Bishop Wooden Preaches // "I Have Set My Face Like a Flint"

[Music] i'ma preach from this subject subject I have set my face like a flint father bless us now as we preach the word of the Lord God blessed us to preach it with clarity and precision save the soul that's never sailed touch that dad touch that mom touch that son touch that daughter in Jesus name Amen therefore have I set my face like a flint by the way of introduction the word Flint and the Hebrew word is Kalama SH is a mind rock Flint a mind rock known for its hardness Flint rock Flint Flint is used in a simile in the Cayden hardness fairness and resolve everybody say Flint you know I remember we used to discover these Flint arrowheads stones at Indians shape to make Emeril's made them out of out of Flint a man so the Flint is a crypto crystalline [Music] sedimentary crystal crystalline in that tiny crystals hardened together make this material that we call sleep a man set my face like a flint means to be courageous to be firm and resolved to accomplish a certain thing in spite of scorn and hatred that may be heaped upon you when you set your face like a flint you decide that come what may no matter what no excuses that even if it costs your life you're going to do that thing set your face like flint means you anticipate push back you anticipate having to swim upstream a man people who set their face like flint they're not people who are not afraid because for there to be courage fear has to be present for a person to be courageous you you're not courageous if there's no danger if there's no possibility that things can go wrong there's no chance that you may be humiliated then there is no courage praise alone for for for it to to work you got to know from the onset that somebody is going to oppose me somebody will have something to say about this if I open my mouth at work and I speak up I know if before I do it that it may cost me a promotion it may cost me ostracism it may cost me my employment and yet you decide to do it regardless that act is setting your face like a flint prays alone you know that hatred is coming you know or they're going to say something they're gonna blow me up online you know call me everything but a child of God they may but I'm going to say it anyhow I'm gonna do what is right regardless to what they say most people don't have that quality most people are politicians most people are very calculating they acts is it safe they acts what's in it for me they acts is it advantageous God's servant asked is it right praising all if it's right the child of God moves forward with it in our text the suffering servant and I'm going to talk to you about his identity and identities in just a moment said I have set my face like a flint my question to you is have we set our face like a flint especially when it comes to serving the God of the Bible so you can set your face like a flint to do this applies to anything you can set your face like a flint and decide you're gonna murder someone you could set your face like a flint and decide that you're going to leave your husband or leave your wife or cheat on them or steal money or whatever you set your mind to do knowing that danger lies here the context of our text is though is that the servant decided that come what may that they were going to do what the Lord said do and so that is my challenge of a room and those who are streaming today in this day and time where you really gotta choose I keep bringing it up God gave me a word of prophecy some 10 maybe 20 years ago I said that that would come a divide in the body of Christ not in the between the world and the church there's already one there but in the body of Christ the Bible believing Christians and the non-viable believing Christians if there is such a thing but for the sake of this discussion now we know you can't be a non Bible believing Christian but there are many Christians who don't believe the Bible there are many Christians who today believe parts of the Bible they believe the parts that they like and then the part that they don't like they readily just unexplainably dismissed its the times in which we live but I prophesied that there will come a day where there would come a divide between the Christians who would believe the Bible and the Christians who wouldn't and who would assure in this divide would be the world because the world is demanding as never before that we make a choice the world is saying to us either you are with us are you against us if you are with us we can put your own television we can promote you we can do all kinds of things for you if you're with us but if you're against us we're going to label you we're going to ostracise you we're going to criticize you we will seek to marginalize you we will make you appear to be a kook appear to be crazy appear to be judgmental in that the word that so thrown around so much now everybody calls us judgmental and one of the buzz phrases of the days in which we live now one of the more popular phrases is don't judge me don't judge me don't judge me no matter what I do don't judge me and then there are people who have said you know I'm an individual who do not judge anyone on anything well let me tell you something the decision not to judge is a judgment it is a judgment that you ever rendered you have determined you must be God you have determined that that that that you should have no discernment that there should be no distinctions between actions and thoughts and things that are right and that are wrong so therefore no matter what people do you have no thought no opinion you come to no conclusion you have nothing you in your mind one act is the same as another now you know you can't really live like that because some of the things that we have no judgment I don't I don't judge adulterers I don't judge what if that's what they want to do and that's what they want it ain't my business you don't judge them until your spouse cheats on you then all of a sudden it's wrong there is of an opinion now see you don't I don't judge these people perhaps they stole because they were hungry I don't maybe they hijacked that car because they needed a ride until you walk out one day on your way to work and your car is gone all of a sudden you have an opinion on it you don't judge pedophiles you understand pedophiles till your child come on and say mommy the teacher or the preacher or the priest or the instructor touched me mommy where they touch you mommy touching me down there all of a sudden now you have an opinion on oh yeah so really to be honest with you you can't live without being discerning you can't live without judging the Bible says judge not lest ye be judged for the same judgment you meat shall be meted out to you again that is make sure when you passing judgment that you ain't doing the same thing so let me move on from this I want you to hear me today my son-in-law said something that I think will stay with me perhaps for the rest of my life and I mentioned it on more than one occasion and I'll probably mention it some more we lost the customer a few weeks ago at our school we have a premier preschool unless the numbers have changed we have the largest preschool in this area preschool have five stars highest ratings we do good business praise the Lord often congratulated evangelist tomandcheu cool under great job she's done with the school a Muslim couple brought their child to our school because of the curriculum because of the success of the school and by the way blesses me that when we had our school and we went up to the 12th grade before we sold it it blessed me now you can look in the inner feelings in certain professional areas in the country and I see alumni of our school I said lord I thank you that we had a hand in that person's success but he was going to put out his child in our school and they wanted to wait through the weekend and make a decision the daddy of the child looked me up online and when he looked me up online he looked up he looked at the positions I take when I preach and he called back and said we will not be putting our child in your school for will Muslims and your pastor believes that Jesus Christ is the only God and that the God of the Bible is the only God and so we don't want our child in that environment because he said there's no way that they're not gonna tell a child that I'm proud of that the the comment I'm proud of that I praise the Lord for that that is a matter the comment that my son-in-law made was he said upon hearing the story he said conviction recognizes conviction conviction recognizes conviction most Muslims in America are accustomed to Christians who have conviction most people aren't accustomed to Christians who have convictions most Christians today many do not have convictions we have convictions or anything we we our only conviction seems to be to be liked to be accepted to be politically correct but conviction recognizes conviction and I want to say to you people may not agree with your conviction your convictions people may not like your convictions but I tell you what people will respect you for your convictions a man and at the end of the day is more important to be respected there is to be liked praise the Lord that that man may never darken the door of this church he may never put their child in our school but that man respects me because here's what he knows he know that I know that he believed that the only God there is is Allah and he knows that I know that where he goes and worship that's all they say is that Allah is the old there is no other god but Allah well I know now that he knows that there is a Christian preacher across town who believes that the God of the Bible is the only God that there is praise the Lord and just as he has his conviction I have mine praise Allah matter of fact if you read the writings of Ezekiel chapter 3 and verse 8 the Bible says behold I have made look at this I have made thy face strong against their faces and their foreheads strong against their forehead and as adamant as a diamond harder than flint have I made their forehead feel them not neither be dismayed at their looks though they be a rebellious house that is I have made you to have conviction and to take your convictions and take your head and clash with theirs they have theirs but you have yours the true Christian is not called to tower oh my - just be afraid and to go along to get along but the Christian is called to stand up - stand up to stand up for what is right yes yes and if you read Ezekiel a chapter number 3 you will see where God tells Ezekiel he gives him the word of the Lord and he gives it to him and the words are written on both sides of the paper of the peppers and he's told to eat the whole roll now chapter 2 tells us that the word is filled with lamentations it's filled with mourning and it's filled with woe that's the last Clause of chapter 2 and the last verse of chapter 2 because Israel was rebellious and he says preach to them but when Ezekiel ate the word the Bible tells us in verse 3 the last clause that - Ezekiel even though that word was a word filled with wool lamentation correction and rebuke for the wicked Ezekiel said when he ate it that it was like honey and sweet to his taste see I wonder today how many believers still find the word to be sweet or have the word of the world calls you to view God's Word as being bitter do you now see the Bible as being in the way have you've now become a Christian like some of those other Christians who say let's just keep the scriptures out of no no for the believer the Scriptures are sweet to our tastes Bible says your word is sweeter than the honey and the honeycomb my concern is that there are too many believers who also call who no longer find the Word of God the statutes of God the standards of God the corrections of God the walls of God sweet and if you got a preacher who's preaching it and it's not sweet to him it most certainly won't be sweet it most certainly won't be effective to those who have come to hear him sometimes the preacher who loves the Word of God is mistaken as being arrogant I've had that charge they mistake confidence and conviction with arrogance and headedness no we're not arrogant but we are confident we do believe that the Bible is the Word of God therefore we have set our face lightly I'm preaching I'm preaching we're living in a time saints where the believers can no longer hear me now hear me I'll be done in just a few minutes I won't preach your three o'clock the believers can no longer be vasa leaders believers can't alternate between different opinions believers can't be indecisive the world is not gonna allow indecisiveness indecisiveness is good is gobbling up our children vacillations are destroying our marriages destroying our homes destroying our country acting like we don't know what right is and what wrong is I remember one time Oprah introduced she asks a question on her show that was a shot fired around the world she said what is normal as though there is no such thing I said that's the devil praise the Lord there is such a thing as normal you've known what normal is all your life and all of a sudden not a devil want to convince you that nothing is normal which is designed to confuse us and look at what we've gone since the the breakdown the degeneration since those questions have been introduced we got men walking around thinking that they're women women walking around thinking like that they're men they many times not when you look at the genders it is indistinguishable when the Bible is clear that be there upon a glance upon a glance first Corinthians chapter 7 that upon a glance you're supposed to be able to discern 1st Corinthians chapter 7 chapter 11 so forth in the Bible you're supposed to be able to discern between the sexes and yet now in a day where men look like women and women look like men and we all sit around and pretend like that is normal that is dark thinking that it's dark thinking that is wrong that is wrong it's it's not it doesn't come from a healthy mind the leading man at John Hopkins leading man who used to perform all of the transgenders operations quit quit and roll and I paid a role that we should not encourage this he said because the people are sick and said in time they change their minds but much of this surgery is irreversible and he quit and and and as long as he was performing the surgery the media and the world applauded him when he then said you can't do this no more he became a piranha we can't vacillate jesus asked the question of the multitude he said when you went out to hear John the Baptist preached he said in Matthew 11 in verse 7 what did you go out for to him he said did you go out to hear a reed shaken in the wind a vacillating preacher a preacher who goes to back and forth a preacher who was afraid to make a stand a preacher who constantly changes his position a preacher who was uncertain or a preacher who apologizes for God's truth he said what did you go out to hear John was not a vasa leader John was a preacher it was a man of God who said what he meant and meant what he said who spoke for the Lord Saints we must set our fee like our text today is a heart-to-heart conversation that the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob the god of their forefathers the God who created a race well first of all create the human race but then after creating the human race after Genesis chapter 11 we find him beginning to work to create another race the Hebrews he reached over into ur of the chaldeans and found a heathen brown-skinned heathen serving the god of the Babylonians living in a place called the cradle of civilization Mesopotamia man didn't know God you know what God did he appeared to he let God see he let this man see a vision of him and when he saw the Lord it changed him forever he didn't have a Bible he didn't have a priest there was no ten commandments there was no Moses there was no law there was nothing but he heard a voice and saw a vision of God Bible said the Lord had appeared unto you and told him as a lad of a boy leave your father's house and go to a land that I will show you and the boy's name was April when the time was right God changed his name and called him Abraham and then told him so I'm gonna make a race you're going to be the father of many nations and through you shall all the nations of the earth be blessed and said the sign that will distinguish you from the rest of the world is not color he said you won't be that one is black and the others white they were all brown over there he said it will be the distinguishing mark would be two things number one it would be circumcision you will circumcise every male on the eighth day that is born and then the other thing that would distinguish you from the rest of the world would be your lifestyle I'll give you a diet of what you can eat I'll show you how to live and I want to use you God Almighty to win the world so the God of the Bible is having a heart-to-heart talk with Israel are you with me and the point of the talk because you see the people didn't live up to what God called them to do Israel fail but God is still going to work his plane but at this point they they were upset with God and they blame the Lord for their calamities and the point of Isaiah chapter 15 verse 1 and down is God telling them I'm not the cause of your natural national calamity I'm not the reason why you've gone into bondage I'm not the reason why your economics collapsed jobs fail and you went into bondage with the counties I'm not why this happened it's not that I didn't keep my word he points out that the culprit for your national fall is your sin God often gets the blame for the consequences of sin we blame him we mess up we disobey we break the law we act a fool the consequences of that bad action comes then we blame God for the consequence there God you didn't do me right but we did it remember this about sin sin carries the seed of its own destruction the Bible says this it's worth noting here in numbers 32 in verse 23 the very last Clause says be sure your sin will find you out that is be sure your sins will catch up to you so come out while that's time if God is giving you grace stop thank the Lord that you didn't get caught thank God that it didn't go south but if you're standing be sure your sins will catch up to you and when they catch up to you or once that happens you cannot reverse that it's it's it's it's out of control when it catches up to you so he says in our text thus saith the Lord where is the Bill of your mother's divorced they had accused the Lord of divorcing Israel praise the Lord in ancient Israel a husband had the exclusive power to hand an unfaithful wife a writ of divorcement upon that document she had no way to appeal she had no recourse she was I the faithful in Israel were concerned that God had divorced the nation they were concerned that their calamities had come because God had divorced them and not here that God had divorced Israel in general but the southern kingdom in particular because if you read my chapter 3 for you Bible students out there and verse 8 it says Jeremiah three and eight it says and I saw when for all the causes why by backslidden Israel committed adultery that is they begin to serve other gods I had to put her away and give her a bill of divorcement yet her treacherous sister Judah feared not but went and played the harlot God did divorce the Northern Kingdom and they went into bondage to Assyria the southern kingdom got in trouble and went into bondage with the Babylonians but even though God put away the southern kingdom God did not give tsiyon which is Jerusalem a bill of divorce and Jerusalem here is called the mother Sian is described as the mother of all of God's people so he says well thus saith the Lord where is the Bill of your mother that is show me the bill where I divorced Zion he said because I never divorced Zion see Zion remain precious in the sight of the Lord even when the exiles were in Babylon Zion was still precious Psalms 137 follow me if you will this is good stuff it says by the rivers of Babylon there we sat down he says yea we wept when we remembered Zion we hung our hops on the Willows in the midst that there were that is while we were in bondage we we put our hops on the Shelf we couldn't even play music anymore for they for there they cry they carried us away captive they that carried us away captive required of us a song they said and they wished and they that wasted us required Murr saying sing us one of those Zion songs said the babylonians who carried us away and who locked us up they then expected us to be happy and they said sing us a science song and they said how shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land then they said this if I forget thee O Jerusalem let my right hand forget its cunning let my right hand lose the ability its ability if I do not remember thee let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy you see science stayed special in the eyes of God and this is good news because the good news here of Isaiah 50 is that if there is no divorce papers then Zion despite her situation is not divorced and if Sian is not divorced then Zion still has the legal right to expect God praise the Lord to do right by her for if Zion is still God's wife if you will then the wife the married wife has more legal authority than any woman in a man's life the married wife has more legal authority than your mother the married wife has more legal authority if your wicked enough and wrong enough to have a mistress the married wife has more legal authority than she does and Zion gods married wife even though she were in I'm preaching good a strange land Oh do you hear me today and then if you go to Isaiah chapter 57 chapter 52 excuse me yes I'm trying to keep the plane on the ground he says look at what he says in Chapter 52 about Zion awake awake put on thy strength old Simon put on that beautiful garment get dressed up o Jerusalem Jerusalem is where giant is the holy city for his fourth thou shalt no more come unto thee the uncircumcised that talk about the Babylonians and the unclean says shake thyself from the dust arise and sit down Oh Jerusalem loose ourselves from the bands of the neck o captive daughter of Zion for thus saith the Lord ye have sold yourselves for know and you shall be redeemed without money you didn't get anything for serving these false God but the law says I'm gonna redeem you without money for thus saith the Lord God my people went down a 4-time to Egypt to sojourn there and the Assyrians oppressed them without clothes that is they ended up in Egypt Egyptian bondage the Assyrians oppressed them without cause now therefore what have I here save the Lord that my people is taken away from now they that rule over them take them to hell oh and the Lord how safe the Lord and my name continually every day is blaspheme those people are putting my people under a severe bondage and keeping them in a slavery and mistreating that therefore my people shall know my name therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doesn't speak behold it is I they said this how beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of them that bring good tidings that publish peace that bringeth good tidings of good that publish salvation that says unto Zion thy God reigneth you see God is saying Zion I'm still connected to you praise the Lord and I'm going to to bring you out and then he says in first one he also asks well the creditors because the charge was that since God was in debt to some Gentile nation he had to offer up sian but the God of the Bible wanted him and know that he has no creditors God don't know anybody anything if anything we owe him he says I didn't sell you I didn't sell you and I didn't divorce you he said let me tell you what got you in trouble your sins he said your transgressions that's what puts you away it was your sins and he asked him in verse two he says when I came he says why when I came was there no man why is it when I sent my preachers to preach to you before you fail why is it when I sent them to prophesy to you when I sent prophets to warn you why didn't you obey me he says and when I call why wasn't there any to answer God's action that question today to all of us says I'm calling on you I'm calling to you why don't you answer me why don't you get right while while you still have a chance why why come to church and hear the word of God and still walk away and say I'm not going to do right that's why let the doors closed on you I warned you saying wasn't my will for you to end up in Babylon but you wouldn't hear me I wonder how old do you have to be how many mistakes do you have to make how many failures must you go through how much time must you waste before you tell God yes what does it take what does it take how many times does he have to reach out to you and reach up for you before you will say yes Lord I will serve you let me preach a little faster here God says I I came to you I reached out and then he asked this question he says well perhaps the reason y'all didn't answer me Oh i'ma hit you now he says perhaps the reason you didn't answer me was that you felt that my hands was shortened maybe the reason you didn't get saved is because you feel like becoming a Christian we're getting your way maybe the reason you ain't said yes to the Lord yet and give your heart to God as the Bible says is because you feel like if you do what's right by God you will lose out I'm here to tell you Christianity is a blessing you won't lose out if you serve the Lord you don't lose out if you don't God said well maybe all thought that I was weak maybe you think that that clubbing and being in the game and runnin the streets and smoking and drinking and running women and and doing all these things it's better God says I want you to know that I'm not weak he's I have power he says half-hour no power to deliver then he gave us an example of his power he said behold at my rebuke the Seas dried up God rebuked the red sea and the waters divided oh he's so powerful God says and I rebuke the waters dried the Seas dried up the rivers dried up the fish began to stink because there was no water they died of thirst he says I clothed the heavens with blackness that is I sent a swarm of locusts and those locusts were so black that's so thick - they covered the sky he says that with my word he says and I make sack cloth their coverings sack cloth was a rough cloth a rough cloth that irritated the skin it was it was used for mourning God says I put you in sackcloth I'm so he has power so I'm here to say to you today praise the Lord if your own defense please get saved please serve the Lord if for no other reason suffering because it's the best move you can make man don't stay out there don't stay out there don't stay out there in sin don't hang out there with your friends'll don't let this thing pass you by dad you need to become a Christian you need to let your sons and your daughters see you praying mom you need to become a Christian praise the Lord you need to do it today young brother young sister don't put this thing off you're wasting time every day that you resist you move further and further away from the Lord God says I have power to deliver as a as a matter of personal testimony the best move I ever made in my life that took place in November December the 20th 1977 nothing compares with when I gave Jesus my heart some laughed some thought it was funny some thought that it wouldn't last long but without that decision I wouldn't be where I am today praise the Lord without saying yes to Jesus as a little poor black boy living oh my dad my mama right there we didn't have much but we had sense enough to say yes to the Lord and telling God yes changed everything change everything I'm so glad that I said yes to the God who have power to deliver Oh God who have power to rebuke sees good God Almighty and I heard him say in verse 4 verse 4 verse 5 verse 7 and verse 9 in these verses you see a phrase that if we can grab hold to it and really trust it it would it will change the way we view life from now and the phrase that's in verse 4 verse 5 verse 7 and verse 9 is a name as a title you find the words Lord God how you see it in verse 4 you see it in verse 5 see it in verse 7 and you see it in verse 9 Lord God Jehovah a donor Lord God it means sovereign God it means God who's in charge it means God who's in full control he is the Lord God thank you Jesus it means that God is is in control at all times in every situation that means no matter what you're going through God is right there hallelujah it means that he controls Nations he controls the earth and so what if you're going through a little place just look up and say Lord God I know you know what you are doing I may not know what you're doing I may not understand I may not think it's fair but one thing I know is that you are the Lord God you are the sovereign God you rule in super rule and if it's raining in my life you allowed the rain and if the sun is shining you allowed the sunshine mmm and if my friends have turned that back on me you allowed that too and you still got me in your hands that's why I had to sing just a little bit of all in his hands I put it all this questions all of my problems good God Almighty he's able just solve them all and I want to say to somebody who's listening to the sound of my voice that no matter where you are right now no matter what's going on in your life if you're saved and sanctified just reach up and grab hold to the Lord God because the devil can do no more than God alive the devil can cross the line that God have drawn and when the Lord say that you've suffered enough we serve a god that after that you have suffered a while he made you perfect strengthen and saddle you when is he gonna bring me out preacher I'm glad you asked he's gonna bring you out oh he's gonna bring you out you can't find it on your watch you can't find it on the calendar but there is a time [Music] [Music] [Music] just throw your hands up and shout Lord God he said love the Lord guards have given me the tongue of the learn the word learned literally means student the word learned me student or listener God has made me a student word learned means disciple the Lord have given me the tone of the learn he's made me his student who's the one who made me his student my teacher is the Lord God himself and who is me that notice what he says the Lord God have given me the tongue of the learn the me in the text represents several things number one verse four and down the verse nine it becomes a messianic in his prophecy because it's talking about among other things Jesus Christ the Saviour when Jesus showed up on the scene his teacher was nude then God himself God the Father taught Jesus Christ notice this the same nation that spurned Jehovah in the Old Testament in the same nation that spurned Jesus in the New Testament here comes Jesus being the true disciple taught by God himself but the Bible says he came to his own and his own received him not but to as many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God and also this passage represents the prophets the preachers the teachers that God raised up to preach to the exiles while they were in Babylon that were preachers that God raised up to tell them serve him with gladness go through your suffering because the Lord God is still in control he gave me the tongue of the learn notice this that I might know how to speak a word in season now the student becomes the teacher for the tone the one who's given the tongue of the learner is given that knowledge that he might speak a word to him that is weary we got to know how to encourage each other to get each other through you got to let dog teach you and then when you see your brothers and sisters going through them the hold on [Applause] [Applause] [Music] season well praise and praise and places I'm almost through preaching is that love God giving me a word to him that is weary when did he give it to me he wakens me every morning morning by morning he wakens me and he speaks into my ear we got to learn to cultivate the discipline of listening to God every morning don't you know that those homeless nameless exiles we're glad to hear somebody tell them while they were going through that's seventy years that everything is gonna be all right just serve Him and it'll be all right that's fine refers only to Jesus Christ but only Jesus can say of a truth the Lord God have opened my ear and I was not rebellious neither turned or weighed my back only Jesus Jesus is the only one who can say in John 8 and 29 the last clause he said ah for I do always those things that please him Jesus please the father all the time every way the rest of us are depending on God to give us strength to do what is right and then in verse 6 if you read Matthew's Gospel chapter 26 and verse 20 and 67 26 and 67 27 and 26 18 and 20 to read it when you get home you'll see references to them blindfolding Jesus slap in Jesus hitting Jesus spitting on Jesus this prophecy was father Lord and in lets us know that we might have to suffer a few things ourselves thank you Jesus but good God the servant relied in verse 7 on the Lord want you to follow me here he says for the Lord God will help me thank you Jesus he said I'm not leaning my own strength I'm not leaning on power but God the Lord God the sovereign God he's gonna help me I wanna tell somebody that the Lord he's gonna help you don't you feel helpless don't feel alone don't be afraid but you just tell Jesus tell them all about it tell him about your troubles tell him how you feel tell him about your fears feel happier why many witnesses here who know that he is these are happy that he's evil way make up have you ever been down and felt like you were down for the count family father yes he did yes he did so since the love from clothes here yes and since I know something about God I know this to be true because I've grown up against a lot of them newspapers news outlets misrepresentations and media note from the White House say we're watching you all kinds of things preachers plotting against us I can name them I can go down the list I can talk about things I've been titled criticize rebukes and school talked about sure as you're born but I'm glad that I can say like the man said in verse seven the first Clause he said the Lord God will help me Willy the second clause he said therefore I shall not be confounded through it all mother the Lord has never let me be humiliated the Lord have never let me be put to shame do I have any people in here who can say through it all the Lord have never let the devil make a fool out of me the Lord ever never let me be made a shame but through it all no matter what looking back on your life you can see that the Lord have always been there the Lord have always come through they were waiting for you to lose your house but the Lord came through they were waiting for you to follow your face but the Lord came through they were waiting for your lights to be turned off but the Lord came through and then when the lights got turned off God didn't let them know that the lights walls the Lord came through while they were saying she's down for the count the Lord came through in it good to know that you serve a God who won't let you be humiliated he won't let you be made a shame he'll hold you up won't he do it won't he do it haven't he done it let me get it before he'll do it again yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] absent can't you ever have seen I've seen the Lightning flashing and I've heard the Thunder rule breakers dashing trying to conquer my soul but I had the farce of Jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] he was fine oh that's right I know that's right I know that's right [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] ah since the law has been that since the law never let me be humiliated I'm determined to go on I'll keep going to the clinic I'm gonna keep yelling the truth I'm gonna keep standing on the word I'm gonna keep slamming the devil I'm gonna keep casting Devils out I'm gonna keep living holy I'm gonna keep but I'm gonna keep on I'm gonna run on to see what they in it's gonna be why are you so determined because he's his track record is indicative of his future performance you can tell what God will do based on what God has done Jesus trusted the Father yes he did and the father never let Jesus down somebody said well he musta he let Jesus die you know I'm killing I'm saying why you would say that but always you say that is that you don't know why Jesus came Jesus came today [Applause] [Music] see now that was the purpose of his he was born he's the only one you know people say we were born to die no we're not we are born to live until we die Jesus was born for God so loved the world that He gave His only begun sir he's the only one who was born and when he died according to Luke's Gospel chapter 9 and verse 31 it wasn't an event that just happened Luke tells us that when he died that it was an accomplishment see see what happens is we sang songs that we all know Jeff thought he had him it may seem like Saturday night but son is on his way and death toll degree and grave and death was talking so do you still have Jesus I still got it that it would happen the make the main thing that Satan did not want Jesus to do was to get to the cross when you study you see instances on how they tried to take him and try to firstly try to get him with bribery they tried to make him King before the time so I will make you King right nicer no no no no no ain't the way I'm gonna be made y'all can't vote me in I got the die Stan when Satan saw that he couldn't he couldn't get him to be bribed the devil then tried to kill him before he got to the cross oh my when Jesus got to the cross it was an accomplishment and in that same chapter in the Book of Luke if you also read chapter 9 and verse 51 you will see that Jesus said now it's time for me to go decrease it I got to go down and the Bible says and he set his face straight toward us right there's time for me to duck down BAM he's oh he did he said his Flame face like it's time for us to set our face this is who we are this is what we do we're holiness we're saved sanctified and filled with the Holy Ghost we believe in biblical Christianity we believe this stuff this is who we are this is what we do and we are not going to vacillate we're not going to go back and forth we're not wandering we're not doubting about the way but instead our heart is fixed mind is made up to do what the Lord says do I want to pray I want to pray for those who will say pastor I won't set my face like I'm I want to come in all the way praise the Lord tough altar call today god bless you sir I won't come in all the way it won't set in my face this is who I am praise the Lord the enemy trying to put doubt in my mind but the devil is a liar praise the Lord it's why I met my church yeah we they call a controversy I don't know why we don't say anything but what's in the Bible amen unless the Bible is controversial and if that's the case then so be it glory to God glory to God but I set my face like a flint I am a Christian wife and I will talk about it this morning I want to give too much away but we we we considered years ago this is what we do we're in this this is what we do we we're in the church the church is our life this is what we do with a pool in the same direction because this is what we got we do you can't be in the church you can't marry nobody you can't get nowhere you in and he's out he's and she's out one of you sold out the other don't know no that's a formula for disaster I told her I said there's a lot of things that I've taken a lot of blows I've taken but I could take and carry on but the one thing that would have would have made it almost impossible for me would have been had if I was out there fighting the good fight a fight of faith then got to come home to somebody who don't know if they won't even be saved and I come home to a vacillating wife not sure whether or not she believed wholeness is right good God Almighty I'm getting ready to pray when I once I stopped praying on by the ship up here yeah you mean you can't you can't you can't slip you had to come but preacher I don't want nobody to think that some things been on my mind you'd be surprised at how few people think stuff like that lap time you've got time to figure out what you in the front line for mou-chan I remember the first time I heard that legenda they're playing right now how's that the temple on Sunday morning might have been able to turn on somebody and I had Nick hadn't occurred to me that's why temple staying my mind cuz I heard concepts ideas rationalizations that I'd never heard before in man I've never heard anybody I didn't hear anybody talk about Christianity say my heart is my heart is fixed well children my heart it's fixed then I said to myself you know what I think I can do that that was David and then I found out there's in the pilot what David said my heart is fixed oh god my heart is fixed I just thought it was a song then ran across the scripture David said that was a man no I can do it all I got to do just make up my mind my heart is pitch [Music] [Music] well the rest of my day let's pray [Music] it ain't about an altar first of all who need to be saved raise your hand will lead you to Christ all right now I can pray because everybody now beware - step over that line and say to God as was preached in the sermon I'm going all the way all the way with Jesus all the way with him I'm going I'm going I'm going I'm going whatever whatever the resistance is you just have to be just have to be there just have to be whoever don't like it just did you just don't like it whoever got something to say about it I hope people have their mouth fault let them talk but I'm going all the way father we come before you right now well for mine and with a heart to sit face no more vacillating no more back and forth no more in this sigh sickness no more indecision no more double mindedness no more no more no more we put our faith in you we can't do it on our own strengths as was brought out but with your help we can do this Lord in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus Nonna's lord to go all the way anoint me Lord to give up look at this to give up God says surrender what you've been holding back surrender surrender that thing surrender that desire surrender that individual surrender that craving whatever it is surrender that fear surrender surrender just tell the Lord on the altar I give it up long I'll give it to you I give it to you I give it to you give it to you I give it to you I'm moving forward I'm moving forward in the things of God I'm taking advantage of this day I'm taking advantage of it I'm taking advantage of it I'm taking advantage of it I'm taking advantage of it taking advantage of it I'm taking advantage of this you've been there for me all my life you've been there for me all of my days hallelujah Jesus Lord with the time I have remaining I want to be there for you because you've been there for me in the neck i bobl son in the name of Jesus those who are streaming set your face like a flint make up your minds make up your mind to go all the way don't be betwixt and between hallelujah Jesus said it another way he said launch out into the deep launch out into the deep o God we receive it now somebody get the oil we receive it right now in the name of Jesus Oh God in the name of Jesus in the name in the name in the name of Jesus all the way long oh my see whoa my Savior hallelujah regardless regardless regardless regardless yay God in the name of Jesus I'm launching out I'm launching out I'm launching out I'm launching out I'm launching out I'm launching launching out in the name of Jesus your mighty God a true God going all the way it's a woman of God going all the way young man for Jesus Oh God launching out lift your hands to him not you're not going all the way Lord in the name of Jesus all the way for the Lord let go of what needs to be let let go on let it go let it go in the name of Jesus oh god I'm launching out for you Saviour for you my lord launching launching launching launching in the name of Jesus Oh God for your glory touch this man Lord do it in his life do it in his life touch this lady do it in her life long in the name of Jesus Oh God let everybody worship Him right now [Music] [Music] father I received all the way in you garmiskar [Music] in the name of [Music] [Music] Gover to God [Music] right as you stand there in the name of Jesus somebody oughta praise God with him right now young man said I want to be what the Lord would have me to be I want my strength back hallelujah Jesus can I get a few folks to praise the Lord yes Jesus yes Jesus yes Jesus yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes God want to know are you desperate for me you've got to reach out to him you got to reach out to him in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus but that's it bro to keep calling on him keep calling on him keep calling on him you got to come after him with the same vigor with the same strength with the same that you walked away even if you disobey with strength gonna come back with shrimp UK run away and then kill back but you got to run back just like you ran away you got to run I'll load your Lord I want you Jesus I won't get Jesus you I won't your Norton I want your power I want your presence I don't want the devil I don't want the world I won't Jesus I will Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus yes Lord yes Lord yes Lord somebody praising somebody praising somebody praising somebody praising [Music] keepo keepo keepo keepo keepo he's my god he's my god I got to have this I got to have it I got to have it I got to have it I got to have Jesus I got to have Jesus I won't Jesus I won't Jesus I wanna be saying I wanna be old that should have me to be I give up my pride I give up my airs I give it up lord I give it up laws I don't care I don't care what nobody think I just won't Jesus I just won't choose I just won't Jesus saying you can't have me sayin you can't have me I won't Jesus I won't Jesus I wanna be real wanna be saved hold it be holy I set my face like flint I don't care what the people think I don't care what the girls say I don't care what the gasps oh Jesus Jesus I want Jesus I want him for myself I wouldn't remember Seth I don't want him from my mother I don't want him from my father but I want him for myself yeah yellow yellow yellow oh Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] hallelujah let the Lord have his way let the Lord have his way let the Lord have his way Lord have his way let the Lord have his way I let the Lord have his way oh Jesus Oh [Music] [Music] [Music] hallelujah line the glue at the abortion clinic yesterday when they called on me a lot Michiko said Bishop I'm gonna call on you to pray the Holy Ghost says I I don't know if I'm supposed to say it with an M or in in Neesha the Lord said Carla so I said I'm gonna start singing I'm gonna give you the mic and you take us to town now beginning to sing the song coming darling that says these words hallelujah then the glory hallelujah [Music] revive [Music] [Music] ha [Music] free cream [Music] [Music] ha [Music] I [Music] Oh okay [Music] I so we get stance so we get semana and be strong [Music] [Applause] [Music] love the along the Sun of that [Music] next thing we know people started driving away from that clinic power how many have set their face like flint today [Music] you can go your way sister Brown one of our members sister Kay Brown her nephew was in a car accident the son a son Oh God we pray for him we pray that your turn in we pray that you let that boy live we pray for a miracle in Jesus name Amen I gotta get in touch with if the word bless you today hallelujah moving our school moving a home moving our families move in a church lovely [Music] you [Music] you [Music]

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Published: Tue Oct 01 2019