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[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] praise the lord everybody good morning praise the lord everybody praise the lord everybody anybody glad to be in the house once again good morning good morning good morning anybody come to give god some glory on this morning [Music] come on stand on your feet with us those of you who are watching come on and give god a wave offering or you can clap your hands come on let's just tell god how much we love him on today god we love you god we adore you god you are all we need on today you are all we need on today you are all we need on today [Music] i know we all know this this is like a grove anthem let's sing it you together every breath you breathe [Music] [Music] wrong you're wrong [Music] you're all i [Music] is [Music] [Music] you breathe me [Music] [Music] you're [Applause] [Music] come on [Music] [Music] oh i need you i need you [Music] [Music] [Music] i need you is and all that is within me bless his holy name i will bless the lord at all times and his praises shall continually be in my mouth o magnified the lord with me and let us exalt his name together is anybody glad to be in the house of the lord this morning why don't you take a moment and just give him some praise give him some glory given some honor come on let's bless him this is the day that he has made you ought to make a decision that you will rejoice and be glad in it father we are rejoicing in this day because you've made it you've made it and we are grateful anybody just grateful to be in his presence i'm talking about the spirit of god that's made himself available to us just lift your hands and just begin to thank him for his presence because in his presence there is the fullness of joy [Music] in his presence is where we find our peace in this presence is where we find our strength [Music] and that very same spirit is in the room right now for you even if you're watching at home via live stream the spirit of god the all-knowing and all-powerful presence of god it's right here in this sanctuary and he's in your living room all at the same time that's how powerful he is that he can touch your heart while you're in this sanctuary and he can send the word right to your household and whoever might be there he can touch them all at the same time [Music] that while you're worshiping in here he's fixing it out there all at the same time lift your hands in his presence yes the spirit of god is here come on for the next few moments just lift up a sound of worship with those hands lifted up come on out of the very fruit of your lips from your mouth there ought to be something coming out of your mouth just some words of gratitude and some words of love just to say god i appreciate you god i honor you god i magnify you you alone are worthy come on just begin to open up your mouth and tell them thank you no one can tell you what to say to him it's between you and god but something ought to come out of your mouth [Music] there's a command in psalm 95 new international version i want to read it says come let us sing for joy to the lord let us shout aloud to the rock of our salvation let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song for the lord is the great god he's the great king above all gods in his hand are the depths of the earth and the mountain peaks belong to him the sea is his for he made it and his hands formed the dry land come let us bow down in worship let us kneel before the lord our maker for he is our god and we are the people of his pasture the flock under his care what a mighty god we serve that it's in him we live in him we move and in him we have our being and we worship him because he is the rock of our salvation he is the very firm foundation in which we stand on he is the very hope of glory that rests on the inside of us he is the one let's make it personal and it brings peace to your mind he is the one who regulates your heart he is the one who can fix and mend the broken pieces and put them back together again he is the one who forgives us and gives us another chance and another chance and another chance and for that when we come into this house we are not hold back our worship we are not hold back our praise but we ought to say spirit of the living god fall fresh on me this morning for you alone are worthy oh father we come this morning to say thank you because today we say and we claim that you are our god you are the king of kings and the lord of lords you are the ruler and you are the lord of our life father and so this morning we say thank you because god it is an honor and a privilege that your breath has been poured into our lungs and for that we pour out our praise we thank you god that we can enter into your presence with thanksgiving enter into your course with praise and this morning we are grateful we are grateful for life we are grateful for strength we are grateful for the hope that we have in you this morning we simply say two words and that is thank you thank you for being god thank you for being our peacemaker thank you o god for being our savior thank you o god for being our deliverer thank you o god for being our strong tower thank you oh god for being our shelter thank you oh god for being our battle axe thank you oh god for being our ruler and our king god you are high and lifted up and this morning we say there is no one like you all of the gods are the works of man but this morning we declare and decree that you are the most high god you sit on the throne in majesty there is no one compared to you father you are on a level in a dimension all by yourself and this morning we say have your way we give you glory we give you honor and we bless your name we thank you o god for your spirit we thank you for your presence and we say have your way father do something new in this worship experience that we would have infallible proof that you are god and god all by yourself and this morning we say have your way do what only you can do father we give you praise and we give you glory it's in jesus name we pray we thank you put those hands together and give them some praise come on come on come on let's take off the garment of heaviness and put on the garment of praise come on lay aside every weight right in this moment and begin to bless the god of your salvation if you love him if you love him if you love him hallelujah you may be seated in this presence but just look up and down your row and say i'm ready to worship our god i'm ready to worship our god just look at somebody else and say hasn't he been good to you hasn't he been good to you and the response ought to be yes he's been better than me than i've been to myself what a mighty god we serve amen come on let's put our hands together all over the house if we love them and we're excited to worship in the beauty of holiness well we thank god for you good morning grove church how's everybody doing this morning yeah it's good for us to come together and lift up his name together because when we come on one accord he said two or three touching and agreeing his name we can ask anything we can ask anything he said he'd be in the midst of us amen so listen as we move forward in our worship experience we want to take an opportunity do we have any first-time guests do we have any visitors here for the very first time i want you to stand for me we just want to acknowledge your presence my brother black dead god bless you any other guests visitors remain standing my brother we have another one in the back god bless listen we want to take an opportunity not to embarrass you but we just want to love on you and acknowledge your presence here we pray that when you walk through the doors that you already felt welcome but in case you didn't this is your official welcome this is grove church a ministry all about me the needs of god's people and we love to come together to lift up his name on behalf of our pastor and leading lady and all of our leaders and partners here we want to let you know that you are welcome in this house indeed amen family why don't you stand up and greet our guests let them know that they're welcome that they're honored that they're loved and appreciated here in this house in jesus name [Music] with your happiness [Music] good morning everyone man the lord has definitely smiled on all of us no matter what our ailments are no matter what our victories are today i think all of us can conclude the lord never changes and if we can just thank him for his presence not just for his blessings but sometimes i don't always need a blessing i need its presence i don't need another thing i don't need a at this current moment never deliverance at the moment sometimes i just need to to be affirmed and sometimes someone holding you and just letting you know that you are not just the results of your mess-ups but you indeed are a chosen vessel of god and i wonder how many chosen vessels of god do we have in here this morning you know that it's not because of me but because of god [Music] you know i i asked actually people just sing this song for me and it was just that it was just in my spirit when i was singing it um tomorrow at 11 o'clock we will eulogize one of our uh older members uh susan brandon mother susan brandon um we'll be funeralized here tomorrow 11 a.m pray for the family she was a devoted woman of god um i mean praise god she attended bible study um i mean at her age and um and we just thank god for her life here on earth and we thank god for her eternal life so please continue to pray for the brandon family um as we listen uh your prayers on tomorrow for them as well and likewise i wanted to make sure that because we are the mouse pieces of god because we register god's voice on earth we register god's voice on earth it's imperative that you pray and you vote voting is in november 2nd but every city is having early voting every city is having early voting even on some saturdays so you can go and vote on saturday so you don't want to take a day off from work um but that's imperative it's imperative that we vote this year it's not just about the presidential election but to me sometimes the local elections are more critical than those on a federal level and so it's imperative that you pray and you vote uh and you do it um before november 2nd so you won't spend in a long line but um forget how we feel about voting that's all right and too many of our ancestors died and bled and suffered um and so i'm just i'm just encouraging you to go vote um so you have plenty of time to do that as well um i wanna just move very quickly man that can y'all can y'all just do that song i just just i needed today you know that that song was just registering [Music] anointing [Music] [Music] every foreign member [Music] is [Music] come lay down the burdens you have carried for in the saints you wear [Music] he is [Music] here to heal the whole his heart and bless the broken he is here he is here to break the oak [Music] [Music] he is here to feel the hopeless heart and bless the broken is here god is here so break the oak and lift oh come lay down the burdens you have carry [Music] oh oh come lay down the burdens you [Music] for in [Music] [Music] yes he is yes he is come on please help me yes he is you know every now and then you should really minister to yourself and kneeling down before god helps us to refocus our thoughts kneeling down before god whether here or at home gives us an opportunity to reposition our our mindset and it says god i'm taking a knee now i'm not sure how many of you saw the movie after earth with will smith and his son when his son became very frustrated over not becoming the soldier or man that he thought his father wanted him to be he takes a journey in order to save his father's life he gets to a place where he becomes so frustrated that he's breaking pieces of the instruments that he had he's angering he's fighting he's frustrated he couldn't hear his father but he had some training that's why parents it's essential that we train up our children because because even though he could not hear his father because of the level of frustration and interference he remembered the training of his father his father was saying to him take a knee my son take a knee my son because you're frustrated and you can't accomplish anything in that mindset and what he does is without ever hearing his father speak at that moment he retraces the steps of what his father already taught him he takes the need to calm himself to refocus himself to tell his frustrations his anxieties his stress be still he does this in a way that god is pleased with but also he himself gets to a place now he declutters his mind because he knows i can't accomplish the father's will if i'm in this state of frustration so in the sanctuary it's permissible for you to worship it's permissible for you to bow and bend and cry and shout and praise because the father is trying to get your attention because you have so many distractions we have so many distractions he's trying to get get her attention and when he knelt down he was able to see he looked toward the hill y'all remember the movie he looked to the mountain and said that's where i need to be and when he got up from his kneeling posture he took flight to the mountain okay y'all just missed that y'all just missed all of that okay y'all just missed all of that he took flight to the mountain so after you pray and after you kneel and make your body and your mind some misses okay maybe it's me how many of you have to make your body submissive because sometimes your body wants to go off on a tangent or your mind you know sometimes your mind is like and you say no don't do that and then do that no no don't say that no i gotta say it now no no don't be like that i'm tired of not being like that in order in order the way to pull that into subjection is you have to make your body and your mind listen to the father who's already put you through boot camp okay man some of y'all gonna get this laid on the way home on the way home you're gonna get that on the way home you're gonna get it but you're never meant to be alone you're never meant to be alone if there is not a person that you can trust at the moment god is the spirit that you can trust at any moment and if you listen carefully the lord will direct you to someone who can help so lord we praise you lord god i saw something last week on the news on facebook i saw something so horrifying i don't know all the story but i just saw a clip of it where a young female beat this teacher i mean beat her i don't know all the circumstances maybe you're sitting here and that's your relative i saw i know that my sons aren't perfect they have done some things i care not to know about but we can't send our sons and daughters to school and they have permission to to do whip hon pots on a teacher you know let let me come in and let me straighten that out i'm gonna say it again get mad at me if you want to you gotta i mean whatever you got i mean when we when do we call a state of spade it hurt my heart i'm not saying the teacher was right i don't know all the circumstances but i'm saying for her to get beat like that i'm just so glad i don't teach i'll be in jail cause i would have done a can of i'm sorry whip we can't allow that parents and that's why i'm trying to reach you that you might reach your nieces your nephews and your grandchildren let me fight that battle because i'm gonna fight the battle if need be you know i'm saying old school i check my sons first before i check the teacher okay i'm sorry yeah i checked because what are you so tell me the truth what happened what happened because i don't want to go in and you embarrass me tell me what happened sonny if it's your fault i'm gonna love you oh but you're gonna get your ham pops toe up tonight i'm old school we can't allow this in this broken moment and i'm sharing it with you i gotta go jamie's i gotta go to pastor jamie said come on pastor so i gotta move from here but i'm saying we have to call it what it is the stuff that we are seeing is immoral it's dehumanizing and we got to stop it and then on facebook i saw people justifying her actions i'm sorry you can't black folk we can't keep justifying our actions because of what has already happened okay hit me i'm for fight now y'all know me i'm for fighting when necessary i'm for fighting when necessary but not in that case well you ought to see the faces in this place let me go sit down before y'all don't want to hear me ever again but i'm just saying that that's not the way to be as i pray for i pray for our parents to pray for educators i pray for everybody who has to deal with our own children god is able because in this sanctuary god is real father hear our pleas hear our petitions oh god because we stand before you we will not oh god be an embarrassment to you because you have prospered us over and over again and you have blessed us in this city and in the field in urban america and suburban there are days lord we didn't know what to do but somehow you covered us and i pray that i intercede that we might halt the pipeline to prison that we might feed our sons and daughters our grandchildren our nieces and nephews our cousins hope the violence in our streets will cease not because of more police enforcement but it was ceased because we teach values and principles that govern our conduct i pray for your holy spirit lord to not just bless us with a new house a new car and give us all the heavenly blessings we ask for but i ask you lord god that you are blessed up with a spirit of discipline that we might understand the importance of having things in alignment and in order and in respect and decency i pray lord god that our sons and daughters would not have to go through periods of feeling alone feeling so long they join gangs that have no purpose other than to call havoc i pray lord god that you will help us today the things you've already spoken might we now execute that we will not be an embarrassment to your kingdom in jesus name we pray amen can we just give god some praise i know it's quiet in here can i just give up praise i'm sorry oh man i'm sorry um i'm i'm not apologizing for what i'm saying i'm just apologizing to you for no reason at all it's just a bad habit i have um i think that sometimes we have to make certain statements whether you agree or not certain statements must be made parents your kids that you're raising you're paying the mortgage the rent your i mean your bond they're closed you you're feeding them i mean if you're doing all that ain't no privacy in your house i'm old school y'all every drawer in your room is mine under your bed is mine under your mattress is mine you ain't got the right to lock no doors in my house i mean we old school i mean my mama took the door off the hinges you know the three three little screws my mama not my daddy my mama took a screwdriver took the hint door um took the door off the hinges and closed it now i'm sorry yo i'm gonna mess you all y'all come on help me help me pastor jamie i gotta move come on let's do this can we just worship god through our giving moment come on i just got to transition we got to get this come on no don't no don't be like that now don't be like that now the lord loves the cheerful giver and you know that grow we don't beg for anything but we do have certain needs we don't beg we don't beg we don't have two and three offerings i'm not no no but we do have certain needs and those in the kingdom must make sure they understand the mandate of god upon our lives that we are to be cheerful givers blessing god with our substance as well as i'm asking you to dig deep in your spirit and say god i know perhaps i've been cheating you in order to take care of this today i cease i stopped cheating you that i might be obedient to your word and i give because you've already blessed me to give but i also know god that you increase you will increase my territory so come on your phones you can use cash app or whatever you might have today and our leaders are going to come quickly and we can repair and worship god through giving moment i'm getting mine together right now man i love cash app i love cash praise the lord it's so easy come on right now come on right now come on father bless our gifts based upon our attitudes reward us according to your word close the mouths of those who speak against us give us victory when we think that we are defeated because our hearts are in tune to you in jesus name i pray amen come on let's give unto god as you come our praise minister will come now and lead us in um a song you all still love me y'all still like me at least like me a little bit you have to hey you all kind of quiet today that's what i'm saying that but it's okay come on come on no after this come on we have our videos coming up our video announcements coming up then our praise ministry [Music] good morning grove family welcome to sunday morning worship we are so excited that you decided to join us to hear another powerful message from god if you're tuning in online please be sure to share this message with your family and friends many divorced or separated people walk through hurt alone divorce care is a discreet and confidential ministry meeting tuesdays at 6 45 pm for more information go to divorcecare.com growth partners and friends if in need of surrendering your hurts habits and ups celebrate recovery meets every friday rain sleet or snow in our family life center at 6 pm sunday october 24th at 12 noon groves men's ministry is sponsoring a tailgate watch party invite a friend and family member this event is free and includes food registration is encouraged so please go to gcba tailgate dot events to secure your spot attention parents it takes a village to raise a child we want to be a part of your village pastor omar and his youth ministry team are equipped and ready to mentor our men of valor and daughters of destiny ages 8-17 wednesday october 27th at 7 p.m in our family life center see you then visit our website or call our church office for all event details remember there is no place like grove good morning good morning good morning let's give lord a handclap of praise because he's so worthy to be praised i have a testimony i don't know this might be your testimony it's not just a song how many of you have ever been broken by god [Music] there's a difference when people attempt to break you they attempt to destroy you but when god breaks you he doesn't break you to destroy you he doesn't break you to hurt you he breaks you to put you where you're supposed to be so allow this song to minister to those who have been broken with grace and let's praise him because he allows us to be gracefully broken take all i have in these hands and multiply god all that i am and by my heart on the altar again set me on fire set me on fire here i am god arms wide open [Music] pouring out my life gracefully broken [Music] and multiply [Music] [Music] set me on fire set me on fire take these [Music] here i am if this is your testimony stand to your feet one more time oh here i am here i am [Music] gracefully broken my heart [Music] you here i am here i am [Music] here i am [Music] broken [Music] all too now all to jesus now i'm holding nothing holding nothing back all to jesus to jesus [Music] labor jesus [Music] [Music] i surrender [Music] [Music] [Music] father [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] oh surrendered if this is your testimony help me oh is [Music] i surrender [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] here i am here i am here i am [Music] gracefully broken [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] father i surrender thank you [Music] thank you lord thank you if you'll be kind enough to share with me in the reading of god's word in this series that we have launched on last week it is simply entitled breathe again in this life there are many things and many people who can suck the very breath out of you and be quite honest sometimes we can suck the life right of ourselves how we focus our attention i want you to share with me today i have three scriptures to share with you i have three scriptures to share only a verse perhaps each one is in joshua one is in matthew one is in hebrews but it all talks about the same biblical character breathe again and i know it might be a lot i just hope that you will pray with us as we try to teach you about god and yourself in joshua chapter six you can follow us on the screen as well in joshua chapter six verse 17. it says jericho and everything in it must be completely destroyed as an offering to the lord only rahab the prostitute and the others in her house will be spared for she protected our spies matthew chapter 1 verse 1 and verse 5. we read now the lineage of jesus those who make up the ancestral family of our savior of our lord we find these words in matthew chapter 1 verse 1 and 5. this is the record of the ancestors of jesus the messiah a descendant of david and of abraham salmon the father of boaz whose mother was rahab bohaz was the father of obed obed was the father of jesse and if you keep on reading it says jesse is the father of david david is in direct lineage to jesus in hebrews chapter 11 we call it the faith chapter the hall of fame the hall of faith where the writer is articulating the historical characters who made history and made life more feasible for us to embrace the coming messiah and hebrews hebrews chapter 11 verse 13 31 rather hebrews 11 31 we see a very familiar name again by the name of rahab the bible says it was by faith that rahab the prostitute was not destroyed with the people in her city who refused to obey god for she had given a friendly welcome to the spies i didn't give this to you but in james chapter 2 it talks about james talks about those who understand that faith without works is dead and what he does is he connects rahab who is now being justified not only by faith but also justified by her works because faith without works is dead which means that once you have been justified by your faith in god god then examines the fruit or the work that remains from the tree and the branches of your life i want to talk for a few moments if y'all pray with me i don't know if i can get through the day i want to talk about the subject that was then and this is now i may take your seats y'all got to help me today that was that that was that was that was then that was then and this is now i was reading a book by john poversky he said no one is immune from the evasive collateral damage of life no one is immune from the invasive collateral damage of life or living and i have come to understand now that we were born into a sinful condition that caused symptoms that we lift over the root many things that we have talked about in church life and even personal life about right wrong about righteous and unrighteous and about sin and about unhealthy actions many of us miss the root of why we saw symptoms the cause of these symptoms that we confuse as the major sin that separated us from god kept us broken or inactivated in our conditions on earth mostly living in the confinement of our hood or our environment we never saw anything more than what we were exposed to with our sight y'all help me you aren't a sinner with a broken you aren't a sinner with a broken relationship because you stole something you aren't a sinner with a broken relationship because you got high or indulged overly indulged in alcoholic beverages fornication or even murder those were the symptoms of a sour relationship that needed to be addressed i remember growing up in bibles hill to the zion there was a dick named dick ishman griffin would always say in his own way you can't live a cow and die a horse i i know it's funny but can you imagine what he's saying you can't live one way and expect the benefits or consequences to be different than the character a sign or the character in which you now live y'all gotta help me help me help me let me just make it clear to you that you are not a sinner broken relationship with god because of your actions i've heard it too many times just straighten yourself out and come to church if i could straight myself out i would need to come to church for an hour and a half so what i'm suggesting to you if you hear me is that most of us many of us even in the church don't really understand the sin that gave us a broken relationship with god it wasn't that you were cursing it wasn't that you used god's name in vain it wasn't that you slept with somebody you ought not have been with it wasn't that you stole something that you wanted but couldn't afford it wasn't that you committed this heinous crime that is not that is not the major sin that separates you from god those are just symptoms fruit from the root of your condition i want to put the first first uh powerpoint up if you will marie this is what i i did this in 2014 uh now i want you to follow me if you will um hope you have it it's it's it talks about or i put together this i just got to wait amen is it coming is it there it is there it is there it is praise god amen i knew it was coming i want to show you why we are sinners is that okay you we are sinners not because you had uh uh uh you you had tendency last night and overindulged that's just an evidence of lack of discipline let me tell you because i need for you to tell other people that their actions is not breaking the covenant with god their action is a result of a broken covenant why are we sinners why were we born in sin why was rahab born and sinned why did these things happen where if you look at this and thank god that i i don't know y'all keep that out there i want you to see this don't even worry about me because you need to see this more than me because what's happening is i want to tell you the layout because we are three-dimensional beings we are what spirit you see it come on church spirit what body and what soul we our soul is the conscious state of who we are it's the mind the imagination the will the conscience the memory the reason the emotions the affliction the passionate arrows and feel your love that's the soul the psychological part of who we are we are three-dimensional we are body body you are sitting here with a body the body is the physical logical part of who we are the temple of the holy spirit five senses come on with me sight smell what hearing tasting y'all come on and what touch these things we learned in elementary school about the five senses of our body the things that gave us urges but then we have also the spirit notice if you will the spirit is dark and that represents a broken covenant with god so now if i have a broken covenant with god you can believe i and i can almost do anything that is anti-god because it's coming out of the root of a broken relationship that now i have no understanding of how god wants me to now rectify my life through his son jesus okay i know y'all don't come to the bible said i get y'all now stay with me because in the spirit you see the lion of judah the lion of judah represents god has always been there but notice something there is no connectivity the line of judah is standing outside of the circle of your spirit of your soul and your body but look at the devil if you look at the devil the black part of it the devil's feet are in your life which means the devil has ownership because of a broken relationship with god and whenever the devil is in your life with authority it is hard to fight against that which you want to change okay man y'all just because now there is a demonic influence or possession in your life that represented by the devil who's laughing because now he has your faults he has your body and he has everything that is of value to you now i know the devil doesn't look like this is just an image of of what he he might do in your life he has those fingers and horns but it's just an image of what he he can do in your life but he's in your life because of the broken relationship now when you now listen to me when you now understand that i am broken and doing these things and i am defeated because satan has more dominance in my life than god so therefore when you wonder why can't you change why can't you break this habit why can't you break this curse destroy this curse why is because god is not in authority in your life now i want you to go with me to the second slide because in the second slide we see something totally different we see now this is the first one was rahab before she met the spies who come come into israel this is rahab no hold on you know you do know that jesus christ was not physically in the old testament okay no jesus christ is the is the essence of the new generation that we call the new testament that that jesus is the personification of the thought of god that god birthed jesus through the holy spirit oh y'all still with me okay now follow me now now rahab i'm gonna come back to her man rahab depicts a life of faith even while she's a prostitute this second diagram you see the the spirit has now what changed colors any man or woman born of god becomes a new creature all things are what passed away now that doesn't mean that i don't have to deal with the old stuff is that when i am in christ the old stuff now loses influence in my life because now i have someone in my life who has the power to help me overcome what overcame me and left me wounded busted and disgusted who left me handicapped but now i got somebody in my life who shall deliver me from the torment of me i thank god but it is through jesus christ who now helps me incarcerate the demons that still lurk within but now they are made to be submissive i wonder how many of y'all got some demons who are submissive i wonder who y'all got some fights inside of you that you know through god you have taken the armor and the bullets away yeah yeah yeah yeah here let me let me walk you through this piece right here i'm gonna when i walk you through this here it is you see the color changes no no not from black to white from but purple royalty i use purple because not because i'm an omega well you know i use purple because purple represents kingship it represents royalty it represents that you are supposed to be with me god says you are supposed to be with me because when i made the dust and i then cut the dust i i i i breathe the ruach i breathe and kill you the breath of life you supposed to be with me and anybody ever thought that you supposed to have been with somebody notice the purple represents royalty but notice also the red stripe over the spirit the red strike represents our conversion the only way for us to have conversion is through the blood of jesus christ that blood covers you the cross look at the cross look at the cross look at the cross the cross is dripping forgiveness you call it blood but the cross is saying no matter what you have done no matter who you have done it with no matter what they said about your family no matter what they did to you no matter how they left you wounded on the side of the road no matter how many years you spent in prison no matter how many years you struggled with self-identity when i am in your life i cover you the hebrew word is nissan the hebrew word is nested nested means you're covered here we find now that because you're covered now the cycle is broken now for the rest of your life the rest of our lives we never become perfect but the rest of our lives we struggled struggle to stay in alignment with god some days you have good days some days there aren't as good as the other days and some days come on let's be honest some days we have just made a complete mockery out of the gift of a day that god has given us come on let's tell the truth some days we wasted some days we complained too much some days we were just so frustrated that we couldn't even see god stay with me church gotta breathe again how many y'all help me help me but notice something notice something that the cross is now dripping the blood of forgiveness the holy spirit now is in direct line in line with you you see now on the first one there was no connectivity but now the holy spirit is connecting you to the line of judah [Music] oh my god y'all help me but notice where the devil has been positioned this is how you explain salvation to other people when i got saved the devil was repositioned when i got saved the lord was positioned in my life and that's why i say in him i live move and have my being and i say like paul said in philippi i can do all things now through christ jesus because he strengthens me he strengthens me because we are in fellowship one with the other and the more we fellowship the greater it becomes notice where the devil is positioned you see it he isn't out your life he just loses control over your life he still has his hands and your thoughts he has it look at that's why i did this he has a hand in your soul and your body yo help me y'all help me and that's why many of us don't understand the devil the devil may have left you for a season when he came back he got a hand in your body the five senses and then he got a hand in your mind that's why the apostle paul said bring those thoughts into captivity because it's in your mind the devil is still playing with your mind you're saved but the devil is still playing with your mind you're saved but you cannot discipline your body you're still going after stuff you know you ought not have until you get to this point you can't break the habits because you need the holy spirit to help you break the habits of being defeated before you try anybody ever got to defeat it before you even tried before i got out of bed i was already defeated because my thoughts were telling me i'm no good and i want to accomplish what i prayed over last night before i put my foot on the floor the devil said i've already won because i gave him authority i gave him authority back over my mind and my body he can't touch my spirit because once i'm saving god you if you can't unsave me because if you unsave me that means the blood of jesus christ is conditional and i want you to know the blood of christ is never ever conditional what can wash away my sins what can make me whole again nothing but the blood of jesus this is when your life starts to transform when you see academics different when you see relationships differently when you see your life totally different it's when god gives you a new perspective the devil is playing but notice he still doesn't have influence because your spirit has greater influence over your body and your soul if you give it authority and allow god to do what he wants to do y'all got me and so now the root of why we do some things is based in our separation with god before we met jesus we have met jesus but we're still trying to get things in order y'all with me we're trying to get things in order that's why you are not you are not prematurely judge somebody who's trying to get stuff in order there are i i hear church folks say it all the time i've been church folks saying you know there are there are just too many wolves and sheep's clothing and that might be true but i also believe there are too many sheep in wolves clothing that you've been saved but you don't know how to live your saved life you've been born again but you still haven't taken time to read his word to check your actions and your attitude you've been redeemed washed in the blood of jesus but you still got some things in your life that need to be pruned and purged none of us are there yet all of us are a work in progress some of us are in special needs classes but that's all right too that's all right dude i've been there myself i wrote a short bus for a while too i got a few more moments but i really want to just take this time i want to get back to our text i want to show you some things once you understand now before because what happens is we see a transformation of a woman who was called a lady of the evening who knew how to work the red light district a harlot a prostitute a a hope whatever word you want to select we see this woman y'all come on back we have joshua 2 and joshua 6 talking about a woman in jericho who entertained men for profit joshua sent two spies into jericho because jericho was anti-hebrew god that was a gentile nation the jews thought okay unless god saved us from egypt and the red sea we can have this i don't always understand the historical accounts but i have to simply deal with them and accept them because as joshua sends two spies the two spies go immediately to rahab's house y'all help me rahab entertains these two men she was a woman of ill repute joshua sent two men who were of noble descent who understood and loved god but they went into a harlot's house for security man y'all helped me she was a harlot but these two men found refuge in the house of a prostitute y'all rahab owned the house she it was built on the outer walls of jericho and when these two spies came and they were being looked for as spies by those jericho soldiers the bible says that rahab took them to the roof and she hid them even though she was a harlot a prostitute she protected the men she knew represented god what i'm suggesting is you better be careful you don't miss your place of refuge because you're looking for something to be more sanctimonious when god is trying to send you to a place that needs transformation y'all okay y'all okay give me can y'all give me can y'all give me five more marine minutes last week i was too long last week i don't want to be as long this week but amen y'all just just helped me when rahab hear these men the bible says that others came looking for them and said we saw two men come in may y'all help me the spies at youth first two men come in and they're spying on jericho and and what did you do with them now hold this hold up now rahab understands who these men are rahab says this and this is important rahab said i know who you are and i know whose god is your god and i know no she said no she said and we know that your god is about to overthrow jericho now if this is not a confession of faith from a harlot because there are some people who spent their time in the sanctuary but still had a hard time embracing that god was a god of the world y'all got to help me okay i'm coming y'all i'm pleased i'm coming i'm coming here it is now that that that she says we know who you are and we know who your god is and your god is about to overthrow jericho that's that's joshua chapter two y'all chapter two now from that point on when the soldiers come in looking for them she says to them they were here but they are long gone now i think they went that away sometimes you got to throw the enemy off course okay y'all see y'all now hold on hold on wait a minute something right how could god bless her when she's a harlot a prostitute a horn and then she lied told y'all i just want to teach today she's a harlot and then she lied but god blessed her hold on do you mean to tell me i can be a harlot and a liar and still get blessed [Music] no the reason she was blessed wasn't because she was a harlot wasn't because she lied she was blessed because of her confession we know your god i accept your god and we know your god is about to overthrow jericho i'm sorry y'all can help me this is something is it is it ever okay to lie the bible says lying is a sin is it ever okay but she lied and got blessed she lied and got blessed first of all how why did these two men go there well wouldn't you think that would be the best hiding place i mean men come and go all day long and you know they come and go all evening long and you would think that be the hotter no strange men coming in and no big thing for her but but wha but but is it ever okay to lie but she lied but she lied to protect the will of god there is no justification for lying but if you are given the options between two lies because if she had not lied and told them they upstairs he upstairs if they had said he upstairs they upstairs that means that she would have been guilty of a complicit murder because she would have been guilty of turning what she who she knew over to the people who would kill them because of their religious persuasion and she would have been guilty of being accessory to murder that's sin she chose the lesser of two evils one lie will give god glory what a other lie will distort and kill these men she made a confession which god stood with her on and then she recognized the mercies of god that god will understand it's like it's like when your wife asks you baby how does this dress look on me baby am i babe am i getting fat how does a man answer that question i mean you you you you you damn if you do you damn if you don't how do you how do you answer the question baby do i look all right you really want to say i i mean okay if you really wanna baby um i mean come on anybody wish me about my i mean no not my wife my wife always looks good to me but sometimes don't you really want to say uh baby that's a little too tight uh or you know you had a baby two weeks ago that's a little too don't you really wanna but you know if you're saying that oh i must be by myself if you're sad that it might get you into deeper trouble like you go to bed and she got a pillow between you and you and you and you and her yeah what's babe what's the pillow for you said i look fat didn't you i'm sorry so y'all don't leave me by myself i got two more minutes i'm getting out of here rahab i want you i want you to look at something so these men went there because they knew they were the right place to go because men come in and out but i want you to see something here rahab makes a confession before she starts to negotiate for the safety of her family you can't keep asking god for blessings without a confession once she confessed then she negotiated i hate you all so now when god overthrows jericho can you save me my family the spine says yes and we guarantee you that you will be safe because you hit the spies that god sent into jericho to spout the land and it was over i'm going to say this to you it is easier to petition god when you stand on the confession okay y'all didn't get that i'm killing myself up here today one more mirror in a minute i want to take you now because i want you to that was then so that was then it doesn't say that she changed her ways immediately but her confession in god guaranteed that god will rescue her and when god continues to be good to you that's what god does he'll show you over and over again how much he loves you how much he cares for you how much he wants to hold you how much he wants to bless you how much he wants to adore you and when you see what god is doing is easier to turn to god then having fire and brimstone sent me away okay i'm i'm here too long i'm just gonna share the last thing with you thank you thank you so much you're the only one said that i appreciate you so much the rest of my you know it's just us it's just us in the cameras it's just us i want you to go to matthew with me in matthew's gospel it gives the lineage of jesus i can't go through it all but go to verse one this is a record of the ancestors of jesus the messiah a descendant of david and of abraham salmon was the father of boaz whose mother was rahab boaz was the father of obed obed father of jesse jesse the father of david back up back up back up here it is salmon was the father of boaz do you know who simon was salmon is the father or the creator or the originator of bethlehem you do know about bethlehem don't you that's where jesus was born you do know about bethlehem salmon was the father of bethlehem do you know about boaz and ruth boaz is a kinsmen redeemer that means that when ruth came back to town she didn't have a safari as a woman to own or operate the land but when bow ass saw her coming bow ass fell in love if you want to get a bow ass get rid of your lazy i didn't say it but see you i heard it on television i heard it on television i heard it on television but bow ass is something because bow ass takes ruth a wounded woman who is now grieving the loss of a husband who was murdered now she finds out that boaz now only took me in as a widow but boaz now help me occupy the blessings that god gave me and boaz was the son of rahab so god took rahab out of jericho exported rahab to israel rahab in israel makes a wealthy man named salmon who has become the father of bethlehem now rahab had a son called boaz who's wealthy y'all help me i'm almost there who's wealthy and blessed is rahab look at god look at god look at god she came from the red light district and god blessed her i don't care what you say about somebody's past you still can't control their future i don't care what you say they did you still can't stop their future i don't care what they did you still can't abort their future so talk about me as much as you please but i'll talk about you down on my knees say what you will but god still is in control he's the author and the finisher of my life he's the beginning and the end [Music] say what you will say what you will she had a real horrible past but then look at something else in hebrews 11 31 her name is mentioned in the hall of faith first of all a woman a holiday woman is mentioned in the lineage of jesus and jesus christ is telling y'all i don't need a perfect lineage to be me i don't need a perfect family to be the redeemer of the world and jesus blesses us through his death but in hebrews 11 31 i'm coming shelly i'm coming from them i'm coming in hebrews 11 31 we see that it was by faith that rahab the prostitute why did he keep calling her the prostitute she's been transformed redeemed but even in even in hebrews even in james chapter two they keep referring her to the pro as a prostitute it was not to bring shame it was to remind other people who she was that it was then but this is now it was not to bring embarrassment it was to let the world know that this is what she was but look at who she is she was a prostitute now she's the proselyte okay i gotta go this is the end that was then this is now in hebrews the bible says that she was able to breathe again coming out of a very dark past coming out of a very shaky present moment she chose to believe that god was the lord of the world when she made this confession and only did she save herself but she saved her entire family the bible says that when the spies came back and they destroyed jericho and the walls of jericho came tumbling down it was the only house standing it was rahab's the prostitute's house that was not shaken by the earthquake i want you to know that when god is the father and priest of your house all the other houses might fall but your house will stand that's god promised to you now i dare you to stand on your feet and declare ask for me and my house we're going to serve the lord i'm glad about it this afternoon church that no matter what they've called you and no matter how many mistakes we've made in this life i'm glad that god has my future in his imagination and what the devil meant for my evil god turns it around and blesses me i wonder does anybody here have a shaky past but look at you now can you give god some praise that that was then but this is now i gotta go to my seat but i'm so glad that my hope is building on nothing less than jesus blood and righteousness i dare not trust the sweetest frame but holy lean on jesus name when darkness veils his lovely face i rest on his unchanging grace in every hiding storm again my anchor holds within the veil his old son his covenant and his blood supports me in the whelming flood when all around my soul gives way he then is my hope and my stay when when he shall come with trumpet sound o may i then in him be found dressed dressed up in his righteousness alone faultless to stand before the throne on christ on christ on christ the solid rock i stand all underground is seeking sin [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] oh come on it's all right to praise him you ought to give him some glory right through there that he is the solid rock that was then and this is now oh come on for the next 60 seconds just go ahead and give them some praise clap your hands oh you people come on i'll give you an opportunity to get it out shout out to god with the voice of triumph you want to put a praise on that word that that was then and this is now you said that nobody can control your future but it's god that is the author and the finisher of your faith and you ought to take a moment just give them a wave offering and say god i thank you that you hold my future in your hands god i thank you hallelujah hallelujah that was then and this is now one more time put our hands together for the word of god if you were blessed by that word for some of us he changed our perspective and our thinking on what salvation is how you know that was for you if that was for you just lift your hands if your perspective has been changed and we can be grateful today that because we are in the hand of god that the enemy has no more authority over our lives that's good news that's good news so as everyone is standing all over the house we want to give you an opportunity to respond to this word as the man of god talked about how we have a broken connection broken covenant with god that might be bad news to some of us to all of us really but the good news is that he prepared a way you heard him go through the lineage today the way is jesus the christ the anointed one they said if any man be in christ jesus he said he's a new creature he said behold old things have been passed away and all things have been made new you want to take a moment and thank god for the newness that no matter how bad or how ugly your story has been he can wipe those things away what can wash away our sins he said nothing but the blood of jesus so today if you're under the sound of my voice whether you're here or at home we want to give you an opportunity again to respond to this word if you know this word this message was for you and it pulled on the strings of your heart and you know without a shadow of a doubt that you don't know personally and intimately this man named jesus christ we want to invite you now to come the altar is open for you that are here physically in the sanctuary and if you want to know who jesus is i bid you now to come and you might say no i'll do it next week or i'll do it next time i'll be back in the next couple of sundays but guess what that time is not promise the only time we have is right here and right now not trying to scare you into anything but i'm telling you that the arms of god are stressed stressed out to you if you want to rededicate your life to god come on let's put our hands together hallelujah if you want to rededicate your life to christ the altar is open if you say you know what i've been slacking i've been falling but the bible says that god is married to the backslider and if you want to reestablish that connection this invitation is for you and thirdly if you want to partner up with this ministry we want to let you know that you can come and we would love to have you here with us a part of the grove family amen it's easy if you're at home or you say you don't want to walk down the aisle you can pull out your smartphone and text live g-c-l-i-v-e-g-c to the number 313131 and one of our ministers will reach out to you my brother my sister will wait for you if you don't want to walk just lift up your hands and somebody will walk with you down the aisle because it's just that important that jesus making a decision to make him the lord of your life will be the best decision you've ever made is that anybody's testimony this morning [Music] hallelujah with those hands lifted up all over the house even after we leave the sanctuary if you would like prayer i'll be down one of our ministers will be down come on let's put our hands together we have someone that's still making a decision even now come on we don't want to rest the moment we don't want to rest the moment because this is literally life or death and the bible says that the angels in heaven rejoice over even one so i believe we can do just a little bit better than that that somebody has made a decision to transform and change their life through the power of god and the sweet communion of his holy spirit [Music] again even after the service is over i will be down if you want prayer if you want to make a decision we'll be here and we'll wait for you because you're just that important to god and because you're that important to god you're important to us because he loves you you don't have to change anything about yourself you don't have to get everything right just give your heart to god and he'll do the changing for you amen with those hands lifted up father we thank you even now for this time that you've allowed us to bask in your presence and because we've been in your presence we are forever changed we thank you for the transformation and the deliverance that's taking place today we thank you oh god that the enemy has no more authority in our lives and so father we thank you that therefore is no more condemnation for those that are in you and so god the father we lay aside every way every time the enemy will try to bring up our past and try to remind us of who we used to be father we thank you for your word that we can declare that we are the head and not the tale that we are above and not believe that we are more than conquerors because we are in you we are victorious and we claim it to be so in jesus name father we thank you for the word that we heard today and we stand on your promises that we are new creatures in you we give you praise and we give you glory it's in jesus name all of god's people said amen and hallelujah god bless you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you

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