Caution, Word at Work | Pastor Marvin A. Jackson | ROLCC

is hallelujah i'll sing and i'll dance is is forever i give to you is my treasures is and i'll stay right here oh oh is oh my next yes [Music] so [Music] bless the lord bless the lord people of god come on stand to your feet this morning come on let's bless god this morning this is a great day a wonderful day to lift up the name of the lord hallelujah this day that he has made this day that he has created before the foundations of the earth this single day that he woke you up that he chose you to get up he chose you to have breath in your body so i dare you to just lift your breath praise the lord this morning what a mighty god we serve he's been so good to us he's been so faithful he's so righteous god we love you we adore you we lift you up heavenly father god take your rest take your place in this atmosphere create create your place father god i thank you lift him up hallelujah [Music] god is so good he's so good he's so good he's so good he's so good he's so good he's so good he's so good lord we desire you to club god rise up holy spirit let us decrease that you have your way have your word in this place god [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] come on i think we ready i think you're ready hallelujah all the way to us for you lord come on put your hands together [Music] say everybody just clap your hands come on is these are the days of elijah declaring the word of the lord and these are the days of serving moses righteousness being restored come on come on these are the days [Music] is oh yeah come on and these are the days of the service these are the days [Music] is is he's a great deliverer he's a great guy oh is [Music] come on let's make that declaration there's no god no one can touch me like you no one can [Music] the great i am [Music] crazy just clap your hands [Music] [Music] you want jehovah there is oh thank you there's oh [Music] is [Music] is boys [Music] is [Music] [Music] it's is it's a year salvation salvation comes if you're here today and you're glad to be saved lift your voice on come on come on wherever you are wherever you are abundantly [Music] god jesus oh we honor your name god because you are worthy [Music] come on let's just stay in the presence of god right now the song writer said lift your voice the enemy want to shut up some people but god in the midst of your trials in the midst of your situations but god he is worthy to be praised on let's worship it yeah yes [Music] [Music] [Music] for all the things you've done for me [Music] father received [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] for me for all of the things you've done for me [Music] all of mine [Music] received [Music] is receive my words of jesus is [Music] all of my words my soul to you jesus [Music] [Music] see i will not i will always [Music] i am breathing [Music] no no [Music] [Music] jesus [Music] as [Music] [Music] always worse if you are [Music] make it yeah today [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes [Music] yes [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] is [Music] jesus [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] just the music somebody [Music] [Music] oh yes [Music] [Music] [Music] you deserve it you deserve it you deserve it you deserve it no matter what i'm going through god [Music] say [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] come on [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] hallelujah glory be to god come on this morning make a joyful noise unto the lord all ye laugh how many of you are here to serve the lord with gladness can you say this i was glad when they said unto me let us go into the house of the lord oh magnify the lord hallelujah for i will bless the lord at all times and his praises they shall continually be in my mouth one of the songs that they were singing there's a part when they get to lyrics that always make me kind of teary when i hear those lyrics and it says as long as i am breathing i will always worship you as long as i have breath in my body i'm gonna lift my hands i'm gonna magnify the lord because i know that there is a day that's coming for everyone in this building when we will not be able to lift our hands when we will not be able to sing the songs of zion but while i'm cold and while i'm in my right mind i refuse to let what's happening in my life i refuse to let my circumstance or my situation dictate my praise unto almighty god i know what david meant when he said i will bless the lord at all times after my children have risen against me after my kingdom has been taken away after my body has been laid low i will bless the lord at all times and his praises they shall continually be in my mouth so i declare and decree oh god as long as you give me breath my praise will not go to anyone else but you for you have done great things for us and we are glad you have delivered us from the hand of our enemies you've raised us up and you've given us eternal life you've given us an eternal hope you've given us beauty for ashes and a garment of praise for a spirit of heaviness you've turned our mourning into dancing and i hear your words saying and for your shame you shall receive double at the hands of the lord you've been our waymaker you've been the promised keeper you've been the god that opened doors that no man can close you've been the god that closed some doors that no man can open you've been the god that's been ordering our steps all the days of our lives you made a way out of nowhere oh god and we are eternally grateful you are the god who keeps us you are the god who protects us you are the god who provides for us you are a god of deliverance and we thank you for that this morning truly your word is true when it says that in you we live and in you we move and in you we have our very being and from the rising of the sun until the going down of the same your name is worthy to be praised and so god we will open our mouths and we will declare your goodness we will declare that you are a keeping god we will declare that you are a god of impossibilities because the question is asked in the scripture is there anything too hard for god and god our hope and our faith tells us that no matter what today may bring there is always a tomorrow and even things that don't feel right you are so much god you said all things i'll make everything your heartache your heartbreak your tears your disappointments your calamities your catastrophes you said i will make all things work together for good because we love you and we're called according to your purpose god thank you for calling us according to your purpose because it is your eternal call that call to glory that call to virtue that keeps us getting up time and time again after life has knocked us down from what to one degree or another we keep getting up because it is your spirit that lives on the inside of us this morning god we want to thank you for amazing grace songwriter said a long time amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me i once was lost but now i'm found was blind but now i see because god we've discovered that in our weakest moment your grace is sufficient you're saving grace you're healing grace you're restoring grace you're keeping grace god we thank you for your grace we thank you o god this morning because you are a merciful god you have not given us what we've deserved but god you've looked beyond all of our faults our misgivings you've looked oh god beyond a gossiping mouth and an unforgiving heart and you've looked beyond all of that and you've addressed us at the point of our needs and god i want to say thank you because you didn't wait until we loved you before you loved us the bible says that while we were yet sinners you commended your love towards us and that christ died for the ungodly jesus i want to say thank you for taking my place on an old rugged cross [Music] because god i never would have hung there for myself but you loved me enough to take my place and the bible says that god the father made you who knew no sin to take on my sin and he took your righteousness and he placed your righteousness on me and so i can stand this morning with full faith and full confidence and declare there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in christ jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit god i want to thank you for my inheritance because your word declares that we are sons and daughters we are a part of a chosen generation a holy nation a royal priesthood i want to thank you for that god and i thank you for the future that no man can take away because we have a future in you oh god and one day don't know when don't know where but one day our hope is that this mortal body will put on immortality and one day we will lay down our corruptable cells and and we will take on incorruption and the word of god declares it's going to be just like somebody blinked their eye and so shall we ever be with you oh god but while we're here we're going to lift our hands we're going to magnify your name and we're going to glorify you in all that we say and do we thank you father and all of god's children said with a loud happy and hilarious voice amen and amen if you can agree with that prayer i want you to put your hands together come on and let's give god praise let's make a joyful noise unto the god of our salvation let's let him know that he is god all by himself oh magnify oh magnify if you're going to shout about anything shout about the god of your salvation declare his mighty works make his great name known about the heathen for you are god and you are god alone hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah can y'all say that you are god alone can y'all say that come on let's worship this little bit [Music] you are god alone don't come out of your spirit of praise still lift your hands [Music] stay in that place of worship stay in that place of praise [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you are [Music] my god [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] who you are [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] somebody [Music] hallelujah hallelujah love the lord and let me tell you something there's a song that says my hallelujah i think it goes like this because y'all know i'll make up a song my hallelujah belongs to my hallelujah belongs to you lord somebody shout hallelujah let's shout like he really is your lord hallelujah you may be seated praise the lord this morning i may not be praising the lord like i used to there's nothing wrong they changed my medication and i'm kind of tired this morning but he still got my praise when i got out of bed this morning amen praise be unto the lord just let's lift me up in prayer as they get this right hallelujah all right right now we want to welcome our first time guest if this is your first time by the river i ask that you please lift your hands so i can see you praise the lord y'all give them a hand i give them a loving welcome we're so glad that you're here we know that you could have gone anyplace else this morning but god sent you by the river because i want you to know that everywhere the river flows there is life in these waters amen all right i ask that you please go by the information desk and pick up your gift that we have set aside for you uh they have a form that you can complete we just want to send you a thank you letter we're not we're not going to put you on a mailing list we just want to give you another thank you for coming by the river this morning for those of you that are watching via um social media whether it's youtube or our facebook we want to welcome you this morning if you this is your first time thank you for tuning in we know that you're going to be blessed if you're tuning in from out of the city or if this is your first time or out of state please please in the comment section and let us know where you're watching from again we thank you for uh tuning in we thank you for coming and may god's richest and best be yours alrighty for those of you that are celebrating your birthday whether you are a member or not if this is the month that you're celebrating your birthday i ask that you please we want you to stand stand right now you got to be like a jack-in-the-box just pop right on up because you never know who's going to bless you if i was you i just turned around so everybody can see me because you don't know who god's going to put on their uh on their lips that bless you this morning on behalf of our pastor and the river of life christian center family we wish you a happy birthday and may god continue be blessing you with many many more prosperous years not just years but prosperous years with that said happy birthday happy birthday to you [Music] thank you thank you thank you um let me see what my next message is okay regarding mass pastor has given us dictated to us that we if you um it's master not mandatory as of today you can remove your mask if you would like and nobody will jack you up all right but we are asking it is uh not mandatory but we are strongly encouraging it amen so it's not mandatory but strongly encouraging we also want to uh ask that you please maintain social distance and please use wash your hands and use our sanitizer stations that we have placed in our different uh spaces out front amen all right so again you won't be jacked up if you take it off because last week you would have been jacked up all right i want to thank everyone that has given to the river of life have sown into our lives and also those that get up early in the morning that keeps the river flowing because there's some people that get up early in the morning our volunteers our department leaders we want to say thank you and we appreciate everything that you do because the river would not flow without you and it makes it very comfortable for us as members to come in and they've taken care of business before you got here so give them another amen amen i just want to again reinforce what pastor deborah just said thank you guys for the for supporting the work of the ministry especially the outreach that we do through television i want to share with you a testimony um that happened at publix a couple of days ago um we i think we did we come from golfing that day we were in publix and this big guy big white guy he came up to me and he said hey pastor he said i watch you every morning he said thank you so much and he said there is something that you shared that just really really touched my life that i'll always remember now i thought that he was going to give a scripture or something like that but this is what he said he said that day when you said i was sipping on my gin and juice i'm thinking this brother's gonna say something like really really deep or a scriptural thing you know and he and he said he said unfortunately he said that's where i am right now and let me tell you what why that it kind of messed with me a little bit because with this covert thing we can't pray for people we can't touch people in the store and that's one of the the worst things about um this virus is that it keeps us from touching but i just prayed for him after after i met him and then this is what i want to share with you never be ashamed of your story my story my story is not like your story and your story is not like my story and as every successful story has a few chapters of failure in it in order to make it a story and one of the reasons i share with people where i've been and and the falls and and things like that is because there's somebody that's in that place right now and thank you for helping us reach thousands hundreds of thousands of people letting them know you can get back up i don't care where you are in life god can raise you up he can turn you around listen he can rewrite your story he is the author and he is the finisher of our faith and he made a promise he said i will perfect those things that concern you so thank you for partnering with us and helping us reach the unreachable and send a word of hope to those that are in hopeless situations praise the lord praise the lord one of the reasons i like the broadcast and i go back and listen to it because let me tell you something you think you hear everything most of y'all don't even remember if the announcements were played today trust me i know tell me how i know because i've asked celia over there did they play the announcement because i had my mind on something else [Music] there's nobody in this room could tell tell me exactly what has to preach the whole thing that's why i go back and i listen to and i thank god for the broadcast because i try to go back during the week and i try to go back after service and and listen to the broadcast there's always something i missed every time you read the word of god i don't care how many times you go through the word of god you're going to miss something and god's going to give you some revelation that he didn't give you the time you went through it so keep reading the bible keep studying keep listening to the word yes i know you heard it today but go back and listen to it that's going to show you something about you and something about the word that you didn't know even though you heard it amen give our volunteers our members and all of those that um sow into this ministry that makes everything possible thank you thank you thank you that's why we pray for you every day amen those of you that don't are unable to pray with us at 12 noon monday through saturday pray for every member lost souls and even those in your family praise the lord all right that's all i have for you you can go ahead and roll our video announcements roll them hello i'm solemn nerdine we welcome you to the river of life christian center and virtual church we are so excited you chose to worship with us today these are your river of life announcements for this week be sure to visit our website rolcc.tv forward 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thursday at 7 pm in the event that you are unable to attend our sunday service please join us as we stream live on our website facebook or rolcc on youtube don't forget to pray for every member of the river of life lost souls and especially those that are in your family in the event that you have missed any portion of these announcements or have any questions you can call the church office at 407-835-8833 or go by our website and view them in its entirety at rolcc.tv forward slash events and click on view announcements i'm selim naradine and remember the lord has a word just for you and you can find it right here at the river of life [Music] it is time now to worship the lord with our financial gifts and contributions some of you may be wondering um why do we clap why do we applaud during this time the bible says that as every man purposes in his own heart so let him give not grudgingly of necessity but what kind of giver does god love a cheerful a happy and a hilarious giver knowing this that he's able to make all grace abound towards you so that you will always have sufficiency to give into every good work what does that mean knowing that he is able to make all grace abound towards you so that you will always have sufficiency to give into every good work now i want to share a testimony with you this morning and please don't misconstrue the intent of my testimony um years ago when god first called me into ministry he told me something he said marvin he said practical principles will always produce praise when you can extract principles from the bible and show them to people in a way that they can actually go and do those things make the word work they'll come back for more okay a couple of weeks ago i was just wasting time on social media and while i was wasting time on social media i came acro across a post where a person was asking for recommendations you know how people ask for recommendations for plumbing or whatever the case may be and this person asked for a recommendation where they could find used tires for their car and that bothered me because i'm like nobody should have to drive around on used car tires and and so i said deborah i said uh i want to help this person see you have to understand biblical principles work when you work then the bible says there will always be seed time and harvest sowing and reaping summer and heat and i said bro i want to help them and so um i contacted them and i said um i want you to go to a tire shop and first of all i said how many tires do you need because i want to know how far my grades had to go and and they needed four four car tires and so i said i want you to go uh to the shop find out how much the tires cost and then have the tire shop call me when they're done and uh and we'll take care of it what good is money if you're not gonna help somebody what what what good is being blessed if you're not gonna be be a blessing in the land to somebody else god does not bless us to impress others he blesses us so that we can be a blessing to others and uh and so they went and got the tires and the guy called me and whatnot and and i gave him via mountain and took care of that this morning i came into the office and someone had sent us a personal offering of 2 500 and now what i'm trying to tell you is [Applause] you can say what you want about sowing and reaping you can believe what you want about sewing and reaping but in the baptist church a long time ago we used to sing this song you can't beat god's giving no matter how you try the more you give the more he gives to you and and then it says this just keep on living and you'll find it's oh yeah look he knows that thing too so you can't beat god's giving so what am i what am i trying to encourage you to do have a generous spirit if it is within your ability to help somebody else why don't you help somebody else along the way if it's within your ability to put a smile on somebody's face during the day why don't you put a smile on somebody's face if it's within your financial ability to help someone get a tank of gas or whatever the case may be why don't you go ahead and go that extra mile and i'm here to tell you the bible says he that lendeth to the poor you lend to the lord and the lord will surely repay you father we thank you now for this this this moment of worship this moment of sacrifice this moment of honor this moment of releasing our faith because god who is like you [Music] the bible says that we are your people and we are the sheep of your pasture it's you that has made us and not we ourselves so isn't it perfectly suitable for the creature to honor the creator and that's what we're getting ready to do god we thank you for whatever you blessed our lives with great our small we just want to say thank you and as we honor you today with our sacrificial gifts as we say thank you with our sacrificial gifts father we pray that you would be pleased with the sacrificial giving that's about to take place because god we believe that if you get involved in our financial situations we'll see you do exceeding abundantly above all that we could ever ask or think and so we thank you for this moment father i am praying that this church would always be a generous church it would be a giving church it would be a church that reaches out to supply the needs of those that are lost those that are hurting those that are less fortunate i pray that that would always be a spirit that's upon this church because god when we honor you through sacrificial giving you will make sure that we always have enough we thank you for that now you're a god of faith and you said we have to walk by faith we have to live by faith and without faith it's impossible to please you and so by faith we open our mouths and we make a bold declaration today come on let's say it i'm out of debt my needs are met and i have plenty more to put in store encourage someone that's an earshot tell them you're out of debt corporately now as a church body we're out of debt our needs are met and we have plenty more to how many of you know that god can do that for you [Music] hallelujah [Music] i want you to think about all the great things that god has in store for you all the things that are on the way even all the things that he has already done can we praise him right now for his greatness for his goodness for his word that will not return for everything that he speaks he will finish hallelujah [Music] is [Music] hallelujah [Music] foreign [Music] me [Music] [Music] that is something to celebrate this morning everybody lift it up [Music] yes i am expecting great things for hallelujah [Music] [Music] oh yes i am [Music] me [Music] [Music] me [Music] is [Applause] [Music] he's doing great things doing great things [Music] [Applause] [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Music] shut it off [Music] [Applause] [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] can we sing it [Music] can you think about the area where you need something great to happen god i don't know what you're gonna do but i know it's gonna be great because you are a great god you are almighty you are wonderful and it pleases you to bless us and to see us blessed one more time one more time i'm expecting great things oh yes i am [Music] in every area of my life [Music] hallelujah thank you jesus thing about believing god for great things they somehow find or think that that's sacrilegious you shouldn't expect great things but there was a time when the disciples witnessed jesus doing a certain miracle and he said to them he said oh this excites you he said don't be he said because greater works than these shall you do so you shall expect or you should expect great things to happen in your life you should expect god to show up in great ways in your life never let the devil get to a point in your life where he stops you from expecting god to do great things and guess what he can do great things through you god can take the most common things and do ask me how i know i looked in the mirror this morning alrighty let's get into the word this morning y'all ready for the word hallelujah uh there is a word from the lord but i did not expect the holy spirit to take me the way that that he took me this morning in my devotional we're still going to be talking about um the word at work and so with that being said let's go ahead we're going to pray we're going to have our morning confession and then we're going to get into another installment of the word at work in our lives father god we just want to say thank you god we got to say thank you because it is your blessing it is your mercy it is your grace that has allowed us to be here today father i say that and i say that from the sincerity and from the bottom of my heart because there was someone that was sitting on the front row last sunday that was here worshiping us and now they've gone on to receive their eternal reward they didn't make it back for another worship experience and so god i do not take this day i do not take this moment i do not take this opportunity to speak your word to your people for granted god i've got to say thank you because no one here has warranted your goodness no one here deserves your mercy you're just a good god and you're a good god even in the worst of times and we just say thank you spirit of god we pray that you would just move upon our hearts today give us ears to hear a mind to understand but most importantly father give us a heart that's able to receive the full impact and impartation that you desire to make because god everything that you do in our life it begins in our hearts and that's why the bible says that we have to be diligent we have to keep our heart with all diligence david said it this way he said lord create within me a clean heart and renew a right spirit not a wrong spirit but a right spirit within me and so god we want to stand before you as vessels that are clean vessels that are pure vessels that that you are able to pour into so that we can not only be blessed but that we can be a blessing to other people we pray o god today that you would allow revelation knowledge to flow freely in this place unhindered are uninterrupted by any satanic or demonic force father the only reason that i'm still here standing today is because before the earth began you had a meeting up in heaven and you decided some things about my life before i ever knew my name as a matter of fact you told the prophet jeremiah you said before i even formed you before you were even a thought in your parents mind before i formed you in the belly i already had a plan i already had a purpose i've already set you aside to do a particular thing and so my prayer is always god is the thing that you saw that you planned and that you purposed that you would do with my life before i was ever placed in my mother's womb i pray that this day it would be seen in the presence of your people and in so doing that your name alone would receive all the glory all the honor and all the praise i pray o god that by your grace you would allow me to speak words that empower encourage and equip that we might be everything you said we should be do everything that you said that we should do take possession of everything that you said we should possess we thank you father and by faith in that wonderful name that's above every other name by faith in the name of jesus we believe that we have received everything we just asked for and all of god's people said amen and amen please take your bibles or whatever devices you may have lift them up and repeat after me this is my bible i am what it says i am i have what it says i have and i can do everything that it says i can do i am a believer i'm not a doubter i am a doer and not just a hearer this is the word of faith for my life faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of god and i shall be all the better after having heard god's word do you really believe that amen and amen all right what we're about to do is i'm going to go ahead stand with me please as we give honor and reverence to the word of god i'm going to read into your hearing our foundational text that we begin with to launch this teaching on the worded work but i'm going to add another scripture to it that's going to shed some light on where the spirit of god is uh is taking me today now this is supposed to be uh pastors appreciation month uh i can share with you i can pretty would kind of confidently say that that after you hear the word today some people are not going to appreciate me some people may even leave i know my box my mailbox is going to be full of stuff but let god be true and let every man be a liar so let's go ahead and stand and engage the word of god are you ready the word of god says for as the rain comes down and the snow from heaven and do not return there but water the earth and make it to bring forth and bud that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater in other words god's word is designed to cause transformative change to happen in your life and he says in the next verse so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth it shall not return to me void say that again it shall not return to me void but it shall accomplish what i please and it shall prosper in the thing for which i sent it the next verse says for you shall go out with joy and be let out with peace the mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing before you and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands amen and amen instead of the thorn shall come up the cypress tree and instead of the briar shall come up the myrtle tree and it shall be to the lord for a name for an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off now before we take a look at the next passage that we're going to add to our foundational text we see there that the word of god is designed to produce some type of positive again transformational change in our lives he said it will not return unto me void but it shall prosper in the thing where unto i sent it well here's the question that we have to ask if that's the case why isn't the word doing what god said it was supposed to do and herein lies the answer to the question matthew chapter 13 jesus teaches the parable in matthew chapter 13 about the seed and the soil amen the seed is the incorruptible word of god and he teaches the lesson about the seed in the soil and within this parable you will find out why the word of god is not doing what it's supposed to do how many of you have heard second chronicles 7 and 14 repeated to you sometime in your life if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray turn from their wicked ways seek my face then will i hear from heaven and heal the land can you agree that our land is in trouble right now okay then apparently something is not right apparently because god is not talking to people that aren't his people he's talking to church folk bible toading tongue talking fire baptized believers my people he said if my people he said will humble themselves that means we've still got some pride issues we have to deal with he said not only if they will humble themselves he said seek my face apparently we're seeking something else other than the face of god and then he said turn from their wicked ways this lets me know that there are wicked people in the body of christ and we've got to lay down our wickedness he said if we'll do those things he said i will hear you he said and my response will be there will be a healing in the land but the land is not healed it's all found right here now let's keep going on the same day jesus went out of the house and he sat by the sea and a great multitudes were gathered together to him so that he got into a boat and sat and the whole multitude stood on the shore and he spoke many things to them in parables saying behold a sower went out to sow and as he sowed some seed fell by the wayside and the birds came and devoured them some fell on stony places where they did not have much earth and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth but when the sun was up they were scorched and because they had no root they withered away and some fell among thorns and the thorns sprang up and and choked them but others fell on good ground and yielded a crop some a hundredfold some sixtyfold some thirty he who has ears to hear let him hear you may be seated he who has ears to hear let him hear now last week i was very transparent as we talked about the transformative power of the word of god and we share some key scriptures that are very familiar to those of you who are church folk we talked about the bible says thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my pathway order my steps in your word let no iniquity have dominion over me the entrance of thy word gives light we looked at another scripture wherewith all shall a young man cleanse his ways by attending to the word of god we talked about the power of god's word to bring order out of chaos because the original state of the earth was in chaos when god shows up and god began to speak and the writer in hebrew said something very powerful about the word of god he said this he said through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of god so the things that are seen were not made with things that do appear do you know there is another scripture in the bible that says this that he upholdeth all things with the word of his power you see the sun rose because god spoke a word a long time ago and and if jesus doesn't come today it will set because he spoke a word grass will become dormant in a few months because god has spoken a word over his creation and if we're here when spring comes even the grass will obey the word of god roosters don't crow because the sun rises roosters crow because god has put crowing in them you see and so that's why everything is upheld by the the word of god is a very powerful thing jesus said this he said my words are spirit and they are life and we talked about the importance of understanding what he said because we are spiritual creatures and because we are spiritual creatures there should be a desire in every truly born again believer to to to to feast upon spiritual food that which sustains us and gives us life and whenever we don't have that innate spiritual desire just to sit down with god and to engage his word something is wrong because your spirit man has now lost its appetite and so we talked about those things and the last thing we talked about is that is that you you have to be careful how you handle the word because even satan can speak the word you remember when jesus was was being tempted and i want you all to think about this the devil even told jesus kill yourself he said jump off this cliff and then he quoted scripture to back it up he said for it is written that he shall give his angels charge concerning thee lest you should dash your foot upon a stone and god turned jesus turned around and he rebuked him with the word he said it's also written thou shalt not tempt the lord thy god and so it's very important that that we keep the word of god in its proper context because if you don't you're going to get it twisted tell somebody don't get it twisted what do you mean by don't get it twisted do you remember the first time that we are introduced to satan in the word of god he comes in the form of a serpent and the bible says that he was the most subtle of all creatures that were on the face of the earth and the first time the first words out of his mouth were words that questioned the authoritative power of god's word he said this he told if he said has god said he said god don't really mean that so you have to be very very careful and this is why i made a post a couple of months ago i never will forget it there was so much chaos and so much confusion going on in the world and i said this you are going to have to get to a place where you know the word of god for yourself jesus said my sheep know my voice and a stranger they will not follow well how do they know his voice they spend time with the shepherd when you spend time with the shepherd you know the shepherd's voice you also know the shep you also know the voice of a wolf in sheep's clothing why because i spent time with the shepherd and i know what do y'all can just allow me a moment to indulge let me give you a picture of what that word mean my sheep know my voice and strangely they will not follow at the end of the day shepherds would put their sheep in communal pens sometimes four or five shepherds would bring all of their sheep and put them in a communal pen at night time in the morning the shepherds would come out and stand in different positions and they would call their sheep and their own sheep each sheep recognized the voice of his respective master and they went to the see my sheep know my voice and you can't fool the child of god amen amen so now today what we're going to talk about is we're going to talk about the seed and the soil because what keeps the word of god from doing what god said it was supposed to do it has nothing to do with the seed which is the incorruptible word of god it has everything to do with the soil so if the word of god is not working in your life the way that the bible says that it should work tell somebody say check your dirt yeah because the problem is not with the seed the problem is in the soil i'm dealing with something right now that shed light on the importance of this message in in my front yard we have this glass this grass that's called saint augustine grass how many of you know what saint augustine grass is and how many of you know when you treat saint augustine grass it's like a carpet when you walk on it when you cut it it's about this high it looks so good well the saint augustine grass in my front yard doesn't look as good as the saint augustine grass in the old house that i'm same grass same breed same seed the problem is not with the grass do you know you can go to home depot and you can buy little it's called a it's this little thing that has a dial on it and a stick and when you insert it into the soil it tells you what chemicals and what minerals are there in the soil and what's not in the soil you see the problem is not with the grass the problem is with the soil that the grass is in and when you find out it's lacking certain nutrients in order for you to get the same results in one place as you get in the other you've got to address what's lacking in the ground in order for the word of god to do what it's supposed to do in your life there is not a problem with the word because the word works when you work the word the problem is there's something happening in the soil and so what we want to look at today slow down marvin what we want to look at today is what's going on in the soil now the power of a seed rests in its potential jesus said except a seed a corn of wheat fall to the ground and die it abides alone but if it dies it'll bring forth much fruit the problem the power of a seed the potential of a seed is only released and maximized when it's placed in the right environment now now i want you to think about something let's look at a very simple illustration one kernel of corn i like to use these illustrations because i grew up in the country um one kernel of corn if you put it in the ground it will produce a stalk of corn and on that stalk of corn you will have several ears of corn and on each ear of corn you will have several kernels of corn but it all came from one seed and and and from those kernels of corn you can produce a whole lot of things you you can have some good old jiffy cornbread and and when you want to fry some some good old catfish you can have some corn meal and if you're from the country you can make some corn pong and uh and if you have some greasy skin you can get some corn oil and sometimes when you're watching tv you can pop you some popcorn all of that can come from one seed but when you don't understand the problem of the seed instead of reason it's releasing its potential you consume your seed and it's passed out in the drought and you take away all of its potential and and see another way you can say this is if i had an acorn in my hand and i held it up right now and i said what do i have in my hand i would guarantee you that 95 of you would say that's an acorn when god looks at the acorn he doesn't see an acorn he sees a forest of oaks because within an acorn is the potential to produce an oak tree which has several acorns which would produce a grove of oak trees you see and so the power of a seed is in the potential of what that seed can produce in our lives right now um and if i'm going to be a christian i don't know about you i want to get the maximum results out of christianity that i'm supposed to get out of it if if i'm going to have a relationship with jesus i want to maximize that relationship you will never be able to maximize your experience as a christian if you don't lay hold to spiritual principles because the pathway to biblical prosperity is paid with principles i'm going to say it again the pathway to biblical prosperity i am not talking about money alone i'm talking about a happy life a happy wife a happy family blessed finances blessed health blessed mental health just your entire bless see it's paved with principles and so when i understand principles and i can extract and i can pull them from the word of god and put them into practice in my life it produces praise every single time okay now in this particular parable you to understand something the thing that remains constant because we only read about one kind of seed but we read about four kinds of soil amen okay so the seed there's not a problem with the seed if there's not a problem with the seed the problem has to be with the soil that the seed falls on now i want to show you something and can you guys get me this out of the message bible because the message bible makes it so plain i want to show you first peter chapter 1 and verse number 23 first peter chapter 1 and verse number 23 uh just one verse first peter chapter 1 and verse 23 that's all i want amen the word did work that's how it comes out okay all right let's take a look at it um now that you've cleaned up your lives by following the truth love one another as if your lives depended on it your new life this new creature that you are is not like your old life your old birth came from mortal sperm two human beings getting together egg sperm produce you but when you're born again you're born again it's a spiritual birth and it's a spiritual birth that that's facilitated by a spiritual seed and so he says um your new birth comes from god's living word the incorruptible seed of the word of god so what we need to do is find out how to release the power of do you know why you came to church especially to this church because believe it or not you actually believe that the word of god has the power to transform or to change whatever is happening in your life that you know should not be there that's why we listen to the word of god faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of god and when we act on that word then we are supposed to see change in our lives change in this world if we are not seeing that change something is wrong with the soil there is nothing wrong with the seed i'm glad i got one amen out of that all right now so let's go ahead and talk about what's in the soil i don't want to keep y'all um too long i want to talk about what's in the soil now the bible says that we're created from the dust of the earth okay i don't care how fine you are i don't care how buff you think you are at the end of the day all of us are nothing more than glorified dirt you can put some weave on your dirt you can take your dirt to the gym and work out and get buff you can do all of that with your dirt you can put some makeup on your dirt but i promise you keep on living and you will find if you take a white body a black body a red body and a yellow body and you lay those dead bodies down when they compose they all look the same because guess what they're all going back to where they came from so we are nothing more than glorified dirt that ought to be a humbling thought to you because god could have made us out of platinum and gold we could have been just bling-bling could we couldn't help ourselves but he chose the most basic of elements he made us out of nothing but human dirt okay now but here's the thing the most amazing thing happens when you take a supernatural seed and you put it in ordinary dirt y'all not hearing me when you take just common dirt and you plant a supernatural seed in common dirt common dirt can achieve supernatural things if the condition of the soil is right can i get one more amen from somebody today hallelujah and that's why the bible says that the eyes of the lord run to and fro second chronicles chapter 16 and i want to show you this because if if you allow the word to do what god said it would do in your life ordinary in your life can become extraordinary natural in your life can become supernatural when you allow the word of god to do what it's supposed to do look at this for the eyes of the lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth why now the king james says it this way seeking to show himself strong in those who's who's about i like give me king james sometimes i have to go back to my bread and butter what i grew up on seeking to show himself strong and those whose hearts are perfect towards him see the bible says now unto him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that you could ask or think according to come on y'all stay with me there is no there's no questioning the ability of what god can do the only thing that can limit what god wants to do is what's happening in you so he says he can do exceeding abundantly above anything you can ever think of but it is the only thing that limits that is whatever is happening on the inside of you that's why you have to keep your heart with all diligence because out of it flow the issues of life don't let an offense keep you from not realizing god's best in your life don't let unforgiveness don't let anger don't let bitterness don't let jealousy don't let resentment don't let anything let me tell y'all something not a single one of you watching are here am i going to let bl mess with my blessing if we have some issues i'm going to do what i'm supposed to do whether you receive it or not that's on you but i cannot let you block my blessing i cannot let my inability to release you and to let you go do you know when you hold unforgiveness in your heart that's like you drinking a glass of poison and looking over at them waiting on them to die nobody is that important you have to learn how to let stuff go you will never see god's best god there's so many things running through my mind you remember joseph when joseph was in egypt that boy had two that man had two sons manessa and ephraim they were born in that order manessa first and then ephraim the people that wronged him the people that heard him the people that lied on him the people that threw him in the pit the people that falsely accused him all of that he had to let go those two sons the name manasseh means god has caused me to forget my troubles and then the name ephra means god has made me fruitful before he could become fruitful he had to forget see some of you you you can't produce fruit because you're still hurting you're still bitter over what somebody because they left you they lied on you they stole your money whatever they did it is not worth what god wants to do you gotta let that go because i promise you what god has for your life is so much greater than what they did if you don't jesus have mercy i've been in this thing for a while i've been passing here 25 years i've been in the past for 30 years and i'm telling you i have had some foul stuff done to me but i have learned to laugh at it and let it go because god has made my enemies my footstool he has prepared a table before me in the very presence of my enemies he has anointed my head with oil he has made sure that no weapon that's formed against me shall prosper so when you let it go god will fruit he'll make you fruitful nobody's that important let that mess go amen now right now the true power of the seed is connect is connected to the quality of the soil now here's the thing good seed sown and bad soil won't work how many of you are like me i like to watch national geographics have you all ever watched this show life before z life below zero i'm addicted to life below zero because i can't figure out why anybody would go to the wilderness in alaska and want to live i figured something's wrong with your mind nobody wants to go go there and live i'm a tropical person the devil would have to that that would be hell for me to live in alaska but they showed this guy how many of you know that if you try to plant seed in icy soil it won't work but that same soil when the spring comes there was this one guy he built a greenhouse and he plants his seed in his cabbages as as bigger than basketballs fruit that looks like it's on steroids but it's not on steroids it is simply the quality of the soil but if you plant the seed at the wrong time in the wrong environment it won't produce supernatural results all right another thing it's not a problem it's the seed and it's the soil how many of you know that that you can't plant a seed in the ocean because of the salinity in the water it won't work you see and here's another thing i had down here you you can't put good seed in poison soil you'd be amazed at how many people come to church poisoned and don't know it you you've got stuff going on in your heart you're offended at somebody the usher didn't didn't uh didn't usher you right you got you got a problem with deacon car wise because he always dresses flat where car while he you know uh he don't have to dress like that you know uh you you got got a problem with me and pastor deborah you know why he gotta push you know all kinds of foolishness and and you hold that stuff in your heart and then you wonder what's not working you have a problem with the way the word goes for but he's always one guy told me he said i hope you die i was teaching uh i was teaching a word on men and what men ought to be and and how we're supposed to love our wives and this that and the other and uh he called me up he said i hope you die you're always on men and all you know and and so that doesn't hurt me that that hurts you you know so because i'm gonna keep on teaching what i have to teach you see now now maybe after today some of you gonna say i hope you die too but let's go ahead and let's get into it now all right 11 33 let's go ahead and get into this so let's take a look at the first kind of soil so i want you to go to first corinthians 9 1st corinthians matthew chapter 13. i don't have it in my notes i need you guys to find it let's talk about the seed that fell on by the wayside and the birds came and they picked up that seed and jesus said the seed that fell by the wayside he said that's the seed that's the person that doesn't understand the word y'all have it put it up there for me he said that's the person that you don't understand it no not that if you go on down jesus gives the best commentary on this text and he talks about the seed that fell on the wayside he said that's the person that comes to church and they don't understand the word and as soon as they leave the devil comes and he plucks up that seed okay here it is there's a verse before that my bible students okay here we go is that is that the right one okay right there hallelujah much love all right now he says and he sowed some seed and some seeds fell by the wayside and the birds came and they devoured that seed now what does jesus say about that seed he said it's people that don't understand the word and because you don't understand it the devil snatches it from your heart now there's a reason that i go to great lengths sometimes i get on your nerves trying to explain the word of god to you in a practical way in a realistic way so that when you leave here you understand what god was trying to say in all thy getting get understanding now what does that mean it fell by the wayside and the birds devouted you first have to understand how they planted crops and how sowers sowed the seed back in those days they had a a bag that they put over their shoulders and in that bag there were seeds and so the sower would literally reach into the bag sow seeds here and sow seeds there so seeds here and so seeds there now the area where the sower walked because he walked there on a regular basis that ground was not fallow ground that ground was hard compacted soil and so when the seed fell on that ground it could not do what it was supposed to do because the ground was hard okay now what causes our heart to become hardened so that the word of god does not do what it's supposed to do and we don't unders what keeps us from truly understanding the word of god and allows the enemy to come in and snatch it away even before it can do what it's supposed to do i want to show you something go to galatians galatians chapter 5 17-21 you see all four types of soil that jesus talked about are represented in this church today and in every church across the united states and across the world you always have different types of soil you have some people that are sitting in here now that before you came to church last night you were in somebody's bed you weren't supposed to be and then you're here in church now that's a hard truth in it oh i got kids okay um in other words you're doing some things that god has told you not to do and you've told god i'm going to keep doing what i'm doing but yet you're in church depending upon the grace of god to keep you and so what what happens is is your heart your heart becomes hard and it's hard for the word to penetrate and get in and do what it's supposed to do because you've got a hard heart and it's become hardened because you haven't yielded yet okay i've got calluses all across here now this hand is smooth this hand is the hand i hold my golf club in i can take a pen and literally put it through those calluses and hold it up to you guys and and i won't feel a single thing but i can take that same pin pull it out there and put it in this hand and a cussing anointing might come on me why because this hand is still tender but this hand has become hardened whenever we stop listening to god and we just overlook what the spirit is trying to say to us and we continue to overlook what the spirit of god is trying to say to us whenever we fail to correct our course when god continually tells us to correct our course whenever we fail to yield our lives in an area where god says we have to yield our lives eventually that area of your life becomes hard and when that area becomes hard and the word hits it you're here but you're not hearing you'll sing you'll shout you'll throw up your hands but you won't change why because your word your heart has become hardened to the things of god now what makes our our heart like that galatians chapter 5 and let's start reading at verse number 17 watch this for the lust for the flesh lusts against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh these two things spirit and flesh they are contrary one to another so that you do not do the things that you wish how many of you have made up in your mind you were going to change some things in church but by monday you realize that that was you know that was just my mind that wasn't holy ghost dealing with me you know you see see the spirit the the spirit of god will say go apologize flesh will say uh-uh no not me not the way they did me i will not apologize do i have any husbands and wives that are sitting in here that can bear witness to this the spirit of god said humble yourself and go up no no no god will take me to glory first before i apologize for that your heart believe it or not is becoming hard to the things of god now watch this but if you are led by the spirit you are not under the law next verse now the works now here are the things that cause that hard place where the seed falls and you can't understand it and and the fouls of the air the devil just takes it before you can grab a hold to it and see it works now the works of the flesh are evident which are these adultery yes it's funny how we pick sins isn't it oh this this lgbt agenda oh god is against that but you're an adulterer so you mean to tell me your sin is okay but they're sin i told y'all y'all gonna throw pastor's appreciation month out the window when i get done cause i'm just getting started all right he says adultery fornication how many young things are in the building right now that you what happened to holiness what what what happened to remaining pure until now now it's tried before you buy it i have to remember i have kids and that's why we put the kids in their own department so i'm trying to keep everything pg today because sometimes i go straight to another level all right fornication uncleanliness okay lewdness have y'all ever listened to the music now i oh god devin and i got in the car to come to church this morning and even listen to listening to praise of joel osteen well because it's a satellite radio they were they were updating the channels when we got in the car and we got a few i'm gonna put my soul in your mouth but the thing said joel osteen i'm like has joel lost his mind and and deb was like you have to turn then i turned it to another channel i turned it here but that garbage was still coming through the radio have you seen what's happening to our if you don't know don't ask who wants to hear about that the music now has become so am i old or am i telling you the truth the music now has become so disgusting when you listen to the lyrics who wants to hear about lewdness filthiness and some of you play it in your radio right now and you're wondering why the word doesn't work idolatry oh i don't have any idols you've made your pastor an idol you'll talk about your pastor before you talk about jesus [Applause] you lift up your church before you lift up jesus you'll lift up your favorite politician before you lift up jesus you'll give more weight to the word of a president than you will to the bible and you don't realize you have an idol sorcery hatred oh my goodness have y'all ever seen some of the videos that are out there on social media people just fighting for no reason i'm so embarrassed for some of my people because you're making yourself look like fools out in the street fight no don't you know you're a queen why are you behaving that way your clothes are all torn off get and then you have a crowd cheering and jeering you on where is that that's do you know that's coming from the pits of hell we are so angry we are so mad and you don't even know it is pent up rage and the least little thing i told you don't push me cause i am close to thee and that and you don't even realize and something happens and you you just go off as a christian and you wonder why the word can't work jealousy oh my god just jealous of other folk how they live what they drive what they wear where they what does that have to do with you and your relationship to jesus let them do if god is blessing them let them bless them that has nothing you're mad because they have a husband and you don't maybe if you get your heart right god will send you a husband and the reason you don't have a husband i told you this stop letting your boyfriend keep you from being found by your husband the bible says he that findeth the wife finds the good thing and obtains favor but the man looking for you can't find you because you're shacked up with your boyfriend and he's not going to marry you lord jesus you're gonna have to refresh me after this one because okay all right now outbursts of wrath selfish ambition some spiritual leaders are led by vision others are led by ambition it's not about you fulfilling the vision that god has given you you want a rose you want a bentley you want the big house you want the big platform that's more important to you than the lives of god's people and so you put pictures up all over because this is where i'm going to be this is what god no no no no if you build his house all that stuff he'll give you but you make see you've got to keep your priorities straight okay dissensions oh we are so div i'm going to talk about that we are so divided a house divided against itself cannot stand have you ever looked at the first century church and here we are 2000 years old and we have less power than the first century church we're divided along political lines we're divided along racial lines we're divided upon denominational lines we're divided along educational lines but yet we're oh i'm worshiping jesus we don't have enough power to cast a nat out let alone the devil because we are so divided and so this is what jesus is saying until we fix these things we will never be the church that the bible talks about okay heresies oh my god there's some stuff that's being taught in the church is just plum crazy how many of you remember i don't call some names i don't care if you get math um carlton pearson how many of you remember back in the day mega conferences and church conferences were birthed with carlton pierson an amazing and anointed man of god and somehow with all of his knowledge you know what somebody told paul one time he said he said paul i fear that all you're learning has made me mad and some kind of way the devil got in there and got that man messed up and there are two heresies you're not gonna like me if you are a man who is married to another man you are not a pastor in the lord's church if you are a woman who is married to another woman you are i don't care what you call yourself i don't care how many smocks you put on how many crozies you take you can dress up just like the pope but there is no anointing on your life and now you mad at me right now because i said that pastor let's live let's let's live and let's see all right okay let's keep going okay but do you see how all of these things if these things get in our hearts you don't even realize that the result of those things and you're giving place to those things has made the ground hard so the sower's still sowing but the seed is falling on a hard place and it's not taking root you hear it and you receive it but there's no results ever learning and never coming to a knowledge of the truth you've been a part of 50 churches and still you only know jesus well all right lord please you got to help me with this one okay let's go to the next kind of soil come on let's let's go to the next kind of soil uh the the the other kind of soil talks about the persecution of this world you you receive the word of god and because of persecution you you let the word of god go can y'all find that scripture for me and put it up there this is the seed that that uh fell on on the come on show me what jesus said about that seed in verse 20 all right matthew chapter 13 and verse 20. you guys in the back put it back i should have given you all this but i didn't um and it talks about how different things when persecution arises can anybody tell me where the scripture is or can y'all please find it in the back but he who received the word on stony places is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy but the next verse says yet has no root in himself but he endures for a while but when tribulation who our persecution arises because of the word immediately he stumbles i can promise you i'm going to get persecuted over what i'm preaching today i can promise you i'm going to get some letters from people saying i'll watch you but i'm not going to watch you anymore let's talk about some things that will cause persecution because we become uh tribalized you see we make everything political putting on just a piece of cloth on your face getting a shot in your arm there are some shots if your kids don't have them they can't go to school you didn't go crazy about that one why are you going crazy about this one okay black lives matter can i tell you something all lives matter read the bible [Applause] god says thou shall not kill he didn't say thou shalt not kill black folks he said thou shall not kill well pastor what about injustice god is against injustice and he will judge it every single time okay but we come we we become divided you're so concerned about all lives matter why aren't you concerned about it when the life is in the womb hundreds of thousands of women marched across this country this week in protest of the abortion laws that were there in texas and i'll tell you that some of that message just foolishness but here's the thing god says thou shalt not kill you can try to justify that all you want to when god puts life in the womb he's concerned about that life just as much as he's concerned about the black life oh let's talk about something else the border crisis left and right oh these immigrants coming in don't let me tell you what you're really afraid of because you're really not afraid of the immigrants that's the you know the bible says we are to take in and we are to take care of the widows the fatherless the orphan and here's the thing we have enough in this country to take care of everybody but that's socialism we can't do that well you weren't complaining when they were handing out them stimulus checks do you see how we we get all crosswise and all kinds of stuff and you wonder why the word and and then you get persecuted for saying things like this okay go to proverbs chapter 6 and verse number 16. persecution that comes and so what you do is you compromise what the word says because you want to pitch your tent in one political party or the other six things does the lord hate yea seven are an abomination unto him now before we go to the next verse can i share something with this share something with you if god hates it as a christian you're supposed to hate it you can't pick and choose what you're going to love and what you're going to hate either you have to stand on god's side or you straddle the fence or you just totally go over on the other side this left and right foolishness is just that foolishness because in the center of it all god says here i am i've given you a word and my word is true let god be true and every man be a liar so let's take a look at these six things that god hates next verse a proud look god hates pride the bible says he resists the proud a lying tongue i can't oh i can never support someone who endorses abortion but you can endorse you can support a liar [Laughter] yeah you you you can't you can't support someone or vote for someone that believes in pro-choice but a full-blown bald-faced liar as a preacher you can get behind that you can support that in the name of god if you got a problem get up take your bag and leave i don't care because i know what i'm telling you is the truth before you send me your letters save your time either god is going to be god or he's not going to be god and the reason that there is no power in the church is because we're divided along political lines and now we have lying prophets fake miracles money grubbing greedy stealing preachers stealing from the people of god you've already got three jets now you're begging your congregation for millions so you can get another jet and you're wondering why when you now you're just pushing people over and lying saying the heel no they're not you're a liar and the word of god has been robbed of its power because we don't want to let god be god we're more concerned about pushing our political agenda then we are about standing on the righteous word of god and letting god be god let's go on hands that shed innocent blood when you treat people wrong the camera may not catch you but god saw it what's that boy's name ahmad abrer when he was out there just jogging he was he was minding his own business if somebody hadn't come up with video to this day that boy would have been dead and in his grave and nobody would have been persecuted or prosecuted but see what you don't realize is god saw it and when god sees it trust me nobody gets away with anything his wheels of justice may turn slow but trust me they turn [Applause] how we're treating people killing babies in the womb that is wrong i don't and and for all of you well you well you know you you ought to do this and you ought to do that well listen if somebody gets raped and they get pregnant all of you talking about what a woman should not do are you going to adopt the baby no i'm talking with these men that are passing all of these laws are you going to take care of that child no you're going to still go home to your million-dollar mansions and do what you're doing and that person will be left with that say you got to be careful and this is why i don't try to make anybody choose anything deuteronomy 30 and 19 says this behold i call heaven and earth to record this day against you god says i have set before you life and death blessing and cursing and he gives you a recommendation he doesn't make you do it but he says this therefore he said choose life that both thou and thy seed may prosper may live okay a heart that deviseth wicked imagination there's some church folk to do this just wicked coming up with all kinds of schemes to make people fall so you can just lying on people some of you your tongue is a deadly weapon your tongue has done more damage than a nine millimeter you just wicked you go to bed thinking about wicked stuff you wake up thinking about wicked stuff feet that are swift and running to do evil let's look at the next verse a false witness that speaketh lies and he who sows discord it's funny what us evangelicals can support and what we can't support anytime you see somebody in leadership pitting this side against the other side god is nowhere in that i don't care how many bibles they hold up for a photo op i don't care how many churches they go to and quote two corinthians when you see a person using their position to pit one side against the other side and you begin to applaud them be careful i made up my mind no politicians anymore are coming in here i'm not gonna put a single one on the stage i don't care if you're black white blue red or yellow you are not going to get a platform because i am not called to promote your political agenda i am called to preach the unadulterated gospel of jesus christ that's what i'm called to and the only time you come in here is when you want the pastor to pimp his poor pew for you don't call me i'm just telling you because you know when when voting time you know what they're going to do you haven't given a dime to this church never sitting here a single day now all of a sudden you want me to come in here and give you a position of influence and allow you to influence the voting population of this church stay outside don't come don't call let me shift off something else because i told you my inbox is going to be bombarded um let's talk about wealth and money and stuff he says there's some seed that falls and it comes up a little bit but stuff gets in the way i've been around for a little bit for a while i have seen good people that had a supernatural call on their life get trapped by the adornings of ministry and stuff drowned out what was once a pure heart when god called me into ministry i had nothing materialistic that motivated me to go in ministry let me tell you about what i meant i grew up in a little church that these two roads right here would fill our church the pastor only came on the first and the third sunday because on the second and fourth sunday he preached at other churches he was by vocational and uh and whenever we had an anniversary to celebrate our pastor it wasn't about giving him jets or cars or extreme amounts of money we'd have a tub up in the front of the church sometimes you see some greens in there sometimes you see a ham in there people gave what they could to let the pastor know that even though you're not here all the time we appreciate what you're doing maybe a dollar here or a dollar there but nothing extravagant so when god called me into ministry there was nothing from my experience material wise that made me want to go into it but exposure brings expansion as i began to grow and travel i i went to one pastor's house his house his houses totaled 35 000 square feet we went in there and he had a rolls royce over here and a porsche over there and so much jewelry on his hand that when he preached you'd hear the clanking of the jewelry there was a glass case in the house with all of his jewelry in in the glass case when when we would go to breakfast and we sat down at the table servants came in and they brought us out our breakfast and prepared our food flies a gulf stream has a helicopter all of the luxuries of life god has blessed them with now i'm not saying that's wrong that's his life but for a young preacher who comes in with a heart for god and you see the glory and the splendor of all of these things if you're not careful i want that too you see and i remember i went through a transformation and y'all didn't even know we were over the old old church all of a sudden this little boy from greenville i started getting tailor-made suits two and three thousand dollar suits custom made not people talking how sharp you were in that little small church okay and and then i began to realize something hit me one day and i began to realize this is not the little boy from greenville this is this is not who i really am and i changed the whole culture i said i don't care if you wear jeans no more dressing up you you wear whatever you want to wear to church because i begin to realize i'm changing into something not that it's bad but is that really where my heart is and in the long run that caused me to lose the pastor that i was sitting under at that time but then god led me to another man named john k jenkins up there in in and and john jenkins church is bigger than all these folk i told you about but when he comes to a conference rather than knocking folk down trying to get to the front he'll sit back in the back with the ipad and take notes crying while he's taking notes if you saw him he's just so unassuming you would never think that he has the things that he has or he has that kind and i saw jesus in him more than i saw in them and i decided i really would rather be more like the jesus in him than the fleshy one that i see in there that's not condemning them but for me the bible says that jesus left a place where the streets were made of gold where the walls were made of all type that he left all of that and he took on flesh and blood and he humbled himself to the point that he died on an old rugged cross his humility his compassion his it drew people to him y'all gonna get mad at me today and i saw one preacher it's a popular clip where i can't fly on commercial jets i can't get in this too this future large with all these demons and all these devils i need a private jet because that ruins my anointing wait a minute who is j who followed jesus the same people you don't want to ride with were the same people that flocked to jesus and the church folk got mad at jesus and said they tried to slander his name they said he associates with wine bibbers and sinners that can't be god but the man that hung on the cross hung on the cross for those same devils that you can't get in the plane and fly with you've got three or four jets your own airport but you can't fly with demons and devils but you can take their money [Applause] and we're wondering why nobody wants to come to the church this church should be packed with people that were in the club last night that were doing they should be comfortable coming in here but when we make the church a social club for the religious elite and they begin to feel uncomfortable then we have a problem sinners love jesus they couldn't get enough of jesus and there was a little center man whose name was zacchaeus one day and jesus was just walking somewhere and zacchaeus was a little swindling guy his little money grubber he was so short he couldn't get through the crowds but he was attracted to jesus he was attracted to jesus to the point that this little short man climbed up a tree so that he could see jesus jesus never said to the pharisee he never said to the sadducee he never said to the priest but he looked up and he saw that little swindle up in the tree he said zacchaeus he said i'm not going to eat at the big preacher's house today i'm not going to eat it at the cogic bishop's house today no i'm i'm not going to eat at the leader of the baptist convention's house to he said zack is he said come down here he said today i'm going to eat with you [Applause] and jesus jesus went to zacchaeus's house i don't know what they talked about the bible doesn't tell us that but that same man said lord he said if i've done anything wrong if i took anything from anybody that i shouldn't have took he said god i'll give it back fourfold see that's the jesus that i know that that's the transforming life-changing jesus and the word of god he is the word of god it is supposed to be transforming and life-changing but when we let politics when we let material things when we let envy jealousy and all of this stuff get into our hearts the word no longer works and jesus said a house divided against lord you've got to come quickly because our power is gone because we have no longer given you a place of preeminence let's pray lord help us god we have moved so far away from who you are we've moved so far away from your love and your mercy and your compassion we see people from haiti and from mexico running for their lives women and children drowning in rivers because if they go back home they'll die and yet we close up our doors and we send them back and we say you can't come and yet we have millionaires and billionaires going to space seeing who can get there first god please rearrange our priorities and you have not blessed this nation without reason there's a reason help us to repent oh god help us to be an example of the people that are called by your name who do humble themselves who do pray who do turn from their wicked ways who do seek your face and then you said you would heal our division you would heal our pain oh god father god we repent right now in the name of jesus because somehow we have lost our way somehow we have lost our love somehow [Music] our soft hearts have become stoning and callous somehow we've placed our personal and political agendas above the agenda of heaven and god you are not answering and no power is flowing and the gap of division is becoming wider and wider and wider and so father we say come quickly lord jesus and redeem your bride wash us with the washing of the word remove the wrinkles remove the spots that we might be a bride without spot or blemish a group of people came into the city of jerusalem one day and they got philip and they said philip he said sirs we would see jesus and the world is answering they're still asking the same question we want to see jesus they haven't been able to find you in our conferences they haven't been able to find you in our churches they haven't been able to find you in our politics they haven't been able to find you jesus please restore and heal your church and heal your people god hide the word that we've heard today in our hearts that we might not sin against you god every one of us has to personally repent i know i have to repent [Music] god get us back to where we're supposed to be broken laid out before the altar laid out before the throne of grace saying god cleanse us whatever you need to do god do it just get me back where i need to be so that the word has true power in my life god i thank you for allowing me to preach this message i know it didn't please everybody i know it's gonna make some folk mad but that's all right i'm in good company cause jesus made a whole lot of folk man he made him mad to the point that they killed him for preaching the truth and preaching righteousness so god i thank you for the opportunity i thank you for the privilege right now our heads are bowed and eyes are closed and the saints of god are praying i would do an altar call but this stuff got us all messed up but if you're in this place today and you don't know jesus i'm talking about the real jesus the jesus that only has one agenda and that is the kingdom agenda if you want to know him if you if you're willing to say lord you know what i'm messed up i'm not comfortable with my life right now and i realize only you can fix what's broken in my life i'm here to tell you that i know somebody that can put the broken pieces back together i know somebody that can heal the pains of your past i know somebody that can make you whole but you have to first say pastor i want that jesus heads about eyes are closed ushers help me see if you want to experience him and know him as your savior will you please raise your hand raise it up high so that i can see it we want to pray with you before you go today if somebody could please please bring up the lights in the back so we can see because i can't see if anybody has their hands up i'm looking i'm looking i don't see any hand that's up today so i just want to say thank you god we're believing that everybody in the house is saved today the next appeal today is for church membership or church partnership where you go to church is very very important the word that you sit up under is very very important there is something that god wants to do in your life but he will never do it unless you are placed in the right environment if god has spoken to your heart he's told you you've been following this i'm talking to somebody specifically you've been following this ministry for years but you haven't made a decision to commit if you're in this place and god's tugging on your heart while here's your bow and eyes are closed again i need you to raise your hand if god told you to unite with this church so so that i can see it i'm looking i'm looking looking i don't see any hands that are up today now if you don't come publicly because some of you that's an issue what you can what you can do is you can stop by the information booth get a new members form you can do it that way you can go by the church website rolcc.tv look under connect and you can do it that way and we'll be happy to receive you did you all get anything out of the word of god today i know the word today was hard i know it hit hard i know it cut sharp but if the word doesn't challenge you if the word doesn't confront you if the word doesn't convict you then you didn't hear a good word amen [Music] let's celebrate the lord's supper what you had your hand up huh yeah we're going to do that right now can you all if let's have holy communion if y'all have to go go ahead and leave but for those of you that don't let's go ahead and have holy communion today before we go um does everybody have their sacraments in their hand [Music] okay let's let all the people that have to go let's let them go so that we won't have moving around when this is happening hallelujah all right [Music] what can wash away my sin what can make me whole again there's a song we used to sing in the old church there is a fountain filled with blood drawn from emmanuel's veins and sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilt and stain people didn't understand the sacrificial offerings that god had placed in the old testament that he told them to keep but one of those sacraments and one of those sacrifices was a lamb without spot or blemish john said something one day he said behold the lamb of god slain from before the very foundations of the earth the lamb had to be without spot without blemish they led jesus from judgment hall to judgment home everybody that tried everybody i can't find no fault in the man he was innocent and he hung there on an old rugged cross and he endured a death an atrocious a heinous death that i would not wish on anyone and he died that death not because of anything that he had done he died that death for you and i but before he went to the cross he said something very important he said this is the last passover i'm going to have with you before i see you in heaven and on that night he took a piece of bread he blessed it and he broke it he said this represents my body he commanded them to take that bread and eat it let us do likewise then he took a cup and he said this cup represents the blood of the new testament we're told in the bible that as often as we do this we show forth his death and his suffering until we come again let's train i hope i didn't make anybody mad or i feel bad today but but if you did i want you to pray and ask jesus to have mercy on my soul and yours too but i tried as best i could to preach to you the unalterated the unadulterated word of god and i pray that it finds a resting place in your heart in my heart too and that we all change and we allow the spirit of god to continue to conform us unto the image of his only begotten son amen now unto him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we can ask our thank you to the god who says i'm able to keep you from falling and present you follow us before my presence with exceeding glory until we meet again may god's richest and god's best be yours you all have a wonderful sunday thank you so much for working with us [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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