Emeryville Church of Christ 2020 Revival "Now when they heard THIS!!!"

456. no tears in heaven [Applause] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] no tears in heaven will be known [Music] take your neighbor's hand tell them you're glad to see them this is the house of the lord brother james walker jr and of course this wonderful father beatrice minister brother james walker senior amen child amen to see you tonight i want to invite your attention to 20 that was read in your listening ear brother stevenson we want to finish up our thoughts is just look at your neighbor right now and tell them right now i'm not gonna like him [Music] amen um whatever i'm ask people to revive those uh beatings in short i want to share this with you and both places to preach always insist upon the visiting or rather the host preacher want to give me his insight by which he perceive or he his mind concerning his ministerial responsibility for that local congregation i do that simply because he's there and i'm not and i'm not looking for information in regards to him telling me what's going on uh we need to know what's going on but rather i'm looking for where does he see his work that the lord has placed him in the local congregation and where does he desire for it to go that's important from that i'm able to ascertain and gain better insight to the particulars as relates to the challenges that we are facing in this 21st century in the lord's church as he indicated i just left about a hundred preachers and all of them were singing the same song seemingly the challenges that we are facing across the brotherhood a long time ago i i stopped trying to come up with antidotes as well as trying to create uh methodologies by which to empower enhance or encourage some kind of program by which to get people to get excited about the lord amen and then secondly for them simply to own their own salvations and i've discovered through the years that the only way that an individual is going to own their salvation and secondly work out their own soul salvation and truly identify their lives with discipleship and christianity you cannot want it more than them amen amen i'm gonna say that [Music] i've been doing this a long time a long time and i have discovered that uh feeding folks singing folks to sleep and singing them back awake again going doing and being don't get me wrong i'm going to talk a little bit about that it's not the answer it's not the answer it's not the answer it has to be in them they have got to want it for their sins amen that's right and we get preachers and i make the same mistake we as preachers oftentimes want it not only for ourselves but we want it for them and what we end up doing is that we end up enabling people being co-dependent upon those that's cheerleading them along the way and so i i i have really truly just altered my ministry and i have simply enveloped a whole different perspective theologically philosophically in dealing from the word of god amen and making it as simplistic as possible and conveying it to individuals in the most perhaps uh you know practical way that they too will seek the importance of themselves amen living as god would have been here all right i want to talk tonight in the second phase of this parable if you go to the 20th chapter i'm just going to surmise it for a little bit uh i i want to talk about tonight from the thought of what's wrong with you all right i have basically concluded this is inclusive it's not no exclusive this is inclusive inclusively speaking i have concluded that there is something truly wrong with us yes it is amen as it relates to us understanding that god desires something from us that can help us save ourselves and i want you i want you to just think about that i want you to write it down i'm hoping that you take your notes you're going to see tonight that you as well as myself we can be often time we are our own no one could be more critical of yourself like you no one could be as hard on themselves like you no one can speak into your spirit negativity and hesitate we can become self-indulged in self-pity that we will talk ourselves out of the mouth where god is just simply trying to get us to see there's two things i i want you to do going forward with your life study your bible and study people you won't need no 55-inch tv come on i'm serious i am serious study your bible and study people and you discover that people can hang themselves up with their own hang-ups and idiosyncrasies that's why that's why i mean how can you have 3 000 friends on facebook and you can't even get along with yourself in your own house our whole ideology of how we process as well as think yes and perspective is distorted amen yes mine is yeah yes our society i don't have to tell you our society is turned inside out where now you have gender indifference in non-binary mindsets where a man has concluded i'm just non-binary all right you you don't and in case if you don't think it's real it's real you got to go to some of these social places and you may be walked in up on while you're in the restroom some male 1 they're saying he's not a male that's right he's a female oh i wish i had some help can y'all just do this one more time i want you to see in the first phase of this and just give me 25 minutes and this lesson will be yours the first summation of this particular parable which is basically kingdom parables and kingdom heroes speak into the the four sight of the insight of god pointing us to what the kingdom would be like that's why i love the lord and his parables these kingdom parables basically they are telling us how individuals who will come to know the lord that's right yes yes is going to behave in the kingdom that was going to come amen that's why they call them kingdom parables and i'm so glad that the lord had enough insight and foresight to give us information about when you come to know the savior there will be those that will still have problems with their behavior and you and i know most of most of all that if you've been a member of the lord's church which is which is the kingdom of jesus christ if you've been if you've been a member of the lord's church you and i know that our greatest problems that is adverse dude our lord and king is those that have bad attitudes come on if you look at if you look at the first several verses you will discover that that particular aspect of the lord telling the parable is pointing us to the sovereignty of god in other words what what jesus is is clearly and plainly stating in the first premise of this parable that god does not need [Music] and the reason why the premise of the summation of the first several verses of this parable is so unique and powerful and profound is because the lord wants us to see the great lent that our god jehovah goes to to try to save you and i yeah from ourselves right there it's right there he's just ready he goes out early in the morning he goes at six o'clock in the morning that's right he goes at nine o'clock in the morning he goes at lunchtime at 12 o'clock he doesn't stop there he goes at three o'clock and finally when you and i were called and quit he goes back at five o'clock when there is only one more hour to working yeah who does that only a god that is determined to save his highest creation from himself y'all know y'all know we're gonna be like that come on no no no no no y'all would have stopped but i would stop around about 12 o'clock ain't nobody in the world that we will be going to try to hire somebody at five o'clock and the business close at six come on be honest be honest you know and i know that around about around about 4 35 or 4 45 we're going to be saying oh that's just too bad we're not gone that's right because god is not slack concerning his promises not willing that what it is should perish but all should come to repentance in other words the god that we serve is an infinite god that is concerned about your well-being and everybody else has given up on you god has not heard i heard you i heard you thank god for that because i know for a fact in that testimony that you was given i know that people walked away from you saying i'm not going to have nothing else to do with him but look at you now aren't you glad that god did not give up on me the same way about you many of us right now should be dead and not great and we're not dead and not if not dead in our grave we should be out of my mind if not out of our mind we should be walking the streets because he's a constant god yeah if you notice that he went i'll write that down y'all need to write this down he went he didn't send his steward he went he didn't send his servant no he went yeah he didn't see his best friend he went why because god wanted to make sure that those that was in need was attended to and heard plainly what he was all about now what i want you to see in this real quickly i want you to see with the first group and it's significant it's significant to understand with this first group that very first group i want you to underline is right there in the text the scripture says that he agreed right is that in your text that that is that is very important to understand because in as much as god in his infinite wisdom in who he is and how he is he's omniscient which means that he's all-knowing he's omnipotent all-powerful he's only benevolence he's all loving me yes yes he is but god is a businessman that's right oh yes he negotiates with them according to what he knows the business that he owns what's wrong now the you and i are daenerys doesn't sound like much but to the to the cultural jew or duct tape that was a lot of money and some of us have been around long enough can remember that when when a loaf of bread was 25 cents some of y'all remember when back in the side when you used to take some bologna and salami put it in the skillet and let that heat rise it up and get clean y'all hit me out here come on come on anybody can testify with him yeah yeah so so to to the jew that was a lot of money it was a lot of money especially when you did not have a income come on but he's a businessman and he negotiates from the base of what he understands the worth of what they're going to do come on now that's salvation and that's why god is is is fair and just and righteous because when he presents the gospel of the good news to us god has already substantiated the foundation by which salvation will be worth ascertaining come on when he presents it amen that one would be listen listen listen you gotta see this that one will be so inclined after hearing the presentation of what was being offered that would be hard that it would be hard to resist what was being offered especially when you didn't have nothing all right amen brother oh no you're missing it you're missing it i i i don't want to get too deep cerebrally with you but you got to understand that when the owner presented that that that offer to them and he said i agree with you with a daenerys he was waiting for them to also agree to the contract by them understanding that you are agreeing to it and i am agreeing to it and we are not entering into a bonded contract together which means that i'm going to keep my word if you keep yours that's spiritual opinions that oftentimes the child of god misses and is lost in translation in church odyssey and it's lost because there's no spirituality with the child of understanding we lose focus [Music] i'm working out my soul salvation man i'm not in here to please you all right i'm not in here to make you happy all right i'm not in here to appease your thoughts concerning me i'm in here because i got to put food in my soul to save myself and to say myself that i cannot help nobody else all right brother look at your neighbor say that was a fair contract of putting a denim in there that was stipulating anything that would be indifferent than everybody else they all knew but they were getting amen yes i did what you heard to come into the body of christ or the vineyard i heard the same thing what you obeyed i had to obey how you got to be obedient there's no different regulation stipulation that governs me that is different than what governs you we all got to obey this book amen this is the contract right here amen [Music] they come in at 12. and he's not even he's not even he's such a man of integrity and god is such a god that he keeps his word and his word does not return back born that he doesn't even put a dollar amount just because who he is i wish i had some you know amen oh come on just because you said it god i'm going to believe it have you experienced in your own personal life and have walked with the lord long enough yes that god has been so good to you and he has come through when nobody else has come through amen he has been there when nobody else has been there yeah what you got in your relationship and your friendship with god but you just say lord i know you can i know you will yeah in other words out of god is a god of faithfulness what he says he'll keep his word amen just raise your hand just a little bit with the one finger up and tell me has it had have there been times in your own life where you know for a fact you have not been faithful like you should have your god has been paid for just a little is so they're all in there and you would think everything should be all right [Music] [Music] but he and his just when they were getting ready to start picking god blocking god [Music] [Music] my question every time i look at this i'm trying to figure out when did they start supposing look at verse number two yeah yeah it's right there y'all missed it y'all thought i missed that one word that antiquated beautiful words supposing oh it's powerful in verse number 10 supposing do you y'all know what's opposing me [Music] write it write it down it means to assume to conclude to be presumptuous where did it come from i'ma tell you where it came from right there in the house of god the vineyard the church the body [Music] i've been doing this a long time and there are three elements of indifference that can rise up in a congregation overnight all right write it down don't look at me write it down the first one is clicks and the third one is clowns [Music] and have the kind of favor from god on our lives because we're too cliquish clicks you can't tell me that that was there was no click in this group because they they imitate them can i tell y'all something clicks always tell on themselves yeah whatever certain thing does not go their way in the click wait they're going to have another meaning after the meeting but you know what i know that clicks are either in nepotism family or it's either in those that's been there a long time and they have to get along though they may not stand each other they will stand with each other when they want to get you hey all right help me out y'all to identify that's been sitting there for 30 years together in the kitchen for years and he and you decide to come in there this is my daddy's church my mom and daddy built this shirt are you all right logical perspective for you to help you try to get over this my question is when did you start supposing you know i'ma tell you when they started supposing they started supposing when they put a validation of affirmation of them being first that's right right yeah [Applause] we was here first supposing now because they were first they concluded presumptuously that because they were first all right that they would get a little bit more that's why it's a dangerous thing to call the preacher's wife the first lady i talked about because you see this boy in the church of christ and we at folks and she wonder why she's hated the phone because we're sitting up raising her above everybody else when the bible says that we all are wrong yes sir you know what create these kinds of mentalities churchology congregational mentalities that identify themselves watch it now not with god but with themselves it's a natural inclination i'm getting psychological with you now but it's a natural inclination for individuals us as human beings to take on the characteristics of people who we are constantly in the environment with most of the time all right amen it's a good thing but it's a bad thing because what happens here is that those that are elderly in statesmen that they dictate and run things and they pick on the young ones to the point that the young ones pick on the younger ones yeah and before you know it you've got a generation of hen peckers running around in the church [Music] supposing that they being first [Music] they get an attitude why do you have an attitude they have an attitude first of all because they didn't get the recognition that they thought initially supposing that they should have that's right [Applause] and the householder is told it tells the steward of the manager vineyard uh i'm gonna do this different today call those that just got here what don't call those firsts that would hide first call those that just got here you do know those that just got there are also the same ones that nobody wanted all right i could mess y'all up a little bit i'm gonna leave you alone [Music] are also the ones that said nobody wanted us so i know a clique was formed because those that was tired first also knew about those that was no good that nobody wanted and so already in the marketplace they already had an inferior heart and complex about themselves because they knew that those that would hide first wouldn't have nothing to oh lord and so when they got in there they were a little bit timid and embarrassed to go in there because they knew that those who were out first already had a mindset adverse and indifferent against them because they knew that they was not wanted bro all right look how we treat each other amen how we treat people yes sir it's it's amazing to me how we set up these these these churchology programs that at the end of the day it doesn't have anything at all to do with spirituality has basically suspended spiritualism because we put emphasis on stuff that we feel matters say that here's the truth for the matter is 85 of the church activities that we do does not have anything at all to do with ministry it has to do with us having something that's right amen amen you know how do you know have a homecoming fried chicken macaroni and cheese and and butter biscuits and everybody is going to be there not to hear the word come back on monday and the rest of the week and all 500 that was there on sunday ain't nowhere to be found [Music] sir we stopped sending the kids to the state conference yes sir because their parents are only bringing them wanting us to pay for them and they was unfaithful i told them the girls they ain't gonna happen no more [Applause] to me at 16. no i got something better for that 9-1-1 [Applause] now you want him to go to the conference and you want him to up there chasing all them little girls all over the playgrounds and running and stuff and going nowhere creeping at two o'clock in the morning i gotta deal with these parents when they come here talking about malik was chasing my daughter around and i'm saying we never should have been up there in the first place i guarantee you won't be up there again now i don't know i'll see y'all be ashamed malik ain't had christ on his mind at five years old what do you think my is thinking about now at 17 years old you don't want nobody thinking about christ all right see we want to sensationalize churchology and churchism to make ourselves feel good as if we don't suffer for god and the truth for the matter is is that we're creating more stressors and headaches for the local church spending all that money to send some bad kids that you'll never see and you could be using that money for other things such as going to visit the sick going to the prison right now i'm hungry but now you just spent all that money on malik who you ain't gonna see no more until he's 45 and in trouble and sending a ladder from the prison saying can you come visit me amen [Applause] 85 of the activities that we do in the church of christ don't have nothing to do with god you know how i know this say you're going to knock on doors you may get fired why am i going to the prison you may get two after worship service before we go eat we will go visit the sick you may get warm and talk about having a prayer meeting not only on bible class night but the night after and you don't get nobody but yourself [Applause] because church ology has eclipsed spirituality don't nobody want to be spiritual everybody want to be churchy they want to feel good on sunday morning but act like the devil on monday night that's right not spiritual at all that's right clicks right yeah look at the attitude look at this position how are you going to talk back in such a disrespectful way repugnant in your attitude the one huh that broke you out of the world right when you could save yourself and now you want to get indignant i'm always blown away how people can get indictment with god can't tell me what to do [Music] you can't you can't you can't reprove me you can't rebuke me you can't and that's the problem we don't have no more [Applause] you we scared that the owner was not in the business to make people happy for themselves he was in the business to make sure that his vineyard was tended to and those that was working got what he promised them if you stay faithful in the lord and you work in the vineyard and the lord's church and say faithful and stop looking around and everybody else you'll be surprised that god will bless you and you won't even know it but i haven't got to the clowns the clones yet y'all thought i was through mimic others that they may look to that have influence on them they have more trust in the person rather than a providential god all right amen so they clone each other all right they you already got one of you with two of y'all coming oh hell no we don't need you you won't lose enough y'all think i'm making this stuff right now to disciple and convert one individual and the scripture says we make him worse that's right so of you oh messed up the way we are amen you got those clowns write it down they they show up come on [Applause] to give them the entitlement without us you would have nothing please i want those liberals but i'm saying please those are the powers yeah they be glad when i'm going to retire i'm asking god to give me a whole lot of stress [Applause] it's always going [Music] i want to see how transparent y'all are i'm gonna sell transparent i'm looking at every last one of y'all looking in your eyes right now when you see those clicks and clones and clowns show up you want to go the other direction don't you yeah i'm done how does god here's here's what i want you to get and it's going to bless you this will help you it's going to help your preachers they have one to speak up you be careful how you allow people to prompt you whispered to you outside the building their rock because they through you look at the one he's standing up how is it that you're going to to give them their pain right before us watching lunch watch it watch him complain about being in the vineyard and the task of working out what you agreed to exactly how are you going to give call them first and give them what you have promised us when we've been in here since the heat of the day yeah let me tell you something as a child of god none of us in here should call upon our merits of what we think that we are doing amen that should get some kind of applause you want your and should be significantly seen isolated from everybody else when the owner is giving you uh is going to give you what he promised you notice what the owner said did i agree with you right i am with the amount that you are getting that's right yes i'm not evil though you are seeing evil in my good right the problem watch this watch this the problem the owner says is not in me the problem is in you yeah what you should have been doing when you came in here it's been satisfied knowing that i'm going to take care of what i promised you and you should have been working instead of running around here with the clicks clones and the clowns it messed you up and instead of your being a spiritual person of a child of god you're now a christian that is colonel-minded and so you spend more time worrying looking around everybody else that y'all you call yourself self-righteous just because i have kept my word and i'm giving you what you agreed to now if you have a problem with what i agreed that we agreed with you what we agreed to you should have said something right yeah but this is where i am with with with of individuals that that hear the gospel and people getting upset with me because of it individuals that hear the gospel need to be at least converse with to make sure they understand and understanding that the lord is calling you to be obedient to him to not just be a christian but to be an obedient disciple of the lord amen now do you understand that yes instead of just putting people in the water right and they coming up the same way they went down we need to start talking to people about what they really are being told that when they truly understand all right amen that you're not coming in here to get any special improvements at the end of the day this is what this is about this is not about a popularity contest all right out dress out drive out talk out sing out whatever this is about you and i in need of salvation that we could not save ourselves that we need saving from ourselves and because the lord has saved us the one thing that we ought to be is rejoicing and praising god amen for coming to see us amen but not only just to come see us but to ask us do you want to come to my video is what i'm willing to give you and if you stay faithful to what i'm willing to give you i'll give you what i'm promising you and though i know you may fall and stumble and make mistakes god is saying i am faithful and i'm just to forgive you of your sins and cleanse you from all your righteousness in spite of your stumblings and calling god is saying i'm going to keep my word all i ask you to do is do the best that you can why don't you win the bible schedule your feet god bless you god bless you now y'all right tonight but may the lord bless you what's wrong with us we got to change our attitude we got to change our disposition we're going to change how we think and stop thinking like christ amen amen i pray god that we will find our peace and just be thankful that he saw me in the world yes when no one else nobody else even wanted to look at me overlooked me looked past me look for young me didn't see anything at all but when he showed up amen amen we are his workmanship created in christ jesus unto good works yes which god has is all right that we shall walk in them god has seen something in all of us don't you be inferior of yourself amen just because of someone else no you're a child of god that's right god selected you for a reason for a purpose for a cause you find your calling and you'll find your calls and you find your reason to be a child of god and don't worry about nobody else if you do that you'll be all right if you're here right now you're not a child of god come believing in jesus christ repenting metanoia of your sins confessing the sweetest thing that's a mortal tongue be baptized for the revision of your sins added to the lord's church if you are a child of god and you have experienced some of the things that i have conveyed and shared and given to you and you just just just feel that this is never bad taste in your mouth how people treat you and you don't feel a part of you you don't feel no sense of belonging let me redirect your mind to the lord amen yes amen you are here and all god is asking of you is that you stay here stay faithful walk with him talk with him and one day he'll call you home to be with him and glory let's see the savior's invitation as we sing this word of encouragement amen [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] will be ready for [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh oh [Applause] [Music] are you washed in the blood [Applause] [Music] [Applause] is [Applause] are you washing the blood in the soil [Applause] amen

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Length: 65min 26sec (3926 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 18 2020