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- 0:13Speaker 1: He Brews eleven one through six. My God, I'm getting
- 0:24Speaker 1: ready to see something I have never seen. He Brews eleven.
- 0:35Speaker 1: We begin reading in verse one. It's a very familiar
- 0:37Speaker 1: passage of scripture. That does not reduce the redundancy of
- 0:42Speaker 1: the text. Does not reduce the relevance of the text.
- 0:46Speaker 1: The fact that you have heard it before does not
- 0:49Speaker 1: make it less true. If I say two plus two
- 0:53Speaker 1: is four, that doesn't make it less true because you
- 0:56Speaker 1: know it or you've heard it before. Because the Word
- 1:01Speaker 1: of God is living, every time we read it, we
- 1:03Speaker 1: see something we never saw before. It is the living
- 1:08Speaker 1: word of God. It is alive to us like cells
- 1:12Speaker 1: and molecules. It is alive. It is alive. It is
- 1:17Speaker 1: like tissue. It is like spiritual tissue. It is alive.
- 1:23Speaker 1: Glory to God. You are not a body. You are
- 1:26Speaker 1: a combination of cells. Glory to God. If something breaks
- 1:33Speaker 1: out in your cells, that will affect your body, because
- 1:35Speaker 1: your body is made of cells. Your skins, your organs,
- 1:38Speaker 1: your tissues, your bone, your moral your blood is all
- 1:41Speaker 1: really broken down to cells. If you cannot digest this
- 1:47Speaker 1: entire word, if one cell of this word gets into
- 1:50Speaker 1: your system, it is potent enough That's why the woman said,
- 1:55Speaker 1: even a crumb that falls from the master's table is
- 1:59Speaker 1: enough to change my entire life. That's how powerful the
- 2:03Speaker 1: word of God is.
- 2:04Speaker 2: Now. Faith is not was not, will be, not, shell
- 2:11Speaker 2: be not, can be. Now.
- 2:14Speaker 1: Faith is the substance of things humped for the evidence
- 2:24Speaker 1: admissible in court of things not seen, for by it,
- 2:29Speaker 1: the illness obtained a good report.
- 2:35Speaker 2: Through faith.
- 2:36Speaker 1: We understand that the worlds were framed by the word
- 2:39Speaker 1: of God, so that things which are seen were not
- 2:43Speaker 1: made of things which do appear. Wait, hold it right there,
- 2:47Speaker 1: Things that are seen are not made of things which
- 2:52Speaker 1: do appear. Everything that's tangible, touchable, physical, relatable that you
- 2:59Speaker 1: can pick up, move, hold, handle, feel, touch, or evaluate
- 3:03Speaker 1: did not start from the physical realm. Everything starts in
- 3:09Speaker 1: the spirit. Everything starts in the spirit. That's why the
- 3:14Speaker 1: enemy wants to attack your spirit and your mind, because
- 3:17Speaker 1: that is the birthing room of everything that will material
- 3:21Speaker 1: materialize in your life. Is made of the sells of
- 3:26Speaker 1: your belief. As a man thinketh in his heart, Oh,
- 3:33Speaker 1: talk to me at church. They were not made of
- 3:37Speaker 1: things that do appear. Let's go on verse four. By faith,
- 3:40Speaker 1: he will offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain,
- 3:45Speaker 1: by which he obtained witness that he was righteous God
- 3:49Speaker 1: testifying of his gifts, and by it he being dead
- 3:54Speaker 1: yet speaketh.
- 3:57Speaker 2: By faith.
- 3:57Speaker 1: Edom was translated that he should not see death and
- 4:02Speaker 1: was not found. Couldn't find him with the flashlight because
- 4:06Speaker 1: God had translated him. For before his translation, he had
- 4:12Speaker 1: this testimony.
- 4:20Speaker 2: That he please God, not that.
- 4:24Speaker 1: He pleads the crowd, not that he pleased his neighbors,
- 4:27Speaker 1: not that he pleads his friends, not that he pleads
- 4:29Speaker 1: his husband, wife, kids, none of that that he please God.
- 4:34Speaker 1: Are you spending too much time trying to please people
- 4:38Speaker 1: that have no consequence.
- 4:42Speaker 2: And have no reward.
- 4:43Speaker 1: But without faith it is impossible to please him. See
- 4:51Speaker 1: this comes right off of the heels of Eno pleasing God,
- 4:57Speaker 1: and you must understand that the contexts of but with
- 5:00Speaker 1: without faith it is impossible to please him is explaining
- 5:04Speaker 1: that Enith pleased God by faith. We should live a
- 5:09Speaker 1: pure life, but it wasn't his purity that did it.
- 5:15Speaker 1: We should praise God, but it wasn't his praise life
- 5:17Speaker 1: that did it. We should clap our hands, but it
- 5:20Speaker 1: wasn't clapping his hands and did it The only way
- 5:24Speaker 1: we can please God is.
- 5:26Speaker 2: By uh huh.
- 5:29Speaker 1: For he that comes to God must believe that he is.
- 5:34Speaker 1: If you don't believe that he is, you can't come.
- 5:38Speaker 1: It's not that you don't come. It's not that you
- 5:41Speaker 1: won't come. You can't come. The only way you can
- 5:45Speaker 1: come is that he reveals to you that he is.
- 5:50Speaker 1: That's a revelation. Whenever he reveals himself to you, that
- 5:55Speaker 1: is not because you can see so well. It is
- 5:58Speaker 1: that he made himself sealed. He do come up to
- 6:05Speaker 1: godmers first believe that he is, and that He is
- 6:08Speaker 1: a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. Can the
- 6:18Speaker 1: church say, man, look at your neighbor. Say it's a
- 6:21Speaker 1: faith thing. Look at the other neighbor and tell him
- 6:25Speaker 1: it's a faith thing. It's not a church thing. It's
- 6:29Speaker 1: not a money thing. It's not a game thing. It's
- 6:32Speaker 1: a faith thing. It's a faith thing. Until you understand
- 6:36Speaker 1: that it's a faith thing, you don't understand anything at all.
- 6:40Speaker 2: Can you say, man, Spirit of.
- 6:43Speaker 1: The Living God, we evokell presence in this place.
- 6:51Speaker 2: Come close, hover over us, flap your wings over this building.
- 7:01Speaker 1: Transform these lips of claim that they may become the
- 7:05Speaker 1: very Oracle of God, establish your doing in the midst
- 7:09Speaker 1: of your people. Let faith arise in us afresh, renewing us,
- 7:17Speaker 1: preparing us, fortifying us, strengthening us. I thank you in
- 7:22Speaker 1: advance for what you're about to do.
- 7:26Speaker 2: Oh God, have your way moving the midst of your people.
- 7:33Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus, we pray Amen a Amen,
- 7:38Speaker 1: you may be seated. Yeah, I'm back, baby. It would
- 7:52Speaker 1: be erroneous to believe that in the days of Christ,
- 7:55Speaker 1: in the days of the early Church, that there were
- 7:57Speaker 1: just one or two religions. Jerusalem was flanked with religions
- 8:03Speaker 1: of all types and descriptions. What made their early Church
- 8:07Speaker 1: have such a difficult time is that they were in
- 8:09Speaker 1: an ideological war. What is in the ideological war? An
- 8:14Speaker 1: ideological war is a war of ideas. Right now, without
- 8:20Speaker 1: a bomb going off, or lightning flashing, or thunder rolling,
- 8:24Speaker 1: or even AK forty seven going off, we are at war.
- 8:30Speaker 1: We are at war in this country right now. It
- 8:34Speaker 1: is an ideological war. It is a war of ideas.
- 8:39Speaker 1: It used to be that you had a right to
- 8:42Speaker 1: have your own opinion. Today people think it is their
- 8:49Speaker 1: job to impose their opinion upon you, and if you disagree.
- 8:57Speaker 2: They attack you.
- 9:00Speaker 1: For having a different point of view. You have to
- 9:05Speaker 1: be strong to stick to your convictions because the title wave,
- 9:12Speaker 1: the tsunami wave of public opinion and what they call culture,
- 9:17Speaker 1: has bombarded theology to the point that theology has lauringiitis
- 9:26Speaker 1: and lost his voice in this present age, and we
- 9:30Speaker 1: are in trouble. And as it is now, so was
- 9:34Speaker 1: it then? There was a Pharisees who didn't really like
- 9:37Speaker 1: the Sadducees, but they got together to fight Jesus, each
- 9:42Speaker 1: one of them having their own versions and ideas and
- 9:45Speaker 1: philosophies that were pervasive in the day. And Jesus was
- 9:51Speaker 1: stood demobile, firm in his conviction, willing to debate them.
- 9:58Speaker 1: Their doctrines and their philosophies did not intimidate Jesus because
- 10:04Speaker 1: he understood that it was an ideological war. An ideological
- 10:08Speaker 1: war has no bullets, has no guns, no grenades. It
- 10:14Speaker 1: is a war of opinions and ideas. The other group
- 10:18Speaker 1: there that existed in the early Church called gnostics or gnosticism,
- 10:25Speaker 1: not with the K, but with the G. But it
- 10:28Speaker 1: means the same as if we were to put a
- 10:31Speaker 1: K in O, there's what G in oh. Gnosticism it
- 10:36Speaker 1: is where we get the word agnostic. Agnostic is to
- 10:42Speaker 1: not know. So if somebody says to you, I'm agnostic,
- 10:47Speaker 1: they're not saying that they don't believe in God. They
- 10:49Speaker 1: just say I'm not sure. I don't know. Gnostic is
- 10:55Speaker 1: to know. So Gnosticism in the early Church prevailing ideology
- 11:01Speaker 1: that suggested that they knew God and that they intellectually
- 11:08Speaker 1: ascended up the latter to God. In fact, they thought
- 11:14Speaker 1: that Jesus was just a step up the latter to God.
- 11:19Speaker 1: Gnosticism to know. They thought that the more you know,
- 11:27Speaker 1: the more you transformed into a type of God. The
- 11:33Speaker 1: more you know. Now, the problem with that idea is
- 11:37Speaker 1: this God cannot be just and be nostissistic, because in
- 11:47Speaker 1: order to be just, we would all have to have
- 11:49Speaker 1: the same IQ.
- 11:52Speaker 2: To the person who is dull.
- 11:54Speaker 1: Of wit or slow to learn or unable to grasp
- 11:57Speaker 1: certain ideas, God would beyond their reach if gnostissicism was true.
- 12:06Speaker 1: Because if gnosticism was true, the smarter you were, the
- 12:10Speaker 1: more like God you were, then God could only be
- 12:15Speaker 1: embraced through knowledge. The Pharisees thought that the way to
- 12:22Speaker 1: approach God was through acts of holiness self righteousness, They
- 12:30Speaker 1: thought that the more righteous and the more pious they were,
- 12:33Speaker 1: the closer they were to God. So they were known
- 12:36Speaker 1: for their long praying and their long garments, and their beads,
- 12:41Speaker 1: and their prayers, and their rituals and their routines, because
- 12:44Speaker 1: they thought through ritualism and routine was the way to
- 12:48Speaker 1: get to God. You hear what I'm saying to you.
- 12:53Speaker 1: In the midst of all of these very ideas, the Sadducees,
- 12:56Speaker 1: for example, thought that the spirit of the body did
- 13:00Speaker 1: a man for three days. That's why Jesus waited till
- 13:07Speaker 1: Leather had been dead four days, so that the Saddescees
- 13:12Speaker 1: couldn't say he didn't really raise him from the dead,
- 13:15Speaker 1: because he wasn't within the parameters of our theology. Jesus
- 13:20Speaker 1: waited till there was no doubt amongst the skeptics that
- 13:24Speaker 1: Leather were dead. So Mary says to him, don't go
- 13:28Speaker 1: to the grave now, because by now he's stinking. God
- 13:33Speaker 1: has a way of not showing up until it's stinking.
- 13:47Speaker 1: God has a way of not giving an old man
- 13:50Speaker 1: a baby until he's impotent. His wife is past child
- 13:56Speaker 1: bearing age, and even if she weren't past child bearing
- 14:00Speaker 1: age she was barren, and when it was totally impossible
- 14:05Speaker 1: with man cuts top ten and said now I'm ready
- 14:11Speaker 1: to do something. Have you ever had Have you ever
- 14:14Speaker 1: watched God let you wear yourself out trying to do
- 14:19Speaker 1: stuff by yourself. And finally when you finally give up
- 14:24Speaker 1: and say, okay, God, I can't do it, that's when
- 14:27Speaker 1: He steps in and shows himself strong. Hebrews eleven reminds
- 14:38Speaker 1: us that faith is not a New Testament idea, that
- 14:43Speaker 1: it is not a result of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ,
- 14:48Speaker 1: that from the creation of Man forward people have been
- 14:51Speaker 1: moved by faith. The Book of Hebrews eleven reminds us
- 14:58Speaker 1: that faith cannot be unfined by dispensations, structures, or order,
- 15:05Speaker 1: or to break it out simply. It reminds us that
- 15:08Speaker 1: faith never goes out of style. A lot of other
- 15:14Speaker 1: things will go out of skeptile. By the time I
- 15:18Speaker 1: found a pair of skinny jeans that could fit me
- 15:27Speaker 1: and decided that it might be okay to wear them,
- 15:31Speaker 1: now they are gone Widely. People change their mind from
- 15:36Speaker 1: week to week to get a little bit more of
- 15:38Speaker 1: your money. By the time you got an Appos seven,
- 15:41Speaker 1: they got an ipo eight. By the time you got
- 15:43Speaker 1: apple eight, they got apple ten. You have ten, they
- 15:46Speaker 1: got eyeo twelve. I stopped counting. I said, this ain't
- 15:50Speaker 1: is working for me. Faith never goes out of style.
- 15:57Speaker 1: It doesn't wait for the transition of time where they're
- 15:59Speaker 1: coming up Moses. It exists before Moses. It exists before
- 16:05Speaker 1: the Pentaduck, it exists before the law.
- 16:09Speaker 2: Faith just is.
- 16:12Speaker 1: But the reason why faith is is faith is a
- 16:16Speaker 1: common denominator that regardless to how intellectual you are or not,
- 16:24Speaker 1: you have equal access to it because faith is the
- 16:29Speaker 1: gateway to everything promised to you. Now this is deep,
- 16:34Speaker 1: but you need to understand this. You need to understand
- 16:37Speaker 1: this because some people who are exceptionally smart are also
- 16:41Speaker 1: exceptionally frustrated because they think that they should be compensated
- 16:46Speaker 1: on the level of their intellect.
- 16:48Speaker 2: And here you come in.
- 16:49Speaker 1: With less degrees and got paid more money, and they
- 16:53Speaker 1: can't understand how you got what you've got. It's a
- 17:00Speaker 1: faith thing.
- 17:03Speaker 2: They're the fine woman.
- 17:04Speaker 1: Looking at at a woman that's just ordinary, saying how
- 17:08Speaker 1: did you get a man like that? It is not
- 17:16Speaker 1: by might nor by power, but by my spirit saying
- 17:20Speaker 1: for Lord, it is a faith thing. Now in order
- 17:31Speaker 1: to have faith, how do I get faith? How do
- 17:33Speaker 1: I get faith? Because today we think faith is willpower,
- 17:37Speaker 1: so we get sick to say, I just believe it.
- 17:39Speaker 1: I believe it, I believe it. I believe it. I
- 17:41Speaker 1: confess it, I believe it. I believe it. I believe it.
- 17:43Speaker 1: I believe. I'm hell. I believe I'm hell. I just
- 17:45Speaker 1: believe it. I just believe it. I believe. I believe.
- 17:48Speaker 1: I'm gonna hit the lottery. I believe, I believe, I believe.
- 17:50Speaker 1: I believe they're all in Vegas pulling a lottery down.
- 17:54Speaker 1: I believe, I believe, I believe. I'll just say, have
- 18:00Speaker 1: faith in faith in this, have faith in God.
- 18:08Speaker 2: Now.
- 18:09Speaker 1: Faith has nothing to do without hope. You can have
- 18:18Speaker 1: faith all you want, but if you don't have hope,
- 18:22Speaker 1: you can't do anything. The reason that faith is a
- 18:26Speaker 1: common denominator. Let me finish that up. The reason that
- 18:29Speaker 1: faith is a common denominator, Jesus says, except you become
- 18:33Speaker 1: like a little child, you should not inherit the kingdom
- 18:37Speaker 1: of God. That means that he has reduced it down.
- 18:41Speaker 1: I use this phrase all the time. Is out of style.
- 18:43Speaker 1: They don't teach it in school like that anymore. But
- 18:46Speaker 1: we used to reduce fractions down to its lowest common
- 18:49Speaker 1: denominator and then multiply. That's how I was taught in school.
- 18:53Speaker 1: They don't teach it that way anymore. They got a
- 18:55Speaker 1: whole different method. So you had to find the lowest
- 18:58Speaker 1: common denominator in order to do it. Faith is God's
- 19:02Speaker 1: lowest common denominator. He's brought it down so low that
- 19:08Speaker 1: you can be illiterate and still believe. If an illiterate
- 19:15Speaker 1: man gets sick beside an intellectual man then gets sick.
- 19:19Speaker 1: The intellectual man has no more advantage over the illiterate
- 19:23Speaker 1: man when it comes to miracles, because it is.
- 19:32Speaker 2: By faith.
- 19:36Speaker 1: The Jentile has no more power than the Jew, because
- 19:39Speaker 1: it's by faith.
- 19:40Speaker 2: If you walk slowly through the Book of Romans, Paul
- 19:43Speaker 2: will prove to you.
- 19:44Speaker 1: He teaches you what the Jews were and how their
- 19:47Speaker 1: history were, and he goes all back through their antiquities
- 19:50Speaker 1: and their ancestry, and he validates who they were, and
- 19:54Speaker 1: then he counts it.
- 19:54Speaker 2: All is dumb.
- 19:57Speaker 1: Said, don't mean nothing. Then he talks about the Gentiles
- 20:01Speaker 1: and how wild they were, and how perverted they were,
- 20:05Speaker 1: and how promiscuous they were, and he said, it doesn't
- 20:08Speaker 1: mean nothing because God has equalized the playing floor. He's
- 20:13Speaker 1: brought it down to just by faith. There's some righteous
- 20:16Speaker 1: women in here. You grew up righteous, You've always been pure,
- 20:20Speaker 1: you've always been virtuous, you've always been honorable. When you
- 20:24Speaker 1: got married, you were a virgin. And you're sitting right
- 20:27Speaker 1: behind a woman who was a slut. You don't get
- 20:35Speaker 1: no more glory when the glory falls than the woman
- 20:39Speaker 1: who was a slut. Because it's not by work less
- 20:48Speaker 1: any man should boast. It is by faith. This is
- 20:53Speaker 1: why you have haters, because haters don't think that you
- 20:59Speaker 1: deserve to have whatever you have, because they think that
- 21:04Speaker 1: they are better or pure, or smarter, or better looking
- 21:08Speaker 1: or brighter. But look at somebody said, no, no, no, no, no, no,
- 21:12Speaker 1: no no, it's a faith a I know it doesn't
- 21:19Speaker 1: make sense to you that I got a promotion. I
- 21:22Speaker 1: know it does makes sense to you that I passor
- 21:24Speaker 1: a church like this. I know it doesn't make sense
- 21:26Speaker 1: that I'm directing the choir. I know it doesn't make
- 21:29Speaker 1: sense of God that's raised me up. I know it
- 21:31Speaker 1: doesn't make sense to God put me on the cover
- 21:33Speaker 1: of Time magazine. I don't have no business on the
- 21:35Speaker 1: cover of Time magazine. I didn't make any great discovery.
- 21:39Speaker 1: I didn't do it. It's not gonna make sense to
- 21:42Speaker 1: you because it's a shun no moo course. I what
- 21:50Speaker 1: God is getting ready to do in your life is
- 21:53Speaker 1: totally illogical. It makes no sense, It has no rationale.
- 21:59Speaker 2: You have no background.
- 22:01Speaker 1: It's uh little shunned about God. I don't know who
- 22:08Speaker 1: I'm talking to, but I'm getting somebody ready to receive it.
- 22:17Speaker 1: The problem with you receiving the promises of God, I'm
- 22:20Speaker 1: just talking. I ain't got started yet. The problem with
- 22:23Speaker 1: you receiving the promises of God is that sometimes God
- 22:27Speaker 1: promises she's the most illogical stuff. As long as I've
- 22:34Speaker 1: been walking with God said something to me a few
- 22:37Speaker 1: years ago. I wrestled with him about three years, telling him,
- 22:41Speaker 1: I don't even know nothing about that. How could you
- 22:45Speaker 1: give that to me? I don't have no background in that.
- 22:47Speaker 1: I wasn't qualified for that, and God was busily building
- 22:52Speaker 1: it up. It didn't make no sense. It scared me
- 22:58Speaker 1: when it didn't make sense. Can I be honest with you?
- 23:03Speaker 1: The person who's teaching you faith got scared because sometimes
- 23:08Speaker 1: God has something for you that is so mind boggling.
- 23:15Speaker 1: Can I just be honest with you? I wrestled with
- 23:18Speaker 1: him like Jacob. It was a good thing, It was
- 23:21Speaker 1: a great blessing. I had great purpose. But I didn't
- 23:24Speaker 1: want to touch it because it didn't make sense. And
- 23:27Speaker 1: then I thought, it didn't make sense for David to
- 23:29Speaker 1: be king. How do you make a shepherd boy king?
- 23:38Speaker 1: He has no background here, no protocol. His father was
- 23:42Speaker 1: a peasant. He grew up taking care of sheep. He
- 23:44Speaker 1: had not been trained, he didn't go to school for it.
- 23:47Speaker 1: He wasn't prepared for it. But God said, I found
- 23:50Speaker 1: me a man who's out of my heart, and he's
- 23:54Speaker 1: going to be the next king of Israel. For it
- 23:56Speaker 1: is not by Mike, it is not by power. It
- 23:59Speaker 1: is by my spirit, saith the Lord. And I say
- 24:02Speaker 1: this because there are some things that God said to
- 24:05Speaker 1: you that are frightening. It that makes sense. You're scary,
- 24:10Speaker 1: you're reluctant to receive it. You don't feel qualified, you
- 24:14Speaker 1: don't feel ready, and yet God's going to do it.
- 24:17Speaker 1: And he told me to tell you it is a
- 24:20Speaker 1: faith thing. Whoever I'm talking to, giv him a praise.
- 24:36Speaker 1: Now I got to pick up this point. Where there
- 24:40Speaker 1: is no hope, faith has nothing to do hope, esteem esteem.
- 24:51Speaker 1: Where there is no hope, faith has nothing to do.
- 24:55Speaker 1: Faith is the substance of things hoped for. When you
- 24:59Speaker 1: have low self esteem, low esteem for your life, faith
- 25:06Speaker 1: hands are tied. So if I were the enemy and
- 25:15Speaker 1: I couldn't stop faith from being true, I would kill
- 25:19Speaker 1: your hope by showing you what you are not, what
- 25:24Speaker 1: you don't have, and what you don't and you're too
- 25:27Speaker 1: old and you're too young, and you're too dark, and
- 25:29Speaker 1: you're too white, and you're too brown, and you to this,
- 25:32Speaker 1: and you to that, and you to the other. Because
- 25:35Speaker 1: if I kill your hope, faith has nothing to work
- 25:39Speaker 1: with now. Faith is the substance of the thing you
- 25:46Speaker 1: hope for. The worst people in the world to preach
- 25:50Speaker 1: to are people who have no hope, people who have decided, well,
- 25:59Speaker 1: I guess this is as far as I'm going to go.
- 26:04Speaker 1: And they make themselves happy with mediocrity. It's not that
- 26:10Speaker 1: they're happy with it, they make themselves happy with it
- 26:14Speaker 1: because it is all they can grasp. The people I
- 26:20Speaker 1: like to preach to are the people who have the
- 26:25Speaker 1: audacity of hope, the audacity to believe, the audacity to
- 26:34Speaker 1: believe is possible, The adacity to think I could go
- 26:38Speaker 1: to school, the audacity to think I could own my
- 26:41Speaker 1: own house, the audacity to think I could preach the gospel,
- 26:45Speaker 1: the audacity to think I could build the church, the
- 26:47Speaker 1: audacity to think I could build them all, the adacity
- 26:51Speaker 1: to think I could get up from here, the adocinity
- 26:54Speaker 1: to think I could make it without you, the audacity see.
- 26:58Speaker 2: In order to leave.
- 26:59Speaker 1: A woman in an abusive relationship, the first thing an
- 27:03Speaker 1: abusive man does is take.
- 27:05Speaker 2: Away her hope.
- 27:06Speaker 1: He comes off her conversations, he doesn't want her to
- 27:09Speaker 1: talk to her relatives, and then he tells her you're
- 27:12Speaker 1: dumb and you're ugly, and you're stupid, and don't nobody
- 27:15Speaker 1: want me? But you had you better put up with me.
- 27:19Speaker 1: I slap you across his kitchen. You ain't got nowhere
- 27:22Speaker 1: to go. You're stupid. You know what he's doing.
- 27:25Speaker 2: He's killing her hope.
- 27:31Speaker 1: Verbal abuse kills hope. What that man is doing to
- 27:44Speaker 1: that woman, and nowadays what that woman is doing to
- 27:47Speaker 1: that man. Because I found since I've been in Texas
- 27:51Speaker 1: that some of these women are just says abusive as
- 27:54Speaker 1: men are. The way you talk to your husband, he'll
- 27:57Speaker 1: never get up because you are as abusive as an
- 28:01Speaker 1: abusive man, You just shorter mean as a starving rattlesnake.
- 28:15Speaker 1: Say anything to him about him to his face, about
- 28:19Speaker 1: his family, about his mama, about his king, because you
- 28:23Speaker 1: are cutting off all access to anything for faith to
- 28:27Speaker 1: work with. Oh, but I don't care what you say.
- 28:35Speaker 1: I wustand your ideas. I fight your ideas. I am somebody,
- 28:42Speaker 1: I am worth something. I can bill, I can't evall.
- 28:46Speaker 1: You think whatever you want to think, but you can't
- 28:49Speaker 1: change the way I think about myself as a man
- 28:53Speaker 1: thinking that himself slap somebody say I think so, I
- 29:08Speaker 1: think so. I don't care what you're right. I don't
- 29:11Speaker 1: care what your tweet. I don't care what your text.
- 29:14Speaker 1: I don't care what your blove. I think so. And
- 29:18Speaker 1: as long as I think so, what you think don't
- 29:22Speaker 1: have nothing to do with what I think.
- 29:25Speaker 2: I think so.
- 29:28Speaker 1: Oh, it's gonna get tough in here in a minute.
- 29:31Speaker 1: I think, so, how is little Tommy Jay's gonna be
- 29:40Speaker 1: a preacher? How is he gonna be a preacher? He
- 29:43Speaker 1: got a list? He can't do it.
- 29:45Speaker 2: I don't care what you think. I think so and
- 29:52Speaker 2: look at mana look at somebody saying how you like me? Now?
- 30:04Speaker 1: Now, faith is a substance of the thing I hope for.
- 30:18Speaker 1: If I don't, if the day you lose your hope,
- 30:24Speaker 1: you lost your life. So the devil isn't so much
- 30:29Speaker 1: after your faith, He's after your hope. That he could
- 30:35Speaker 1: be better, that you could reveal your life, that the
- 30:40Speaker 1: second half could be the best half, that the best
- 30:43Speaker 1: is yet to come. That God has more for you,
- 30:47Speaker 1: that you're important to God, that God has a plan
- 30:50Speaker 1: for your life. That all things are possible to him.
- 30:53Speaker 1: That believe the enemy is doing everything he can to
- 30:57Speaker 1: destroy your hope. He always will. Let somebody bring you
- 31:01Speaker 1: some bad news. Oh, but I'm like the wicked wish.
- 31:06Speaker 1: Don't nobody bring me no bad news. Now, I'll hang
- 31:09Speaker 1: up on you. I can't let it in. I'll cut
- 31:11Speaker 1: it off the TV set. I'll stop watching it because
- 31:15Speaker 1: I know you're trying to infect my faith. The devil
- 31:18Speaker 1: is a lie. My faith is the substance of the
- 31:22Speaker 1: thing I hope for. It is the evidence of the
- 31:38Speaker 1: thing not yet seen. Evidence is admitted into court. It
- 31:46Speaker 1: is proof. It is receipts. It validates. It is the
- 31:52Speaker 1: evidence shunned down. Eyes have not seen, ears have not heard,
- 32:02Speaker 1: neither have entered into the heart of man. The things
- 32:05Speaker 1: that God has prepared, the things that God has prepared
- 32:09Speaker 1: for them that love him. This is the evidence of
- 32:14Speaker 1: things unseen. Remember when you were a child, how you
- 32:23Speaker 1: had imagination? You had great imagination, You believed you had imagination.
- 32:36Speaker 1: Somebody told me the other day they jumped out of
- 32:37Speaker 1: the window because they thought they could fly. When you
- 32:45Speaker 1: stop dreaming, you stop flying. I have a question what
- 33:01Speaker 1: took away your hope? When did you stop dreaming? Did
- 33:15Speaker 1: divorce do that to you? Did you let the rapists
- 33:23Speaker 1: take away your hope? Did your mama prefer your sister
- 33:30Speaker 1: kill your hope? Faith is a substance of things hope
- 33:35Speaker 1: for it, it's the evidence of things not seeing.
- 33:38Speaker 2: For bite it. The elder was obtained a good report.
- 33:47Speaker 2: They wasn't good, They wasn't good, but they were able
- 33:53Speaker 2: to get a good report by faith.
- 34:04Speaker 1: Abraham believed God and it was counted under him as righteousness.
- 34:10Speaker 1: He wasn't righteous. Abraham wasn't righteous. Don't maybe take you
- 34:19Speaker 1: back to Bible path. Abraham was not righteous I'm not
- 34:22Speaker 1: saying he wasn't a good man, but he was not righteous,
- 34:26Speaker 1: but he believed God and it was counted under him
- 34:32Speaker 1: as righteous. I go crazy talking to accountants. No disrespect
- 34:37Speaker 1: to none of you, but you're driving me crazy because
- 34:40Speaker 1: to me, I bring the money in, I bring it
- 34:42Speaker 1: in here it is. This is what we got. No,
- 34:46Speaker 1: we can't account for it like that. We have to
- 34:49Speaker 1: put it in this column. I said, just put it
- 34:52Speaker 1: in the bank. I don't care what column you put
- 34:56Speaker 1: it in. Just put it in the bank. Well, if
- 34:59Speaker 1: he borrowed from this column and put it over here,
- 35:02Speaker 1: it's all the same money. But it's how you account
- 35:09Speaker 1: for it that passes the audit. Abraham believed God and
- 35:18Speaker 1: it was counted unto him as righteousness. He wasn't righteous,
- 35:25Speaker 1: but God marked it up on the ledger as righteous
- 35:31Speaker 1: because he had faith. Faith is like foodstamps. You ain't
- 35:36Speaker 1: got no money, but we'll take it. Lack money. Come on,
- 35:42Speaker 1: come on, I'm gonna teach it till you get it.
- 35:46Speaker 1: Everybody else walked in the store with money at American Express,
- 35:50Speaker 1: a MasterCard and visa. Hey, here come Mammy Wilson with
- 35:55Speaker 1: a bag full of food stamp but she got just
- 35:58Speaker 1: as much food as everybody else because the food stamp
- 36:02Speaker 1: was accounted. This is why I want you to understand
- 36:12Speaker 1: why people hate you. Because people hate you because they
- 36:14Speaker 1: know something about you, and they know you ain't that righteous,
- 36:18Speaker 1: and they know you ain't that holy, and they know
- 36:20Speaker 1: you ain't that good, and they saw you do something stupid,
- 36:24Speaker 1: and they heard you did something stupid, and they fussing
- 36:27Speaker 1: at you right now saying I ain't gonna listen at her.
- 36:30Speaker 1: I'm not gonna listen at him, because but what they
- 36:33Speaker 1: don't know is God is a bookkeeper and he accounted
- 36:45Speaker 1: it as rights. And what you need to know is
- 36:50Speaker 1: once the books say you're righteous, stop acting like you ain't.
- 36:59Speaker 1: Walk in what God said, Talk in what God said,
- 37:03Speaker 1: Move in what God said, presid what God said, because
- 37:07Speaker 1: according to the books, you think you're waiting on God.
- 37:19Speaker 1: God is waiting on you. God is waiting on you
- 37:22Speaker 1: to believe what He said about you, not what you
- 37:26Speaker 1: remember about you. For by it, the elness obtained a
- 37:36Speaker 1: good report. Watch his cant to go a little deeper.
- 37:39Speaker 1: Through faith, we understand through faith, we understand. Faith is
- 37:46Speaker 1: the truth we stand under. Through faith, we stand under
- 37:54Speaker 1: it is my covering. Through faith, we understand that the
- 37:59Speaker 1: world we're framed. Now, when you read that in the
- 38:03Speaker 1: King James Bible, it sounds like he's talking about the creation.
- 38:07Speaker 1: He really isn't, because when he says through faith we
- 38:10Speaker 1: understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God.
- 38:13Speaker 1: That is true of the creation. But in this particular text,
- 38:17Speaker 1: he is not using the Greek word cosmos. He's using
- 38:21Speaker 1: the Greek word eons, which is aegis. Through faith, we
- 38:31Speaker 1: understand that the ages were hemmed in by the word
- 38:39Speaker 1: of God, that my future is locked, that he's got
- 38:46Speaker 1: a hedge around tomorrow. I'll prove it to you about
- 38:52Speaker 1: the Bible, Satan Lucifer, go curse Joe. You know I
- 38:59Speaker 1: can't curse Joe.
- 39:01Speaker 2: You gotta.
- 39:03Speaker 1: You got a hedge around him.
- 39:06Speaker 2: I can't.
- 39:07Speaker 1: Never a curse speaks to how you're gonna end up.
- 39:10Speaker 1: How can I mess with his future when you got
- 39:13Speaker 1: a hedge around his future. Through faith, we understand that
- 39:18Speaker 1: the eons were framed by the word of Your tomorrow
- 39:22Speaker 1: is already fixed. Your tomorrow is already fixed. You down
- 39:30Speaker 1: on your knees crying about how I'm gonna make it?
- 39:33Speaker 1: What I'm gonna do. How can I get there? I
- 39:36Speaker 1: don't see no way. I don't have enough. God said,
- 39:40Speaker 1: shut up, I got it already framed, man. I said
- 39:58Speaker 1: enough for somebody to start it right there. Your future
- 40:03Speaker 1: is fixed. The witch can't curse you, The wallot can't
- 40:10Speaker 1: curse shuit. Your enemies can't curse you. Because God's got
- 40:15Speaker 1: your hat stick. Your tomorrow is in his hands, Your
- 40:20Speaker 1: next week is in his hands, Your next sear is
- 40:24Speaker 1: in his hands.
- 40:25Speaker 2: He's got the whole world. It is hans, whole high world.
- 40:32Speaker 2: It is hot. He got the whole world. It is hat.
- 40:37Speaker 2: He got the whole.
- 40:39Speaker 1: It is hand.
- 40:41Speaker 2: He got you and me.
- 40:42Speaker 1: Brother. It is hides.
- 40:44Speaker 2: He got you and me. Brother. It is hot, He
- 40:48Speaker 2: got you and me. Brother.
- 40:51Speaker 1: It is hards.
- 40:52Speaker 2: He's got the.
- 41:07Speaker 1: Through Frank, we understand that the worlds were frayed by
- 41:10Speaker 1: the word of God. Now we're going to the creation
- 41:14Speaker 1: so that things that do appear, we're not made of
- 41:20Speaker 1: things that do appear. Honey, would you come in from
- 41:26Speaker 1: any Nothing you got on, not your ear rings, not
- 41:39Speaker 1: your dress, not your shoes, not your ring. Nothing you
- 41:45Speaker 1: got on started out as a material, Yes, sir, Yes,
- 41:54Speaker 1: it started out as an idea. Then they picked the
- 42:00Speaker 1: material according to the idea. Yes, it didn't start out
- 42:08Speaker 1: as material. It started out as an idea. The material
- 42:14Speaker 1: didn't pick the idea. The idea picked the material. It
- 42:26Speaker 1: passed over wool, it passed over cotton, it passed over linen,
- 42:31Speaker 1: because the idea had a specific idea in mine and said,
- 42:35Speaker 1: once I found what matches what I'm thinking in here,
- 42:39Speaker 1: I'm going to do out there what I'm thinking in here.
- 42:43Speaker 1: So what would you rather have? The dress or the idea.
- 42:49Speaker 1: That's why I say money is the cheapest part of me,
- 42:55Speaker 1: because the money don't make me. If all you took
- 43:08Speaker 1: was my money and you didn't get much. Now, if
- 43:10Speaker 1: you'd have took my mind, I'd be in trouble. But
- 43:13Speaker 1: as long as I got my right mind, I could
- 43:16Speaker 1: get me some more money. I could make another dress,
- 43:19Speaker 1: I could create more ear raise, I can get more shoes,
- 43:23Speaker 1: as long as I got the idea, so that things
- 43:27Speaker 1: that do appear that were not made of things that
- 43:32Speaker 1: do appear. Yes, sir, did you know God has designed
- 43:36Speaker 1: the future for you and he's already got the right
- 43:44Speaker 1: material in mind, the right way, the right time, the
- 43:48Speaker 1: right place, the right moment the right way, And if
- 43:53Speaker 1: you would get out of God's way and stop trying
- 43:57Speaker 1: to design your own life and plan your your own
- 44:00Speaker 1: future and manage your own stuff and fix yourself up,
- 44:04Speaker 1: and just give it all over to God and say,
- 44:06Speaker 1: whatever you want me to have, I'll take it. Whenever
- 44:09Speaker 1: you think I'm ready for it, I'll move it to it.
- 44:11Speaker 1: Whatever you design for me, I'll go for it. If
- 44:14Speaker 1: you would step back, that would be failed. But because
- 44:18Speaker 1: you got your mouth in God's design, that's not faith.
- 44:24Speaker 1: And without faith, it is impossible.
- 44:30Speaker 2: Say all you want to preach, all.
- 44:33Speaker 1: Your will, dance all you want to, you cannot dance
- 44:37Speaker 1: your way into favor. Can I go a little bit further?
- 44:44Speaker 1: Thank you?
- 44:44Speaker 2: Anim So faith is so important, Bison? How do I
- 44:52Speaker 2: get it? Faith?
- 44:54Speaker 1: Coming by hearing and hearing out the word to God?
- 45:00Speaker 1: Wait a minute, So if I'm gonna have faith, I
- 45:03Speaker 1: gotta protect what I hear. Okay, So I got to
- 45:13Speaker 1: shut down all these voices, external and internal, because it
- 45:25Speaker 1: creates a belief system that either cancels out my blessing
- 45:32Speaker 1: or grows my blessing. If I'm sick in my system,
- 45:39Speaker 1: I'm gonna be sick in my substance. That's why when
- 45:49Speaker 1: I talk to you like this, I'm talking about how
- 45:52Speaker 1: you think.
- 45:55Speaker 2: Because if I'm sick in my.
- 46:02Speaker 1: I'm going to be sinking my results. I'm going to
- 46:05Speaker 1: self sabotage everything God has for me because I'm not
- 46:11Speaker 1: clear right here? Are you hearing what I'm saying? By
- 46:19Speaker 1: faith able off enough a more excellent sacrifice than King Yeah,
- 46:26Speaker 1: and through it his blood yet speaker by faith, Noah
- 46:33Speaker 1: being wonder of God of things not yet seen, building
- 46:35Speaker 1: all to the saving of his house. Huh So, Noah
- 46:41Speaker 1: built a boat with no water in his backyard, willing
- 46:56Speaker 1: to look like a fool and wait on the rain
- 47:00Speaker 1: to catch up with what he built us. Some of
- 47:07Speaker 1: you are gonna have to build something that looks like
- 47:09Speaker 1: a fool and wait on the rain to catch up
- 47:12Speaker 1: with you. Where my innovators at See, Most people are
- 47:21Speaker 1: building their future around the past and how it used
- 47:27Speaker 1: to be. But people who are innovative build around around
- 47:33Speaker 1: the future and how it's gonna be. Nor built an
- 47:37Speaker 1: arc to the saving of his house. His whole house
- 47:42Speaker 1: got saved because he was willing to look like a
- 47:44Speaker 1: food for a little while and let the rain catch
- 47:48Speaker 1: up with them. Somebody online. The rain that's gonna catch
- 47:50Speaker 1: up with you. Stay right where you are. Let them
- 47:54Speaker 1: laugh at you, let them look at your funny, let
- 47:56Speaker 1: them talk like your fool. Let them say it doesn't
- 47:58Speaker 1: make any sense. That property, It don't even make any sense.
- 48:02Speaker 1: There's nothing around it. There's nothing there right now. But
- 48:06Speaker 1: don't worry. The rain's gonna catch up with you. The
- 48:09Speaker 1: rain's gonna tell me. Am I talking to anybody in here?
- 48:13Speaker 1: Have I talking to anybody in here? A woman said
- 48:21Speaker 1: to my wife this the other day, said, who would
- 48:23Speaker 1: ever thought that you would end up being where you are?
- 48:32Speaker 1: She did, They didn't think I'd end up where I was,
- 48:39Speaker 1: But the rain caught up with me. Young people, let
- 48:48Speaker 1: the rain catch.
- 48:48Speaker 2: Up with you.
- 48:50Speaker 1: Let the rain catch up with you while other people
- 48:52Speaker 1: acting a fool build something that don't make no sense of.
- 48:55Speaker 1: Let the rain catch up with you. Let the rain
- 48:57Speaker 1: catch up with you. Who am I talking to? If
- 49:00Speaker 1: I'm talking to you, make some noise in here, I'm
- 49:07Speaker 1: gonna stop.
- 49:08Speaker 2: In a minute. I'm gonna hearry this along. You remember
- 49:11Speaker 2: when the.
- 49:12Speaker 1: Woman came down to the well and she says to Jesus,
- 49:16Speaker 1: Jesus sitting at the well, you know he just chilling.
- 49:18Speaker 1: He's chilling out, hanging out at the well, being cool
- 49:22Speaker 1: looking fly and he says, woman, give me to drink.
- 49:32Speaker 1: She said, you play if you really wanted water? Who
- 49:40Speaker 1: comes to a well with nothing to draw with? All
- 49:45Speaker 1: I want is nothing to draw with if you have faith.
- 49:51Speaker 1: If you do not have faith, you have nothing to
- 49:56Speaker 1: draw with. See the woman was right, who sits by
- 50:00Speaker 1: well with nothing to draw with? So you come to church.
- 50:12Speaker 1: But if you don't have faith, shun down. You don't
- 50:17Speaker 1: have nothing to draw with. So you scrolling around on
- 50:21Speaker 1: your Instagram right now, and you think about what you're
- 50:24Speaker 1: gonna come for dinner, and did you cut the stove off?
- 50:27Speaker 1: And and where we're gonna go eat? When this is
- 50:29Speaker 1: over all of that says you have nothing to draw with.
- 50:33Speaker 1: You're sitting by a well. You're sitting in the presence
- 50:38Speaker 1: of a miracle. You're sitting in your destiny, You're sitting
- 50:42Speaker 1: in your future. You're sitting in the thirst quenching power
- 50:46Speaker 1: of God. But if your mine is somewhere else, you
- 50:50Speaker 1: won't get it. Not because the water is not in
- 50:53Speaker 1: the well. You don't have nothing to draw with. How
- 51:00Speaker 1: many people in here got something to draw with.
- 51:08Speaker 2: Do you have a garment church that really really are
- 51:11Speaker 2: servants that really really.
- 51:12Speaker 1: Bless you, and you roll with somebody that didn't pay
- 51:14Speaker 1: no attention to it. That means that we can be
- 51:18Speaker 1: in the same place at the same time. But if
- 51:21Speaker 1: you don't have faith, you don't have nothing to draw with.
- 51:24Speaker 1: So you went home dry. I went home wet, not
- 51:28Speaker 1: because we didn't go to the same church, but I
- 51:31Speaker 1: had something to draw with. You didn't have nothing to
- 51:33Speaker 1: draw with. Do you not know that your faith controls
- 51:36Speaker 1: my message? Do you not know that you can draw
- 51:45Speaker 1: the preacher out of me, You can draw the teacher
- 51:48Speaker 1: out of me, that certain crowds draw things out of
- 51:51Speaker 1: you that other people don't draw out of you, because
- 51:55Speaker 1: when they make a demand of the annoying thing, the
- 51:58Speaker 1: annoying thing shows up in a word. I wish I
- 52:01Speaker 1: had a thousand people that would provoke me. Right now,
- 52:15Speaker 1: when you come to church, you under say, I'm gonna
- 52:19Speaker 1: draw it out of my Man of God.
- 52:21Speaker 2: I don't care what it feels like. I don't care
- 52:23Speaker 2: what it looks like. I don't care what kind of
- 52:25Speaker 2: week he had.
- 52:27Speaker 1: I came here with something to draw with, and I'm
- 52:29Speaker 1: not gonna leave this well until I get this water
- 52:33Speaker 1: that I thirst snow more. Somebody say, draw it out,
- 52:37Speaker 1: draw it out, draw it out, draw it out. Come on,
- 52:40Speaker 1: come on, draw it out, draw it out, draw it out,
- 52:44Speaker 1: draw it out, draw it out, draw it Yeah.
- 52:47Speaker 2: I want to give it to me.
- 52:48Speaker 1: Draw it out, draw it out, draw it out, draw
- 52:51Speaker 1: it out, drought out.
- 53:06Speaker 2: What's this?
- 53:07Speaker 1: Y'all ain't gonna like me for this? You're gonna sit
- 53:09Speaker 1: out and say you might have to sit out now
- 53:10Speaker 1: because there's another woman in your woman. And if you
- 53:21Speaker 1: had something to draw with, you could draw it out.
- 53:30Speaker 1: If you don't believe it, wait till the next guy
- 53:32Speaker 1: get her. There's another man in the man you got.
- 53:50Speaker 1: And the only reason his ex didn't get it is
- 53:52Speaker 1: that she didn't have nothing to draw with. And if
- 53:55Speaker 1: you come in and you know how to draw it
- 53:57Speaker 1: out of him, she won't even reck itgnies him when
- 54:01Speaker 1: she sees him again. I wish I had some drawers
- 54:04Speaker 1: in here. Draw it out, draw it out, draw it out,
- 54:08Speaker 1: draw it out, draw it out, draw it out, draw
- 54:10Speaker 1: it out. To three people saying some faith thing. Oh,
- 54:23Speaker 1: I'm gonna prove it. I'm gonna prove it. I'm ia
- 54:25Speaker 1: prove it. I'm improven. I'm improven. I'm ia prove it.
- 54:28Speaker 1: I'm improving. Somebody's getting to heal right now. Somebody's getting
- 54:33Speaker 1: to heal while somebody's sitting around looking. Somebody's being here.
- 54:37Speaker 1: Somebody's getting a breakthrough it, while somebody's sitting around playing
- 54:40Speaker 1: with the phone. Somebody's getting a breakthrough it while somebody's
- 54:43Speaker 1: sitting around looking out in the window. Somebody's being delivered.
- 54:47Speaker 1: Don't let that somebody be you. I want the person
- 54:50Speaker 1: that's getting something from God to leap up over your
- 54:53Speaker 1: feet and praise God like you at the web. Praise
- 54:59Speaker 1: God like you just got with Praise God, like you
- 55:03Speaker 1: just dropped your bucket down into his promises and pulled
- 55:08Speaker 1: up your healing. I pulled up your deliverance and pulled
- 55:13Speaker 1: up your breakdoors. Somebody started pulling it up. I'm gonna
- 55:17Speaker 1: pull it out of this swell. I'm gonna pull it
- 55:20Speaker 1: out of this moment. I'm gonna pull it out. I
- 55:23Speaker 1: don't tell if I look funny. I'm gonna pull it
- 55:26Speaker 1: out right now. God's got something from it, and I'm
- 55:29Speaker 1: not gonna leave this well till I pull it out.
- 55:33Speaker 1: I got something to draw with. You understand the worst
- 55:50Speaker 1: I'm saying? I said, Do you understand the worst that
- 55:54Speaker 1: I'm saying? Do you understand the words that I'm saying?
- 56:00Speaker 1: Do I understand the words that I'm sad? Do you
- 56:04Speaker 1: understand it? Do you understand it? Do you receive it?
- 56:09Speaker 1: Draw it out, Make the devil mad and draw it out.
- 56:15Speaker 1: Make hell nervous and draw it out. Break heavy, yo
- 56:19Speaker 1: can draw it out. Break generational curses and draw it out.
- 56:32Speaker 2: I'm gonna quote the description and I'm gonna close right here.
- 56:36Speaker 2: That's why I had you stand up. The word.
- 56:42Speaker 1: The Bible says in Hebrews four one, let us there
- 56:48Speaker 1: for fear less the promise of being less us of
- 56:52Speaker 1: entering into his rest. Any of you should seem to
- 56:56Speaker 1: come short of it. Let's let's be scared. Let us
- 57:03Speaker 1: let us let us have fear. Go back to verse one.
- 57:07Speaker 1: Let us there for fear lest the promise being left
- 57:12Speaker 1: us of entering into his rest, and he should seem
- 57:17Speaker 1: to come short of it. Come on verse two, for
- 57:21Speaker 1: unto us what the God's will preach, as well as
- 57:25Speaker 1: unto them. But the word preach did not profit them,
- 57:35Speaker 1: not being mixed with he says, your prophet is tied
- 57:47Speaker 1: to your faith. No faith, no prophet, No faith.
- 57:54Speaker 2: No prophet.
- 57:55Speaker 1: The word did not profit as strong as God's word is,
- 58:00Speaker 1: it did not profit them, not mixed with faith in
- 58:06Speaker 1: them that heard it. There were certain cities that Jews
- 58:10Speaker 1: Jesus could not do miracles in because they had nothing
- 58:15Speaker 1: to draw with. This morning, as I close, I'm gonna
- 58:21Speaker 1: stop there, I feel like going into an outright crazy
- 58:24Speaker 1: spandanium preaching fit. There is something that God has for you,
- 59:07Speaker 1: and you're gonna need faith to draw it out. It's
- 59:21Speaker 1: not a dancing thing. It's not a shouting thing, it's
- 59:28Speaker 1: not a scripture quoting thing.
- 59:31Speaker 2: This has come down to a faith fight.
- 59:38Speaker 1: And you got to stand still and steady yourself and
- 59:43Speaker 1: strengthen your backbone and stand up against the enemy. And
- 59:49Speaker 1: this way, you gotta talk to him like this. You
- 59:51Speaker 1: gotta walk right up to him say though he's slaved yet,
- 1:00:02Speaker 1: shall I trust you? And you got to walk up
- 1:00:06Speaker 1: to mister devil and introduce yourself to mister devil and said,
- 1:00:09Speaker 1: missus devil, I'm the head, I'm the head of knock
- 1:00:15Speaker 1: the tail, I'm above, and knock beneath. I'm more than
- 1:00:20Speaker 1: a conqueror. I'm blessed in the city. I'm blessed in
- 1:00:24Speaker 1: the field. I'm blessed in my uprising. I'm blessed in
- 1:00:28Speaker 1: my down city. If I'm blessed in Charleston, I'll be
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: blessed in Dallas. If I go to Chicago, I'll be
- 1:00:36Speaker 1: blessed in Chicago, because the blessing is not on the city.
- 1:00:40Speaker 1: The blessing is on me, and everywhere my feet trod
- 1:00:45Speaker 1: God's God to give it to me. You know why, devil, Oh.
- 1:00:54Speaker 2: You know why, devil. Let me tell you why you
- 1:00:59Speaker 2: can't stop me. It's a faith fan.
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: It's a faith fan. You're gonna have my coat, but
- 1:01:08Speaker 1: you can't have my faith. You gonna have my shues,
- 1:01:12Speaker 1: but you can't even have my faith. You can take
- 1:01:15Speaker 1: my car, but you can't take my faith. Make some
- 1:01:20Speaker 1: noise in this place. Me and my wife got married.
- 1:01:47Speaker 1: We moved her of our road in Dunbar, a little, tiny,
- 1:01:53Speaker 1: wood frame, simple two bedrooms house.
- 1:02:00Speaker 2: She said it was nice as love.
- 1:02:07Speaker 1: The kitchen was so small that if you make something,
- 1:02:11Speaker 1: you didn't have nowhere to cut up nothing. It was
- 1:02:15Speaker 1: just like a little cubicle. And I can't remember how
- 1:02:22Speaker 1: I got, but I got a little bit of money.
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: It wasn't a whole lot, but a little bit. Instead
- 1:02:28Speaker 1: of buying a bigger place, of doing something smart with it,
- 1:02:32Speaker 1: I bought a side like this. You remember that sound
- 1:02:37Speaker 1: like this man? You remember how big it was. It
- 1:02:40Speaker 1: was one that back then old timey suded like this
- 1:02:43Speaker 1: is about twelve feet.
- 1:02:44Speaker 2: It was bigger than the house.
- 1:02:48Speaker 1: It looked absolutely ridiculous when they moved.
- 1:02:52Speaker 2: You couldn't even see out there. But I could get
- 1:02:58Speaker 2: all kinds of stations.
- 1:03:06Speaker 1: We didn't have central air, but we had a dish.
- 1:03:11Speaker 1: We didn't have a dish washer, but we had a dish.
- 1:03:16Speaker 2: Here's what's funny to me.
- 1:03:19Speaker 1: Every station that I picked up was already in the air.
- 1:03:31Speaker 1: All the dish did was make it possible for me
- 1:03:40Speaker 1: to receive what was already there. I didn't need the
- 1:03:54Speaker 1: stations to be created. I needed the dish so I
- 1:03:58Speaker 1: could draw down what was already there. Whatsoever you're praying
- 1:04:03Speaker 1: about right now, you already cut it. It's already done.
- 1:04:10Speaker 1: It's already there. It's already available to healing. Is the
- 1:04:16Speaker 1: children's bread. Whatever you need is already there. If I
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: can get you to have faith, you over receive. You
- 1:04:26Speaker 1: shall receive power after that. The Holy ghost has come
- 1:04:32Speaker 1: upon you, but you've got to have something to receive it.
- 1:04:35Speaker 2: When your faith don't create the.
- 1:04:42Speaker 1: Power, it just makes it possible for you to receive
- 1:04:47Speaker 1: the power. Throw your hands up. I want you to
- 1:04:51Speaker 1: have a receiving week this week. I want you to
- 1:04:55Speaker 1: receive on a level that would blow your mind. I
- 1:04:59Speaker 1: want you to start walking in faith and not in fear,
- 1:05:01Speaker 1: and not in doubt, and not in worry, and not
- 1:05:03Speaker 1: in frustration. I want you to receive right now in
- 1:05:06Speaker 1: your spirit, in your spirit, in your heart. Right now
- 1:05:09Speaker 1: you're watching online. The annoying is in this place. I
- 1:05:11Speaker 1: want you to receive it right now, in the name
- 1:05:13Speaker 1: of Jesus. It's a faith thing. It's a faith thing.
- 1:05:17Speaker 1: It's a faith thing. It's a faith that somebody in
- 1:05:19Speaker 1: the Holy ghosts got you sowing online right now because
- 1:05:22Speaker 1: you want to get the faith thing. It's a faith thing.
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: It's happening right now. It's a faith thing. It's moving
- 1:05:27Speaker 1: right now. It's faith. It's not gonna be by works.
- 1:05:29Speaker 1: It's not gonna be an ingenuity. It's not gonna be
- 1:05:32Speaker 1: by trickery and scam. And you think you're so slick
- 1:05:35Speaker 1: and you're so smart. But that's why you lose all
- 1:05:38Speaker 1: the time, because you don't understand. It's by faith. This
- 1:05:42Speaker 1: is a faith thing. Everybody in it here, they's got faith.
- 1:05:46Speaker 1: Makes some noise. This is so cool, This is so
- 1:06:07Speaker 1: cool that if you believe God right now, you could
- 1:06:17Speaker 1: be a drug dealer or gang banger, be struck out
- 1:06:20Speaker 1: on cocaine, crack. I don't care what it is. You
- 1:06:26Speaker 1: can have HIV positive, breast cancer. Look, ki, I don't
- 1:06:29Speaker 1: care what it is. You can be a cross dresser,
- 1:06:37Speaker 1: cross liver, whatever you want to call yourself. If you
- 1:06:43Speaker 1: believe God, he will set you free. Now, wait a minute.
- 1:06:56Speaker 1: People still don't talk about you, They still don't say
- 1:07:00Speaker 1: whatever they want to say. But God will set you
- 1:07:03Speaker 1: free right now. HiT's about our close. If you're in
- 1:07:09Speaker 1: this place and you don't know Jesus, if you're in
- 1:07:14Speaker 1: Him and you know Church.
- 1:07:16Speaker 2: But you don't know Jesus.
- 1:07:18Speaker 1: If you're in here and you're drifted away, and now
- 1:07:23Speaker 1: you see something you never saw before. God is making
- 1:07:28Speaker 1: known unto you the mysteries that we're hidden from the
- 1:07:30Speaker 1: foundations of the world. He's showing them to you right
- 1:07:34Speaker 1: now now, you do come down to this well and
- 1:07:42Speaker 1: you just set through this service and it boils down
- 1:07:46Speaker 1: to one thing. Do you have something to draw with?
- 1:07:56Speaker 1: There's no question that there's water in the well, But
- 1:08:01Speaker 1: have you got a bucket?
- 1:08:05Speaker 2: Now?
- 1:08:05Speaker 1: It's the time for you to get something to draw
- 1:08:11Speaker 1: with now either clothes and heads about and nobody's looking
- 1:08:16Speaker 1: at you. But God, ain't you thirsty? Aren't you hungry
- 1:08:26Speaker 1: for more? Don't you wonder what you could pull down
- 1:08:33Speaker 1: in your own backyard if you had a satellite. It
- 1:08:37Speaker 1: ain't nothing wrong with the yard. You don't have nothing
- 1:08:40Speaker 1: to draw it down with. You don't come to the
- 1:08:50Speaker 1: altar because you're so much worse than anybody else. All
- 1:08:53Speaker 1: of us got some mess. You come down to the
- 1:09:00Speaker 1: altar so that you can have faith in God and
- 1:09:03Speaker 1: it can be counted unto you as righteousness. And I'm
- 1:09:08Speaker 1: gonna dismiss you in a minute. And I'm scared that
- 1:09:12Speaker 1: you're gonna sit by the well and die thirst because
- 1:09:17Speaker 1: you didn't get the faith you need to draw down
- 1:09:21Speaker 1: into your life what you need to find out who
- 1:09:26Speaker 1: you are. And I'm gonna give you a chance. Now
- 1:09:33Speaker 1: you can play me, you can play me, and I'm
- 1:09:39Speaker 1: gonna let you play me because a few minutes I'm
- 1:09:42Speaker 1: gonna walk off this stage, whether you're coming up, and so,
- 1:09:47Speaker 1: if you're playing this game of being hard to get,
- 1:09:49Speaker 1: you gonna win. The prize is hell, Hell after Earth,
- 1:10:03Speaker 1: and Hell on Earth.