Confront It Message | Jerry Flowers

I would like to speak from this from this topic from this subject for a few moments confront it confront it would you look at two people and tell them your deliverance is in your confrontation confront it confront it ladies and gentlemen brothers and sisters we are placed and situated in the continuation of the series that we launched a few weeks ago entitled the withdrawals of dysfunction subtitle for today confront in now I want to go ahead and give you this cautioning and clear the air and give you this disclaimer today's message is not for people who have an issue with admitting that they have issues today's message is not for the holier-than-thou nor is today's message for the religious that claim to know God but don't know how to extend grace now they are glad to be recipients and receive grace and mercy but they begin to stutter and choke when it's time to speak the language of grace and mercy to somebody else in other words they have become a judge when they know your dysfunction but then they're a lawyer when you know there's this message is not for you this message is not for people who have branded the statement to their life only god can judge me as a permission slip to live how they want to live riotous and rebellious and do not want to be corrected this message is not for you but this message is for people who have ever felt like Jesus you have been given an assignment but when you think about what you have to go through to get to when you think about what you have to go through to get to you begin to pray father if it be possible to preach today if it be possible take this cup away from me this message is for people who have ever been like King Rehoboam you heard the wisdom of the elders but instead you listened to the advice of your friends and suffered for it and I would like to ascribe to you that there are some of us sitting in the sacred sanctuary or today that the only reason you're in this seas it's because some advice you listen to it's because some people you listen to is some friends that you listen to and now you're in a situation you're in a predicament due to what they call it advice but it was really dysfunction this is why wisdom from the god-ordained voices please hear me we spend so much time talking about identifying the distractions in your life and identified the counterfeits in your life and identifying dealing demons and Devils in your life but have you ever pause for a second and tried to identify who is the god voice in my life who is the god ordained person in my life this is why wisdom is so important because you will have people that God has placed in your life and you will have people that the devil has placed in your life and you have to be able to identify who has some oil on them to help me get to my destination who is the god or 10 people in my life who aren't just giving me advice please listen because there's a difference in getting advice and getting a word there's a difference in getting advice and getting a word and I promise you all of us from the pulpits of the pew you were into a season you were into a trial you will face some Goliath you will face a storm you are being a predicament you will be in a warfare why I do not need advice I need a word I need a word this is too big of a decision for me to just have advice this has destiny weight on its meaning what I decide to do with this relationship what I decide to do with this opportunity what I decide to do at this moment will directly affect my destiny this is too massive for me to have some advice this is too lesser for me to like a choice due to my feelings I need a word somebody say I need a word I need a word therefore we have to be careful with who we lease our ear to please hear me we have to be careful with who we lease our ear to because it's dangerous when we're letting people in our ear who are trying to talk us out of what God has talked us into nobody wants to a man right there it could be your mama it could be your daddy golf ability could be your pasta it could be your friend it could be the person that you call BAE come on let's live together nothing's wrong with us living together they're trying to talk you out of what God has talked you into why you always go into that church they're talking about sex and fornication over there we don't believe in tithes and that's the Old Testament you ain't got to do that they're trying to talk you out of what God has talked you into and I would like to ascribe to you could it be possible that the place that you're at right now is not by accident but by Providence I know you've made some mistakes I know some of us think I'm here due to my choices I'm here due to my mistakes but is it possible that God could even use your mistakes you could be here due to a breakup but is it possible God use them to get you here is it possible that the place that you're at right now is still a place that God could use it is a sequence of events that has been orchestrated by heaven your chapter 16 ashot God he knew you would be here yo chapter 7 didn't shot God he knew you would be here in fact this is why he wrote your chapter 8 concho comeback because he knew he knew that you were end up in this place and some of us don't like the place we pray against it we rebuke it and yes she had been given the power to rebuke the devil but you can't rebuke what God is behind can we talk you have been given the power to rebuke certain things but anytime you're trying to rebuke something and it's not moving could it be that this is not the devil or your choice this is God because God knows how to trouble your waters too because he wants you to have a prayer life God knows how to let something hit your finances because he wants to show you that's not your source I am maybe it's not always the devil could we actually be giving him too much credit credit could God be behind this because I want you to see that I'm right here with you I'm not punishing you I'm developing you I'm trying to load you while you're here I'm trying to shape you while you're here I'm trying to build you while you're here I'm trying to strengthen you while you're here I'm not punishing you I'm developing you and this may be your word don't get discouraged or disappointed delay does not mean denial somebody should clap harder thank you for the one clap delay does not mean denial you better ask David won't he do it and he'll probably tell you show you right he'll do it I feel like being an old school I said show your rights that's David won't he do it show you right he'll do it he'll anoint you king over Israel but then leave you and the passion to give you space to develop you're better asked Joseph won't he do it show you right he'll do it he'll let you have a dream in wait 13 years before the manifestation of that dream becomes a reality you better ask Abraham won't he do it show you right he'll do it he'll give you a word and give you a promise but wait 25 years before that promise becomes manifested you're better asked Noah won't he do it and he'll tell you show you right he'll do it he will give you instructions to build for something you never have seen before because God is in the business of building you before he exposes you this is what we need to be thankful for offseasons this is why we need to be thankful for closed doors because he wants to build you before he exposes you God does not want you to face Goliath then you don't how to use your slingshot he will build you before he exposes you delay does not mean denial this message is for people who have ever felt like the Apostle Paul the good I want to do the good I want to do that don't do but the evil I don't want to do that I do what a wretched man I am the struggle is real can I get somebody say the struggle is real and if you're really struggling you need to say the struggle is all the way real the struggle is real please listen please listen yes the struggle is real but it does not have to have generational momentum thank you for the for class the struggle is real but it does not have to take on the paradigm of a track meet passing down your struggle to your children's children from your friends to your friends from your co-workers to co-workers from your spouse to your spouse yes the struggle is real but it does not have to have generation of momentum some struggles we have to confront because you can't conquer what you don't confront and you can never feel a void that you avoid some struggles you have to confront so for the next few moments for the next few moments you are invited with me to take off all your religiousness take off all your titles I'm gonna take mine off too I'm not past enough that I'm just Jerry Junior take off all your titles I don't care if your children's church worker nursery worker you work the visual media you're in the choir you do the drums musician you're in the audio Board of Trustees I don't care about your title because sometimes titles make us look free but we're really bound let's take off our titles for a few moments forget that you even call yourself a Christian forget that you're a church member or a visitor let's take off your titles and I want to ask is there anybody honest enough from the pulpit to the Pew that will admit sometimes doing the right thing as a struggle and that struggle is real that struggle is real I don't always feel like close up my mouth sometimes I want to give them a piece of my mind I ain't gonna lie to you the struggle is real sometimes I want to ride up on somebody and commit road rage why is there always traffic on our 45 to 90 has traffic for no reason why are you slowing down looking at an accident on the other side of our 10 that ain't even none of your business sometimes I feel like telling somebody something on the highway flipping in the bird to struggle is real good I want to do you have any real people the good I want to do that I don't do but the evil I don't what to do that I do it's a struggle and I wanted to do a little Asterius this morning to see if we have people who are transparent honest and authentic enough to say sometimes I struggle to people who have not been bit by the religious bug see one of one of the things I'm so disenchanted with about the church is we keep selling this imagery that Christians and church attendance that Christians and church attendees are the final product could it be the reason why we're seen as hypocrites is because we keep saying with a final product but we're really a work in progress and if we were to actually show people that I'm a work in progress versus me being the finished product and actuality we ain't the finished product until we die but we are working progress you might be able to use your struggle as a testimony to now please don't misconstrue what I'm saying I'm not marrying our struggles to sin because your struggle could be just believing what God says about you your struggle could just be believing what God said about you so you can't see yourself the way God sees you because you see yourself by your behind-the-scenes that's how you see yourself by what you've done behind the scenes but God sees you by your redemptive potential he sees you by your redemptive potential but we keep seeing ourselves about what we have done and so may be the struggle many times is for us to really believe that you're forgiven and that's your struggle so there's some things that we have to confront and I get so disenchanted with churches selling this this this makeup toxin was as what I like to call it it's a life makeup make yourself look like you're saved make yourself look like you're together make yourself look like you're whole the problem with that is when you go and go out in life and face real problems and face real struggles you begin to operate in your dysfunction and then blame God to do to your storm it didn't say that church stuff doesn't work so you would try to rebuke the rain but really it was your dysfunction that caused it but if we had messages that reveal to you that yes you're going to struggle you're gonna fall maybe we will stop looking at ourselves as the finished product but I still need work and when we have this type of doctrine when we have inspirational ism and creativity and all this stuff but we don't deal with real issues we don't deal with a dysfunction when we don't deal with deficits when we don't deal with those real issues what we'll end up doing is having Saint you represent what people who have mastered giving face list but they don't have heart transplants they'll hit you all the way home you know how to look it but you don't know how to be it wonderful praise and worship awesome music you better praise dance girl know how to look the part know how to perform but don't not have power because there's some dysfunctions that we're not confronting because we're rocking the title of believer but we're not accepting the reality just because you believe does not mean that you won't struggle and unfortunately many houses condemned you for struggling as though that many times they don't struggle themselves can you be real so if if we think about Jacob there's so much to unpack it i'ma try to do my best to exegete this passage with the time that we have left there's so much that I want us to see I want us to look at verse 24 Genesis 32 verse 24 we're going to start to break this down it says then Jacob was left alone and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of day so let's do some backdrop about Jacob Jacob is a deceiver he has a twin brother called Esau but Jacob is a deceiver he's a manipulator he's a liar he's a con artist that's who Jacob is and was and now Jacob is faced with a situation with who he was is coming back upon them because you could outrun a lot of things please please hear me Church you could outrun a lot of things but you can never outrun you you will always catch up you may be able to mask it for a season but you will always catch up you have some speed to catch up who you really are you may be able to fake it on the interview but eventually yous gonna catch up let you get pissed off one day you gonna come out you is going to make his debut at the right season or for some of us at the wrong time you will always catch up Jacob and Esau are two totally different boys Esau is a man's man this man was featured on man vs. wild Jacob was featured on chopped Jacob is that son that every daddy wants to have when he was three years old he was just throwing stuff throwing sticks naturally had an arm that's Esau excuse me Esau was that son that that every father wanted he just seemed to be strong he was hairy but Jacob had smooth skin she said like he had smooth skin not saying he was sweet but he had smooth skin so Esau was out hunting Jacob was in the kitchen with his mama cooking two totally different guys but Jacob knew how to cook he had smooth skin he was a mama's boy and he knew how to manipulate he knew how to manipulate so he knew that Esau this was so crazy to me Esau came in from hunting saying I'm starved I want something to run something to eat and Jacob said well let me have your birthright and I'll give you some soup I'm thinking Esau you can catch everything just beat your little brother up and take the suit why give him your birthright but Jacob was a manipulator he knew how to get what he wanted from people something some of us huh he knew how to get what he wanted and so he convinced his brother and giving him his birthright and then one day he disguised himself to be Esau he made himself hairy because remember he was smooth skinned and his mama cooked the dish because he was a mama's boy all this dysfunction y'all seeing this see I talked about dysfunction a few weeks ago about household dysfunction I didn't even recognize it the same bloodline they have favorites Abraham had a favorite Isaac had a favorite Jacob had a favor favoritism was in this bloodline - so he sneaks and acts like he's Esau and he gets the blessing Esau hears about it since I'm a killem runs off Jacob goes off long story short hears about his brothers coming back to get him and know it now he's scared and he says okay i'ma send these gifts before him to try to calm him down and as I was studying this I said I wonder is that how a lot of preachers are they keep putting their gift before them they keep getting putting their gift before them to make people miss the reality that I'm really Jacob but they have become so good so good with the gift that you don't know I'm ready Jacob we'll explain that later puts puts his gifts before him because he's like man my brother's coming I'm not a fighter I'm on chopped this dude here he's a warrior let's see him doing stuff matter of fact I'm ass in this group before him so if he kills all them I still got my main ones with me reach a bow but I was really good got to read it and so he's he's in this place where he's terrified and at night he's trying to take a nap and he's wrestling with this man he's having this wrestling match this WWE WWF if you don't know who that is you you weren't saved WCW whatever it is he's having this wrestling match with this man and I began to ask myself who was this man some versions say angel but I began to do some homework this man is the same man that when Abraham saw him he ran up to him bow down and said lord please don't pass me by Batman this is the same man that King Nebuchadnezzar looked in the fire and said didn't I throw three people in there but I see four people and the fourth man looks like the Son of God there's somebody else in there with them that man for little theology for you is called a theophany Christ offering a pre-incarnate christ before the virgin birth this this this is God we're dealing with so Jacob is wrestling with God he's wrestling with God and as the wrestling match continues he touches hip and knocks his hip out of place because once God touches you you can't walk the same we gonna execute this whole passage you can't walk the same and then I wondering why would the man wrestle with him at night could it be the darkness was symbolic of his circumstance of his heart could the darkness be you have been a conniver your whole life you have been deceitful you're fearful so I have to come to you in your dark state this right here is a reality of how you're living life Jacob you're in darkness you're in darkness and then I said okay how does this do go from wrestling that then go - I'm not gonna let you go until you bless me and then I started to look at the text and I noticed something the text says that let me go for day is breaking so this means some sunlight is starting to be revealed could it be that Jacob didn't saw who he was fighting and when it dawned on him please don't miss the word playing once it dawned on him who he was wrestling with he said I'm not gonna let you go I'm not gonna let you go until you bless me because I recognize I'm dealing with God I'm dealing with God here's a word for some of us in the house you can't get blessed as long as you wrestle you can't get blessed as long as you wrestle hold him hold on to the promises hold on to his word you know why you can never experience the blessing cuz you wrestling every word every sermon you read I don't want to stop for the King I don't want to stop doing this I don't want to treat my spouse like this they ain't even worthy of respect I don't want to forgive them I don't want to let them go I don't want you wrestling the wrestler but the breakthrough happens when you start holding I know churches teach you that your breakthrough is when you give a $500 see but your breakthrough is when you're no longer what that sin that's a true breakthrough maybe you can't get blessed because you're wrestling when you need to be holding and this is the crazy thing Jacobs like I won't let you go until you bless me and God didn't ask him what's your name and my preacher the text he asked him what's your name what's your name now we're talking about the opticians omnipresent all-knowing God the same God that said before you were in your mother's womb I knew you we're talking about that God and he's asking this dude what's your name it's lagging them to when he was walking in the garden in the midst of the day and he said Adam where are you as though God is bad would hide-and-seek Adam where are you he's not asking about your geographical location he's asking where are you in your mind that you thought something was better than obeying me what's your name maybe that's what God is asking you what's your name what's your fear you want to get blessed what's your fear what fear has clipped your wings from flying and now you're grounded in the in the nest of your dysfunction what's your fear what's your name what's what is your wound what is your wound that has bruised your heart to such a degree that that was a few weeks ago for some of us months ago some of us decades ago but you still had that same pain because you haven't recognized feelings buried alive don't die what's your wound what's your name what you what are you jealous of you jealous because you keep comparing yourself to them could it be one of the reasons that you're frustrated is because you keep comparing your behind-the-scenes to everybody else's highlight reel comparison makes it to where you have the inability to be able to perceive the season did you hear what I just said comparison makes it to where you have the inability to be able to perceive the season so both of y'all will be pregnant she's in her light month you're in your second month but you're trying to give birth because she's a labor it doesn't mean it's not coming it just means you have to go through the trimester what's your name what's your name and I believe church family that this this is the question I'm not an emotional guy at all really I'm really not but as I was studying this some emotion begin to hit me because he's asking what is your name you want to get blessed or are you what is your dysfunction when he says I am Jacob he's saying I'm a deceiver I'm a manipulator I'm a con artist I'm a liar and I believe some of us God is asking you you want to break through you want to go to the next level you want this what is your name and some of us didn't say how many indulge your I'm bitter I'm angry I'm hurt I wound it I'm a porn watcher I'm a weed smoke around my alcoholic that's who I am right now that's the current situation that I have wrecking my life right now that's who that's my dysfunction that's who I am I'm Jacob and then once you can acknowledge that I have dysfunctions that I have brokenness that I have issues that I have struggles he said no longer no longer will you be called Jacob but your name will now be called Israel because you have struggled but have prevail maybe you're struggling it's evidence that you're about to prevail maybe you're struggling is evidence you're not who you used to be maybe you're struggling it's I'm tired of Jacob could it be you're struggling as evidence I'm about to walk into being Israel but right now I have to admit that I'm Jacob you cannot become Israel until you confess that you're Jacob the dysfunction of being Jacob is what keeps us bound and not admitting I have some Jacob moments and I have some Israel moments you cover me right now I'm looking like Israel let somebody disrespect me on my act like Jacob I have some Jacob tendencies and what God is looking for is for you to say I have some Jacob ways but I'm not gonna let you go I'm not gonna stop believing I'm not gonna stop trusting I'm not gonna stop praying I'm not gonna stop coming I'm not gonna stop serving I'm not gonna stop giving because I know right now I might be Jacob but I'm not gonna let you go until you bless me I don't know who this is for but maybe this is what you need I need some endurance to keep holdin I need some endurance to keep pushing my hip is out of place but it's just evidence I've been touched my heart has been struggling Patricius of evidence I'm about to shift I'm about to make a shift from being Jacob to Israel and if there's anybody that's tired of being Jacob and you're ready for God to change your name to change your situation to change your life will you give God a praise in the house I'm Jacob I'm not hiding it anymore I have struggles I'm not ashamed of it anymore but you are a God who loves me despite of my Jacob nature somebody say I'm Jacob now the perplexing thing to me is that God then calls himself the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob as I'm looking at this text it's supposed to be the God of Abraham Isaac and Israel in fact he changed Abraham's name from Abram to Abraham so why are you calling yourself the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob don't you mean the God of Israel huh so I began to study this I begin to break it down because that's what you do when something stands out to you you break it down okay he changed his name to Abraham which is father of many nations Abraham is the father of the faith we see this in Romans that Abraham was justified by faith so Abraham is the father of the faith so in essence I'm the god of your faithfulness oh please don't miss this please don't miss it now Isaac was Abraham's promised he said I promise you I'm gonna give you a legacy I'm gonna give you a lineage so really he's saying I'm the God of your promise I'm a god who's a Promise Keeper and then when he says I'm the God of Jacob he's saying I'm the God that doesn't mind knowing that you still struggle I'm the God who's gonna be faithful and keep my promises even though you struggle I'm gonna be the God that's gonna stay with you keep my promises be faithful to you even though I know you got some struggles I see you as Israel I know you reckon like Jacob right now boo-boo but that's not who you are your car to be Israel and I'm the guy who Abraham I'm faithful I'm the god of Isaac I'm a Promise Keeper and I'm the God of Jacob I still will love you despite the fact that you struggle from the God of Abraham Isaac and not Israel but Jacob and some of us think because we're like Jacob he can't use us like Israel and I'm here to let you know he will use you but you gotta first repent for being Jacob that that's all acknowledging it is I'm repenting for who I am I'm repenting for what I've done I'm being honest and confessing I'm Jacob and if you confess your sins he is faithful and just to forgive us of all unrighteousness so since you confessed your jacob ways i now see you by your israel mandate so i really have just two points and i'm done seven minutes i've better work this or seven minutes war bring up there's two chairs from the Stetson come holla at me real quick bring out those two chairs and chains that's how we talk come holla at me bring those two chairs and let's change them real quick okay all right so a lot of us have some dysfunctions some dysfunctions can I get everybody said this function you just space the chair out Stace and take that chain out for me it's about to get real awkward just be always ready bro be always ready so I'm looking at me see this chain I'm looking and I said why are a lot of us still in Chains why do a lot of us still have some dysfunction you know how a lot of us look in church in the spiritual room just like this change bound about praise team you know why some people can't lift their hands the chains are too heavy the chains are too heavy and I said well maybe the way that we can confront some issues is number one point one at MIT you Jacob you gotta seize this put the chain around you two like me admit you Jacob everybody say admit I'm Jacob and then point number two depending on the dysfunction the way that we get some dysfunctions off is you have to worship see we don't really talk about that as much do we brother mellow weed we don't really talk about worshipping could set you free we think it's a regimen we think it's a Bible plan not saying that don't read the Bible but that's in here like you need an exhale worship you know what I think God is grieved so many times because sanctuary sound like this chains but you're saying I am free yeah God's like what about that chain though and what I don't understand about this is how Lynn don't recognize how bound you are and we think worship is a feminine act and you're made to fight in warfare hmm you know how chains have links in them right me my wife traveled to do a lot of stuff about relationships and I've recognized something over the last few months bound people to track bound people because they can link together they could link together I'm sitting there thinking where's the episode in scripture where we see some people in Chains but they worship them off hmm it's about the beginner so Paul and Silas you gonna be Silas I'm Paul and Silas the Bible says in acts 16 car you can put this on the screen where you can see it y'all can see I'm not lying these brothers in Chains right and so I break down the text I'm thinking there's probably blood dripping on the floor cuz it just got flogged and the chains that they're wearing there's not a chain of dysfunction it's a chain of them standing out for Jesus see some of us you haven't even experienced demonic assault because you won't admit your Jacob there's another chain that comes on you to try to stop you from progressing and so I'm just thinking Paul is in prison the Bible says that in at midnight Paul and Silas begins singing hymns unto God I don't know what hymns they were singing back in the day but I think they were probably just sitting there like there is like you come on Silas you guys seem to make sure you in key no one else can touch my heart like you do I could search for all eternity long and find there is like you text says the prisoners were listening but the prison guard was sleeping and when the miracle happened he was about to kill himself because we don't worship you'll kill yourself so few people caught it so they keep going and the people are probably looking now if you ever felt like you're in Chains if you ever felt like you're bound but you want a miracle I don't know maybe you should participate they said our God is an awesome God he reigns participate from heaven above with wisdom power and love our God is an awesome God he reigns from heaven above stone power and love our God is an awesome God not to get into it our God is an awesome God he reigns from heaven above in the Texas and immediately there was an earthquake and all the foundations were shaken now that doesn't impress me because earthquake shakes foundations and then it says then all the prison doors were open that still does not impress me because earthquakes shake doors but the part that impressed me is when it said all the chains of the people all the chains who was on everybody fell off and everybody became loose everybody was free because they begin to worship I want you to catch this it was not just palling who was set free the Texas every prisoner who was hinder go in the prison they were set free this is why you don't need to judge me by my worship I could be a locksmith don't judge me by my worship I could be the one that sets you free don't judge me by my worship I could be the person that get chains off your life the way that we get out of this situation is we have to worship let's take a few moments and worship God for who he is thank you for being a redeeming God thank you for being a saving God thank you for being a mighty God we worship you for who you are for what you have done and what you're going to do if you do nothing else the fact that you want me while I'm shaking up the fact that you wanted me in my sinful state the fact that you wanted me when I was lost that's why I worship you because of my helpers trip I worship you you are my master physician you are my Sanctifier you are Robert FEMA you saw me as fit as worth paying for and that's why I worship you take some chance I'm act like Tanisha's somebody worship Him in the house because some change don't have shreds when you worship you can't sleep round when you worship chains fall off when you worship you're free when you worship yes there's some stuff we have to confront but if you wanted to get off for you you got to worship it off I'm not too masculine to worship I'm not too young to earth worship I understand why I worship I worship Him for who he is I worship for him for what he's done in the benefactor of me worshiping him his some chains can fall off me I'm done I'm done was this good for somebody today [Applause]

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Published: Tue Jun 12 2018