Latest / LOH Church Archive / 05/06/26 Pastor Brenda Kunneman
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- 0:00(MUSIC)
- 0:07HALLELUJAH, WELL HOW MANY OF YOU
- 0:09ARE READY TO WORSHIP THE LORD ON THIS
- 0:12MIDWEEK RECHARGE ON A WEDNESDAY NIGHT?
- 0:17AMEN? IT'S THE DAY, THIS IS THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK, SO
- 0:21IT SENDS US RIGHT INTO THE WEEKEND, AMEN? IT'S A GOOD
- 0:25DAY TO PRAISE THE LORD. COME ON, LET'S GIVE HIM PRAISE.
- 0:27(WORSHIP MUSIC)
- 0:33ALL RIGHT, COME ON NOW, PUT YOUR HANDS TOGETHER.
- 0:35WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A LITTLE FUN. YOU GOT TO SHAKE
- 0:37OFF THE DAY, SHAKE OFF THE PREVIOUS HALF OF THE
- 0:43WEEK, AND TELL YOURSELF, YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M
- 0:46GOING TO THE END OF THE WEEK IN THE GLORY
- 0:48AND VICTORY OF ALMIGHTY GOD. AMEN.
- 0:51(WORSHIP MUSIC)
- 7:08FOR THE LORD IS GOOD AND HIS MERCY ENDURES FOREVER. HE
- 7:15HAS REDEEMED OUR LIFE FROM DESTRUCTION. HE HAS POURED
- 7:19OUT HIS MERCY. HE SATISFIES OUR MOUTH WITH GOOD THINGS
- 7:22SO THAT OUR YOUTH IS RENEWED LIKE THE EAGLE. COME ON,
- 7:26GIVE HIM GLORY 'CAUSE THERE'S NOBODY LIKE OUR GOD.
- 7:29THERE'S NOBODY GOOD LIKE HIM. THERE'S NOBODY WORTHY
- 7:35LIKE OUR GOD. THERE'S NOBODY HOLY. THERE'S NOBODY HOLY.
- 7:42(WORSHIP MUSIC)
- 18:45COME ON, SHOUT TO THE LORD. SHOUT! SHOUT! HE IS HIGH AND
- 18:54LIFTED UP. HE IS HIGH AND LIFTED UP. AND THE TRAIN OF
- 18:59HIS ROBES FILLS THE TEMPLE. THE TRAIN OF HIS ROBE FILLS THE
- 19:05TEMPLE. ALL THE EARTH IS FILLED WITH THE GLORY OF THE LORD.
- 19:15THAT MEANS MY LIFE IS FILLED WITH THE GLORY OF THE LORD.
- 19:18DO I LIVE IN THIS EARTH? AND IF THE EARTH IS FILLED WITH
- 19:22THE GLORY OF THE LORD, THAT MEANS I'M WALKING IN THE
- 19:25GLORY OF THE LORD. THERE'S NOBODY THAT CAN STAND
- 19:33AGAINST THE LORD OUR GOD. NO SPIRIT OF INFIRMITY. NO
- 19:39SPIRIT OF DEBT AND LACK. I DECLARE OVER YOU RIGHT NOW
- 19:44THAT THE SPIRIT OF DEBT AND LACK IS BROKEN. THE SPIRIT
- 19:49THAT HAS BEEN FOLLOWING YOU AGAIN AND AGAIN IS BROKEN.
- 19:53CAUSE HE'S CLOTHED IN MAJESTY. AND WHEN THE KING
- 20:00STEPS IN, AND WHEN THE KING MAKES A JUDGMENT, IT IS
- 20:06DONE. COME ON, LOOK AT YOUR NEIGHBOR AND SAY, "WHEN THE
- 20:10KING STEPS IN, AND HE MAKES A JUDGMENT, IT IS DONE."
- 20:17LOOK AT YOUR OTHER NEIGHBOR AND SAY, "I'M WALKING FREE.
- 20:22I'M WALKING WHOLE, AND I'M WALKING HEALED." ALRIGHT,
- 20:28GIVE THE LORD A SHOUT AND A HUG SOMEBODY.
- 20:32(APPLAUSE)
- 20:38(MUSIC)
- 21:01SOMETIMES YOU JUST GOTTA, SOMETIMES YOU JUST GOTTA LET
- 21:07LOOSE. AMEN. THAT'S A GOOD WAY TO THROW OFF THE WEEK. I
- 21:14DON'T KNOW IF THAT WAS A JERICHO MARK OR IT WAS JUST
- 21:16A PARADE. I'M GOOD WITH BOTH. HOW ABOUT YOU? AMEN.
- 21:21MAN, DO YOU FEEL GOD IN HERE? SOME OF YOU WENT ALL
- 21:25THE WAY BACK TO YOUR TBN DAYS WITH THAT SONG. HOW
- 21:29MANY OF Y'ALL REMEMBER SO MANY YEARS AGO? IT WAS JUST
- 21:34GOOD. WELL, TOUCH SOMEBODY, BE SEATED. WE'RE GONNA GET
- 21:37INTO THE WORD. I'M GONNA RECEIVE THE OFFERING. LET'S
- 21:38PUT THE GIVING INFORMATION UP ON THE SCREEN. PRAISE THE
- 21:45LORD. OH, JUST GOOD, GOOD, GOOD. I LOVE THE HOUSE OF
- 21:50GOD. I JUST WANNA THANK EVERYBODY FOR JOINING US
- 21:52ONLINE TONIGHT. YOU CAME TO THE RIGHT CHURCH ON A
- 21:55WEDNESDAY, AND HOPEFULLY YOU MARCHED YOUR LIVING ROOM.
- 21:59THAT'S GOOD. THE PASTOR WOULD SAY, IF YOU'RE
- 22:01DRIVING, KEEP YOUR HANDS ON THE WHEEL. WHICH BY THE WAY,
- 22:05PASTOR SENDS HIS LOVE. AND HOW MANY OF YOU SAW HIM
- 22:08YESTERDAY? ELIJAH STREAM'S FLASHPOINT. WOW, THAT WAS
- 22:11FIRE. WHAT A GREAT PROGRAM. AND SO I TOLD HIM, I SAID,
- 22:16NOW HONEY, YOUR REAL BIRTHDAY IS THIS WEEKEND. SO
- 22:21STAY HOME, GET YOUR MESSAGE DONE SO THAT YOU CAN HAVE
- 22:24BARBECUED RIBS ON SATURDAY AND YOU'LL ALREADY BE READY
- 22:27FOR CHURCH. SO HE'S HOME GETTING HIS MESSAGE
- 22:30TOGETHER. HE'S GOT THIS REALLY GOOD MOTHER'S DAY
- 22:33MESSAGE. SO I'M EXCITED TO HEAR IT. AND ANYWAY, SO IT'S
- 22:39AWESOME, AWESOME. ALL RIGHT, GIVING INFORMATION ON THE
- 22:41SCREEN, TEXT TO GIVE, MOBILE APP, ALL THE WAYS. I DON'T
- 22:47KNOW IF I EVEN NEED TO SAY IT. I'LL CATCH MY BREATH TO
- 22:50PREACH AFTER ALL THAT MARCHING. BUT ALL THE PEOPLE
- 22:53IN THE AISLE, INTERNET, THANK YOU FOR ALWAYS JOINING
- 22:57US AND BEING A PART OF THE OFFERINGS. WE'VE GOT BIG
- 23:01THINGS HAPPENING THIS YEAR, AND IT'S JUST AN EXCITING
- 23:04TIME. WE KEEP TELLING YOU THAT, BUT THERE ARE THINGS
- 23:07IN THE WORKS. SO BE FAITHFUL. YOUR TITHES, YOUR
- 23:09OFFERINGS, CONTINUE TO BE PART OF WHAT GOD'S DOING.
- 23:13AND I DON'T LIKE IT WHEN THE WORLDLY PEOPLE HAVE ALL THE
- 23:15MONEY. YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WILL SAY, "OH, THAT CHURCH, ALL
- 23:19THEY EVER WANT IS YOUR MONEY." AND THEY'LL, BUT
- 23:22THEN THEY'LL GO HAND IT OFF TO SATAN'S KINGDOM AT DISNEY
- 23:24WORLD OR SOMETHING ELSE, YOU KNOW, TO PAY FOR THEIR KIDS
- 23:27TO SEE WITCHCRAFT SPELLS AND ALL KINDS OF CRAZY THINGS.
- 23:31AND, YOU KNOW, I'D RATHER SEE IT GO INTO THE THINGS OF
- 23:33THE KINGDOM OF GOD. AMEN. WOULDN'T YOU? SO ALL RIGHT.
- 23:38WELL, USHERS, I'M GOING TO KEEP IT BRIEF TONIGHT. SO
- 23:43YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND BEGIN TO SERVE THE PEOPLE IF THEY
- 23:45HAVE THEIR PHONES OR THEY'RE OFFERING ENVELOPES READY.
- 23:50AND ALL OF YOU, THANK YOU AGAIN FOR JOINING US ONLINE.
- 23:54I WANT TO GET INTO THE WORD TONIGHT BECAUSE I'VE GOT
- 23:56SOMETHING THAT I REALLY JUST WANT TO PREACH. I'M GONNA
- 24:00LIKE GO A FULL ON BROTHER COPELAND AS ALEX SAID. I
- 24:02DON'T KNOW WHERE HE'S AT, BUT ANYWAY, HE'S FLOOR
- 24:05DIRECTING TONIGHT. BUT I GAVE HIM MY SCRIPTURES, HE
- 24:08GOES, "OKAY, IT'S A BROTHER COPELAND SERMON." I SAID,
- 24:10"WELL, I DON'T THINK I'D HAVE AS MANY GOOD STORIES,
- 24:13"BUT WE CAN GET INTO IT. "WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT
- 24:15SOWING AND REAPING TONIGHT, "BUT NOT SO MUCH FROM THE
- 24:19FINANCIALS, SO DON'T GET NERVOUS." I THINK A LOT OF
- 24:22TIMES WE READ MARK 4 AND WE READ IT MORE, A LOT OF
- 24:28TIMES, AS A SEED PRINCIPLE FOR GIVING, AND I THINK
- 24:31THAT'S RIGHT, BUT THERE'S SO MUCH MORE TO THE SEED
- 24:34PRINCIPLE, AND I JUST WANNA REALLY BRING IT OUT, AND
- 24:37I'LL KINDA TALK THROUGH THIS AS TO WHY I FEEL THIS IS SO
- 24:41IMPORTANT IN THIS CURRENT CULTURE. AND SO LET'S GO TO
- 24:45GALATIANS, IF YOU'RE READY, YOU'VE SOWN, USHERS ARE
- 24:48DOING THEIR THING. GIVE A HAND CLAP TO THE USHERS. ALL
- 24:532 OF THEM OVER THERE. THAT'S GOOD, OH, SO GOOD. BY THE
- 24:59WAY, I WANNA REMIND EVERYBODY, PASTOR MATT AND
- 25:02OTHERS HAVE BEEN WORKING HARD ON THE OUTREACH EVENT
- 25:04AT THE CWS, AND SO BOB THERE WILL GIVE US ALL THE, HAS
- 25:10ALL THE INFO ON IT. IT'S JUST GONNA BE, I FEEL LIKE,
- 25:15ONE OF THE MOST MASSIVE CITYWIDE OUTREACHES WE'VE
- 25:19BEEN A PART OF AS A CHURCH, AND JUST BEING ABLE TO BE
- 25:23PART OF THAT. IN FACT, IT'S SO MUCH SO THAT DURING THE
- 25:25COLLEGE WORLD SERIES, WE'RE JUST BECAUSE WE WANNA GET AS
- 25:29MANY VOLUNTEERS THAT'LL HELP, WITNESS, DO DIFFERENT
- 25:32THINGS. AND IT'S NOT JUST AT THE BASEBALL PARK THAT WE'RE
- 25:35GONNA BE, WE'RE GONNA HAVE WITNESSING TEAMS ON THE
- 25:38GROUND DOWNTOWN. AND YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF LOST
- 25:41PEOPLE, A LOT OF THEM. AND SOMETIMES I FOUND OUT IF YOU
- 25:45WALK UP TO PEOPLE AND TALK TO THEM, YOU'D BE SURPRISED
- 25:49HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE JUST WILLING TO RECEIVE PRAYER.
- 25:52IF YOU JUST SAY, "HEY, CAN I PRAY FOR YOU?" AND YOU PRAY
- 25:55A BRIEF PRAYER. I'VE NEVER HAD ANYBODY SAY, "GET AWAY
- 25:57FROM ME," OR, "NO, I WON'T." YOU KNOW, THEY'RE ALWAYS
- 26:00LIKE, "WELL, I COULD RECEIVE A PRAYER." SO ANYWAY, SO
- 26:03IT'S GONNA BE JUST AN AMAZING TIME. WE'RE GONNA
- 26:05PROBABLY DO SOME ONLINE WEDNESDAYS DURING THE CWS SO
- 26:08WE CAN GET AS MANY PEOPLE THAT ARE PHYSICALLY ABLE TO
- 26:12BE BOOTS ON THE GROUND AND JUST LET'S REACH PEOPLE.
- 26:16LET'S BE A LIGHT IN A DARK PLACE, AMEN. GIVE GOD A HAND
- 26:19FOR THAT. SO ALL THE INFORMATION, BOB, WILL BE
- 26:22OUT AND ABOUT AND YOU'RE STILL PUTTING THINGS
- 26:24TOGETHER, I KNOW THAT, BUT WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT IT. ALL
- 26:27RIGHT, GALATIANS 6, AND I'M GONNA ACTUALLY START IN THE
- 26:31NEW LIVING. SO LET ME READ THIS TO YOU. I WANNA READ IT
- 26:35IN CONTEXT AND THEN KIND OF BREAK IT DOWN A LITTLE BIT,
- 26:38BUT IT SAYS IN VERSE 10, THOSE WHO WERE TAUGHT THE
- 26:42WORD OF GOD SHOULD PROVIDE FOR THEIR TEACHERS, SHARING
- 26:46ALL GOOD THINGS WITH THEM. NOW, I READ THAT BECAUSE
- 26:50THAT GIVES CONTEXT TO THE CHAPTER. I WOULD ENCOURAGE
- 26:55YOU, YOU KNOW, IN YOUR BIBLE TIME, YOUR STUDY TIME TO
- 26:59SPEND A LITTLE BIT OF TIME GETTING CONTEXT TO
- 27:03SCRIPTURE. FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN YOU READ 2 CORINTHIANS 10
- 27:07AND 4, WHERE IT SAYS THE WEAPONS OF OUR WARFARE ARE
- 27:09NOT CARNAL. OKAY, WE QUOTE THAT A LOT. MIGHTY THROUGH
- 27:13GOD TO THE PULLING DOWN OF STRONGHOLDS, WE QUOTE THAT.
- 27:16ACTUALLY, IF YOU REALLY STUDY THE CONTEXT, I'M NOT
- 27:19TAKING AWAY OUR WARFARE SCRIPTURE, I'M JUST SAYING
- 27:21IF YOU STUDY THE CONTEXT, PAUL, WHAT HE SAID IS THE
- 27:26WEAPONS OF OUR WARFARE, THAT WORD WARFARE THERE MEANS OUR
- 27:29APOSTOLIC CAREER. YOU CAN GO LOOK IT UP. OUR APOSTOLIC
- 27:32POSITIONAL AUTHORITY IS NOT CARNAL, AS SOME HAVE SAID.
- 27:37NOW YOU GO READ THIS IN OTHER TRANSLATIONS, AND
- 27:39YOU'LL PROVE OUT THAT WHAT I'M TELLING YOU IS THE
- 27:41TRUTH. AS SOME HAVE SUGGESTED, PAUL WAS REALLY
- 27:45DEFENDING HIS APOSTOLIC POSITION AT THAT POINT TO
- 27:49GOVERN THE CHURCH. AND SO, NOW, THE PRINCIPLE IS TRUE,
- 27:54OKAY? THE WEAPONS OF OUR WARFARE ARE NOT CARNAL. THEY
- 27:56ARE MIGHTY THROUGH GOD TO THE PULLING DOWN OF
- 27:59STRONGHOLDS, BUT WHAT PAUL WAS TEACHING THERE IS THE
- 28:03PULLING DOWN OF STRONGHOLDS THAT HAVE BLINDED PEOPLE'S
- 28:05MINDS TO THE AUTHORITY THAT GOD GAVE HIM TO GOVERN THE
- 28:08CHURCH. SO I ENCOURAGE YOU TO GO STUDY THAT. MY POINT
- 28:13IN SAYING THAT IS NOT TO TAKE AWAY OUR WARFARE
- 28:14SCRIPTURE, BUT TO REMIND US, 'CAUSE IT'S STILL TRUE, YOU
- 28:17STILL GOTTA CAST OUT THOUGHTS. YOU STILL GOTTA
- 28:20GET RID OF THINGS THAT YOU THINK ABOUT THAT YOU
- 28:22SHOULDN'T BE THINKING ABOUT AND CAST THOSE THINGS OUT OF
- 28:25YOUR MIND. BUT THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, IS IT'S
- 28:29IMPORTANT TO GAIN CONTEXT. IF YOU AGREE WITH THAT, SAY
- 28:32AMEN. ALL RIGHT, SO LET'S GAIN A LITTLE CONTEXT IN
- 28:37GALATIANS. GALATIANS 6, THOSE WHO ARE TAUGHT THE
- 28:40WORD OF GOD SHOULD PROVIDE FOR THEIR TEACHERS, SHARING
- 28:44ALL GOOD THINGS WITH THEM. SO IT'S TALKING ABOUT
- 28:47PLANTING GOOD SEEDS TO THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN A BLESSING IN
- 28:51YOUR LIFE, RIGHT? AND I BELIEVE IT'S DEEPER THAN
- 28:54JUST YOUR TEACHERS, YOUR SPIRITUAL INSTRUCTORS. I
- 28:58BELIEVE IT'S EACH OTHER IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. WE
- 29:01RECEIVE, LOOK HOW YOU RECEIVE FROM ONE ANOTHER IN
- 29:04THE ROOM TODAY. SO THE CONTEXT IS THAT WE ARE
- 29:07PLANTING THE RIGHT SEEDS TO THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN A
- 29:11BLESSING TO US. THAT'S THE CONTEXT, BUT WE'RE GONNA GET
- 29:14BROADER THAN THAT. SO THEN HE GOES ON TO SAY, "DON'T BE
- 29:18MISLED. "YOU CANNOT MOCK THE JUSTICE OF GOD." IN OTHER
- 29:23WORDS, GOD KEEPS AN ACCOUNT OF EVERYTHING, DOESN'T HE?
- 29:27SO DON'T EVER FORGET THAT. GOD SEES IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN
- 29:30MISTREATED, ANYBODY'S MISHANDLED YOU, MAYBE YOU
- 29:35FEEL LIKE YOU GOT THE SHORT END OF THE STICK AT WORK OR
- 29:37SOMETHING HAPPENED. JUST REMEMBER, GOD KEEPS ACCOUNT
- 29:41OF EVERYTHING WE DO, BUT ALSO WHAT OTHERS DO. AND
- 29:44THAT'S WHY I BELIEVE PASTOR HANK IS SO CONFIDENT ABOUT
- 29:47AMERICA. LISTEN, YOU KEEP SOWING RIGHTEOUSNESS, YOU
- 29:50KEEP DOING WHAT'S RIGHT, YOU DEDICATE A NATION TO GOD,
- 29:53COME ON SOMEBODY. AND THAT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
- 29:57AND THOSE THAT DO EVIL, IT ALWAYS COMES TO LIGHT,
- 30:01DOESN'T IT? SO YOU CANNOT MOCK THE JUSTICE OF GOD. NOW
- 30:06WATCH THIS PART. YOU WILL ALWAYS, SOMEBODY SAY ALWAYS.
- 30:11HARVEST, SAY HARVEST. NOW YOU LOOK HOW MANY TIMES IT
- 30:15USES THE WORD HARVEST HERE. YOU WILL ALWAYS HARVEST WHAT
- 30:19YOU PLANT. THOSE WHO ONLY LIVE TO SATISFY THEIR SINFUL
- 30:25NATURE OR THEIR FLESH WILL HARVEST, SOMEBODY SAY
- 30:29HARVEST, DECAY AND THEY'LL HARVEST DEATH FROM THAT
- 30:33SINFUL NATURE. BUT THOSE WHO LIVE TO PLEASE THE SPIRIT
- 30:38WILL HARVEST EVERLASTING LIFE FROM THE SPIRIT. SO 3
- 30:43TIMES NOW WE'VE SEEN THE WORD HARVEST, OKAY? SO
- 30:48WHATEVER YOU SOW, YOU CAN'T MOCK THE JUSTICE OF GOD,
- 30:53WHAT YOU CHOOSE TO DO, WHAT YOU SOW IN LIFE IS
- 30:57DETERMINES, RIGHT, THE HARVEST THAT YOU RECEIVE. SO
- 31:01LET'S NOT GET TIRED, VERSE 9, OF DOING THE RIGHT
- 31:04THINGS, AMEN. SOMETIMES HAVE YOU EVER FELT LIKE YOU'RE
- 31:07TRYING TO DO ALL THE RIGHT THINGS AND EVERYBODY ELSE
- 31:10FEELS LIKE THEY'RE GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER AND YOU'VE
- 31:13BEEN DOING THE RIGHT THINGS AND OTHER PEOPLE SEEM TO BE
- 31:15GETTING ALONG JUST FINE AND THEY CUSS LIKE A SAILOR AND
- 31:18DO ALL THE WRONG THINGS AND YOU'RE LIKE, WELL, LORD,
- 31:20I'VE STAYED THE COURSE. WELL, DON'T EVER GET TIRED
- 31:23OF DOING THE RIGHT THING. OKAY, DON'T WORRY ABOUT, THE
- 31:27BIBLE TEACHES, DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE WICKED IF THEY
- 31:29SEEM LIKE THEY PROSPER. JUST KEEP DOING WHAT YOU KNOW TO
- 31:33DO. COME ON, NUDGE YOUR NEIGHBORS, SAY, "STAY THE
- 31:35COURSE." OKAY, NUDGE SOMEBODY ELSE, SAY, "HARVEST
- 31:39DAY'S ON THE WAY." HALLELUJAH. SO DON'T GET
- 31:44TIRED OF DOING THE THINGS THAT ARE RIGHT. AT JUST THE
- 31:47RIGHT TIME, WE WILL REAP A HARVEST. COME ON, I LOVE
- 31:58THAT. THE 4TH TIME IT USES THE WORD HARVEST. WE WILL
- 32:02REAP A HARVEST OF BLESSING IF WE DON'T GIVE UP. I MEAN,
- 32:06THAT'S WHY, YOU KNOW, ALL OUR LIVES WE'VE TITHED,
- 32:09WE'VE GIVEN OFFERINGS. I ALWAYS TELL PEOPLE, "WELL,
- 32:12IF YOU'RE NEW TO THE THINGS OF THE KINGDOM AND YOU START
- 32:14TITHING, YOU KNOW, THIS ISN'T A JACKPOT MACHINE. YOU
- 32:17DON'T PUT THE TITHE IN THE OFFERING PLATE AND PULL THE
- 32:19LEVER AND, YOU KNOW, EXPECT MONEY TO FLY OUT." IT'S A
- 32:24HABIT THAT WE GET INTO THAT WE DO ACCORDING TO GOD'S
- 32:29WORD, KNOWING THAT IT IS A LIFELONG COMMITMENT. OKAY?
- 32:33YOU DIDN'T GET SAVED AND THEN DECIDED TO BE UNSAVED.
- 32:36IF YOU DO THAT, THAT'S STUPID. YOU MADE, WHEN YOU
- 32:39GAVE YOUR HEART TO JESUS, YOU MADE A LIFELONG
- 32:41COMMITMENT IN WHAT HE SAYS YOU'LL DO. AND THE SAME WAY
- 32:46WITH TITHING AND GIVING OFFERINGS, WE MAKE THE
- 32:48COMMITMENT. IN OTHER WORDS, WE DON'T GIVE UP. THEREFORE,
- 32:53WHENEVER WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY, SO THE CONTEXT
- 32:58HERE IS REALLY ABOUT BLESSING OTHER PEOPLE,
- 33:01PLANTING SEEDS OF GOOD IN SOMEBODY ELSE. WHENEVER WE
- 33:05HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY, WE SHOULD DO GOOD TO EVERYONE,
- 33:10ESPECIALLY THE FAMILY OF FAITH. BOY, DON'T WE NEED
- 33:14THAT REMINDER RIGHT NOW. I MEAN, THE FAMILY OF FAITH THAT WE DO
- 33:18RIGHT BY PEOPLE. WE DON'T GET ONLINE AND ARGUE AND
- 33:20BICKER AND FUSS AND PUT PEOPLE DOWN AND, WELL, DON'T
- 33:25YOU KNOW THEY NEED TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE? MAYBE THEY
- 33:27DO, BUT LAST I REMEMBER, GOD'S ALIVE AND HE KNOWS HOW
- 33:30TO TAKE CARE OF PEOPLE. GOD KNEW HOW TO BRING PEOPLE UP
- 33:34AND PUT PEOPLE DOWN BEFORE THERE WAS FACEBOOK. PRAISE
- 33:37THE LORD. OKAY, HE DIDN'T ALWAYS NEED OUR HELP. SO,
- 33:43WHAT WE LEARNED HERE IS THAT THERE IS THE SEED PRINCIPLE.
- 33:48IF WE CONTINUE TO SOW CERTAIN CHOICES, THOSE
- 33:52CHOICES BEAR A HARVEST IN OUR LIVES. AND THAT'S WHAT I
- 33:56WANNA CAMP ON TONIGHT. WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT THE PARABLE
- 33:59OF THE SOWER. BUT HERE'S WHAT WE NEED TO REMEMBER
- 34:02BECAUSE IN THIS CURRENT CULTURE, PEOPLE ARE, THEY'RE
- 34:06JUST RASH. PEOPLE JUST DO ANYTHING WITHOUT THINKING
- 34:09ABOUT IT. BUT WE HAVE TO REMEMBER, EVERYTHING IN OUR
- 34:12LIFE NOW IS A SEED. IT'S A SEED. EVERY CHOICE, THINK
- 34:17ABOUT IT. EVERY WORD WE UTTER, JAMES 3 SAYS THAT OUR
- 34:23TONGUE SETS ON FIRE THE COURSE OF NATURE. IN OTHER
- 34:28WORDS, IT SETS NATURE IN MOTION. EVERYTHING WE SAY IS
- 34:33A SEED. EVERY DECISION THAT WE MAKE, THINK ABOUT THAT.
- 34:39EVERY ATTITUDE, BECAUSE ATTITUDES LEAD TO ACTIONS,
- 34:43DON'T THEY? EVERY ATTITUDE, OKAY, EVERY NEGATIVE
- 34:47THOUGHT, JESUS TALKED ABOUT THAT. ALL OF OUR CHOICES,
- 34:52THEY ARE SEEDS, ACTIONS, ATTITUDES. EACH SEED, IF
- 34:55IT'S CULTIVATED AND IT CONTINUES, IT WILL BEAR A
- 34:58HARVEST. AND THIS WORKS IN THE NEGATIVE WAY, RIGHT? BUT
- 35:03IT WORKS IN THE POSITIVE WAY. WE'LL TALK TONIGHT
- 35:05ABOUT HOW TO CULTIVATE THE RIGHT SEEDS. BUT WE NEED TO
- 35:08TAKE A MOMENT TO THINK ABOUT NOT CULTIVATING THE WRONG
- 35:11SEEDS. 'CAUSE THE CULTURE RIGHT NOW, YOU THINK ABOUT
- 35:16THE WAY IT IS, PEOPLE DO THINGS MORE TODAY WITHOUT
- 35:20THINKING THAN WE'VE EVER, EVER SEEN BEFORE.
- 35:24PEOPLE JUST RASHLY GO OUT THERE. IN FACT, I GOT A TEXT
- 35:28FROM A MINISTER JUST THE OTHER DAY, AND THEY SAID,
- 35:31"I DON'T KNOW. "I GOTTA GET SOME ADVICE."
- 35:34AND THEY SAID, "I PUT OUT, I WROTE A
- 35:38POST TWICE "TO DELETE IT AT TWICE."
- 35:40(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 35:41AND YOU KNOW, THAT'S GOOD THOUGH, 'CAUSE WE'RE
- 35:43THINKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE TO THINK ABOUT IN
- 35:45THE SOWING OF SEED, YOUR MOUTH, WHAT WE SAY, OUR
- 35:49ATTITUDE. AND THINK ABOUT WHAT IS GONNA BE THE
- 35:51ULTIMATE HARVEST THAT'S GONNA COME FROM IT. YOU
- 35:55KNOW, I CAN LOOK BACK ON MY LIFE, AND I'M NOT QUITE 60,
- 35:58PASTOR'S THERE. HONEY, YOU GOT A YEAR ON ME. AND IF
- 36:04YOU'RE WATCHING, THEY SAID WOO. SO JUST SO YOU KNOW.
- 36:08BUT HERE'S THE REALITY. I CAN LOOK BACK ON MY LIFE AND
- 36:11I CAN THINK ABOUT THERE WERE THINGS AT THE TIME THAT I
- 36:14MADE DECISIONS. I'M NOT TALKING SINFUL THINGS. I'M
- 36:17TALKING EVERYDAY THINGS THAT WE CHOOSE TO DO. THERE WERE
- 36:21THINGS THAT I DID AND AT THE TIME I THOUGHT, THIS IS A
- 36:23GREAT IDEA. I GOTTA CALL THAT, I GOTTA DO THAT, I'M
- 36:28GONNA WRITE THAT, I'M GONNA SAY THAT. YOU THOUGHT AT THE
- 36:32TIME, THIS IS A GREAT IDEA. AND HOW MANY OF YOU EVER HAD
- 36:36A GREAT IDEA, AND THEN 2, 3, 4, 8 YEARS LATER, YOU'RE
- 36:41LIKE, THAT WAS THE DUMBEST THING I EVER DID. I WISH I
- 36:45WOULD HAVE NEVER CALLED THAT PERSON. I WISH I WOULD HAVE
- 36:48NEVER SENT THAT LETTER. COME ON, SOMEBODY. I WISH I WOULD
- 36:52HAVE NEVER WENT TO THAT PLACE. I WISH I NEVER WOULD
- 36:55HAVE SCREAMED AT THEM. COME ON, I WISH I NEVER WOULD
- 36:59HAVE YELLED LIKE THAT. OH, COME ON, WE'VE ALL BEEN
- 37:02THERE. AND SO WE SOW THE SEED IN THE MOMENT. BUT WE
- 37:07DON'T ALWAYS THINK ABOUT WHAT IS THE LONG-TERM GOAL.
- 37:12COME ON, HUSBANDS AND WIVES. NEXT TIME YOU WANNA GET IN
- 37:15AN ARGUMENT, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, THE IMMEDIATE HARVEST
- 37:18IS YOU'RE NOT GONNA GET NO SLEEP THAT NIGHT. OKAY, IF
- 37:21YOU'RE GONNA FIGHT, RIGHT? SO THINK ABOUT IT. YOU GOTTA
- 37:25THINK ABOUT WHAT IS THE LONG-TERM GOAL? YOU KNOW, A
- 37:27LOT OF PEOPLE, REALLY THE REASON PEOPLE END UP IN
- 37:30DIVORCE IS THEY MAKE DECISIONS AND CHOICES
- 37:34BECAUSE WHERE THEY DID NOT THINK ABOUT THE OUTCOME.
- 37:37THEY DIDN'T THINK ABOUT WHAT HARVEST DAY WAS GONNA BRING.
- 37:40HARVEST DAY ALWAYS COME. THE BIBLE SAYS THE WAGES OF SIN
- 37:44IS DEATH. AND THAT'S NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT ETERNAL
- 37:47DEATH, THAT CAN BRING DEATH NOW. OKAY, DEATH TO
- 37:50RELATIONSHIPS, DEATH TO JOBS, DEATH TO BUSINESSES.
- 37:55YOU KNOW, YOU THINK ABOUT MANY PEOPLE LOST THEIR WHOLE
- 37:58FAMILY AND THEIR CAREER BECAUSE THEY RAN OUT IN THE
- 38:01RASH OF THE MOMENT AND COMMITTED ADULTERY. AND
- 38:04THEIR LIFE WAS NEVER THE SAME, NEVER THE SAME. THEY
- 38:08DID NOT THINK ABOUT THE HARVEST THAT WAS TO COME.
- 38:12AND THIS IS WHAT PAUL IS TALKING ABOUT. BE NOT
- 38:14DECEIVED, GOD'S NOT MOCKED. IF WE SOW TO OUR FLESH,
- 38:17WE'LL LOVE THE FLESH, REAP THE RESULT. AND SO I THINK
- 38:21MORE THAN ANY OTHER TIME IN HISTORY, WE NEED TO THINK
- 38:26ABOUT THE SEEDS THAT WE SOW FOR THE HARVEST THAT WE
- 38:31RECEIVE. AND IN THE LONG TERM, YOU ONE DAY, I MEAN,
- 38:35HERE'S THE THING, SOME PEOPLE, AND I DON'T KNOW
- 38:37WHAT HAPPENS, BUT WE'RE GONNA READ MARK 4, BUT THE
- 38:41REALITY IS, HOW MANY TIMES, SOME HARVESTS THAT COME ARE
- 38:45LIKE A DANDELION. THEY COME UP OVERNIGHT AND THEY'RE
- 38:47INSTANT. OTHER ONES ARE LIKE AN OAK TREE. THEY TAKE
- 38:51FOREVER. NOW I'M TALKING HARVESTS ON BOTH SIDES. I'M
- 38:53NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT THE GOOD ONES. YOU KNOW, SOME
- 38:56PEOPLE THINK THEY GOT AWAY WITH SOMETHING. AND ALL OF A
- 39:00SUDDEN, X AMOUNT OF YEARS LATER, DECADES LATER,
- 39:03SOMETHING COMES UP, SOMETHING HAPPENS, AND ALL
- 39:06OF A SUDDEN, ALL OF IT CAME OUT AND IT HAPPENED. OKAY,
- 39:10WE'VE SEEN THAT LATELY, HAVEN'T WE? WHERE PEOPLE'S
- 39:13CHOICES THAT WERE MADE YEARS AGO, ALL OF A SUDDEN NOW,
- 39:16HERE IT IS, ALL OUT IN THE FOREFRONT. SAME WAY WITH THE
- 39:20OPPOSITE SIDE. WE MAKE CHOICES, SO TO THE SPIRIT.
- 39:24IT MAY NOT THINK, AND I KNOW THIS IS PREACHING TO
- 39:27SOMEBODY, IT MAY NOT SEEM LIKE YOU'RE GETTING ANY
- 39:29HARVEST. YOU STILL LIVE IN THE SAME DUMPY APARTMENT,
- 39:33RIDE THE SAME OLD CAR, FEEL LIKE YOU'LL NEVER GET AHEAD,
- 39:37TOOK A PAY CUT LAST YEAR, AND YOU'RE LIKE, WELL GOD, I
- 39:40TITHE. I'VE BEEN SOWING, I'M DOING THE RIGHT THINGS. I'M
- 39:45MAKING THE RIGHT CHOICES, AND IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE I'M
- 39:48GETTING ANYWHERE IN THIS SITUATION. I FEEL LIKE I'M
- 39:52JUST RIDING THE SAME OLD STATIONARY BICYCLE GOING
- 39:56NOWHERE. I MEAN, YOU'LL LOSE WEIGHT IF YOU DO THAT, BUT
- 39:59I'M JUST TELLING YOU. AT LEAST YOU GOT SOMETHING OUT
- 40:02OF IT. BUT THE REALITY IS, EVEN ON THE POSITIVE SIDE,
- 40:08SOME SEEDS, IT SEEMS LIKE THEY TAKE FOREVER TO
- 40:12MANIFEST. AND I DON'T ALWAYS UNDERSTAND THAT. YOU KNOW,
- 40:16AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN MAYBE A LITTLE BIT IN MARK
- 40:184, THAT IT'S GOD THAT DETERMINES THE HARVEST TIME,
- 40:21HE DETERMINES THE SEASON. BUT IT CAN GO BOTH WAYS.
- 40:25SOME THINGS HAPPEN INSTANTLY. IT'S LIKE THAT
- 40:27UGLY DANDELION, IT JUST COMES UP. OTHER THINGS TAKE
- 40:31TIME. BUT THE KEY IS, IS WHAT SEEDS WE'RE SOWING ARE
- 40:35WHAT MATTERS. KEEP CHOOSING. THAT'S WHAT GALATIANS IS
- 40:40TELLING US. KEEP SOWING THE RIGHT SEEDS. KEEP SOWING.
- 40:45DON'T GET WEARY IN WELL-DOING. DON'T QUIT AND
- 40:50JUST GIVE UP 'CAUSE SOMEBODY ELSE DID. AMEN. OR JUST
- 40:56BECAUSE THE WHOLE CULTURE'S ON ITS EAR DOESN'T MEAN THAT
- 40:59YOU HAVE TO BE. SO WHAT WE SOW, WE REAP IN THIS LIFE.
- 41:04SO THE WHOLE CULTURE IS JUST RASH NOW. AND I THINK WHAT I
- 41:09WANNA DO IN 2 WAYS, WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT HOW TO
- 41:11CULTIVATE A GOOD HARVEST, BUT I THINK IN BOTH WAYS,
- 41:14WHAT I WANNA REMIND US OF, WE'RE IN A CULTURE RIGHT NOW
- 41:17WHERE EVERYTHING IS ENCOURAGING US TO JUST DO
- 41:21WHAT YOU FEEL IN THE MINUTE. I WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT
- 41:24SCRIPTURE TODAY, 2 TIMOTHY 3, IT SAYS, "IN THE LAST
- 41:27DAYS, "DANGEROUS TIMES SHALL COME, "MEN WILL BE LOVERS OF
- 41:30THEMSELVES, "LUSTFUL, BOASTFUL, PROUD, DISOBEDIENT
- 41:34TO PARENTS." AND ONE OF THE WORDS IN THE KING JAMES, I
- 41:37DON'T KNOW, THOSE OF YOU THAT READ ANOTHER
- 41:39TRANSLATION OR MAYBE THE NEW LIVING, IN THE KING JAMES IT
- 41:42SAID, "THEY'LL BE HEADY." THE WORD HEADY THERE MEANS
- 41:45RASH. YOU THINK ABOUT ALL OF THESE PEOPLE THAT RUN OUT ON
- 41:50THE STREETS, THESE NO KINGS MARCHES, AND SOME DUMB-DUMB
- 41:56RUNS OUT THERE AND TRIES TO TAKE ON A POLICE OFFICER AND
- 41:59GETS SHOT DEAD. NOW, DANDELION CAME UP THE DAY HE
- 42:03DID IT. BUT I THINK TO MYSELF, NOW HOW STUPID WAS
- 42:07THAT? YOU DIDN'T THINK ABOUT THE DANGER OF GOING OUT
- 42:10THERE. YOU WENT BECAUSE SOMEBODY TOLD YOU TO, NUMBER
- 42:15ONE. YOU WENT OUT THERE BECAUSE, AND YOU DEVELOPED
- 42:19AN ATTITUDE, BUT THEY DIDN'T THINK ABOUT THE POTENTIAL
- 42:24EVEN, FOR THE RESULT THAT COULD COME FROM DOING
- 42:29SOMETHING LIKE THAT. PEOPLE DON'T THINK ABOUT THAT. YOU
- 42:33KNOW, HOW MANY OF YOU WERE HERE WHEN I PREACHED THE
- 42:34DON'T DIE DUMB TEACHING? YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE REASON
- 42:38PEOPLE DIE EARLY, THEY DO DUMB THINGS, BUT THEY DON'T
- 42:41THINK ABOUT THE HARVEST. THEY DON'T THINK ABOUT THE
- 42:43FACT THAT THEY GO FLYING DOWN THE INTERSTATE ON A
- 42:45MOTORCYCLE AT 95 MILES AN HOUR, ZIPPING THROUGH
- 42:48TRAFFIC, THAT SOME CAR COULD NOT SEE THEM AND POTENTIALLY
- 42:54MAKE A MISTAKE AND THEY WOULD BE IN ETERNITY IN A
- 42:56MOMENT. THERE ARE COUNTLESS PEOPLE THAT ARE IN ETERNITY
- 42:59THAT DIDN'T THINK ABOUT HARVEST DAY. SO IT'S
- 43:03IMPORTANT IN THIS CURRENT CULTURE THAT, YOU KNOW, I
- 43:06WAS THINKING OF THAT SCRIPTURE. I THINK IT'S IN
- 43:08EPHESIANS THAT SAYS THAT WE WALK CIRCUMSPECTLY. IN OTHER
- 43:13WORDS, MAKING A FULL, WELL-ROUNDED CHOICE ON THE
- 43:16THINGS THAT WE DO. AND ESPECIALLY THE THINGS, I
- 43:19THINK REALLY, IT'S ESPECIALLY THE THINGS THAT
- 43:21WE CHOOSE TO SAY. OUR MOUTH IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST
- 43:25CULPRITS. JAMES 3 SAYS THAT A PERSON COULD JUST BRIDLE
- 43:28THE THINGS THEY SAY, OKAY? IF THEY COULD JUST CONTROL
- 43:33THEIR MOUTH, THE SAME WOULD BE A PERFECT PERSON. WELL,
- 43:37OR A PERFECT PERSON MEANS A MATURE PERSON OR A PERSON
- 43:40THAT HAS MATURITY ABOUT THEM. BUT IF WE COULD JUST
- 43:43CONTROL THE THING THAT COMES OUT OF OUR MOUTH, MATTHEW 12
- 43:47SAYS, "WE'RE BEHELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR EVERY SINGLE
- 43:50WORD "THAT WE SPEAK." NOW, IT'S NOT BECAUSE GOD IS
- 43:53NECESSARILY UP THERE GOING, OH, I HEARD YOU SAY THAT. I
- 43:56DON'T THINK THAT'S THE WAY THE LORD IS. HE'S NOT JUST
- 43:58UP THERE SAYING, "I HEARD YOU, "AND I'M," WRITE THAT
- 44:02DOWN. YOU KNOW, WE GOT A GOOD FATHER. HE LOVES US.
- 44:06THAT'S NOT THE POINT. IT'S NOT THAT GOD IS UP THERE
- 44:09HOLDING US TO TASK, EVEN THOUGH HE DOES REMEMBER,
- 44:13'CAUSE WHEN WE REPENT, THE BLOOD OF JESUS WILL COVER US
- 44:16AND CLEANSE US. BUT THE PROBLEM IS SOMETIMES WHEN WE
- 44:20SAY THINGS, WE CAN'T TAKE BACK THE EFFECT IT HAD
- 44:23SOMEWHERE ELSE. OKAY, THAT'S WHY IT SAYS YOU'LL BE HELD
- 44:27ACCOUNTABLE FOR EVERY IDLE WORD THAT COMES FROM YOUR
- 44:31MOUTH. THAT INCLUDES GOSSIP, AMEN, TALKING BAD ABOUT YOUR
- 44:38FELLOW BELIEVER, POSTS, OKAY. WELL, BUT THEY NEED TO
- 44:43LEARN A LESSON AND I'M GONNA WRITE ABOUT IT ON INSTAGRAM.
- 44:49OKAY, WELL, YOU CAN CHOOSE TO DO THAT, BUT ONCE IT'S
- 44:54OUT THERE, IT'S OUT THERE. HOW MANY OF YOU EVER POSTED
- 44:56SOMETHING YOU WISH YOU DIDN'T POST? OKAY, I'M LIKE,
- 45:02WHY DID I PUT THAT OUT THERE? I KNOW MY HAIR DIDN'T
- 45:04LOOK GOOD. IT'S THE WORST THING IN THE WORLD. OR YOU
- 45:08SAY SOMETHING STUPID. COME ON, SOMEBODY. THE SEEDS WE
- 45:12SOW, EVERY IDLE WORD THAT COMES FROM OUR MOUTH. NOW
- 45:17THIS IS WHY GALATIANS SAYS, GOD'S NOT MOCKED. WHATEVER
- 45:22WE SOW, WE REAP IT OUT. HARVEST DAY ALWAYS COMES.
- 45:29NOW WE CAN AVOID, LISTEN, IF YOU SOW A BAD SEED, HUSBAND
- 45:33AND WIFE SAY YOU HAD A BAD ARGUMENT, I'LL JUST USE THAT
- 45:35AS AN EXAMPLE. EVERYBODY SAID MEAN STUFF, EVERYBODY
- 45:39FEELS BAD, EVERYBODY GO TO BED CRYING, YOU KNOW,
- 45:43WHATEVER IT IS. KIDS UPSET, WHOLE FAMILY'S MAD. Y'ALL
- 45:49LAUGHING 'CAUSE IT'S REAL. OKAY, WE ALL MAD. I SAW THAT
- 45:55FUNNY LITTLE MEME, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS, OR IT WAS
- 45:58A REEL, I FORGET ABOUT THE REELS NOW. IT CAME UP AND IT
- 46:01SAYS, IT SHOWS THIS HUSBAND AND THIS WIFE AND THEY
- 46:04GOT THESE THINGS HOLDING THEIR EYELIDS UP LIKE
- 46:07THIS, LIKE PUSHED UP THEIR EYE. AND IT SAYS,
- 46:09"MY HUSBAND AND I DECIDED "TO NEVER GO
- 46:11TO BED MAD. "WE'VE BEEN UP FOR 3 DAYS."
- 46:13(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 46:16I'M LIKE, OKAY, FINE. SEE, I DON'T HAVE THAT
- 46:19KIND OF ENDURANCE. I'M LIKE, LET'S JUST
- 46:20APOLOGIZE AND GET A GOOD NIGHT'S REST.
- 46:23YOU KNOW, YOU GET OLDER, YOU'RE LIKE, I DON'T HAVE
- 46:25THAT ENERGY NO MORE. ANYWAY, BUT WHAT WE SAY, THE
- 46:29OUTCOME, THE EFFECT, AFTER THE LONG TERM OF IT, YOU
- 46:34THINK DOWN THE ROAD, WHAT WE SAY TO SOMEBODY WITHOUT
- 46:37INGEST OR WE SAY TO SOMEBODY THAT, TO US, IT DIDN'T SEEM
- 46:42TO BE A BIG DEAL, BUT MAYBE TO THEM IT WENT IN THEIR
- 46:44HEART. WE DON'T THINK ABOUT THE HARVEST OF HOW IT
- 46:48AFFECTS PEOPLE. THAT'S SO IMPORTANT. SO THAT'S WHY THE
- 46:52BIBLE SAID LOVE NEVER FAILS. OKAY, SOMETIMES THE BETTER
- 46:56WAY TO DEAL WITH SOMETHING IS JUST LET GOD WORK ON IT,
- 47:02RIGHT? LET GOD DEAL WITH IT. SO THAT'S THE NEGATIVE SIDE
- 47:05OF SEED SOWING. AND IT'S IMPORTANT TO TALK ABOUT
- 47:08BECAUSE IN THIS CURRENT CULTURE, PEOPLE AREN'T
- 47:11THINKING. THEY DON'T THINK ABOUT THE ULTIMATE OUTCOME
- 47:15OF WHAT COULD HAPPEN AND WILL HAPPEN. NOW, JESUS
- 47:18TALKED ABOUT THIS. WE'RE GONNA DIVE INTO IT, BUT
- 47:21LET'S UNDERSTAND THIS, THAT EVERYTHING IN THE EARTH NOW,
- 47:25EVERY SINGLE THING IS BUILT ON A SEED, LIFE AND HARVEST
- 47:32CYCLE. GENESIS 129, GOD SAID THESE WORDS, HE SAID, "I
- 47:36HAVE GIVEN UNTO YOU EVERY TREE WITH HERB BEARING
- 47:43SEED." IN OTHER WORDS, GOD STARTED IT IN THE BOOK OF
- 47:46GENESIS. EVERYTHING WAS BUILT ON A SEED AND A LIFE
- 47:49CYCLE, A SEED TIME AND A HARVEST TIME. EVERYTHING IN
- 47:54THE EARTH IS BUILT ON A SEED PRINCIPLE. WE'RE GONNA TALK
- 47:57ABOUT, JESUS TAUGHT THIS AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN
- 47:59AND AGAIN. AND SO THIS IS SO IMPORTANT BECAUSE I WANT ALL
- 48:02OF US, MYSELF INCLUDED, TO RECEIVE IN EVERYTHING I DO,
- 48:07A GOOD HARVEST, BECAUSE THERE'S ALWAYS AN ENEMY.
- 48:11NOW, WHEN GOD TOLD ADAM AND EVE TO, YOU KNOW, HE SAID,
- 48:15"I'VE GIVEN YOU EVERY SEED, IT'S GOOD FOR FOOD, "I'VE
- 48:18GIVEN YOU ALL OF THESE THINGS," THERE WAS STILL AN
- 48:21ENEMY OUT THERE CREEPING AROUND, TRYING TO STEAL OR
- 48:25GET THEM TO GIVE IN TO A NEGATIVE HARVEST. SO THIS IS
- 48:30VERY IMPORTANT. THEN AFTER THE FLOOD OF NOAH, WE FIND
- 48:33THAT NOAH GETS OFF THE ARK, AND GOD REEMPHASIZES THE
- 48:37IMPORTANT VALUE OF UNDERSTANDING SEED AND
- 48:41HARVEST. HE SAYS THAT AS LONG AS THE EARTH REMAINS,
- 48:45RIGHT, GENESIS 8:22, THERE'LL BE SEED, TIME. I
- 48:49LIKE HOW PASTOR HANK PREACHED THAT. HE PREACHED
- 48:51IT THIS WAY. HE SAID, WHILE THE EARTH REMAINS, THERE'LL
- 48:54BE SEED. YOU COULD ALMOST PUT A SLASH IN BETWEEN THAT
- 48:56WORD, THAT THERE'S A SEED AND THEN THERE'S A TIME. AND
- 49:00LIKE I WAS SAYING A FEW MOMENTS AGO, THERE COULD BE
- 49:02A SHORT TIME, RIGHT? OR THERE COULD BE A LONGER
- 49:05TIME. THERE'S SEED TIME AND THEN EVENTUALLY THERE'S A
- 49:09HARVEST. SO EVERYTHING IN LIFE, THAT'S THE THING.
- 49:12OKAY, TOUCH YOURSELF, SAY YOUR NAME, AND THEN JUST SAY
- 49:15EVERYTHING IN YOUR LIFE IS A SEED, THERE WILL BE A TIME,
- 49:22AND THEN THERE'S A HARVEST. OKAY, SO AS LONG AS THERE IS
- 49:27AN EARTH HERE, WE ARE LIVING IN THE SEED AND HARVEST
- 49:33PRINCIPLE. SO EVERY CHOICE, EVERYTHING WE DO, EVERYTHING
- 49:36WE SAY, GOOD AND BAD, GOD IS NOT MOCKED, WHATEVER A
- 49:39PERSON SOWS, EVENTUALLY THEY'RE GONNA REAP. SO
- 49:43REALIZE THAT. NOW THAT SHOULD ALSO GIVE YOU JOY.
- 49:46DON'T SIT THERE AND BE, OH MY GOODNESS, I'VE DONE SOME
- 49:48STUPID THINGS IN MY LIFE, MY HARVEST IS GONNA, WELL YOU
- 49:51GO TO GOD ABOUT IT. NOW HERE'S THE THING, THERE MAY
- 49:53BE CONSEQUENCES FOR CERTAIN THINGS WE DO THAT MAYBE
- 49:56CAN'T BE UNDONE IN SOME CASES, BUT ALSO THERE ARE
- 50:00THINGS THAT CAN BE UNDONE, OKAY? WE'VE DONE AND SAID
- 50:03STUPID THINGS THAT YOU REPENT OF IT AND YOU WALKED
- 50:06AWAY FROM IT, THAT GOD'LL FORGIVE YOU AND GIVE YOU A
- 50:09BRAND NEW START. SO THAT'S THE THING ABOUT GOD. THE KEY
- 50:12IS STAY CLOSE TO HIM. WE STAY CLOSE TO HIM, IF WE SOW
- 50:15TO THE SPIRITUAL, GALATIANS, WE READ IT, WE WILL RECEIVE
- 50:19A GOOD HARVEST. SO AS LONG AS THE EARTH REMAINS, WE'RE
- 50:23IN SEED TIME AND HARVEST, COLD AND HEAT, SUMMER,
- 50:25WINTER, IT'S FAITHFUL, IT'S ALWAYS GONNA BE THE CASE. SO
- 50:28THIS IS WHAT I WANT US TO SEE TONIGHT, AND IT WORKS IN
- 50:31THE NEGATIVE, AND IT WORKS IN THE POSITIVE. SO LET'S GO
- 50:33TO MARK 4, AND LET'S SEE, HOW CAN WE CULTIVATE THE
- 50:37RIGHT HARVEST IN OUR LIFE? THAT'S WHAT I'M AFTER. IN A
- 50:41CULTURE THAT A LOT OF BAD HARVESTS ARE BEING SOWED,
- 50:44RIGHT? WE WANT TO CULTIVATE THE RIGHT THINGS. SO LET'S
- 50:49TALK ABOUT THIS. ARE YOU GETTING ANYTHING OUT OF IT
- 50:52ALREADY TONIGHT? JESUS TEACHING, MARK 4:13, "AND
- 50:57HE SAID TO THEM, 'IF YOU KNOW THIS PARABLE.'" NOW
- 51:00THIS IS THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER, YOU'VE READ IT
- 51:02BEFORE. IF YOU KNOW THIS PARABLE, YOU WILL THEN KNOW
- 51:07ALL PARABLES. AND NOW HE GOES ON TO TEACH HERE THAT
- 51:11EVERYTHING IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS LIKE SEED AND
- 51:15HARVEST, EVERY SINGLE PART OF IT. SO THIS IS IMPORTANT
- 51:19FOR US TO REMEMBER. IF YOU KNOW THIS PARABLE, IF YOU
- 51:22UNDERSTAND THE TRUTHS OF SEED AND HARVEST, THEN YOU
- 51:26WILL UNDERSTAND ALL THE OTHER PARABLES. NOW THAT'S
- 51:29POWERFUL. JUST THINK ABOUT THAT. IF WE GET THIS ONE
- 51:33DOWN, THAT'S WHY I THINK WE OUGHT TO TALK ABOUT IT
- 51:36TONIGHT. IF WE CAN GET THIS ONE DOWN, THE OTHER ONES ARE
- 51:38GONNA COME TO US NATURAL. IF YOU CAN SAY THAT THESE ARE
- 51:42MY GLASSES AND EVERYTHING I SEE THROUGH THEM IS SEED AND
- 51:45HARVEST BASED. IF I CAN LOOK AT EVERYTHING FROM THAT
- 51:48PERSPECTIVE, I BELIEVE IT WOULD HELP US MAKE BETTER
- 51:51DECISIONS. I THINK IT'LL HELP US TALK DIFFERENT,
- 51:55RIGHT? IF WE KNOW, YOU KNOW, YOU GIVE YOUR TITHE OR YOU
- 51:59GIVE YOUR PENTECOST OFFERING, IT'S OFFERING TIME
- 52:02AND YOU GIVE IT AND THEN YOU GO ON TO, OH, YOU NEVER KNOW
- 52:05WHAT I'M GONNA DO ABOUT MY MONEY, MY FINANCES ARE STILL
- 52:07A MESS AND I DON'T KNOW. WELL, YOU'RE UNDOING, OKAY?
- 52:11YOU'RE DISRUPTING, THAT'S JUST AS GOOD AS PLANTING
- 52:14SEED AND THEN GOING OUT AND DIGGING IT UP AND THROWING
- 52:17IT IN THE GARBAGE TO GO OUT WITH THE GARBAGE MAN ON
- 52:19WEDNESDAY. SO WE HAVE TO REMEMBER THIS. SO EVERYTHING
- 52:24IN THE KINGDOM IS BUILT ON A SEED PRINCIPLE. IT'S NOT
- 52:27JUST FINANCES, ALTHOUGH FINANCES IS HIGHLY INCLUDED
- 52:29IN THAT. SO WE WANT TO UNDERSTAND THE KEY TO THE
- 52:34SEED PRINCIPLE. THE SOWER, VERSE 14, SOWS THE WORD.
- 52:38WELL, OTHER ACCOUNTS OF THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER, HE
- 52:44SOWS THE WORD, IT SAYS THAT THE WORD IS GOD, OR THE WORD
- 52:49OF GOD, HE SOWS THE WORD, JESUS SOWS THE WORD. YOU
- 52:52KNOW, BY THE WAY, HE'S ALWAYS TRYING TO GET A GOOD
- 52:55SEED INTO YOUR HEART. THAT'S WHY I THINK IT'S SO
- 52:58IMPORTANT WHEN WE COME TO CHURCH, WE DON'T JUST GO
- 53:01THROUGH ROUTINE. EVERY SERVICE, TRY TO LEAN IN AND
- 53:06GROW FROM SOMETHING, NO MATTER WHAT THAT IS. TREAT
- 53:10IT AS, "GOD, YOU'RE GONNA HELP ME." THE PASTOR'S
- 53:14TEACHING SOMETHING THAT'S NEW TO YOU. DON'T JUST GO,
- 53:16"I'M NOT SURE I BELIEVE THAT." OKAY, YOU MIGHT NOT
- 53:20BE SURE YOU BELIEVE IT, THAT'S ALL RIGHT. BUT THE
- 53:22BEREANS WENT HOME, THEY TOOK THE SEED, AND THEY STUDIED
- 53:26IT. PAUL SAID, "STUDY IT." AND THEY MADE SURE IT WAS
- 53:30TRUE. A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T EVEN GO THAT FAR. THEY'LL
- 53:34JUST, AGAIN, LET INSTAGRAM BE THEIR TEACHER. AND SO HE
- 53:39SAID, "THE SOWER SOWS THE WORD." SO GOD IS ALWAYS
- 53:41TRYING TO GET A GOOD SEED IN YOUR HEART. DON'T EVER
- 53:43FORGET THAT. THE HOLY SPIRIT, THANK GOD FOR THE
- 53:46HOLY SPIRIT. HE'S ALWAYS THERE. HE TALKS TO US, HE
- 53:49HELPS US. HE'S ALWAYS THERE WHISPERING. THAT'S WHY YOU
- 53:53WANNA FELLOWSHIP WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. TALK TO THEM.
- 53:56PASTOR HANK AND I WERE MAKING A DECISION ON
- 53:58SOMETHING THE OTHER DAY, AND WE WERE SITTING THERE AND
- 54:02JUST PRAYING AND TALKING IT OUT, AND HE SAID, "YOU KNOW,
- 54:06THE HOLY SPIRIT HAD BEEN TALKING TO ME "ABOUT THAT,"
- 54:10AND I THOUGHT, MAN, IT WAS SO TIMELY. I MEAN, I CAN'T
- 54:13TELL YOU WHAT IT IS NOW, BUT YOU MIGHT KNOW SOON ENOUGH.
- 54:16IT'S GOOD STUFF. AND HE SAID, "BUT THANK GOD FOR THE
- 54:19HOLY SPIRIT. "YOU KNOW, HE LEADS YOU, HE TELLS YOU
- 54:23THINGS." OH, I'LL TELL YOU, OH, I KNOW, WELL, THERE'S 2
- 54:26OF 'EM. I'LL TELL YOU ONE, THIS IS A GOOD ONE. CAN I
- 54:29TELL YOU A STORY? I GOTTA GET THROUGH THE WHOLE
- 54:31PARABLE OF THE SOWER, BUT WE'RE GONNA DO THAT. SO WE
- 54:36HAD A CONTRACTOR AT OUR HOUSE, AND ANYWAY, WE FOUND
- 54:40THAT THEY HAD A, ACTUALLY, THEY WERE TYPE ONE DIABETIC.
- 54:43AND WE HAPPENED TO KNOW THAT, 'CAUSE WE'VE KNOWN
- 54:46THEM FOR A BIT. AND ANYWAY, AND OF COURSE, MANY OF YOU
- 54:51KNOW THAT OUR SON JONATHAN'S TYPE ONE DIABETIC, AND SO HE
- 54:54WAS DIAGNOSED AT THE AGE OF 10, AND WE NAVIGATED HIM
- 54:57THROUGH ALL THAT PERIOD OF HIS LIFE. WELL, ALL OF A
- 55:00SUDDEN, PASTOR HANK, HE WAS IN THE HOUSE, AND THIS GUY
- 55:02WAS OUT THERE WORKING AWAY ON SOMETHING OUTSIDE, AND
- 55:08PASTOR HANK SAID, "I HEARD IN MY HEART, GO GIVE THAT
- 55:13MAN A GIFT CERTIFICATE AND GIVE HIM A $100 VISA GIFT
- 55:20CARD." HE GOES, "LORD, I DON'T KNOW IF I HAVE ONE."
- 55:25HE SAID, "I SAID, GO OUT AND GIVE HIM THIS $100 VISA GIFT
- 55:31CARD." SO HE WENT TO THIS LITTLE BASKET WHERE WE HAVE
- 55:34SOME GIFT CARDS AND THE ONE RIGHT ON TOP IS A $100 VISA
- 55:38GIFT CARD. HE SAID, "HOLY SPIRIT, YOU MUST BE SAYING
- 55:41SOMETHING." SO HE SAID, "I SAID, 'GET OUT THERE AND GO
- 55:44RIGHT NOW.'" HE SAID, "WELL, LORD, I'M TRYING TO DO IT."
- 55:47HE SAID, "GO OUT THERE AND GIVE THE MAN THE GIFT CARD."
- 55:50NOW, THIS IS WHERE YOU SAY, "THANK GOD FOR THE HOLY
- 55:52SPIRIT." OKAY? HE'S THERE TO GUIDE US AND HE'S ALWAYS
- 55:55TRYING TO PUT THE RIGHT SEED IN US. SO HE GOES OUT THERE
- 55:58AND THIS MAN IS STANDING THERE AND HE'S PALE, HE
- 56:01DOESN'T LOOK RIGHT. AND PASTOR HANK SAYS TO HIM, HE
- 56:06SAYS, "ARE YOU DOING OKAY?" AND HE WAS NOT VERY
- 56:10COHERENT, COULDN'T TALK RIGHT. AND NOW WE KNEW HE
- 56:13WAS TYPE ONE. HE SAID, SO PASTOR HANK HAD ENOUGH
- 56:16KNOWLEDGE. HE SAID, "WHAT IS YOUR BLOOD SUGAR?" AND HE
- 56:19SAID, HE WAS NOT ANSWERING RIGHT. AND AND WE'VE TALKED
- 56:24DIABETES WITH HIM BEFORE, BUT HE WEARS A CGM, WHICH IS
- 56:28A GLUCOSE MONITOR. SO HE SAID TO HIM, HE SAID, "TELL
- 56:31ME WHERE YOUR PHONE IS." WELL, HE POINTS AT THE CAR
- 56:35OR SOMETHING. HE WAS JUST OUT OF IT. SO PASTOR HANK
- 56:38RUNS OVER THERE, FINDS HIS PHONE ON THE BUMPER OF HIS
- 56:41TRUCK, COMES OVER THERE AND SURE ENOUGH, SEES ON THE
- 56:45PHONE HIS BLOOD SUGAR IS 57. WHICH, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE
- 56:49WORKING OUTSIDE, THAT THING'S GOING DOWN. AND, YOU
- 56:52KNOW, SO, OF COURSE, WE IMMEDIATELY KNEW WHAT TO DO.
- 56:57OKAY, TREATED A FEW 57S IN OUR LIFE. AND TREATED IT AND
- 57:01GOT HIM SETTLED, GAVE HIM A BANANA AND SOME ORANGE JUICE
- 57:04AND GOT HIM SITUATED AND HE SAT THERE FOR A FEW HOURS. I
- 57:07SAID, YOU KNOW, MAYBE YOU SHOULD GO HOME FOR THE
- 57:08NIGHT. HE SAID, NO, I GOT A FEW MORE STUFF TO FINISH. AS
- 57:12SOON AS I'M 100, I'M GOING BACK. BUT THE FUNNY THING
- 57:16IS, IS THIS IS THE THING, THE HOLY SPIRIT'S ALWAYS
- 57:18TRYING TO PUT A SEED IN YOU. THE LORD SAID TO PASTOR
- 57:21HANK, GET OUT THERE AND DO IT RIGHT NOW AND GIVE HIM
- 57:23THAT GIFT CARD. NOW, I MEAN, I'M TELLING YOU, IF YOU'LL
- 57:27LISTEN TO GOD, OKAY, THE SOWER SOWS THE WORD. SO IT'S
- 57:31OUR JOB TO CULTIVATE IT AND REACT AND SOW THE RIGHT
- 57:35SEEDS. YOU KNOW, WHO KNOWS WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED TO
- 57:37THAT MAN HAD WE NOT GONE OUT THERE AND BEEN OBEDIENT
- 57:41TO THE HOLY SPIRIT. HE COULD HAVE BEEN LAID OUT
- 57:43UNDER THE TRUCK AND WE'D NEVER SEEN IT. SO ANYWAY,
- 57:46JUST A GOOD STORY. LISTEN TO THE HOLY
- 57:48GHOST. THANK GOD FOR THE HOLY GHOST.
- 57:50(CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)
- 57:51OH, I LOVE THAT. SO HE SAID, "THESE ARE THEY THAT ARE BY
- 57:54THE WAYSIDE "WHO WHEN GOD IS TRYING TO SOW A WORD IN
- 57:57THEM, "THEY, WHERE THE WORD IS SOWN, "THEY HAVE HEARD
- 58:01AND SATAN COMES IMMEDIATELY "AND TAKES AWAY THAT WORD
- 58:05THAT'S SOWN IN THEIR HEART." NOW THIS IS, CAN ALSO REFER
- 58:08TO PEOPLE THAT ARE JUST REBELLIOUS, THAT REFUSE,
- 58:11RIGHT? THAT THEY'RE JUST REFUSAL TO LISTEN, THEIR
- 58:14REFUSAL TO RECEIVE. BUT IT CAN ALSO BE, AND I WOULD
- 58:17JUST SAY IT LIKE THIS, I ALSO THINK IT COULD BE US IF
- 58:20WE GET IN A ROUTINE. OKAY, ANOTHER PRAISE AND WORSHIP,
- 58:23IT'S ANOTHER SUNDAY. WE JUST KIND OF GET USED TO THE
- 58:26PATTERN, WE GET USED TO THE FLOW, AND WE'RE NOT IN
- 58:30RECEIVING MODE. COME ON, I'VE BEEN THERE. I'VE BEEN
- 58:33THERE, I'M LIKE, OH WELL, WE'RE JUST GONNA GET THROUGH
- 58:35THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA GO ONE MORE TIME. I USED TO
- 58:38THINK ABOUT THAT THE SECOND SERVICE, MAN, WE'D GET DONE
- 58:41WITH THE SERVICE NUMBER ONE, I WENT, WELL, WE GOTTA GO
- 58:43OUT THERE AND DO THAT ALL OVER AGAIN. AND THEN GOD
- 58:46WOULD MOVE MIGHTILY, AND THE 9 O'CLOCK, WE WERE LIKE,
- 58:48HOLY SPIRIT, COME TO THE 11:30. WOO! BUT YOU KNOW, THE
- 58:52KEY IS, IS, YOU KNOW, THE ROUTINE. SO SATAN COMES
- 58:55IMMEDIATELY. IN OTHER WORDS, THERE COULD BE KEY NUGGETS,
- 58:58THERE COULD BE A KEY HEALING. I THINK SOMETIMES
- 59:00THAT HAPPENS WITH CHURCH ATTENDANCE. YOU KNOW, GOD
- 59:03WILL HAVE A WORD FOR SOMEBODY, BUT THEY DIDN'T
- 59:05SHOW. SO IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. SO SATAN COMES
- 59:09IMMEDIATELY TO TAKE AWAY THAT SEED THAT WAS SOWN IN
- 59:14THEIR HEARTS. NOW WATCH THIS. AND THESE ALSO ARE
- 59:17THOSE THAT WERE SOWN ON STONY GROUND. SO THE FIRST
- 59:21GROUP JUST DIDN'T RECEIVE. IT NEVER WENT ANYWHERE. AND
- 59:24THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL AS CHRISTIANS, THAT
- 59:26WE MAKE SURE THAT WORD IS GOING SOMEWHERE. THESE ARE
- 59:29THEY WHICH WERE SOWN ON STONY GROUND, WHO WHEN THEY
- 59:32HAVE HEARD THE WORD, IMMEDIATELY THEY GET
- 59:35EXCITED. I THINK THAT'S A LOT OF PENTECOSTALS.
- 59:38HONESTLY, THEY RECEIVE IT WITH GLADNESS. THEY'RE
- 59:41PUMPED. THEY'RE EXCITED THAT THERE'S PASTORS PREACHING ON
- 59:45AMERICA. OKAY, THEY'RE EXCITED THAT THERE'S
- 59:49PASTORS STANDING UP. RIGHT? THEY'RE PUMPED ABOUT IT.
- 59:52OKAY, BUT HERE WE ARE 6 YEARS LATER AT THE
- 59:54MIDTERMS AND FLASHPOINT'S UP TALKING
- 59:57ABOUT MAKING SURE YOU GET OUT TO VOTE.
- 1:00:00RIGHT, YOU WOULD THINK THAT WOULD BE A GIVEN BY NOW. WE
- 1:00:03WOULD BE LIKE, OKAY, AFTER WHAT WE SAW HAPPEN 2016,
- 1:00:062020, CRAZY STUFF'S GONE ON, YOU WOULD THINK. BY THE WAY,
- 1:00:11HOW MANY OF YOU SAW FLASHPOINT WHEN THEY SHOWED
- 1:00:13THAT LITTLE CLIP OF DAVID BARTON LAST NIGHT THAT
- 1:00:15TALKED ABOUT HOW ONE CHURCH, ONE CHURCH, YOU KNOW, SOME
- 1:00:19OF THESE IDIOTS THAT HAVE GOTTEN INTO OFFICE, GOT IN
- 1:00:23THERE, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW HOW A CHRISTIAN
- 1:00:25CAN VOTE IN A BABY KILLER, OKAY, OR PEOPLE THAT ARE
- 1:00:29STANDING FOR GENDER MUTILATION OF CHILDREN. IT'S
- 1:00:34UNFATHOMABLE TO THINK, BUT THEN THEY'LL GET INTO
- 1:00:38OFFICE, AND SOMETIMES JUST BY THIS TINY LITTLE FRACTION
- 1:00:42OF VOTES, AND IF THE CHURCH IN THAT AREA WOULD HAVE JUST
- 1:00:47RISEN AND GOT OUT THE VOTE AND WENT TO THE POLLS AND
- 1:00:51VOTED, THEY WOULDN'T BE THERE. RIGHT? SO, ANYWAY,
- 1:00:59IMPORTANT, IT'S GOOD. SO, BUT THESE ARE THEY, SO IN
- 1:01:03OTHER WORDS, ANYWAY, THESE ARE THEY WHICH WERE SOWN ON
- 1:01:07STONY GROUND WHEN THEY HEARD, IMMEDIATELY RECEIVE
- 1:01:10IT WITH GLADNESS. RIGHT, THEY GET EXCITED, BUT THEN
- 1:01:14THEY GET IN THE ROUTINE. THAT WAS THE WHOLE POINT OF
- 1:01:16SAYING THAT. THEY GET EXCITED, BUT THEY GET IN A
- 1:01:18ROUTINE, SO THERE'S NO REAL HARVEST. IN OTHER WORDS,
- 1:01:21THEY'RE JUST GOING UP IN THE PRAYER LINE AGAIN BECAUSE
- 1:01:23IT'S HABIT, RIGHT? WE'RE NOT IN RECEIVING MODE. WE'RE NOT
- 1:01:28PRESSING TO RECEIVE. WE'RE NOT LOOKING TO TAKE IT
- 1:01:31ANOTHER LEVEL. SO THEY RECEIVE IT WITH GLADNESS AND
- 1:01:35HAVE NO ROOT IN THEMSELVES. SO ENDURE BUT FOR A TIME.
- 1:01:40THIS IS A LOT OF WHAT WE'RE SEEING IN AMERICA RIGHT NOW
- 1:01:43WITH THE CONSERVATIVE VALUES. THEY ENDURE FOR A
- 1:01:47LITTLE WHILE, BUT WHEN AFFLICTION AND PERSECUTION
- 1:01:51ARISES, FOR THE WORD'S SAKE, WELL, OF COURSE YOU'RE GONNA
- 1:01:54BE PERSECUTED IF YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THINGS,
- 1:01:57OKAY? I MEAN, YOU THINK ABOUT HOW MANY FAMILY
- 1:01:59MEMBERS TOLD PEOPLE, OH, WELL, YOU SHOULDN'T TITHE.
- 1:02:04NOW, THAT'S TITHING IS A CULT, OKAY? THAT TITHING
- 1:02:09STUFF, THAT'S JUST CHURCHES TRYING TO GRAB YOUR MONEY.
- 1:02:12YOU KNOW WHAT YOU OUGHT TO SAY TO THEM? WELL, DON'T GO
- 1:02:14ON A CRUISE, THEY JUST GRABBED YOUR MONEY. DON'T
- 1:02:17YOU DARE, DON'T YOU DARE GO OUT THERE WITH MICKEY MOUSE.
- 1:02:20DISNEY JUST TOOK YOUR MONEY, OKAY? DON'T YOU GET ON THE
- 1:02:23ROLLER COASTER, THEY JUST TOOK YOUR MONEY. SO
- 1:02:26THINK ABOUT, SO CHOOSE TO INVEST WHERE YOU WANT
- 1:02:29TO, BUT I'M GONNA INVEST IN THE THINGS
- 1:02:31OF GOD, 'CAUSE THAT'S WHERE I STAND.
- 1:02:33(CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)
- 1:02:35BUT THERE'S ALWAYS NAYSAYERS, THERE'S ALWAYS
- 1:02:37PERSECUTORS. I MEAN, SOME OF THE PERSECUTORS ARE
- 1:02:40CHRISTIANS. SO HE SAID, "HOW DO THEY THINK CHURCHES
- 1:02:43SURVIVE?" I MEAN, REALLY. IT TAKES, THEY DON'T WANT TO,
- 1:02:48THEY DON'T WANT THE CHURCH TO SURVIVE. I MEAN, THERE'S
- 1:02:50BELIEVERS THAT GO TO CHURCH, I DON'T THINK THEY WANT
- 1:02:52THEIR CHURCH TO SURVIVE. IF YOU CHECK THEIR GIVING, THEY
- 1:02:54DON'T WANT THE CHURCH TO SURVIVE, OR THEY JUST WANNA
- 1:02:56LEAVE IT ON SOMEBODY ELSE. BUT HE SAID, "SO WHEN
- 1:03:00AFFLICTION AND PERSECUTION COMES "BECAUSE OF THE WORD."
- 1:03:03SO IF THERE'S A SEED SOWN, YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO
- 1:03:08SOW THE RIGHT SEED. OKAY, TREAT SOMEBODY THE RIGHT
- 1:03:12WAY. WHATEVER THE SEED IS IN YOUR LIFE, THERE'S ALWAYS
- 1:03:15GONNA BE A DEVIL THERE TO TRY TO PUSH YOU BACK. THERE
- 1:03:19WILL BE AFFLICTION AND PERSECUTION FOR THE WORD'S
- 1:03:21SAKE. THE DEVIL'S ALWAYS THERE TO TRY TO GET US TO DO
- 1:03:25THE WRONG THING INSTEAD OF THE RIGHT THING. RATHER
- 1:03:29THAN, I MEAN, HONESTLY, DON'T SKIP BACK TO THE TOPIC
- 1:03:33OF WORDS. IN THIS CULTURE, IT'S EASY TO BE DRAWN IN. I
- 1:03:37MEAN, THE KUNNEMANS ARE SLIGHTLY CONFRONTATIONAL. I
- 1:03:44MEAN, PASTOR HANK, I'M TELLING YOU, THAT MAN WAS A
- 1:03:46BORN CONFRONTER. I'M LIKE, "HONEY, WAIT TILL TOMORROW."
- 1:03:53BY THE WAY, BY THE WAY, SOME OF THE STUFF HE SAYS ON
- 1:03:55FLASHPOINT, I'M LIKE, "THAT IS IT!" I DO LOVE IT. BUT
- 1:04:00THE THING OF IT IS, SO SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO PAUSE.
- 1:04:02WE HAVE TO SAY, "OKAY, "THEIR AFFLICTION AND
- 1:04:05PERSECUTION WILL ARISE "BECAUSE OF THE WORD'S SAKE.
- 1:04:09"WE NEED TO EXPECT IT." JESUS SAID, "THE WORLD HATES
- 1:04:11ME, I'LL HATE YOU TOO." OKAY, IT'S GONNA COME, AND
- 1:04:15THE DEVIL IS ALWAYS THERE TO TRY TO GET YOU TO BACK UP
- 1:04:19FROM SOWING THE RICE SEED. HE'LL TRY TO STOP YOU FROM
- 1:04:21TITHING. HE'LL TRY TO STOP YOU FROM SPEAKING OUT
- 1:04:24POLITICALLY. HE'LL TRY TO DISCOURAGE YOU. HE'LL GET
- 1:04:27THEM TO WRITE EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU IN THE NEWSPAPER.
- 1:04:30HE'LL TRY TO STOP YOU AT YOUR FAMILY REUNION. HE'LL
- 1:04:34TRY TO PREVENT YOU. HE'LL USE PEOPLE THAT'LL JUST BE
- 1:04:38THERE TO PUSH YOU BACK IN A CORNER. AND HE'LL, HE ALWAYS
- 1:04:42HAS IT. HE ALWAYS HAS A NAYSAYER. BUT THANK GOD, NO
- 1:04:46WEAPON FORMED AGAINST US CAN PROSPER. EVERY TONGUE OR
- 1:04:49MOUTH THAT RISES AGAINST US IN JUDGMENT, GOD SAID, YOU
- 1:04:52HAVE THE INHERITANCE TO CONDEMN IT. SO, THINK ABOUT
- 1:04:57IT. AFFLICTION AND PERSECUTION WILL ARISE FOR
- 1:05:01THE WORD'S SAKE. THAT'S WHY, YOU KNOW, OKAY, I'M JUST
- 1:05:04GONNA SAY THIS AND I'LL PUT IT OUT THERE. THAT'S WHY,
- 1:05:09IT'S A NO-BRAINER TO ME WITH DONALD TRUMP. DOES HE SAY
- 1:05:14SOME CRAZY STUFF? YEAH, IT'S FUNNY SOMETIMES.
- 1:05:18YEAH, THAT WAS A GOOD ONE. BUT THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER
- 1:05:23IS, NOBODY HAS BEEN MORE HATED, OKAY? YOU DON'T SAY
- 1:05:28THAT THE MOST AMAZING AND FAMOUS PERSON TO BE HERALDED
- 1:05:32IN THE EARTH IS JESUS CHRIST AND WANNA DEDICATE A NATION
- 1:05:36BACK TO GOD. AND PEOPLE SAY, "YEAH, BUT HE CUSSES LIKE A
- 1:05:39SAILOR." WELL, YEAH, HE MIGHT CUSS LIKE A SAILOR, SO
- 1:05:43DID THE OTHER ONES, AND THEY DIDN'T WANT, HE JUST HAS TO
- 1:05:45DO IT PUBLICLY. YOU KNOW, THEY CUSSED IN PRIVATE. YOU
- 1:05:49KNOW HOW MANY TIMES THEY CAUGHT BARACK OBAMA SAYING
- 1:05:51FOUL THINGS ON TAPE, BUT THEY JUST, THE MEDIA DOESN'T
- 1:05:54PUBLISH THAT ONE. THEY'LL ONLY PUBLISH TRUMP, OKAY?
- 1:05:58BUT THOSE VIDEOS ARE OUT THERE TOO. THEY ALL SAID BAD
- 1:06:01STUFF. OKAY, IT'S OUT THERE. IT'S JUST TRUMP JUST PUTS IT
- 1:06:04OUT THERE AND THOUGHT, WELL, YOU KNOW, IF YOU WANNA KNOW
- 1:06:05WHAT I'M LIKE, WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS WHAT IS BEHIND THE
- 1:06:08SCENE. I'M NOT GONNA MAKE, BUT NOT ANY OTHER TIME IN
- 1:06:12OUR HISTORY HAVE WE HAD A PRESIDENT THAT SAYS, THIS
- 1:06:15NATION BELONGS TO JESUS CHRIST, AND HE IS THE ONE
- 1:06:18THAT NEEDS TO BE REVERED IN OUR LAND. THIS IS A
- 1:06:22CHRISTIAN NATION. COME ON NOW, HE HAS EMBOLDENED SOME
- 1:06:25CONGRESSMEN. THERE'S CONGRESSMEN THAT ARE
- 1:06:27STANDING UP NOW AND SAYING, "WE ARE OPENING THESE
- 1:06:29SESSIONS IN PRAYER. "WE ARE GONNA PUT JESUS' NAME.
- 1:06:33"WE'RE NOT GONNA LET JESUS SIT BEHIND BUDDHA "AND
- 1:06:37MOHAMMED OR ANYTHING ELSE. "WE ARE GONNA PUT IT OUT
- 1:06:40THERE." WELL, THAT IS CALLED SOWING GOOD SEED, AND THERE
- 1:06:44WILL BE A HARVEST FOR IT, OKAY? BUT IT ALSO COMES WITH
- 1:06:48AFFLICTION AND PERSECUTION. SO IF YOU DO THE RIGHT
- 1:06:50THINGS AND YOU SOW SEED IN YOUR LIFE, JUST EXPECT THAT
- 1:06:53THERE WILL BE PERSECUTION. DON'T UNDO THE SEEDS BECAUSE
- 1:06:57YOU'RE PERSECUTED. ALL RIGHT? PRAISE THE LORD. KEEP
- 1:07:01STAYING WITH IT. KEEP YOUR WORDS ALIGNED WITH THE SEED
- 1:07:04THAT YOU SOW. IT SAYS, "AND WHEN AFFLICTION AND
- 1:07:08PERSECUTION COMES, "IMMEDIATELY THEY ARE
- 1:07:10OFFENDED." JUST LOOK AT THE CULTURE AND HOW MANY PEOPLE
- 1:07:13HAVE JUST GONE IN FULL REVERSE FROM STANDING UP FOR
- 1:07:17ANYTHING. "AND THESE ARE THEY WHICH WERE SOWN AMONG
- 1:07:19THORNS," THIS IS THE FIRST GROUP, "SUCH AS HEAR THE
- 1:07:22WORD "AND THE CARES OF THIS WORLD." THIS IS POWERFUL.
- 1:07:26"THE CARES OF THIS WORLD, THE DECEITFULNESS OF RICHES,
- 1:07:29"THE LUSTS OF OTHER THINGS, ENTER IN AND CHOKES OUT "THE
- 1:07:34GOOD SEED THAT YOU TRY TO SOW." NOW, THAT'S A WHOLE
- 1:07:38LAUNDRY LIST THAT COVERS JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING IN A
- 1:07:41HANDFUL OF WORDS. EVERYBODY HAS DEALT WITH SOMETIME THE
- 1:07:45CARES OF THIS WORLD. THAT CHOKES OUT OUR SEEDS. OKAY?
- 1:07:49YOU THINK THE CARES OF THIS WORLD KEEP US FROM SOWING
- 1:07:51OUR SEEDS AND OUR FINANCES? THE CARES OF THIS WORLD
- 1:07:54SOMETIMES KEEPS PEOPLE FROM COMING TO CHURCH? THE CARES
- 1:07:58OF THIS WORLD GET OUR MINDS IN A PLACE OF WORRY AND FRET
- 1:08:02SO THAT WE CAN'T TRUST GOD. SO THE CARES OF THIS WORLD
- 1:08:06ARE HUGE IN KEEPING US FROM RECEIVING GOOD SEED OR A
- 1:08:12HARVEST FOR GOOD SEED. AND THE DECEITFULNESS OF RICHES,
- 1:08:15YOU KNOW, YOU CAN WORK 80 HOURS A WEEK AND CAN NEVER
- 1:08:18GET AHEAD ON YOUR BUSINESS, RIGHT? WORK AND WORK AND
- 1:08:21WORK AND WORK AND WORK AND WORK, OKAY, BUT UNTIL
- 1:08:23THERE'S NO TIME FOR GOD OR FAMILY, RIGHT? THE LUSTS OF
- 1:08:27OTHER THINGS ENTER IN, OKAY? IN OTHER WORDS, WE GET
- 1:08:30DISTRACTED AND IT CHOKES OUT THE GOOD SEED THAT GOD IS
- 1:08:34TRYING TO PUT IN OUR LIFE, RIGHT? NOW, THIS GROUP IS
- 1:08:38PARTICULARLY CONCERNING TO ME BECAUSE THIS WAS A GROUP
- 1:08:40THAT REALLY MATURELY RECEIVED GOOD SEED. I WOULD
- 1:08:44SAY THIS IS THE GROUP THAT KNEW THE BIBLE. I WOULD SAY
- 1:08:48THAT THIS IS THE GROUP THAT WAS WELL-VERSED IN CHURCH.
- 1:08:52THEY KNEW SCRIPTURE. THEY WERE INTERCESSORS. THEY WERE
- 1:08:55PRAYER PEOPLE. THEY WERE SPIRITUAL, BUT THEY DIDN'T
- 1:08:58FORESEE THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING THERE TO TRY TO
- 1:09:00TAKE AWAY A GOOD HARVEST FROM THEIR LIFE. SEE, GOD
- 1:09:03ALWAYS HAS A GOOD OUTCOME. JESUS SAID, "I CAME TO GIVE
- 1:09:06YOU LIFE AND LIFE MORE ABUNDANTLY." I WANT YOU TO
- 1:09:09HAVE AN ABUNDANT LIFE. I WANT YOU TO LIVE BLESSED,
- 1:09:12BUT WHAT WE SOW, WE REAP. AMEN. SO, THE CARES OF THIS
- 1:09:17WORLD, THE LUSTS OF OTHER THINGS, CHOKE THE WORD. NOW,
- 1:09:19I WANT YOU TO SEE THIS PART. AND THESE ARE THEY WHICH
- 1:09:21WERE SOWN ON GOOD GROUND, SUCH AS HEAR THE WORD.
- 1:09:25EVERYBODY SAY HEAR. HEAR. THEY HEAR THE WORD. SO THAT
- 1:09:30WORD HEAR THERE, IT LITERALLY IN THE REAL
- 1:09:34CONTEXT OR IN THE ORIGINAL, MEANS TO BE IN A PLACE OF
- 1:09:38CONSTANT LISTENING. NOW THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE RIGHT
- 1:09:41NOW OUR PHONES ARE FILLED WITH ALL KINDS OF STUFF THAT
- 1:09:45WE ARE CONSTANTLY LISTENING TO. IN FACT, YOU KNOW,
- 1:09:49EARLIER THIS, WELL, ACTUALLY IT WAS LAST YEAR, I FELT
- 1:09:52LIKE THE LORD PUT ME ON A JOURNEY AND SAID, I DON'T
- 1:09:55WANT YOU CONSTANTLY OPENING SOCIAL MEDIA. NOW, I'LL BE
- 1:09:59HONEST WITH YOU, I CANNOT THINK OF THE LAST TIME I
- 1:10:02OPENED INSTAGRAM. I'VE OPENED SOME FACEBOOK. LAST
- 1:10:06NIGHT I USED FACEBOOK TO WATCH FLASHPOINT BECAUSE I
- 1:10:08HAD DECORATING OR COOKING GOING ON YOUTUBE ON THE TV,
- 1:10:12AND I WANTED TO LISTEN TO RECIPES AND PASTOR HANK AT
- 1:10:15THE SAME TIME. THIS IS LIKE, THIS IS A GIFT THAT I HAVE.
- 1:10:19I CAN LISTEN TO FLASHPOINT AND POLITICS OUT OF ONE EAR,
- 1:10:22THAT'S ALWAYS MY RIGHT EAR. AND THEN I CAN LISTEN TO
- 1:10:27DECORATING AND COOKING ON THE OTHER SIDE. SO ON
- 1:10:30THE BIG CHANNEL, ON THE BIG SCREEN, LOOK
- 1:10:32WHO'S IMPORTANT, I HAD COOKING GOING AND THEN
- 1:10:36OVER THERE IN THE KITCHEN WITH THE FRY PAN ON
- 1:10:38MY LITTLE TINY PHONE, I HAD PASTOR HANK.
- 1:10:44HONEY, I WASN'T TRYING TO MAKE YOU SMALL, YOU WERE ON
- 1:10:46THERE. BUT I DIDN'T WANT THE TV TO GET CONFUSED WITH MY
- 1:10:50YOUTUBE 'CAUSE IT'LL SAY, ARE YOU TRYING TO PUT IT UP
- 1:10:53THERE? I'M LIKE, NO, I WANNA LISTEN TO THAT OVER THERE
- 1:10:56AND THIS HERE. SO I WENT TO FACEBOOK, YOU KNOW, AND
- 1:11:00EVERY TIME THEY SAID SOMETHING BOLD, IT WOULD
- 1:11:02BUFFER. I THOUGHT, OH, I BIND YOU IN JESUS' NAME AND
- 1:11:06HIT YOU WITH A SPATULA. BUT THE WORD THERE, TO HEAR,
- 1:11:15MEANS TO BE IN A PLACE, NOW YOU GUYS KNOW WHAT I DO ON
- 1:11:18TUESDAY NIGHTS. BUT THE WORD THERE, TO HEAR, LITERALLY
- 1:11:22MEANS TO BE IN A PLACE OF CONSTANT LISTENING. AND THE
- 1:11:25LORD HAD JUST REMINDED ME, HE SAID, YOU CAN'T BE IN A
- 1:11:27CONSTANT PLACE OF LISTENING TO THE RIGHT SEEDS IF YOU'VE
- 1:11:30ALWAYS GOT THOSE APPS OPEN. BECAUSE THEY'RE GONNA FEED
- 1:11:33YOU WITH THE WRONG STUFF. WE GET INUNDATED SO MUCH. AND
- 1:11:38THERE'S A LOT OUT THERE THAT IS NOT GOD. AND IT HAS
- 1:11:42CHRISTIAN LABEL TO IT. BUT IT'S NOT GOD, IT'S NOT FAITH
- 1:11:45DRIVEN, AMEN? IT'S NOT, IT DOESN'T HAVE BIBLICAL TRUTH
- 1:11:50TO IT. AND I WANNA CULTIVATE A HARVEST IN MY LIFE THAT
- 1:11:55BRINGS FORTH THE GOOD WORD OF GOD. I WANT GOD RESULTS.
- 1:12:00AND SO THE LORD JUST SAID, I WANT YOU TO CLOSE IT. YOU
- 1:12:04KNOW, I FOUND OUT THAT JUST LESS TIME SEEING, ESPECIALLY
- 1:12:07PEOPLE'S COMMENTS. I MEAN, IT'S JUST THE DUMPSTER FIRE
- 1:12:11OF JUNK. IT'S JUST SEWAGE, SO MUCH OF IT. AND
- 1:12:15CHRISTIANS ARE JUST SWOOPED UP INTO IT NOW. YOU KNOW,
- 1:12:18EVERYBODY ON THERE ARGUING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHO'S WRONG
- 1:12:21AND WHO'S RIGHT, AND THAT PERSON IS THIS AND THAT'S
- 1:12:24THAT. AND I CAN'T EVEN BELIEVE IT, THEY PUT OUT
- 1:12:26SCRIPTURES AND HATE ON PEOPLE WITH THE WORD. AND
- 1:12:30IT'S JUST CRAZY. AND SO I FELT LIKE, AND I'M NOT
- 1:12:33SAYING I'VE GOT MY HEAD IN THE SAND, I'M NEVER LOOKING
- 1:12:36AT ANYTHING AND I DON'T SEE A HEADLINE, THAT'S NOT THE
- 1:12:38CASE. BUT I KIND OF MIGHT SEE A LITTLE RUNDOWN WHAT'S
- 1:12:42GOING ON FOR THE DAY, THE LATEST HATE ON TRUMP OR
- 1:12:44SOMETHING. BUT I GET A LITTLE QUICK REVIEW, BUT I'M
- 1:12:50TRYING TO SPEND LESS TIME. AND YOU KNOW, I FOUND OUT
- 1:12:53THAT I HAD MORE PEACE. AND I WAS ABLE TO ACTUALLY GET
- 1:12:57THE, KIND OF CLEAR THE FILTER A LITTLE BIT AND
- 1:13:01LISTEN TO THE VOICE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT MORE. AND YOU
- 1:13:03KNOW WHAT, I FEEL LIKE GOD GETS A CHANCE. IT'S LIKE
- 1:13:05ALMOST, WE'VE GOT OUR PHONES OPEN SO MUCH, GOD CAN'T GET
- 1:13:08A WORD IN EDGEWISE. AND SO, THIS IS IMPORTANT. SO JESUS
- 1:13:13SAID, ON THE HEARING, IT MEANS TO BE AT A CONSTANT
- 1:13:17PLACE OF LISTENING. SO LISTENING MEANS THE RIGHT
- 1:13:20STUFF. THOSE THAT BEAR GOOD, THESE ARE THEY WHICH WERE
- 1:13:27SOWN ON GOOD GROUNDS SUCH AS HERE AND HERE AND HERE AND
- 1:13:30HERE AND HERE AND HERE AND CONSTANTLY HERE. SO I FEEL
- 1:13:36LIKE NUMBER ONE, IF WE'RE GONNA SOW THE RIGHT SEEDS
- 1:13:39AND RECEIVE THE RIGHT HARVEST IN OUR LIFE, WE DO
- 1:13:42HAVE TO CUT OUT SOME OF THE OUTER INTERFERENCES SO THAT
- 1:13:46WE CAN HEAR AND HEAR AND HEAR AND HEAR AND HEAR. SO
- 1:13:48I'M JUST TRYING TO BE MORE DISCIPLINED WITH MY PHONE.
- 1:13:50MY KIDS THINK I'VE ALWAYS BEEN DISCIPLINED WITH IT
- 1:13:52BECAUSE I NEVER ANSWER IT. SO I'M LIKE, AND MY TAGLINE
- 1:13:57IS, "IT WAS IN THE OTHER ROOM." AND THEY'RE LIKE,
- 1:14:02"SURE, IT WAS IN THE OTHER ROOM. "YOU JUST HAD IT ON
- 1:14:04SILENT." AND I SAID, "WELL, THAT TOO." BUT IT WAS IN THE
- 1:14:07OTHER ROOM. BUT I THINK SOMETIMES IT'S GOOD TO JUST
- 1:14:12SET IT ASIDE. AND IF YOU DO HAVE IT OPEN, JUST TELL
- 1:14:16YOURSELF, "YOU KNOW, I USED TO, I MEAN, IT'S BAD." AND
- 1:14:19WE HAVE FINGER HABITS. DO YOU KNOW THAT? YOU OPEN YOUR
- 1:14:24PHONE AND THERE'S CERTAIN STUFF YOU WILL IMMEDIATELY
- 1:14:26GO TO. THINK ABOUT, WE GET UP IN THE MORNING, CALENDAR,
- 1:14:32BANK ACCOUNT, COME ON SOMEBODY, WEATHER, AMAZON,
- 1:14:39WAYFAIR. I KNOW, RIGHT? I KNOW, PASTOR'S BEEN LOOKING
- 1:14:44AT ALL THESE LITTLE STUFF HE WANTS TO BUY FOR HIS TRAINS
- 1:14:46ON WAYFAIR. I'M LIKE, OH HONEY, DON'T START. IT'S A
- 1:14:48BLACK HOLE ONCE YOU GO DOWN IT. YOU KNOW, BUT I SAID,
- 1:14:52WELL, HE SHOULD HAVE EQUAL AMOUNT OF PACKAGES TO
- 1:14:54UNPACKAGE THAT HAS HIS NAME ON IT. BUT WE HAVE WHAT I
- 1:15:00CALL THE FINGER HABITS. HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE A FINGER
- 1:15:02ROUTINE IN THE MORNING? YOU CHECK ALL THE STUFF, OKAY?
- 1:15:06WELL, AND I LIKE BIBLE APPS. MY PROBLEM WITH THE BIBLE
- 1:15:10APP IS THE WORDS ARE TOO SMALL, SO I HAVE TO GET A
- 1:15:12BIGGER ONE. AND SO I LIKE A BIG OLD BIBLE TO SIT THERE
- 1:15:16AND LOOK, AND I THINK THERE'S SOMETHING TO BE SAID
- 1:15:18FOR A LEGITIMATE BIBLE. THEY'RE CHANGING SOME OF
- 1:15:21THOSE APPS, BY THE WAY. WE GOTTA BE VERY CAREFUL WITH
- 1:15:23THAT AGAIN. BUT I STARTED MAKING THE DECISION, YOU
- 1:15:28WILL NOT TOUCH FACEBOOK OR INSTAGRAM. AND YOU KNOW
- 1:15:31WHAT, I FOUND OUT MY LIFE WAS A LITTLE BIT BETTER FOR
- 1:15:33IT. SO KUDOS TO ALL OF YOU PEOPLE THAT CHOSE NEVER TO
- 1:15:36GET SOCIAL MEDIA. AND SOME PEOPLE SAY, DID YOU SEE THAT
- 1:15:39ON INSTAGRAM? I SAID, I DON'T KNOW, MY STAFF POSTS
- 1:15:42MINE. SO THERE IT'S OUT, EVERYBODY KNOWS. PASTOR
- 1:15:45BRENDA CANNOT PUT OUT THOSE GOOD VIDEOS, I SAID IT. JUST
- 1:15:49KNOW, ALL RIGHT? SO HEARING, HEARING, HEARING, HEARING.
- 1:15:53WE GOTTA HEAR AND HEAR AND HEAR. AND I THINK WE DON'T
- 1:15:57DO ENOUGH HEARING OF THE RIGHT THINGS. I THINK THIS
- 1:16:00IS SO IMPORTANT, RIGHT? ESPECIALLY TODAY, WHEN
- 1:16:04THERE'S EVERYTHING ELSE THAT TALKS TO US THROUGH A TOUCH
- 1:16:08OF A FINGER. SO HEAR, THESE ARE THEY THAT HEAR THE WORD,
- 1:16:11WATCH, AND THEY RECEIVE IT. THAT WORD RECEIVE MEANS TO
- 1:16:16BE IN CONSTANT DELIGHT AND EXCITEMENT. IT NEVER GETS
- 1:16:20OLD FOR YOU TO READ THAT SAME SCRIPTURE LIKE YOU READ
- 1:16:23IT FOR THE FIRST TIME. I MEAN, IT'S JUST AS EXCITING
- 1:16:27TO OPEN THE BIBLE AND READ IT LIKE IT WAS WHEN YOU
- 1:16:31FIRST GOT BORN AGAIN AND SOMEBODY TOLD YOU, YOU
- 1:16:33SHOULD START WITH THE BOOK OF JOHN. IT'S JUST AS
- 1:16:36EXCITING. IN OTHER WORDS, A CONSTANT PLACE OF DRIVE AND
- 1:16:39EXCITEMENT TO BE IN THE WORD. SO THESE THAT ARE SOWN
- 1:16:42ON GOOD GROUND ARE CONSTANTLY LISTENING, AND
- 1:16:45THEY'RE CONSTANTLY IN RECEIVE MODE. GET IN RECEIVE
- 1:16:49MODE. I THINK A LOT OF REASONS WE DON'T GROW IS WE
- 1:16:52DON'T SIT THERE AND JUST RECEIVE. RECEIVE FROM THE
- 1:16:56WORD ON SUNDAY, AND NOT JUST HEAR IT, BUT RECEIVE, AND
- 1:17:00PUT THAT INTO MOTION, AND GO, WELL, YOU KNOW, HOW CAN
- 1:17:03I APPLY THAT? HOW CAN I GROW FROM THAT? HOW CAN I GET
- 1:17:07BETTER FROM THAT? I ALWAYS TRY TO AT LEAST TAKE A
- 1:17:09NUGGET AWAY FROM PASTOR'S SERMONS ON SUNDAY. YOU KNOW
- 1:17:12WHAT IS ONE THING I CAN DO? AND BY THE WAY, I WRITE ALL
- 1:17:14THE PARTNER LETTERS AND I DEVELOP THEM FROM HIS
- 1:17:17SERMONS. I PUT THOSE TOGETHER FOR ONE VOICE AND I
- 1:17:21SIT IN THERE AND RACHEL, YOU'VE HELPED ME MAKE
- 1:17:24PICTURES WITH MINE NOW. AND THERE'S LITTLE PICTURES AND
- 1:17:27I PUT IT TOGETHER, BUT I PUT THOSE ALL FROM HIS
- 1:17:29PREACHING. AND SO DOES IT SOUND LIKE HIM? I HOPE IT
- 1:17:33DOES. HE READS IT AND APPROVES IT EVERY TIME. BUT
- 1:17:36I WANT TO TAKE SOMETHING AWAY FROM IT. I WANT TO
- 1:17:39APPLY IT. I DON'T WANT TO JUST TAKE NOTES THAT GO IN A
- 1:17:42DRAWER. I WANT THERE TO BE SEED AND PRODUCTION FROM IT.
- 1:17:45SO THOSE THAT RECEIVE OR DEVELOP A GOOD HARVEST, THEY
- 1:17:50HEAR AND HEAR AND HEAR AND THEY'RE ALWAYS RECEIVING.
- 1:17:53YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU COME INTO CHURCH, DON'T JUST BE LIKE,
- 1:17:56YOU KNOW, WALTZING IN LATE. I MEAN, I UNDERSTAND IF
- 1:17:58THERE'S A LINE AT THE DRINKING FOUNTAIN IN THE
- 1:18:00BATHROOM, AND MAYBE THAT'S NOT YOUR FAULT, AND MAYBE
- 1:18:02THE SHUTTLE BUS WAS BEHIND, I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T KNOW
- 1:18:05WHAT GOES ON OUT THERE EVERY MINUTE, BUT I'M JUST SAYING,
- 1:18:07TRY TO GET HERE EARLY AND BE READY. AND WHEN THE
- 1:18:10CLARION CALL OF WORSHIP COMES, BE IN THE MODE TO RECEIVE
- 1:18:15AND HEAR AND KNOW, 'CAUSE GOD MAY TALK TO
- 1:18:18YOU. THERE COULD BE A VISION THAT HAPPENS,
- 1:18:21YOU DON'T KNOW. THERE COULD BE A PARADE.
- 1:18:24(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 1:18:28AH, OH MY GOODNESS, I TOLD STUCK AS I WAS LEAVING, I
- 1:18:31SAID, "I HAVE NO FILTER, I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT."
- 1:18:33THEY'RE LIKE SECURITY MELTING, WHEN WE'RE ALL LIKE
- 1:18:36RUNNING ALL AROUND BACK HERE, I'M LIKE, "YEAH,
- 1:18:38LISTEN, YOU KNOW, "THIS IS THE WAY I STARTED CHURCH,
- 1:18:41"AND THIS IS THE WAY I ALWAYS WILL DO CHURCH."
- 1:18:43(LAUGHING)
- 1:18:44GOOD LORD. ALL RIGHT, SO LET ME READ THE REST OF THIS.
- 1:18:48ARE YOU GETTING ANYTHING TONIGHT? THEY HEAR THE WORD
- 1:18:53AND RECEIVE, THEY'RE CONSTANTLY HEARING, VERSE
- 1:18:5520, CONSTANTLY RECEIVING, AND THEY BRING FORTH FRUIT,
- 1:19:00SOME 30, SOME 60, SOME 100. PASTOR BRENDA, WHY IN THE
- 1:19:03WORLD ARE SOME HARVEST 30, SOME 60, I DON'T KNOW. I'LL
- 1:19:08BE HONEST WITH YOU, I DON'T KNOW. NOW, I MEAN, I THINK
- 1:19:11HOW WE CULTIVATE HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT, YOU
- 1:19:14KNOW, HONESTLY. YOU THINK ABOUT A REAL FARMER, JESUS
- 1:19:17IS LIKENING THIS TO REAL FARMING. PASTOR KEITH WAS IN
- 1:19:21FARMING IN HIS LIFE. YOU KNOW, THE HARDER YOU WORKED
- 1:19:25AT THE FARM, THE BETTER IT WAS, RIGHT? PLEASE TELL ME
- 1:19:27YES. RIGHT, SO, BUT YOU KNOW, IF A FARMER'S
- 1:19:32NEGLECTFUL, THEN MAYBE HIS HARVEST IS THE 30-FOLD. BUT,
- 1:19:36SO I DO THINK WHAT WE PUT INTO SOMETHING, THE LEVEL,
- 1:19:40'CAUSE JESUS GOES ON TO TALK ABOUT IT, SOME 30, SOME 60,
- 1:19:43SOME 100. MY ATTITUDE IS, IF YOU FEEL LIKE YOU GET A
- 1:19:46SMALL HARVEST, PRESS IN FOR BETTER, OKAY? YOU MAY, MAYBE
- 1:19:51YOU'RE BELIEVING FOR A HEALING IN YOUR BODY, YOU'RE
- 1:19:53SOWING IT, YOU'RE SPEAKING IT, YOU'RE DECLARING IT,
- 1:19:55YOU'RE PUSHING FORWARD WITH THAT, YOU'RE GROWING YOUR
- 1:19:58FAITH FOR DIVINE HEALING TO HAPPEN IN YOUR BODY, AND
- 1:20:01MAYBE YOU SAW A LITTLE BREAKTHROUGH IN YOUR
- 1:20:03PHYSICAL PERSON, BUT GO FOR THE 60-FOLD NEXT TIME. KEEP
- 1:20:06GROWING. THAT'S WHY I ALWAYS SAY, PRESS YOUR FAITH TO
- 1:20:12ANOTHER PLACE. SO, SOME 30, SOME 60, SOME 100. NOW, LOOK
- 1:20:17AT VERSE 21. JESUS IS STILL TALKING. THE PRINCIPLE HERE
- 1:20:21IS THE SAME. MINE GIVES A LITTLE, WHAT DO YOU CALL
- 1:20:27THESE, SUBTITLES, PARABLE ABOUT LIGHT, BUT JESUS
- 1:20:30DIDN'T CHANGE THE TOPIC. HE SAID, "AND HE SAID UNTO
- 1:20:32THEM, 'THERE IS A CANDLE BROUGHT TO BE PUT UNDER A
- 1:20:35BUSHEL OR UNDER A BED AND NOT TO BE SET ON A
- 1:20:38CANDLESTICK.'" RIGHT? MY HONEY'S PREHEATING THE OVEN.
- 1:20:42THANK YOU. HE'S GETTING SUPPER READY. MY WIFE JUST
- 1:20:45NOTIFIED ME. DON'T YOU LOVE WIFI APPLIANCES NOW? YOU
- 1:20:49KNOW WHAT PEOPLE ARE UP TO. YOU KNOW WHEN THEIR
- 1:20:51LAUNDRY'S GETTING DONE. I'M TELLING YOU, IT COMES TO
- 1:20:53YOUR WATCH. THANK YOU, SWEETHEART. SAID, "OVEN IS
- 1:20:56PREHEATING." GIVE PASTOR HANK A HAND. FOR
- 1:21:07PREHEATING. OH, GLORY BE TO GOD. HE WASN'T SURE HE
- 1:21:13REMEMBERED HOW, BUT WE GOT IT. IT'S WORKING. HONEY,
- 1:21:16IT'S WORKING. AND HE SAID, "IS A CANDLE BROUGHT TO BE
- 1:21:20PUT UNDER A BUSHEL?" NOW, THE TOPIC HERE IS THE SAME.
- 1:21:23IT'S STILL SEED AND HARVEST. IS IT BROUGHT TO BE PUT
- 1:21:26UNDER A BUSHEL OR UNDER A BED AND NOT ON A
- 1:21:28CANDLESTICK? FOR NOTHING IS HID WHICH SHALL NOT BE
- 1:21:32MANIFESTED, NEITHER WAS THERE ANYTHING KEPT SECRET
- 1:21:35THAT SHOULD NOT COME ABROAD. IN OTHER WORDS, YOU MAY
- 1:21:39THOUGHT NOBODY NOTICED THAT YOU GAVE THAT PERSON THAT
- 1:21:43$100 VISA GIFT CARD. YOU MAY THOUGHT NOBODY PAID
- 1:21:48ATTENTION. IT MIGHT SEEM LIKE A LITTLE SEED. YOU MAY
- 1:21:51THOUGHT NOBODY EVEN NOTICED YOU GAVE THAT LITTLE 20
- 1:21:53BUCKS IN YOUR PASSOVER OFFERING, OR YOU WENT OUT
- 1:21:56AND GAVE A GIFT TO SOMEBODY IN THE HOSPITAL. YOU MAY
- 1:21:59THOUGHT NOBODY NOTICED IT. AND IT MAY SEEM LIKE IT'S
- 1:22:02JUST THIS LITTLE THING, BUT NOTHING IS HID THAT DOESN'T
- 1:22:05EVENTUALLY COME ABROAD. THIS IS WHAT JESUS IS SAYING.
- 1:22:07EVERY LITTLE SEED THAT IS SOWN, POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE,
- 1:22:11RIGHT, WILL EVENTUALLY COME TO THE SURFACE. OKAY,
- 1:22:13HARVEST TIME ALWAYS COMES. THAT'S THE PRINCIPLE. THIS
- 1:22:17IS WHAT JESUS IS TEACHING. THE RESULT ALWAYS IS OUT
- 1:22:21THERE. IT WILL MANIFEST. SO THAT'S WHY WE DON'T GIVE UP
- 1:22:24WHEN WE ARE SOWING RIGHTEOUS SEEDS. DON'T GIVE UP ON YOUR
- 1:22:28CHILDREN. IF YOU'RE SOWING RIGHTEOUS SEED, YEAH, THERE
- 1:22:31MIGHT BE SOME TERRORS OUT THERE TRYING TO DRAG YOUR
- 1:22:33KIDS AWAY FROM GOD, BUT DON'T GIVE UP SOWING THE
- 1:22:36RIGHTEOUS SEED. STAND ON THE WORD FOR YOUR CHILDREN.
- 1:22:41OKAY, COME ON, ZAMBONI. KEEP SOWING THE RIGHT THINGS. IT
- 1:22:46WILL EVENTUALLY MANIFEST. THAT'S WHAT VERSE 22 IS.
- 1:22:49THERE'S NOTHING THAT'S KEPT SECRET, GOOD OR BAD, BUT
- 1:22:53THAT IT SHOULD EVENTUALLY BE SEEN BY OTHER PEOPLE. IT'S
- 1:22:56GONNA BE NOTABLE. IT'LL BE NOTABLE. SOMETIMES, YOU
- 1:22:58KNOW, PEOPLE WILL SUDDENLY NOTICE, MAN, JANET, I'M NOT
- 1:23:02SAYING YOU GOT IT, BUT JANET GOT A NEW CAR. OH, WOW,
- 1:23:05NICE, JANET GOT A NEW VEHICLE. WOW, HOW DID, WELL,
- 1:23:09SHE MIGHT BE WALKING IN A HARVEST THAT SHE SOWED A
- 1:23:12LONG TIME AGO. NOBODY KNEW. NOBODY KNEW. IF SHE WAS
- 1:23:16SITTING THERE SOWING FOR A CAR AND BELIEVING GOD AND
- 1:23:19HAD IT ON HER PRAYER LIST AND ALL OF A SUDDEN ONE DAY
- 1:23:21IT MANIFESTS, YOU KNOW, AND THAT'S WHY DON'T GET
- 1:23:23CRITICAL OF SOMEBODY'S BLESSING. "WELL, HOW CAN
- 1:23:25THEY HAVE A NEW CAR? YOU KNOW, HOW COME THEY HAVE
- 1:23:30THAT? HOW COME THEY HAVE THAT BLESSING?" WELL, I
- 1:23:33ALWAYS SAY, YOU DON'T KNOW ALL THE SEEDS THAT THEY
- 1:23:36SOWED AND CLAIMED. IN FACT, MOST OF THE SEEDS OF HARVEST
- 1:23:40THAT PASTOR AND I HAVE RECEIVED OVER THE YEARS WERE
- 1:23:42YEARS AFTER. I'M TELLING YOU, THEY WERE YEARS LATER.
- 1:23:46WE DIDN'T ALWAYS SEE, I MEAN, A FEW OF THEM WE SAW
- 1:23:48IN A MOMENT. THEY JUST CAME RIGHT UP. AND YOU KNOW, WE
- 1:23:52SOWED, I TOLD YOU THE STORY WHERE WE WERE AT A MEETING,
- 1:23:54MANY, MANY, THIS IS A LONG TIME AGO, MATTHEW WAS A
- 1:23:57BABY. AND PASTOR CHRISTY, SOME OF YOU HAVE HEARD THIS,
- 1:24:00A LOT OF YOU HAVE HEARD THIS STORY, BUT I'LL SAY IT
- 1:24:01AGAIN. AND WE WERE AT A MEETING, IT WAS A MINISTER'S
- 1:24:06CONFERENCE, AND IT WAS OFFERING TIME AND
- 1:24:09EVERYBODY'S GIVING AND WE HAD LIKE JUST A LITTLE MONEY
- 1:24:12IN OUR CHECKING ACCOUNT AND WE HAD $357 TO OUR NAME. AND
- 1:24:17THAT SEEMED LIKE A LOT BACK THEN, BUT OUR RENT WAS 700
- 1:24:20BUCKS AND I WAS LIKE, LORD. AND I'M IN THERE AND I HEARD
- 1:24:25THE HOLY SPIRIT SAY, "EMPTY YOUR ACCOUNT AND SOW IT."
- 1:24:32AND I THOUGHT, AND SO I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, AND SO I
- 1:24:35THOUGHT, WELL, I'VE GOT TO CHECK WITH MY HUSBAND, LORD.
- 1:24:38SO I LEANED OVER AND I SAID, I FEEL LIKE THE LORD SAID,
- 1:24:41HE SAID, "THE LORD SAID, EMPTY IT AND WRITE A CHECK
- 1:24:43FOR 357 BUCKS." THERE MIGHT'VE BEEN SOME CHANGE IN
- 1:24:47THERE. I SAID, "WE'RE GONNA DO IT?" HE SAID, "YEAH,
- 1:24:51WE'RE GONNA DO IT. WE'RE GONNA DO IT. I MEAN, FIRST
- 1:24:53WE BOUND IT, BUT THEN WE'RE GONNA DO IT. YEAH, WE'RE
- 1:24:55DOING THAT. NOW, YOU KNOW, WE WERE ALL THE WAY IN
- 1:24:58CALIFORNIA. PASTOR CHRISSY WAS BACK HOME. SO WAS IT
- 1:25:02THAT NIGHT OR THE NEXT DAY THAT WE CALLED YOU? OR THE
- 1:25:07NEXT DAY, AND I DON'T EVEN THINK WE HAD CELL PHONES
- 1:25:10THEN. I THINK WE HAD TO USE THE HOTEL PHONE. OOH, WHO
- 1:25:14DOES THAT ANYMORE? AND ANYWAY, AND YOU HAD TO PUT
- 1:25:17PLUS 9 AND THEY CHARGE YOU. ANYWAY, WE GOT ON
- 1:25:21THE PHONE AND SHE SAYS, "YOU GOT THIS ENVELOPE FROM
- 1:25:24SOMEBODY, IT'S A BUSINESS PERSON." AND SO WE SAID,
- 1:25:28"WELL, OPEN IT. WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S IN THERE." AND
- 1:25:32INSIDE IS A CHECK FOR $3,300. NOW THIS BUSINESS
- 1:25:38PERSON, AND I THINK IT WAS MAYBE THE NEXT DAY, NOW GOD
- 1:25:42KNEW THAT THING WAS ALREADY COMING IN THE MAIL, BUT HE
- 1:25:44WAS TESTING OUR FAITH. ARE YOU GOING TO BELIEVE ME? AND
- 1:25:48ARE YOU GOING TO SOW? NOW, NOBODY KNEW EXCEPT FOR THE
- 1:25:51ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT AT THAT CHURCH THAT WE SOWED
- 1:25:53THAT SEED. AND THAT BUSINESS PERSON SAID, GOD TELLS ME
- 1:25:59THAT I AM SUPPOSED TO SOW INTO YOUR MINISTRY. WE WERE
- 1:26:02JUST FLEDGLING MINISTERS, WE WERE JUST STARTING. HE SAID,
- 1:26:05AND WE WERE BELIEVED THAT THE LORD HAD CALLED US TO
- 1:26:08TRAVEL AND PREACH. AND HE SAID, I FEEL LIKE THE LORD
- 1:26:11SAID, I'M SUPPOSED TO GIVE YOU $3,300 A MONTH. I MEAN,
- 1:26:17WE WERE SO BROKE, WE KNEW HOW TO SPELL THE WORD
- 1:26:19FORWARDS AND BACKWARDS. I SAID, HE SAID, 3,300 A
- 1:26:24MONTH, THE LORD TOLD ME TO GIVE THAT AND BUY YOU A
- 1:26:26HEALTH INSURANCE POLICY SO THAT YOU COULD RAISE YOUR
- 1:26:28SON AND YOU COULD GO ON THE ROAD AND PREACH AND NOT
- 1:26:30WORRY ABOUT MONEY. NOW I'M TELLING YOU, GOD ASKED US TO
- 1:26:35SOW A SEED THAT NOBODY KNEW. AND OUT OF THAT, WE WERE
- 1:26:40ABLE TO GET A BRAND NEW CAR AND ALL THESE DIFFERENT, I
- 1:26:43MEAN, OUR LIFE CHANGED. AND IT WAS A DYNAMIC TURNAROUND.
- 1:26:46NOW, ANYBODY COULD LOOK AT THAT AND GO, WELL, HOW DID
- 1:26:48THAT HAPPEN TO YOU? YOU AREN'T YOU THOSE PEOPLE
- 1:26:51THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU HAD NOTHING, YOU COULD NEVER,
- 1:26:54YOU COULDN'T EVEN GO OUT TO EAT, YOU CAN'T EVEN BUY
- 1:26:56MCDONALD'S, YOU CAN'T DO, BUT NOBODY KNEW THAT THAT
- 1:26:59WAS THE SEED THAT WE SOWED SECRET. NOBODY KNEW ABOUT
- 1:27:03THAT. SEE, I'M JUST TELLING YOU, REJOICE IN SOMEONE'S
- 1:27:06SEED BECAUSE THEY MIGHT, OR SOMEONE'S HARVEST. IF THEY
- 1:27:09HAVE A HARVEST, REJOICE IN IT BECAUSE YOURS IS ON THE
- 1:27:12WAY. IF YOU'VE BEEN SOWING, IT'S ON THE WAY.
- 1:27:15(CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)
- 1:27:16OKAY, GOD IS FAITHFUL. I DON'T CARE WHO YOU ARE.
- 1:27:20HE'LL BE FAITHFUL TO HIS WORD. OKAY, LET'S READ THE
- 1:27:22REST OF THIS AND THEN WE'LL CLOSE. I GOTTA LET THE OVEN
- 1:27:25PREHEAT, SO I GOTTA GO A LITTLE LONGER. ALL RIGHT. IF
- 1:27:30ANY MAN, WATCH THIS, VERSE 23, "IF ANY MAN HAS EARS TO
- 1:27:33HEAR IT, LET HIM LISTEN CAREFULLY." OKAY, IF YOU
- 1:27:36HAVE EARS TO HEAR, LET HIM HEAR. NOW, HE'S NOT SAYING
- 1:27:40JUST HEAR THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER. HE'S SAYING, IF
- 1:27:43SPIRITUAL THINGS ARE COMING TO YOU, TURN ON A SPIRITUAL
- 1:27:48EAR, OKAY? AND HE SAID TO THEM, "TAKE HEED," WATCH
- 1:27:54THIS. THIS IS WHY I THINK SOCIAL MEDIA SOMETIMES NEEDS
- 1:27:56TO BE SET ASIDE. I MEAN, UNLESS YOU'RE WATCHING LORD
- 1:27:59OF HOSTS AND YOU'RE AN E-MEMBER, THEN YOU COME ON.
- 1:28:01BUT ARREST, WE GOTTA BE CAREFUL. I CALL IT THE
- 1:28:04DEMONIC SCROLL. THE DEVIL'S JUST FEEDING US WHILE WE
- 1:28:10SCROLL SOMETIMES. AND HE'LL HELP YOU SPEND MONEY ON
- 1:28:14STUFF YOU DON'T NEED ON INSTAGRAM. I MEAN, I'VE
- 1:28:18ORDERED SOME DUMB STUFF. I SAW THIS ONE THING, OH, THIS
- 1:28:21FRANKINCENSE OIL WILL DO ALL THIS STUFF. AND I THOUGHT, I
- 1:28:25NEED SOME FRANKINCENSE OIL. I CLICKED ON THAT WEBSITE,
- 1:28:28AND THEY SENT ME 9 BOTTLES OF THAT. AND I THOUGHT, NOW
- 1:28:32HOW IN THE WORLD DID I GET? WELL, IT SAID IF YOU ORDER
- 1:28:36ONE, IT AUTOMATICALLY HAD THE BOX CHECKED. SEE, THIS
- 1:28:40IS WHAT THEY DO TO YOU. AND THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW,
- 1:28:43YOU'RE ON A MEMBERSHIP. ANYBODY EVER BEEN THERE? I'M
- 1:28:46LIKE, I GOT 9 BOTTLES OF FRANKINCENSE OIL. THEY'LL BE
- 1:28:49OUT IN THE FOYER ON SUNDAY. I'M TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW, I
- 1:28:54DON'T KNOW HOW I GOT THOSE. AND I'M LIKE, AND HERE'S THE
- 1:28:58THING, OH MY LORD. I GOT IT IN THE MAIL, THE PASTOR'S
- 1:29:02LIKE, WHAT IN THE WORLD? I'M LIKE, IT'S FRANKINCENSE. I
- 1:29:05COULDN'T, I COULDN'T REMEMBER WHY IN THE WORLD I
- 1:29:11ORDERED IT. I HAD TO GO ON INTERNET AND FIGURE OUT GOOD
- 1:29:15USES FOR FRANKINCENSE. I'M LIKE, WHAT IN THE WORLD,
- 1:29:23DO YOU WEAR IT? YOU PUT IT ON YOUR FEET, I
- 1:29:27FORGOT WHAT IT WAS FOR. AT SOME POINT, OH BOY.
- 1:29:31OH LORD, HELP US WITH THE INTERNET, WE NEED TO
- 1:29:34GROW. BUT YOU KNOW, IT WILL CAUSE YOU TO SPEND MONEY, DO
- 1:29:39ALL THE WRONG THINGS, RIGHT? SO TAKE HEED, THAT'S THE
- 1:29:44POINT, WHAT YOU HEAR. OH LORD, WE NEED TO FINISH, THE
- 1:29:47OVEN'S PREHEATED NOW. TAKE HEED WHAT YOU HEAR AND WATCH
- 1:29:52THIS, WITH THE MEASURE THAT YOU PUT INTO IT. OKAY, YOU
- 1:29:56MIGHT GET 9 BOTTLES. THE MEASURE, COME ON, WHAT YOU
- 1:30:03PUT, OH, HOLY SPIRIT, COME BACK. I MEAN, I'M HOLDING
- 1:30:07THAT BOX. WITH THE MEASURE THAT YOU PUT INTO IT. BY THE
- 1:30:13WAY, PASTOR CHRISTY, I WAS GONNA GIVE YOU SOME
- 1:30:15FRANKINCENSE, JUST SO YOU KNOW.
- 1:30:17(CONGREGATION LAUGHING)
- 1:30:20OH, LORDY, I'LL BRING IT TOMORROW. WITH THE MEASURE
- 1:30:25THAT YOU PUT INTO IT. COME ON, IF YOU LEAN IN HARD TO
- 1:30:31IT, WHAT YOU'RE HEARING, YOU'RE GONNA RECEIVE THE
- 1:30:34RESULTS. HEY, YOU LISTEN TO STUPID NEWS TOO MUCH, THE
- 1:30:38MEASURE YOU MEET, THAT'S WHAT'S COMING BACK TO YOU.
- 1:30:42FEAR AND ANXIETY, OKAY, THE MEASURE OF THE SCROLL, OKAY?
- 1:30:48YOU MAY END UP WITH 9 BOTTLES OF SOMETHING YOU
- 1:30:50DON'T NEED. AND HE SAID, SO THE MEASURE YOU PUT IN,
- 1:30:57THAT'S HOW IT'S COMING BACK, GOOD OR BAD, PLAIN AND
- 1:31:01SIMPLE. AND UNTO YOU THAT HEAR THAT GOOD WORD, THAT
- 1:31:06GOOD SEED SHALL MORE BE GIVEN. I USED TO THINK,
- 1:31:09WELL, THAT SOUNDS TERRIBLE, LORD. 'CAUSE JESUS GOES ON
- 1:31:13IN VERSE 25, HE SAYS, FOR HIM THAT HAS, OR ALREADY
- 1:31:17HAS, TO HIM SHALL BE GIVEN. IN OTHER WORDS, WHAT YOU
- 1:31:20ALREADY HAVE POSSESSED IN YOUR SPIRIT BY WAY OF SEED.
- 1:31:24IF YOU DO SOMETHING WITH IT, YOU CULTIVATE IT, YOU WORK
- 1:31:29IT. COME ON, THAT'S WHY DON'T GIVE UP ON YOUR
- 1:31:31HEALING. IF YOU WORK IT, IF YOU STAY AFTER THAT, YOU SOW
- 1:31:36THAT SEED, SPEND MORE TIME READING HEALING SCRIPTURES
- 1:31:41THAN INSTAGRAM SCROLLING, AMEN, RIGHT? SHALL MORE BE
- 1:31:46GIVEN. FOR TO HIM THAT HAS SHALL BE GIVEN, AND HIM THAT
- 1:31:50DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING, IT WILL BE TAKEN AWAY, EVEN
- 1:31:53THAT WHICH HE HAS. THIS IS ALL BASED ON HEARING AND
- 1:31:56RECEIVING. THIS IS ALL SEED AND HARVEST. NOW LET ME READ
- 1:31:59THE LAST OF IT, WE'LL CLOSE UP WITH THIS. AND HE SAID,
- 1:32:01SO IS THIS KINGDOM OF GOD. THE SAME PRINCIPLE IS THE
- 1:32:06KINGDOM. AS IF A MAN SHOULD CAST SEED IN THE GROUND, THE
- 1:32:10WHOLE KINGDOM IS SEED AND HARVEST. EVERYTHING, OKAY?
- 1:32:15SOW IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD, AS IF SOMEONE SHOULD CAST
- 1:32:18SEED IN THE GROUND, SHOULD SLEEP AND RISE NIGHT AND
- 1:32:20DAY. I DON'T KNOW WHY HARVESTS SOMETIMES WORK THE
- 1:32:22WAY THEY DO. OKAY? SOMETIMES THEY JUST DO. HE SAID, HE
- 1:32:28DOESN'T KNOW HOW IT GROWS. YOU KNOW, IT'S REALLY, IT'S
- 1:32:30UP TO GOD TO BRING THE HARVEST. IT'S US TO SOW THE
- 1:32:33SEEDS, TO SOW THE RIGHT SEEDS, TO SOW THE RIGHT
- 1:32:37WORDS. YOU KNOW, MAYBE ONE OF THE WAYS THAT YOU DEAL
- 1:32:41WITH YOUR PRODIGAL IS QUIT SEWING LECTURES INTO THEM
- 1:32:46AND JUST PRAY FOR THEM. OKAY, LET GOD TALK TO THEM.
- 1:32:51SOMETIMES AGAIN, GOD CAN'T GET A WORD IN BECAUSE OF OUR
- 1:32:55JABBING. WE DON'T ALWAYS HAVE TO FIGURE OUT THE
- 1:32:59HARVEST, BUT IT GROWS UP OVERNIGHT. HE DOESN'T KNOW
- 1:33:02HOW FOR THE EARTH BRINGS FORTH FRUIT OF HERSELF,
- 1:33:04FIRST THE BLADE, THE EAR, THE FULL CORN IN THE EAR,
- 1:33:07EVENTUALLY HARVEST COMES. BUT WHEN THE FRUIT IS
- 1:33:10BROUGHT FORTH IMMEDIATELY, HE PUTS IN THE SICKLE
- 1:33:13BECAUSE THE HARVEST HAS COME. VERSE 30, AND WHERE
- 1:33:17SHOULD WE LIKEN THE KINGDOM OF GOD? OR WHAT COMPARISON
- 1:33:22SHALL WE COMPARE IT? NOW I COULD TEACH A WHOLE THING ON
- 1:33:25VERSE 31. JESUS SAID IT'S LIKE A GRAIN OF A MUSTARD
- 1:33:30SEED. I USED TO HEAR PEOPLE SAY, "OH, IT ONLY TAKES JUST
- 1:33:32A TINY BIT OF FAITH." "OH, IT'S JUST A LITTLE GRAIN OF
- 1:33:36MUSTARD SEED." NO, THE SEED IS THE BEGINNING. YOU DON'T
- 1:33:38EAT THE MUSTARD SEED. OKAY, IT'S LIKE A GRAIN OF A
- 1:33:43MUSTARD SEED, IT STARTS. IT'S LIKE A LITTLE GRAIN OF
- 1:33:47A MUSTARD SEED THAT WHEN IT IS SOWN, SO YOU HAVE TO DO
- 1:33:52SOMETHING WITH IT, RIGHT? IT MAY START OUT AND LOOK LIKE
- 1:33:56NOTHING. THAT GIFT YOU GAVE, THAT THING YOU DID, THAT
- 1:33:59$100 VISA GIFT CARD, IT MAY NOT LOOK LIKE ANYTHING, BUT
- 1:34:04SOMEWHERE A HARVEST IS GONNA COME. AND WHEN IT GROWS, YOU
- 1:34:08KNOW, THIS WAS THE THING THAT JESUS SAID, YOU CAN
- 1:34:09STAND TO YOUR FEET, I'LL CLOSE NOW, OFFICIALLY. THE
- 1:34:12OVEN IS DEFINITELY HOT ENOUGH. JESUS, WHEN THEY
- 1:34:17COULDN'T CAST THE DEMON OUT OF THE YOUNG MAN THAT WAS
- 1:34:20DEMON POSSESSED IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 17, YOU REMEMBER
- 1:34:23THAT? AND THEY SAID, "WELL, LORD, WHY COULDN'T WE CAST
- 1:34:26IT OUT?" AND HE SAID, "BECAUSE OF YOUR UNBELIEF,
- 1:34:28FOR IF YOU HAD FAITH LIKE A GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED." THE
- 1:34:31KEY THERE IS FAITH LIKE A GRAIN. IN OTHER WORDS,
- 1:34:35THAT'S A SEED. YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING WITH THE SEED. YOU
- 1:34:38KNOW, WHEN WE GET UP HERE AND PREACH OR A PASTOR SAYS
- 1:34:41SOMETHING OR YOU GET HANDS LAID ON YOU IN CHURCH,
- 1:34:43THAT'S THE SEED, THAT'S THE START. THIS IS THE KINGDOM.
- 1:34:47AND SO IT'S OUR JOB, IF WE WANT A GOOD HARVEST, TO
- 1:34:51CONTINUE TO CULTIVATE THE RIGHT THINGS SO WE RECEIVE
- 1:34:53THAT HARVEST. CULTIVATE IT IN OUR FAMILY. YOU KNOW, IF
- 1:34:57YOU SOW LOVE INTO YOUR LOVED ONES ENOUGH, "WELL, LORD,
- 1:35:00BUT YOU DON'T KNOW MY HUSBAND. HE'S DOING ALL THIS
- 1:35:04AND THAT, AND HE'S THIS AND SAID THAT." YEAH, BUT YOU
- 1:35:07KNOW WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF YOU DIDN'T SLAP BACK AND SOW
- 1:35:13THE RIGHT SEEDS? YOU MIGHT BE SURPRISED THE HARVEST
- 1:35:18THAT COULD COME. SO THE KEY IS, IS SOW, RECEIVE, SOW THE
- 1:35:24RIGHT SEED. AND JESUS SAID, EVENTUALLY THAT LITTLE GRAIN
- 1:35:29IS GONNA GET SO BIG, IT'LL DROWN OUT EVERYTHING ELSE.
- 1:35:35THAT HARVEST WILL GET SO LARGE. LAST THING I'LL SAY,
- 1:35:38WE STARTED THIS CHURCH, I MEAN, I WAS TELLING
- 1:35:41SOMEBODY, IN FACT, IT WAS PASTOR MARK, WE WERE TALKING
- 1:35:44ON THE PHONE ABOUT HOW GOD GETS YOU FROM ONE PLACE TO
- 1:35:46ANOTHER, AND I SAID, YOU KNOW, I WOULD HAVE NEVER
- 1:35:50THOUGHT ALL THOSE YEARS AGO WE RENTED THAT LITTLE BAY
- 1:35:53HERE IN THE MILLARD PLAZA, IT WAS SMALL. WE THOUGHT,
- 1:35:56WELL, NOBODY WOULD COME HERE, IT WAS THE WORST, HOW
- 1:35:58WOULD THEY EVEN KNOW ABOUT US? WE DIDN'T HAVE INTERNET,
- 1:36:00NOBODY HAD, THERE WAS NO SOCIAL MEDIA, OKAY? PAUL AND
- 1:36:04KAMALA CAME AT THOSE YEARS, RACHEL WAS THERE. RACHEL
- 1:36:06KNEW US BEFORE. AND HERE WE HAVE THIS LITTLE TINY THING
- 1:36:12AND WE JUST KEPT SEWING. I STOOD OUT IN FRONT OF THIS
- 1:36:14CHURCH AND PAINTED THE FIRST CHURCH SIGN IN THE PARKING
- 1:36:17LOT OUT HERE. THEY HAD A LEFTOVER SIGN UP THERE. I
- 1:36:21ASKED A CONTRACTOR, I SAID, "CAN YOU GET THAT DOWN? "I
- 1:36:22WANNA PAINT THAT. "AND I'M GONNA WRITE LORD OF HOSTS ON
- 1:36:26IT." I SURELY DID IT. AND IT LOOKED PRETTY GOOD TOO FOR
- 1:36:29HAND PAINTING. I DID USE A PROJECTOR. REMEMBER THOSE
- 1:36:33THINGS? BUT THE KEY IS YOU'VE GOT TO KEEP SOWING
- 1:36:36THE RIGHT SEEDS. AND EVENTUALLY A HARVEST TIME
- 1:36:38WILL COME. DON'T EVER FORGET THAT. EVERYTHING IN THIS
- 1:36:42LIFE, NEGATIVE OR POSITIVE, IS BASED ON A SEED
- 1:36:45PRINCIPLE. GET THE RIGHT HARVEST. GET THE KINGDOM
- 1:36:49HARVEST. JESUS PROMISED IT IN JESUS' NAME. AMEN. I LOVE
- 1:36:52YOU GUYS. GOD BLESS YOU. DID YOU GET SOMETHING FROM THAT?
- 1:36:56ALL RIGHT, WELL, LOVE ON SOMEBODY, GO HOME
- 1:36:59AND SOW SOME SEEDS IN YOUR STOMACH OF SOME GOOD
- 1:37:02FOOD. AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE GONNA
- 1:37:03EAT, BUT I'M ABOUT TO. LOVE Y'ALL, BYE-BYE.
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