"Good News For Those About To Tap Out" - Dr. Freddy Haynes

today I want to call your attention to second Corinthians chapter 1 verses 8 through 11 I'm gonna read in your hearing from the Freddie Haynes remix of the Greek New Testament no you don't have it but read whatever version you have and check it out how I have translated 2nd Corinthians chapter 1 beginning at verse 8 we don't want you to be clueless my beloved people about all the hell and hardship terror and trauma we went through in Asia for we were in such crushing circumstances too much for us to handle and we gave up and tapped out yes our mental jury came back with the verdict of death it was over we were going to be executed but this caused us to lean on God who has a track record of raising the dead God delivered us from a dead end in the same God who did it back then we'll do it again that's how we cope we have hope that God will come through you and your prayers are a part of our support system and first responders God heard and hears your prayers and that's when deliverance comes the praise party is about to be lit as everyone celebrates how God came through in these few moments I'd like to use as a subject from which to preach and this is gonna be a message that I hope will touch you right where you are and that is good news for those who are ready to tap out good news for those about to tap out tap out have you ever felt like tapping out and giving up that's exactly what MLK Martin Luther King jr. the dreamer testifies about a nightmarish experience that he had undergone listen right now check out this video of Martin King the dreamer reflecting on a nightmare my dad was the scariest book the Mississippi and Chicago on the data we march through that narrow street and we marched by for 5000 people that day but they were in trees and they were throwing so many rocks and saying that I saw the policemen at least he was never getting enough sleep never being able to eat reg'ment torn by his obligations as a as a husband and a father to his kids and so forth and and and constantly worrying about where there's gonna be enough money to meet payrolls of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference you know the kind of stress he was under why why those of us who were aware of some of it didn't move more aggressively Littlefoot perhaps alleviate some some of dr. King's demons in pain have you ever felt like tapping out tapping out I borrowed that metaphor from wrestling I used to watch WWE don't judge me but in watching WWE I discovered that whenever a chokehold was constraining and crushing whenever I'll hold left one rendered helpless that they would watch this notify the referee that they were giving up and they would tap out tap out means I am giving up tap out means that the suffering is so severe and the pain is so pronounced that I can't handle this anymore this is too much for me to handle I am ready to tap out and that's what dr. Martin Luther King jr. as he looks in the rear view mirror to reflect on his own excruciating experience as a drum major for justice he spoke of two experiences where he thought about the possibility and inevitability of death he was ready to tap out check out my sisters and brothers what King reflected on he reflected on going to Philadelphia Mississippi during Freedom Summer this is in the aftermath of the slaying of civil rights workers were no Goodman and Chaney who had gone down to Mississippi to organize african-americans to register and vote and then mobilizing them to express their enfranchisement well my sisters and brothers when they arrived in Philadelphia and Mississippi their lives are taken Martin King and Cru they go down to Philadelphia to say that the movement continues they were unafraid and we shall overcome but when they arrived in Philadelphia Mississippi they are surrounded by an angry mob a mean mob a hostile environment is one that they are in check out what happened Martin King sees that he is surrounded by hatred and hostility as bottles and rocks are thrown at them and they kneel to pray the civil rights protesters do and when they knelt to pray Martin King said in his prayer this is the worst place I've ever been I suppose one of the killers is here right now and do you know that someone from out of that crowd of racist hostility hollered out yet right because in a real sense it was a dangerous time and Martin King says in reflection that he fought indeed that he was not going to make it he was ready to tap out of course you just heard him also referred to what happened in Chicago note with me that Martin King said that some four 5000 marches were peacefully marching through a segregated area there in Chicago and they came into a narrow space and in that narrow space dr. King says that rocks were being thrown at the peaceful protesters because those who were angrily against them trying to integrate in a bring down segregation in public housing those who were trying to uphold the status quo of slum-like conditions for those of us of Ebony hue they were situated in trees and they were throwing rocks in Martin King said the protectors the police were so scared that when the rocks were thrown in a loud noises accompanied the thrown rocks that in a simultaneous fashion here it is those who were sign to protect them with duck and that's when dr. King again said that he was convinced at that moment it was time to tap out a park right there parenthetically because he's known as a dreamer but the dreamer was in the midst of a night man that caused him to want to tap out yeah that's why his attorney Clarence Jones testified that as he looks back they did not do enough to protect the mental health of the dreamer why because of my sisters and brothers in so many instances he was under pressure and overwhelmed by the draining demands of the leadership of the civil rights movement and as a consequence Martin King my sisters and brothers reached those moments where we testified life was a long and desolate corridor with no exit signs that will cause you to want to tap out and already I'm talking to somebody I'm in your kool-aid just called out your flavor because life can hurt so much the pain can be so pronounced the suffering so severe difficulty so draining and disappointing that you reach a point where you want to tap out have you felt that have you felt like tapping out and giving up perhaps that's what one of my favorite she Rose wanted to do Barbara Jean's it's 1951 and Barbara John's is only 16 but she's assigned the responsibility of getting her four younger siblings ready for school she's helping out her mother they're in a Virginia and as she is helping out her mother she gets them ready for school walks them to school but then she gets ready to get on the bus only to discover that she had forgotten her lunch if you had one of those days you have done everything that you can the demands on you are pressing and then you forget something that you need she rushes back to the house I'm not done it secures her lunch and being a she goes to the bus stop only to discover that the bus to her segregated school had just left and my sisters and brother she decides to hitchhike and she waits for an hour and Barbara Jean's testifies during that our to amplify her English that a half-filled bus of white students going to a segregated school that was sparkling and brand-new simply made her angrier and then she could not get a ride she ends up making that long walk to school when she arrives at her broken-down dilapidated school she complains to a teacher she felt she could confide in the teacher say it to her we'll do something about it Barbara Jean's is discouraged because she feels that her teacher has been dismissive at did Barbara John's feel like tapping out it happens to my sisters and brothers when life weighs you down and drains you because of the overwhelming difficulties you feel like you're under pressure it will cause you to want to tap out I'm talking to somebody we're ready to give up and tap out after all when you look at everything we continue to deal with in this nation it's not just the virus called Corona it's the virus in the sick soul of America called racism where black bodies aren't even safe in their own space you can jog like a mod or bury and then get hunted down an ambush by some racist terrorist and you can be in your own a home like one of our frontline workers a Shiro by the name of Brianna Taylor right there in Louisville Kentucky and at one o'clock in the morning your home is invaded by police officers who shoot you dead they claimed they were looking for a suspect my sisters and brothers have you heard the latest and that is the suspect they were looking for had been apprehended earlier that morning and now brianna is dead her boyfriend is in jail they have him in jail charged with attempted murder all of that is enough to make you want to tap out mounting death Korona and then we've got to deal hold on with crippling racism we've got to deal with disease and discrimination we have to deal with Kovach 19 and covert 45 that's enough to make you wanna tap out and somebody is listening to me right now and you feel like tapping out if you've ever felt like giving up and tapping out I hope you'll jump with me into this passage because Paul my sisters and brothers is transparently testifying about a terrifying terrible traumatic experience that had left him ready to tap out check out what Paul is saying he does not give us the exact experience we really don't know what he's referencing but what he does is use poetic pathos filled phraseology that portrays his pain predicament and my sisters and brothers when he uses that lamentable language speaking of his insufferable situation he shares with us that there was a point where he was ready to tap out how do I know look at the language he uses the word in your translation it may be trouble or affliction in the original Greek language that were trouble or affliction it had to do with being crushed by circumstances it was a picture of one who was tied up on it with rope and placed on a flat surface and a huge boulder is being placed on that individual it is crushing that person they are paralyzed by powerlessness handcuffed by helplessness and crushed by something that they cannot control but not just the word affliction hardship or trouble there's another word that spoke of beyond our ability please don't miss that because that lets you know that cliche Christianity is inanity I'll do that one more time clean say Christianity is in entity Paul says right here this was more than I could handle y'all I gotta tell you I am getting sick of cliche Christianity when you're going through a crisis cliches ain't gonna help ya you've got to interrogate cliches that have been traditionally handed down to see if they line up with truth of Scripture check it out you've heard this cliche God won't put any more on you than you can handle ask Paul if that will happen because Paul said what I was going through was more than I could handle have you felt like that during this coronavirus crisis that this is more than I can handle I'm ready to tap out and Vienna he uses another word that speaks of the psychic attack going on in his spirit it's the word despair the greek word is a word we get our word exasperated from it it means I'm at the end of my rope I'm about to let go it means I don't have it I can't take it anymore and my sisters and brothers that's what I'm dealing with today I'm talking to somebody who knows the excruciating experience of being ready to tap out you're tired of the trauma you're tired of the trouble and you're ready to tap out you are drained and in pain you're in a chokehold that is crushing you by way of the circumstances and you're ready to give up and tap out is that not how Hamlet felt in Shakespeare's play of the same name when Hamlet threw down like this by saying to be or not to be that is the question whether tis nobler to suffer in the mind from the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them Hamlet is ready to tap out Paul Laurence Dunbar puts it this way poetically I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings on me when its wing is bruised bosom sword beats his bars as he wouldn't be free it is not a carol of joy nor Glee but a prayer that he sends from his Hearts deep core but a plea that upward to heaven he flings I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings do you feel the psychic attack do you feel that show hold of circumstances that have a book Dunbar and Shakespeare's Hamlet speaking of it here it is a readiness to tap out if you're ready to tap out I don't want you to tap out just yet here's my thesis my thesis is don't tap out turn to God for your turn up I'm gonna do it one more time and ain't no time to tap out but that's when you turn to God and when you turn to God God will bless you to turn up it's about time to turn up how do I know because I'm giving you Barbara John's earlier y'all recall I began with Barbara John's after Martin King Barbara John's my sisters and brothers is unsung but Barbara John's when her sister when her teacher told her to do something about it you know what that young 16 year old dear she called for a student boycott of the schools because she was tired of dilapidated second-class learning conditions and that boycott caused her to experience threats and the n-double-a-cp asked her to join their lawsuit and she became a plaintiff and you know what happened today is May 17th of 2020 May 17 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education was handed down and that decision from the Supreme Court it overturned Plessy versus Ferguson which had legalized aparte discrimination and oppression of black people in this country but y'all you can't forget that there was a young sister 16 years old and here was her testimony before she died she was simply she said trying to get better conditions for her school but she ended up being a part of what ignited a revolution I'm trying to let you know God will bless you to come out of a crisis with something exceedingly abundantly above all you can ask or imagine it ain't no time to tap out and give up it's a time to turn to God step up and then turn up preach Freddie Haynes I'm about to do that thing how does it happen watch the text the text lets us know that first we must rely on God who has a track record of raising the dead no I didn't like how I phrase I'm afraid it this way you've got to trust God who has a resurrection receipts boom there it is right here God has a resurrection receipt so here's what the Bible says the Bible says all of that happened that we might trust God who raises the dead did y'all get that right there trust the God who raises the dead God can raise the dead if God can raise the dead Jesus God can handle your haters and hardship if God can raise the dead Jesus God can use adversity for your advancement if God can raise the dead Jesus God can bless you to profit from your problems if God can raise the dead Jesus God can give your strength in the midst of your sorrow and suffering if God can raise the dead Jesus watch God do what only God can do I don't know about y'all but I've been enjoying the last dance and while watching the last dance I'm tripping because in the last one you recall what happened Michael Jordan had retired after winning three consecutive NBA championships and and then after 18 months away he came back and guess what happened the Bulls during the interim they made the playoffs but they never made the finals and then all of a sudden the Bulls here it is they went on to win a three more consecutive titles but guess what chain everything when Michael Jordan the greatest basketball player of all time decided to come back and here's what he did he sent a fax to the media and the facts of the media's had these two words that transform everything for the Chicago Bulls what were those two words boom I'm back that was three words he didn't say boom I added that right there but Jordan said I'm back and when Jordan said I'm back it transformed the fortunes of the Chicago Bulls well ain't gonna shout just yet but if you think the Jordan sing I'm back can change things then hear me well I've got somebody better than Jordan if his name is Jesus and the book lets us know he died one Friday but early Sunday morning Jesus said I'm back and because Jesus said I'm back Paul testified the same God that raises the data is able to deliver us and so I'm going to trust God's I'm gonna trust God's plan when I can't trace God's hand oh that's some good stuff right there I think that's a bar for you sometimes you've got to trust God's plan when you cannot trace God's hand I can't see what God's hand is doing but I'm gonna trust God's plan because this is a God who has a resurrection of receipts preach for the hannes I'm doing the best I can but in checking that out we've got to trust God trust God y'all I was reading last year one of the bios of my favorite Shero Harriet Tubman and Harriet Tubman according to this biographer made of all of those who were going to escape to freedom with her commit to these things I'm a shout yeah Harriet would tell them I've already I've already done this before so you can trust me this ain't my my first go-round on this so here's what you do follow me do what I say and then she said and if you and follow-me do what I say and if you follow me and do what I say then you will not turn around but you will just keep going just keep going if you hear dogs barking just keep going if you hear people yelling just keep going just keep going and trust in me and y'all if we if they could trust Harriet then surely you can trust the god of heaven and so the text begins by saying rely on God who has a resurrection receipts but the text doesn't even stop there the text makes me shout because the text goes on to say after you rely on God who has a resurrection receipts don't miss the next piece the text says it's when we are at our breaking point that God breaks in and comes through boom you didn't get your shout on did you don't shout yet because the shell is coming the shout is at our breaking point that's when God breaks in and comes through I'm saying that too fast our breaking point you know what your breaking point is a breaking point is a metaphor it speaks of a flaw here it is that is being crushed by so much weight but it reaches its breaking point and then collapses have you felt like collapsing do you feel such pain in it and and and have stuff continued to add up and you're ready for everything to collapse well that's called a breaking point but the good news is at your breaking point that's when God breaks in and comes through that gets me shouting right there that God has a way when I'm at my breaking point god breaks in and comes through the Bible lets us know Jesus at his breaking point yeah I'm talking about Jesus Jesus isn't the Garden of Gethsemane and the book says he's ready to tap out he says if it be and father if you don't mind I'd like to let this cup pass from me but Benny since nevertheless not my will but your will be done and the book says that's what a strengthening angel from heaven came to his side do y'all get that right there he's ready to tap out and that's when God sends an angel that breaks in and comes through I'm a read y'all a shout right here one of my members sent me this powerful email that I want to bless you with because basically she was ready to tap out and that's when God broke in and came through can I read this email to you it's so powerful it says hi pastor Haynes want to reach out to give you a personal praise report I was laid off in 2014 diagnosed in 2015 with stage 1 ovarian cancer I had just moved my aging mother in with me due to having early signs of dementia which was six months prior to the diagnosis I had surgery and took and took six treatments of preventative chemotherapy it was the hardest thing I had ever gone through but my faith carried me I leaned on God's Word for healing I reject it the first doctors diagnosis and repeatedly see it know her diagnosis was stage three the second opinion doctor said Stage one so with all of that being said I developed huge medical bills that I knew had no physical resources to pay off such a high debt yesterday I went to my chart online to at least pay something and I found out that my bills were paid in full boom you missed your shot both hospitals had a zero balance we're talking seven days in ICU female surgery a hospitalization for several days went to the emergency room three times had no insurance due to loss of job plus ongoing monitoring through doctor's appointments I'm on fixed income pastor I was in shock I started crying because I pray to the Lord to help me pay off my debt I saw on the news about six to eight months ago where a group of wealthy people were paying off medical bills I'm we ask God to show them my name prayers answered healed of cancer medical bill ballots zero hallelujah are y'all getting that right there at her breaking point that's when God broke through and God came through and my sisters and brothers I'm letting you know right now when you are at your breaking point God will break in and God will come through but not only that look what the text says the text gets me shouting more because the text says we should anticipate what God will do because we've already seen what God has done do y'all see with the text says the text says God will deliver us and then it says that God will deliver us because God has delivered us so I know what God can do because I've seen what God has done it God will come through because I've seen what God has already done here's the beautiful thing he says I will come through this crisis on the other side and I won't be the same and y'all I'm trying to say repeatedly we should not allow anyone to offend us by saying we can't wait to get back to normal I ain't going back to normal because normal was our nightmare normal was downright negative normal was painful normal what about disproportionate death from Kovach nineteen normal is environmental racism normal my sisters and brothers is a zip code and just as normal his medical apart ADA none of that normality because normal says that we have essential workers who we treat as disposable but all essential workers we ain't going back to normal because we see you we wouldn't make it without you we see you meat packers we seen you dressed bus drivers we see you nurses in nursing homes we see you doctors on the front lines we see you garbage collectors and police officers who do the right thing we see you out there standing up for us and we refused to go back to normal where you were treated as if you are disposable when in reality you are essential and we want to pay you like you are essential and value like you like you are a since you ain't protect you like you are essential no we ain't going back to normal I got one more thing to tell you and the text says this not only do we not go back to normal but make sure you have a spiritual support system that helps to get you through well that's my last point right there you need a spiritual support system because I hope you've learned from this social distancing does not mean you ought to be spiritually disconnected you ought to have some people in your Posse you ought to have some Christians in your crew you ought to have some Saints who support you as you're going through what you're going through I need to know somebody in my circle that can get a prayer through because every now when Vienna when life brings me to my breaking point and I'm about to tap out and I can't get a prayer through myself I must say that I'm Freddie Haynes I'm a pastor of a church I promise you I've had some ugly heartbreaking moments in my life where I could not see how I would get out and y'all I didn't feel like praying when I tried to play my prayer didn't go anywhere I'm ready to tap out but the good news is God had somebody to pray for me we sang in the old school church somebody prayed for me had me on their mind they took a little time and prayed for me is anybody listening to me who can testify when you didn't have the strength or the sets to pray for yourself that God put you in somebody's heart and they lifted you up when life was breaking you down and you were ready to tap out well that's my testimony I guess I can wrap it with my testimony I'm blessed with having had the greatest grandmothers in the history of grandmother ring sweetie Annette Reed Jordan oh my god the greatest grandmother in the history of grandmother ring and then archery of beef Jones the greatest grandmother in the history of grandmother ring Rickey smiley says ain't no love like a grandmother's love I can tell you that from personal experience will let me give you my flashback and then wrap this watch what happened when I first came to friendship West if i'ma keep it a buck y'all I did not make enough money to pay my bills I basically had rent-a-car note and an electricity bill a phone bill insurance on the car and my income watch this was less than my outgo but God is good because God has a way of raising up the right people at the right time when you're going through life going wrong I'm gonna do that one more time that's a bar right there God will raise up the right people at the right time when life goes wrong who will do the right thing and y'all God blessed me with some wonderful members of friendship West who just came through at just the right time they would put some change in my hand and the change was just enough but one particular month it was really jacked up because everything was due I mean her thing was do everything was due and then it's a Friday night I'm in my apartment their chant Canterbury Village Apartments on Chaucer here in the hood in Oak Cliff Oak Cliff that's my hood and y'all as I'm sitting there a storm starts to rage one of them spring Dallas Texas storms and the storm a rage so powerfully and it's Friday evening and the storm rages so powerfully that all of a sudden everything went dark will because I hadn't paid my electricity bill I figured that's what it happened I didn't know the power had been knocked out and so I'm sitting there in the dark and the next thing I know my phone rang one of them landline phones don't know nothing about landline phones well landline phone rang I picked up the phone on the other end was my beloved grandmother Audrey of beat Jones here's what she said her speech had been compromised by a stroke that she had and so she could not speak as clearly as she wanted to but she remained brand and classy and sophisticated through it all and y'all here's what she's saying I won't forget it I'll give it to you right now she said I'm just calling to check on ya had the sweetest voice never I'm just calling to check on you are you okay I don't have a lot of money but I do have a lot of Prayer all right bye and y'all she hung up that was how long the phone call lasted I don't have a lot of money but I have a lot of Prayer and she hung up after saying take care goodbye and y'all do y'all know I held that phone receiver at my ear fighting back tears determined not to cry but the moment I put that phone down I promise you this happened the lights came on well I thought of course my electric bill had not been paid but what I did not know is the power had been knocked out by the storm at and then the power came back on the moment the lights came on and I put the phone receiver down my phone rang again I picked it up it's a man you're Scott Senor my late great mentor man you're Scott senior said Freddy I don't feel like speaking at a lunch tomorrow in Houston you go for me okay I said okay doc he said and they're going to pay you what they were going to pay me I told you you're decadent I told them you're coming in my place y'all I went down to Houston spoke at a luncheon and I ain't gonna lie I spoke mine off I mean I went in because I was excited about a possibility doc said they were gonna pay me what they were gonna pay him can I tell y'all what they gave me they gave me warning G $1,000 this is 1985 y'all not impressed $1,000 that meant my car no my my apartment rent my electric bill my insurance all of that was covered in one engagement and y'all all I can let you know right now as I was ready to tap out but that's when God broke and came through and that's my word to everyone listening right now and that is God will take care of you God will see you through God will be there for you and with you and come through so if you're ready to tap out don't tap out here's what you do in wrestling I'm done with this I wouldn't go say but I just had a flashback to watching a wrestling when they have you in a hold and the hold has you constrained and crushed and you're ready to tap out and here's what the referee does the referee is checking your hand but you hold your hand up to say to the referee I ain't done yet is there anybody here who says I can't get to church mama hold my hands up knowing if I hold my hand up and don't tap out God will come through hallelujah bless his name that's my word for someone who came to this experience ready to tap out don't you tap out don't you give up God will come through when things go wrong as they sometimes will the roads you're trudging seems all uphill your funds are low your debts are high you want to smile but you have to sigh when cares are pressing you down a bit rest if you must but please don't quit it's no time to tap out

Channel: Frederick Haynes

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Keywords: Preaching, Pastor, Church, Baptist, Friendship West, Religion, Activism, Social Justice, Frederick Haynes, Frederick Douglass Haynes, Freddy Haynes, Dallas, Texas

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Length: 38min 21sec (2301 seconds)

Published: Mon May 18 2020