DR JAMAL BRYANT - What goes around isn't coming back around #flashbackFriday 3/17/19

things that he's already accomplished to you before he comes his name is brandon gray he is only 13 years old only 13. isn't that amazing amen amen he is an actor he is a musician and he's also a psalmist he's already being considered for the voice america's got talent and the a and e networks gospel team competition can you give him a hand for that as well yes lauren he has song with the wonderful bishop marvin sapp pastor shirley caesar and james hall just to name a few he was also featured in the stage plays entitled the house that misery built the preacher's wife and the real truth about black men introducing to some and presenting to others minister brandon gray [Music] the blood [Music] jesus shed oh for me [Music] that gives me strength [Music] never lose that jesus for me calvary wow [Music] from [Music] today [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] that gives me [Music] today [Music] [Music] with his blood he has saved me with his power he has raised me [Music] [Music] [Music] me [Music] [Applause] [Music] bye [Music] [Applause] it [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] from [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] [Music] wow [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] his [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] yes [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] oh [Music] surprised [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you better give god glory for that young man [Applause] it'll never [Applause] lose his power get your bibles in your hands [Applause] [Music] [Music] get your bibles in your hands would you make your way to joshua chapter 10. we're continuing in our series on signs wonders and miracles joshua chapter 10. i want to highlight for your critical analysis verses 12 through 14. joshua chapter 10 verses 12 through 14. i just need somebody to shout it'll never lose his power [Music] [Music] joshua chapter 10 verse 12 through 14 i'm reading this morning from the new international version as that you'll read along in whatever translation you've brought with you on the day the lord gave the amorites over to israel joshua said to the lord in the presence of israel sun stand still over gibeon and you moan over the valley of agilent so the sun stood still and the moon stopped to the nation avenged itself on its enemies as it is written in the book of jashar the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day there's never been a day like it before or since a day when the lord listened to a human being surely the lord was fighting for israel you may be seated so joshua say to the lord in the presence of all of israel stand still over gibeon so the lo so the sun stood still and the moon stopped the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down for a full day it's never been a day like that before or since a day when the lord listened to a human being surely the lord was fighting for israel i want to preach for a little while today using as a subject what goes around isn't coming around what goes around coming back around would you look at the person beside you and tell them whatever's been going around is not coming back around my dear comrade standing as a cornerstone of classic greek philosophy is aristotle the prize student of plato his publication entitled the heavens is still lauded as a seminal work for introducing the elements of the earth that african americans have minimized as a funk ban earth wind and fire he postulated that all bodies have a natural way of moving which could be regular or irregular he believed aristotle did that everything that moved was moved by something this theory predated newton's first law of motion which suggested that everything in motion stays in motion and that same symmetry of thought he proposed that the planets and the sun orbited around the earth he claimed that there was no evidence that the earth was in motion because no perpetual wind blows over the surface of the earth and a ball thrown in the air doesn't land behind the thrower for him this meant that the earth had to be stationary embarrassingly enough for almost 1 000 years this era held rank in both geological and theological circles parallel to that era is how many individuals you personally know who actually believe that everything revolves around them according to the dsm-5 diagnostic manual for mental health people who exhibit that level of thinking suffer from narcissistic personality disorder have an exaggerated sense of self believe that they are deserving of all attention and they lack empathy what they fail to realize is that it's not all about them and just like it's not all about them it's not all about you either you must decrease so that the lord may increase novel enough it was a priest that introduced the insight that in all actuality the earth moves around the sun this priest named nicholas in 1515 proposed that the earth was a planet just like venus or saturn and all the other planets circled around the sun it was so edgy for his time those who were his few followers who accepted the idea were charged with heresy and treason whenever you start moving in another direction you open up the door for accusation and attack your problem is you refuse to go along to get along you move at the beat of a different drum you march to your own orders and realize that you have been cut from a different fabric there are people who still can't catch up with your rhythm because they want to co-op your individ individuality and uniqueness and keep forgetting that cloning is illegal they only wish that you would think like them and co-opt their mind frame because they are so comfortable in mediocrity that they don't understand why you have an aversion to average as soon as you start thrusting yourself towards excellence they want to push you back to the minimal size of their own expectation and have a problem that you have the daring to be able to dream differently god has in fact put a tattoo on your life that you are in the world but you are not of it and so i don't know why it is that you keep frustrating yourself voluntarily trying to fit into something you were called out of stumbling onto broadway after an extensive stint in the uk was oscar levant's play in 1961 entitled stop the world i want to get off the show is set against a circus backdrop and follows the life of the lead character from birth the approach upset the usual stayed format of theater by consistently interacting with the audience every instance when something untoward takes place with the central character he would yell invariably to the audience stop the world he wasn't talking to the rest of the chaos he was talking to those who had paid their ticket adjusted their schedule set in that theater for two hours and 13 minutes whenever something that he did not desire would happen to him he would yell stop the world everything that could happen does from starting a family prematurely when that happens he yells stop the world trying to climb out of poverty because he came from meager beginnings but marry somebody from an affluent pedigree he yelled stop the world from all the drama that came from his family that once he was able to gauge a modicum of success they acted as if he owed them something even though they did nothing in order to assist his aspirational client he yelled stop the world how many times have you wanted to scream that out loud in your own life in your own journey and your own being stopped the world how many times did you want to scream it at your children before you caught a charge stop the world how many times did you want to peel your hair out and that of your spouse stopped the world how many times while watching the news when you realize how hard you got a struggle just to get your kids in school and then you see a picture of white privilege that exposes the likes of felicity hoffman that will bribe for her own children have access for what your children can't work towards stop the world how many times did you want to say stop the world this week when you had to watch while it is that you bit your tongue the documentary about michael jackson but you looked through the cable guide and couldn't find nothing about elvis presley or woody allen how many times did you want to say stop the world how many times did you want to scream out loud or stop the world for all of those who appropriately silence r kelly but forgot to pull down the movies of harvey weinstein how many times did you want to yell stop the world how many times did you want to scream just today stop the world from negro celebrating st patrick's day who won't even celebrate kwanzaa you had to ask yourself stop the world [Applause] ask yourself stop the world because uh in the words of that harlem renaissance poet life for you ain't been no crystal stare it's just had boards torn up but don't you sit there crying you had to keep getting up even when you wanted the world to stop and even when you wanted the world to stop it was almost in the words of m.c hammer that life comes at you fast and you don't get the opportunity or the option to stop the world because your grandmother raised you without the benefit of head start or aftercare or daycare here you were four years old watching as the world turns and all my children and you didn't know how in the world luke was still with law all you knew is that the world just keeps spinning and you wanted to cry out loud to yourself please just stop the world some of y'all just had a flashback [Applause] this has got to be how joshua is feeling in the 10th chapter when five different nations unified to bring him defeat and they wanted to bring him defeat why because they didn't like his progress frederick douglass that great abolitionist out of my home state of maryland said that without a struggle there can be no progress and here are these enemy entities that are upset because he's making progress and they don't like the success he is having he has not declared war on them he has just declared war on his former self and now they're angry you don't even realize how many enemies you have evoked simply because of a thirst to want to do better have no idea how many people are strategizing simply because you have made up in your mind you refused to be who you used to be you have no idea how many landmines and traps have been set for you on a job that you don't even want to work in but because they see your potential how they are anxious and nervous that you are going to rise to the top even while you feel like your career is at the bottom so five different enemies converge and have a meeting of the minds albeit diabolical on what can we do to stop joshua so they converge on the linchpin city of gibeon and i want those of you who can hear my voice today to know that you have made a terrible mistake if you believe that satan lucifer the devil bells above is in fact the counterpersonality of god satan does not have all power not only does he not have all power he doesn't have all knowledge not only does he not have all knowledge he is not everywhere and because he has a limited power hear me he will often for those of us who are destined for greatness he will never just throw one thing at you he'll throw three four and five different attacks at the exact same time and then he stands back to see which one will you respond to and based off of what you respond to he keeps needling it hoping that he can irritate and aggravate you all the more not even realizing that i can handle this in my sleep so it irritates you when you're having a juggle bowling balls and you hear people complaining about small and tonighty stuff that really has no never mind and here you are trying to keep everything together and folks have no idea that for real for real while i'm in church i'm saying to god if one more thing happens to me i'm gonna kick some desk over i'm talking to some real folk that got four and five things happening in your life at the same time i'm talking not to you but to the person two rolls behind you that if you ask them what's going on with them they'll pause and take a moment not because nothing is going on but because they're trying to figure out one of two things do they feel like reliving it or can you handle the truth i'm i'm talking to those of you that got five things going on right now car breaking down something needs fixing at the house your child got an attitude problem you dealing with demonic co-workers you got sickness in your body your money is running short and you think i got time to worry about you not liking who i am i got too much on my plate to worry about you cause i got five different things what is amazing about joshua he's he's got to fight five different encampments he's got to fight five different armies five different regimes five different nations and here's my problem new birth is that joshua is the one that's anointed and what is attacking him has no anointing can i go a step further and all the more joshua is losing i want to talk to some some real saints who who know that you can have the anointing of god on your life and still go through a season where you feel like you're losing it i i do not have time for these shallow superficial cotton candy saints who act like everyday they blessed and highly favored and every day the joy of the lord is my strength and every day can't nobody do me like jesus i need those of y'all that can keep it real that some days i don't want to turn to my neighbor some days i don't want to lift my hair some days i don't feel like shouting i just want to sit here and hope something breaks [Applause] joshua's losing and he's losing real bad and when he starts losing real bad he like many of us cries out loud i need a miracle i i know some of y'all don't need it but i'm i'm i'm talking to a remnant who is in the room how they're saying pastor that's how i feel right now that it ain't just one thing because as soon as i take one step forward i got something that pushes me two steps back i need a miracle but the difference between a good day and a bad day is just one phone call i need a miracle everything was going well until you sent that text to my phone i need a miracle i was all right until i opened up that envelope i need a miracle and joshua is being defeated and he begins to pray out loud because he realizes that when i'm going through that ain't the time for me to be cute and to be stuck up and to be seddy i don't care who's listening i don't care who rolls their eyes sucks their teeth and says it don't take all of that all i know is i can't have another week this week like last week i need god to do something before i do something crazy i i need god to intervene because i feel another piece of myself rising up i need god to hold my tongue before somebody catches these hands don't push me cause i'm close to the edge i'm trying not to lose my it's like a jungle sometimes just a new birth y'all ain't been saved that long [Applause] says god i need a miracle i need a miracle cause i can't go another week living under this kind of attack hallelujah and i don't know where you are but you can't wait till next year this time you you need something to happen for you here's your shout in the next seven days if you don't need nothing don't say nothing but if you need god to intervene for you before you get to church on next sunday i d double dog day to open up your mouth like you need a miracle [Applause] and joshua elicits his strongest men and says to them what's this we gotta go fight because nothing they are contending with is strong enough to defeat them they are weary and have no more strength left so tap me in i'ma step in the gap for them i don't know who you sitting beside but you're going to be more shrewd about who you sit with in the sanctuary i'm telling you don't let random people sit next to you who gonna drain your strength find somebody who came to church looking like they drunk on red bull they don't know how to sit down they don't know how to be quiet look at the person beside you tell them i know it's been a rough season tell them i know you've been under attack i know the devil been after you and your family that's why you ain't got to shout i got your back i'm getting ready to fight for you i i'm getting ready to stand in the gap for what you need [Applause] the game the game looked tight and victory looked elusive so joshua prayed to the lord watch what josh prayed to the lord he prayed to the lord lord make the sun stand still hallelujah new brother i i don't want you all uh to be a sheep that um i just go along with everything and so i i it is my intention as shepherd to make sure that we are a congregation of critical thinkers here's joshua's prayer lord make the sun stand still and all of our lives all of us who were raised in the church quote this scripture testify over this passage shout over the outcome and never do critical analysis joshua pray to the lord make the sun stand still see what you don't even realize is that joshua was under the false same presupposition as aristotle joshua thought that the sun evolved around the earth and wanted the sun to stop when in fact it is the earth that is revolving in contrast if the earth stood still according to nasa the atmosphere would still be in motion with the earth's original 1 100 miles per hour speed at the equator everything not attached to the bedrock would be lost and destroyed and scientifically watch this his prayer makes no sense y'all mad i can tell where the church people are because you don't read the king james version and say joshua said make the sun stand still so you stuck right there believing that the sun stood still but can i argue with you ladies and gentlemen that this is the formula for a miracle the formula for a miracle hear this is you got to pray for god to do stuff that don't make sense [Applause] if it's logical or rational or reasonable it is not a miracle so god says i'm getting ready to bless you in stuff that does not make sense i'm going to release for you houses that don't match your credit uh y'all i got the wrong people i'm a release for you jobs that don't match your background i can't hear nobody in here i'm a leasing for your children opportunities that they don't even deserve i'm releasing for your family when nobody in your bloodline has ever accomplished i am releasing for your business without any backing without any support i am releasing for your idea without any bank i am releasing for your project without any underwriter i am releasing your non-profit without any grant and when folk look at what god did you gotta look at them and say it's a miracle god did it right [Applause] [Music] now what what he was really saying because he couldn't make the sun stop it's the earth that needed to stop what he was really saying new birth is lord give me more time i knew y'all weren't gonna shout about that hallelujah i need more time to get done what i've been assigned to do i'm tired of feeling tired and burnt out and run down i need more time why because the haters are women but the wealth of the wicked is getting ready to be stored up for the just look at the person beside you tell them you just got more time you got more time to get started what you should have began in 2017 you got more time more time to reconcile your relationship with a family member that's become distant you got more time to pray for somebody that did you dirty you got more time to clear that bankruptcy off your credit report you got more time to pay off your debt but i came to tell the devil if you got more time the enemies run out of time the devil thought he had you but you just got away i dare you to shake somebody's hand and say you got more time more time to give him glory more time to give him praise more time to give him thanksgiving just another day that the lord he's kept me from all evil i should have been dead i should have been in my grave but i woke up this morning with my mind stayed on jesus shake somebody's hair and say neighbor the devil ran out of time but i got time to step in my place i got time to lay hands on the sick i got time to step on scorpio cause can nobody do me like jesus can nobody do me like the lord give three people a high five right now and tell them time is on your side hey hey i got more time give somebody a high pass tell them i got more time no cancer in my body i got more time i'm going back to school i got more time everything that i dreamed of is getting ready to happen i got more time to do everything the devil thought he would stop i got more time hey we see the police i got to get out of here be seated right with you hallelujah please real quick be seated y'all messed up my sermon be seated right where you are hallelujah thank you holy god hallelujah thank you holy god you ain't got to say nothing but i need somebody to shout out loud i just got more time hey i just got more time y'all ain't saying nothing i just got more time i just got it [Music] so i am bc bcd i got to show you something so i wanted um i wanted to argue against the fallacy of of joshua's intercession of him asking for the sun to stand still i said there's no way no way that you can make the sun stand still god help me until i read mark chapter 10. mark chapter 10 jesus comes into jericho and there's a blind man by the roadside name bartimaeus and he heard jesus was passing by and the bible says and he cried out loud son of david hallelujah have mercy on me the disciples told him listen we ain't that kind of church don't don't shout like that don't don't don't scream be dignified keep keep your couth and your calm but watch this new birth everybody who told him to shut up had vision don't don't tell me how to shout if you don't need what i need i i can't hear nobody when when i need something bad you don't know how hard i got a shot [Applause] the disciples said the blind by the mayor stop screaming don't trouble the master but blind by the mayor's got to rebuild rebellious independence spirit that every time uh for those of y'all how they grew up in church every time they put a circle around them god help me every time they rubbed his back and pulled out a martin luther king funeral home fan and and gave him starlight mitch trying to make him calm down every time they told him to be quiet he would shout louder son of david have mercy on me y'all read mark chapter 10. he kept on screaming it jesus son of david had mercy on me and when jesus heard him shout chapter 10 said that jesus stops i want to shout so that when god is passing it'll make him stop and say who is that that's screaming for a miracle who is that that's yelling for a breakthrough if you don't want the sun to stop don't shout with us but if i need a miracle this is your opportunity to go wait till the battle is over but shall [Applause] hey y'all ain't got to shout with us look at the person beside you and tell them if you don't need what i need don't scream the way i scream but if you need a bill pay you need a way made you need a body here you need a family reconcile you want to shout like you say to do exceedingly [Applause] lift up that hand please [Applause] everybody prays for a move of god but if you need a miracle you don't need to move a god you need the sun to stand still how much you lift that hand only if you're in need of a miracle don't start numb won't be none the airport in the train station at the bus stop they got a sign that says if you see something say something i'm believing over every lifted hand because of your worship today you getting ready to see a miracle late in the midnight hour god's getting ready to turn it around it's getting ready to work in your favor i can't kill nobody huh those of you that believe that god getting ready to show you something would you just turn right where you are like it's getting ready to shift for your ears it's getting ready to break for you yes it's getting ready to open for you i need the sound to stand still [Music] lift up that hand i want to pray for you while on others thou art calling please don't pass me by i need you to stop at my house god i can't hear nobody i need him to stop by my bank account anybody here i i need him to get to the doctor's appointment before i get there i need god to beat me at the interview god says i'm getting ready to stop [Music] but as long as you let other people bridle your praise you never gonna get to where i got for you i don't care who rolls their eyes who sucks their teeth who says it don't take all of that they don't need what you [Music] but if you need something from god the dance floor is open i'm gonna give you 30 seconds to get god's attention and i need you to cry out unto him like this is a desperate measure i need you to shout out loud like you need him urgently i i need you to praise him like this is your moment [Music] [Music] come on [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] lift that hand as high as you see yourself going we call on the miracle working god to do for you what you can't do for yourself to exceed your expectation to embarrass your enemy and to defy everything that is logic and rational those of you in this room and your faith comes into agreement with your pastor's faith would you do me a favor i want you to just shout if you believe a miracle is headed to your house come on open up yo [Applause] come on i can't hear you i said shout if you believe a miracle he is [Music] you get ready to witness a miracle you're getting ready to mis-witness a miracle some people are getting ready to start walking in every aisle hear me and i want you to know expressly intentionally who you get mittens to see walk down the aisle you can't really see people not just coming to get saved but they know they need their life changed they don't want just oil thrown on their forehead they want their way of life they want their thinking to be dramatically different i don't know who you are i don't know where you are but you're not here by accident or coincidence you're here by divine providence everything that happened in your life was setting you up for the third sunday in march god had you in mind you've had at least five things attacking you coming against you but god says you are now under the shadow of my covering and my anointing you're here in this room and you know your life could stand the miracle right now your family could stand the miracle right now i need you to just start excusing yourself and meet me at this altar please you know you need to get saved you know you need to join this church i need you to come quickly please where are you new birthday y'all gonna shout for them as they come [Applause] [Music] come on give god here we go on give god [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] new birth y'all know we got to make more noise than that [Music] i know where you are but there's still 10 more of you that's holding up our service i need you to come as quickly as you can would y'all shout for them as they come [Music] i can't believe y'all ain't gonna shout come on [Music] still come and shout for [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] just take two steps forward take two steps forward listen if somebody on your row hiding out they think they can blend in in the crowd but god needs them at this altar i need them in this church i need them a part of the body of christ i want you to shout for this young lady coming right now come on [Applause] they get married come from the north south east and west i'm telling you no area of this sanctuary is safe if you unsaved we coming to get you do me a favor new birth let's go to work everybody move and talk to somebody you don't recognize somebody whose name you don't know roll right up on him say hey you say come on ask him you got a church home you're part of a ministry that's lit like this come on i need y'all to shout for these young ladies coming young man [Music] you're a miracle [Music] miracle workers [Music] come on give god [Music] [Music] you're a miracle [Music] you're a [Applause] [Music] stretch your right hand to faith [Music] stretch it right into faith do y'all see this harvest of souls on a sunday morning [Applause] i can tell y'all don't recognize a miracle when you see one would you give god a shout for all of these who are coming to get saved coming to join the church coming to be a part of the new birth family stretch that right hand of faith repeat after me you're in the right place at the right time joining the right church serving the only god under the right pastor and i know that's right show you're right if you know him right come on big ups to the savior will you give god a shout of thanksgiving come on you're a miracle you're a miracle i want all of you who are standing if you'll come with us this way give god [Music] [Music] [Music] clap your hands if you know god is a miracle worker i say clap your hands if you know god is still performing miracles you may be seated the biggest miracle that the earth has ever recognized is not joshua's prayer being answered but jesus getting up from the grave with all power in his hands how many of you thank god for a resurrected lord it is the seminal focal point of our faith of jesus rising again we wouldn't assemble on this some sunday morning if he just died on friday but didn't get back up with all power in his hand so resurrection weekend is very critical very crucial for us softly mitchell's on good friday which is the day that we hallmark the death of our loving lord we're hosting the seven last word service here in our sanctuary seven churches from around atlanta are coming here to new birth for us to have service together come on somebody give god a hank leper praise seven different pastors yours including will be uh sharing the echoes and reverberations from the cross so on that good friday night at seven o'clock i want you to make sure that you're in the seat that you're in right now it is your religious holiday tell your boss you're not coming to work that day hallelujah i need you in church that night i will be broadcasting live on the word network to over 30 million households somebody give god some praise for that 30 million people will be with us on that saturday morning we're giving evidence of our call to self-denial as a consequence goodwill is sending trucks to our church we're asking everybody to just go through and purge your closets i want it to be the single largest donation made by any church in america on one day how many of you know you are blessed with overflow you're blessed with overflowing so of the day before resurrection sunday you're going to be able to do that i am so excited new birth and i hope that you will share my joy of that saturday morning the day before resurrection sunday uh we're going to the city jail uh and we're going to go pay the bail of every man and woman y'all ain't saying nothing to me [Applause] every man and woman that's a non-violent offender every man and woman is a non-bound offender we've already i've met with the sheriff's office the state's attorney you all would be amazed how many other counties in georgia asking us to come there and i told him my immediate responsibility is to dekalb county come on somebody give god a hand clep of praise as quiet as is kept the fastest growing prison population is black women black women between the ages of 18 to 24 the fastest growing prison population uh in america and the church has been deathly silent on it a critical work that if you've not read it called the new jim crow my super bad sister michelle alexander talks about how prisons are the new plantation in america and how it is that the church has been overwhelmingly deftly silent to the issue to that end new birth we get ready to do what no other church is doing uh we are going to raise between now and resurrection sunday forty thousand dollars just to pay bail of our brothers and sisters who are behind prison bar y'all ain't gonna get excited about it [Applause] jesus said i'm anointed not just to preach the gospel but to sit at liberty those who are captive and that's part of our responsibility as a consequence here's what i need you to do please here's what i need you to do i want every person to get a sacrificial seed in your hand this is not towards the building fund this is not for installation it ain't for the pastor it ain't for green grass outside it ain't for new signs ain't for radio advertisements it ain't for the electric bill it ain't for payroll 100. you

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