Dr. Gerald Jeffers: Humanity of the Heroes 7/27/18

[Music] to here on this soon you can use me breathe like that soon [Music] hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah we honor God tonight we give him all the glory we give him all the honor and we give him all the praise because truly he is worthy he is worthy he is what he is what he is the king of kings he is the Lord of lords he is out for and Omega he's the beginning the mighty God the Great God he is the only God king of kings and there is nothing like him there is none greater than him there is nobody like Jesus there's nobody like our God there's nobody like Jesus and we bless his name today and we give him the glory hallelujah because he's so faithful he is so kind and he keeps on doing great things for us and we are so glad that he does amen hallelujah we don't even praise Him like we should amen but we think him because he keeps on doing great things for us hallelujah even when we don't think about him and we don't move like we should sometimes we sit out when we should be up and we should be raising our hands but he keeps on doing great things for us amen he loves us He loves us He loves us He loves us and his love is everlasting it's everlasting it's everlasting and I seek Him hallelujah who is hallelujah hallelujah I thank you for who he is and I thank you for what he has done thank you for what he is doing and bless God with thinking for what he is yet getting ready to do bless people in the house we magnify the name of the Lord we say God for what he is doing in this region Amen an MPO W we bless God for all of you for your obedience to God and to the man the angel of this house we thank God for your bid Ian Sivan and following him amen and seeing what God has done God is doing great things oh but yet the best is yet to come there's more to come the best is yet to come the best is yet to come oh yeah hallelujah so you just keep on moving you just keep on striving up keep on blessing God keep on praising God keep on who i shipping God and say in his presence all because there are great things that are coming your way and the best is yet to come oh we bless God today we bless God today and we thank you for His faithfulness thank you for His goodness and his kindness unto us amen he secrets for those who worship Him amen and those who want to worship Him he has given us that desire that hole that is in our heart he put it there and it wasn't to fill it with worldly things or to fill our worldly desires huh were satisfied with worldly pleasures but it was to be filled with him and for his presence for his glory we are here for his glory for his glory for his glory hallelujah hallelujah and we bless his name today we give honor to God him and for your leadership for the man of God amen but pastor Rogers and sister Rogers and her absence we honor them and we bless God him and for even them allowing us to be here we thank God even for giving us the assignment to be here every time we come we're on assignment and man coz of God don't say it we can't come but we thank God because he's faithful and God loves you so much that he says yes and he sends us back amen he sends us here and we bless car we don't take that lightly we don't take it lightly amen and when God sends that means he's doing he's getting ready to do some great things God has plans for y'all he has plans for you he has plans for you because you have been crying out to him and because you desire the things of God and because you desire to please God and because you desire to worship God and you have made him the king of your life God is honoring you and he dwells in the midst of the praise as a he dwells and he inhabits our praise and he sits in our presence as we worship Him I think God for his presence that is here and men y'all need to continue just to bask in his presence everybody doesn't do this a many you should be grateful and enjoy it him and don't take it for granted bask in his presence every chance you get get in his presence get in his presence and stay at his residence enjoy him enjoy his presence amen because he everybody doesn't have it and then you are blessed and highly favored of the Lord and truly we thank God for what he is doing and we thank God for all that he is our God is everything if you have God than you have everything that you need because he owns everything everything belongs to him and we all everything that we've got all that we are we owe it to God everything that we've got ryeowon sigh God it belongs to him it belongs to him it belongs to him hallelujah hallelujah and we're only giving God back that that he gave to us the money it don't belong to us God gives it to us and why can't we give it back to him we're giving him back what he gave to us hallelujah and that he don't even ask for all of it he only asks for a little just a ten all this time all these years thousands and thousands of years he still hasn't raised the bar he said I just want the ten you keep tonight he just give me the ten who do you know does that you work on your job they gonna take 10% we wish they would amen Uncle Sam don't even take 10% he takes a whole lot more amen and I'm not going into offering cuz y'all been there remember to just need to understand how good and how great your God is understand how great he is hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah and if you be faithful to him Amen he'll be better than faithful to you because even when you're not faithful to him he's still faithful to you hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah and we give him the glory today and then we bless his name hallelujah why because he's worthy why because he's holy why because there was none like him there was none like him hallelujah bless your name o God you may be seated in the presence of the Lord Amen hallelujah may be seated two of you highly to worship you you to worship Him I live to worship Him I two of you [Music] - I ship you to a ship you who to ship you to ship you to Oh Oh [Music] Oh [Music] Oh Oh nobody like you Oh to [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] Joep you too July's Appetit - Liza beauty [Music] that's all I will go to alone that's all I want to [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] yeah [Music] la solana Messiah we bless your name Jesus [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] brother Newhouse I need you to come stand right here in front of the podium the Lord wants you to lift your hands be getting ready to receive this word [Music] when I step to the pulpit and I didn't even turn back around at that point look at you but the Lord Advocate saw it gave me a vision and I saw a fist with an arm let's see to the elbow and there was a lake of fire and the fist the arm shot up out of a lake of fire penetrating up through the earth and smashed a ceiling that was over your head and the Lord said there has been a ceiling of poverty over your head and even under my Apicella covering the ceiling has lifted but never broken but the Lord said he has now sent forth his word to break that ceiling that's over your head and there is now an open heaven [Music] [Applause] [Music] I personally did not understand why this fist Asst arm was coming out of the lake of fire but the Lord said poverty is of the devil poverty is death to your finances or to your soul or to your spirit and so God said as he conquered death and hell and he rose up from death until he said this symbolizes poverty as a generational curse in your lineage that God is going all the way back and coming up and is going to give to you what's been lost from the lineage he is making you an apostolic banker open heaven there is an open heaven [Applause] remember man of God when God talks about being an apostolic banker he's talking four levels of well but you know this includes finances he's directly talking about finances here but he wants you remember what he's really dealing in fullest when he calls you an apostolic banker is the four levels of wealth but he wants you to know because you cured God does this mean finances - oh yes oh yes when he spoke this to me he said it's directly applying to finances [Music] the largest spoke to me and he said to tell him that I allow this because on the other side of it there was a test to see that through the midst of the storms and through the midst of the slowing and even in some areas lack if you would begin to shut down your giving if you would begin to be fearful and withhold and stop doing the things that you were doing for the Lord there were times you weren't able to do as much as you had done in the past but God said in the midst of it you passed the test because you didn't stop giving you didn't stop doing and even when you had fear you kept moving you kept doing and God said it calls the breakthrough because of your obedience and because of your faith in God and your trust in God and God is gonna honor you and he's gonna bless you and the windows are open the doors are open and he said in the rain is coming and he's gonna bring the increase they increase the increase in Jesus name get ready for the overflow you know this song you're familiar with the song that we're getting ready to sing that's called the anthem but this time God said he has made it a prophetic word a declaration into you and into your situations that is a song the combines with the prophetic that has already been given to you the prophetic words have been spoken this song comes and joins in with that [Music] eatery [Music] [Music] gee okay see [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I just you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] a man I want to thank God for the praise and worship team they've done excellent thank God for your sacrifice thank God for your dedication thank God for your willingness to the book of Hebrews chapter number three or excuse me chapter number eleven and we are looking at verse 38 amplified classic hebrews chapter 11 verse 38 in the amplified classic we give God honor for his presence for him being the Living King the king of kings and the Lord of lords and we're so grateful for his presence that is here if he is not here we have no point in being here one of the things God is going to drill back into our understanding is church service was not really meant for us it was meant for him it's called the service of the Lord what do you mean in other words is not whether you like the service and honor you like that song or you don't it wasn't meant for you the song isn't being sung for you it's being sung for he inhabits our praise which inhabited Lee means we construct a throne for him to sit on and when the Spirit of the Lord is Lord then there is Liberty when you set up a great enough throne for him to sit on heaven liberty is found in the house hallelujah hallelujah so God's gonna help us to understand the services for him we come to glorify him the purpose of the service is not just to simply make us feel better the purpose of the services to elevate him and he said if I be lifted up than I'll draw hebrews chapter 11 verse 38 men of whom the world was not worthy and I want you to listen to the type or the condition that God is saying these men were in roaming over the desolate places and the mountains living in caves caverns holes of the earth now for those you understand where we're reading we're reading in Hebrews 11 and this is known as the Hall of Fame of faith and you see we love to talk about faith for deliverance and faith for victory but he said I want to introduce you to also to another side of faith these are men their faith was so astronomical to the world was not worthy to have them yet he said let me tell you their condition verse 39 next verse and of and all of these though they one divine approval by means of their faith they did not receive the fulfillment of what was promised go back to up to 38 back up with me again to 38 please they live in caverns holes of the earth and they were made to feel unimportant but the reason why they were living in this condition is because of 39 they were living holding on to a promise struggling to believe God for a manifestation now I wonder does anybody have any point of relating here they're their homes were not intact as far as naturally materially they weren't living in palaces I want to talk to you on this subject tonight the humanity of the heroes the humanity of the heroes before you're seated would you greet a few people around you and tell them God loves you very very much come on greet a few people hug somebody shake somebody's hand smile at somebody tell them God loves you very very much come on get out your seat get out just see go to somebody hug them up love on them shake their hand tell them God loves you very very much [Music] is there more to that verse 38 or am I missing something is there more to verse 38 is at the end of it thank you okay thank you when God speaks about the humanity of the heroes thank you god bless you you may be seated thank you when God speaks about the humanity of the heroes God is doing something very powerful and unique he is making holy people people touchable what happens to many of us is that when we feel that we see someone who lives close to God and is holy like God we feel that where they have gotten to is unattainable for us so to counteract this what God has done in the scriptures is to show you the humanity of these heroes is to show you their struggles it is to show you their fight and their internal conflicts and why is he doing this it is not endorsement to your sin it is not to encourage you to stay in a place away from God but it is to tell you that if I can bring them through these things and make them great then I can bring you through your faults your failures your sins your shortcomings and also make you great give somebody a high five and said I just received some hope Oh God the Bible is a very interesting thing in Ezekiel chapter 14 verse 14 the Babich does something very interesting here and I want you to follow with me just a moment so you can see this Ezekiel 14 14 even if these three men Noah Daniel and job were in in it they would save but their own lives by their righteousness their uprightness the right standings with me say if the Lord God now people argue was job a real-person the scripture you see what the category put job in jobs puts right with Daniel right with okay he said if they were alive in this generation the generation he's talking about he said I would not use them to intercede for this particular generation I would just simply rescue them because that's how bad this generation is but what he's really doing is he's showing you how elite spiritually elite they are an efficacious when the Scriptures speak about the person it elevates them to tremendous height but I want you to listen to job talk about himself go to job chapter 42 and let's begin at verse 5 see when we hear about job we hear how awesome he is out how elevated he is but oh listen to job talk about it job says to God I've heard of you only by the hearing of the year but now my spiritual eyes see you uh-huh go ahead therefore I love low means I hate my words i i i abhor myself a poor extreme hatred oh this doesn't seem to match when we hear about job we about how great he is but when we listen to Joe talk about himself hope says I hate myself and I repent in dust and ashes because I recognize the frailty of my own humanity struggling because I see what I'm not see sometimes when you're looking at me you're looking at me through the eyes of the anointing so you see how me high and lifted up he said but high when I look in the mirror I don't see that anointing I see how I should pray and sometimes I don't pray I see how I should push my way and read a little more instead I I fall asleep I see how sometimes when God told me to do something I may have done it but not with a pure heart not with the right attitude instead I had a bad attitude about it and and didn't do it the way I know I should have done it I I see my own humanity so where others may say oh you're so anointed and you're so powerful and you're so great and although there's an element of truth to that when I look at myself I see my own struggles why are you showing me this I want you to catch this the Bible never fails to show the humanity of the heroes because why he's showing you this is because if you only see the victory if you only see the heights of attainment but don't see the struggle and the process to get there then it all seems unattainable to you but when I can relate to the struggle when I can relate to the battle you're having in your head and when I can relate to how you felt like you were nothing and a nobody and why would God even want to deal with me look at somebody and say sometimes I wonder why God would even deal with me see when we talk about joke we see all these wonderful things thou has heard of the patience of Job James tells us but when job talks about himself he says I'm so struggling no no watch this watch this see when you look at these heroes if you're not careful you get the concept that they hear God 24/7 they're God's first cousin and they just got it like that but when you hear them talk go to job 23 start at verse 8 job 23 started verse 8 you're going to hear the struggle why are you showing me this because I want you to know you're not the only one that has difficulty with hearing god I want you to know that you're not the only one that preys and seeks and yet you're not sure where he's at he said behold I go forward and to the east but he's not there listen you may marvel at houdini because he could escape but nobody can disappear like God you can't send out a rescue search-and-rescue mission to find God you can go from preacher to preacher and were prophet the Prophet but he knows how to be absolutely silent he'll talk when it's about somebody else see something you don't get it you you see this appear we're giving prophetic words and as soon as we laugh my wife and I we laugh at each other because we go we give these precise words and different things and God doesn't God because it's God then you go home and well honey what did what did the Lord tell you about to do about this I didn't hear anything did you or anything no I don't hear anything either somebody calls oh the Lord said did it behold I go forward into the east but he's not there I go backward into the West but I can't perceive him uh-huh go ahead on the lefthand and to the north where he works I seek Him see Joe was a praying man I seek after him I make the prayer meetings I like these other folk you do this is so amazing about God no no no no no this this is so amazing about God God will blow your mind now folk that don't hardly ever show up to church and God I'll speak to them and you're like really good I mean really because you know what God's trying to get across to you it's not your consecration that makes me speak to you I speak to you because I love you and because I extend my grace to you you know earn the privilege of hearing my voice oh he knows how to rock your little apostolic ship and smile while he's doing it y'all don't know what to do with this do you on the left hand into the North where he works I seek him but I cannot behold him he turns himself to the right hand and to the south but I can not see him what are you trying to say I am deaf and I am blind in the realm of the Spirit I don't hear him and I don't see him that's not what I understood about Jobe that's not what I hear others talk about regarding Jobe see the Bible never fails to show you the humanity of the heroes because the Bible wants you to recognize you're gonna find yourself in places like this yes you're a man of God yes you're a woman of God but you're gonna find yourself in places sometimes where you have fallen where you are struggling where you are wondering if you are even worthy to be called anymore and yet even though you know God should slap you off the planet he opens up his arms to you and says you're still my boy you're still my car I want you somebody clap your hands and tell God thank you [Applause] verse 10 but he knows the way that I take you say what do you mean it means he's for dame the path that I'm up presently on he's for Dane the fact that I'm supposed to be blind and deaf spiritually right now I've asked got some very serious questions I'm sure you have too why why do you choose to use flawed humanity I mean really what are you expecting from sinful creatures that you know are more prone to give in to their flesh than they are their spirit I know some of y'all sit now like you ain't speaking to me whatever but for the rest of us that want to be honest why wouldn't you choose the angels I mean he would have absolutely no problems sleeping no problems with jealousy pride lust Envy he would have folk trying to grab a mic and show off trying to launch their own singing career I won't sing on the Pew but as soon as they grab a mic Oh God ones deal with none of that foolishness I'm like sweet brown ain't nobody got time for that and yet God will bless them turn around and call them back up no can say what you want to say I don't watched it too many times because he's making clear I bless you because I choose to not because you earn it he said but he knows the way that I take he has concern for it appreciates pays attention to it when he has what everyone shout tried me I shall come forth as refined gold pure and luminous in other words I understand that what he's doing is placing me within a fire but the fire that I am in is that I have no clue what's going on I'm praying I'm seeking I'm asking I'm waiting I'm doing whatever he tells me to do but I only do I find myself not hearing anything but I find myself struggling with faults failures and sins and I'm ready to disqualify myself I'm saying I'm ready to get out the way because I know me all right I understand y'all some y'all float through walls I ain't talking to you but he said for those of you that have this element of humanity where sometimes you get up and it's on the wrong side of the bed even though it's the same side you get out every morning and folk a whispering up in the house is it safe to talk to them because you're so spiritual you treat for like John the Baptist and cut their head off oh that's real talk of humanity that's what we deal with because here I can speak in tongues one moment and be elevated to the heights of God and then the next moment I can be in such a bad mood that I look like I got a unibrow in motion now here's the thing so many of you you say well this shouldn't simply be that's why I want you to read scripture because I want you to understand that's not that God is endorsing this behavior but I want you to understand that God yet exposes it so that you can understand these folk were great but had struggles in their humanity because you get this concept like all of a sudden they were just super Christian but somehow they didn't have struggles to come to church they didn't have struggles to overcome stuff in their minds they didn't have times where they wanted to quit and give up they didn't have times as if they felt like just forget this because there's just no way I'm ever going to overcome my own humanity to be something for God any real people in the house anybody ever felt like that now watch this watch this the Apostle Paul is hailed rightfully so as the greatest missionary this world has ever known theologians actually say that when Paul was placed in jail they would have to change the guards on him every 15 minutes because he would convert them as a bad boy [Music] but listen to Paul talk Romans chapter 7 verse 14 because what God is trying to tell you I know you're struggling with lust know something you're struggling with pornography no you struggling with lying no you're you're struggling to do the service of the Lord with joy some you show up to the house of God and look like you've been baptized in lemon juice act lower than a pregnant aunt it's almost like you need a 10-foot ladder to scratch the belly of a snake because you have had difficult times and you're wondering sometimes how am I ever going to be who God called me to be when I've got this kind of fight going on on the inside how many here were last night how many were here last night this bottle was about full now it's pretty much on Pastor Rogers head now let me tell you the dilemma because when you see a pointing like that flow on someone you go but as the oil is flowing among them they're thinking you're going wow and they're going Wow how would I ever walk in this office how will I cuz I know me I know when I have struggles holding my mouth see here's the first thing miles will learn from God if you don't get real with God you ain't gon get real help from God some y'all guy just got tell God I got diarrhea of the mouth because poison sometimes comes out my mouth especially when folk bother me come on you know we do with three H's Holy Ghost hood and hormones mm-hmm that's why some of y'all have flashbacks so might does something to church Oh sister don't do that okay no no no no no no no you almost threw me back don't do that babies and we don't want the police caught up in here don't do that cuz hood you know some of y'all Madea your idea peace be still is a gun a piece of steel the that this is the struggle I don't why won't you just bypass us and get somebody you know don't have this struggle okay hold on hold on how do you expect a woman married to a man to submit and obey to that man when that man has got flaws [Applause] see one of the powerful things about marriage is I get to see you for you coz when everybody saw the oil flow over you I watched the oil dry up and then I got to see what was under the oil and then I was crying what did I get myself into cuz there's anointest you are your feet smell you make some weird noises in the bathroom and God knows your breath in the morning can curl somebody's nose hairs got two words for you huh Tic Tac Tic Tac Tic Tac you want me to speak in the tongues Tic Tac out toward I toyed I toyed however you want me to say it you need to fix it scope it scope it scope it so we've got all this struggle going how do you expect me to follow this because let me give you an insight to what I do and how I do it let's look at Romans chapter 10 verse 14 but we know the law is spiritual we're not run with the law the law of Moses was holy the law of Moses was right Epis Telex be careful that you just don't feel that the law of Moses was simply just something to get rid of and itself the law is holy the purpose of the law was to reveal your humanity it was to show you and clear with uncertain terms you could never ever measure up to the standards of God not even on your best day you're not close you could fast from the moment you came out of the womb to the day you died and you would still never measure up I know cuz some of y'all so holy you think you came out the woman speaking in tongues you know remember when you did you thought cuz you came out and said that dad my mom out there that was some stammering lips or something then you got all Disney Akuma not Tata and then we suffer we suffer we know that the law is spiritual but are you hearing Paul catch the language does he say we I am a creature of flesh no you're not understanding we won't do this as leaders I only want you to see how God delivers me I want you only want you to see how strong I am I don't want you see how God has brought me out Paul so let me write to you about reality I am flesh and carnal I'm your apostle I've established this church and I want to show you my humanity so that when you're struggling and you feel like you'll never measure up to the call of God you will remember my story and you'll lift your hands and say there is no secret what God can do if he's done it for others you do it for you with arms wide open I have hope in my struggle in my humanity [Applause] I am a creature of the flesh carnal unspiritual having been sold into slavery under the control of sin theologians want to tell you that Paul wrote this before conversion some theologians but if you notice there's a consistent pattern and Paul's writings which were going to cover some of it the Paul's gonna make clear to us that I want you to see my struggle a leadership won't do this now we afraid to do this they won't give you this kind of transparency and Matt to be honest and tell you why because many of you too critical because if I showed you this transparency where we following him for you be time to find another church I thought they were holier than that he said I'm a creature of flesh carnal and spiritual having been sold into slavery under the control of sin yes next for I do not understand this is an apostle talking wait a minute God used this man so tight two handkerchiefs were casting out demons converting soul soldiers every 15 minutes and yet Paul is now telling you there are times I don't understand me it's times when I I don't get what's going on he said but I do not understand my own actions I am baffled bewildered I do not practice or accomplish what I wish but I do the very thing that I love are you sounding familiar job this is an emotional talking is this an endorsement to sin absolutely not then what are you trying to do Apostle Paul by telling me this I'm trying to tell you that when you see me on the height of these glorious mountains when I tell you I've been caught up to the third heaven and saw things that were not lawful to be uttered I want you to know the journey I want you to know the struggle so that you have hope because if God took me to those heights with my struggles with my fights with my sins he can do the same thing for you tell somebody I have hope times I go too fast put something in my mouth don't even like what I put in my mouth wasn't even thinking just sometimes sometimes I've discovered when I come off the fast that's worse cuz if I was on it for 21 I'm gonna make up in five days what I've missed in 21 days bless and eat and my favorite scripture at that moment is what Jesus said to Judas what thou doest do quickly because I'm running it with a speeding ticket between my mouth and my hand you ain't gonna get real help from God do you start see some of y'all you-you-you don't believe in Halloween but you live Halloween you got yourself a mask in a costume and you show up like a superhero after you don't kick the cat screamed at the dog and yelled at your spouse you come here singing Amazing Grace in the hallway here you were singing the Battle Hymn a republic both our hymns what watch this watch this for I do not understand my own actions I'm baffled bewildered I do not practice accomplish what I wish but I do the very thing that I love with my moral instincts condemned I know better I don't even need someone to preach this to me again I don't even knows need someone to teach this to me I don't even know someone to come and remind me and shake their finger in my face I'm telling myself you know better than this but I'm struggling here first sixteen now if I do habitually what is contrary to my desire that means that I acknowledge and agree that the law is good morally excellent and that I take sides with it what do you mean when I've sinned and when I am not doing what is right I am simply proving that the law is correct in showing me that I'll never be able to live up to the standards of God that's why the law was given to show us your universe away why did the Lord do that so you stopped relying on yourself that's why now grace deals with faith because the law unequivocally proved you'll never do it on your own you'll never measure up you can't work hard enough you can't pray long enough you can't fast long enough you can't sing long enough you can't come to church long enough to ever ever earn God's anointing to ever ever earn God's favor so it's given to you by grace because He loves you and has declared that I will shine my face on you because you're my child and I decided I'm going to bless you any I know people get nervous with sermons like this because it's so afraid that that their people gonna take it and take it as a license to sin this is not a license to sin this is saying if you will be real with God in your struggle and stop trying to hide from God and stop trying to impress folk the God can take you in that struggle and make you into a great and one man and woman of God yeah that's your process why does God let me struggle like this it's all have compassion for others because if I didn't know what it was to struggle in prayer I just don't think you're lazy and undisciplined but when I know what it is myself JEP want to focus on Jesus yet all of a sudden I have a sexual thought oh it went quiet like crickets oh I see y'all y'all don't have those problems okay okay I'm calling on Jesus and yet I'm struggling with a sexual feeling calling on Jesus and yet my mind is wandering my mind will play these spiritual games 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 was blind but now I see my mind will play these games of taking something spiritual to match something that's culturally carnal you see I know me and the reality is is when I want something bad enough my own flesh will imitate the voice of the Lord to me that's why God told me the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked it means it is morally bankrupt I am told there's nothing more deceitful on the planet than my own heart listen to Paul with the struggle move on please however it is no longer I who would do the deed but the sin principle which is at home in me and has possession of me so in other words the spiritual side of me wants to do what's right before God I want to please God can I see in the hands of you that want to please God I was talking with another pastor today and and they said somebody else was suggesting to them they should get this particular person but they had some arts and some in some difficulties with this person because they hurt them and they said yeah I'll get them and then I'll make sure I'm not there I was I'll call them to the church make sure they come and I'll make sure I'm leaving what are you trying to say I want to please God and I know if God wants them to come they should come but I don't mean I got a state see flesh will find a way to do what God says and yet still get what it wants anybody know the struggle hold on go to the book of second Corinthians chapter 1 let's start at verse 8 see leaders won't write these they they won't tell these things I just want you to think that I came here floating on a cloud speaking in tongues all the way with all dripping out from between my fingernails as the angels followed behind me saying holy holy Oh see why does God want you to acknowledge this because when people see power they start to worship I was used by God some many many years ago we what happened as I was with a pastor in the church we had to go there and the pastor to do something so the pastor was getting some stuff together in walk the pastor's brother and in front of me began to just tell the pastor off I mean good God told him off and when they were done the pastor was so hurt they turned around and walked downstairs into the basement and the Lord told me follow them as I followed behind the pastor and when they turned around to face me the Lord began to speak and speak directly into their life right back into their past right to their present they looked at me with eyes wide open like a deer caught in headlights and they reached for my hand to touch me they said are you an angel I said no I have to use a toilet y'all don't hear me because God uses flesh that is not always where it ought to be and what is marvelous about God is God will use you even when you're not in the place where you should be in order to draw you to the place where you need to be again he's not endorsing you staying there he's not endorsing you not trying or not going on he's saying to you I want you to understand that even though I'll make you a hero of the faith I want you to understand that you have humanity to contend with as long as you've got this party you have humanity therefore don't act so aloof don't act so high and mighty don't act like you saw above everybody else when I elevates you remember where I brought you from remember the times when you thought you were gonna die remember the times when you thought it was over remember when I seemed like the devil had his hand right around your throat and was squeezing and you could not even begin to breathe black God taste shut up only Kato shut die yeah remember the times when you wanted to give up you were ready to die you felt it was better to die than to live but I came to you I found your polluted in your own blood I picked you up I wash you with my word and I told you there remember that so when you see all the folk halfway coming to church stop being so hard on them stop trying to go up and lecture them remember somebody lift your hands a moment in glorify [Music] listen to the Apostle Paul Paul talk for we do not want you to be uninformed brethren now these are his spiritual children Paul told this sing Church in a few chapters later although you have 10,000 teachers you have not many fathers he said but I am your father for I have birthed you in the gospel these were his spiritual children and he's sending a letter back to them and he said I don't want you to be uninformed brethren about the affliction and opressing distress which befell us in the Providence of Asia how we were so utterly and unbearably weighed down and crushed that we despaired even of life it self he said I just came through such a trial until I thought I was going to die oh this is the Apostle Paul talking admitting this a we won't talk like this you ain't gone mid stuff like this wait a minute this is the man who is casting out demons with handkerchiefs this is the man caught up to the third heaven move on listen to this indeed we felt within ourselves that we had received the very sentence of death one translation says we felt like we have been placed on death row where was God in all this the man's going out preaching the man's being Natalie used by God the man's calling forth Amen sick people and they're getting healed delivered see some you get this concept that once you get to this part that God mightily uses you in miracles signs and wonders are flowing through you you just st. gonna have no anymore and you're not gonna know more difficulties dealing with your flesh Paul said I've arrived at glorious heights and tremendous places and let me tell you we just came through a child that we thought we won't die say man he said but but but that was to keep us from trusting in and depending on ourselves instead of on God who raises the dead no way did you hear his confession hold on this is a man of faith faith means total dependence what are you saying Paul he said even I have got to depend upon him more I thought you arrived I thought you came to a point where your faith is so strong that there's no problems no no I want to tell you why God let me have this trial I want to tell you why God put me on death row it's because I needed to increase my dependence on God we're not going to talk like this we're not going to make Nothing like this no no I want to tell you how late hands-on someone and they got healed that's wonderful you need to hear those stories I want to tell you how I preach to somebody now in the corner and God converted that's great you need to hear those but you need to hear these stories to to get a balanced presentation because sometimes why they told you how they laid hands on someone and they got healed they didn't tell you that when they got up their knees were knocking and they were second-guessing and they were really wondering if they were hearing from God or not but they went shaking forward they may have looked like they were all cool and together but internally they were SH many times shaking they don't tell us this so that's why all of a sudden when you go get to use and you're shaking you're thinking something's wrong with you cuz I ain't cool and collective like them that's why God said I want you to see the humanity of the heroes it don't mean you got to stay nervous it don't mean you gotta stay shaking but understand it's a part of the fight that sometimes you will have that you will feel that but if you will push your way just like they push their way the old Saints used to tell us there's a blessing in pressin verse 10 for it is he who rescued and saved us it's not my consecration I didn't go on a 21-day fast Paul said that's why I got out it's he who rescued saved us from such a perilous death and he will still rescue us save us in and on him we have set our hope our joyful confident expectation that he will again deliver us from danger and destruction and listen to this and draw us wait a minute this is the Apostle Paul I thought you were already so close I don't think you had to be drawn any closer second Corinthians chapter 4 you say why you shown in so much scripture because out of the mouth of two or three witnesses let every word be established second Corinthians chapter four I'll begin in verse eight second Corinthians chapter four verse eight fact if you would please back up to verse seven however we possess this precious treasure the divine light of the gospel in what frail human vessels pose not afraid to tell you this not afraid to tell you that sometimes God uses me so mightily until it baffles me and then the next thing I know I'm struggling in my head here is Elijah calling down fire from heaven and then here's a woman gonna threaten him you can call down fire from heaven and you afraid of anybody exactly what is wrong with this picture bad boy took off running you just call down five or heaven chillin drank up 12 barrels of water and caused an entire nation to drop to their knees and say Jehovah is God now you just got a threat from a queen a woman who says what you did to my prophets yesterday I'm gonna do to you today and you said hasta LaVista baby deuces I'm out he ran until he ran into a cave and God didn't step inside the cave God called him out of the cave what are you doing here he told God why he was here he had his testimony all written down and together because I'm zealous for the Lord and they have slain all of your prophets and I even I am the only one left well Elijah how long we going alone this self-pity party for this victims mentality how long we staying here you just called down fire from heaven oh no no it wasn't just that watch this watch this not only did you call down fire from heaven you just beat horses running go tell a hab I hear the sound of abundance ring he outran horses a team of horses it means the Holy Ghost carried him in spiritual time and now you get a threat from a woman and you go hiding up in a cave talking I am no greater than my father's take my life he was ready to die cuz he was tired oh no we don't just want to discuss this we don't talk about these things and that's why he went up with warp understandings of what it means to be a successful child of God you will have times even when you're high on the mountain lucky like you we're all of a sudden you're in the valley fighting in your own head but God knows how to reach you even in your cave body lift your hands to him just a moment and worship ya I have hope I have hope because there's some times I look at God and hango I'm ready to spank me I don't know why you're not and yes yes don't get me wrong yes like a good father god knows when to spank us and correct us but still he does it with love he's not trying to kill you he's simply trying to develop you but the sounds are you just so ready to give up on yourself because all you can see is what you're not and here he comes again reaching for you saying get up my child and let me tell you who you are and [Applause] sometimes you're just like Gideon here you've been hiding weak what do you mean you're afraid you're scared you don't got no courage and York shows up a messenger from God saying you mighty man of Valor you're strong hey and like kidding you're looking around who you talking to cuz you ain't talking to me yeah I'm talking to you watch this because when it says that God cannot lie it does not simply mean that God doesn't cannot say something that is false what it also means is if God did not say it if it wasn't true before God said it then it is true after God said it so before God said you were not a mighty man of Valor but after God said it his words create you to become who he said he can not lie his word will not be returned to him boy it will accomplish what it was set to do lift up your head mighty woman of God oh mighty man of God I know you've been struggling but hear the word of the Lord that's time to transform you and make you and mold you and give you hope in your humanity [Applause] shekhar tell her my mama shut up even Momo however we possess this precious treasure the divine light of the gospel in frail human vessels of Earth why why that the grandeur and exceeding greatness of the power may be shown to be from God and not from ourselves I'm sorry thank God for your praying and thank God for your consecration but don't you have a point to that and say that's why we have a move of God you have a move because of His grace you sought him because he draw he through you he put the desire in your heart he helped you to do it well you didn't want to do it Oh somebody tell them thank you somebody get honest in this heart house cuz I know me I know the struggles I've been having you might see me as a prayer warrior and as an intercessor but I know sometimes I get receipts Oshun for other people's problems because that gives me an excuse not to deal with my own and I can hide it behind a cloak of spirituality that's why soon as you find God calling up intercessors saying I need you to talk to me about you deal with you stop running the excellencies must be of God it's not because you've got some education it's not because you call to a particular office or position it's because God is so good in spite of for them to get to the place here yes they had to overcome some stuff but even they overcame some stuff they found themselves on another level she's struggling with new things falling sometimes in ways they thought they wouldn't fall to get back up and to keep fighting if it's gonna tell you that Moses was a powerful man of God Moses is second only to Jesus in the amount of miracles done in the scriptures and it's gonna tell you that Moses smoked the rock spoke to it and because of it God said you're not entering the promise Lee a man that saw God face to face how do you come down from the mountain with tablets smoking in your hand from the finger of God glowing with God's presence until there's a veil put on your face oh I don't know if you just got that he's a man and he's wearing a veil because only women wore veils because he had entered to be God's bride this was a man that saw the heininger parts of God what do you mean the back part of God what do you mean the back actions the actions that God had already done this is where theologians say this is how Moses knew how to rope the creation story because when he saw the back of God he saw the works that God had already done and he wrote them on up how did you go from that because God's reminding you let me tell you why you need to pray let me tell you why you need to fast let me tell you why you need to come to service and not miss service because you have humanity and although you might have just been mildly used and although you might have just climbed up the star-studded steps of glory if you're not careful your humanity will bring you down to the degradation of nasty mud I don't pray so you can think I'm spiritual yeah I don't reach for God so you can think of how deep and wonderful I am i reach for God because I recognize my own humanity because I recognize how nice day my own flesh is and I need him now you don't need him sister brother that's up to you if your flesh is all nicely packaging together that's up to you but I know me I can't sit there like that and be all quiet and serene and all dignified I'm sorry my flesh is too strong for that I got to open up my mouth I've got to lift my hands got to go after God o my flesh will kill me [Music] [Applause] you say you can say 40 years and it's true I've been saved over 40 years but one thing I've come to recognize no how long how long you've been saved you still have flash that's not a pass because you've been saved a long time not to pray because you know all the routines of church because you know the swells and the Falls and the rhythms of church that is not a reason for you to go well I know this I don't have to do it no more oh no baby you still have flash if you're not careful one moment you speaking tongues in the next moment you tell somebody off come on and love him a moment which oh I need you I need you somebody else sitting here like you don't need God that's up to you I guess your flesh is just all nice and neat okay fine that's the way you see yourself all right all right some you're more afraid of your neighbor afraid of your friend what they're gonna think about you I'm sorry your friend don't save you your friend can't save you from your flesh your friends can't lift you beyond your own humanity because you can't lift yourself beyond your own humanity so forgive me if I'm not trying to impress you I'm sorry if I shatter the image that you had of me and I'm just this holy deep spiritual thing that doesn't struggle that doesn't fight with flesh and that doesn't have times what I fall this treasure is in earthen vessels frail to humanity no it's not a license to sin but it's meant to drive you it's meant to make clear to you why you need to get to the throne why you need to make prayer meetings why you need consecration why you need to fast why you need to submit to leadership why you need to humble yourself [Applause] so what are you telling me preacher let me tell you what I'm really telling you are humanity which has our sinful nature which shows forth our weaknesses and our frailties it shows forth how there's so much opposite to God till it's not even funny shows how extreme we can go from God so we can literally act like animals I wish I had some honest folk up in here I know you trust real nice I know you look real good but is there anybody that can save behind these clothes there can sometimes be a beast a flesh I don't act right don't do stuff right they don't carry on the ways of God correctly why are you telling me this because what God is trying to tell you is when you get honest and admit this to me I'll fill you with more with myself it's when you admit to me that you're weak then we'll make you strong it is when you finally say to me I'm not good enough to be in your presence I'm not holy enough to stand alongside with you then I will impart my holiness to you as a gift I will give you the boldness to come to the throne of grace but you may obtain mercy and find grace to help in the time of need stop trying to hide stop trying to act like you got it all together it's not trying to impress folk and make them think you're so holy so you just walk on water every single day and get up from that place that admit to me if you don't help me I'll destroy myself if you don't talk to me I'll govern myself then rap my own I need I need you I need you I need you I need you because I love you God but it was up to my flesh I'll just stay in the background and tell you I love you from here and I'll I'll work from the background I'll push out the folk I'll help other folk but I ain't come and no further because if it was up to me I'd sit here and analyze and try to figure out how to get out of my situations and how to get out of my problems and what the solution is and I was a-telling my paper in my writing utensil and I would make an equation and I would put it all together and tell you what the outcome is and this is the way it ought to go and this is the way it ought to be and this is the way things ought to turn out but you see I've done that so many times and watched it blow up in my face watched it just fall apart because it was never the correct method and why did God allow all of that it was to make me to recognize you you don't have what it takes you're not your own Savior you're not the one that can deliver yourself you can't bring yourself out from the the difficulty I like something I heard a possibily Cole said he said I rather deal with a demon than D wood flesh any day of the year he says cuz a demon you can cast out you can't cast out folks flesh you live with your own humanity 24/7 you sleep with your own anime that's why you've got to go to God and lift your hands and say it's me again we used to sing an old song it's me it's me it's me Oh Lord I'm standing in the need of prayer it's not my brother it's not my sister but it's me Oh Lord touch me Oh God because I'm also struggling to understand in my humanity huh because according to the world I live in I earn what I get that's why we have evaluations and so I'm struggling because Here I am coming to you and I acknowledge I'm messing up and I acknowledge I'm not good enough yet what do you do you say I'll still bless you and I'll help you and sometimes you're so good to me so you'll bring a blessing that I should have only received in the future and you'll give me a little taste of that blessing right now to give me an encouragement to keep on going to keep on fighting and to keep on trying the devil said your mess-up God said I'll stretch your mess-up into a message and I'll stretch your message into a messenger of the mess you just came out of don't you die but do what they David said I shall don't you give up don't you lay down don't you roll over and play dead for the devil don't you believe the enemy that tells you you'll never be anything you'll never overcome you'll never amount to nothing lift up your head and say let me tell you what my daddy says I am a royal priesthood I am a holy nation I am a peculiar people I've been called out of darkness into his marvelous light I once was no people but now I have the people [Applause] [Music] oh you better lift your hands you better open up your mouth you better deal with your humanity or your humanity will end up dealing with you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] come on he's making you look at yourself not for you to give up not for you to be discourage for you to get real my flesh is nasty it's like fecal material trying to be displayed on fine china but you can clean me up you can change me from the inside out you can lift me up out of the degradation of my old humanity [Music] oh I have hope I have hope my flesh has given up the devil says you're a fool for even expecting it God said I specialize in the impossible [Music] [Music] that's it that's it come on lift your voice that's it oh I understand I understand when it comes time to deal with your flesh sometimes you want to whisper cus there's there just some stuff I don't want you to hear some stuff I've been struggling with and if you only know what I was dealing with you you and want this mic in my hand you wouldn't think you wouldn't want me to sit next to you [Music] [Music] [Music] come on he's waiting on you he's waiting on ya get real get real get real don't you let your flesh make you sit there and go to sleep don't you let your flesh cause your mind to wander don't you let your flesh try to make you feel like you're uninterested in this drag that flesh to God [Music] [Music] come on he loves you he's not here to condemn you come on he loves you he's not here to put his finger in your face he loves you but you want to get honest with him I've got some nasty flesh come on don't let it go into guilt shame and condemnation that's not God that's not God that's not God that's not God let it bring you to the point of being empty I can hold more of you I can hold more of you come on I could hold more of you [Music] [Applause] come home child of God stop beating yourself up stop letting the devil make you feel like you're a feel yeah and you're never gonna be good enough never gonna be able to please God enough stop believing the lies of the enemy that tells you you're never gonna measure up and look into a face of the Almighty God that's as I know you and I know your weaknesses I know your humanity I knew it when I called you and with all of your humanity's sins flaws I love you with an everlasting love and if you just work with me I'll help you erase you up it's a process it'll take time but I'll make you what you need to be all I'm asking you is to keep fighting keep fighting [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you're a Liberty right now the spirit of law wants to talk to people individually within your own minds your Liberty if you want to come to the Psalter come you want to kneel at your seat kneel you want to walk or go to the back walk you want to stand stand your Liberty to move as you feel to move but whatever way you move if you want to sit sit whatever way you move it's time to open up to God it's time to deal with your humanity it's time to deal with the discouragement you've known and the frustrations and the feelings like the promises of God will never come into manifestation within your own life and many times it's just simply your fault it's time to get honest with God and talk to God about it and tell God struggling teach me to handle my flesh teach me to deal with my humanity he come on some of you got strong wills and you fight God and you fight leadership and you want to do things your own way come on talk to him you gave me the strong will but not to use against you or not to use against your leaders help me to use it against the devil oh yeah [Music] [Music] come on that's right reach for him come on you've got hope you will become who he wants you to be you have hope come home you may seem like you're a galaxy away come on he knows how to translate you don't you give up don't you give up [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]

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Length: 118min 25sec (7105 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 04 2018