[applause, music] [applause, music] Bishop Noel Jones: I want
you to go with me for a few minutes I was going one
way and then, you know I remember the old time
preacher would say the Lord changed his thought as if,
as if the Lord didn't know what he wanted him to do
before the foundation of the world it's the preacher who didn't know what the Lord
wanted. And so I think I caught up now. Go with me to Daniel
Chapter 3 and I won't keep you long. You know some
messages you can get into and find a way out of quickly ahh others you get stuck, you just gotta go all
the way In Daniel Chapter 3, of course we all know the
story very well of Nebuchadnezzar and the king of course
made an image of gold and I'll read very quickly. "...whose
height was threescore cubits, the breadth threescore,
thereof six cubits: and he set it up in the plain of Dura,
in the province of Babylon." This is Daniel Chapter 3 and of course, the
king he "sent to gather together the princes, the
governors, and the captains, the judges, the
treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers
of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which
Nebuchadnezzer the king had set up. 3 Then the princes" of
course, they repeat all of them they gathered together unto the dedication"
verse 3 "of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and
they stood before the image that the king had
set up; 4 And then a herald cried aloud, To you it is
commanded, O people, nations, and languages, 5 That at
the time you hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery,
dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden
image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up: 6 And whoso" There's
always you know, there's always something "6 And
whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast
into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. 7 Therefore at the time, when you hear, of
course the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery,
and all kinds of musick, all the people, the nations, and the languages, fell down and
worshipped the golden image that
Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up 8 Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans
came near, and accused the Jews. 9 They spake and said to the king
Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever. 10 Thou, O king, hast made a
decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet,
flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall
down and worship the golden image: 11 And whoso falleth not down and
worshippeth, that he would be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. 12 There
are certain Jews whom thou hast set up" Now imagine they
emphasized who thou "hast set up over the affairs of the province of
Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego;
these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not
thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up. 13
Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage" Notice now, "rage and fury commanded
to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then
they brought these men before the king. 14 Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto
them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abednego, do you not ye serve my gods," Now notice
now he separates his gods from the golden image "nor worship the golden image which I have set
up? 15 Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of
the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds
of musick, ye fall down and worship the image
which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall
be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery
furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of
my hands? 16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,
answered and said unto the king 16 O
Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful" We're not careful at all, "to answer you
concerning this matter. 17 It it be so, our God whom we serve is able
to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and
he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. 18 But if not,
[chatter] be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou has set up." Now notice "19 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his visage was changed
against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: he
commanded the furnace to be heated seven times hotter than it was 20 he got all his
mighty men and told them to throw them in the fire" and of course,
the mighty men died outside the fire and the boys were alive in
the fire 24 And he looked in the fire and he was
astonied," in verse 24 and rose up in haste, and spake, and said
unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire?
They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. 25 He answered and said, Lo, I
see four men [chatter] loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth" and the real interpretation should be "is like
one of the gods. like the Son of God." Look at somebody with
all the ebullience you can muster and tell them, "I'm not built to break" [I'm not built to break] [applause] When you consider, and I think I should
consider Nebuchadnezzar first because Nebuchadnezzar believe it or not was very narcissistic, egomaniacal tyrant. He was extremely, have you ever seen anyone who is
really sold on themselves? [chatter] And it's interesting that he conquered Nineveh, a city that was claimed
never to be conquered at the age of 17, he conquered Nineveh at the age of 17 and he conquered them with 50,000 men who the historians called Scythians. The Scythians were regarded at the fiercest group of human
beings who had ever lived at the time and they were so mean and so cruel that when they conquer people they would tie the foreign soldiers to their chariots and they'd pull them apart running the chariots
in four different directions. And Nebuchadnezzar controlled
them not with any sort of counsel, not with any kind of government, Nebuchadnezzar
controlled them by the fierceness of his own personality and character. He controlled these men, by the age of 25 he was world ruler [alright] he conquered and he controlled the world by the age of 25. Can you imagine having a narcissistic, egomaniacal tyrannical person who controls the world at the age of 25 Now I don't mind being around people with
power, if they're mature enough to handle it And my mother is here, just wave your hand
Mom, it's good to see you [applause] And [applause] it's alright to be around people
who have great power as long as they have balance. It's like giving your child power over you and everything around you,
when they aren't mature enough to be able to handle it.
Nebuchadnezzar was the kind of fellow that you just didn't play
with [right] because you didn't know where he was at any given
time. He may choose to put an image up of himself and
the image according to the history was not of one of his gods, but
the image was an image of himself [right] and the three Hebrew boys obviously they
confronted him in a very powerful manner and they stood up against him in a way that showed
they believed in God. I'm going in very easy because I want you to understand that it is
difficult to grasp that they could have had any faith at all particularly with what they had been through
and let me argue from another point of view. Whenever you see
any kind of battle in the Old Testament, you will
understand that the battle is actually a battle of gods [right] It's a battle of gods because each nation
went before their god, before they went into battle and it was assumed then that the god who was most proficient, the god who was
most powerful would give them the victory in battle. The interesting
thing here is that God, Jehovah has never had an image of himself put up He would not allow an image of himself
because any image of himself would have to be
garnished by our sensual perception ahh God has always allowed himself to be
outside of our sensual perception Which means that none of us have seen him,
we have not (sniff) smelled him and when the bible says, "O taste and see
that the Lord is good" he's not speaking about tasting him literally,
but rather it's metaphorically to indulge yourself in
the things of God and wonder how great he can be I have never heard him audibly. I've heard
people say, "The Lord spoke to me," but he has never called my name audibly, I have
never heard him say, "Noel, Noel I need to talk to you"
[laughing] I haven't quite had that privilege and I have not touched him with my hands because he leaves
himself outside of our sensual perception Whereas the other nations, they were able to
form gods and they drew their gods and they had their gods in visibility and of course, my God cannot be brought within the parameters of sensual perception because how do you form the shape of an omnipresent God? I mean what shape would you have of him? It was always a battle of gods because each nation would go to their god and the children of Israel's difficulty was that he would not allow himself within the parameters of sensual perception, Ooo... I think I like that because what he does is when he takes himself outside of our sensual perception, then he has to speak to us on a spiritual level [yes] That means that the relationship with God cannot be cognitive, it can't be intellectual really, it's got to be spiritual [yes] and it's where his Spirit speaks to my spirit over the bridge of faith and then he let's my spirit talk to my mind Can I go over that again? I'm going, I'm with the Bishop tonight so I'm a talk to this group over here [laughing] You see because of sensual perception, sensual perception limits you to whatever your senses can garnish but when he takes himself outside of your sensual perception what he's saying essentially is that the relationship that I want to have with you is not cognitive or intellectual but the relationship that I want to have with you is very spiritual In order to grasp this even further we think a little bit about the Holy Spirit that maketh intercession with groanings that cannot be uttered A groaning that cannot be uttered is not a umm is not a mmm, if it can't be uttered there is no sound [that's right, applause] at all [applause] Which means that God is making deposits in your spirit that you are not cognitively aware of mm-mh He spoke to Elijah, if I may go further and he spoke to Elijah in a still, small voice. And please tell me if you will what is a still, small voice? It is a voice that you're not picking up audibly, but rather it's going to your spirit. See God has left himself outside of our sensual perception so that he might deal with us deeply in our spirits and then he let's our spirits talk to our minds about an assurance that is not intellectually deduced it is not cognitively achieved because it's something that is just in your spirit ahh I feel something happening already! Now it's interesting because somebody is holding out on me and the fact is how can you have peace which passeth all understanding if your relationship with God is simply intellectual? Because if the peace he gives you has to be a spiritual peace that your mind cannot even conceive of why you are so peaceful According to everything that you have cognitively deducted you should be one mess right now [yes] but because he has made a deposit in your spirit [applause] and he has spoken to your spirit [applause] you have an assurance that you cannot even explain ahh Somebody's still holding out on me ahh I think I'll take it further. There were two boys in their mother's womb, they were two boys in two separate wombs. One's name was John, the other was Jesus. The two boys were unconscious in their mother's womb. I know Jesus is God, but he was not reading the Jerusalem Tribune in his mother's womb [laughing] If he's human at all he is unconscious in his mother's womb The two mothers came together, I think it's Mary who went out to the country to visit Elizabeth and the two boys were in their mother's womb separated by two thin layers of cutaneous tissue and yet still when the mothers came together, the bible said that "John leapt" [yes] in his mother's womb because he was in the presence of Jesus. To show you how spiritual it is the man, John, the boy is unconscious in his mother's womb Yet even in his unconscious state, he receives revelation [applause] of who Jesus is and indeed and in fact he receives the Holy Spirit without saying, "Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah [applause] Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus" [applause] Now years later, the conscious John sends word to Jesus. ahh God I wonder do you get it? The unconscious John had no doubt about who Jesus was, yet the conscious John sends messages asking, "Are you the one or should we look for another?" And I just rose to tell you don't let your mind talk you out of your revelation [applause] [applause] [applause] It was a battle of gods you see it was a battle of gods and notice if you will that the three Hebrew boys: Hananiah Mishael, and Azariah, the three Hebrew boys had been on a steady decline It was not that they had just walked into Babylon and they were standing as real I say advocates or ambassadors from Israel If you notice the decline, you will find first of all that they were defeated by Nebuchadnezzar because Israel couldn't actually be defeated by anybody if they walked according to the principles of God I am not afraid of my enemies when I'm walking in principle [applause] uh-uh You got haters everywhere but I'm not afraid of my haters, when I'm walking in principle. It's when I'm walking outside the principles of God that I have to worry about the rumors and about who is going to bring me down because as long as I'm walking within the parameters of the principles of God, then I don't have to worry about what anybody has to say [applause] because it's the principle that protects I don't want to be too helter-skelter here, but Jesus said to his disciples he says, "Obey my commandments and abide in my love" because as long as you're walking within the confines of my commandments then no weapon formed against you can prosper [applause] [applause] The enemy can only catch you when you're walking outside of the principles of God. Many of us say "Well we have angels to protect us" Well what is an angel? An angel is a messenger It is not the angel that protects you as much as the message that the angel brings [applause] Because if you walk [applause] within the parameters of the principle, it doesn't matter how many haters are around you. And I'll just give you this one if you don't have any haters, you're not that gifted [applause] [applause] And it's a significant piece here and it's very important because Israel would not walk according to the principles of God, the Lord raised up nations to chasten them to bring them back within the confines of his word. He would raise up nations and because everybody thought it was a battle of gods then they thought that Jehovah had lost his power If you look through Isaiah, you'll see often where he tells them "I am God and beside me there is no other" If you think that you're being defeated because some other god is greater than me, you're making a mistake. I'm the one whose whipping you through them [applause] I raise them up and I take them down [applause] because if you walk according to my principles, you never have to worry about any I want you to see the extent of the spirituality and the connection of the Spirit that these fellows had with God Now first of all they have lost the battle and secondly, they are taken out of their homeland They are the most pristine and the most significant of all of the fellows of Israel because Nebuchadnezzar made sure that he collected the most pristine the most physical, pulchritudinous, magnanimous splendor. He made sure that they had no blemish that they were intellectually alert and astute enough to understand his astrology and to learn everything that was significant to his nation. He took the best of the best, the creme of the creme, I mean he took the fellows who were just everything. Now not only had they lost the battle they lost their place, not only did they lose their place they also lost all of the treasures that belonged to the temple, not only did they lose their place, lose the treasures, lose the battle he took them over and he made eunuchs out of them uh-uh, yes he did indeed. Now can you imagine now I'm serving God and I'm on a downhill slide I'm on a downhill slide where we have lost the battle we have lost all of our precious and all of our sacred stuff, we have lost our place and now we have lost our manhood With all of the beauty and the wonder of who we are we will never produce an offspring because Nebuchadnezzar has made eunuchs out of all of us Now can you imagine where faith could possibly come from when they have been losing from the day that they lost their battle, all the way to this day. And yet they had the unmitigated gall and audacity to say to the king, "We are not going to bow" [applause] ahh I feel it here! I just got a few minutes to go [applause] I promise I will not keep you long When you understand that sensual perception is always against faith because what you have is sight against faith and every child of God has to deal with the reality of your enviornment, the things that you see and the reality of the things that you don't see. The Greeks when they talked about fear, they talked about fear from the word phobos and it means flight. And anytime you see phobia of any kind, that's the root, the etymological root word is phobos and it means flight that which causes one to be scared; it's something that introduces terror and the terror generally comes from your sensual perception from what you see around you, for what you hear and and then of course they added another word to it and this word is deilia, this is not something that comes necessarily from the outside, this is just an attitude that an individual has. You can raise two children and one's very bold and the other is just timid just timid by nature, not timid by circumstances just nature. Some people are just timid, just scared to do everything, some people are just shy. It's the word that Paul deals with when he talks about Timothy, and Timothy he wants him to be bold and he doesn't want him to be timid he wants him to be able to partake of the affliction of the gospel. And so it's not just an act now deilia speaks more of a spirit it's a kind of way that you are. Now can you imagine being timid by nature and then being scared by circumstance you know I'm already timid, please for God sake don't bring anything around me that's going to be scary because my genetics already lead me to be timid Now there should be a certain amount of caution in everybody's life because caution helps you to assess circumstances and teaches you how to position yourself, but when it comes to being in a situation that you have absolutely no control over then you have to be able to trust ahh I'm here to tell you, for those of us who trust the least we want to control the most because if I can control it, then I don't have to trust it uh-uh You know that's why he gave you a beeper, that's why he gave you all of those machines so that, and he's already timed how long it takes to go to the grocery store and get back It ought to be 15 minutes over, 15 minutes back, I'll give her two or three minutes for the groceries and to get it in and out of the car [laughing] and after that I'm calling because the more you can control, the less you have to trust ahh Trust comes when you're in a situation where you don't have any control It's either you're going to trust [applause] or lose your mind ahh I feel something happening! [applause] I'm coming, I'm almost there It's critical because now the word for caution for the Greeks then became reverence and Godly fear and the whole idea is if I'm going to fear anybody, I need to fear God who can put both body and soul into hellfire. I don't need to fear anybody less than God because is the only one who has total charge over everything So even though I'm on a downhill slide I'm not connected to God through my sensual perception I'm connected to God through my spirit, which means you can mess with everything I can sensually perceive but you can't break my spirit [applause] ahh I feel it here! [applause] Let me go to the text very quickly, I just want to talk a little about the Hebrew. The Hebrew for fear is pachad and it's a very strong verb of fearing with the emphasis on the immediacy of the object of fear in other words you're doing fine until something shows up that sets you off to the point where you even begin to tremble It's a strong emotion of fear, I don't know have you been there? But I have been there in my life where I was just about having a panic attack. Anybody familiar with panic attack? It's the kind of place where you can't find any peace; it's the kind of place where you think you gonna lose it at any minute And generally it has been stimulated by something that's external that's trying to become internal it's trying to break into where, you see satan just doesn't want you to have experiences without leaving a mark What he wants you to do is go through something that leaves you psychologically debilitated so that the next opportunity for you to make a move [applause] you're so caught up in the past with the things you have failed in [applause] that you will not take a step that is guided by the Spirit of God O he wants to break you down [applause] Have I told you touch your neighbor yet? It's coming, just hold on [applause] It's a critical piece because now, it's the object that causes fear that allows the subject to tremble and the whole point is to intimidate and break you down to feel as if you cannot stand in the midst of what's about to happen The Lord said to the judges in Israel he said, "Fear not the face of men, don't let any social position or any adversary in any litigation intimidate you and sway you from your judgement" If you know this thing is right, then stand to it The next Hebrew word was one that is to pursue or to cast down, it's a word that talks about driving That the enemy wants to drive you and again we're talking about external stuff, we're talking about horrific people horrific situations that are designed for the outward display to generate an inward breakdown. How long are you going to be there with all of your talent and allow some little chip that's missing to keep you from being all that you can be? When are you going to get over what you didn't achieve yesterday for what you can achieve tomorrow? When are you going to allow yourself to be released from satanic control over your mind? Because you are already gifted, but what satan wants to do is use your sensual perception to cause your environment to control your thinking What God wants to do is allow your faith in his Spirit and word [applause] to talk to your mind to tell your mind [applause] that you're not driven from the outside but you're driven from the inside [applause] and when you stand up [applause] with what's inside what's outside [applause] has got to bow down ahh I feel something helping! [applause] Just give me, give me just a few more minutes and I'll be through [applause] You see now faith on the other hand is the substance of things hoped for, it is actually the hupostasis of things hoped for, it is the elegchos of things not seen. So what we have now is we have substance and we have assurance or conviction. It's something when you can have a conviction that has nothing to do with your sensual perception. I'm looking at a horrific situation, but I am convicted that this situation does not determine where I go [applause] It is not my circumstance that controls me but rather it is my faith in the mighty God ahh Can I take it another way? Moltmann and Mulligan when they look at the word hupostasis, they regard it as a title deed and what it says essentially is that this is a title for what I have hoped for in God. I buy properties all over the place, in fact I just bought some way over in some island and I have seen it yet. And somebody said, "Well how do you know you have it?" I said, "Because I have the title" I don't have to see the land in order for me to declare "It's mine" because I have the title Moltmann and Mulligan says that faith is the title of the things that you have believed God for [applause] ahh Can I preach for just a minute? [applause] ahh For 45 years [applause] Caleb had the title he had never walked in the land, but he had the title Now touch somebody for the first time and tell them, "I'm entitled" [I'm entitled] for everything I believe God for, I'm entitled I'm entitled to be more than I am because I've been restricted by fear because of my circumstance but now that I've connected to God and I believe God I am entitled to the things that I have believed him for [applause] I'm not gone keep you too much longer, I feel it coming on! [applause] When I looked at the text and I understood this that there are some unseen realities and what I need is internal evidence of ownership and this is what I call assurance It brings us then to the New Testament word pistis and this is a firm persuasion or a conviction of something that I believe. If you don't believe it who will? uh-uh, If you can't stand up for what you believe, who will? You have to stand up on it and you don't need a committee to become what God would have you to be [applause] ahh I feel it now! umm Alright [music, applause] just keep me right there It's important to understand why God has left himself outside of our perception, our sensual perception and I'm glad he did because no one of us can dictate to the other one of us, how we conceptualize our God. I don't have to have your concept of God I am free to have my own concept of God [applause] because he's left himself outside of my sensual perception You can't draw a picture of my God and I know that we're in the same church, but each one of us have an idiosyncratic concept of God it's idio, it's completely distinctive because I can't believe God the way you do and you can't believe God the way I do because it's idiosyncratic it's mine and I see him where you don't see him and you conceptualize him, where I don't. That's why we fellowship because it takes all of us to put together the complete picture [applause] of a mighty God If you choose to make him small [applause] that's your business [applause] but you cannot impose a small God on me [applause] because I choose to make him big and that's what I want him to be [applause, music] O I feel something happening in here! ahh God I feel it here! [applause] Just give me just a few more minutes It's true now then that fear has an object but faith has an object also and you've got to decide is your God bigger than what you're looking at? Is your God bigger than Nebuchadnezzar? Because even on the downhill slide from being the pristine princes of Israel to becoming eunuchs, losing even their manhood they still had the nerve to stand before the king and say first of all knowledge says, "He's able" but faith says, [applause] "He will" but commitment says, "If he don't even do it [applause] we're still [applause] not going to bow" I'm almost there, I feel something! [applause] Give somebody a high five say "He's almost there" [applause] It's a critical piece here now because I used to simply think that that faith on the one hand said that, "He is able" and faith says, "He will" of course, knowledge says, "He's able" but he's sovereign which means that he's God, he may or he may not. The issue is we're still not going to bow I can't lose if I die because if I can't live for what I would die for then my life is not worth living. So I can't lose if I die, and I sure can't lose if he delivers me, the only way I can lose is if I bow [applause] and that's not what I'm going to do ahh I can't lose if he brings me out [applause] and I can't lose if I die believing, but if I bow, then you have got the advantage over me So king let me just tell you, "I am not going to bow" which means you can't win if you kill me, you can't win [applause] if you leave me alive, you can't win because I am not built [applause] to break ahh I feel something happening here! [applause] Take my house if you want take my car if you want [applause] walk out on me if you choose turn your back on me if you want to [applause] but that's not going to break me because I'm not built [applause] to break ahh I feel the Holy Ghost here! [applause] ahh I just come to tell you these have been trying times [applause] and these have been hard times particularly for us who walk in the kingdom of God because for 25 years we have heard nothing but health, wealth and prosperity, for 25 years we have given in every offering and by now all of us should be millionaires. The word is that more of us are losing our minds than at any other time in the history of the African-American race and we're losing our minds over things. I feel like preaching now! But please tell me, can you frighten Lazarus with death? He already died before and I don't know why you're losing your minds over being broke you've been broke before [applause, music] [applause, music] I feel like having just a little church! I feel like having a little church! [applause, music] Give somebody a high five and say, "Neighbor [music] I'm not built to break [applause, music] I've got too much anointing to fall apart" I've got too much of the word in me [applause, music] to let the devil to cause me to think that I'm gonna lose my mind [applause, music] I'm not gone lose my mind over losing a house [applause, music] 'cause I'm gone need my mind to decorate the next one [applause, music] I'm not gone lose my mind over losing a man [applause, music] 'cause I'm gone need my mind to be good to the next one [applause, music] I'm not gone lose my mind over losing a woman [applause, music] 'cause I'm gone lose my mind to make sure the other one is alright [applause, music] Give somebody a high five say, "I'm not losing my mind [applause, music] 'cause I wasn't built to break" If I was going to break [applause, music] I'd a broken a long time ago 'cause I've been to hell and back [applause, music] and I'm still here lifting up the name of the Lord [applause, music] If I were gonna break I would have broke when satan [applause, music] had my house twisted and turned upside down [applause, music] but I found out through the test and the trial [music] there's something on the inside that no matter how low I get [applause, music] it bounces back Thought I was gonna walk out [applause, music] but my anchor holds and grips the solid rock [applause, music] I'm not built to break in the middle of the storm [applause, music] because the reason the house is still standing [applause, music] is not because of the storm the storm may blow [applause, music] the winds may come but the reason the house is still standing [applause, music] is because it's built on the right foundation [applause, music] Shake somebody's hand for the third time and say [applause, music] "Neighbor, I've been built on the right foundation" [applause, music] I've been built on the word of God [applause, music] I've been built on the solid rock [applause, music] and I heard him say "Upon this rock [applause, music] I'll build my church and the gates of hell [applause, music] shall not prevail against it" Give somebody a high five [applause, music] for the fourth time and say, "Neighbor [applause, music] I've got a piece of the rock" I've got a piece of the rock [applause, music] Anytime you think you gone drive me off [applause, music] you'd better remember I got rock up in here [applause, music] I got solid rock That's why I stand [applause, music] on the word of God and I, give somebody a high five [applause, music] say, "Not only do I have the word but I am anointed" [applause, music] I am anointed If I weren't anointed [applause, music] I'd a lost my way if I weren't anointed [applause, music] I'd a lost my mind But something [applause, music] that's inside of me says, "Get up again [applause, music] Shake yourself Get back in the race [applause, music] and let the world know It ain't over yet" [applause, music] It ain't over yet I've been walked on [applause, music] you been talked about; you been mistreated [applause, music] you been drowned, but you still here still praising him [applause, music] They left you for dead a long time ago [applause, music] but you still lifting up the name of Jesus [applause, music] 'cause I'm not, I'm not built to break [applause, music] Give somebody a high five for the second to the last time [applause, music] and say, "Neighbor I'm here to stay until I die" [applause, music] 'cause IIII [applause, music] [applause, music] Ooo... [applause, music] I feel the Holy Ghost! I feel the Holy Ghost! [applause, music] I've learned something about that scripture that changed my mind [applause, music] The first thing is the God I serve is able [applause, music] to deliver me out of the fire Can I preach like I feel it? [applause, music] Give somebody a high five say, "Do you know how many times [applause, music] I been delivered out of the fire?" The fire [applause, music] to lose my job, the fire [applause, music] to get me fired, the fire of talking about me [applause, music] the fire of trying to hurt me the fire [applause, music] of trying to destroy who I am [applause, music] but I've been delivered IIII [applause, music] [applause, music] [applause, music] [applause, music] I'm closing [applause, music] I'm closing Touch somebody again say [applause, music] "I'm still here" I don't look like [applause, music] what I been through because not even the hair [applause, music] on my head has been singed [applause, music] but I been in the fire [applause, music] and they looked in and saw a fourth one [applause, music] O I feel like preaching! Give somebody a high five [applause, music] for the last time and tell them, "Somebody's with me" Somebody's with me [applause, music] Somebody's with me and his name is [applause, music] Jesus [applause, music] [applause, music] I'm not built to break Touch three people real quick say [applause, music] "I'm not built to break" I'm still here [applause, music] [applause, music] [applause, music] It ain't gone break you [applause, music] it ain't gone break you, it ain't it ain't gone break you [applause, music] you been put together too well You're God's workmanship [applause, music] he stitched you together He put you together [applause, music] leave if you wanna, get out of my face if you wanna but I will not break [applause, music] [applause, music] [applause, music] [applause, music] It's been [applause, music] it's been tough but look at you [applause, music] [applause, music] [applause, music] [applause, music] [applause, music] [applause, music] [applause, music] uh-uh [applause, music] I'm closing [applause, music] time is upon me [applause, music] [applause, music] [applause, music] [applause, music] [applause, music] [applause, music] [applause, music] You might as well put your praise on it [applause, music] [applause, music] [applause, music] [applause, music] [applause, music] [applause, music] [applause, music] [applause, music] [applause, music] [applause, music] [applause, music] [applause, music] I I closed already three times [applause, music] I gonna to close for the closing time [applause, music] My first view [yes Lord] of that, the response to Nebuchadnezzar was [music] [Jesus, music] The God we serve is able and I ascribe that to knowledge says, "He's able [yes, music] and he will deliver [yes, music] us out of your hand [yes, applause, music] and I said faith says, "He will [music] and if not we're not gonna," commitment [right, music] I meditated on it further and I discovered something [music] first of all [music] he said we're gonna heat the fire hot and we're gonna cast you into the fiery furnace [music] that was separate [right] See I assumed that delivering them from the fiery furnace [music] was the first two [music] because Nebuchadnezzar said I putting you in the furnace [music] and who is that god [yes, come on, music] that'll deliver you out of my hand [alright now, music] Which makes now for a separate issue [come on, music] because the first issue now is to be delivered out of the fire [music] the second is to be delivered out of his hand [my Lord, music] See See you can have a boss [music] who is seeking to fire you [music] and she tries in January and fails [chatter, music] she tries in February and fails [chatter, music] So even though you've been delivered from the incident [chatter, music] you're still not delivered out of her hand [chatter, music] [chatter, music] because she's still the boss [chatter, music] [come on Pastor, music] He will deliver us out of your hand [music] Now when Daniel was in the lion's den [music] God spoke to him, but he didn't show up [well, music] When Israel was coming out of Egypt [music] God delivered them [music] but he didn't lead the charge [right] So why is he [music] in the fire? [come on, ooo..., music] See he's in the fire [music] not to deliver them from the burning [music] fiery furnace because they were already delivered from that [music] when they were put in there and were walking around [applause, music] What he showed up to do [applause, music] [applause, music] ahh We over here in Crenshaw District this is Crenshaw [music] and we used to be over on on Hoover, now we got a little more sophistication we went out to Gardena, but [music] [laughing, music] But you all know when somebody's being punked [right, music] Yes, yes, yes and it goes because now he says I see a fourth one [music] and the fourth one looks like one of the gods [yes, music] [watch it, yes, music] [applause, music] You were punking my boys outside the fire [right] now I'm getting ready to punk you inside the fire [applause, music] and what I'm saying to you Nebuchadnezzar [applause, music] is touch my boys again mess with them again [applause, music] mess with them again if you feel like it understand who you dealing with [applause, music] you ain't dealing with just these boys you dealing with me [applause, music] And Nebuchadnezzar swore that day that they would worship no other god because he is the most [high, music] God's getting ready [applause, music] not only to take you out the situation but deliver you out of there [applause, music] Shake somebody's hand like you gone shake it off [applause, music] and tell them, "I'm not built to break God didn't put me together [applause, music] to fall apart [applause, music] Take one person by both hands [music] get a prayer partner [music] one person by both hands Paul taught me not only to pray before [music] but pray after pray that the eyes of your understanding [music] be enlightened that you may know three things [music] and the third is the exceeding greatness of his power [music] to usward who believe A friend of mine said something to me [music] in one of my most gloomy times He said to me he said [music] "Noel, whose in there thinking with you?" [chatter, music] Psychologist, Miami [music] he said, "Ain't nobody up here thinking but you [music] you're the one doing the thinking in here So whatever you allow yourself to think [music] is either going to break you [yes, music] or strengthen you" [yes, music] Whose thinking in there? Every negative thing [music] that's been suggested [yes] you don't have to think on it [yes, that's right, come on, music] Nobody's controlling your thought mechanism, but you [music] So whatsoever things are pure, honest, good report [yes, music] think on the things that strengthen you [yes, music] Sometimes you got to eliminate to elevate [yes, amen, music] You got some people around you that just got to go [amen, hallelujah, music] they got to go [yes Lord, music] Father, you said to us [music] whatsoever we bind on earth are bound in heaven [yes] whatsoever things we loose on earth are loosed in heaven [yes, music] you gave us that authority [yes, baby talking, music] Squeeze one hand I bind doubt [yes, music] I bind low self-esteem I bind depression [music] I bind discouragement I bind every negative thought [music] that would flow through my brother, my sister right now [music] I bind worry and anxiety I come against that spirit right now [music] I come against it with everything that the Holy Ghost has to give [music] in the name of Jesus I bind it now [yes, music] I bind short sightedness I bind procrastination [yes, music] Get up, shake yourself, move, move while it's day for the night cometh [music] when no man shall work, this is your season Now squeeze the other hand [music] I loose power, I loose anointing [yes, music] I loose creativity, I loose direction [music] revelation, I loose everything you are right now [music] in the name of Jesus Somebody loose your hands [music] and give God the praise [praise, music] Give God the praise Give him the praise [praise, music] I will not leave here the way I came in [praise, music] I'm leaving here, somebody different [praise, music]
