You're bipolar. The Bible said a double-minded man is unstable
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: in all his ways. I don't doubt your sincerity when
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: you come. I can tell you're sincere when you come.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: But the seed didn't hit good ground. It fell on
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: stony ground. And by Monday, it's gone again. And by Sunday,
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: you got to repent again because you don't practice faith.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: it so that can I go further okay any time
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: you got a question interrupt me I'll take questions but
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: let me make this one point before you do I
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: was thinking about this and it really blew my mind
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: my mother used to sell Avon she did everything I
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: mean she was a school teacher she ended up the
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: equal employment opportunities representative for the state of West Virginia
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: and still sold Avon and then she started keeping the
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: product because they were collection items And at first, she
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: would say someday they're going to be valuable. In fact,
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: I have some of them that she collected. And she
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: started collecting them and collecting them and collecting them and
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: collecting them until they were in the drawers and they
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: were in the attic and they were in the basement.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: And little by little, the house got filled with With stuff.
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: And it was all beautiful. Wonderful. Smell good. Aromatic. Collectors items.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: But you couldn't appreciate it. Because it was. Hoarded up
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: in the house. Hoarding. Do you know what I mean
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: when I say hoarding? I didn't say whoring. I said hoarding.
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: Okay. Hoarding is having so many things that you cannot
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: manage the clutter. Your life is cluttered. Until all of
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: a sudden there's no room for nobody to come in. People,
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: you know, when you come in somebody's house, they say,
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: come on in and sit down. And you'll be looking...
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: And you'll be looking and you'll think, where? Make yourself
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: at home. Come on in if you can get in.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: We got all kinds of sayings to cover for it.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: And there's all of this clutter in the house and
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: it's called hoarding. It's because you are afraid to let
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: anything go. So you keep it all. I might need that.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: Don't throw that away. I might need that one day.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: I might need that one day. That's for company. When
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: company comes, I might use that. I know that chair
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: is broken, but I'm going to fix it. I'm going
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: to fix it. And so we hoard it. And most
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: in generally, where you live looks like how you think.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: When you go to therapy and they take you in
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: To therapy, the first thing they start doing is putting
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: you on a schedule because your lack of respect of
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: time is an indication of chaos. And they teach you
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: to straighten up your room, make your bed, clean up
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: your environment because it will help you with your head.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: Because if you can be comfortable in chaos, it's because
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: it reflects what's going on I'm messing with you. I
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: ain't gonna mess with you. I'm gonna go over here.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna mess with them a little bit. So how
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: do you like it? Do you like it neat? Do
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: you like it nice? Do you not like everything in
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: its proper place? Or are you afraid to let go
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: of stuff because someday you're gonna fix it and someday
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: you're gonna use it and someday you're gonna need it
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: and you pray for peace but you won't let go
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: of anything So you keep everything. You're on your third
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: man still mad at your first one. Stay with me. No, no, no. No, no, no.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: You thought I was just going to talk about milk
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: cartons and McDonald's bags and stuff like that. I didn't
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: get up out of bed to come out here to
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: talk to you about a Burger King bag that you
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: ain't got rid of and that is in the trunk
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: of your car. Open up the trunk of your car
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: and ask yourself, does it look like your head? How
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: many people are still living in your head? Some of
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: the people that you are upset with are dead and
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: you can't bury them because you say, I might need.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: Keep the peace. But how can you keep the peace
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: if you keep the clutter? And you're so cluttered And
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: you're so cluttered. And sometimes it's not stuff. And sometimes
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: it's not past. Sometimes it's busy. Because as long as
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: you're busy, you don't have to think. So you make
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: up stuff to do. And if you don't have anything
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: to do, you will get somebody else's problem and drag
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: them home and try to fix them. Because if you
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: fix them, you don't have to fix you. So you
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: are attracted to broken people because you like to work
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: on them so that you don't have time to deal
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: with you. And broken people who are attracted to broken people,
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: they like to fix people so they're attracted to broken people.
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: And some people only love you broke. When you start
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: getting better, they don't feel needed, so they lose their
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: attraction to you. As long as you was on drugs,
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: they was loving you. I see what he can be.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: I believe in him. It don't nobody else believe. I
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: believe in what he can be. You get off drugs,
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: she walks out. He walks out on you because you're better,
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: because you no longer reflect the clutter I have. because
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: I like to save junk. And as long as I'm
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: working on you, I don't have to practice on me.
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: And I am conformed to the world and not transformed
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: by the renewing of my mind. I'm going to stop
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: right there for a minute. She said, don't do that.
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: Don't do that. Cluttered minds. Clean body. Cluttered mind. Cluttered life.
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: Sleeping in clutter. How do you get in that bed?
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: There's so much stuff in that bed. How do you
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: find a spot? You don't clean the bed off. It
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: ain't about making up the bed. There's nothing to make
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: up because there's so much stuff in the bed. But
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: you can find just enough space to curl up over
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: there and sleep in all of that because it reflects
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: all the stuff you go to bed with in your head.
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: Peace on this earth. Goodwill. Really? You're serving the prince
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: of peace. And yet you have no peace. You're riding
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: with a Jesus who's sleeping on a boat while you
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: are a hysterical individual. And don't let nobody tell you
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: that only women are emotional. Because Peter is freaking completely out.
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: And he is the only one on the boat who
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: is a fisherman. How can you be a fisherman and
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: freak out on the boat when you're the only one
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: with the experience to get us to the other side?
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: And I left you in charge of a life that
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: you lost control of. Oh, I slipped that in. That
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: was like a right hook. I left you in charge
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: of a life that you lost control of. And the
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: reason you can't fix it is because you cannot speak
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: peace if you don't have peace. So a sleepy Jesus said,
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: can calm winds and the waves because he had calmness
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: in him. He could speak calmness out of him. But
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: if you have no calmness on the inside, why are
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: you angry with your daughter for reflecting you? She just
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: got too much mouth. Wonder where she got that from.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: That boy just a hothead. He just a hothead. You
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: tell your wife, he just a hothead. It's just like you.
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: So raising children is wrestling. with yourself in another form.
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: Oh Lord. I thought y'all be shouting by now. I
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: thought y'all be dancing by now. I'm not concerned about
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: I am concerned about the state that the world is in,
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: but I have to pull myself away from it because
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: what the enemy does is try to clutter your mind
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: with things you cannot control. So he will either use
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: issues that you can't control Like I can't do anything
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: about Ukraine. I can't do anything about Palestine. I can
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: use my voice, but I can't go over there and
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: stop the killings and the murders. I can't straighten it out.
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: But yet it just gets on my nerves just hearing
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: it every day, day in, day out. I think it's terrible.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: It's enough. Why can't we just have peace? And if
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: the enemy can't get you focused on things you can't control...
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: he will then take you into digging up things that
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: are past. So you miss the present talking about the past.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: And you don't even realize that the enemy just ripped
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: you off of today.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: You lost today talking about all that stuff that happened
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 3: three years ago. And you lost a day that you'll
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: never get back again, that nobody took from you, but
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: the enemy seduced you out of today because you are
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: living in yesterday and laying with ghosts.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: You are laying with ghosts because you are a hoarder.
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: And some of the people who hurt you, I'm not
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: going to forgive them to their apology. Excuse me, they're dead.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: So if I can't get free until you say what
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: I need to hear you say, then I have put
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: the thermostat in your room that controls the atmosphere in mine.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: And now the thermostat has gone in the grave and
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: I'm hot in this room but I can't get it
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: straight because I gave you the power and I lost
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: the power of myself. And now I'm in therapy talking
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: about how old I was when I got potty trained.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: And dance all you want to but if you have
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: no practicum you have no peace. I gotta be real.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: I gotta keep it 100. I gotta keep it 100, stupid.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: You are 100% wrong. Digging in the trash can might
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: seem real, but it's wrong. Because it's trash. And it
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: would be better outside of your head than inside of
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: your head. Can I go further? Okay, so we're in
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: this situation now that we have got to find inner
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: peace because people who have inner peace carry it with them.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: They come into the room and they affect the atmosphere.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: Because they are peaceful. Despite all things. My wife can
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: walk into a room and without saying anything at all,
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: she can speak peace. Because Sarita can go to sleep
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: standing up. She doesn't need a pillow or nothing. because
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: I know she watching and I'm going to deal with
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: it when I get home standing straight up in a
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: tsunami when she get ready to go to bed she
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: can go to bed and that calmness affects atmosphere By
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: the same token, if you're an anxious, irritated, frustrated person,
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 1: when you come home from work, the kids get nervous.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: Anybody know what I'm talking about? When certain people come
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 1: home and you glad that they came home but you
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: don't know who coming in the door and they bring
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: the tension into the room and everybody's braced for anything
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: and you prepared for everything and you don't know if
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 1: they drunk, you don't know if they sober, you don't
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: know if they gonna hug you and start crying or
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: whether they gonna slap you upside your head. Because they
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: changed the whole atmosphere of the room. You can, whatever
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 1: is in you affects everything around you. So Jesus was
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: full of peace. So he spoke peace and everything became
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: what he was. Yes. For instance, he is the light
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: of the world. So when he stepped into darkness, he said,
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: let there be light. And there was light and it
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: was good. And the evening and the morning was the
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: first day. It was the third day before he created
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: the sun.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: And the
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: reason he could say that is because he was that.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: And it became what he said. If you have love
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: on the inside, you can speak love and change the
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: whole atmosphere in the room. But if you have hate
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: in your heart, don't expect your kids to be loving
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: because they were raised and cradled and nurtured in the
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 1: malice and the anger and the frustration inside. And the
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: bitterness of who left you and who hurt you and
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: who didn't pay child support and who didn't support you.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: And now he's running around with that other woman and
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: taking care of somebody else's kid. Don't think that if
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: you start bleeding, your kids won't be stained.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 4: When I was young, I got saved, and I grew
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 4: up in the Baptist church. I went to church, but
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 4: I wasn't really in the church. And then when I
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 4: got around the holiest people, that's when I really had
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 4: to face off to me and get saved. Holiness was holiness.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm talking about. Where they'd be dancing
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 4: on the edge of the PPL, right here, right here,
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 4: they'd be dancing. All the way down here like that
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 4: dancing jerk. Service is over. Drummer has stopped. And they
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 4: take them out of the church. And they take them
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 4: out like that. And they were all up under the power.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 4: And I said, oh, God, give me that joy. Give
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 4: me that joy. Give me that joy. Because young people
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 4: was just, they was running all over the church. They
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 4: was jumping, they was dancing on pews, dancing on, I've
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 4: seen people dance on pot-bellied stoves and not get burned.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 4: I've seen the power of God move in such a
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 4: way that dead people got healed before the ambulance got there.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 4: I've seen lame people start walking. I've seen deaf ears unstop.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 4: I've seen God do amazing things. People come into church
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 4: drunk and rowdy. And they rebuked the spirit. And the
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 4: person would sober up and fall out on the altar
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 4: and give their heart to Jesus. I've seen drug dealers
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 4: fall to their knees and repent up under the power
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 4: of God. But you cannot change an atmosphere if you
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 4: don't change your mind. And the problem today is you've
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 4: got so many things pulling at your head that you
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 4: can't begin to clean up your room, your car.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: Or your head because you keep thinking you might need
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: it someday. I'm going to keep this anger so if
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: he ever come back, I'll be ready for him. I'm
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 1: going to keep this anger so when I run into
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: his new way, she going to know I'm not the one, honey.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: I'm not the one. Yeah, I will. I'm going to
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: keep it. I'm going to keep it. I might need it.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: But you're keeping the wrong stuff, baby. She's not important
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: He's not important. If you ever run up on me,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: he's going to limp back. I tell you that. I
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: wish you would. I wish you would. He's going to
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 1: be over there. Oh, I'm strapped. I'm ready. I'm looking
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 1: for him. he ain't looking for you you made it
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: your life's mission to tell off somebody who ain't thinking
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: about you to drive your new car past their house
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: and their blinds are closed You want to show them
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: you got a new car name looking out the window?
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: So tonight, what I'm challenging you to do is to
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: throw out all the junk, clean up all the clutter,
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: and simply keep the peace. So how do we keep
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: the peace? That's nice in theory. How do we do that?
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: Philippians helps us with that. It tells us we have
• 1:09:49
  Speaker 1: to practice pulling our mind out of the sewer of
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: all the things that happened or didn't happen or should
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: have happened or could have happened and with a discipline
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: to choose to look at things that are true, things
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: that are lovely, things that are of good report. The
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: Bible says if there be any virtue, if there be
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: any praise, Think on these things. In other words, think
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: yourself loose. So mental health is important because you could
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: be spiritually saved and mentally bound. I'm going to say
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: that again. You could be spiritually saved and mentally bound.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: And eventually backslide and say church don't work. It don't
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: work because you didn't work it. See, you got to
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: move from piety to practicum. You have to practice this.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: If I describe that in Philippians, if I make that
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: description and that don't sound like you at all, you
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: got some practicing to do. Put the text back up there.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: Put the Philippians 4. Let's put it back up there.
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 1: Rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I will say rejoice.
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: Go ahead. Let your gentle spirit, your graciousness, your unselfishness.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: Excuse me. I had something in my throat. Mercy, mercy, mercy.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: You don't want mercy till it's for you. You don't
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: get nobody mercy, but then you need mercy. Blessed are
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: the merciful for they shall obtain mercy. You cannot obtain
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: what you do not give. Tolerance. No, she not coming
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: back in this house because she didn't obey me. And
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: you're not coming up in my house. You don't tolerate nothing.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: Make you uncomfortable? Excuse me for moving your junk. Patience
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: equates to peace. I will get there when I'm supposed
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: to get there. If it doesn't happen in my 20s,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: it'll happen in my 30s. If it doesn't happen in
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: my 30s, it'll happen in my 40s. If it doesn't
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: happen in my 40s, it'll happen in my 50s. Everything
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: that God meant for me to have, I am willing
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: to wait on it because maybe I'm not ready for
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: what I'm asking for. And I am willing to have
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: patience because if I can have patience, I can have peace.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: If I can have patience, I can have peace. In
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: other words, I don't need no devil. I don't need
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 1: no demons. I am already doing a great job of
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: tormenting me. The devil don't have to send nobody to
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: persecute you. You persecute yourself. Look at you. You ugly.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: Look at you. You should have been further. How come
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: you didn't go through school? Look at you. You getting fat.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: Look at you. You getting old. You old. It's over.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: It's finished. Why would the devil waste a demon coming
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: to your house when you're doing a better job than
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 1: hell itself killing yourself? You don't like you. Look at
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: how you talk to yourself and you pray for peace.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: But there's sudden destruction. And he doesn't have to use
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: a demon on you. Because you're a hoarder. You're a hoarder.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say this. If this message found you tonight.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: And I'll like to be found. Being found is uncomfortable.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: It's uncomfortable. I mean, a message that really find you good,
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 1: really good, and show you yourself really good. It's like
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: a close-up picture. I think, back the camera up a
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 1: little bit, please. Thank you. Let's put a little distance
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 1: on it. A filter would be nice, you know. An
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: unfiltered message where I really have to confront me is uncomfortable.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: but it is the only thing that will give me peace.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: It may not be comfortable, but if it's true, it's important.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: So yes, you have needs. That's true. You have requests.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: That's true. You don't have to give up Thanksgiving because
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: you have a need. It is possible to wait with
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: grace and to have gratitude that you are alive. It
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: is possible, if you stop being mad at everybody, to
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: start thanking God for your kidneys and your liver. And
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: your lungs and that you can see and that you
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: can walk and that you can read and that you
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: can hear. And it's don't wait till you lose that
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: stuff to find out what really matters in life.