Fresh Fire V: Dr. Jamal Bryant, "I Slipped Through The Cracks", November 21, 2019

John chapter hey John Jim day and I want to look at just one verse if I can verse number 59 John 8 first 59 once you found a one to say I got it thank you musicians then they took up stones to cast at him but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple going through the midst of them and he passed by they picked up stones to kill Jesus and this is happening new psalmist while he's at church so Jesus has got to hide in church from Saints trying to kill them and he slipped out before the benediction you may be seated as the as the only preacher from Baltimore this week bishop thomas let me humble II tell you how humble I am to be able to stand in the footprints of dr. Charles Edward booth [Applause] I want to preach tonight using as a subject I slipped through the cracks I slipped through the cracks would you would you look at the person beside you tell them for you for me look at him tell him I know you can't tell but I slipped through the cracks while a student at Duke Divinity School had a conversation with dr. Charles booth and asked him to tell me as a young preacher what it is that I could do to extend my craft to become a better perch he admonished me as the embryonic fee log sir Jamaal find something unfamiliar in a familiar passage and raise questions that the pew doesn't know how to ask in so doing I I thought about Genesis chapter 3 and in Genesis chapter 3 we're mindful of wind the serpent came into the Garden of Eden and seduced Eve to eat of the forbidden fruit and then the topography of the text we are given the insight to know that the tree of knowledge was in the center of the garden the deductive reasoning we understand then that by virtue of the fact that Eve is giving a GPS as to where the tree years while they're having the conversation they're not standing next to the tree and so in order for them to get to the tree that held and housed the forbidden fruit human usamos they are they had to go through the entire orchid and going through the entire orchid they passed by trees and they passed by fruit that they could have eaten in tribute to dr. booth tonight I want to exegete the trees that were passed in it amazing that those trees were growing fresh pomegranate I'm a contemporary standard version they were flush with fresh apples because it was paradise there were not different seasons it was just one season so can you imagine what is going on in the mind of the trees and the pomegranate that were being passed in order to get to the tree and the pomegranate that they shouldn't have those trees with whispering leaves were asking the profound question why won't you pick me I have what you need I'll give you strength I'll equip you for your journey and yet you won't pass me whatever you do please don't look quickly at the people who are on your row because some of them throbbing in the back of their mind are asking the question how come I wasn't picked how come I wasn't chosen how come I wasn't selected how come I was overlooked and somehow in your sub-conscience you have been stained with low self esteem over the rejection of not being selected before those fruit could drop from the tree they had to have in fact been resolved at some point I'm glad I wasn't picked here this I wasn't picked here this almost because I'm not satan's taste and he chosen me it would have been evidence I'm what he liked I got a pause here there's some of you who are in this service tonight who ought to be giving God glory for what you was never chosen for because had you been picked for it it would have cost you too much stress too many years of your life and too much anxiety we know how to only shout for what we are chosen for but sometimes you gotta give God glory for what you were ignored about [Applause] thank God for the job you didn't get thank God for the psychopath you didn't Mary thank God for the deal that didn't go through thank God for the house that you never moved into thank God for the option you never chose they meant it for evil but God is working it out for your good you tonight have gotta be at peace for slipping through the cracks you didn't see it then but if you see it now would you just pause and give God Thanksgiving for what you were not chosen for joy the Gospel Choir of Westside Baptist Church in Beatrice in Nebraska can sing the full cantata on what it means to slip through the cracks earlier this year on a Wednesday night which is supposed to be their practice night they have choir rehearsal every Wednesday but on 7:20 p.m. March of this year every single member of the Gospel Choir of Westside Baptist Church in Beatrice Nebraska every single member of the choir was late can you imagine that they had no idea of what was taking place choir rehearsals supposed to start at 7:00 nobody shows up and at 7:20 there's an explosion a gas leak imploded in the building took off the roof blew off the steeple decimated the sanctuary hymnals were found 500 feet away and all of them were tardy for different reasons the pianist and her mother the choir director got pulled over for a speeding ticket sisters Lucille and Dorothy were captivated watching the Maury Povich Show the estis brothers car wouldn't start they were waiting on trip away to give them a jump to their battery Livan LaDonna Vanderbilt high school sophomore was grounded and couldn't go to cry for her so because she had finished her geometry homework Harvey Brown lost track of time talking to his next-door neighbor the pastor who lit the furnace in the first place was late ironing his daughters dress because his wife was out of town I'm here for fifty of you who don't even realize you thought you were running late but you are right on schedule God was blocking you from something you didn't even say I don't know who's gonna receive this prophetic word I know you've been watching other people go ahead of you but you forgot God always saves the best for last and for 50 of y'all that will shell in this church today God said watch what I do the last six weeks of the year I'm getting ready to bless you with what eyes have not seen you catch up with the blessing you thought you lost in 1988 1988 just want Vasudha was on his way home in New York after attending a wedding in England he checked his luggage and then went into the lounge to kick back because he had time he had a couple of drinks before he knew it the intercom announced that the gate was closing gathered himself ran down to the counter and the Pan Am ticket agent refused to let him on and drunken disgust he went back to sleep right on the bench where the gate was unbeknownst to Vasudha a Pan Am flight 103 would have been known for the Lockerbie bombing the explosion that killed every person on the plane except for one that was left on the ground he missed it watch this he missed it and slipped through the cracks because of his brokenness it was being drunk that made him miss it the perfect people are not gonna shout with us but their 300 that ought to be giving God glory that I had grace on my life don't shout yet I had grace on my life here it is when I wasn't doing right when I was out of order grace was still with me when when I was doing stuff I had no business doing the hand of God was still on my life and I slipped through the cracks admittedly they are instances when slipping through the cracks can mean life or death take April 28th 1979 April 28 1979 63 year-old Anna Williams went out dancing with friends which by itself doesn't seem significant until you find out that Dennis Rader known as the BTK serial killer was hiding in her house he had been stalking her for weeks watching her every move and Noor narrowly Anna 63 years old didn't like going out at night so he thought he had the perfect plan her friends convinced her don't stay in tonight let's go dancing they took Anna 63 years old out dancing and while she's out dancing the serial killer broke in broke into the house cut the phone lines picked out knickknacks to steal and waited in her closet for her to come home and Anna who hadn't been out in a while stars a dancing time goes by the killer is waiting in the closet and Anna is out dancing time elapses he's getting antsy and itchy but she's out dancing he got so tired of waiting for that he picked up his stuff and left this is not a word for spectators this is the word for those who came the fresh fire they got a dance and a shelf in your spirit God said while you praise me tonight whatever the enemy was waiting to do in your house [Applause] organist I'll be with you in a minute whatever the enemy was waiting to do in your house is now disrupted every level of spiritual warfare aimed at your house is being brought down while you dance if you ain't got a shout the enemy waiting on you but if you got a two-step left in you God says I'm getting ready to defy every weapon every worker of iniquity that your family and your household become we see their place musicians imma let you work give me time to work the black star project the Black Star project chronicled a letter from a death row inmate as his final request before execution and before being executed he asked for pen and paper in order to write his mother a letter and said that she should read the letter after his demise and not only should she read it but it should be published that letter says mother just as I am guilty so were you remind yourself when I stole the bike and you helped me hide it so dad wouldn't see it remember when I stole money from the neighbor and you took me to the mall to spend it remember when you told my stepfather not to discipline me after I got caught cheating on my final exam which got me expelled so he left my I was a trouble child and now I'm a male adjusted man I needed correction not approval but I forgive you I just want this letter to reach as many parents as possible so that they don't allow their offspring to fall in the cracks I'm committed to close please just indulge me I just need parents to lift their hands just parents grandparents foster parents adopted their parents hallelujah Bishop Thomas only brought me because of the anointing that rests on my life I speak it over if we lifted hand that your children will not slip through the cracks hallelujah I feel clover coming now your children will never spend a night in jail they'll never be in rehab I can't hear nobody they'll never be confused about their sexuality about their identity they'll never lose their self-esteem I can't hear nobody they will never be on behavior modification drugs I I speak over your children y'all better shout now that they'll be better than their father they'll be better then every person that shares their last name speak over your children's life that they are not gonna drop out of school they'll never be on an abortion table they'll never be a side chick they'll never be a baby mama I speak over your children they will never be a purveyor of violence but there is for every worshiper in this room I had fence of protection around your child's life something y'all can only shout over cause clothes and money but if you shout for your children's destiny I need you to open up your mouth right now your children Hey Hey Thank You Haleh God you you may be seated I feel Gloria coming now hi I said I feel glory coming now I need you to pull on that neighbor tell them your children are now covered by the blood of Jesus they are going to slip through the cracks your children are gonna be history makers be seated I'm coming thank you be seated please Hey Thank You Haleh god I just got cleared for takeoff everybody crazy faith for your children's children Hanan be seated please hey Thank You holy God be seated I don't know where the three of you all live but God said if you shout they're getting out of jail early god I can't hear nobody he said if you open up your mouth I already got them a scholarship ha internship I've already created where they go finish out their life you ought to give God glory that your children let's chill tomorrow they'll slip through the cracks be seated please hallelujah thank you holy God Thank You Holy Guard I don't know who needed this breakthrough tonight god help me I don't know who needed this breakthrough tonight but your shell is gonna expose you God said if you give me glory the warfare around your child ends at midnight if you cry what Evers been gone away your children your rebellion we see the truth we sit at John chapter eight John chef day seems to just be a protracted argument about arguing all of John chapter eight in cases just one long argument verses 1 through 11 in chapter chronicles for us the woman caught in adultery and this woman who's caught in adultery Jesus is is seemingly penalized for helping her they got a attitude with him for helping somebody else even Jesus caught in adultery but now they're shifting the tables because he's assisting other people now somebody who's sitting on your row who has no idea why it is they keep catching stray bullets y'all not gonna like it being hit by people they were trying to help they gotta add it to with you and don't even realize I'm the only real friend you got I hate on you I'm jealous I'm gonna tell you the real deal I tell you nobody would you look at your neighbor tell them I'm not like the rest of your friends look at them and tell them I'm not threatened by you look at them tell them I want nothing you got you come in I tell them to prove it to you my next shouting for me I'm a shock did everything you've been praying for you don't get it by December 31st would you stop for that neighbor right now like you wanna see them as verses 1 through 11 instilled in John chapter 8 verses 12 through 21st is 12 through 20 they argue over his testimony they have aught with the master because he said I am the light of the world whoever follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of Life the Pharisees pushed back and said it appears you are your own witness Bishop Thomas taught me years ago that there is no greater freedom they're not needing anybody for nothing oh god I can't hear nobody's seen some of y'all some of y'all in the room you got delivered from drugs other people in the room you got delivered from alcohol of other people in the room you got delivered from pornography a few of you got delivered from gambling but I'm talking to a thousand of you who said Rev I got delivered hear this from other people's opinion I don't even care whether you like me I don't care whether you spoke to me I gotta go eat with y'all I gotta be on your little committee I am glad to be in my own skin and I don't need your validation know who is there some of you who gotta get delivered from other people's opinion if you don't like what I got on buy me something else there I can't hear nobody in here if you you don't like my hair y'all ain't sayin nothin to me I'm about three more bundles on Friday if you don't like who I'm with too bad cuz you ain't got nobody thank you for letting me be myself again because I don't need your validation verse 21 from 207 I'm still in John chapter verse 21 to 27 the dispute is over who Jesus is hallelujah and Jesus had come to the mind that I am no longer defending myself I am tired of having to dummy myself down for insecure people who were threatened about what I represent y'all ain't saying nothing you you got folk this is for 50 y'all that ain't gonna leave me out here you got folk out here hating on you and they don't know I mean got nothing you all in my kool-aid and don't know the flavor you got no idea just for me to be able to be sane I'm able to say I woke up this morning [Applause] be seated we got mouths to go before we sleep decedent look at the person beside you tell him I'm not defending myself I went through too much stuff in my life to have to worry about what you think about me where were you when they were get ready to cut off my lights where where were you when I got furlough - off my job where where were you and I was raised in children with no child support I need y'all that can declare not I'm not defending myself be seated y'all got a spirit of disobedience that new song must be be seated right where you are this some of you I need you to know you were not on trial stop defending yourself because you are not on trial I better say it for the people in the balcony stop defending yourself you are not on trial you are found guilty for having favored the favor of God is so undeniably on your life and your haters can't stand it what you got you have to sleep with nobody man I'm steel you see that I only got three more times to tell you that I'm still in John chapter and John chapter eight as we come now to the circumference of attics I'm in verse 48 and in verse 48 they got mad because Jesus starts talking about eternal life and they said how would people live and even Abraham had to die and he is the father of our faith have we moved it to such a season in our faith that we no longer preach eternal life how we only preach a shallow Christianity that is short wrap around capitalism and what it is that you can gain but we no longer talk about sacrifice and that if you suffer with him then you reign with him I can't find any worshipers in here and he understood that this world is not my home that though you slay me I trust him some of y'all can't shout cuz you ain't never been sick before some of y'all ain't never lived through a car accident that you walked away from some some of y'all never had pain reckoning your body again and without any notice its subsided and you knew that he was wounded for my transgressions and bruised from my iniquities hallelujah day they got mad yes they got mad because they were trying to figure out how in the world is he operating with this level of authority and he's never been to seminary have they wanted to know where did he get his biblical prowess and he had never been ordained they were trying to figure out how was he able to gauge that depth of Revelation hmm and he wasn't a part of their fellowship hmm and they didn't understand that what was on God was on him was nothing but the power of God look at the person beside you and tell him I can't even explain what's on my life hallelujah cuz there's some people in this church and they live through what you endure they would be on medication right now had they had to go through what you had to suffer they would have had a nervous breakdown and with a committed suicide but I'm talking to some people who know looking back over my life had some good days I had some bad days but but I gotta tell you that I won't complain look at the person beside you tell them God is with me because I got a job that I don't qualify for should've been foreclosed or possessed but God keeps making away from me you think I'm studying you I need to give God this grace there's been one of the roughest year shut up hit my bones be seated I'm they got two more times to tell you that my time is running out and so here Jesus is in church and while he's in church he discovers what many of you have found out and that is just because people go to church don't mean they want the best for you god I can't hear nobody in here just just as you in church don't mean everybody gets excited about your blessing some people are disappointed about the doors that you open it can I talk to some real people in here who found out I didn't come the new psalmist to make friends I gotta be in your little clique I just wanna give my word my business and get the breakthrough I need because there's fire in this house and I picked up songs they picked up songs to kill them and the text says that he's in church the critical question that I have to beg the text is why were they bringing weapons to church god help me maybe you forgot I'm in John chapter 8 then John chapter 8 is the narrative where the woman is caught in adultery and Jesus then said to that whole August body he without sin cast the first stone they threw down their stone according to John chapter 8 but by the time I get to verse 48 it's evident they picked the stone back up I can't hear nobody yeah there are some people who've been waiting for an opportunity for you to be killed they're waiting for the moment for you to fall waiting for an opportunity to blow up your spot but they don't know it's too late if you were gonna get me you should've got me in July but the moment I got to fresh fire hips everything the enemy thought he was gonna do to me I slipped I slip through the cracks now that your testimony is it you some of y'all just just made it through without any provocation but I need twenty of you they cannot dignify with what I'm I'm trying to share with you that I think you know you made it by the hair on your chinny-chin-chin god help me to preach it right i need you to look at the person beside you tell them don't make me talk about it cuz if I'll talk about it I might cry if I talk about it I may just lay out at the altar huh if I talk about it imma tear this Church of Christ and they think they're gonna kill Jesus in church but they don't understand that you can never wound or worship if you were gonna get me you should have got me before I got here that's why real worshipers don't sit still cuz they know there's a contract out on my life and as long as I keep moving God will move with me this is the craziest show you gonna ever give God said if you give me glory tonight and don't sit there why you in church whatever [Music] I already ain't got no sound now please whatever attack has been aimed at your life while you shout tonight you are going to escape every attack [Applause] [Music] [Music] Oh grab that neighbors [Music] [Music] [Music] lift up that hand you gonna slip through the cracks tonight Shawn in strings please you're gonna slip through the cracks [Applause] did you ain't even gonna know how you came out of it [Applause] but you coming out of it and you're coming out of it alive I can't hear nobody this this is for those of y'all they've been dealing with some stuff with would you lift up that hand and open up your mouth like you believe you gonna slip right through [Applause] [Music] that hand is lifted why because when he slips through the cracks he comes out of the church and nobody carrying stones follows him our Bishop is gonna give the benediction tonight but this is just for my worshippers God said if you give to me for the seconds of your worship hear me when you leave out of church your issue won't follow you god I can't hear nobody I I said if you open up your mouth whenever you are dealing with right here you solve in the matter you get many slip through the cracks I just need 10 seconds of worship would you open up that mouth come on you slip into it I can't hear anybody I need you to open up your mouth [Music] you're really a ghost ain't you come out of it [Music] you [Music] [Music] you'll slip right through the cracks [Music] I'll know how was gonna happen [Applause]

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Length: 45min 40sec (2740 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 25 2019