God's Not Done - I Ain't Dead Yet (with Dr. Noah Washington)

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think that's it be sure to like us on facebook follow us on ig and subscribe on our youtube channel to stay up to date with all of our events videos and more as always thank you for loving growing and serving with us [Music] [Music] good morning mount rubidoux riverside campus mourinho valley campus and ruby nation if this is your first time watching a very grateful thank you to you this is a church we always strive to love grow and serve thanks for joining us wherever you're currently sitting or standing or at a coffee shop or on your couch or i'm just glad that you're here with us today i'm theo and i'm part of the media ministry here at mount rubido we're gonna have a special church program today dr noah washington will be our guest speaker to continue our series theme of god's not done but first i've got some special announcements from pastor green tomorrow september 12th at 8 am we're asking our church members from all campuses to come join us in prayer via zoom and facebook live as we establish new normals both personally and as a church we can always expect opposition it's so important that we always remember that god is not done the bible says greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world so please join us tomorrow as we connect with god our grow and support groups are going to be starting really soon this is actually the last week that you'll be able to sign up just go to our website to join that link is in the info section on our facebook page right below this video if you're on youtube and if you're watching on the website the direct link is on the home page let's please remember sister jocelyn pride and her family in prayer the funeral for her mother was yesterday in san diego sister pride your family is in all of our hearts before i introduce the speaker i just want to say thank you to all the donations that you all give to support mount ruido you're keeping the ministries that we have here going from our food pantry to children's events and everything in between to donate look for the link either right below or at the give link above on our church website [Music] [Music] [Music] give on any device with online giving from securegive simply enter your amounts and choose between a one-time or recurring donation [Music] sign in sign up or give quickly as a guest select your payment method and complete the transaction [Music] giving us easy on any device with online giving from security [Music] if you know dr noah washington you know that he's never met a stranger and for as much as he enjoys making people laugh he also feels called to help them push past their comfort zones and thrive that's why he founded inspiring purpose with a mission to help people live more intentionally as individuals and in their relationships as associate pastor of the immanuel brinklo sca church in ashton maryland dr washington focuses on creating active worship and outreach experiences that bring people closer to god his motto is that the greatest place of pain is your place of purpose and he's intent on helping others see the beauty in their struggles outside of work joshua washington completed a doctorate of ministry and family ministry he loves spending time with his wife twyla and their two children noah and drew otherwise you might find him watching a game of basketball listening to his favorite music or just having a good laugh god um man first of all just thank you so much just for your grace and your mercies letting us see another sabbath day with everything that's just been going on across the world with the pandemic in our church in our own lives all of us individually thank you so much for giving us the opportunity and chance just to worship together even if we're apart for this sabbath and god we know that you are not done in our own lives in your worldwide ministry and what you're doing here at mount rubido please lord be with the donations coming to this church as well and all the ministries just as we just try to help support not just the community here in riverside and moreno valley but just spreading your gospel into all the world thank you for just getting the opportunity just to speak to you and talk to you just 101 lord thank you so much your name i pray amen [Music] the lord bless you and keep you make his face shine upon you and be gracious unto you lord turn his face toward you and give you peace [Music] make his face shine apart and be gracious [Music] you peace [Music] um [Music] be gracious [Music] [Music] [Music] i'm [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] and your family and your children and their children and their children [Music] generation is [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] he's right there [Applause] uh [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] man [Music] man [Music] well my computer does not really want to work with me because i cannot export the story meaning i have to make an entirely new one hello there kids my name is maximus it is currently 10 10 september 3rd 2020. this story was due today and the computer immediately didn't want to work with me now when i need it the computer starts acting stubborn and that's what i don't like and what gets me is that i already recorded this part i recorded this part once and it just completely deleted off my memory card well now that i got that on my system let's try to be positive all right let's be positive about this hey boys and girls my name is maximus i'm here to tell you the children's story and the limited amount of time that i have you see when the story took place jesus was really popular whenever jesus spoke people came and the crowds were numerous people would travel from all over the world to see this one man one man dog jesus was like the non-light-skinned version of drake in fact jesus was more popular than oprah td jakes joel osteen and drake put together now one particular day a huge crowd came to see jesus preach now you might not know how big this crowd is so let me reiterate a giant massive indescribable crowd came to jesus preach the bible says approximately 5 000 men notice how i said men i didn't even count the women and children they didn't mention the women or children and a lot of people means you have to be talking like i'm talking right now for at least the back row to hear you and five thousand people jesus had to be yelling like crazy remember this was two thousand years ago they didn't have surround sound speakers dog they had voices meaning that it was just jesus the holy spirit and his voice amen amen well jesus was preaching a long long time so long to the point where everyone started to be like hey we kind of hungry dog this is where they face the dilemma they can't send everyone back home because they don't know where they live people came from different sections of the earth to see this man or might i say god they couldn't pay for food for these people because that would be way too much money and even if they had that much money someone here is getting shot so that's a bad idea this was 2 000 years ago no guns dumbo every solution they had seemed to be a bad one so what could they find that would feed all these people well god had planned for this he had planted a little boy yes a child and apparently this child had enough sense to pack a lunch five loaves of bread and two fish and conveniently jesus started saying hey is there any food at all to which the disciples started saying hey let's go find something after a little while of looking they found the kid the kid with the lunchbox they grabbed the kid and dragged him to jesus now the kid could have been really really really stubborn he could have made jesus pay for his lunch he could have just not given jesus his lunch at all or maybe he could have been filled with doubt about the fact if jesus really wanted to use him for such a big task however he chose the opposite route he gave his lunch to jesus to which jesus raised the lunch into the air prayed and brought it back down then he put the people in groups and said go feed these people they grabbed loaves and loads of bread and gave it to the people i don't think y'all heard me for the people in the back he grabbed loaves and loaves and fed it to the people one more time he grabbed low and low notice there were only five loaves of bread where is he getting this extra bread from jesus had just multiplied this kid's lunch i'm pretty sure the disciples were looking inside the basket like nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah and here's the crazy part everyone ate till they were full meaning there was enough bread and fish to feed these people everyone was stuck and the even crazier part was there were leftovers 12 baskets of leftovers you know what that's that's kind of interesting is it a coincidence that there were 12 baskets left here's another mind-boggling thing if god made the light on day number one and he created the sun on day number four what made the light on day number one now i definitely know that your parents know the answer to that question so ask them when you get home then they'll get a kick out of that anyway what's the lesson well there were many different instances in the bible where kids were used for god's purpose and this particular kid who gave his lust to jesus showed that it doesn't matter how old you are age is nothing but a number the kid could have been five years old and given his lust to jesus the miracles still happened through the kid many different kids like david joseph isaac ishmael esau samuel have proved time and time again that god will use anybody as long as they are willing to be a vessel there was a baptism last week two sisters got baptized now as always i wish them the best and i know that god is going to use them in the future or maybe he's using them now point being god will use anyone as long as they are willing to be used and that is the end of our story thank god hopefully i can edit this i can get it to pastor green and he'll put it on on the fourth as you can tell it's almost bedtime for me so this is gonna be a long night however on the other hand happy sabbath y'all thank god it's labor day weekend as always that's the end of our story i hope you guys enjoyed my name's maximus god bless hey how'd i pull that off [Music] truly we do honor the lord for his love his faithfulness his grace and his favor in each and every one of our lives we just thank god for being alive one more day and in these strange confusing and difficult and even frustrating times we thank god just to be alive and if you're grateful if you're thankful uh just to be alive just to know who you are in your name to be able to put one foot in front of the other to be able to open up your eyes this morning would you just take a few moments and bless god in whatever way you can whether you want to throw up your head and say i'm grateful if you can put something in the chat just to say i'm grateful i'm thankful just to be alive one more day we give god the glory the honor and the praise put your hands together tell god how grateful you are i see you put something in the chat just to let god know how much uh you love him not only is god a good god but god loves to give good gifts and god must have thought highly of you mount rubido to give you such an innovative such a caring such a strong and spiritual minded pastor in that of dr pastor alfonso greene and so we praise god uh for my brother your pastor and uh many people will come to mount rubidoux and preach and we will go home but there is only one man that when you are praying or toiling in the night rather is praying for you and you are to not honor anyone more than you honor the man of god that he has given you would you just take some time to thank god for your pastor my brother pastor greene thank you for this opportunity this privilege to be with you all today and we thank god to be in this virtual uh place of space even though i'm not in cali even though i'm on the east coast god's blessings can go there um to the west coast i have uh just a word that the lord has given to me that i want to share with you as you all have been in the series god's not done i can really close the bible right now uh that in and of itself is something to give god praise over but uh to the members to the ministry leaders to the officers and to the people and children of god they're at the mount rubidoux seventh-day adventist church i bring you greetings from our lord and savior jesus christ thank you so much uh for having uh me with you all today and i want to just continue in this series god's not done uh under the sermon title i'm not dead yet and i want you to if you're able to go to your bibles and whatever version uh or uh copy that you have and i want to read from the new international version from luke the seventh chapter and i want to read verses 11 through 17. in the book of luke the gospel according to luke chapter 7 and starting in verse 11. soon afterward jesus went to a town called name and his disciples in a large crowd went along with him as he approached the town gate verse 12 a dead person was being carried out the only son of his mother and she was a widow and a large crowd from the town was with her when the lord saw her his heart went out to her and said don't cry then he went up and touched the coffin and those carrying it stood still he said young man i say to you get up the dead man sat up began to talk and jesus gave him back to his mother they all were filled with all and praised god and said a great prophet has appeared among us today god has come to help his people this good news about jesus spread throughout judea and the surrounding countryside i'm not dead that's what i want to come talk to you today and arguably the most difficult times in our lives we often find ourselves searching for justifiable meaning and trying to gain understanding to help us cope with what we're going through and we're going through a whole lot right now and if you're like me you would admit today that it's kind of hard to give god and in the missed praise when life serves you an appetizer of stress a main entree of trouble a side dish of pain a beverage filled with discouragement and a desert portion of depression oftentimes it's even more difficult and painful when we have no clue as to why we're going through what we're going through and the only explanation for some of us as to why we are experiencing what we're going through is for the simple fact that like job our name came up in a conversation between god and the devil i'm gonna have to come back and preach that sermon my name came up one day at the most difficult time in my life to date it was extremely frustrating for me dealing with the demands and pressures from other people coupled with my own thoughts about what was going on my physical limitations and psychological warfare because sometimes things get so confusing am i talking to anybody here today so frustrating and so disappointing in life that we often spend the majority of our time fighting with ourselves between just giving up and holding on and my moment of darkness in my moment of indescribable hurt and bitter pain real good friend of mine gave me a book to read entitled when god breaks your heart please read that before you go to heaven that that that's the book i read when god breaks your heart in this book ed underwood pastor of the historic church of the open door he chronicles his experience as he dealt with the tremendous challenge of chronic leukemia and even though he uh prayed for and believed god for healing days continued and months continue to slip by without improvement as his pain became extremely unbearable during his time of great suffering and underwood became broken by the seeming reality don't miss this that the god who was able to do anything for anybody was doing nothing for him as his condition worsened and the leukemia became more aggressive he continued to question that if god really loved me so much then why am i experiencing so much don't miss this prolonged pain as he continued to pray his way through his pain i feel god gonna tell us something today as he began to pray his way through his pain there was one thing though that became unmistakably clear one thing that he just couldn't get past one thing that he felt the spirit of god was telling him that was this even though ed had to endure so much pain there was equal to or above his level of pain a tremendous and serious calling on his life and regardless of the doctor's diagnosis of his demise god had something special in mind when he created him and even though his experience his painful experience went from bad to worse and from worse to unbearable he realized in a more meaningful way the powerful purpose that god had for his life and watch this that god was not done with him and that's all i really came to tell you today that's all i really came to tell you that i can really say the benediction may the lord watch between me and v while we're absent that's all i really came to say because i want to press to your minds today that regardless of what any of you have been through and regardless of how much pain you've had to face in life that there is a plan of godly purpose attached to your life and watch this you can't die until you complete it in spite of everything bad or negative that you've been through in this life and that you've had to endure in this life and regardless of your setbacks and step downs because of god's great love for you there is over your life a godly purpose and a plan attached to your life and your hurt feelings your unforgiveness or the fact that you feel you've been dealt certain cards in this life can't be used as lifetime excuses as to why you cannot walk or will not walk in that calling and i'm here on assignment today to let you know in mount rubido and to alert you to the fact that god is not done with you and the reason i know this to be true the reason i know that god is not done with you is because as long as you still breathing oh i feel i feel god is gonna say something to us today as long as you're still breathing god will always be up to something in your life each person here today then is either in one of two places you are even number one totally unaware of what that calling is over your life and you are here experiencing the worship and enjoying the praise and experiencing the music and enjoying the fellowship of this virtual space and place and can even somewhat sense and feel the presence of god but have no idea as to what your godly calling is and that means if you're in that category if that's who you are if i'm talking to you if you're feeling me in this place right here you then need to as soon as we say the benediction to begin an aggressive search and a point of journey of discovering into the fact of finding out even with your setbacks in life what was god thinking when he decided to create you and why have you seemingly had so many troubles or why does it seem like uh you've always had to fight scratch and call and work harder at everything than seemingly everybody else how come i never knew my dad and why didn't my mother want me and why is it that what comes so easy uh for everybody else is a constant and severe struggle for me why has my life's journey been accompanied by so much sorrow and why has there been a consistency of people pushing me away from my godly calling how come my reality has seemed to be a lifetime of pain and a few moments of joy after they say the benediction today to begin to find out what your calling is draw near to god so that you can understand what god is taking you to and what god is taking you through and what god is leading you towards and why god won't let you and will let others and why god will let you and won't let others it's because there is a calling attached over your life and god ain't done with you you are either there or are y'all still with me i hope you are or you you're either there or you know god's calling over your life but you don't like what life feels like when you start walking in that calling you don't like the things that you experience and the better moments you taste you can't stand the way it feels because you think that when you start walking in this calling that your moments of trouble are signs that you aren't walking in that calling and you want to push the eject button and get out of what you're experiencing and you don't like the fact that when you're experiencing it you think that god is done with you you don't like the fact that some people have to leave your life and there's some people that have to come in your life you can't stand the things that it denies access to and the things that it restricts the fun that you can no longer have the lifestyle that you've got to take on there is for every child every single child of god a calling attached to your life but when you start walking in it you don't like the calling that's attached to your life because you don't like the possibility of the lonely nights that you will uh spin or the tears that you will share you don't like the pressure it brings and the determination it demands the responsibility it requires and the opportunities it opens the demons that you'll have to fight and the prayers you have to pray you don't like the boundaries you have to create and the walls you got to tear down the people that will talk about your life and the people that will come to help you out the faith walk that you got to go on and the fear that must be suppressed you don't like the fact you don't like what what's going on when you start walking in purpose you like the fact that there's a calling over your life but you don't like what it means when difficulty is often the place you got to rest in when you start walking in that calling i feel god gonna talk to us today the bible says that as soon after jesus heals a centurion's servant he travels to a city called name he heals the centurion servant without even laying hands on the man but the centurion trusts and believes in the power of jesus so much so please don't miss this that jesus doesn't have to make a trip to the man's house but instead his faith in miracles opens up the opportunity for this servant to receive healing without a physical touch from the lord or despite the fact that jesus has never seen him before he heals a man from standing in the streets of capernaum while the sick man was on his deathbed in his house and what an amazing thing happens when we trust the power of god more than we trust ourselves the man receives healing on his death bed while the context of the text would suggest and teach us that most people had already given up on this situation this story seems to suggest to us does it not that when people count many of us out and when people count many of our situation out situations out god is not done the centurion sends word to jesus about the soon death of his much loved of his much love rather servant through some jewish elders in an act of faith to get jesus to heal his servant and because of this centurion's faith jesus who has not seen or touched this man heals this dying man of his sickness jesus was not physically present in the house or in the immediate vicinity of where the sick man was and yet his power was still able to touch the man in his house may i suggest to someone today that just because you don't see the lord or feel the lord around you doesn't mean that the power of the lord can't reach you oh okay i feel i i i feel enact enough today just because you can't see the lord or feel the lord around you doesn't mean that his power can't reach you just because you don't see his power working doesn't mean that his strength is no longer available just because you don't see his power working doesn't mean that his power isn't working and luke teaches us a valuable lesson that it does not matter how far away you think you are from god he teaches us that no matter how far away from god you think your situation is from the lord the power of god will still find you wherever you are how many know that love will find a way i said how many know that love will find a way and it brings us uh to the first thing that the text is telling to teach us and that is this where you are has nothing to do with what god can do for you oh my goodness i said where you are has nothing to do with what god can do for you and that's what i really love about the lord it's that his power can find me to deal with and handle my problem and my situation despite how far away from him i feel myself to be they come to tell jesus of this dire situation but what i love about jesus is because it doesn't matter how bad the situation is i'm talking to somebody here today it doesn't matter what the situation may look like when people think that you are finished and done when people think that it's over when some people have written you off and have pronounced last rites over your life and have declared that you are too far from the lord for him to turn things around aren't you glad aren't you glad somebody put say say i'm glad in the chat aren't you glad that the power of jesus can reach you even when it seems like you are far away from him aren't you glad that jesus can touch you even when it seems as if you aren't in a favored place or in spiritual reach that god can still touch you and i rose to tell you today i got out of the bed today and i was tired but i got out of the bed to let somebody know today that god's love for you is not subject to what people on instagram or twitter say about you oh okay i i i was about to say i was about to say facebook but that's that's that's 60 and over y'all ain't saying nothing but god god's got god's god's love for you is not based on what they saying about you on snap or or on instagram his his love for you is not based on the peanut gallery or public opinion god will never ask people what they think about you before he will touch you and bring you back to life once the lord makes up his mind about you no devil in hell can stop the blessings that god wants to pour over your life paul said it best this way paul said it best this way if god before you y'all ain't talking to me today y'all ain't saying nothing in the chat if if god is for you who can be against you and if the great god of heaven is for you and on your side then nobody can curse what god has already declared to be blessed he will not change his mind he will not listen to what your co-workers say he will not even listen to what your parents or church members or coworkers say he he will not listen to what other people say about you god will touch you even when you seem so far away he he will touch you when the world seems against you it doesn't matter what the doctors say about you it doesn't matter what your bank account says about you yaya ain't talking no matter what your account looks like it doesn't matter what people say god will find you he will touch you even when people count you out god still sees work than you in other words it don't matter what people say god ain't done with you and that's why we got to be honest that's why we got to be honest i hope you still with me i ain't going to be too long i know you gotta run and eat lunch uh god that that's why we gotta be honest in the body of christ today because if the truth be told some of our pasts have been so difficult and people have no idea somebody putting a chat you got no idea they have no idea what it took for you to get out of bed today oh my god i said they have no idea if if if you were to give lifetime the rights to your life they will make you a millionaire and make a movie based on what the past has been in your life you don't know you don't know somebody saying what it took just for me to put one leg in front of the other but because of god's great love for you you did not die you did not give up the devil did not get victory over your life you are not dead and since you're not dead you might as well thank god and i if i'm preaching to you would you just give god a praise in the chat and say i thank god that when they were about to kill me when my life was about to be over god said i ain't done with you and it's in the healing i hope y'all still here i ain't gonna be long i promise it's in the healing of the centurion servant that jesus teaches us something about deliverance and freedom and that is the fact that you do not have to be in a preferred place to receive preferred healing in other words this servant is at the point of death so much so that he's not in a position to ask for what he wants much less needs the state of his condition is so difficult that it places him in somewhat of a prison where he would serve a lifetime sentence in the bed until he died and yet on his deathbed the power of god seized death based on the centurion's faith and what was about to die please don't miss this what was about to die god in christ turned it around and i don't know who i'm talking to today i don't know who i'm preaching to today i i feel god is talking to somebody today in this virtual uh space and place but there's somebody who believes that you aren't at the best place in life and that god won't touch you uh based on where you are and you've been struggling to get back on your feet and you don't know what's going to happen if the truth be told you just got let go of your job if the truth be told you're struggling in your health and you don't believe that god's power can touch you because you're not in a preferred place and you believe that god is going to touch you once you get in a better place but i'm here to tell you that the blessings of god often don't start when you're when you have your doctorate degree or when you have the best job or when you married and got two kids and got a white picket fence and a dog named boo-boo but sometimes the blessings of god start when you in a one-bedroom apartment when there's no food on your plate and there's no water in your cup but you believe in the city of your soul that god's got a blessing for you with your name on it somebody better shout i ain't dead yet until they pronounce last rules and writes over your life god is not done with you and god is up to something in your life and i rose to tell somebody today that if you ain't dead god ain't done oh my omg omg smh i feel god about to do something in somebody's life if you ain't dead then god ain't done somebody said i ain't even got a car i still take public transportation but i got a feeling in the city of my soul that god is up to something in my life and i know we're not in the same place i know we're not in a we're in a virtuous faith i know we've been dealing with this pandemic i know that it's a whole lot of deaths going on but i rose to tell somebody that regardless of what's going on around us we ain't in a funeral baby i i have not come to officiate a funeral i have come to tell you that he who's the son has the son got life and you got him more abundantly and if you ain't dead god ain't done it's interesting because it's interesting because are y'all still here i hope y'all still hear it's interesting because after the centurion servant receives healing god makes and jesus rather makes an interesting decision he travels southwest about 25 miles to go to this town called name y'all i thought i forgot about name now i'm still here i'm in the text it's interesting because you will notice that after jesus heals the centurion's servant that jesus does not get satisfied simply from one miracle if this was you or me we would have handled it differently but jesus does not get satisfied just because one miracle because jesus will not rest until everyone who has been free from the hand of the enemy and everyone who has understood his plan for their life received their healing and it is a melancholy truth that most people are content with singular success because you will notice in our text that after this miracle jesus performs that jesus does not pat himself on the back nor does he start a facebook page or twitter account about his ministry he does not go around with a sign saying i have healed the centurion servant but instead he travels to name because jesus always moves at the obedience of his father luke appears intentional to place these two stories together with a man at the point of death and this young boy who has already died by the time jesus gets to the village as jesus gets to the gate of the city luke says that he's being carried out of the city it's probably night time as was the time when jewish funerals would customarily take place and it's clear that they're taking the boy out of the city for his committal ceremony his mother who had already lost her husband has probably told the funeral director would you bury my son next to his father so that when the lord comes they can rise up to meet the lord in the air together broken and shattered this mother along with her family is on their way out of the city accompanied by the cries of the crowd because they have in their company a dead boy who they need to bury it's here that luke gives us the second thing that the texas tended to teach us and that is the crowd will often be around you but will have no power to change your situation oh my goodness i see see and i'm and i'm sharing this world today because most of us think that because we have so many friends on social media that we have a lot of people around us to change our situation but know that there will always be people around you in life who will agree with your demise but won't celebrate your triumph and i'm speaking this word because it's apparent to me some people can only relate to you and are okay when you with you when their life situation is on the same level as yours but the moment life changes i'm i'm telling you by experience y'all y'all know some of y'all know what i'm talking about the moment your life changes and when life springs forth and when rivers of living water start flowing from your spirit it's then that they have a problem at the time of our texts there were actually mourners who were hired for funerals please don't miss this these people will be paid to cry oh my goodness they they they will be paid to cry they that their singular job was to lament around you they they were paid to be petty they they were paid to keep you in a season of sadness they they were paid to keep you mourning because every now and then you got to pay attention to people who are around you you you got to pay attention to the crowd of people who are around you because some of us if the truth be told have been hiring people and employing people who keep you where you are and don't allow you to see or at least sense that god can do two things and that is that god can keep his word and that god doesn't tell lies and we've hired so many people that have caused us to miss out on the powerful reality that if you're not dead then if you're not dead then god's not done but even if you've died the power still belongs to our god and god can still speak life into people places and things you can imagine the scent of the scene of people who are torn over the death of this young boy who had his whole life in front of him and a lady who has already buried her husband and now has the difficult task of laying her son to rest when jesus comes in contact with this mother luke says he has compassion on her he cares for her when when he sees her but but he says something that fascinated me endlessly when he sees the woman he says to her um do not weep now now y'all forgive me but i i know jesus is god and he's perfect and he's wonderful and all that but but that's a rather strange statement from our lord to say in the presence of death the presence of her difficult situation in front of the crying crowd and in the midst of shock and disbelief of this her son who has just died jesus says to her don't cry and i was a little offended i ain't gonna lie pastor greene dr green i was a little offended after reading this story ain't you offended y'all ain't okay y'all perfect i'm sorry oslo offended after reading this story at the response of our lord because it seems a little bit insensitive and though he felt compassion his word seems to suggest that he is unmoved by the mother's grief don't cry don't weep wait a minute isn't this the same jesus who cried at the funeral of his friend lazarus okay okay the bible says in this same book jesus wept now wait a minute how come you get to cry jesus but i can't how come how come you can weep and you can well and and you can cry over the demise of your loved one but you telling me don't cry and i had to do a little study pastor i had to do a little research about rubido to find out what jesus was really saying and when i found out what he was really saying i was encouraged because what i found out was that this word here for weep is a word that is used specifically for mourning over death it's an intense deep passionate wailing that people would have in response to the grief people would experience when their loved ones would die jesus in this statement is not saying don't cry it really is not a statement but here jesus is really asking a question he is really asking um why are you crying over death when you are in the presence of life okay okay okay yeah god god's not done why are you crying over something that's dead with the possibility and the opportunity is right there for life to spring forth and i want to encourage somebody today that we have cried over the wrong things y'all ain't hearing me today we have cried over the wrong things in fact somebody ought to text their boss right now and say thank you thank you for firing me because when you fired me i found that it was a million dollars in the idea of starting my own business thank you thank you for letting me see uh me you cheat on me now uh before i got married uh matter of fact come get your clothes and the shoes you left in the closet last night we we've been crying over the wrong things because jesus is saying why are you going to keep crying over something you think is dead when i have the power to bring it back to life why are you responding to this situation this way when my presence is an indication that something is about to happen in fact i've learned in most my short life that pain is often an indication that something special is about to take place because every now and again you'll come in contact with people who will want to produce and pronounce last will and testament over your life you you got to be careful over the mourners in your life you you got to be careful when people come and cry over and mourn over in the mid over the fact that your past has to be your presence you got to be careful about the ideas and opinions of people and allow yourself to be entertained by people who ain't about nothing because there will be people who to try to tell you that you're finished and that you are done and that are over even when the lord has not declared it so the lord didn't come into name saying that this situation is over there be people who come into your life that try to put you in the grave and bury you before your last breath and i may not i may look like i'm dead and i may talk like i'm dead and i may walk like i'm dead i might even think like i'm dead if i can do that but but until god says it's over y'all ain't saying nothing to me today uh until god said it's over he he's not done yet he he is not done yet he is not done yet in fact somebody needs to put in the chat i ain't dead yet they they talk to me like i'm dead they look at me like i'm dead but i ain't dead yet and i don't know who this word is for today but is there anybody that can throw in the chat and say until someone says that i'm dead there's life still left in me until god says i'm dead he is not done until somebody says earth to earth and ashes to ashes and dust to dust there's still something inside of me that god wants to bring out and there's somebody here today who've been told that you're finished and that you're done and that your mistake that you made you'll never come back from and the mistake that you've made has killed your life and your life will never amount to anything but you tell them i ain't dead yet i'm still believing in fact look at them in the face i'm still i don't care what you said over my life i'm still believing i'm still trusting i'm still breathing god ain't done with me yet and i know it's not black history month i know it ain't black history month but can i get a color purple praise break can i get a color purple commercial miss silly said i may be black and i may be ugly but dear god i'm still here i may not have a job i may not be where i need to be i may not i may not have two cents to rub together they may have cursed at me i i may they may have told me that because i'm not married yet that i've been cursed by god but if god before me who can be against me i ain't come pastor green to conduct no funeral i came today to let somebody know that god is bringing everything back to life in fact i gotta go i know y'all tired of this the food is in the oven so y'all got to go i remember pastor greene 10 years ago over 10 years when i was afflicted with this terrible thing called lyme disease and and i was so bad i i was so dehydrated i couldn't even walk doc that they took me back and they thought it was over they they thought it was over until one thing happened that i never shoved again they took you y'all ain't gonna catch this they they took my vital signs oh okay oh oh oh god somebody come get me because i i'm about to leave here they they they took my back see the first thing when they think that you are done when when they think that it's over they check your vital signs because even though it may look like you're dead the vital signs will show even though it looks like you're dead there's a post there there's still a heartbeat there and i came to let somebody know that i've come today to check your vital signs oh my god what is your vital sign are you still able to open up your eyes are you still able to walk are you still able to talk is there breath still in you if you ain't dead god ain't done i know it's tough i know it's difficult i know it's rough but god's got purpose over your life there's a calling over your life and the reason why god ain't done is because you have not completed your task on the earth your window is still open there's still work for you to do and i want to encourage somebody today get busy working in this season of covet in this season where it just seems like that there is has been a cleansing over the earth it is not time to play games anymore it is not time to waste time anymore but we all to in this season get busy being about our father's business night is coming when no man can work it's daytime now let's get busy god ain't done and if god ain't done neither should you be if you're not dead god ain't done with your life maybe there's somebody you've come today just need an encouragement you said lord help help this preacher help help help this brother say something to me today because i feel dumb you ever felt you just felt done yourself doesn't matter what the peanut gallery is saying doesn't matter what what social media said you feel like it's over but i came to tell you it ain't over there's so much more for you to do there's so much more that god wants to do in you and you come today saying can you just pray for me that i would get busy father in the name of jesus i pray for my brother my sister my young person who feels dead but oh the spirit of god has come to check vital signs today and there's life in this virtual space and place and i ask in the name of jesus god that your spirit will touch somebody's life wake them up when you touch the the coffin of this boy you touched him and told him to get up and when he got up you gave him to his mother and he went back to work touch somebody's life today help them realize that you are not done that there is yet purpose there is yet a calling there is yet mission that is over their life help them to get busy working in jesus name amen god bless you the people of god because if you ain't dead god is not done let's get busy working being about our father's business the lord has come to me today that's the third thing that i want to tell you you still got vital signs you still got a heartbeat you're still able to stand up and to share an encouraging word to somebody if god is for you who can be against you if you ain't dead god ain't done god bless you my brothers and sisters as you get busy walking in your calling from god god bless you thank you dr washington for that i hope that these words will stick with you during the week once work and life starts to pile up you can just take a quick breath to remember that you are not alone in your journey have a great relaxing nourishing sabbath and we can't wait to connect with you again here soon at mount rubido where we love grow and serve you

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Published: Sat Sep 11 2021