“The Awesome Power of Just a Plea“ - Rev. Jeff Arnold

and so on I'm usually long-winded as you've noticed the last two days but I'm gonna be short I'm gonna be in and out of the chute in in less than two hours now I I'm gonna go real to the heart of the matter but I want I want you to to believe what I'm saying that's what I'm one I and I and and I when I was praying and studying this afternoon I I wrote this note down and here's what it says I'm reading your note if you are persuaded that God's got an attitude about you it should be easy to do what I'm asking you if you believe God's got an attitude about you then he wants nothing but the best for you that he's not a cop he's not a warden at a prison he's not gonna send you to Auschwitz if you believe he's got an attitude that he wants to bless you and and heal you and deliver you it ought to be easy to do what I'm gonna ask you to do so if you grab a hold of it I'll know in about six minutes I can be neither shoot in 20 minutes and and it's finished you got to hear me those of you that struggle with miracles need to understand within the scope of every miracle whether it's a physical healing emotional healing financial healing spiritual healing there is always an aspect of the impossible that's why you need faith so when God wants to do a miracle in your life don't be intimidated by something that shouts at you and says that's impossible that's why you need a miracle and they are so easy so let me let me read real quick humans stand in a while I'm reading Luke 17 and I'm reading Luke 18 if you want to turn there with me fine it doesn't matter Luke 17 and verse 12 and as he entered into a certain village there met him ten men that were lepers which stood afar off they lifted up their voices and said Jesus master have mercy on us now look at your neighbor and say that means healing is a mercy now that was that was too wussy fine let me try this again healing is a mercy and his and his mercy is everlasting so so it shouldn't be hard to get a miracle because miracle is a mercy and His mercy is everlasting duh okay so he said have mercy on us this is so powerful who man is powerful and when he saw them he said unto them go show yourselves unto the priests came to pass as they went they were cleansed one of them when he saw that he was healed turned back and with a loud voice glorified God fell down on his face at his feet giving him thanks and he was a Samaritan and Jesus answering said were there not ten cleansed where are the nine there are not found that returned to give glory to God save this stranger and he said unto Him arise go thy way thy faith has made thee whole so you understand my antagonism on my agitation about praise and worship and response it glorifies God so so if God ever does anything for you at least you could say thank you [Music] huh I got I got one more scripture to read I'm going over the next chapter chapter 18 ok chapter 18 and beginning please with with verse 9 and he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others two men went up into the temple to pray one a Pharisee the other Republican the Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself god I thank thee that I am not as other men ir extortioners unjust adulterers even as this publican what a nice guy too bad he couldn't fall in a hole somewhere he turns around he says and what's this he said I fast twice in the week I give tithes of all that I possess and the publican standing afar off would not lift up as much as his eyes unto heaven but smote upon his breast saying God be merciful to me a sinner be merciful to me a sinner I tell you that this man went down to his house justified rather than the other for everyone that exalteth himself shall be abased and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted okay now I'm fixing to tell you my subject and it will not bother me if you take off running I'll wait till you come back are you ready I want to talk to you about the awesome power of just a plea god bless the preaching help me to be a blessing he'll save and deliver in Jesus name and everybody said amen god bless you you may be seated thank you again for letting me come but you know we teach so much in our movement about the power of faith and the power of believing the Word of God and and the power of trying to live honest moral clean lives and there's nothing wrong with that and there's so much scripture that talks about the Lord's ear is open to the cry of the righteous his eye is upon his children on and on and on and on it talks about and he'll come to the rescue of the righteous and he'll bring them up and he'll deliver them that's fine what I want to know tonight don't be offended do any slobs have any help do anybody that is guilty have a chance our failures written off or do people who fail have an opportunity to get something from God when they're not up to par no I'm gonna make you answer me have not some of you sweet people who live for God sometime in your life you've messed up you dropped the ball you shot yourself in the foot you acted foolish and you could not cop a promise cuz you were disqualified but you could cop a plea and if you cop a plea there's a God in glory who say I hear people when they cop a plea oh I appreciate the six of you that just clap thank you very much let me let me just tell you what what what a plea is a plea is an earnest urgent request and appeal and entreaty a supplication that somehow some way you could get some help that you possibly don't even deserve these these lepers they got a complet listen I'm not a virgin voice up here listen to me I'm not a virgin voice I've made lots of dumb mistakes okay and there's been times when I could not quote God's Word to him and try to rub a promise in his face because I had disqualified myself or I had a wrong attitude or I mishandled stuff but every once in a while when I've been in that dilemma in that situation the Holy Ghost whispers and says why don't you cop a plea because the guilty can cop a plea because the mistaken can cop a plea for the failed and the fallen can cop a plea and I know a god that says if you cop a plea I'll react I'll respond I'll answer I'll come to your rescue what what are you funny you're too saved for me right now I need a house full of dirtbags that's what I need I don't need to owe you righteous save people yeah well when I read this story those lepers they have no hope there's no promise to heal lepers none and they're walking down the street and their nose has fallen off and the fingers has fallen off and they're rotting to the core and they see Jesus afar off and they don't quote a promise they don't say I need Jesus they don't use any kind of stuff they turn around say hey I just lost my finger I'm trying to find it would you have mercy on us they don't deserve it they have no right to it they just have the need to it and they turned around and said I'm gonna cop a plea have mercy on us and Jesus turned around and said I'll heal all of ya I'll bless all of you I'll deliver all of you he said go show yourself to the priest no I maybe I'm not helping some of you yet I don't know can you imagine they turn around and go to show themselves to the priest the priest was the health physician he was the he was the health doctor he's the one who declared houses clear of leprosy and people could here's the amazing thing Reverend the Samaritan doesn't have a priest so you got one half-breed walking with nine Jews but it's okay because crisis can bring you together and and and his finger just fell off and his nose is hanging off and he's walking with he's using that Jesus says go yourselves show yourself to the priest so they start going and and and the Bible says they realize they just got healed over a plane over an earnest effort listen when you offer God a plea it's two things you are admitting there's something wrong you can fix and you're asking for help from someone who can fix it you ain't gonna have any remission til you have some admission you you're not gonna receive until you open your mouth now yeah you got to get me now yeah you correct me later okay you're the baptize brain but when he turns around and sees that he's healed watch what he does he goes back to the only priest that he could have Jesus is the high priest Jesus is the holy priest Jesus loves people Jesus cares about people and he turns around and goes back to the priest cuz the Samaritan didn't have brief ah I hope I'm not being offensive yes this best bear with me just a minute because I'm I'm overwhelmed by this thing right now because there's some times that I can't quote a promise there's sometimes I can't rub a promise in God's face but you said the Word of God says this yeah but sometimes I've disqualified myself sometimes I'm so filled with guilt and and and wrought with even personal shame that I cannot hold my face up to God and say you got to fulfill your word to me because I haven't fulfilled his word to him yeah I wish I could get some you folks here in the cheap seats could could you preach with me for just a second kid have you ever ever copped a plea what was that was that yes or no I can't tell when the doll does this I don't know what that means is that have you ever cop to flee now all you men who are acting hypocritical and Liars if you've been married very long you know how powerful the plea is you marriage ain't gonna work full throttle if not once in a while you learned how to cop a plea when you step on your tongue now maybe you don't have the mare's I have I'm married to the redhead 52 years I treat her so good she won't leave but I've had times when I came back and I come home for flying out and I'm coming home to see Patti I'm not coming home to play uno I'm not coming home to play Scrabble and I walk up to my wife and she's at the sink and I put my arms about her hi baby you women are so funny I don't know what they got it like that in Canada we got him in Florida and she goes and you try again and not a little huggy and then she goes down the hall and slams the door and you say baby is there anything wrong no you know what you do you don't take out your marriage certificate you don't take all the applications that she was supposed to do and you were supposed to do love for better and worse richer and poor sick you know what you do bet baby listen you good-looking fox this is the man in your life sweetie I left you and you're waiting for the door to crack now you laugh all you want to some of you young couples you will you put 40 or 50 years under your belt you'll find out that preacher was a prophet that guy was telling the truth I'm not here because I've got great faith I'm not here because I can call it name and claim it bragging no no I'm here because I've learned that you can cop a plea if your lowest moment in your darkest hour you can offer God a plea and God who is rich in mercy will answer you and come to your rescue our bricks a few minutes you got him a sinner see I'm sorry I'm making reference to my earlier criminal days see I used to be a jailbird I used to pack a gun I used to rob places I was a bad boy I was a Hellraiser a honky-tonk ER I was a gambler a pool hustler I was all that crazy stuff and I know what it is to walk into a courtroom with the guy sitting up there with the black robes and a little hammer and they bring out all the charges mr. Arnold has charged with such and such such a sudden we caught him he was in a barroom brawl right here we arrested him he's going 75 miles an hour in a 35 mile an hour zone we had to chase him for three blocks and and boy it's just getting worse and worse and worse and worse there's no time to go up to the judge and say I didn't do that you know what criminals do crooks do when they ain't got nothing else they can bank on they cop a plea see you Pentecost says you came out of your mother's womb with the Holy Ghost you have no idea what I'm talking about but those of us who've been crooks and criminals we know what it is watch to throw yourself on the mercy of the court and where and when I get ready to put this together I felt the Holy Ghost say tell my people that while they can throw themselves on the mercy of the court you can throw yourself on the mercy of the king I own McCoy we're for come boldly unto the throne of grace to receive help in the time of need you can come poll me whether you're guilty or not whether you're messed up or not you can cop a plea and God is rich in mercy will answer good uh-huh please don't get mad at me I'm all for us learning how to pray I'm happy for these little brochures and these books that teach you how to pray step 1 step 2 step 3 fine I'm happy for you but I promise you you live long enough on this planet you're going to get put into a situation you can't reach the manual you got you got a cop a plea now now so I helped you save you for years in Bible School you will have to go because I'll tell you what you need to do when you cop a plea it's really deep it's really revelatory [Applause] when you cop a plea it means you ain't got nothing else going for you you will have the clout you don't have the connections you ain't got the money you can't get the lawyers you can't fix it see when you cop a plea you are out of options but you're not out of opportunities you you can still turn around and say lord have mercy on me a sinner and Jesus will say that's why I came I came to save sinners I came to change sinners I came to loose sinners I came to bless sinners sinners my business if you'll admit it I'll help you clinic I'm one of them getting anywhere with you yet yeah you understand I don't be rude but the issue is in spite of your condition see if you're not careful the adversary your friends your foes will tell you your condition is the issue help me help me right now give me an amen when I finish your condition it's not the issue his condition is the issue I don't care how messed up we are he can fix anything he can turn anybody around he can he can save anybody he can deliver anybody he can make a way where there is no way out of whoa if you believe God's got an attitude why don't you cop a plea right now yeah sit down remember when I preached on Saturday night about the gallery the original streaker who want old clothes you know the other thing you know how he got delivered he copped a plea copped a plea he did he didn't do like oh thou most highest father God who loveth all the people have who cometh to churches all the time with it no sometimes you got to go hey I got some junk going on I can't fix the only reason you don't get a miracle is cuz you can fix everything God wants to put you into something you cannot fix and you can't buy your way out of it and you ain't gonna pray your way out of it Jesus master have have mercy on us could I ask your print yes I can't I got the mic I get that question you ready I'm gonna ask you a question how long has it been since some of you wonderful people have called him master is your silence telling me you don't do that how long has it been since you looked at him and he's the master of your disaster and he's the master of your dilemma and he's the master of your marriage and he's the master of your finances and he's the master of your emotions and he's a master of your feelings and he's the master oh I wish I could get a witness now and he's the master of your frustration master have mercy on us and the largest turnaround said no problem be glad to go show yourself to the priest and he released his virtue and power and as they went down they all got healed that's so that's the power of a plea just a plea I don't mean to be offensive but I would like to go out and grab some of your people sometimes you ain't got no clout sometimes you're put into a situation that you can't pray a pretty prayer sometimes you're not going to ever call the bishop or pastor you ain't going to be able to do it all the years I pastored in gains realized to tell him I said you don't pay me enough money for me to fix your junk I said if I can answer all your problems I need a raise and there's going to be times when you can't get a hold of the pastor and you can't get a hold of your prayer partner and you're not in a good church service and you can't get somebody to encourage you here's what you do shut everybody down and turn around say I'm not worthy but I need help I'm not good but I need help I'm not righteous but I need help I'm not ready but I need help you know you know what that tells me every sweet person in this building you're a candidate sometimes you sweet people you don't cop a plea because you don't want to lose your image for the Schmoe sitting next to you what would he say if I screamed and yelled find out anybody in the house he's brought you out anybody in the house he turns you around anybody in the house he made away anybody in the house he wasn't to pray it wasn't your faith it was your desperate plea help me Jesus and how you wanna wake everybody up in one time Wow you see that huh that was wonderful yeah this feels like Gainesville please the power of a plane a plea is a desperation call of somebody who's in trouble and you can't fix it see as long as you can fix everything you don't need to save you as long as you can make away and come out of it yourself you don't need them your miracle worker you got to let God put your back up against the wall say not what you're gonna do and I'll tell you right now I'm not a virgin voice I know what I'm talking about I hate being put into situations where I have no options I don't want that I want some options I want to play this card I want to pull this Friday not want to pull that one I need to because I want to be my own Savior right now some of your sweet people you ain't copped a plea in so long you don't know how to spell it it's ple a plea please I need help I got I got a lust I can't control I need help I I have imaginations that are not pure I need you to help me I I get mad too quick and I stay mad too long hell you know I I appreciate it I try to teach people the Bible teach people how to live for God but you know what I I cannot always give you an answer to your dilemma accept what I'm offering you tonight cop a plea what are you gonna do and you ain't got me cop a plea what are you gonna do when you can't fix it cop a plea listen you cop a plea to Jesus Christ you can't find one time he turn around said shut up I don't want to do you he's not but one record where anybody ever walked up for help and he turned this back on the devil is a liar that's not so you come up and you cop a plea he'll help you he'll come to your rescue he'll make away he'll forgive sin he'll heal bodies he'll answer prayers he'll fix group he'll fix marriages he'll bring kids back to your house yes he will because there's so much power when you cop a plea can I calibrate a few minutes I probably never will pass this way ever again as long as I live this is this is my Omega I'm finished you ready what's this you don't think it's a power of a plea read your Bible in Luke and Matthew the Bible said Jesus is crucified and he's got a thief on either side now they're nailed to the cross like he is they ain't going nowhere they are not going to use their MasterCard to bail themselves out they can't get off the tree they're dying read it says both of the thieves railed on Jesus that's what it says they both railed on them and the people made fun of them until listen to me until the one thief heard a prayer coming from the lips of grace while he's hanging on the tree and his life is dripping out in his blood he hears this man in the middle Father forgive them for they know not what they do and this guy who Israeli on Jesus damning him and condemning him say get your carcass off the tree and save us to all the Sun at them at the results of a prayer of grace he turned around he said he just prayed for all these people that are killing him watch what he does he's nailed he ain't going nowhere he got no cloud watch this he turns and says Jesus remember me when you come into your kingdom all he does is cop a plea and Jesus smiles and says I'm gonna do one more miracle before I kick the bucket and I'll do it hang it on a tree today thou shalt be with me in paradise that's how powerful a plea is if a thief can do that from a cross you sweet people ought to be able to do it from this church don't be afraid to cop a plea don't be afraid to admit you can't fix that can I preach a few more minutes here just just bear with me you are the sweetest people have you ever vote any of those guys out call me I'm unemployed right now yeah this is so plea if I was a preacher could I preach a message on this one with you you need to get this a priestess brother Lehman ready when he said remember me when you come into your kingdom he said this day thou shalt be with me in paradise what a sermon the day of thief stole heaven with me the day a drunk got forgiven the day a liar got forgiven the day a whoremonger got forgiven the gun and such were some of you but now you're washed now you're justified now you're sanctified in the name of the Lord and by his Spirit we got nothing to boast except the grace of God and the mercy of God and the goodness of God but you've got power to make a plea tonight your news is so kind thank you just do you hear me baby you ready qapla man you fail the test how many times when I was going to college and going to high school and I messed up and I didn't do the homework assignment and every day I was here on a test I would cop a plea say you know I was I was sick that day I was in Israel I I got lost on a bus cop a plea you're trying to get a little grace a little mercy a little help you know you don't have any right to it see that's the good thing about copping a plea you know you're guilty you know you're mistaken you know you have no right to do it but you got to cop a plea anyway now I started out a little while ago talking about the redhead but there's been times in our marriage when I was guilty and I put both feet in my mouth and I said something that hurt my little sweetheart and I acted or reacted the wrong way now listen you can't do anything into any stupid husbands and say you're married to me for better or worse and I'd like to say when's the better coming and and all you can do is copley or you can turn around says uh uh uh I'm sorry I'm sorry I didn't you know how humbling and your Milly a that is when those big dogs have to say we're wrong III didn't mean that you know how hard it is when you say that to your wife and she says oh yes you did man you better hurry up and cop another play real quick if not it's gonna be lonely on the couch yeah yeah yeah and you got a cop a plea and you gotta turn around say listen what do you do when you can't remember the scripture what do you do when you can't locate that biblical promise what do you do when you can't put on a Jeff Arnold tape [Music] hey Jesus did I haven't got too much sermon yet I'm getting there right now sermons only 5 minutes long look foundations 20 you ready and the and he said he made this parable teaching unto them who were self-righteous and they despised others he said two men went up to the to the temple to pray now I know what the Bible says two men went up to pray but one guy supposedly prayed and the other guys just copped a plea that self-righteous bigot turned around said lord I thank God that I'm not like other men I'm not an extortioner I'm not an adulterer I'm not vile and wicked I pay tithes I fast twice a week you know when you got to inform God of what you do you're in trouble and he turns around he says watch this you talk about demeaning and degrading and and and I'm not like this dumb publican over here either and here's the publican I could just just touch make you understand how much humility and confession and honesty means to God and he stands back like this and he said he won't even so much as lift his eyes to heaven and he and he smites himself on his chest lord have mercy on me I know I'm not living right no I'm doing things I shouldn't do I know I failed and I messed up I know I promised I would never do that again and I did it again and I vowed that I I wouldn't go there to watch that but I did the Bible says that God got God's attention this man went down to his house justified whoever exalts himself shall be humbled whoever humbles himself should be one of the greatest things you could ever do in your life it's just to admit that you're a little messed up or you're a lot messed up and all you need is sub mercy and all you need is some grace and all you need is some help I wish I wish I get someone to say Amen to me right now yep anybody besides me you had a copper plate and what do you do when you're guilty copper plate what do you do when you failed complete what do you do when you made a mess copper plea what because there's a God in glory that says I welcome everybody that will cop a plea I'll help anybody and everybody that's honest enough to say I can't fix it but I know you can fix it I do not have any right to you to fix it but I need you to fix it oh you're looking at somebody that God has fixed so many times I have no room in my life for ego and arrogance and pride and vanity and self glory I am a dinner to grace I am a dinner to mercy I'm only here not because I'm strong spiritually but because he's good spiritually because he's gracious spirited because it has no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked would turn from their wickedness just I'm trying to make contact with somebody in this church that you would understand sometimes you're down to just copping a plea please help me I didn't want to curse but I did I didn't I didn't want to have a bad attitude but I do i what do you do when you're not living up to the truth that you know what are you gonna do when you violate precepts and principles when you're not faithful with your money or you're faithful with your time or you're faithful with your talent what do you do then you can't just walk boldly up to the throne and say hey I want to talk to you not not when you're filled with guilt not when you're filled with shame that would you filled with failure the only thing sometimes I have had God's mercy touch me when all I did to go pray was to whimper I'm sorry it's Jeffrey and I'm and I'm in need of mercy again and I know I don't have any right to ask you now but I'm asking you to help me anyway I don't know how many times I've come from a grumbling groan the wimpy kind of prayer that I walked away forgiving and I walked away uplifted and I walked away encouraged I like to pray and learn how to pray good and better than I pray but there's sometimes all you can do is copley has anybody besides me ever almost got into a terrible car accident or a bad car accident anybody just one guy in 4,000 people okay I'm riding home from church taking patty home with me Wednesday night baba said he was going down this little side road I go through it every time for years I was going right down a side road but there's an intersection at that side road and for some reason I don't know I had to be the Lord because I'm not smart enough there were came an impulse to me as I was driving down that road and the impulse said slow down brake there's nobody there and I hit my brakes and slowed down and at that time some young kid going about 65 miles an hour ran through that intersection and watch I copped a plea I'll show you how easy it is to cop a plea Jay's house and I miss being killed have you not been in a situation when all you could say is Jesus if God has ever answered your plea I wish you'd stand up for just a minute and clap and applaud and give God some thanks for answering you're clean people [Music] there's so much power in a plane that is honest that is transparent that is naked and open it'll move heaven for you you'd sit down give me just five or six minutes and and I'll finish my little sermon the power of a plea brother Woodward the guy's got no cloud he's guilty he's messed up all they can do is copy plea have mercy on me the Lord seem to say be glad to the other Schmo is so self-righteous he don't ask for mercy you ain't getting none of you don't ask for he says he goes down to his house justified states there with me just a minute I I know where I'm going I really do I know where I'm going can you imagine you know the story of Simon Peter walking on the water remember that story it's in Matthew 4th if you people ever read the Bible it's in Matthew 14 okay and and and and Jesus shows up and he says lord if it's you bid me come to you on the water now watch the only thing that's holding him back from doing the supernatural is an invite and Jesus turns around and says come I said preach the sermon when I was young and famous invitation to the supernatural it was powerful and Peter climbs out of the boat now I've read a lot of these nincompoops and a lot of these self-appointed scholars and theologians they don't believe fat meets greasy yeah the only that's keeping them on the ground is they don't have enough hot air to float them up in here they don't know what they're talking about and I've had so many message that I've read and commentaries where they damned and condemned Peter for getting out of the boat and trying to walk on the water and I always respond yeah it's not as safest 11 dummy staying in the boat any idiot can stay in the boat I'm in the boat I'm safe in the boat well you'll never experience the supernatural I've seen pictures in Bible bookstores where they show Peter on the water and he's he's almost drowning that's a bad picture you know what I'm not an artist maybe you sweet people artists you can draw me a painting I'd like a painting of Peters rear end coming down now I'm not interested in his rear end I'm just talking about he's he's he's the only guy that's getting out of the boat anybody can do a picture of him walking on the water I want one where the guy's got enough courage to put one leg over the boat and another leg it takes courage to take a risk spiritually it takes tenacity to try to do something you've never done before I'll tell you what I'd like to walk on the water myself I'd like to experience the supernatural myself all right I'm getting there please forgive me you have to pay me I'm rich you don't pay me you ready he's walking on the water he's going to Jesus now I want to ask you self-appointed Canadian theologians you tell me after church how far did he walk there's most of the nincompoops that paint those pictures he walked from here to that speaker Jesus might have been 50 yards away he was dark it wasn't like the Astrodome it was dark and Peter's walking towards the voice yes and and the and the whole lake is like concrete we know the story saw the wind boisterous and Baba said got filled with fear and beginning to sink you're ready for this this is so powerful all you folks that haven't done anything there's your chance to do something right now he's on his way now watch him he doesn't pray the rosary he doesn't pray the Pentecostal prayer book he doesn't pray the Lutheran book he doesn't start convenient hours that this isn't Dulles he cops a plea lord save me and the Bible said immediately not later immediately Jesus grabbed his hand and picked him up that's how fast God's won't they answer your plea tonight he will do it if you are in desperation if you are in determination he will answer your plea immediately I'm almost done well I get a wonderful audience wonderful watch this this is this is so cool he said and Jesus grabbed his hand immediately now most people miss this I've never read a sermon on it so I'm not a liar hypocrite God just let me see this when he grabbed him he pulled them up on top of the water now watch the next verse says very strange most people miss it and when they become back into the ship now you got to get this come on all you non clappers and shouters here's your chance to save yourself you ready when he picked him up out I want to know how they get back to the boat [Applause] I am convinced they both walk that on top of the water as if to say Peter what you could do by yourself you can do with me at your side you may have failed but you are not a failure you may have made a mistake but you are not a mistake that's the power of a plea instead have power of a plea Sampson has got the morals of a barnyard dog he's always getting himself involved with these chicks he's always having affairs with these babes he's the Nazarite he's not supposed to be doing that he's he's not supposed to touch dead things but he takes honey out of that carcass boy I have a sermon on that one I want to ask you you sweet Pentecostal people I'll never probably be here again i'ma ask you have you got any dead lions in your life that you could pull some honey out of Baba said when he killed that lion he went when he came back they made a beehive inside that dead carcass sometimes all you got is yesterday's victory sometimes you don't have fresh faith sometimes you don't have great faith but if you have any dead lion somewhere on the roadside of life you can go back to that honey hole and you could pick up some now now we know he's strong because he's anointed by God and the Bible says that he he puts his head in his chicks lap and ends up with a crew-cut not only does he end up a crew-cut but they burned his eyeballs out so much for playing around with some bad chick then he put chains on him and then they put him in a dungeon and he grinds now he's failed god he's failed the people of God he's failed himself but his hair starts growing the power is not in his hair the power is in his God that was just a token and a symbol of him being a Nazarite he wasn't supposed to cut his hair okay now watch his hair grows back they take him out in the stadium they're going to make fun of him they're laughing at him they ridicule him they're making a mockery out of him he's flying Bible says he give me that boss the Bible says he gets a little boy so powerful he can't say little boy said lead me to the pillar of this temple boy that's a message could it be that in the Pentecostal realm before we ever get back into the supernatural we'll need a younger generation to lead us old people just think they know everything and that little boy brings him up to the pillars and he gets it to the pillars he's blind he's in shame he's guilty before God he's humiliated himself he's embarrassed God he's insulted his people and there he stands blind now what are you planning on do it okay I'm fixed can I run he said okay if I run I'm fixing to take off they're in the back I got you never seen a 74 year old guy go you watch the Jarrett old man move in just a minute you ready said he turns around the only thing he's got left is cop a plea Lord Lord remember me only this once anoint me one more time I'm not worthy I ought to be just put away and go to a devil's hell but you've not given up on me yet even though I shamed it and messed up would you remember me one more time pal the power from another world swept into his body and gave him [Applause] [Music] and that God is on the throne right now and that power is available right now if you're willing to cop a plea if you're willing to ask for some help if you're willing to say help is that powerful I'm not being mean Emma it's just oral talk to mewn sit down sister all talk to me on the phone and warned me Geoffrey be nice I said I'm gentle Jeff I'm always nice he says yeah you're nice is a toothache I said I'm nice I'm saying think bad or call it crude rude I'm nice I said I'm talking tonight that guy how many of you right now you be honest enough to say I'm that guy I have no clout I have no ability I have no connections I quoted all the scriptures I can I've called all my prayer partners and we prayed over the phone's talked in tongues like a Chinese Laundry I'm already said but it hasn't worked I got something to help you in you are one prayer away from your miracle and that prayer is not even a prayer it's a lord have mercy help me forgive me straighten I failed I have messed up I'm not like I ought to be I could do better with my life I'm just wandering in the wilderness on playing games with spiritual things I think God the way I saw this beginning of this service I think in this next 60 seconds God once it just rained the Holy Ghost on this whole place you don't have to come to the altar to pray you can build an altar right where you're sitting right now I want you to start copping a plea I want you to start asking God for mercy ask God to come to your rescue ask God to heal your hurts to take care of your lust to help you with your anger and your resentment and your come on do it right now cop a plea just cop a plea it it doesn't matter what you say as long as the plea is honest as long as the plea is sincere I need you to help me I need you to touch me I need you to bless me I need help in my body I need help in my finance I need help in my life I'm all misdirected I'm all messed up oh shut up kill em Oh hold on emotion dilemma about hotel en da no mercy I feel the wooing in the moving of the Holy Ghost it's almost like the Holy Ghost says this is the moment I've been waiting for if my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways then will I hear from heaven and I will forgive their sins and I'll heal their land if my people will I will [Applause] come on we need to stand we need to stand it's time to pray it's done I don't need to finish this sermon this is this is the key right now right now right now come on turn this turn this place like David did remember David was in the cave of a deulim you know what he did he turned that cave into a Cathedral he filled that 'kathy that cave with Psalms 34 he wrote songs when he was in a negative situation and he copped the plea he said lord help me my enemies are stronger than I am I I can't fix this I can't do it they're they're lying up against me help and God came to his rescue and God is not a respecter of persons if you will cop a plea I don't care whether you're Baptist Presbyterian Episcopalian Church of Christ I don't Mormon I don't care what you is you as a human is what you is and you have the ability to lift your voice in fact if lifting your hands is awkward to you you don't have to lift your hands and if talking out loud is upsetting to you then just whisper then just whisper just whisper in your heart I need help don't you get it do you understand how Jacob became Israel do you understand when he had that wrestling match with that angel remember that story you read it over there in Genesis he's wrestling with that angel and he the angel could not prevail over him and he says come on let me go the day breaketh I gotta get back to work I can't stay here anymore I gotta go to roster and you know what the Bible says Jacob hops a plea he's not stronger than that angel that angel could put him down like a bad headache he turns around he cops a plane he says I will not let you go until you bless me and the angel seems to say that's all I've been waiting for and the Bible said he touched the hollow of his thigh and the sinew shrank boy that's a sermon to see you shrank but it didn't disappear there's things that God reduces in our lives but it doesn't disappear that's why you have to pray to keep that in subjection right now come on Jacob you could become an Israel Israel is a hyphenated word its Israel L L is gone Ezra literally means governed by when you become an Israel you are governed by God I want to be a God governed man I want to be a God controlled man come on come on cop a plea right now give me some music I don't care cop a plea come on I've done the best I could to help you you can cop a plea you don't have to come to the altar build an altar right where you are ask God for help in your situation [Applause] and the condition that you're in doesn't matter you understand that Jonah was inside a whale's belly when he stopped to play and God made that thing holding him regurgitate him and spit him out I tell you if you'll cop a plea God will make whatever is holding you hostage let you go guilt you got to go shave you got to go mistake you got to go failure you got that color come on come on cop a plea cop a plea cop a plea cop a plea [Music] you ain't got the more options you got no way out but he can get him he can get in when you can't get out cool I feel the Holy Ghost I feel the Holy Ghost Oh hallelujah Oh hallelujah Oh hallelujah and if the wicked will forsake his way and do that which is right he said I promise I will never mention any of his iniquities and any of you sins again I don't know about you but I need that I need that because I've had a lot of dumb stuff in my life I need a promise [Music] I'm not asking you to worship real great I'm not asking you to pray real good I'm not asking you to give any money well I'm asking you to do is would you please and all the honesty and sincerity that you can muster up would you just cop a plea would you throw yourself on the mercy of the king you say well I'm not lost that's okay those of us who are saved we need to cop please - we need more strength we need more tenacity we need more boldness are you ready to sing kitties come on I can't move it but maybe you give us your singing and your movable singer uncle Joel Brookhurst oh I don't care what you say [Music]

Channel: Capital Community Church

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Keywords: the, awesome, power, of, plea, jeff, rev, arnold, preaching, sermon, ccc, capital, community, church, fredericton, nb, new, brunswick, canada, upc, upci, united, pentecostal, international, apostolic, christian

Id: sO4j1tON_EA

Length: 60min 5sec (3605 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 09 2018