Amazing Grace | Dr. Matthew Stevenson & Hart Ramsey | Grace Talk Part 1

[Music] this is going to be really really really fun and special for me and to give you context about why this is important in the last 15 years of the existence of this church I have never shared the pulpit with anybody my wife and I have Co taught once and it sounded like an argument in the kitchen so we just opted not to do that anymore but this man of God is is one of the most important people I've ever met and we'll share about how we met and then go into our revelation for today but he is a profound profound teacher of the word of God one of my favorite my staff and I often listen to him going to sleep he's he he pioneers into this and this month and last month actually we're delving ourselves into the power of the New Testament and into the power of the grace of God I made mention of the fact last week that one of my assignments in this season is to bring people from under the bondage of the Old Covenant not a disrespect of the Old Testament but under the bondage of the Old Covenant I don't personally know anybody who has more of a revelation of that than this gentleman who is before me he is also an apostle obviously he oversees a very very very very thriving work and he's a musician an engineer and so by profession so he's a great great great man I'm excited to have he and his beautiful wife with us so we met just in short so you realize how this is going to work we met at the engagement right was it before well no we met at the Kimbo rels engagement oh yeah yeah praise the Lord God I was ministering for a woman of God and we met there and then he invited me to his church and I'll let him share how that went 90% of the time when I'm traveling and I'm not in Chicago I'm on a prophetic assignment so they know the prophetic side of me and I have no clue what I'm stepping into no clue what I'm going to say but he invited me there we met yes so what happens first of all all nations god bless you good to be here you guys have a strange culture I love it as well and so listen I love you man of God and I've been following him for a while and all we're gonna talk about a lot of things today but we invited him to our Montgomery campus we were in the midst of the wildest transition God was bringing people in and taking people out it was happening so quickly that we need to we needed a reading on it so we sent for apostle he came in and that night in the service I'm a fast forward to a lot of stuff but that night in the service but when I tell you that before after he ministered he called up the entire staff and accurately spoke the word of the Lord to each person what he didn't know was that afternoon we had had one of those high-volume exchange meetings where we were disagreeing about what the Lord was saying and so we said what was this night when the prophet of God comes we will submit to what the Lord says and so he comes in and he gives accurate words to every single person and from there we were able to meet and make some decisions moving forward amen and so I don't know if you know this but I want to I just need to say this before we talk about the grace message and everything else is they do not ever minimize or downplay the men of God that you have No I'm gonna um you know we're gonna talk about I'm gonna tell you why because you know the Bible says in first Corinthians 3 that that I'm a paraphrase this you can't believe everybody no no no no that's not a dig that's not a big what is what it really is is that God is giving you ears to hear one person already when I started talking many of you picked up that I have an accent have you heard it where's it from who's the African I might throw something at you today no no it's the Virgin Islands but here's the crazy thing the crazy thing is the people in my church when I ministered they hear me and sometimes when I listen back to my tapes I don't understand what I'm saying but they understand God had to give them ears to hear so when God gives you a man that you could hear do not let them play with that whether what he says to you as pleasing or not do not play with that because everyone does not have a voice they have a Bible but not a voice okay I've got too much I just wanted to say that before we get started and why I got the ma'am I just tell you this you know we're gonna talk about a lot of things but let me get this in while I have the microphone I was sitting over here the smell of God impressed upon me real strong I want to start the statement with this the reason that you are now in a grace movement is because you've been wrestling with God you've been trying to get God to accept the person you're pretending to be and God is trying to get the real you the first lesson you learn when you come to church is hypocrisy we teach you the church teaches you how to be a hypocrite we tell you who we're going to accept who or not and so what you do is you cover you bury the real you in all of this religious garb and all of you you will be actually we study our neighbors to see what they're doing and then we do what they're doing regardless of who we are and we call that spirituality and so what the first thing that grace does apostle is that it amassed us okay you know mask us and so here's what happens when I started teaching great I studied grace years ago and I we got some stories when talked about but I started studying grace and when I study for 10 years before I shared it with the church and when I first shared it with the church they were very uncomfortable but as it began to take a couple things happen number one the lights in the eyes came on and people fell in love with Jesus again the next thing that happened though is it seemed like we had a tailspin into sin and that bothered me so I went to the Lord said what am I doing wrong and God said nothing here's what he said to me this is who they really are he said the the what you're seeing in the people's lives right now is what I've been seeing all along he said but I had to bring them to that in order to bring them out okay now we're about to go to Scripture I want to share one thing that one more thing here's this thing so I'm standing on the Port of Miami and there's a cruise ship I'm about to board and I'm watching this massive ship sitting in the water and I'm thinking to myself how is it possible that this big ol thing is floating I took a coin out of my pocket and I threw it in the ocean right next to the ship and it sunk right down to the bottom and the Spirit of God spoke to me and the Lord said to me he says I'm gonna teach you about a thing called displacement and mass displacement of my say the word displacement so the word mass the reason that the coin did not float is because it has no mass and having no mass and was not able to displace water what the water does the ocean is is programmed by God then when you put something into it immediately that thing with mass displaces water and immediately the ocean begins to calculate what kind of buoyancy it needs to employ to keep that thing afloat and so immediately when you put a shipping in into the ocean it naturally begins to sink when God first throws you into grace the first thing that's gonna happen to you is that the real you will naturally begin to sink but the ocean is programmed the waters programmed to quickly calculate your mass your weight and everything else and then bore you up the water will come back and and hold you up and from that moment on it will carry you out to sea and back ok so I was learning to float this is a lot I mean he tell me go so I was learned to fly honey you can swim him you can swim Pam you cannot swim I heard that story together I laughed at you so I'm from the islands and I could barely swim so I want to share this video I wanted to help you okay so I had a swimming instructor that was teaching me how to swim and he said to me that I'm gonna teach you how to float first so that when you start swimming if you get tired you flip on your back and you float so they took me in water that I could stand in and when they let me go I felt myself sinking so you know what's the first thing I did I stood up I panicked and I stood up and so if she says to me she says lay down she said I need you to trust me so she let me go again I started saying guess what I did panic and I stood up again and she said I see what your problem is your problem is you're beginning to sink so you think you're gonna drown and here's what she said to me ready for this she said I need you not to trust me trust the water and I said that's my problem I'm afraid of the water cuz I can't see she said just trust the water she said what I'm showing you right now she said you cannot sink and she talked to me about the very law that God talked me about at the Port of Miami the law of displacement she said the water's gonna quickly measure you and it's gonna bring you back up and so she let me go and I started saying I pen it one more time she said trust the water everybody said trust the water so so she let me go and this time the water came up to my ear and came up in her face and I stopped sinking and I felt when I stopped sinking and slowly it began to boy meet up and I was floating on the water and she shoved me out into the deep and I'm in the deep and I'm thinking I can't stand ups I can't panic and she kept saying trust the water because the water is programmed to bear you up when you first hear about grace it's gonna seem like the most far-fetched thing there parts of the Bible that you don't read because the people who are teaching you before didn't read it it scared them it scares most pulpits to preach to the pews about grace because it takes the control out of our hands and it gives it to the Lord and all of a sudden you're gonna have a relationship with him that you never had before so okay I just want to I want to start with that we are we share a similar tune in the sense that when I first started this work many of you know that we started on the Ministry of deliverance and I knew that I was being very well verse and the casting out of demons and the breaking of curses and all of that what I did not know was that was a work of grace I thought it was a work of spiritual warfare but I didn't understand the spiritual warfare what we call it is an expression of the grace and the mercy of God and so there was a disjointedness between getting people whole and getting people free being motivated by the grace and the ability of God to remain free so there was this consistent rigor about getting people free and fighting for the freedom without the revelation of the grace of God so West to stay free so one of my consistent frustrations was lord I will do this forever if you send me some better people just you have got to stop sending me a mane just everything and from then till now there has literally been no sin exemption from all nations worship assembly I mean if you can name it it is here or has been here and I mean from drug addiction to sexual addiction to sexual identity issues both male and female I know you only hear about the men but both male and female you deal with physical abuse and rage and anger and all kinds of the gambit of all of that and there was a and what I noticed was the more we started to minister to people like that the more it came and my idea was what I'm sowing this as a seed that maybe after I get this first bunch free you send me some already freed people but but but then I see I start to be conflicted and he taught me this about me even in my prophetic words if it is a rebuke or an exposure it is immediately followed by the grace of God and I've never known it about myself my wife my wife has told me that he told me he said you are a prophet of God that is full of grace and when I started noticing that's that Matthew 4 model when Jesus encountered the woman at the air and he exposed the issue but then he closed the issue just as soon as he exposed it and so it has landed me on this journey of trying to teach what we built over the years and trying to teach the culture that truth be spoken that we already have and so we're gonna start with Matthew the ninth chapter is well we're a start and we're going to start at verse 9 we're gonna do 9 through 13 go to Matthew chapter 9 I'm sorry Matthew chapter 9 verse 9 through 13 and put it up what we doing the we're gonna do the New Living Translation and we're gonna go from Matthew 9 to mark two but go to Matthew 9 in the New Living Translation please take notes and my nerds are already rolling ain't y'all y'all in the room like this is good ok in the New Living Translation because you're gonna have to renew your mind to the gospel with this okay you got Matthew 9 all my iPhone users got Matthew 9 y'all real sons and daughters matthew 9:9 and the New Living Translation says this as Jesus was walking along he saw man named Matthew how ironic sitting at his tax collectors booth follow me and be my disciple jesus said to him so Matthew got up and followed him and later Matthew invited Jesus and His disciples to his home as dinner guests along with many tax collectors and watch his phrase and other disreputable sinners disreputable sinners but when the Pharisees saw this who were experts in the law of Moses when the and they considered themselves spiritual people but when the Pharisees saw this they ax his disciples look at the question of spiritual men quote unquote - Matthew wengie at the arrival of this why does your teacher eat and/or sit and or converse with such scum such scum and look at Jesus's reply when Jesus heard this he said healthy people don't need a doctor I'm gonna read that again healthy people don't need a doctor sick people do this is the clothes then he added now go and learn I always love this because he's talking to learned men they are learned as it were in the law of Moses but Jesus is telling them you've learned something that you're not learning he said go and learn this I want to show mercy not offer sacrifices for I have come to call not those who think they are righteous but those who know they are sinners okay so I want to cover a couple things in this first of all the tax collectors Matthews sitting at customs the customs office is where all the goods came in in this case the Capernaum the issue here is that all the tax collectors are working for Rome which is an insult to every Jew but more importantly is that they're taking more than the actual tax they've been lining their pockets so they were very very notorious noted sinners well-known sinners and Jesus calls Matthew he accepts an invitation to his house and he's hanging around with all these people when you issue an invitation like whosoever will let them come you're going to get all kinds you give that now I'm gonna tell you something and I never forget this whenever you see the word mercy in scripture mercy is an agent of grace matter of fact one scripture in the psalm of the psalmist writes send out your mercy and your truth that's what God actually does is that he will send out mercy to rescue whatever he intends to show grace - he never rescues anything or anyone that he does not intend to show grace to and I always like to talk in pictures we're gonna talk about some more about this story because apostle and I were talking about this is the most one of the most powerful stories the religious people have a problem with the type of people that Jesus calls but you have to understand he did not come for good people quit pretending to be good if you keep thinking you're good or you keep looking for good people you're leaving this church going to church looking for good people they don't exist the Apostle Paul said no good thing to us in my flesh he is good God love listen listen God loves you because of the Jesus in you you got it God loves you because he has a plan for you but you have to understand something here's a little because you're good he doesn't love you anymore because you you think you're better this is important for you to understand so here's a picture imagine a person is out at sea a boat comes to get them watches now they're drowning mercy reaches into the seat post Matt let's see into the boat so Mercy's job is to bring them back to land to deliver them to grace here's a question if the person that sent out the mercy does not intend to take care of this person why save them just let him drown but will mercy what grace does it sends out mercy to bring you back and what happens is what mercy brings you back and releases you to the custody of Grace and for the rest of your life it is Grace job to develop you the problem is now here comes some theology in your experience with God that you have three experiences write these down number one justification I'm sorry um yeah justification let's start the justification then it releases you to a process called sanctification it ends a culmination a thing called glorification number one justification number two sanctification number three glorification say it with me number one is number two is number three is you said I don't come to church yes you need to learn this you need to know the theology of your faith here's why because the moment you begin to live by the grace of God people gonna challenge you they're gonna attack you and you your man of God are gonna attack your church they're gonna call you a group of notorious sinners they're gonna say that anything can happen at that church because they don't understand that when listen when the Pharisee saw Jesus with this crowd of people they looked at him there's no way if he's right with God he had these people around him Peter cussed James and John was sons of thunder they were so angry SAS of Simeon assignment was a zealot at night he was a disciple by day and a terrorist by night Thomas doubted you go down the list of the 12 Judas was a betrayer and Jesus knew it the whole group the whole group was jacked up but they walked with him for three and a half years you got it and because you have people around you that need the grace of God it doesn't mean you're living in sin I'm gonna let y'all catch that with me so here's how it works justification happens the moment you believe the moment you believe you're justified without movin talk some more about that later on if I ever come back sometime we'll talk about that okay glorification the Bible says happens in a moment in the twinkling of an eye when you when we see Jesus were glorified when we believe in Jesus were justified when we see him we're glorified when we see Jesus Jesus will activate justified when we are when we believe in him were justified when we see him with glorified how many you got them but sanctification takes your entire life your entire life and here's the crazy part about it sanctification the personification is the word it comes from the hogwash word family in the Greek is the same word for holiness the same word for Saint and the same word for sanctified it's the same word and here's what it means that holiness is something that that's worked in you from the day you're justified to the day you're glorified it takes it takes your entire life so there was crazy about the story that we just read is impossible let's let's go to mark 2 and in 15 because here's what we need to see is that it wasn't only the people who were with him at the moment that were messed about notorious sinners or what's the word he used it's reputable how many view where the reputation is how many view now I want to be honest cause we're monk family how many of you used to or still have a reputation I was on Facebook and a lady wrote me she says she says is this heart Ramsay of of the of the Ramsay brothers and I go why are you asking I have to find out of like are you a friend or foe I mean what I know you from and she says are you which one are you I'm like why do you want to know I need to know cuz I've done some things and and there's some people who know me and probably they're looking for me you don't say when you are disreputable it means that you are known for your sin Jesus came walking over the hills of Galilee the people rollin with him were people who are known for their sins and for some the the look of it was still on them here's a crazy part the person you look at and judge Jesus died for them too the person watches the person whose process of sanctification is taking longer than yours Jesus is working on them too the Bible says for it is God that works within you both to will and to do of his good pleasure here's what it says that God is working within you the word willing to do it first is to get you to desire then he gives you the power so here's the crazy part God will get you to a place where you first start with him in grace but you don't want to do good because you're still living by a lie that your sin is helping you but then he was flip a switch and something happens on the inside of you and now you want to do better but the crazy part you'll be years wanting to do better but not known how and you will live in the wilderness of your sanctification wanting to please God with continually failing and the same God that called you love you it's still your God is your God he said never leave you going through this process where you have to see you hiding your sin and it's really private because you don't want anyone to know you're still struggling baby let me tell you something we all are struggling yeah yeah you're marching I'm sorry so mark 215 is it up there I possibly do for me real quickly mark 215 report where mark 215 and no I'm kidding Thank You Reid you Oh God later Levi invited Jesus and His disciples to Italy Libre is another word for Matthew yeah later Levi invited Jesus and His disciples to his home as dinner guests this is the same occurrence actually and with many tax collectors and other disreputable sinners there were many people of this kind among Jesus's followers but when the teachers of the religious law who were Pharisees saw him eating with tax collectors and other such sinners they asked his disciples why does he eat with such scum scum scum is the refuses it's the garbage that we skim off the top of something good and people don't want to come to our churches because when they come through our doors we pretend as if we always knew better [Music] and so in the grace of God in this situation in in a passive public or expounding scripture much better than I came but the Bible was intentional about mentioning parenthetically that it wasn't just a new group of disreputable sinners they were a whole bunch of them almost everyone he called he was attracted to them he was attracted to them and when the story moves forward the Pharisees were always telling him man why are you eating with these people going to his disciples and he told a story in Luke 15 three stories one was of a lost sheep one was of a lost coin the other was of a lost son and all these stories were to address this issue about why you have these kind of people around you in your circle right now there are people that you know their sin you know them by this sin grace is not for people who are looking for an excuse or a cloak for this sin grace is for people who understand that freedom the signal blessing that the signal blessing the primary blessing of grace the way I know grace is at work is that there's Liberty that's the first thing you notice about grace it's as a Liberty is a freedom everybody said freedom freedom to wear what you want to do what you want to because I'm gonna tell you something you tell where a person is by what they free to do it was never the will of God for the church to legislate to you how to walk with God it was it's our job to tell you what the Word of God says and and be comfortable walking with many people of disrepute now what we do for you is that if you get yourself in dangerous waters we have to fish you out and if you fight us to remain in there for a season and everything about grace is redemptive what did I just say say that one more time so even when God corrects you it is you have to add the adjectives on the beginning its redemptive correction and when we rebuke you its redemptive rebuke you got it and in some situations where you have to be sad or check it's always redemptive in nature in other words no one is trying to kill you trying to save your life you got it so the purpose of grace that God starts by letting you know how much you are loved it's Liberty based on acceptance the biggest issue with many people in churches and you're not accepted this whole thing was about acceptance of cost remember the story about the bathroom oh I want to do this tell me what you remember of the story let me okay so and here's the deal these are how our phone conversations go yeah slain in the spirit just listening to this stuff a part of why this is important is because prophets revealed teachers explain expound and I have been walking in manifesting preaching a thing that I'm starting to now see an expository format and because he does teach in and parable and in picture I I saw my life and ministry very often through through what he did and I would tell people since 99 I'm Nathan I'm Samuel I'm Daniel you know those are my guys and I hadn't realized that probably 90% of my ministry was involved with this he explained to me that the the Lord he walked into a filthy bathroom with blood and feces and pee everywhere and it wasn't just on the basin's of the actual urinal it was on the wall on the floor and he said the Spirit of God spoke to him and said do you understand why you're here and like all of us trauma Falls would be I would have hurried up to run the opposite way first of all I see visions so I don't want that in my memory bank second of all my stomach is queasy so so bingo I'll just have you ever been in a real back portal potty oh my god just a mess see just everywhere just just you know and and God told dr. Hart I want you to clean this up this is my people this is the people I love this is what they are this is how they look this is what they want this is how they live I want you here to clean this up wore me out because then I felt like man you didn't took me from prophet to janitor is this what I've been doing my whole life and it is true if you think about the stories you hear the people you meet and and here's where it gets uncomfortable we're gonna dig a lot into this Jesus man this is gonna make you uncomfortable jesus never delivered from a distance the church is okay with delivering people from a distance they don't realize that deliverance is always watch this deliverance is always a matter of what you're close to when men and women of God get close to people who need deliverance the area of war becomes their reputation because it knows that if that servant is not dead enough they're back up to protect their reputation but the enemy's real goal is to put distance between the deliverer and the person that needs deliverance this is why Jesus the first and I think the most painful thing I've lived through it he's lived through it and I want you to hear this the most painful thing about your calling that you're gonna have to surrender it's not just scheduled it's not your time it's not your energy or your gifts the most excruciating thing that you're gonna have to sacrifice is your reputation I want you to hear that you have to be willing to make yourself of no reputation because when the enemy starts to see who God calls you to get close to the fear of man is gonna raise up in you and you're gonna then frustrate the grace of God it's hard men and women both have a tendency when they don't know the grace of God they minister in ego and they minister for reputation think about our language this is the brand this is the retina you know we're so afraid of reproach that we don't sacrifice our own reputation when Jesus submitted what did they say Jesus he cast out Devils by Devils that they accused him of being possessed because of the power he had and it would have stopped him hallelujah it would have restricted him had he not sacrificed his willingness to be called what he was not to be close to the unclean charismatic people are fine as long as they can prophesy to love minister to the clean they get scared when God starts arranging for situations when they are close to the unclean one of the things that the Lord said to me in that bathroom was he says how do you think it got like this and it came really quickly to me is that if you ever went into a really dirty public bathroom okay the first thing that comes to your mind is what get out so even if you have to go really badly now we groan if you have to go really badly you gonna do it quickly and in a hurry and clean up and get out right you trying to finish and get out and what and if you dry your your wife or wash your hands and get the you throw the paper towel on the ground if enough people do that if you enough and then there's a crazy person that comes and sent me this place is filthy and so they just using the urinal against the warlord and and what happy that to your life they will see you jacked up did I get up Jesus they will see you jacked up and they would they will they will label you a throwaway and if you believe your throwaway you would live like one if you believe there's no value in you you will live just like that so the enemy many I sense in this room there's a lot of people who've been from place to place looking for value trying to find value if I pretend to be this if I do that I find value and the Lord said to me says I was ready I was ready to pick it the most it clean it up and I'll be honest with you I was moved I was weeping as I began to clean up a public bathroom and I walked out of that place and here's what the Lord said then you know the Lord calls you his heritage he's in he calls you his inheritance he calls you his portion he says you are what I get for that sacrificed you you belong to me and they will call the Lord heritage scum you make up the the group of people who are going to be worshiping in heaven that no man can number that the Lord looks upon as valued and their people who will call you scum because of your struggle because they've never struggled like you and they don't know how it feels to be in your skin fighting a narrative that's repeating in your belly a lie that has seduced you and here you are fighting for your life and all you have is a God that loves you and a church that accepts you and they will hate your church for inviting you in so so that so this thing about the grace of God out gonna show my scripture okay Romans chapter five verse 17 the the the gospel music community and the church community we hide our struggles behind gifts and anointings and behind titles and callings and we do it for the most part because we're afraid you're afraid what would you do if you could disrobe your struggle and share it someone that you know will give grace because they know they've received it watch this this is important for you to understand people who believe they've received grace they prove it by giving it if you can't give grace it means that you don't believe you've received it there's a there's a word that from this day going forward I want you to change the way you see it in the Bible the word is righteousness say that out loud righteousness is not an act that's where the church messed me up is when I came in they taught me the they began teaching me from Romans chapter 12 how many y'all just came through the Roman series did here wasn't it good I followed you it was good so so so they started me at Romans chapter 12 but in Romans chapter 1 it begins by telling us what God has done for us but in Romans 12 it tells us now in view of all the mercies of God in his matter of fact in view of what God did in Romans chapter 1 chapter truth chapter 3 in view of what everybody promised in chapter 4 chapter 5 and in view of the reality of chapter 6 and chapter 7 in Chapter eight nine ten eleven twelve now we come to chapter 12 in view of all that present your bodies a living sacrifice not at your fully know what God has done for you now I'm asking you for something he doesn't ask you for anything until you fully know what he's given to you look at Romans five verse verse okay so here's what it says where we had poured me to it so it says here for the sin of this one man Adam cause death to rule over many but even greater is God's wonderful grace listen to this and his gift of righteousness for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death to this one man Jesus Christ let me help you out right quick righteous and said I said righteousness now this is gonna be deep you don't have to remember this but the explanation is going to bless you in the Greek the root word is de ke di ke DK spells it refers to my relationship with Authority with proper authority okay so so if if you're driving down the street and you look at your rear-view mirror and the police is behind you you're not speeding you're not breaking any laws for the most part there will be this feeling in your in your in your gut but you'd be good cuz you didn't break any laws that's called de ke di ke okay the preface of the Radhika speaks of the same thing a right relationship with whoever answer to now this is where it's crazy de kya suni de kya suni this the ending the Sunni ending you and II means that the thing that's being spoken about is an abstraction I know that's really deep but i'ma tell you what it means it means an abstraction means it's not something I can do it's not speaking to an action it's not something that's pragmatic or practical it's saying this it's something that I have to that I am what DK a Sunni says it points you out as a person that has has a right relationship when they check your record and there's no record to say okay he's clean but you know cleaning I'm far from clean it just mean I don't have no record how do you know that because you've never been convicted doesn't need you to do something around is there anybody in this room that you've never been convicted don't have any kind of rap sheet but you didn't some stuff I mean right so so you're referred to a dko sunni you as far as the law is concerned you're right with the law the Bible says that Adam sinned and by by no choice of your own you were born into sin you were born into struggle iniquities sinned in the blood it is passed down generationally to you you got something that your daddy got came from your mommy a temper whatever it is you have something that came through the blood Adam gave it to you you born a sinner right how many believe you were born sinners so why do you not believe according to Romans 5:17 that if you could be born a sinner even before you did anything wrong that God can give you the gift of righteousness even before you do anything [Applause] second Corinthians 5:21 says for God made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we may become the righteousness of God in Christ that phrase the word righteousness add this phrase the righteousness of God or his righteousness or God says my righteousness that righteousness is different from every other righteousness and it is in Scripture all the time I mean we read right over it remember the statement or what he says no weapon formed against me shall prosper every time that rise against the judgment shall be condemned this is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and his and their righteousness Gaza is of me I gave them their righteousness as a gift seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness in other words what is he talking about he's saying that there's a righteousness that comes from me that you don't have and the only way to get it you can't work for it here's the crazy thing about this righteousness it's not affected by your good deeds or your bad deeds this righteousness that the Bible talks about is a right relationship rightousness literally means I'm in right standing or right relationship with proper authority or my right relationship with God and grace begins here dr. Seavers the grace begins when people understand who they are to God the entirety of this Amazing Grace series is going to help you change and see or who you are to God a so fast you don't know what I've done so you still believe you could work your way into God's good graces you think that God loves you less when you struggle you need to read your Bible and the Bible said the Holy Spirit chooses words he doesn't just use arbitrary words he chooses words and in the Hebrew this Hebrew word Hassad or her said that that's necessarily it's the pursuing intentional grace of God is it's it's a love that won't leave you alone it follows the drunk to the gutter and rolls him on his side so he doesn't die from his vomit it's the love that this stuff the bullet it you miss by millisecond a tragedy because of the love that stalks your life people could be calling you name it there's a love that is bearing you up many of us didn't die in our addiction because there was a love that was there when we start talking by the grace of God let me tell you what's gonna happen to you and I think I never say something my wife and I were talking we gonna be probably catching flack for this but I could kill let me tell you something I'm gonna tell you something when God thought I was a raised in church and the Lord found me I was a drug addict when the Lord found me matter of fact people thought he is the least likely to succeed I flunked out of 11th grade English two years later I'm homeless on the streets of Miami I was introduced to the Lord when on the corner of 95th Street in Miami next to Central High School gentlemen try to rob me he shot me three times I'm running away he shot me three times in the back and and I didn't feel and I heard the shots I thought to myself when the adrenaline wears down my French King with a checking for the bullets they didn't find any that's much my I was high and I became sober I started asking questions do you believe in God and my friends are like men no man me come home yo man you're just scared but I wasn't steady got my attention I went to the recruiters office my friend and I to play a trick on the recruiter we good and they actually take the test and then leave I we were high on coke I miss trying to pass the test how in the world I passed the test got into the military they shipped me to Germany in Germany I met the Lord let me tell you something so I I am I was delivered from drugs no withdrawals no nothing when I've came to someone so when you start talking to me about about being good i have no reference all i know is a god that pursued me from the Virgin Islands all the way to Miami Florida he cast me to Germany and when he found me it was not for judgment and every prophet I met told me you're gonna be a pastor you're gonna you're gonna teach people and I'm thinking to myself they don't know that I'm not real bright I flunked out every level great English here's my testimony the Lord spoke to me in the military he says I need you to go take your GED I was so ashamed I want to take my GED I took the practice test gotta be I gotta be I freaked myself out the lady said you gotta be I said you like you got the wrong name went back took the test passed it with a beat two months later the law says go back and take the CLEP test the CLEP test is college level examination program here's what the law says he said I want you to go I start hearing the voice of God he says I want you to go and test out all your first a 2nd year college English I said to God English that's that's where that's where I flunked and the law says go take the test I went back to the Education Center I told myself can I sign for the CLEP test and the lady looked at me she says didn't you just pass your GED I said yes she said which one do you want to take I said English she said Oh English you say that's the hard one I said no and she said what make you think you're ready I said can I take a practice test and she said sure she gave me a little practice test I got a B here's the crazy part I would look down at the answers and it would say put this paragraph in his correct form and I read through the whole thing and immediately something the Holy Spirit this was there I start doing that I did through the whole test pass with an A I never sat in English classes I tested out my first two years let me ask you a question if a lying spirit makes you lie and a tormenting spirit torments you you got it and a spirit of pride makes you arrogant what does the Holy Spirit do so why are you trying to be holy by yourself when God made you a possibility to come here come get some because you're doing a good work see there people right now out there that's looking sucked they're looking for a place to make their last stand they're gonna crawl on your steps thinking they're gonna die and because you understand the grace of God and you tell yourself the truth about who you are and where you came from when you see them you will see you and you're gonna praise God that you get to be the culture and environment or people who believe in the grace of God I don't care about your struggle listen struggle as just struggle inside the camp when God saved Noah everybody on the boat what wasn't sanctified and when the water wouldn't would have float on this water I'm pretty sure they felt a cup of time but they fell in the ark you got it let people say what they want to say I don't I don't know that that we I'm sorry I [Applause] listen to me I'm gonna tell you something there's so much you have been trying so hard to please the Lord did put scriptures on the screen didn't if it but put Hebrews chapter 6 I'm just gonna do this he was chapter 6 and verse 1 I want to do this um I want to come back I do I want to come back I want to let me tell you read wait wait wait you tell you from afar off when you Rizvan play something so just to use a pianist I do it's just something so um when I first saw your man of God from a distance I I was wondering at the anomaly that I was seeing I was studying from afar and I thought to myself this guy knows what he's talking about his gift seems authentic some of my friends said he's I think he's arrogant I said yeah and he may be maybe a little confident but it's something else going on something else going on that's when I met him I sat in a room with him and we talked for a while and I said to my solo mr. real deal so I went myself some friends we think about him I said listen man you need to meet him it's easy to judge a person from social media I said so so so we start having these conversations and you know just talking about life's stuff and you know and what I saw was what God wants to do he's got on some movement now most movement couples people that's not afraid to touch lepers [Music] to love people who don't even love themselves God wants to invade the story that you tell yourself because of where you've been and what you've done God wants to help the people whose processes of sanctification seem to be taken forever and where are you thinking after all this time I should be free and I'm not and I'm gonna tell you why so most of us are not free because you measure freedom by works in Hebrews 6 and 1 if you put on a screen I read it Hebrews chapter 6 verse 1 where is it over here it says so let us stop going over the basic teachings keep rolling imma keep reading about Christ again and again let us go on instead and become mature in our what say that say that what I like I know what the reason you're still not free is not because there's no power in the house there's power men listen your culture has such a power but it's your understanding he says surely we don't need to start again with the fundamental importance of repenting from what I want now this is neutral New Living Translation and I wanted to put that in there repenting from evil deeds and placing our faith in God stop now the reason I want to read that is because grab the King James and put that same reading up there I wanna show people something because even the translators do it and it's wrong that word evil in the Greek the word is the word is necrose necrose we get English words like Nick romancey necros means dead not evil paneros the Greek word paneros means evil evil they translated as evil works because whenever the Bible talks about dead works they translated as doing evil works that's not what God is talking about but if you put the King James up there therefore and leaving the principles of the kingdom of the doctrine rather of Christ let's go on to perfection not laying again keep rolling the foundation of repentance from what shut those words what a dead works dead works all the works I do to try to get to God in the scripture their good works their evil works and their dead works dead works all the things I do to try to pay back pay God back for my sins the other thing that I think I need to do to work my way to God and what got me will got me so intrigued with grace is that is that they're people who still think that what Jesus did for us is not as powerful as what Adam did to us but Jesus did for you was not some little speed bump on the road was a massive mountain that fell out of heaven and it changed everything it shifted time the death of Christ on our behalf is the reason we preach grace there is a new covenant Hebrews 18 13 says the Old Covenant is obsolete no longer in use Hackett listen is out-of-date and the new covenant is what we are going to understand you're going to understand what it is to be a new covenant believer he said pastor what about my struggle you and all your good and all your struggles belong to Jesus he claims you he wants all of you not just a religious Jew he wants to really heal can I do this real quickly if you're here he's the pastor you don't know my struggle and you don't know how while you were speaking about you and a possible speaking God was just reaching into my heart and doing something it broke me will tell you I broke you because although you've heard a million times to be instructed integration something that that's gonna it's gonna bless your life is gonna touch your family your whole household doesn't be affected by the walking forth of the bar in your life of the grace of God you're gonna you gonna stretch out to God in different ways now if prayer gives you a headache is because you think you're working to be heard you won't get to the place with God when you mess up you don't run from him you run to him he won't just be daddy in name he be daddy and experience you got it are you gonna learn something that's crazy this word righteousness that I told you about until you understand that righteousness is the beacon you can't live right until you be right your do will not exceed your be you have to begin to say no matter what you go through you have to begin to say I am the righteousness of God in other words I have right standing with God I'm in a right relationship with God I am righteous say that how I said I am righteous we regardless of my deeds say say regardless of my deeds I am righteous because of what Jesus did I received from God the gift of grace and the abundance of righteousness he made me right with him I can't get right with him he makes me right I want to be as real quickly I'm gonna challenge you I need some people you say pastor kitchen I need to be I need to be playful right now I think I need to break ties with my old life I need to get I need a kid in this thing I need be in this thing it listen I need the grace of God run up here come I want you to come right now come come come come come right here right fast [Music] your face betrays me [Music] the first response that you get from God of grace is you cannot come to God like you're better than people you can't come to God like you're good two men went to the temple to pray one a Pharisee the other tax collector the one stupid God and he prayed the Lord I think you'll remember not like other people I pay my tithe I fast and he starts talking about all the things all the things he did he's accolades he even looked over the tax blood he says I'm not even I'm not like I think I'm dead I'm better than him a tax collector a cheat and the Bible says that the tax collector would not so much as lift up his eyes but he smoked it's called the death smite he started smiting his chest saying have mercy on me a sinner come to God and say you know what I need your mercy and mercy comes to where you are and mercy enters into your struggle and you said passable but I change immediately sorry you'll be saved immediately but the live we tell people you may be delivered but you still have to learn [Music] sanctification means you have to walk with God you're gonna have to choose him every single day you have to choose him like you just chose him today my anointing as it relates to being used by the Lord is not to lay hands on you and cause something to come out of you I want to pray for you though so something to come into you [Music] if you're watching by stream I want to say this to you I'm thankful for this man of God for allowing me to be on a platform with him and to share the grace of God with you this applies to you as well the Lord wants to reach into your heart to the broken places where you hurt the most and he wants to meet you right where you are and be submissive as I'm high right now from darken Hanlon when the Lord saved me I was high there's something sobering about his presence in your life he's got you all the people if he has to the Lord just affairs of Jesus don't be ashamed say these words with me say Jesus I've never needed anyone or anything like I need you now there are people who know me they know my brokenness some even mock my brokenness but you will never turn me away you gave yourself for me so here I am do your work the work that only you can do I will not be identified by anything I've done the promises are broken the things that have happened to me the things that I walked through the things I'm going through now I will be identified by you and what you say about me same as I said I have received from you the gift of righteousness I am right with you not because of what I've done but because of what you have done and will continue to do so I speak out of my mouth and I say what you say about me because of your shed blood because of the cross I am free to come after you the way you came after me thank you for pursuing me I am here face to face my life changes today for the better in Jesus name how do you believe what you just said compress the world on their behalf [Music] [Music] I thank you for these that have come at this altar in the destinies the purpose is the gifts the potentials that have been buried under years of shame and embarrassment and condemnation even ridicule and I thank you that because of what's transpiring in and from this place that you're gonna reverse the power of mockery the power of embarrassment the power of scorn the power of rumor the power of reputation and you're gonna bring them and graduate them in the revelation of sonship that they are part of the family of God and right now in the name of Jesus we divorce ourselves from the range of the accuser from the this soundbites of the accuser concerning who they are and where they're going and look hold them in the righteousness of Yong which is in Christ Jesus and we give you glory for brand-new starts and brand-new explorations of your grace toward us in Jesus name will you do me a favor and give God the loudest shout you've got will you shots of rain we are we are on assignment in this season to reverse probably a century of error and we're gonna only do it by an in the grace of God I'm going to open the doors but I sits at this altar one of the areas that the power of condemnation works against is the call of God and one of these strategies of the enemy is to make people rebel against what God called them to do because they don't feel qualified to do it and be it but I feel like there's a brand new submission unto the grace of God first thing that's gonna teach you to do is submit to what he wants out of your life and there's a scripture the gospel says and as they went they were healed you are about to see a brand new energy I just released them I mean condemnation is training I feel that in my belly condemnation is training guilt is training and robbed you of energy but there is a brand new seal of God and as you go you will be healed i prophesy that in your life in the name of Jesus even those of you watching those of you in the audience that have been outside of God's plan for your life because of where you don't think you are there's a brand new dressing coming upon your life and a desire to obey is coming was shallots all over this so did she which is going on took the city agenda view idea [Music] [Music] if you just I'm gonna open the doors of this church but if you just remember where and how the Lord found you I said if you just reached past your grocery listen and just think just for a minute about the type of stuff he had to put his hand in to lift you up and out give you a future you would be sitting and looking for place or trying to understand it this is not something you understand is something I tell you take about 10 seconds and remember where he found you

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