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- 0:27The war is going to be a good meal.
- 0:30Um I have,
- 0:31I have notes but I am not bound by notes if you know anything about pastor.
- 0:37But if you're getting caught my copy of many of my notes,
- 0:40you'll say,
- 0:41uh what,
- 0:41what happened?
- 0:42I thought we were gonna have notes and it seemed like he preached a whole entire different message.
- 0:46Well,
- 0:47just because uh well,
- 0:48we just,
- 0:48just because we pre prepare,
- 0:49we prepare,
- 0:51we prepare as if there,
- 0:54we like the Holy Ghost isn't gonna show up,
- 0:55but we expect the Holy Ghost to show up,
- 0:59always show up and it's not that we're trying not to be prepared,
- 1:03but I'll tell you what I'd rather be preparing what God wants.
- 1:05Amen.
- 1:06Uh Pastor Molina said something uh a moment ago and she said,
- 1:10um when she in discussion about the offering and uh it took me back a little bit because we were talking about this for quite uh a little bit of time or quite uh a while back recently.
- 1:22And uh one of the things that really stood out to me because she was speaking about tithing.
- 1:28But also one thing uh I got the name of the message a couple of days ago,
- 1:31how about God builds the man?
- 1:34God builds the person.
- 1:36Now,
- 1:36when I say we live in this world,
- 1:38well,
- 1:39you didn't say woman,
- 1:40no,
- 1:40God builds people but man in a,
- 1:42in a,
- 1:43in a,
- 1:44in a really in an English term,
- 1:45God builds a man.
- 1:46He means he be your,
- 1:47your,
- 1:47your spirit is ju is gender neutral.
- 1:50You're when you go to heaven,
- 1:52you're not gonna be male or female.
- 1:53Amen.
- 1:54And so I say these things because I believe God is wanting this group of great people to step into what God has for them.
- 2:05And when I first got born again,
- 2:09um I had to learn how to prosper God's way.
- 2:15And as I was saying,
- 2:18like I,
- 2:18I'm preparing this morning and the Lord reminded me,
- 2:21he says,
- 2:21I want you to talk about winery apartments.
- 2:24Oh Talk about the winery partner.
- 2:26What do you want me to talk about the one?
- 2:27Because those weren't like the funnest days ever.
- 2:30It wasn't a winery kind of race on that?
- 2:34Somebody at the top of your head.
- 2:36Oh man,
- 2:37you must have been a pastor's wine shipper.
- 2:40I knew I like that guy.
- 2:42No,
- 2:42I'm not a wine sipper.
- 2:43Sorry to disappoint you.
- 2:45Uh But I will tell you this that um it's kind of funny,
- 2:48it was called the winery apartments because we're a holy ghost people.
- 2:53We were drinking of the new wine,
- 2:56God's new wine.
- 2:58And um the thing that was so interesting about moving into the wineries is it was the first apartment that I ever lived in.
- 3:06And I didn't just,
- 3:07um I was one of those people that I just didn't want to,
- 3:10I had offers to live with other people growing up,
- 3:15offers to live with other girls growing up.
- 3:18And I had a good job.
- 3:20It paid me well,
- 3:21I could have done it.
- 3:23And I,
- 3:24at the time I had bought a car,
- 3:26I could have still moved in with somebody could afford rent and the,
- 3:31the whatever with life,
- 3:33but I wasn't saved.
- 3:36And the natural,
- 3:37oh,
- 3:37II,
- 3:37I could,
- 3:38oh,
- 3:38I could afford to do this.
- 3:39I could.
- 3:40And then my,
- 3:40oh,
- 3:40I can afford to do this even though I was living at home.
- 3:42But there was a part of me,
- 3:43I'm not moving out until I,
- 3:44I'm not gonna live with a bunch of people that I don't even know.
- 3:48There was something that bothered me just living with a group of people that I did not know.
- 3:55And when I met pastor Melina,
- 3:57I just gotten saved.
- 3:59Uh,
- 3:59well,
- 4:00there's a whole,
- 4:02um,
- 4:02we're gonna save you the whole story.
- 4:03Well,
- 4:04it's,
- 4:04it's,
- 4:04it's something that we've talked before in the past you're,
- 4:07you're familiar with.
- 4:09But this is what's very interesting to me is because this apartment was the first place that I had ever had.
- 4:16This is like,
- 4:18and the first place I ever had was with the person I was married with.
- 4:21I didn't just go all over the place.
- 4:23Get confused.
- 4:25Do you hear what I'm saying?
- 4:26Man,
- 4:27I didn't just go everywhere and get confused.
- 4:29I knew when I met her,
- 4:31she was it.
- 4:31But I also knew I need things needed to get done.
- 4:33Right.
- 4:34I didn't try to pull her into my way of living.
- 4:38I knew I had to step it up and live in a higher way of living.
- 4:43When God builds a man,
- 4:45he builds a man based on his word.
- 4:48Not on your feelings,
- 4:49not on your thinking,
- 4:51not based on what you,
- 4:53what,
- 4:53how you used to operate.
- 4:54No.
- 4:55God builds it on his standard,
- 4:57the standard of his word and see too many men are missing out because they're,
- 5:02they're,
- 5:02they're,
- 5:02they're,
- 5:03they're wanting to build their lives as how they see it,
- 5:07how,
- 5:08how they see it fit,
- 5:09they want,
- 5:10they wanna,
- 5:11they,
- 5:11they'll take all these different,
- 5:12we'll,
- 5:12we'll take,
- 5:13we'll do all these different jobs.
- 5:14We'll start all these different companies and,
- 5:16and just by God,
- 5:17hopefully one of them sticks and,
- 5:19and maybe that's the Lord,
- 5:20but I'm here to tell you that's a dangerous path to go down.
- 5:23I'm just trying to figure the best way to follow God is to hear his voice on a matter.
- 5:30Anytime we listen to God,
- 5:32anytime we follow the po the follow the plan of God for our lives.
- 5:37I'm not saying there won't be any challenges when we moved to those winery apartments in the natural.
- 5:42We did not have a lot.
- 5:45I mean,
- 5:45you should have seen our furniture.
- 5:46We,
- 5:46we had,
- 5:47there was no furniture.
- 5:49We first apartment was,
- 5:50was,
- 5:50was on the bottom floor.
- 5:52It was a studio apartment was there.
- 5:54That was,
- 5:54there was a one bedroom,
- 5:55it was a one bed,
- 5:56it was a single bedroom home.
- 5:58But then we,
- 5:59then we got raises and then we,
- 6:00we moved like the Jeffersons,
- 6:01we moved up to the second floor overlooking the pool.
- 6:07I,
- 6:07what do you want?
- 6:08Which one?
- 6:08I want the one that overlooks the pool because at least I may not be able to live by the ocean,
- 6:12but I'm by God.
- 6:13I'm gonna be looking over the water somewhere.
- 6:16Something on the inside of you always want to obey the guy that lived by the water.
- 6:21I felt like I was in the yacht club and I'm moving on up.
- 6:24I can see George Jefferson over there right now.
- 6:28Uh And so here God is trying to get me into a place to where he can trust me.
- 6:35See,
- 6:35God's not gonna just promote you overnight.
- 6:38He's got to see that he's able to trust the man.
- 6:42I'm not just gonna put blessings in your hand.
- 6:45If I can't trust you with those blessings,
- 6:48can I trust you with what I put in your hand?
- 6:51Can you be faithful with the money that I gave you or are you gonna suck it down or snort it up?
- 7:01Right.
- 7:01See,
- 7:02God is building men.
- 7:05God is building people.
- 7:07He is,
- 7:08he's always been in the people,
- 7:10building business and he doesn't build the people that have,
- 7:15they think they have it all together.
- 7:17Sometimes he picks the ones that no one would choose.
- 7:23He picks an old man.
- 7:26He picks the 75 year old man.
- 7:28Well,
- 7:28I'm 75 but why couldn't you call me when I was young?
- 7:31And I could have done it.
- 7:33Then God is looking for men who will trust him,
- 7:36not trust in their own ability.
- 7:39See when he called Abraham,
- 7:41he did not call Abraham because he was because he was strong.
- 7:45He called him when he was at his weakest where he couldn't physically do things.
- 7:51But he had a heart that was after God.
- 7:57And so he's,
- 7:58he's,
- 7:58he's moving,
- 7:59he's moving with his father,
- 8:01natural father.
- 8:02But there's a point where God says,
- 8:04no,
- 8:05you can't continue to move with your na natural father.
- 8:07You have to move with me.
- 8:11And then we see over in Genesis chapter 12 verse one that God says to him,
- 8:16move away from your countrymen,
- 8:18move away from all those things that you know,
- 8:20see when you get born again,
- 8:21you got to move away from your old ways of thinking your old ways of operating.
- 8:27But we've always done it this way.
- 8:29No,
- 8:29it's,
- 8:30it's time to raise the standard.
- 8:32It's time to loosen up the bow.
- 8:34It's time to get free.
- 8:38And too many people are holding on to things that they should not be holding on to things that keep them things that bring them back,
- 8:47things that,
- 8:48that,
- 8:48that don't help them progress in the anointing.
- 8:51They still listen to the old songs.
- 8:52They still,
- 8:53they still reminisce about the old,
- 8:55old things that they used to do when God is saying,
- 8:58leave that,
- 8:59leave that behind,
- 9:01learn to trust me.
- 9:05See often time,
- 9:06what do we do when we,
- 9:07because we live in a different world today.
- 9:09What do we do with a fatherless society that has no idea what it is to be a father.
- 9:16Women don't have to worry about that because women gr raise women.
- 9:19But see,
- 9:20women don't know anything about men in a fatherless ho a fatherless home.
- 9:24So they don't know what it's like to be around a man.
- 9:27So it breeds a certain amount of dysfunction because how do I,
- 9:29how do I operate?
- 9:30How do I live if there's not a man around in that home?
- 9:35Here's a great example,
- 9:36Alfonso.
- 9:37Um Well,
- 9:38I'm not gonna,
- 9:39we have a Frenchie in the house.
- 9:42He's a very sweet guy.
- 9:43He snores everywhere.
- 9:44He just snores,
- 9:45he stands and he snores and then Alfonso would ask,
- 9:50has he done it yet?
- 9:51Has he done it yet?
- 9:51Done?
- 9:52What has he tutted yet.
- 9:53Has he tutted?
- 9:54You know,
- 9:55because those dogs that breed and then one day we were sitting there,
- 9:58he little guy sitting there,
- 9:59we were like,
- 10:00whoa,
- 10:03what the heck,
- 10:04what's going on?
- 10:05Little?
- 10:05See,
- 10:07men are different.
- 10:08Men are Frenchies.
- 10:12They stink.
- 10:13They smell,
- 10:14they're lovable.
- 10:15You like them?
- 10:16Great.
- 10:17Personality curls are poodles?
- 10:23Oh,
- 10:23they're pretty,
- 10:23they're,
- 10:26they're dainty.
- 10:27You love them?
- 10:28They're classy.
- 10:30Right.
- 10:30That's,
- 10:31that's the one a man's is,
- 10:32he's just a different breed.
- 10:35And you gotta be familiar with that different breed.
- 10:38If not,
- 10:39if you're a girl,
- 10:39if you never,
- 10:40you'll be like,
- 10:40whoa,
- 10:40what is this?
- 10:41I didn't sign up for this.
- 10:42Where did this smell come from?
- 10:43What's going on and see God has called men and women together because each one of us helps raise the standard.
- 10:52Should help raise the standard,
- 10:53not leave us where we're at every day.
- 10:57We are challenging ourselves to go live and grow further into the things of God.
- 11:03Can I get a name in?
- 11:04See when you came to church today,
- 11:06you didn't come to stay the same.
- 11:10You didn't come to stay the same.
- 11:11So I ain't gonna give you no refund you when you came,
- 11:16you,
- 11:17when you,
- 11:17when you got born again,
- 11:18it was with the thought you were gonna get sold out to God.
- 11:22I it wasn't so that you,
- 11:24you came in here with all your pain.
- 11:26You came in here with all your dysfunction you,
- 11:29you knew,
- 11:29you knew you were missing it and everybody around you knew you were missing it because they were in the same boat you were in.
- 11:38See,
- 11:39that's why when David had his men of valor,
- 11:42they weren't all men of valor.
- 11:43When they first came in,
- 11:44they all came in broken,
- 11:46busted,
- 11:48disgusted,
- 11:49discontented,
- 11:50hurting,
- 11:52broke.
- 11:53But God took that.
- 11:55People raised that group up and made warriors out of them.
- 12:01He builds a people.
- 12:03He builds a man and see when we first moved in that apartment,
- 12:06there was hardly anything in that apartment.
- 12:08If you some,
- 12:09if some,
- 12:09if some of you saw that apartment,
- 12:10you probably lose some faith in me right now.
- 12:12You're like,
- 12:13that's just a rough apartment.
- 12:15I've heard some pastors of industry say that the only furniture they had were uh were milk crates.
- 12:20Now,
- 12:21I've had to buy a few milk crates before.
- 12:23Oh,
- 12:23let me rephrase it.
- 12:24I've had a few milk crates before.
- 12:27It's not because I bought them.
- 12:29It's because I needed them and I borrowed them from the store.
- 12:32I didn't,
- 12:32I stole them from the store.
- 12:33Ok?
- 12:34I stole them.
- 12:35Bible says,
- 12:35confess your sins,
- 12:36one to another so that you may be delivered.
- 12:39Yeah.
- 12:40And I had those carts for years and I just looked at them and they remind me that of where I once was now where I am headed.
- 12:51I've,
- 12:51I've had to give up old ways and old patterns in order to change.
- 12:58And God says,
- 12:59if you do things my way,
- 13:00I will make you wealthy.
- 13:04He says,
- 13:05if you do things his way,
- 13:07he didn't say your way.
- 13:09God wants you to do things his way.
- 13:12He will make you wealthy.
- 13:16That means you're honest.
- 13:17That means you're true.
- 13:19That means you're,
- 13:21you're just doing the word,
- 13:22you're following the process,
- 13:24you're doing what he told you to do.
- 13:25You're living how he told you to live.
- 13:27You're not being moved by every situation.
- 13:31You're not moving because of every situation.
- 13:34Well,
- 13:35she looked at me funny.
- 13:36So I just had to get up and find me another girl.
- 13:37No,
- 13:38we're changing the way we think or I'm getting rid of him because,
- 13:42you know,
- 13:42IIII I need to upgrade II I just graduated from college now.
- 13:46I need to find a man like uh uh who's smart,
- 13:48just like me.
- 13:49You know,
- 13:50a lot of women do that to get a college educated and end up leaving their husbands.
- 13:53Do you know that happens on a regular basis?
- 13:55That's why when I went here,
- 13:56a woman's going to college,
- 13:57I'm like,
- 13:57mm I'm not so crazy about you being in college because your thinking is gonna get messed up while you're there and then they end up losing the guy who is faithful and true to them and they can't seem to find anybody who's gonna be faithful and true.
- 14:11See,
- 14:11God builds people.
- 14:12He doesn't build you when you build you all you do is build problems.
- 14:17God brings something to you and you grow together.
- 14:21Well,
- 14:21he's not growing.
- 14:22I went to college.
- 14:23He didn't.
- 14:24So you,
- 14:25what?
- 14:25God,
- 14:26what you,
- 14:26what God put together?
- 14:28No man shall tear apart.
- 14:31How do you know that?
- 14:32Maybe what you're doing,
- 14:33it may be off.
- 14:34Maybe your college.
- 14:35Yeah.
- 14:35I make more money.
- 14:36Making more money.
- 14:37Doesn't make you better,
- 14:39doesn't even make you smarter.
- 14:41There's a lot of people who make a lot of money and think they're smart.
- 14:44No,
- 14:44they're dumb.
- 14:45I've met a lot of really.
- 14:46I have a college education so I can say this.
- 14:50I do,
- 14:50I have a college degree.
- 14:51I graduated from President Pacific with my B A uh in whatever management,
- 14:55organizational development.
- 14:57But I don't look at it as to make,
- 14:59as to who I am as a person in Christ.
- 15:01I'm a Christian first.
- 15:02I follow Christ first.
- 15:04Uh,
- 15:04uh,
- 15:04and everything else is 2nd and 3rd or fourth or fifth because God builds a man.
- 15:09What does it matter if I have a college degree?
- 15:11If I don't walk in love?
- 15:12What does it matter if I have a college degree?
- 15:13If I,
- 15:13if I don't even know what the spirit is speaking or is talking in my heart.
- 15:19There's a lot of people who do not know how to hear from God and God is wanting to build people,
- 15:24but it's gonna require that we listen to what he says.
- 15:28Hallelujah.
- 15:30Hallelujah.
- 15:32So God builds men.
- 15:34He builds women for the re for this reason so that he can change a generation.
- 15:41It's not just about you,
- 15:42it's about you.
- 15:43It's about you.
- 15:44Your kids,
- 15:46your Children are,
- 15:50are we gonna be playing patty cake here in church for the next 2030 years?
- 15:55I hope not.
- 15:56You know,
- 15:56patty cake church.
- 15:57I'm I'm done with patty cake church.
- 15:59patty cake,
- 16:00patty cake,
- 16:01baker's bread.
- 16:03I can't remember what the rest of this rhyme says.
- 16:06I mean,
- 16:06come on.
- 16:09If I would,
- 16:10I probably wouldn't or shouldn't.
- 16:16Here's the thing.
- 16:17If God is wanting to take you and lead you to a place and when you get there like,
- 16:24oh,
- 16:24there ain't nothing there.
- 16:26Well,
- 16:26I guess I must have missed it because I showed up and surely I,
- 16:30I don't,
- 16:31I don't have what I need.
- 16:33So did God bring me there?
- 16:37And yet God leads Isaac to a desert place.
- 16:42And the scripture says that he sowed in,
- 16:46in the time of famine and he reaped 100 fold.
- 16:50See,
- 16:51God takes away your reason,
- 16:54takes your reason and he punch it,
- 17:00gets it out of the way.
- 17:03That's why He said my ways are not your ways.
- 17:07He refers to his ways,
- 17:09not being your ways in others.
- 17:10You ain't even doing my way.
- 17:11You're still doing your way.
- 17:13And the people he was talking to were absolutely walking in wickedness.
- 17:17They were not following God.
- 17:19He says,
- 17:20my,
- 17:20your ways are not my ways,
- 17:21but my ways are higher than your ways.
- 17:23He says,
- 17:23give up your old ways.
- 17:28All that,
- 17:28calculate all that calculating in your brain.
- 17:32Well,
- 17:33can you do this?
- 17:33I need to do this.
- 17:34If I do this when I do this,
- 17:36put my foot here and I put touch on this and put my hand on this job and I touch this over here.
- 17:40Maybe if I do this and you know what you're doing,
- 17:44remember that game that you used to have on the ground and you used to have to what you're playing a game called Twister because you're just trying to figure it all out.
- 17:52Instead of asking God,
- 17:53what do you have for me?
- 17:55What's my next move?
- 17:58One day Pastor Mole and I were just covering some business.
- 18:02And I said,
- 18:03do you know what I was like trying to figure this out?
- 18:05And I go,
- 18:05oh wait a minute,
- 18:06I have an answer.
- 18:08I go,
- 18:08I gotta just get,
- 18:09I just got to get on the Lord on that.
- 18:11When you got so much going on,
- 18:13you sometimes you're just gonna have to slow down and ask God where,
- 18:16where do I need to go on this?
- 18:18Because there's too many answers,
- 18:20too many answers that could work.
- 18:23They all could work.
- 18:24But that doesn't mean that it's the right way.
- 18:26There is a way in a man's eyes that seems good.
- 18:29But at the end that there's death and destruction,
- 18:32your plan will never work your plan apart from what God says and His word will never work when we moved at any place we've ever moved.
- 18:49We always ask the Lord,
- 18:50should we go there?
- 18:53I'm not gonna move just to move.
- 18:56I better make sure that I'm moving because I know God called me and told me to be there.
- 19:01Right.
- 19:03And there's too many people just,
- 19:06just going without knowing.
- 19:09Maybe it'll work out that is a dangerous recipe for disaster.
- 19:18Now,
- 19:18I know some people,
- 19:19maybe I know a couple of people who are thinking about moving or,
- 19:22or,
- 19:22or whatever,
- 19:24but any time you think about moving,
- 19:25the,
- 19:26the the expectation is as am I moving with God or am I being led by other things?
- 19:33Because if your wallet is leading you,
- 19:35it will always lead you into disaster.
- 19:37I've,
- 19:38I've done this long enough,
- 19:40seen this happen enough.
- 19:42I,
- 19:42I can tell you without being a fortune reader,
- 19:46a psychic.
- 19:47I'm not a psychic.
- 19:50I have just been good at connecting the dots.
- 19:54I follow the pattern.
- 19:55How many have other siblings in your family?
- 19:58And the one that opens up their mouths gets a spanking.
- 20:01And then the younger one says I've learned from my other siblings to all you do is shut my mouth.
- 20:09Watch and learn.
- 20:12Are they being psychic?
- 20:14No.
- 20:16Are they being telepathic?
- 20:17Absolutely not.
- 20:19Are have they seen the examples of stupidity?
- 20:22Maybe,
- 20:24especially when you have siblings.
- 20:25We've all done some crazy things.
- 20:27My sister has a great examples of what not to do growing up based on me.
- 20:37Right?
- 20:38I was,
- 20:39I was the pioneer of what not to do.
- 20:44And once you learn that and you see life and you see what people were doing and you're like,
- 20:49I'm not doing that.
- 20:51We,
- 20:51every day our life is full of opportunities to make decisions.
- 20:56And the best decision is the one when you're following what God told you to do,
- 21:01that will be your best decision.
- 21:04Any decision outside of that will only lead to hardship.
- 21:10How of you remember?
- 21:11Noah Noah chapter six verse one,
- 21:18we see.
- 21:19Let's open our Bibles there,
- 21:20open our Bibles.
- 21:21Uh Noah chapter six verse one,
- 21:25Genesis chapter six verse one.
- 21:29Thank you.
- 21:31Did I say,
- 21:32did I see something else?
- 21:33Did I say?
- 21:34Noah?
- 21:34Did I say no?
- 21:35Oh OK,
- 21:35sorry,
- 21:37sorry.
- 21:37People have to learn from an example.
- 21:43Genesis chapter six verse one.
- 21:45And it came to pass when,
- 21:48when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and the daughters were born unto them that the sons of God saw the daughters of men and they were fair and they took wives and we see a great corruption beginning to hap happen on the on the planet,
- 22:00right?
- 22:01And lo said,
- 22:02my spirit shall not always strive with man for they all for their also flesh.
- 22:06Yet his day shall be 100 and 20.
- 22:08That's where if you ever hear people they're gonna live to 100 and 20.
- 22:11That's the scripture you,
- 22:13you should be living up to your 120.
- 22:16You get,
- 22:16start getting a revelation that you're supposed to live in 100 and 20.
- 22:18Then you're gonna say what if you're gonna live to 100 and 20?
- 22:20Then I think you're gonna start acting different,
- 22:23start living different,
- 22:25you're gonna stop eating trash,
- 22:26start doing things cause you,
- 22:28if you wanna look good at 8120 you can't live the way you want to.
- 22:32Now that's a side note.
- 22:36And so God was very grieved in verse five.
- 22:39He said,
- 22:40God saw the wickedness of man and it was great and that every imagination and thoughts of his heart was only to,
- 22:50to only evil continually,
- 22:51somehow men,
- 22:52their hearts were evil continually.
- 22:57Is that what He said?
- 22:59That means people think,
- 23:01well,
- 23:01what I think doesn't matter what you do think matters because God looked at the way that people were thinking,
- 23:12he didn't like the way men were thinking,
- 23:14he hated it.
- 23:15And plus the evil because with that,
- 23:17with that thought,
- 23:18it became an action.
- 23:19Eventually,
- 23:20you can't just sit there and deal with a thought and think it's never gonna come out.
- 23:23It will come out if you,
- 23:25unless you manage that thought and say,
- 23:26you know what II I pull it down under the obedience of Christ.
- 23:29I cast every imagination down according to your word Lord.
- 23:33Right?
- 23:33So again,
- 23:34what's God doing?
- 23:35He's building a man.
- 23:36He's building a people.
- 23:38And here in verse eight,
- 23:39Noah finds grace with God,
- 23:41but Noah found grace,
- 23:42but Noah found grace in God in the eyes of the Lord.
- 23:45And in verse nine says,
- 23:46and there,
- 23:47and there,
- 23:47the generations of Noah was a just man a perfect in his generation.
- 23:51In other words,
- 23:52he's fully mature in his generation.
- 23:55He was a very mature man.
- 23:57And Noah walked with God.
- 24:00He walked with God,
- 24:02his walking with God,
- 24:04saved him.
- 24:09You want,
- 24:09you want your life to turn around,
- 24:11walk with God man.
- 24:13You want your finances to turn around,
- 24:15walk with God.
- 24:19Quit wa walking the line.
- 24:21We,
- 24:22we walk the line too long because we do,
- 24:23we,
- 24:24we don't wanna disa let uh let anybody down or,
- 24:26or let them feel or you know,
- 24:28we don't want to hurt people's feelings.
- 24:32I don't know about you.
- 24:32I,
- 24:33I wanna,
- 24:33I wanna be ready for what God has next.
- 24:38And Noah begot three sons,
- 24:39Shem,
- 24:40Ham and Jat and the earth was also corrupt before God and the earth was filled with violence in verse 13.
- 24:47And God said in the know,
- 24:48at the end of it,
- 24:49all flesh is coming before me and the earth is filled with violence through them and behold,
- 24:54I will destroy them.
- 24:55And with the earth and God,
- 24:58the great engineer,
- 25:00the great master engineer tells him how to build an Ark,
- 25:06make an arm.
- 25:07He instructs him how to do it.
- 25:09Well,
- 25:09I don't know if God can build in God is a master builder.
- 25:13Jesus was a carpenter for Jesus didn't come as a carpenter for any reason.
- 25:19It was an example.
- 25:20Look,
- 25:21I was a savior to Noah and I helped him build.
- 25:26Now I'm here to help you build your life over again where you find things missing.
- 25:31I'm here to renovate.
- 25:34I'm here to set things straight.
- 25:36I'm here to not leave you empty-handed.
- 25:39I've got some good news for you.
- 25:41You don't have to be poor no more.
- 25:43You don't have to be sad no more.
- 25:46You don't have to be distressed.
- 25:49I've got answers and Noah lived and his generations lived.
- 26:02He saved him,
- 26:02his family,
- 26:03his his daughter in laws.
- 26:05People got people were affected by him building and following what God told him to do.
- 26:13People are affected when you do what God told you to do.
- 26:19When you follow God and you follow his instruction,
- 26:22you will be blessed when you're doing your own plan,
- 26:28you will fail.
- 26:30It's not a given,
- 26:31you will fail.
- 26:32It will be harnessed.
- 26:36It will breed frustration.
- 26:40It will be as if like man,
- 26:42I feel like I'm just spinning my wheels.
- 26:44You will feel like the hamster just spinning its wheel.
- 26:49Sure.
- 26:50It's spinning.
- 26:51But you're going nowhere and God is not about leaving His people where they're at.
- 26:56He's about moving a people with him.
- 27:02Sa come on.
- 27:07He's a good God.
- 27:10He's so good that,
- 27:13that even when people,
- 27:16you know,
- 27:16I,
- 27:16I just wanna stop here for a moment.
- 27:17Do you remember Ham?
- 27:18His son?
- 27:20And some people would like to say,
- 27:22or I've heard it interpreted that that and through him comes a generation of uh some sodom and Gomorrah,
- 27:30right?
- 27:32People think that Ham did something to Noah.
- 27:35But the scripture decipher says anything he said so did anything to Noah.
- 27:38What he said was he uncovered his father and he went out and he told his siblings about what he saw.
- 27:46In other words,
- 27:47he was advertising his father's shame.
- 27:52That was the sin of Noah.
- 27:54The sin of Noah was that he didn't do anything is was that he talked about his father's downfalls,
- 27:59his,
- 28:00his problems,
- 28:01his issues and expose it to everybody,
- 28:03right?
- 28:05And when he did that,
- 28:08when he told,
- 28:09when,
- 28:09when Ham came out and he told his brothers what he saw,
- 28:12his brothers took a different course of action.
- 28:15They knew he was in there.
- 28:16So they went in there and they didn't want to see him naked.
- 28:19They went in backwards and in the darkness and they covered him with a blanket because they didn't want to look on his shame.
- 28:29When Ham exposes when you expose the shame of others.
- 28:37When Ham did that.
- 28:38It sowed seed to the future because the future was for his descendants.
- 28:44Shame,
- 28:47sodom and Gomorrah came for shame,
- 28:49destruction,
- 28:50shame all those generations in his,
- 28:56in his life brought about shame.
- 29:01Were they themselves shamed?
- 29:04When we shame others?
- 29:05It opens the door for us to be shamed.
- 29:08Yeah.
- 29:10Very God is building people.
- 29:13He's not destroying people.
- 29:16Ok?
- 29:18And when God is in the build business of building people,
- 29:23then we as a people have got to take the seriousness of it at face value.
- 29:31Quit trying to think it.
- 29:32Well,
- 29:32maybe he meant this.
- 29:33Well,
- 29:33he really meant this.
- 29:34I maybe God really meant this.
- 29:35No.
- 29:36God means what he means.
- 29:39God is in the redeeming business.
- 29:43So if we've made mistakes,
- 29:45thank God for the blood because it's His blood that washes everything as white as snow.
- 29:51Have we caused shame.
- 29:53God can bring that shame under the blood of Jesus Christ because now we have a,
- 29:58we have,
- 29:58we were built,
- 29:59we have a promises built.
- 30:00Oh man,
- 30:02they have a covenant on which who better promises who come on?
- 30:08Thank God.
- 30:09We ham messed up.
- 30:10But thank God man,
- 30:11we got the blood of Jesus.
- 30:12Ham didn't have the blood of Jesus and he had to live with his mistakes.
- 30:21You don't have to live with your mistake.
- 30:22You're a new creature in Christ.
- 30:25Jesus.
- 30:26God brought Jesus because he was interested in building a man.
- 30:34Does anybody know what the point of the story is this message.
- 30:37What's,
- 30:38what's the point of this message?
- 30:39God is building a man.
- 30:42God is building.
- 30:44You don't get frustrated with.
- 30:46You just say God,
- 30:49what am I doing?
- 30:50What do you want me to do?
- 30:52It's good.
- 30:55He'll tell you I want you to tithe.
- 30:56Whoa,
- 30:57wait,
- 30:57wait,
- 30:57wait,
- 30:57wait,
- 30:57wait,
- 30:57wait,
- 30:58wait,
- 30:58wait,
- 30:59wait.
- 30:59What else can I do?
- 31:02God will always start you with what he told you to do and you don't get any instruction beyond what he told you to do first.
- 31:09I told my kids to clean their room.
- 31:12They come back.
- 31:13Hey,
- 31:13can we go?
- 31:13Like you said,
- 31:14did you clean your room?
- 31:15No,
- 31:16we don't go anywhere until you.
- 31:17I do.
- 31:18You do.
- 31:18You do what I told you to do.
- 31:21I told you to clean your room.
- 31:22I told you to pick up that bike off the front of the lawn.
- 31:25You don't,
- 31:25we don't go anywhere.
- 31:27We don't do anything until I,
- 31:28you do what I told you to do.
- 31:31God is no different.
- 31:35Those watching by life,
- 31:36uh by Facebook live.
- 31:38God,
- 31:40you can't do it any different.
- 31:43You gotta do what God told you to do,
- 31:47but I'm gonna try it this way.
- 31:48I'm gonna see when things get hard.
- 31:51Don't run from God.
- 31:53Run to God,
- 32:00you run to running to God will only make things easier,
- 32:03running away from God only makes things harder.
- 32:08I think I need a bathroom break everybody.
- 32:09I just need a bathroom break.
- 32:11County tiles.
- 32:12County tiles.
- 32:13County tiles loose mints,
- 32:15fine mints,
- 32:15fine mints.
- 32:18Uh See God's word is not there to be hard,
- 32:22it's there to be helpful.
- 32:28He's there to help you.
- 32:29And I,
- 32:31that's why Romans eight verse 14,
- 32:33he,
- 32:33well,
- 32:34let's turn to Romans 814.
- 32:35Pastor.
- 32:36We turn it all the time but you need to see it again.
- 32:40Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God,
- 32:44right?
- 32:46Romans eight 1st 14,
- 32:53I know you know it for as many as are the lead are,
- 32:57are led by the spirit of God.
- 32:58They are the sons,
- 33:00those who were led,
- 33:02those who were led.
- 33:10Julian.
- 33:10Come here real quick.
- 33:12Oh Joaquin walk.
- 33:14No,
- 33:14Julian,
- 33:14come here,
- 33:15come here,
- 33:16come here.
- 33:20Um Seth,
- 33:22come over here.
- 33:23Please just walk on their feet.
- 33:29Don't,
- 33:30don't worry.
- 33:34Now guys follow me,
- 33:43just stay close,
- 33:44stay close,
- 33:46follow me.
- 33:49Now make a decision.
- 33:50Now don't move.
- 33:51Follow me.
- 33:53Now I told you stay.
- 33:54So follow me,
- 33:55Seth who's doing the will of the father?
- 34:02They both are because exactly because I told one to stay still.
- 34:05And I said one,
- 34:05follow me.
- 34:08People are so fixed on sated that oh God told me to stop right here,
- 34:13but God's telling you to stop because he wants you to stop.
- 34:16God wants him to fall for a reason.
- 34:19We get too mixed up about what God told somebody else.
- 34:23Not realizing there's a bigger picture here.
- 34:27God understands the big picture.
- 34:29If God tells you to stay close,
- 34:31stay close.
- 34:32If God tells you to do something,
- 34:33do that.
- 34:34If he does something opposite of what I told him,
- 34:36he is no longer in the will of God.
- 34:38If he just decides to keep following,
- 34:39he's now out of the will of the father,
- 34:42even though he's followed,
- 34:43trying to follow me because I told him to do something else.
- 34:48See any,
- 34:48any operation outside the word of God as you just,
- 34:52you doing what you wanted to do outside the will of God.
- 34:56There's harm outside of the will of God.
- 35:00You know,
- 35:01you're supposed to be under the,
- 35:01we're supposed to be under the shadow of the Almighty.
- 35:05Anything in our own will is out of that shadow of the Almighty.
- 35:09And then people say,
- 35:10well,
- 35:10you know,
- 35:11I just feel so bad that,
- 35:12you know,
- 35:13God took them and,
- 35:14you know,
- 35:16well,
- 35:16one day God didn't take anybody.
- 35:20If people don't,
- 35:21if you don't stay close to God and you're out there wandering around,
- 35:27you're doing it your own way.
- 35:30God is not responsible for people doing things their own way.
- 35:35That's right.
- 35:36Yeah.
- 35:39If you stay close to the Father,
- 35:41there's a blessing.
- 35:41There's a hedge of protection.
- 35:42We see that all the time in the scriptures,
- 35:45but we can never do things out,
- 35:47out of,
- 35:47out of being operated out of fear.
- 35:49Boys,
- 35:49you can sit down.
- 35:51Thank you boys.
- 35:53Let's give him a hand.
- 35:56They followed God,
- 35:58he followed his word to the t once they put,
- 36:02whether when,
- 36:03when,
- 36:05well,
- 36:05I don't know why he told me to quit trying to figure it out.
- 36:11Just do what he told you to do when we do what God tells us to do.
- 36:17There's an absolute blessing,
- 36:19absolute blessing the following.
- 36:21What time is it does anybody know it's 1111?
- 36:27Come on that word.
- 36:30Really nice.
- 36:33Let's open our Bibles to judges.
- 36:37Six.
- 36:48God builds men and when people or nations go off and do what they want to do,
- 36:57it only breeds heartache and problems.
- 37:00And the Children and the judges chapter six verse one and I'll read verse and you when you get there,
- 37:06amen.
- 37:07But,
- 37:07and,
- 37:08and,
- 37:08and judges,
- 37:09chapter one,
- 37:10judges,
- 37:10chapter one,
- 37:11judges,
- 37:11chapter six verse one and the Children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord and the Lord delivered them into the hand of the medians for seven years.
- 37:23A nation did evil and God delivered him in the hands of the medians.
- 37:30A group of people did evil.
- 37:33A group of people can do evil by not doing what God told them to do.
- 37:39And because the media nights and the Children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains and caves and strongholds.
- 37:45In other words,
- 37:45the kids,
- 37:45they had to get out of their own nation and things back.
- 37:49Things were so bad that when crops were being grown by Israel,
- 37:53the medians would come down and destroy their crops.
- 37:57So they were at the point of starvation,
- 37:59they couldn't even imagine.
- 38:01You can't even survive because the people that are coming down and cutting down your crops.
- 38:06But this was a,
- 38:07was made possible by their disobedience as a people.
- 38:12One,
- 38:13this nation isn't walking with God as it should.
- 38:16And it's evident they have a,
- 38:20a Lucifer in way of thinking they are,
- 38:25they are committing for years.
- 38:28We're allowing abortion.
- 38:29Now,
- 38:29homosexuality has been pushed to the forefront.
- 38:32They are allowing wickedness and pushing it to the front.
- 38:35And now we see instability and the people say,
- 38:39I don't know why God l is allowing this to happen.
- 38:43Instability and everything is gonna be happening to them,
- 38:46but it's not gonna be happening to the people in the body of Christ.
- 38:50So you better make sure you're planted in the right place.
- 38:53You better make sure you're in the right place that's following after God because that's where the blessings at.
- 39:00It's getting darker for them but us come on,
- 39:06there's promotion,
- 39:08there's peace,
- 39:11there's peace,
- 39:13there's peace with the following the plan of God and then judges God raises up a Godly man.
- 39:22God raises a man.
- 39:24God raises people up who will not compromise to help the vision that God has see,
- 39:33God has a vision for this community.
- 39:35He has a plan for Porterville.
- 39:38He has an outpouring for Porterville.
- 39:41It's been prophesized.
- 39:44I'm not trying to make it happen.
- 39:45I just want to listen to what God says.
- 39:48I just want to be where God wants me to be over in um a AAA large another state.
- 39:57There's another uh well known area that um they prophesized that it would have,
- 40:03it would flow the miracles that flowed out that would,
- 40:05would return there one day and I believe they will return there one day.
- 40:08I don't know who it's gonna flow through,
- 40:09but I know it's gonna happen.
- 40:10But I know different organizations purchased it with a thought thinking that they were gonna,
- 40:15they were it,
- 40:15they were the ones,
- 40:17right?
- 40:18And it didn't happen.
- 40:20See,
- 40:21you can't just do something just because you want,
- 40:24you feel like you're the one you have.
- 40:26You've got to be the person that's just obedient to do his word.
- 40:30You gotta be obedient where you're at,
- 40:34not where you wanna be.
- 40:37There's a difference.
- 40:38Did you catch that difference?
- 40:39Be obedient where you're at?
- 40:41Not where you wanna be,
- 40:43follow God wholeheartedly on the small things and he'll help you on the greater things because it all fits into the flow of God's plan for your life.
- 40:53Again,
- 40:54God builds the man,
- 40:56he builds the people.
- 41:00Does anybody remember the story of was it Ruth and Mordecai Esther,
- 41:04Mordecai,
- 41:05Esther,
- 41:06Mordecai Esther here's and she,
- 41:10she ends up becoming a queen and she's confused as to whether or not she wants to,
- 41:17to talk about the king about what took place.
- 41:22And Mordecai tells her,
- 41:23look,
- 41:24if you don't tell the king what's happening right now,
- 41:29whether you do it or not because God,
- 41:31I believe God brought you for such a time as this.
- 41:33If you don't follow,
- 41:35you will perish for just saying nothing but God will raise up another and we will be delivered.
- 41:44God wants to use a people that will come that will cooper.
- 41:51We're in a season.
- 41:52We're,
- 41:53we're cooperating is not something that we are given the luxury.
- 42:01Because if we don't co-operate in a community,
- 42:05when there's darkness around us,
- 42:08we are no different from the time of judges that when evil is abounding,
- 42:15well,
- 42:15we're not doing evil.
- 42:16Yeah,
- 42:16but you're still not following God.
- 42:21You're still not doing what he tells you.
- 42:23Does not remove,
- 42:25does not remove what God told you to do.
- 42:28He said follow me,
- 42:29walk with me.
- 42:31You stay here,
- 42:32you follow me.
- 42:35I'm glad you caught that.
- 42:36I was,
- 42:36I was wondering if anybody would,
- 42:37everyone would catch that.
- 42:39Yeah,
- 42:41see if God is into building a people,
- 42:44then we've got to make her just say this one thing I'm making myself available.
- 42:48Because if I not,
- 42:49if I don't,
- 42:50I'm still disobedient and if things are falling apart,
- 42:55it's because I have yet to be fully obedient.
- 42:58The,
- 42:59the obedient is following the plan of God,
- 43:03not being self willed,
- 43:05being easy to lead,
- 43:07being easy to entreat scripture.
- 43:09Talks about being,
- 43:11being,
- 43:12being easy to lead,
- 43:15not being difficult because we will be judged if we were being difficult to lead,
- 43:20particularly for those who are spiritual leaders over us.
- 43:26I believe this year is going to be,
- 43:28is a,
- 43:29is a set up for next year.
- 43:34This message is a set up for your next year.
- 43:38That's good because there is a walking out of what God has got prepared for His people and you don't want to get out of your position right now.
- 43:57You have an assignment,
- 43:59you have a role,
- 44:01people need you.
- 44:03If you leave your spot today,
- 44:08what would happen?
- 44:10Well,
- 44:11they find so what would happen if God told you you had a spot and you still moved from that spot.
- 44:18Lot left his spot and ended up in Sodom and Gomorrah.
- 44:27In fact,
- 44:28his wife looked back at Sodom and Gomorrah and turned into a pillar assault looking and looked at something that God told her to move away from and not not to go back to.
- 44:37There are things that God wants you to go to walk with.
- 44:41Move with.
- 44:44Yeah,
- 44:45so it does not create shame.
- 44:47So it does not create hardship.
- 44:51He knows where the hardships are at.
- 44:54But if you walk with Him and you're walking towards a hardship who's at fault,
- 44:59if Pastor Marcus decides to go hang out at the bar tonight and have a drink cause you know Christians drink.
- 45:08It's ok.
- 45:09Right.
- 45:09Here's some,
- 45:09here's some Christian.
- 45:10No,
- 45:10it's not ok.
- 45:12But if I said that and I lied to myself and I went in there and,
- 45:15and I stepped in there and then I on the way home,
- 45:18I got hit by another drunk driver,
- 45:19even though you know,
- 45:20I maybe wasn't drunk,
- 45:21but I got hit by another drunk driver who's at fault.
- 45:24the man who wasn't listening to God,
- 45:25the man who know knew God was at fault and it wasn't God's fault.
- 45:31We need to really be aware of how we look at life and how we look at him.
- 45:37He is our benefactor.
- 45:38He is the one that's trying to help you.
- 45:40He's the one that's trying to keep you safe.
- 45:47He's the one.
- 45:49So if he's the one,
- 45:50we need to be the one,
- 45:52we gotta be the one that says,
- 45:53Father,
- 45:54I will flow with you.
- 45:57I will move with you,
- 46:01say this with me and mean it from your heart because I want God to look at your heart when you say this.
- 46:06So I'm not sure if I'm gonna mean it the way.
- 46:08Say just don't let your mind be a part of this conversation.
- 46:12Speak from your heart right now.
- 46:14Say dear heavenly Father today,
- 46:18I make a wholehearted decision to follow you with my whole heart.
- 46:25Given to you.
- 46:28Not not holding back any longer but pouring myself out I get rid of my pride.
- 46:40I get rid of my resistance.
- 46:43I follow you.
- 46:44Father,
- 46:45I follow the plan.
- 46:49God builds men.
- 46:52So build me today.
- 46:54Help me be the man,
- 46:57be the person that you've called me.
- 47:00To be a child of your blessed destiny.
- 47:06Doing your will,
- 47:08bringing heaven down on earth,
- 47:13your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
- 47:18I am yours.
- 47:21Gosh,
- 47:21he's so good.
- 47:23He's so good.
- 47:28The goodness of God.
- 47:30It's the goodness of God that brings men to repentance.
- 47:34Amen.
- 47:36Hallelujah.
- 47:42Father.
- 47:43Is there anything else you would have done in your service?
- 47:48Yes,
- 47:49we plead the blood over every person here today.
- 47:52Lord say this with me.
- 47:53I plead the blood of Jesus over my life.
- 47:57I thank you Jesus.
- 47:59Your hand is over me.
- 48:02You cleanse me from all unrighteousness.
- 48:06And I mean that from my very heart,
- 48:12we need to when God builds a man,
- 48:13he puts him in the mode of where he's sincere and he moves from his heart,
- 48:19make that your lifestyle.
- 48:21I'm being be,
- 48:22be real well.
- 48:26Well,
- 48:26you know,
- 48:26I just,
- 48:27that's not real for me.
- 48:28I just kind of live.
- 48:28No,
- 48:29that's not that old way of thinking is not you anymore.
- 48:33You're a new creature.
- 48:34You can't think the way you want to think.
- 48:35I know it's real popular in our western civilization.
- 48:38I'm an American.
- 48:39I just think what I wanted to think.
- 48:41I just do know you're a Christian.
- 48:44Now,
- 48:46you're a slave of the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 48:48You're his bond servant.
- 48:49You belong to him.
- 48:50You don't belong to you anymore.
- 48:53See,
- 48:54I belong to him.
- 48:56Amen.
- 48:57Who?
- 48:58It's so good.
- 48:59He's so good.
- 49:01Watch the blessings,
- 49:02watch the blessing because you thought learning the hit,
- 49:05your learning more importantly his voice.
- 49:08But you're following him.
- 49:09Amen.
- 49:11Amen.
- 49:11Who got blessed this morning?
- 49:14God is a good God.
- 49:15He's a good God and he's not done with us.
- 49:18He's not done with us.
- 49:20And if there's something that we haven't done,
- 49:21it's time to repent on those things.
- 49:24If there are some things that we left on the shelf that we haven't done that God told us to do,
- 49:30we repent over those things.
- 49:33We don't wait on those things.
- 49:35Well,
- 49:35I wonder what I should.
- 49:36Don't hesitate.
- 49:37Do what God told me.