AYM Called to be Transformed December 1, 2017 | Speaker Pastor Myron Edmonds

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] happy Sabbath happy Sabbath everybody happy Sabbath everybody I know it's been a long week I know we're all spending right now we're all tired but it's the Sabbath we get a little rest that's being anybody happy about that I brought you to spend with me as as I pray we open up this service [Music] let's pray Jesus I just want to say thank you guys before I ask for anything before I I say sorry for anything I just want to say thank you thank you thank you thank you for bringing us to the end of another semester got a lot of us thought we wouldn't make it a lot of us thought we wouldn't get cleared a lot of us thought we wouldn't make it to the last week to the almost a final to be God but you brought us here by your grace by your mercy God and so as I ask tonight as we go into the service that you have you allow us to loop to loosen our change chains allow us to just worship you the way that you deserve God you've done so much for us and you deserve everything so help us to give you everything I ask that you bless his service fill your Holy Spirit in this place God allow him to overflow into this place so much so that we are filled up and we will overflow to the people around us once we leave here I ask that you change lives here tonight and Jesus name I pray amen [Music] come on does anybody have a reason to praise them since today [Music] with me let us rejoice and exalt his name [Music] [Music] come on little points every [Music] to the let me we [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] Oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] happy Sabbath everybody come on Oakwood it's the end of the semester yeah but you will pass your finals I'm speaking that it's an existence alright seniors you will graduate I'm speaking that it's an existence juniors you will be seniors next year sophomores you will be upperclassmen and freshman you will survive Freshman Fifteen so I must say it again happy Sabbath everybody happy Sabbath I'm glad to be here with you all I'm very glad to be here with you all for the simple fact that uh last semester when they told me I would be the 8y leader would be honest with you I didn't think I was gonna make it I didn't think I was gonna make it this far simply because I didn't have the experience I didn't have the knowledge I didn't have the credentials behind my name but God saw otherwise and I praise God that he decided to use such a sinful Hispanic like me to lead such a beautiful congregation of African Americans in this beautiful HBCU so first and foremost before I even continue I want to say thank you see each and every one of you who have been faithfully coming Friday after Friday after Friday after Friday thank you so much for supporting me thank you so much for supporting the aym team this can't be a reality and a possibility without you now the end of the day we spent hours on our knees we fast from Netflix as hard as that is we faxed from the fast for we fast from the cafeteria food as easy as that is for you guys we love you guys we pray for you guys and we are honored that you guys are here we have made it to the end of the semester if I want to give you one last welcome before we go on our Christmas read real quick wanna quickly transition to say thank you to the officer spiritual life thank you to the camera crew the sound team of the sound which all please put your hands together for them they do an amazing job every weekend to make all this production such a beautiful film really very quickly I want to invite dr. gulo to come forward with her team they're going to make a quick announcement and present some gifts to some winners so please give them your undivided attention as they present these gifts - Ellie I have been the facilitator and the liaison for our first student edition calorie burn challenge and so tonight we have to present to YouTube our participants Brianna lane and jerel Williams so the challenge started during healthy campus week and that's when we rolled it out and the whatever their starting weight was they had the entire semester and whoever had the highest weight loss was our champion so tonight we're gonna give them some of our - some tools to carry that out and keep track of their progress without further ado I'd like to present to you or the winner of the challenge this year so the champion is Tyrell Williams [Music] he is a graduating senior majoring in business with a concentration in Healthcare Administration and so this is just an encouragement to all young adults and all young males that whatever you put your mind to you can follow through with it just be consistent and so we'd like to congratulate hit with him and so dr. Gullu is presenting him with a with an award from healthy campus 2020 so this is an individual award for Jarell but we have a rolling trophy or the students will have a rolling plaque this initiative won't just happen just a semester it will continue so all of you guys will have an opportunity to participate in our next calorie burn to geralyn's next semester [Music] okay add we huh we also have a wellness care package for him to him this is your wellness care package there's a gift card from Whole Foods there's a sparkling apple cider to celebrate green tea multivitamin my health a gift basket healthy thing we're not done so now we're gonna present to them some tools for tracking their progress from now going forward so healthy campus 2020 would like to encourage our student team to continue on with their weight loss journey and we're going to give each student that participated because we started with three teams we bundle down to individuals five of them so we wanted to empower them we're going to give each student environment but it comes these these aren't cheap to track their way to loss their steps their nutrition their sleep so give them a hand because each student will give this $100 value different colors thank you very much thank you thank you so much doctor you know last but not least I can't leave out the online audience I'm very conscious that there is a large group of people way way far they're looking at us through those screens and so I wanna praise God for you as well and thank you all for watching every Friday on the comments that you guys leave on the feet of Ray encouraging thank you for your prayers thank you for being so kind and thank you for the support it the support that you've given to me in the a ye team last but not least I do want to acknowledge some birthdays in the house I've been told to give a quick shout out to some birthday so yesterday Mackenzie had her 20th birthday so happy birthday to Mackenzie happy birthday to a young freshman named Jada Dickens Jada Dickens happy birthday to you I hope you enjoy it and last but not least baby Maya happy birthday baby Maya [Music] one of the greatest stage managers of all times well let the program continue have a happy Sabbath [Music] [Music] how you are doing tonight happy Sabbath first of all this is a song and a lot of you may know something that you may not know this is a song that I wrote after a car accident that I had a few years back fell asleep at the wheel when I turned to the Bible and ran into the scriptures this is Psalm 30:5 chapter to me chapter 30 verse 5 it says we've been made duaa for a night but joy comes in the morning 9 so this song is called morning light [Applause] [Music] I had this feeling there's something bad would happen then come to my knowledge stand I was gonna be involved in it home holding bad T's trying to so no fear smile in front of my family friends realized I may be hurt but that's all right I'll just to the morning light I may be her but that's alright I'll just move in to the morning light oh that's alright I'll be alright oh that's alright I'll be alright [Music] looking at my past trying to figure out what went wrong and everything's happened so fast I couldn't see the way I know I made a mistake don't wanna think what could have taken place nah just wonderful you saw my praising because of realize maybe hurtin but that's alright just move to the morning line you know over that's all right I know y'all just moving to the morning light that's all right Abbi all right all right now I'll be alright refuse to weep through the night see I'll just keep movin to the morning I refuse to eat do the morning [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] - sure [Music] that's all right I'll be alright I may be hurt that's all right I'll just move to the morning light I may be hurt no special ride I'll just keep moving to the morning light oh that sure [Music] oh that's alright I'll be alright [Music] three bases make oh Jesus I know that I'll be all right [Music] just moments right there with me Lord I'll be all right she weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning I don't know no that's all I'll be alright no that's all right I'll be alright [Music] [Applause] [Music] it's offering time Church and I just want to remind you guys which charity that we weren't donating to this year so at the beginning of the year everybody voted on Twitter and they chose the National Children's Advocacy to donate all the money that we made and I was doing a little bit more research into this program and it's amazing the National Children's Advocacy program is training and tools to help children who are in abusive homes and have been victims of abuse and so the money that we raise here isn't just gonna stay here to help fund these worships know all the money that we raise is going to this organization that it is saving children's lives helping kids like myself have a better future so for our online givers you have the opportunity to give - you can give at oh you giving there will be a link posted on Twitter and Facebook if you need help finding it and that goes for everybody in the audience too if you do not have cash on you you can give online this isn't just about us this is about us having the opportunity to literally help a child so give generously and have a blessed abbath [Music] [Applause] [Music] give me my to reach out to me [Music] to show you and you're perfect and you gave me [Music] so clean the crisis in but can I wipe away there you gave me my boy to speak your words to see all your praises to those who ever [Music] I see [Music] so many people to be free [Music] I'll do what you say do use me [Music] mice [Music] man [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hello once again uh-huh next is I'm going to do is its accessory prayer just wanted to share with you also this this whole semester we've been focusing on Romans 12 no presidential bodies as a living sacrifice do not be conformed into this world be transformed by the renewing your mind the Bible tells us that that we can catch all of our cares on Jesus no matter what comes our way it may not be easy may not always be good to us but one thing that that we can understand and no one remember [Music] cares for us are good are bad he cares for you regardless of what you have done regardless of what you were going through this only says I am [Applause] [Music] I lay my life before your throne by cutting back [Music] I [Music] I am your sacrifice before [Music] there it is they all belong to you hallelujah [Music] all free [Music] I [Music] you're all free come on Mike linear back [Music] I couldn't back [Music] my good [Music] I [Music] [Music] what's a guy [Music] good in bed my good and bad [Music] [Applause] [Music] you knows what's best my Ganga [Music] she is Oh [Music] sorry before from now [Music] hi sorry all free [Music] every had his powdery eyes closed hey god it's me again god I come before you tired blinkin battered I come before you God not as the leader of a while but just as a singing from the conjugation I come before you God asking for forgiveness solutions before you got asking forgiveness for not being the best leader that I could be I asked God for forgiveness for not praying more and for the student body I asked you guys for forgiveness but sometimes not caring enough food the student body I come before you got praying because I've missed my devotional a lot of times this semester I come before you God [Music] not as a good person and not as a good leader but I remember somewhere in the wild a certain man met you on a mountain with a burning bush and he made just as many complaints and excuses as I have done this semester but I'm not this and I cannot that and then you said go tell Pharaoh that I am since you and God I have learned this semester that everything that I am NOT you are I am NOT good but you are I am not loving but you are but I am not consistent but you are I am not faithful but you and I'll thank you Jesus because every single time hey why should a messed up every single night it did it because you are every single time something you are I thank you God the opportunity to lead for the opportunity to grow I thank you God for teaching me how to love people who are even unlovable I think you guys for the student body I thank you for the blessing that you have poured out on us and the blessing that you will continue to pour out on us I thank you for the breakthrough come I thank you so much and I intercede on behalf of the student body and for the online viewers and I pray God that you may comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable tonight I pray God and I ask for a triple portion of the Holy Spirit to begin to take this place to pierce these stone-cold hearts that I've entered into this dream I pray God that your Holy Spirit may marinade over us and that when we leave these four walls we may never leave this I pray God for the preacher of the hour are you anointed lips you touch his mind may you bless the microphone when she is about to hold I pray God that every word comes out his mouth may be a direct word from you because God you know how hypocritical we are you know how sinful we are you know the condition in the state that were in and father God we need to be transferred and I am the captain of every sinner in this room and I've learned that before I can expect the school to be transformed I will be truthful first and so I thank you God for your grace that has kept us this form that has kept us alive that your grace a neighborhood it helps us to be transformed so much that when you come back we are going to look just like you we love you I love you in Jesus name Amen [Music] [Applause] [Music] come on lift your voice if you know [Music] ah if you wanna tour now in the victory [Music] you've just been prayed over now you have nothing left to fear you've got victory and you get to walk forward saying you're blessed you get to walk forward saying you're victorious can I get a church tonight to just be thankful that they have the victory in Jesus Christ what if you really in let me hear you say [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you've been [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] know what you've been so good [Music] I praise you I praise you even if I tried [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] Oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] you so [Music] think about it [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] if God's been good to you [Music] [Applause] [Music] we don't get it right so he's worthy of it come on keep on everybody together you hear they key now on to say [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] just take a minute and [Music] let's talk to him safe come on you got reason right now is the issues there's somebody who doesn't fill it and they need you to worship for them say [Music] ah the issues this is your last chance right here flowing from my heart our the issue now everybody just say it together is its gratefulness just a moment right there just thank you God we thank you God we worship you in the house tonight all that you've done so often we bypassed moments like this guy but right now we'll take just a minute not to give what's due to your name you've been good to us beyond compare and God we thank you thank you for your grace for your son for the blood of Jesus God we say thank you for the things we don't even know to thank you for what I and that right now with my sinful self I ask for forgiveness so that this blessing may fall on everybody victory next week die every final every test every quiz victory may the stress leave every mind in this house that made me walk out of here with peace that passes all understanding only you can do it died then we trust you to show up in a mighty way if that's your friend won't you just clap your hands and say hey man praise the Lord everybody [Music] praise the Lord everybody praise the Lord everybody praise the Lord everybody praise the Lord everybody [Music] you know before I get started y'all mind if I rearrange the furniture just a little bit like I like to move a little bit ya got me locked in up here so can we can we work this out I just did a pathway that's all I need to Steve I just need a little spot to the step through race guys no the Deacons here oh I hope they don't get mad at us amen I need a little more room just a little more yeah my bad I didn't mean to mess up the Fung Shui but it's alright praise the Lord everybody God is good and we ought to rejoice and be glad in it how many praise God tonight not just because I asked you to but because you really really know for yourself that God is a good god a man now a couple one now I said how many really know we [Music] it's a blessing to be here I just shout out to all the chaplains come on let's put our hands for our strips a lifestyle [Music] her husband my boy Bobby man also watch look I got some of my church members in here tonight I'm from Cleveland Ohio by the way I just wanna throw that out there I know it's the Sabbath but there's ten in a row amen where's my church people my members and [Music] my cousin she told me to give her a special shout out my cousin Morgan Morgan Blount where is she you asked me to give you a shout-out you're not leaving acknowledge yourself stand up look there's something I want to share tonight and I'm anxious to share it it's alright but y'all stand we'll be real quick take out your phones your Bibles whatever you got let's read this word and then we go let you go cool all right awesome awesome I want you to go me the book of Judges man I was going through all kind of conniptions on the front row Gomez like I'm like the Lord was like say this I was like now I'm gonna say this I'm in the Lord we have these little fights from time to time I'm not that preacher that's like this is what I'm going to preach like well I do but what I do the Lord is always like nah bro I got something else for you alright so whatever is gonna be said tonight just know that Myron didn't choose it God chose us tonight Amen all right judges judges chapter 13 I want to start here and then I'm gonna work my way to chapter 16 so it's not gonna be a lot of scriptures it's not gonna be a lot but I just figured tonight since we here worship we might as well study the Bible is that Alright I'm gonna how many actually like studying the Bible amen how many know there's something the word all right judges 13 we talked about Samson a little bit tonight so we got to start in chapter 13 that's where his whole story starts verse 22 verse 22 all right the Bible says I'm sorry verse 24 forgive me judges 13 verse 24 what book should I say everybody what chapter did I say what verse that I say all right thank you help me out the Bible says the woman gave birth to a boy and his name was Samson somebody shout Samson thank you he greed the word says I don't miss this part right here the Lord blessed him thank you Bruce I don't know where Bruce went but I received all that blessing that he spoke all of our lives the Lord bless him and he bless folk out there tonight the Bible says in the Lord blessed him verse 25 and the Spirit of the Lord that's really what I want to talk about tonight begin to stir him while he was in Muhannad and between zorah and estatoe in other words the Spirit of God was working on Sampson when he was a youngin the Spirit of God was at work in his life from jump alright now watch this this is a really a sad story it's really a sad story there's nothing this is not the Samson story they taught you in Vacation Bible School I promise you by this the real one tonight judges chapter 16 now go to judges chapter 16 what's happening tonight everybody chapter 16 and if you scroll in or turn in or whatever I want you to go to verse number 17 verse 17 judges 16 verse 17 when you've gotten to 17 somebody shot down there all right thank you the Bible says so he told her everything no razor has ever been used on my head he said because I've been a Nazarite dedicated to God from my mother's womb we just saw that if my head were shaved my strength would leave me and I would become as weak as any other man verse 18 you're gonna watch off with Delilah Spiritu yo the Bible says when Delilah ain't preached by that tonight I want you to when Delilah saw that he told her everything watch this she sent words poor she's Shady she sent word to the rulers of the Philistines come back once more he has told me everything so the rulers of the Philistines returned with the silver in their hands verse 19 after putting him to sleep on her lap she come on somebody somebody lord have mercy after put this not the VeggieTales version I promise you the Bible says after putting him to sleep on her lap she called for someone to shave off the seven braids of his hair those were locks amen yeah shave off the seven braids are here and so he began she so began to subdue him and his strength left him now to me this is the scariest verse in the whole Bible and honestly I want to say something tonight I was gonna make you feel real good but like I've come to warn the people of God tonight like because of this verse right here this verse right here like and listen we not encourage and fear but I just got to be real with you and be honest look at this right here the Word of God says the Word of God says what first we had everybody the Bible says then she called Samson the Philistines are upon you he awoke from his sleep and thought now oh man here here here check this out I'll go out as before and shake myself free but he did not know that the Lord had left him I've been asked that's the NIV I think the King James Version says he did not know that the Spirit of God is that what your Bible says King James Version did not know that the Spirit of God left him tonight I want to talk on the subject spirit challenge let's pray right now father in heaven help us today we need your help matter of fact we pray and ask for the Holy Spirit even now we're not we're not waiting for the preacher to do something real cool before we get into the message we understand that this is a spirit work right here this ain't based on no preachers talent or like his clever illustrations or as homiletics like honestly if a life is gonna be changed tonight we got to work together so father I'm asking for the Holy Ghost they're asking for the Holy Ghost send the Holy Ghost in this place so that we might be able to hear what life-changing words you have to say father we lift our hands to you right now we say have your way father we stretch forth to you right now and say speak in whatever way you want to we will obey we will listen we will surrender have your way O God as our prayer and all God's people shout a man and a man you may be seated in the presence of the Lord man this is good stuff yo so check this out man like social media is like ruining us it's ruining us like now don't get me wrong I'm not like coming here I'm not like the old school preacher coming in here to hate on social media because anybody knows me I'll be on social media all the time come on say man like I'm a mom woman all the time but one things I have noticed about being on social media is that I'm Way more sensitive now sometime I'm like way more sensitive now to how people feel about me than I was before I got on social media it's something about being on social media where you just post something and then where's your natural reaction is to look for somebody to either engage it to like it to repost it and with what ends up happening is you're gonna get into this thing where you're like really really concerned about how people feel about you I mean to the extent now like I have noticed like you got to like you gotta test this thing out especially if any of you guys like in a dating thing like I hope you are in this day's like I hope you like in the dating stage right now you're interested in people but one things I've noticed about social media is like these profile pics men are alive they're live tell the truth come on say man like if you've never seen somebody's profile pic you got what I didn't realize like I always felt like like I'm not really good at taking like social media pictures but I realize it's not you can't take one I realized the secret I realized how y'all get those perfect profile pictures you can't take one you got to take like a hundred of them and then after you filter to a hundred then you find the perfect one that gives you that perfect look in the perfect lighting and the perfect setting and then you post that but what I've discovered is and some of y'all know this I'm because we all be trolling every now and then come on say man especially trying to look up somebody and see what somebody's into see if that's really them I can't lie to you there been times I've looked at some people's profile pic and I wanted to validate you know what I'm talking about like I wanted to validate if what was posted is legitimate so what do you do you may even request them to be your friend like you have no intentions of interacting but you just want to see if what you see is real and so you begin to look at other pictures and then you start noticing that there is a clear difference anybody ever seen that before there's a clear difference between that profile pic and between what the real person looks like you deep long enough you're gonna find something in there that is not congruent with what's on the profile come on say man how many y'all ever caught the right angle before come on say man I'm gonna post it the right pic before the problem with that is it's so pretentious the very very nature of the social media culture honestly is to essentially give people a version of us that we want them to have we essentially want to cast a certain appearance before people that we want them to accept but but honestly that's that's that's a part of the social media culture I get that but one of the things that I notice about social media as of late and that's really getting on my nerves in addition to all of these like inboxes that I'm getting from people I don't know and requests to play games but the thing that's driving me crazy are all these new challenges that are happening like every time I turn around there's like a new challenge like you help me out now what's what's the latest challenge right now what is it help me out bro speak up what is it one ship challenge what is the one ship challenge oh you gotta eat a hot chill Wow I thought it was a dance challenge I thought that was the latest thing I thought it was late we might want to choose you on that beat no more we're not on the Shirley Caesar challenge no more beans greens Tomatoes we off that like that's what I'm saying like every time I turn around like I'm still on the ice bucket challenge like I'm trying to figure out why we're not ice bucket and no more but that's the thing the craze it's always like what's the new thing what happens next now I want to take you back a little bit most of you may not remember this but but but before there was snap before there was gram before there was Facebook social media was driven really in the early 2000s by YouTube most people don't even consider YouTube to be social media but there's a reason I want to take you back because before all of these challenges that people kind of doing right now came out there was a challenge that took place in 2006 in the name of this challenge was called the blasphemy challenge fact check me right now look it up go on YouTube track check me right now so so I gotta get real serious for a moment can I tell you what the blasphemy challenge was there was there was a group there was a group of atheists who essentially wanted to wanted to create a movement of young people who rejected God so they challenged them to do this blasphemy challenge and listen to me the blasphemy challenge essentially was this that you would get on YouTube you would record a video and you would simply say my name is Myron Edmonds and I blaspheme the Holy Spirit 2006 go look it up my name is Myron Edmonds and I I blast him the Holy Spirit as I'm watching the videos there are thousands and thousands of videos there are a lot of young people who'd airing lis are getting on the video and they're recording these videos and they're trying to go so hard and trying to establish the fact that the Spirit of God is not real now the essence the essence though misses the essence of the challenge was essentially to prove the Atheist right in that if I blaspheme the Holy Spirit nothing will happen to me if I say I blaspheme the spirit and look I said it I recorded a video and I'm still good as my fact if you watch the videos some of the people the videos will say I blaspheme the Holy Spirit one crazy dude said I damned the Holy Spirit to hell and when he was done saying that he said look see nothing happened to me now many of you are outraged and shot come on say it I mean come on that's gonna I mean some of y'all I mean y'all y'all will do stuff you you you'll get in the stuff but but ain't none of y'all crazy enough to say I damned the Holy Spirit to hell now y'all ain't that y'all ain't that far out there but listen to me right now listen to me listen to me listen to me listen to me check this out when very say I blaspheme the Holy Spirit that is not the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit see y'all like real cautious I would never say I blaspheme the Holy Spirit I I ain't gonna go there I ain't gonna say that like that's going too far like okay yeah but actually to be that bold and to declare such such a blasphemous statement against the Holy Spirit it's not really what the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is see they took the checks out of the Bible where the Bible talks about the blasphemy hold the Holy Spirit use that Bible inappropriately to build this whole case that look we can create a movement of people who have no regard for god and the church folk like y'all look back at them and say man those folks are really wicked listen to them they're saying they blaspheme the Holy Spirit they said they damn the Holy Spirit to help look how evil they are look out wicked they are but according to the Word of God saying I blaspheme the Holy Spirit saying I blaspheme Jesus it's not what the Bible means when it talks about blaspheming the Spirit of God I want to suggest you tonight that the majority of us in here blaspheme the Holy Spirit more than people in the streets people in the streets I less likely to grieve the Holy Spirit than you are there is a population of people that's more in danger of committing the sin that can't be forgiven this awkward students that come to a why why the Bible says in Revelation chapter 3 watch this the Bible says Jesus said this about the last day church please so misses he says I would that you were hot or cold not perfect but striving not doing everything right but determine persevering wanna be in love with Jesus you fall down but you get up again the Word of God says the righteous man falls seven times and gets up Jesus says I'd rather you be hot what's this or cold a person that gets on YouTube and says I blaspheme the Holy Spirit is called a co but notice what Christ says he says but because you're lukewarm he says you make me nauseated he says I want to spit you out of my mouth please don't miss this now Christ is saying I would that you were hot how many understand that makes perfect sense I know we get that when Jesus wants us to be hot on fire for him but just blew me right here like this like this shook me Christ is saying you just go out in the world and go hardcore for Satan I'd rather that you worship the devil willingly than to be in the middle part time double agent with Jesus today shake it on Jesus tomorrow he says that nauseates me please hear me on this right now because one of the things that we don't talk about enough in the seventh-day Adventist Church many of you unfortunately you spent your whole Christian life never hearing any emphasis on the most important thing that you could have right now in your life and that is the manifest presence and the anointing of the Holy Ghost listen the ministry please so here the Ministry of the Holy Spirit it's so important to Christ that he said it's better that I leave and that the Spirit comes because when the Spirit comes you will do greater things in me the ministry of the holy spirit it's so serious to Christ that he said you can blaspheme me he says but if you blaspheme the spirit he says there is no forgiveness for that so can I tell you what this is like the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is it ain't saying nothing but it's living a life in your spiritual enough so that people will say your spiritual and your worldly enough so people will think you cool I mean your relationship will be honest with you like the Holy Ghost until recently no most of us I mean if you hear Holy Ghost massive I would say that's the Holy Ghost the first thing you think of is like so my praise on the Lord but to be filled with the Holy Spirit it's essentially to have the life of Christ inside of you you're a follower of Christ there's no such thing as levels like I'm kind of cool with Jesus Holy Spirit no Jesus said in the same text when he talks about grieving the Spirit of God he says here is here's how you'll know the difference he said somebody who was full of the Spirit they gather he says those that do not have the spirit they scatter so look it's either that you are fully with Jesus going hard after him you don't care what people think about you you don't care about your reputation you don't care what people think about what's your relationship with God looks like it how committed you are you in public you'll praise him in private you carry your Bible if you have to you worship in the middle of the cafeteria you bless God when you get the right grade you'll praise him when you don't get the right grade but a spirit-filled person is bold and courageous and they don't care what people think so it is I'm almost done what's this like I'm nervous because there was a prophecy in the Word of God that is hanging over everybody's head right now and I'm not sure that's going down there is a the word says in the last days I'm gonna pour out now please don't miss this I'm gonna pour out my spirit on all flesh did you just hear what I said okay hold on the Bible says that the Spirit of God is not going to be poured out on the church these days gonna be poured out in Oakland the word says I'm just going with Bible here the Bible says his spirit is gonna be poured out where where that means every breathing person will receive the outpouring of the holy spirit everybody the frightening thing about this is is if everybody is going to receive the outpouring of the Holy Spirit then how is it that people are going to be lost because just because the Spirit of God this is what I'm concerned about like like like some of us like really like we're really petty when it comes to spiritual things and what I need you to get focused on right now is the greatest need to live right listen all my years and years of battling pornography and sexual sin and wicked thoughts there's only been one thing that has helped keep me in the hour of temptation to keep my mind stayed on Jesus to keep me from turning it on and to keep me from scrolling and and the Claus would have to delete Instagram because I can't handle the explore page like only the Spirit of God see this is why many of us don't like to deal with the spirits because when the spirit comes in [Music] [Music] like that pittypat clap on that right there somebody sort of broke out dancing like the word says it is because of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed the only reason that you have not greed for spirit is because the spirit is more determined than you are like the Holy Ghost keeps winning miss anybody thank him tonight that the Spirit of God keeps waiting in your life [Music] so here it is here's the danger right here right the Bible said Samson now talking about yo dude in the room to come up here right now dude yeah yeah okay all right very nice what's up bro how you doing where you from from New York [Applause] [Music] yo yo check this out most of us when we like they see it look this about the Holy Spirit right check yourself when we read the word brah whoa I felt something there hey they got the right one yes sir yo how much you mentioned how much you mentioned 375 [Music] Hey look all your dudes that's trying to be hard do not test this man that says it all right check this out so check this out when you read the word like when I read the word like I lost VeggieTales you know I'm saying all the cartoons like the word made it seem like that this was Samson the Lord talks about how how strong Samson is doesn't it not talks about how to do like kill a thousand dudes with the jawbone of an ass like come on the brother he didn't have no gun he killed people with a bone a thousand the word said the words the word says he lifted up Kate said we on the wheel and so look so so buses logically you assume that Samson got to be physically strong to be able to do that right okay so how about about to stay right there bro come on let me see let me see you right here let's go let's go that's right that's right that's right listen listen listen listen listen see here's you already know where I'm going don't you yeah so here's the thing like listen now like we've been kind of trained to think that Samson was this because he had all those feats of strength but I just the Bible does not say what he looked like but I think that what's your name bro James more than likely was a closer resemblance to what Samson was can I tell you why because the Bible says every time Samson did something great it was because and this is his Bible it says the Spirit of the Lord would come upon him okay can I break it down some more in my mind I'm just logical Samson already killed a thousand people with a bone why is it that people keep testing him because they are assuming that these are isolated events based on this daily strength that Samson's strength it's not so much muscle attention please like I gave you nothing shut about yet listen notice what this distinction says the word says every time Samson did something great it said the Spirit of the Lord would come upon him now here's my question stay right there guys I'm almost done I'm almost finished I gotta go like here's the crazy thing my question is the word says that when he was born the Spirit of God was in him [Music] then the word says that the first thing he did with this assignment on his life to change his environment he went chasing skirts the first thing he did it's the first thing he did I want to pause here and say right now if any of you out here are pursuing relationships and you don't know what you're here for all you are doing is simply messing up somebody else's life I know you got I know you feel some type of way but hear me right now you are causing yourself more Hardy then you are causing yourself blessing when you are trying to get to know somebody and you don't even know yourself [Music] listen listen here's the problem somebody's down here's the problem come on let's say here's the problem like this scares me because I don't want to be this dude especially when you know you annoying it some of y'all in here listen to me now you special and you know you special and for those of you who don't know you special you special trust me the reason why you were born is because you are a solution to a problem you just don't realize it yet listen to me right now hear me the problem with Samson is that he was okay fellas he was okay with the Spirit of God just being on him listen listen hear me now if the Spirit of God is just on you you're gonna come to a place in your life where the scariest text in the Bible is spoken about you that Samson I love this the word says that he went out as he always did and he did not know look yo y'all can sit down y'all can sit down now I'm about to close get ready all right get ready okay like y'all honestly I don't know if I'm connecting yeah I wish I could see you but I can't like it's all good I'm good I'm like am I am I getting through like y'all hear what I'm saying like you know this is this is real stuff right here like the dude was just good with like these moments not a mindset listen to me like he was good just like I'm look man when I was here I was in DP the eighth the aliens I was on the basketball team I was the USM look but listen to me listen to me fakeness just fakeness just kidding just be just I'm just cool what the Holy Ghost on me I was cool with people oh man you gifted oh man you anointed you know I'm say you do one little thing and people look first of all y'all stop congratulating people too soon like seriously if you see somebody give me on this and I'm not trying to call nobody out but if somebody in here is mad gifted like and you know they mad gifted what every mad giftedness comes bad struggle I'm just gonna tell you right now and I'm not saying this to be arrogant I just know what it is like I know the Holy Ghost I know the spirit of equally disturbing thorn in your flesh the struggle in my life is real in private the Bible says dude got up as he always did now we bout to go to hey why it's finna be a breeze and did hahaha right no pun intended and did not know that the Spirit of God left them like how you know he ain't leave you you know how I could tell you got to praise them on this if you're listening to what I'm saying and you feel a conviction in your heart the good news is is he left you yet but hear me on this give me on this if you like I don't want to be like a broken record but yo man where I'm from where I pastor like those kids would love to be sitting where y'all sitting and the mere fact that y'all sitting at this table with all this spiritual stuff and you just cool with the Spirit of God being on you and not him being in you you were positioning yourself stay right there you're positioning yourself to get to a place where it might be said of you you know they got up like they always done and they didn't even know that the Spirit of God left him look I don't I don't know what I just want look I want revival to take place on this campus could I tell you how happens I can tell you how it happens it happened when I was here it always happens there's always there's always two things that happen people start praying for the Holy Ghost but I don't need you to be afraid of that we're not talking about demonstration we're talking about character transformation like by now you should know you're not saved by your works you saved by grace but do you realize that once you get the clarity of the gospel that there's only one person that can keep you from screwing up and that's the Holy Ghost man so Holy Ghost like there's some Sampson's in here right now you got like next-level potential but you just cool with the spirit being on you you limiting God in your life like I'm tell you right now some of y'all y'all know y'all need to lower y'all need to be at every single spiritual service the campus offers like someone we just kind of like I'm good ain't going tonight I don't feel like it it's finals I ain't gonna prayer meeting I'm studying y'all when I was here and it was finals I realized I wouldn't like the most academic cat I was here on my face like I care the library would be packed during finals I'm like nah your boy got to go I got to go lay on my face like somebody they can pick and just work they way through that I need the Holy Ghost to help me to get past like look hear me now the Spirit is gonna fall on all flesh but the Spirit of God is gone stay inside some folk who warned him the word says ask and ye shall receive seek and ye shall find not gonna door be open and he says man whoever asks for the spirit I'm gonna give it to him like it's just that simple of you it's like if you want the Spirit of God to live inside of you the Lord will come into your life right now if you just asked for hear me check this on but you can't the Spirit of God don't come today and you don't gotta ask tomorrow I found out you're gonna ask for the Holy Ghost not only day by day but you're gonna ask moment by moment your heads about your eyes are closed [Music] who want the Spirit of God in a life [Music] we're gonna pray on this thing right now I don't know who you are but if you want to just say Lord I just need you to come in Lord I've been I've been cool with you being on me I've been cool with moments we got I really I really need you to take control because there's some stuff in my life that I really can't figure out and the word says that the Spirit is the comforter he's guidance he he brings conviction he guides me into all truth and it may be the reason why my spiritual life is what it is because I don't have no power on the inside of me it's just on me and I want it in me if you're here tonight you want him in you would you flood this altar tonight let's just ask for him right now let's ask him to break change let's ask him to break strongholds I believe in witness that he can do it like like we need a generation of people who just don't want to be church folk but want to be spirit filled can you imagine what happened on this campus if everybody received the Holy Spirit oh man [Music] listen if you're gonna be spirit-filled you can't be normal let me talk to you right now if you want to be a spirit-filled person you can't be average and be normal your life can't look like everybody else's life sometimes the Holy Ghost puts restrictions on you that he don't put on nobody else Samson didn't like the fact that he had a Nazarite vow it was like that's too much I don't like these rules but rules are simply there to protect your relationship and rules without relationship ends up in rebellion but one of the things I've learned is that great people always impose restrictions on day life to protect their anointing that's why you can't be with everybody that's why everybody put their hands on you that's why you can't go certain places that's why you can't watch certain things because you got to protect your anointing God see listen God created you to be a solution to a problem and you've got to recognize that your life was designed to solve some problems [Applause] [Music] how many tonight just want to lift their hands and say father I want to just surrender to you I've been limiting you God I've been I've been wanting to have my home version of my relationship with you but I but I sense you're telling me right now then that I need to be introduced to the Ministry of the Holy Ghost I need to be filled with the Holy Spirit [Music] oh if you need your spirit right now cry out and ask for it the word says if you ask for it you will receive it in the name of Jesus with your mouse and God seal me god baptize me God strengthen me from the inside out in the name of Jesus God I want more than church I want to be spirit filled [Music] so the guy right now there's somebody here they're in a fight for their life and I predator spirit would move in their behalf right now so that they will not quit that they would not throw in the towel that they would not give us that they would not give in somebody is cutting themselves somebody's contemplating suicide okay there's somebody here tonight that are so severely wounded by things that have happened to them God that they don't even know they don't even know if they love you or trust you because they feel like you allowed it but I pray father in the name of Jesus Holy Spirit that you will minister healing right now if you need healing for your soul tonight right now just lift your hands and say God [Applause] [Music] there's somebody here you did some you feel bad about it you feel guilty the word says there's no condemnation to those who are Christ Jesus I need you to review Satan right now and say no I am the righteousness of Christ the Spirit of God dwells inside of me I have to trust that don't wait to feel nothing you don't need to feel the Holy Spirit you just need to ask for the Holy Spirit and trust that God will supply all of your needs according to his riches in glory you don't need to feel better what you need is to face better faith that it's alright that what you have asked for that God has already provided it you need to believe right now but if Christ would have come right now you'll be saying I delivered claim it in the name of Jesus somebody open that mouth and say I receive it God right now [Music] Chaplin man where are you I need you to come and pray for us I need you to come and pray my god listen man if you want to come out of this lukewarm state this in between not really feeling it I'm telling you what it is you need the manifestation of the Spirit of God [Music] now we don't even deserve to ask you for anything I mean we really don't even deserve to be in your presence guy but you [Music] [Music] [Music] hey why [Music] god [Music] [Music] [Music] courage [Music] right now for transformation by the Holy Spirit [Music] we always do one Friday night believe the Holy Spirit here so we pray this prayer [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] let us bow our heads close your eyes God we thank you we thank you for the word that you brought to us tonight through your through your servant sir lord I pray that you please continue to pour out your blessing even though we are hard-headed please allow us the opportunity to receive your anointing please allow us to not be lukewarm please allow us to serve and praise and worship you wholeheartedly please allow us to be so into you that whenever people see us they see you and not ourselves Lord at this time of the year thank you for being with us this whole semester you know for some of us has been hard some of us has been easy I just play I just pray a special prayer right now over our finals I prayed a special prayer over our travels home I pray a special prayer for each and every individual in this building right now and at home please Lord continue to be with us allow please help us to remember to keep our mind on you please allow us to be a blessing to everyone we come in contact you and your precious name Amen [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music]

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Published: Fri Dec 01 2017