Bishop Noel Jones - Sunday Morning Worship - September 19, 2021

[Music] you [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] it feels so good to be back yes the city of refuge is now back to an in-person worship service every sunday at 10 a.m masks are required for non-vaccinated and vaccinated individuals the city of refuge is offering a free covet 19 test monday through friday from 9 a.m to 6 p.m no appointment is necessary our covert 19 test is a nucleric asset amplification test better known as naat to pre-register go to cityofrefugela.org or onsite registration is also available your test results will be emailed or text to you within 48 hours the noaa jones early learning center is internet ready all of our after schoolers can now do their online classes and zoom meetings noel jones early learning center is a covet safe environment staff and students temperatures are taken daily upon entrance and we implement sanitation procedures throughout the day we use the stem science technology engineering and math curriculum and the albeca reading program for preschoolers bible lessons are taught daily with weekly chapel services we are now accepting new enrollment applications and all child care subsidized programs are accepted by crystal stairs pathways and children's home society call us at 424-295-9440 for more information all are welcome to attend our in-person or virtual sunday school every sunday with our new time at 8 45 join us for our weekly friday night dial in corporate prayer at 8 pm pacific standard time our prayer line number is 760-548-9309 immediately following today's service stop by the nora jones ministry table to purchase today's inspirational message bible class will continually be virtual every wednesday at 12 noon with the rebroadcast at 7 pm on all our streaming platforms please follow us on all our social media outlets and there are three to choose from on instagram at city of refuge la or bishop noel jones global on facebook follow us at city of refuge los angeles and on youtube at official bishop noah jones today at 4 pm pacific standard time on our youtube channel official bishop noah jones join our men's ministry for refuge for men with bishop keith clark elder joe paul and dr lewis welcher as they address the following topics youth violence victim to perpetrator to victor the masculine psychology self-esteem and economics and so much more [Music] i'll talk to the brothers [Music] [Music] this concludes our weekly announcements please continue to wear your mask wash your hands and please make every effort to stay safe [Music] well praise the lord everybody it's time to worship jesus come on come on stand up on your feet let's give him the praise and the glory hallelujah [Music] this morning [Applause] come on sing it with us out we will praise the name of jesus we will praise the name of jesus we will praise the name of jesus [Music] yes [Music] come on come on [Applause] [Music] [Music] we came to worship [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we bow down and we honor you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] glory to the king we want to say hallelujah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] anybody [Music] [Music] he's brought us through a whole pandemic and he's worthy of the praise he's worthy of the glory he's worthy of the honor come on come on lift your hands just begin to worship your savior in your own way come on he loves to hear you worship he loves your voice he loves when you say hallelujah he loves when you say glory to the name of jesus because he's been just that good and because of that i worship him i worship him hallelujah [Music] [Applause] jesus i worship you my life was created [Music] i'm giving my life to you hallelujah i'm giving my life to you do what you will to do oh lord make me your praise that's the whole thing [Music] [Music] and i'm asking you to do what you will do [Music] my life yes [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] say this with me [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you lord jesus [Music] [Applause] [Applause] i praise you [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] [Music] i thank you [Music] [Applause] i [Applause] [Music] this morning nobody greeter nobody we give you the glory we give you [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] this morning [Music] [Music] i worship you yeah hallelujah [Music] [Applause] [Music] i'm giving it back to you [Music] make me [Applause] [Music] hallelujah bless him in here he's worthy of a better praise than that we worship jesus hallelujah jesus i worship you [Music] my life was created to oh lord [Music] i'm giving my life to you and i'm asking you do what you will to do oh lord make me pray [Music] worship the king hallelujah hallelujah [Music] all over the sanctuary come on put your hands together again to give god a hand praise you may have your seats in the presence of the lord amen just before our bishop come out on this morning amen just a reminder while in the sanctuary we ask it's a requirement that you have your mass over your nose amen so we can continue amen to have our in-person service amen amen what you're saying well we want you comfortable and we want everyone who's sitting around you comfortable so to make everyone comfortable we have to continue to wear your mass amen that was very weak somebody say amen amen so please if security come to you please do not get offended amen but we do have signs throughout our sanctuary our lobbies just to keep everyone safe amen amen amen please govern yourself for quantity amen just before our bishop come up amen there's a couple things that we must do amen we do have a special guest here today patrick if you can come very quickly amen um our choir the spirit of david have something special going on this afternoon amen please receive brother patrick amen praise the lord everybody come on give god a hand praise yes actually just a correction we have something happening it's not this afternoon is next week next sunday but we have a special guest that's going to talk about that and i am so honored to introduce our special guest her resume goes back years she has pretty much sung every song that we know she is known all over the world all over the country she has worked with countless of artists r b and gospel i want you to put your hands together and show love to the legendary miss denise williams oh come on come on y'all could do better than that this is a legend let's receive her as she come on let's give her a hand give her a great city of refuge welcome god bless you it is an honor to be here with you this morning i've been so excited to come here i started uh watching you guys ministry a little while ago and i said whoa they got a thing going on for jesus up in there i was born and raised in the church of god in christ my grand uncle was the bishop for the southern part of the state of indiana and so it is my honor to be here and i'd like to honor the bishop for allowing me to be here in the church today and i'm going to ask my cousin to come up too because she she's got more information tonight karina brakely would you please come up you know when i um a little girl joined uh growing up in the church and i started singing at the age of three in the children's choir and then uh i got an opportunity to sing with stevie wonder and my church didn't like that too much but you know what they didn't know and what they didn't remember is that they had given me jesus as a foundation and i was going to take him with me wherever i went i gave my life to christ when i was 10 years old so i've been with him for 61 years or he's been with me for 61 years and every concert i started with god is truly amazing because he is and so i've always wanted to do something for the lord and um that got me in trouble with my record label but i told them if i can give you ten songs one of them belonged to jesus so there you have it he allowed me to get four grammys and they're all for my gospel music screaming jesus is lord so um we're gonna do karita come up here and i want you to talk a little bit about what we're doing praise the lord everybody praise the lord everybody come on praise the lord everybody we're in church with each other praise the lord everybody give him some praise you made it here today praise the lord oh hallelujah i came to bring you some good news the legendary denise williams is starting a hallelujah sunday branch at the bourbon room in hollywood our first guest is going to be your own uh patrick bolden in the city of david come on celebrate your own it's gonna be starting next sunday at 1pm the tickets are on sale you can google the bourbon room you can ask brother patrick you can look on social media anyway you can purchase a ticket if you can't be there in person you can purchase one for online we're doing that now on live live streaming so we would like to have your support of your own of your own of your own okay we want to see you there having a hallelujah good time eating some good food and getting some good gospel music just remember i'm here today may be gone today so praise the lord while you still have a chance while you still have a chance hallelujah and i'm up here with a mic so i want to sing a little something is that okay i come from the old school so i don't know i knew a bunch of the new gospel songs but this is one that that i absolutely love i trust in god wherever i may be [Music] on mountains bleak or on the stormy seas he keeps my soul [Music] he watches over me [Music] so i trust him [Music] he cares for me [Music] on the mountain's bleed around the stormy season [Music] [Music] he [Music] oh yes he does for my heavenly hallelujah thank him for keeping me father watches [Music] he's watching over you you you you you and me [Music] is there anybody in the building to know that he watches over you come on you can do better than that is there anybody anybody who knows that he's watching over you amen through tribulation amen my god amen he hovered upon me amen and he watches over me amen we thank god amen i i do believe amen we do have some tickets amen amen two tickets amen for free so so immediately after service amen i guess the first two people amen please go and see um patrick amen listen city that's a dance amen amen when your back is against the wall amen somebody say but my god watches over me amen amen when i don't know where to do and what to do amen my god amen he watches over me amen city of refuge amen we thank god for our pastor not just because he's the the best pastor on this side of heaven amen but because he cared for other people amen amen we have so many programs here and we are associated with so many programs amen we do have a video clip amen please receive our video amen god bless you [Music] i've seen a lot of growth because like last year when i was in seventh grade i was messing around and like i wasn't really doing anything to help myself and so my grades would slip i get in trouble a lot and so uh i'm in eighth grade now so i have a 3.8 gpa wow and i've been keeping up my grades i've been doing my school work i've been doing everything and i just think the boss program has helped me a lot because like it's helped me grow like grow as a person because like before like i came my mom like jordan's mom i did not want to go like i wasn't sure about what was going on i was really shy the first day because i didn't know anyone so i was i did not want to go at all and so my mom [Music] and now from being shy of public speaking to actually being confident in myself and actually speak out loud and be fluent with speaking i've seen a huge difference and i can only think one person like one program and that's the boss program speaking in public it's helped me know that i need to work harder and i can't just i can't just be focused on football i have to also be focused on my schoolwork because i know in my opinion and in my family's opinion a three point whatever isn't good enough i have to have a's in all my classes have to be focused on everything and if i'm striving for something better then i'm if i'm striving to be perfect then i'm at least going to be great do it i really actually like [Music] [Music] amen city of refugees we thank god please receive from the boss program mr everett everett glenn if you can come amen good morning church how's everybody good uh can i sit down just like so right uh you guys have heard the bishop uh talk about uh me from time to time uh i've represented some of the greatest professional athletes of our time but it started out with an alcoholic dad and a mom with a ninth grade education and it started out with a guy believing in me and showing me how to believe in myself and turned that into a 45-year career as a lawyer and what they showed me how to do was take whatever hand i was dealt right and turn it into a winning hand and and that's what we are doing through this boss program and we've got uh we'll be competing the reason we're here we're competing in a giving day you can go to long beach gives long beach gives and go under boss b-o-s-s and you can donate so you can help us help more of the 200 boys who we're showing how to do exactly what you just out here move from wherever they are to greatness right and we've got a few of the guys here we've got uh shane uh shane is a seventh grader and uh this this shane's little brother brandon right here stand up brandon brandon's a sixth grader shane and seventh grader and if you want to know what they're gonna look like in a few years they're gonna look like this guy right here chandler jung who's a 10th grader who's going to be a neurosci neuro a brain surgeon a brain surgeon all right and they're gonna look like this guy right here chris abby chris no i'm sorry this is chris's abbott dad it and this is his mom right here so so if you can do whatever you can do to help us help our own children right and we got another we got kids from to church uh ivory manny if he couldn't be with us today but manny's been with us since sixth grade he's a high school senior now and these guys are i mean this guy got like a 4.3 something these guys we're showing them how to go from wherever they are to greatness thank you so much everyone lift up your hands inside the sanctuary as we go into our worship that the priest team can make their way back everyone lift up your hands all over the sanctuary even you at home amen might be a brush just lift up your hands and then just to begin to give him some worship we worship him because we put him in a class all by himself amen come on if you can't just begin just to open your mouth and just begin to tell him how much you you love him how much you adore him amen just want to tell you that i love you more than anything god is there anybody in the building who can say that god i love you more than anything hallelujah your campus over the years we made many adjustments but in spite of it all god you kept us god hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah well let's just stay right there i love you jesus i watch a band adore you i just wanna tell you [Music] lord i love you more than anything [Music] [Music] you i just wanna tell you lord [Music] [Music] [Applause] i just wanna tell y'all [Music] [Music] [Music] i just wanna [Music] [Music] [Music] i just wanna tell y'all [Music] [Applause] [Music] now come on right where you are tell us that you'll love them tell them that it's good tell them that it's kind tell us that you're grateful tell them that you're thankful hey god we bless you today we love on you [Music] over your today i just wanna tell ya [Applause] [Music] [Music] more than anybody more than anything lord i love you [Music] because you're faithful because you're good because [Music] [Applause] [Music] you've been tested you've been tried you are consistent you are good [Music] kept my mind [Music] if you think of the goodness of jesus you gotta open up your mouth and give him glory yeah [Music] i have breath in my body you got breath in your body you need to love on him in the morning [Music] oh [Music] now come on let's just worship him right there worship him right there yeah [Music] oh yeah we love you lord [Music] [Music] there are many things to pray for today both nationally internationally and privately and personally there's so many things to pray for and as we have challenges of decisions to make and trying to fit into our social environment and understanding that the natural and the supernatural somehow has to exist together and sometimes it gets a little bit difficult to understand when i should walk in what's natural as opposed to walking in the supernatural but the god of the natural is the god of the supernatural so many of us are faced with so many decisions to make in our own personal life and as we consider those who are bereaved those who are hurting because of losing loved ones those who are in financial situations those who have to make a decision between a job and a vaccination somebody said i was working for the government when i outlined all of the vaccinations that we have already taken and and some of this stuff we can't even get our kids in school unless they have certain fascinations and and uh interestingly i can't even take my dogs over to the you know to the babysitter if they don't have certain vaccinations and i haven't yet laid hands on them to find out if the mark of the beast is in them i don't know i don't know i don't know it's what a rough ride it's been just being black in america father we come in the name of jesus and we honor you we exalt we lift up we macrograph your holy name and we realize lord that somewhere in the middle of all this we just have to trust you we just have to trust you whether we do it whether we don't do it whether we go whether we come whether we are in whether we're out we just at the end of the day have to trust you so now lord i pray that you will direct us that you will guide us in everything that we do that you will lead the way for us and i pray god whether naturally or supernaturally bring us to the place that you want us to be in i need you to touch every person who needs consolation every person those who are online and those who are assembled with us touch everybody who needs consolation right now i pray god that when everyone is gone and they're left by themselves that you will walk into the room and comfort them in the name of jesus sister betty williams right now comfort her as her son that grandson is lost in the streets hit and killed i pray god that you will comfort her now as only you can in the midst of all of her tears in the midst of her heartaches just step right in and be that comforter be that console be that strength and for everybody i pray that you do that now give us wisdom in our finances give us wisdom as we regulate our lives give us wisdom as we adjust and help us to do what is right not only by ourselves but by everybody else touch chris right now wherever he is bless him now speak to his soul and his heart and i claim the victory in the name of jesus and if you believe god i need you to clap your hand and give god the glory somebody said i don't know what you come to do but i come to praise the lord i come to clap my hand i come to jump for joy i get a reason to praise him somebody holler i got a reason to praise him when i think of his goodness all he's done for me my soul my soul [Music] little churches you may be seated in the presence of the lord and it's just good to be here oh yes [Music] oh yes in the middle of all of this we honor god we honor god i uh before i i had to stop by a church and uh dedicate pray for the pastor there but i'm sure that you got a vision of what uh the boss program is about and what you got a vision of what the boss program is about give god praise please so i thank god for the work of dr brother everett glenn because he's working with our are skilled young men and you've got to understand that oftentimes they're given contracts and they're they're blessed but because they don't have the the character to understand the position they're in it's always good that somebody would see them early elder joe paul and i talk about the fact that if you can intervene in a situation if you have the answers to intervene then you also have the answers to prevent are you with me how many of us in our lives and i and i say this uh very carefully that most adults are people trying to get over their childhood can i leave that with you that so much happens in our formative years that seem to like cement harden in our spirits and we spend the rest of our lives trying to get over this mismanagement of childhood and you know what's one of the difficult things i'm not going to keep you too long on this but one of the difficult things about life is having to forgive the person who violated you when they should have been protecting you you know and so when i see and i saw it from the inception from from the very birth from the conception when i see that everett took his whole life and all his experience wrapped it up wrapped it up into a program wrapped it up in a program to prevent young skilled men and women from going down the path that leads to destruction so we honor him we honor him any of the young men here today do i have any other any of the young men any other scholars any of the any other boss program give god praise for these young men come on everett chandler and noah in a few years they fifth and sixth graders it's the 10th grade fantastic he's going to be a neuroscientist he's going to be a brain surgeon brain surgeon he's going to be an actor he want to be an actor model i don't know what they're going to be but it's going to be something good oh we ought to celebrate these boys aren't on the street they're not getting shot on the corner they're not shooting somebody somewhere ah yeah this is wonderful amen and i thank god for him and it's offering time amen it's offering time i want you to get the best gift you can and and give us unto the lord and remember uh to the chagrin of many pastors and i don't it don't matter to me how they feel about what i do in this house the truth is if there's a choice between giving money in the church and paying your rent and covering them kids you know what to do amen the same god that you believe in is the same god that we believe in and we believe he'll help us to meet whatever situation we're in it's not that i'm defying biblical truth and tithing and giving i'm not doing that but we're in a pandemic situation that we're coming out of and economically many people are suffering because of the situation and circumstance that we found ourselves and we didn't bring this on ourselves this is just something that came that we had no power over but we have to navigate through it with the kind of wisdom that keeps us afloat i can't move everybody into my house uh amen uh you know we do the best we can to help the homeless situation but i'm telling you right now be wise be wise uh katrina i sent some more money now to uh louisiana the other day i sent some more money there and and i know dr belt had to send money down to his home in louisiana to well mississippi down somewhere close by because his family was in trouble and he had to send money and and all of us look out for those who were suffering and struggling but at the same time you have to be wise you got five children they need to be in the house and the preacher will tell you you got 700 your rent is a thousand you don't have it all so give the 700 to god preacher you must be you are hearing from god god don't gave me 700 all i need is 300. why should i go back to the situation where i need a whole thousand amen be wise don't get so happy you're watching the tv you get so happy you send all your money and then somebody's faith ain't working so well and you ain't getting it back or something i don't know what's going on raise your gift to heaven given from a cheerful heart you're not stressed father we thank you for every gift every giver bless every person in this house according to your riches in glory see us through work out the economics we thank you for that person who you opened the door gave him a job even though they had a record you still made a way what a testimony for an employer to look lord we thank you that you caused an employer to look at the record and declare that was 20 years ago we trust that you have changed and we thank you for that right now now just send that blessing to the whole house in jesus name amen and amen amen just um at this time we're asking everyone on the wings should please stand and please deposit your offering for those who are sitting in the center amen if you can please rise and bring your offering forth amen please receive the praise team [Music] jesus i give you the glory i give you the honor [Music] i give you the glory i give you the honor i give you the praise [Music] i give you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] come on let's hang it up from the top [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] let us pray heavenly father god we bring our substance our first fruit unto you god in the name of jesus we pray that you multiply this offering for the use of your kingdom god bless your people and we pray for our pastor god pour into him god as he pour into your people today god bless the touch of god strengthen his body strengthen his spirit man god and we thank you for your people today [Music] jesus amen [Music] come on [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes [Applause] [Music] i'll give you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] oh come on [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] my worship hmm [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey [Music] [Music] uh [Music] okay [Music] [Music] my god [Applause] [Applause] hey [Applause] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Applause] [Music] [Music] somebody came to praise him we thank god for dr katina foolish scott all the way from milwaukee being with us today katina fuller scott amen god bless [Music] we thank god i think it's uh kovita i believe it is a corridor hall blakely from north las vegas amen [Music] oh i see there of course bishop aj beech and dr tony davis film directors from irvine they're here with us today please god bless god bless glad to have you here and of course today we should wish happy birthday to bishop jeffrey west 62 years old today amen we honor god for him and uh he's brought some visitors from his ministry from brotherly love fellowship uh where are those precious people lovely people from brotherly love fellowship see this is what happened when we assemble god bless you glad to have you amen to your marvelous bishop to your great leader we thank god for his presence here and for so many years so we thank god for all of you that have come to be with us and and i think there's elder belinda nash there's elder james mac guilford uh where are these precious people and uh of course i think oh god bless you god bless you again and then then we have one of my friends is here uh pastor damon toliver where is damon amen and who did you bring with you please stand all the way from dallas texas and we honor god for them and we thank god now this is what happens when we're meeting in person we have to recognize and thank god for the people who have come from near and far you know connectors and assemblers when we're connecting we don't do this but when we're assembling uh then we have to do this of course it's in matthew's gospel chapter 4 and verse one through four and uh i must say that when i'm teaching i'm not thinking about anybody in particular i'm exegeting the text so i'm not uh you know if i have an agreement with you i will i will confront you amen i don't use the pulpit as a place to hide amen i will talk to you directly amen uh pulpit is not a place you hide behind when you want to uh stab or jab somebody amen that's not this is not the place this is a place of healing this is not i'm not trying to be a mugger here now i may attempt to be a surgeon both ways you're going to get cut but one way is to cut to heal the other is to cut to destroy and really and truly uh and understand this too whatever i preach hits me too i understand that because you have to examine yourself while you're preparing it to see whether or not you fall in the category of a need for repentance because of the way you behave and so please don't take it personal but don't take it personal so in matthew chapter 4 then was jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil and when he had fasted 40 days of course and 40 nights he was afterward and hungered and when the tempter came to him he said if thou be the son of god command that the stones be made bread it's an interesting dynamic that jesus fed five thousand fed four thousand but in response to satan he says it is written man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of god and here is this great savior who could feed five thousand and four thousand but would not feed himself because of the tempter's suggestion we spoke last week about the satan's favorite pastime and that is he likes and loves to divide today we want to move a little bit further into understanding the chicanery of the enemy he likes to play tricks and he is a master at introducing doubt one of the things that satan is a master in is making the subtle suggestions that bring doubt and notice now that jesus has experienced the marvelous revelatory move of the father and i should explain that when you deal with the father and you deal with the son and you deal with the holy spirit you deal with functionality of god it is functionality of god but it is still in essence god in the father god in the sun god in the holy ghost and it's one god one god essence that is in jesus in the father and in the holy spirit the essence but the revelatory function for the need of salvation gives him the function as father the function as son and the function as the holy spirit but the essence is the same which means then that if in the functionality of the holy ghost i have an experience with the holy ghost i have an experience with god the essence the functionality of the son i have an experience with god functionality of the father i have an experience with god interesting however in person what god has done is that the whole godhead father son and holy ghost is in jesus christ the person and it's very important to understand that god in his functionality is interacting in each place so when i talk about jesus as the son of god operating as as the son but dealing with the father he has had an experience that is remarkable because he was endowed with the power of the holy spirit as a symbol to john that the one who you see the spirit descending upon he is the one that i've sent you to proclaim remember now john has to proclaim jesus didn't intend for it to get this this john has to proclaim jesus but he has to identify who he must proclaim and the identification is when you see the dove descend and that happened in baptism so i could argue uh with the intellectuals and with the biblicists i could argue that the primary reason for john to baptize everybody was to find out who it was that the spirit would descend upon for him to know exactly who the person was that he tell had to extol and to worship and to praise and to preach who he sees so the experience is wonderful that jesus has and when the father began to speak this is my beloved son and declare that which tells me now that the greater the revelatory experience you have with god the greater the temptation you're going to have to face so for those of you who are moving into that place with god and looking for that next level with god you got to understand that every level has a test and you don't have first grade tests in college amen amen somebody's hollering i'm going through a lot well if you're going through a lot you must have a lot of power because you put no more on you than you're able to bear and if you're going through a lot it's because you have the capacity to handle a lot so please move from complaint to praise and praise him about your strength and understand that you're going to get through whatever is thrown at you particularly if the holy ghost led you into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil lord have mercy which means that after you've had this great testimony after you've jumped and shouted and called the devil all kind of names he says i'm gonna meet you round the corner so now he is he is going to introduce doubt and he's going to introduce doubt when jesus of course is hungry baptism now is in his memory and the move of the spirit is now in his memory it is not actually happening every minute i suggest to you that much of your experience is now in your memory and your memory banks aren't operating in an actual behavior situation right now it's your memory he is going to operate in your actual and we're going to see how powerful your memory is when he's introducing doubts i wonder if you understand what i'm saying there are many things in our memory about what god has done for us but in the middle of a satanic attack how often has your memory brought you deliverance i thought about that you're going to meditate on that now in my own life i have been under a gruesome attack of the enemy and in the middle of that attack somehow i lost my memory i want to talk to i want to see that you know you praised him for years and you rejoice for years and you testified for years and yet you find yourself in a situation where all of the years didn't seem to matter and it's like it's like being in a position where the battle and the furnace is so hot then it's so intense that somehow you can't you can't reach from memory this is why i'm very convinced that one of the greatest abilities to go forward in life is to know what to remember and what to forget haven't you had difficulties forgetting where you've been hurt no remembering where you've been hurt but forgetting where you've been blessed i want to talk to you now see see you all go hold out on me so let's have a conversation i want to bless my wife i want to bless you want to bless your husband but you don't have a lot of money you just have a little bit of money but thank god for layaway i don't think they do that anymore brother thank god for layaway so christmas is coming and uh january you decided that you wanted to get her a mink coat or something you know exorbitant and but you don't have the cash to walk up and buy but you uh you every month you you putting the letter every month you save a little you putting it there you putting it there here comes christmas you got the package you walk up to her or him and you lay out the package you say here oh man i saved all year for this a man quite a sacrifice everything i had i put in the layaway here is your gift oh baby thank you it's something i wanted and give you a big hug and uh 15 minutes later it's you know that's over you're riding in the car and she says something or he said something and without thinking you said something and uh you know your mother's too busy in our business or you say something and they get upset you didn't plan that whatever came out of your mouth that shouldn't come out of your mouth that you wish you could take back you didn't plan that but you planned and executed for a whole year to get a present now isn't it interesting that you executed a whole year to get a pla a present and the individual forgets that in a week but three years later they're telling you about something that you didn't plan to do i wish i had somebody to understand what i'm saying one of the greatest lessons in life is to have the capacity to know what to forget and what to remember because satan will attack you after years of having wonderful times with god and you forget that he delivered you yesterday he delivered you from referendum he delivered you as jehovah jireh he delivered you as jehovah niece he delivered you as jehovah macadis he delivered you as jehovah samuel he delivered you at jehovah's sycano he delivered you see a series of time and yet now you're in the middle of a test and you're about to throw your hands up because somehow you can't remember how he brought you out somebody ought to remember his goodness remember his grace remember how he brought me out remember how he anointed me in the middle of the test you ought to look the devil in the face and says satan you can't take this from me because i remember how he brought me out and he's gonna do it again i feel like shouting you sometimes the best counsel when somebody is in the middle of the rough this test is simply to say i remember when you were in a serious situation five years ago and look where you are now i remember so why are you going to capitulate give in to the enemy and act like god has never done anything for you i remember god speaking to israel in isaiah and here he says you know you know you know you you tough you know you tough when you don't have a third party to adjudicate a situation when it's just two of you and you're not calling another witness it's just both of you and when he says to you what more could i have done we're not asking somebody to make a judgment here i'm asking you to look at what i have done and i'm asking you to become a third person looking at yourself and decide what i have done what more could i have done he said i've done everything i have put you on the best soil i have given you the best husbandman treatment i have put the best vines in you i have stepped up and i have made a tower to guard and watch over my investment what more can i do now that you have turned your back on me and treat me like i'm a piece of trash when i've done everything to bring you where you are what more could i have done i don't need isaiah to say it i don't need ezekiel to say it i don't need jeremiah to say it i'm talking to you you judge how i've treated you and now you're gonna throw up your hands and act like i can't deliver i am a deliverer and all i'm doing is set you up now to deliver you again [Music] that's all i'm doing yeah it's in his memory baptism the heavens opening up then why not ask help of heaven as well as the dove spirit surely can make miracles possible so now do you have an assurance of who you are because you've got to know who you are because satan wants to cast a little doubt real simple if a son then will your heavenly father give you a stone when you ask him for bread that's what jesus said matthew chapter 7 verse 9. now jesus now is being tempted to go beyond baptism to go beyond the settling of a dove now she's being tempted to go to a deeper experience so these are the dynamics of jesus's first temptation the satanic voice is addressing disciples it's something like this to you and i for those of us who have just been so caught up with the spectacular how can you claim to be a child of god when you're struggling with big problems instead of being victorious over them why don't you just get rid of your problem since you're the son of god since you're so saved why don't you just get rid of your problem and turn these stones into bread if you do that then we will believe you have a strong relationship with god i ain't got to prove nothing to you [Applause] if thou be all you say you are come down from the cross why are you hanging up on the cross with two thieves on both sides of you and you are the son of god you know i was riding i was riding my my you know i was just riding low wheeling and i rolled by i rolled by golgotha and i looked up and i saw three men there two i saw they're from cnn and one in the middle is from tbn the one in the middle claims he's the son of god i heard him on tv again but the other two [Music] we realized on cnn that they were nothing but criminals how is it possible that i can have tbn faith and end up between two criminals according to what we're taught today that should never happen that you being so much a child of god and end up between two thieves all of you in the same situation how many times have your situation married mirrored rather the situations of others how many times have you been told as doubt is being inserted into your mind i thought you would say you would have given your money to church and you can't even get a call i thought you know the law how many times have you had death in your family like everybody else how many times have you had to suffer financial difficulty like everybody else how many times have you had to cry like everybody else and go through like everybody else and hear the whispering of satanic forces i thought you would say immediately question your relationship with god three of them on the cross might i say one man died in sin one man on the other side died from sin and the one in the middle died for sin and they were all in the same situation you gotta know who you are when you're in a situation with somebody else oh i feel like shouting on this yeah we're in the same situation but i still know my relationship so we get caught up in the spectacular because we got to prove something you can't just normally walk with the lord in everyday life because the saints want to see demons cast out amen people want to see you know you know power in the church i want to go to church where there's power where demons cast out well you're laying on of hands somebody find hebrews chapter six for me very quickly hebrews chapter six i'm digressing a little bit here uh you know i'm digressing but i think the ancillary approach will help make the point all right hit me hebrews chapter six go ahead and i'm gonna say like we used to do in the old time uh therefore therefore leaving therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of christ let us go on to maturity or to perfection in the greek there is maturity so now we're doing two things now we're leaving and we're going forward anybody who progresses in anything has to learn how to leave but you don't leave and stand still because you can leave and don't go nowhere amen if i'm leaving you honey i got somewhere to go and i leave until i have somewhere to go excuse me i had to work with you some of you already got exit plans well i don't know why she's still there honey she got a plan you better throw yet up in there she ain't leaving yet but she working a plan she ain't leaving walking out the house i'm leaving and then you see her sitting in the garden she's sitting in a garage she didn't laugh and she in the garage oh i wish i could i wish i could talk to grown folk let me tell you this since i'm on there since i'm so far out do you know how many people have left but they're not gone what did you say what are we leaving not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works we're going to leave that and what's the next one and faith towards god which should be a given by now the doctrine of baptism which we fight every day and of the laying on of hands he's asking us to move from the rudiments and get mature and part of what he's telling us to walk away from to get mature is the sensational laying on of hands you're trying to get me to come back to laying on of hands brother prophet when god has brought me to a place of maturity where i just take that for granted that ain't nothing special what is special is that me walking with god without anything spectacular without any special money without any special anointing and walking with god through my pain through my death of my brother through the death of my sister death of my mother through my operations walking with god and if he's healing me heal him if he don't heal let me heal him but my relationship is not going to change you steady trying to pull me back to show how powerful you are [Applause] jesus does not answer to if thou be he ain't answering to if thou be it's either you know or you don't know but you're not gonna have me running around trying to answer how sanctified and holy i am by proving to you anything i wish somebody'd understand that we don't live in this house together as saints with one another trying to prove to each other every day that i'm close to god and wearing it on your sleeve the devil is a liar you need to walk with god in the solitude of your own tranquility and the serenity of your own understanding that i am a child of god if i'm broke i'm a child of god in a one-room house i'm a child of god in a mansion i'm a child of god in a rolls-royce i don't have to buy anything to prove to you [Music] i'm almost finished the devil will let christians be satisfied with christ the church other christians and themselves only when all these are visibly transformed clearly miraculous radiant obviously making it men and women gotta be a globe the issue is clear sharp and clear either we believe the voice of baptism either we believe the move of the holy spirit the anointing on your life you are the son of god or are you listening for another voice it's either you believe god has spoken to you and if god has spoken to you why do you need another voice i get in trouble a lot because of transparency you ain't got to whisper and ask somebody about the bishop ask me i'll tell you and i can't i'm like oh refrigerator anyway i saw the bishop with some wine did he drink wine ask me one thing i've understood about transparency is transparency indicates that you're comfortable in your own skin amen i'm sitting out with somebody way back in longview texas early in my ministry and i'm sitting with somebody oh i went shopping today and i bought six suits now i know he didn't buy no six soaps so i asked him afterward why did you have to say you bought six suits because somebody on the other side of the table said they bought two not comfortable with who they are and people when you're not comfortable with who you are you either are showy boastful i have to go tit-for-tat you went to neiman i got to go to sax not comfortably jesus was comfortable in his own understanding of who he is and he brings each one of us into that place where i don't have to compete with you i just want to be the best that i can be and wherever that puts me on the map i'm willing to be there on the map i don't have to compete with you i don't have to out-talk you i'll dress you i'll drive you outlive you out-house you out anything [Music] i feel like shouting here i'm gonna spend one sleepless night trying to figure out how i can out-best you come on sisters if the man ain't looking at you he ain't looking at you you ain't got to out best out talk out somebody else if the woman ain't looking at you man just go about your business you ain't got to out anything you ain't got to get out it's anywhere can i preach like i feel it why should you try to get in somewhere where you don't belong amen and let somebody reject you i keep telling you rejection is direction hurry up and reject me so i can find out where i need to be become the relationship with god should bring you to a place of comfort the pharisees were showing off so you are the son of god when you can prove it by signs but what if god did not give you that gift what if the holy spirit didn't anoint you that way then how are you going to do the sign if the holy spirit didn't anoint you that way amen relax accept wherever god has placed you i i went to job and the book of job is the book to read for this temptation because when you get to job's 42 chapters would make an excellent meditation for the 40 days of lent and beware all the arguments from signs miracles and transformations it is not transformed that proves the truth it is simple truth in the sacred word of truth that you have to trust that usually has to be lived out untransformed in that daily plotting through trust in god's word and that in itself is great transformation why i'm living and i'm praising god and glorifying god and he has not miraculously healed my brother and my sister is calling and we're dealing with things like like medical wills medical wills and to be on the phone and looking at him facetime and praying with everybody who's concerned about healing which god can do the leper says to the lord he's modest but he's confident he says i know you can heal me he puts it this way if thou wilt thou canst make me whole. if thou will okay so here's what he's saying if i don't get healed it's not because you can't i wish somebody'd understand this it's not because you can't it's because it's not your will and when i walk with you closely enough i will accept yes i will accept no i will accept not now because it's the same faith that gets you healed is the same faith that accepts you not being healed [Applause] so what what what kind of conclusion can i come to based on that premise that is jesus says just ask ask seek and know all he says is ask and then when you pray and you say in the name of jesus you just gave him the authority to do whatever he chooses to do on your behalf walking with him when he doesn't change anything that's the power that's the maturity leaving going on to maturity so jesus responded very simply and i'm coming to a close it is in writing it is written a human being will not live by bread alone but by single word everywhere that comes pouring out of god's mouth what is it that gives you confidence as a child of god what is it that gives you the understanding of who you are the word which means that i'm never alone when i have the word why the word became flesh the word is god in the beginning was and the word was with god and the word was god and by verse 14 and the word became flesh so when i have the word i have jesus i wish you'd understand it when i have the word i've got god in me so i'm not alone say that i'm alone physically but i'm not alone spiritually and when you attack my relationship with god you're attacking a spiritual relationship with god i ain't got to prove anything on the outside because i know who i am on the inside his spirit testified with my spirit that i am i am a child of god so jesus what he does now he quotes deuteronomy 8 and 3. and then he starts wheeling ephesians 6 and 17. he takes up the sword of the spirit which is the word of god you cannot trip up a word-filled individual you can do all the tricks you want but you can't mess up a word-filled individual a word filled individual will look past all of your miracle actions and be able to tell whether it's god or amen amen i'm going to digress again i'm going to digress again i had a very interesting sound real jamaican there interesting interesting conversation with my sunday prep group elders and pastors and i received a question and the question was asked me bishop can an individual fall from grace and i've been i've heard it all of my my life falling from grace what is grace unmerited faith how do you fall from unmerited favor alma alma was out fishing in montana so i hit him up i say how are we gonna fall from grace uh bishop bishop said if you married it then you can unmerit it but if you don't marry it in the first place you sure cannot unmerit it i wish somebody'd help me here how are you gonna fall from what you didn't achieve amen now let me take it further if i can fall from grace then obviously i got in and then i fell which means that there has to be a level of unmerited favor that's greater than the other level and it's got to get so great until it cripples grace but paul settled that argument when he says where sin does abound grace death much more about you cannot out sin god's grace so now the smart people said so shall we continue in sin that grace may abound and the answer is how can you continue in sin if you are dead to it one of the reasons satan can whisper to us and cause us to doubt our relationship with god it's because of the mistakes we make on our way to maturity i would like you to understand this nobody comes into the kingdom and jump from natural to spiritual without going through carnal should i say that again nobody is born again and immediately upon being born again they become spiritual with no difficulties no sin along the way getting over the sin that so easily be said which is yours he said to the corinthians you were caught yet carnal still babes in christ you're born into this thing you're not fully grown into it and so he whispers you don't have a relationship with god because you don't mess up with that man you don't mess up with that woman you ain't got no relationship and then here come the judgment if you will say amen how many of us have got out of relationships and doing this pandemic thought about who could deliver you from it financially you got saved but you didn't throw that rolodex away you still got some numbers you can remember amen and i know when it came down to lockup and you were everybody's going to lock up i know some people gave some consideration to who they need to be locked up with amen praise god you were locked up with who you married some people are having trouble with that lockup people got cursed out behind that lockup can't leave it's when you have those challenges i wish i could talk to the saints it's when you have challenges of your own lust your own lust of the eyes left of the flesh and the pride of life it's when you have those challenges satan likes to come in and say you need to show us something else to prove you're a child of god but when you have the word in you the word the word helps you to forgive yourself it's the word that helps you to recover yourself if you didn't have the word you couldn't recover yourself [Music] it's the word that brings you back to god it's a word that says come boldly to the throne of grace in the time of need combolin look at somebody and say you got to be a person of scripture so the temptations entailed to drill truth into the church's mind and as i conclude ministry is christian in the measure that it is ruled by scripture that's it we have too many presenters who are not biblicists you take them and put them in the bible they lost i have never seen so many people just walking around talking and the lord's going to give you a double for your trouble and you're going to get it all back and then and just walk around talking took a scripture any followed it ain't dealt with it ain't built on it ain't done nothing with it just walking around talking ministry is christian in the measure that it is ruled by scripture so we learn from jesus opening sentence in that jesus obeys the spirit given him in baptism not by obeying spiritual voices or heeding supernatural visions or by other special revelations go back home with your dream you ain't got no time to be preaching dreams i'm closing i had a dream one night i'm serious i had a dream i was still in texas and somehow i was out here in california and after having ridden to the council with two of my brothers from longview all the way to san antonio anybody know texas you know that's a good ride from east texas boundary all the way to san antonio and it was storming and just was just a horrible kind of a situation and my wife had given me some uh potato salad and so i was eating that on the way got down to san antonio went to sleep and i had a dream i had a dream i looked over to the pacific and the water was coming in about a mile high tsunami and the lord said to me go get a corn dog so i went over to the mexican brother who was selling corn dogs i said let me have one of them corn dogs he looked over at the water and said you can have all of these corn though church i put that corn dog between my legs like this and that wave took me to phoenix arizona now please don't ask me what did that mean in the spirit christian it's based only on the word of god and you can get all this excitement you want out of all these extra things but at the end of the day you have to know that you know that you are a child of god i'll pick the rest of it the next time but if you're in this building and you're not born again if you've been broken if you've been broken in church and if you've been hurt by church folk i'm telling you ignore it and come to jesus my hope is built [Music] on nothing less than jesus love and righteousness i dare not presence [Music] on jesus sciences [Music] [Music] on christmas [Music] is [Music] one more time [Music] is [Music] [Applause] to those who are watching online the lord is speaking to your spirit right now and he's talking to your heart and the central power of our lives is jesus christ i don't care where you were last night i don't care what you were into if in your heart you're being moved right now then i want you to pick up the phone get that phone in your hand right now go to a private place in the house go out in the yard and call the number that's on your screen [Music] please call that number eight four four [Music] two six seven seven seven two nine call that number right now eight four four two [Music] six seven [Music] seven seven two nine and the lord will move on your behalf people are waiting with with baited breath [Music] to be able to pray with you and to talk with you hundreds have called every month join that number and reach out to the lord father we come in jesus name we thank you for your word we thank you for the clarity that you have given us in the revelatory optics of your word and we pray now lord that for those who have been discouraged for those who have been broken that you will reinstate in their spirits the fact that you have always been and will always be their god and i pray god that somehow we take this onus off us and as you said through peter cast all your cares upon him [Music] because you care for us and i claim that now in jesus name amen and amen before we go before we go i do have a correction last week i think i was preaching or teaching and i said something about paul cast all your cares upon him before he cared but it was peter it was peter who said that and i want to thank god for the person who sent me that an email to correct me and i said i would come and correct it today because accuracy is critical when it comes dealing with the word of god so it was peter not paul now i have looked at the boss program and i would like everybody who can participate in this very positive action for our boys and we can't do the teaching we don't sit with the boys we don't spend a lot of time with them all of us aren't participating in terms of instruction but we all can participate with a gift that will continue this program on a level of excellence that only money can do so i'm not participating with a lot of my time you're not probably ever going to be in one of the sessions but we all can participate with giving a gift so i want you to get a gift in your hand commensurate to where you are financially on the level of your financial capacity i want you to get a gift on that level and i'm going to add to that gift in fact i won't get too happy to say what i'm going to do when i count all this gift up but if you bring a gift for a very practical a very real and necessary adventure then certainly the church will augment supplement corroboree whatever word you choose come on my brothers god bless you come on my brothers my sisters people with sons people with daughters who were skilled just a gift according to what your capacity is i ain't calling for no 100 no no give according to your capacity this is operating in our church my hope is built on nothing live then jesus righteousness i shall not trust the sweet refrain but hopefully on jesus name on christ [Music] thinking [Music] amen as you giving your gift we want to thank god for sister janine white amen for coming to be with us on this morning before you leave south by solomon corner amen to get the brunch special off today amen don't forget to register for the education department classes don't forget to sign by the ministry table in the lobby amen god bless you look to see everyone next sunday god bless you you

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