Home Training | Dr. Matthew Stevenson | Who We Are Called To

we're starting a brand new teaching series all around our campuses so all nations Atlanta all nations Huntsville all nations Memphis were all preaching home training and what we're talking about are the fundamental pillars that make us who we are what joins us together as a people and we wanted to do this because there's a lot of people who don't understand the significance of distinction remember we learned last week the difference is extremely important it's the only way to be remembered it's the only way to prosper is to protect to cultivate to enhance difference and so Baltimore Atlanta Memphis Huntsville we're all doing home training we basically want to teach our people and subsequently the world what makes all nations all nations and what are the value systems that bring us together pillars that hold us together are different from our approach so in every city you're going to find that they engage their cities a lot differently there are things that work in Chicago that would never work in Huntsville I'm a little too harsh for the south but down south they look too kind for the north you know northerners are rude so you come to Chicago folk don't speak you know in Huntsville they leave they know open steel we we don't trust nobody we don't trust kids we say we lock in it prayer by babysitter's dump still you know we all just pair is that your grandma calling you turn the phone off right now but so every city has a different complexion but what joins us is not our method it's our message and we have to become reacquainted with who and how we are because culture is important you have to understand the power of culture culture is the unspoken policy and the unspoken protocols that govern a place or people so culture is even more important than decisions they're people who make decisions and people that have goals that if the culture is counterproductive or if the culture is adversarial against those those decisions or goals a toxic culture will swallow anything it will swallow vision remember the Bible says and Jesus could do no miracles there because of their unbelief he was not just talking about the unbelief of a few people he was talking about the culture of a city that restricted supernatural power so Jesus who was innately a miracle worker was not able to do miracles in a city because of its culture so we are doing culturalization for the first several months of this year we're going to be bringing people into culture now in February I'm gonna do a teaching call x-rated we're gonna do xxx I'm gonna do it now yeah I gotta look nervous but we've got to talk about sex and sexuality go with the black church let me tell you something we have got to sanctify these zippers it is so and we got to go to the Word of God because sexuality is very spiritual it is it is a byproduct your spirit your sexuality is a spiritual decision so I'm gonna do that in February but in January we gonna have fun okay and we're gonna top a home training so lar well I'm going somewhere else a February I know Luke 10:25 I want to start this series off we're talking about not just what we do and not just who we are but who recall to I'm gonna be starting both segments of this at eight engine 30 we're talking about who we're called - when you come to any all nations worship assembly church you're going to run into a type of people and that it's very important that you recognize so that you don't stumble over what you see in the pulpit / what you see next to you first of all historically before I read this to you I want to give it a picture all nations worship was simply almost 14 years ago started on the subject of deliverance it was a strict deliverance ministry when we began our Bible studies all we would do was cast the devil out we would break curses we would reverse things so the at the base of all we do if we say hallelujah thank you Jesus when we take on all Frank's even our weddings have a warfare bit it's accidental it just kind of comes out of who and what we are it was the livelihood of this church was the Ministry of deliverance and deliverance is not always loud it's not always aggressive it's not always harsh I watched elder Queen cast the devil out of a girl at world changes by saying demon how dare you now when I tell you I almost got free I welled up with tears she said how dare you don't you know this is the righteousness of God and listen she did raise a voice she didn't wrestler down and kung-fu chopper but so deliverance is our value system we were formed to set a people free continually and to build the people that could live in Liberty so it is very important there's a lot of churches that call themselves deliverance churches and everybody and it professes to be free problem with that is if you are a deliverance house you should have people who are number one free number two you should have people that are on the process of becoming free and number three you should have slaves coming to see if freedom as possible so you should have all three categories of people active in a church if I go to any church and everybody in there saying they're holy I know that they're not effective Christians I know that it's offensive to a lot of paradigms that's only because we come from places that lie or that are pretentious or that at like they're there we are not effective if we are not continually engaging people that are bound and want out the people of the Lord said Amen so let's go to Luke 10:25 this is NIV and I want to share this with you I'll scream at 10:30 but I want to share this with you Luke 10 10:25 on one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus teacher he acts so this is a sarcastic question they're trying to prod Jesus on what is important to him remember Jesus was in fact a revolutionary so when he started to preach and teach a lot of what he preached and teach was countercultural it was opposite of what a lot of people expected so one of the experts in the law of Moses stood up to test him or trick him or catch him in something what must I do to inherit eternal life now this is not an honest question he was not honestly or sincerely trying to figure this out he was trying to see what Jesus would say that means that since the beginning of time a part of the agenda of the religious spirit has strict people up into legalism what should I do in here and how do you go to heaven what do you do to make it in do you baptize in Jesus name on a Father Son and Holy Ghost can women wear skirts Oh what do they do you know what it so it's a it's a it's a it's a sarcastic argumentative spirit look at verse 26 what is written in the law now look at this he replied how do you read it so he actually tested Jesus on the version of the Bible Jesus study what angle of the law that he studied look at verse 27 he answered love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind now that's a lot of work I could do a whole teaching right there and love your neighbor as yourself now loving your neighbor is the final goal because it's not possible until you love the Lord a person is not as effective at loving their neighbor until they love the Lord God with everything they have that's important that you realize 28 you have answered correctly Jesus said do this and you will live now look verse 29 here is where we could create a context for Revelation but the teacher wanted to justify himself so he asked Jesus who is my neighbor did this demon I mean like it wasn't enough but Jesus to sake yeah that's right answer he wanted to argue whoa is my neighbor not verse 30 is where we starve evolution in reply Jesus gave a parable a parable now whenever we're dealing with a parable we're dealing with a heavenly story we're dealing with a heavenly truth that's revealed in natural example so Jesus would always teach parables about the kingdom because you had no earthly basis to understand it the kingdom of heaven is like unto the kingdom of heaven is likened to a man in a field who sold all he had or so parables revealed eternal truths in an earthly example does that make sense and replies jesus said a man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he was attacked robbers first of all if a person coincidentally accidentally or is deliberately directed to all nations the worship assembly they have been attacked they all don't know it some of them realize it to a greater or lesser degree but we are called to an attack people a people that has undergone severe theft all of their life theft of identity and even ignorance is a theft it's a form of the powers of hell keeping you unaware of what you do once you're delivered generational blessings generational destiny if you know anybody that is outside of God's high is good for their lives they have been robbed and even by armed robbery the thief John tin says cometh not but for to steal and to kill and to destroy if that is the mo of Satan and that is his attempt towards the entire human race then it means that you don't know a person that's on the wrong side of God that has not been robbed they stripped him of his clothes which means to take dignity from them embarrassed made their nakedness come out their humanity exposed stripped him and beat him and Wynnum went away look at this this is the people that always come here leaving him half dead all nations worship assembly in every campus has thousands of people that were left for dead and should be left for dead does not mean you're not alive it just means you've been exposed to the agenda of death and it is gradually trying to take the rest of your life now if you will think in your mind about a time in a space where you felt 50% alive and 50% dead I guarantee you that was around the time where your steps were ordered to a place like this this is why we don't argue with churches we don't do the church jealousy thing I know who I'm going to when passions get offended that they people come it's only because they're half dead I don't attract alive people I don't know why I don't argue with it so your people come here is because they were dead may they just sense or they see a life signal and they come in they get a pulse and they light yo fam it's a no for me I'm not going back they left them half dead now look at verse 31 a piece happened to be going down the same road and when he saw the man he passed on the other side I'm not even at my real message is two seconds on 32 and a Levi my god when he came to the place saw him ass on the other side part of the phenomena of this people is that we refuse to walk pass if you think about the way the American church does Church it is almost designed people if you think in your mind about the types and the kinds of people better walk pass casually you find where harvest really is there would be no storefront Church in Chicago in any city if we would gather those that we walk past now when I when I think when I teach you about the people that are overlooked I'm not just talking about the homeless alone there are all types of people that Christians don't feel qualified to belong to God and the irony is none of us qualified before he qualified us Paul says such were some of you but the religious spirit has a tendency a forced of force amnesia you just save and deliver for 20 minutes and forget that you was a shaken poll Monken run on your taxes rebellious drunken flirt all of that right and nothing about our convictions empower us to do life with our former selves it seems like it would be very easy to apply but if every Christian was surrounded by people who looked how they used to look then we would have churches full of everything as they believe it a part of what we believe here is that you should always be going down and back that's fundamental home training anybody that's moving forward should have people that keep them balanced by remembering who I used to be that's listen that's how you stay out of whatever hell is trying to do with you Jesus told Peter and when you'll convert it Matua draw go back into what strengthen your brother why there is an accountability to pouring into people who is found with what used to buy I don't believe a Christian deliver from nicotine and ain't got no smokers around them it is so I don't believe a Christian who says God set them free from lust and everybody around him is married no no no no no no no that of the real power of the Holy Ghost in you is how many people around you don't hang them changed people change the world so part of why our church is so distinct is because we refuse to walk pass when other people overlook why there is always treasure in trashy places oh I could preach that if I walked treasure in trashy places the whole of our story started with dirt and God not out of the diamonds and cubic zirconias and and the clouds he formed man out of the dirt and the dust of the ground now remember when the serpent got judged a part of his judgment was he would lick dirt forever you as a believer when you are forced to hide you are hiding the ultimate championship of God - part of what gives God glory is the fact that come from the dirt and and and and before you were formed into his image you was the image of dirt and dirty things why do you think the average Church convinces you to conceal third hide dirt cheap dirty secret put dirt under the rug but in a place where grace is operative where mercy is the norm where the New Testament is a reality know this so amazing one of the I can't stand y'all sometimes but one of the things that I love about my church is that we talk about bondage so freely it's hilarious like if you walk around the hallway it's nothing for some friends to be like girl you Jezebel extend its life in most churches and be like offended here we belong your rejection is showing and it's almost like a compliment anybody ever heard that about it we so freely talk about bondage all nations got means for demons that most folk ain't trying to figure out we will have a down the poly on rebellion Delilah girl let's double that's the schizophrenia and and nobody really gets a bandit they'd be like yeah you're right that is a strength of the All Nations culture we talk about bondage this is the only time though anybody if you've been molested stand up and folks will stand up and bingo to Sally you don't have that in most places it's a very privatized culture but think about the type of things that took to create a culture where people would be safe saying yep I was raped yep I had an abortion yep I used to sleep with folk and I'll remember who it takes a lot of effort to leave or create a culture where those things can be talked about but the power in it is the truth is what makes you free you can't be free lying about whether you been denial is in the way of your deliverance if you will open up and tell the truth then we've got something to work with how many of you have ever been punished by privacy forced to be quiet about your tormenting your torrents no no if you tell the truth that's half the wall the devil hates your people then I'll open up and say yeah I did it yeah it happened to me because now God's got something to work with [Applause] so held I want you telling the truth hell loves for folk to pretend trick a tree costume Christianity that's more committed to making you okay with me that him okay with me so how smart for the sake of acceptance in church people and still go home with these monsters in my closet lord have mercy I'm Chuck we tell the truth round here [Applause] [Music] we don't do that how you doing blessed and highly favored but no no how you doing sick depress suicidal quite horny to be honest not to go to Kenwood and find that you don't want to have Church and give me a fifth or whatever is available on sale it is so I don't want it just liars or sporty [Applause] amen [Music] look at the two people that walk past them a priest and a Levi probably on their way to doing something ceremonial and walk pass the target audience of their anointing look at verse 33 but a Samaritan now that's important for you to know because they too were disqualified remember this is a parable so Jesus is explaining things that are important to heaven a formally disqualified person traveled came where the man was and when he saw him he took mercy on him look at what we do verse 34 he went to him which is this and I'll get there a little bit in 1030 typical for deliverance houses to understand acceptance because they think that acceptance is agreement if I embrace you too much it's going to give you permission to remain how you are but acceptance is not cobbling acceptance is not agreement you have your right to agree or disagree with whatever you want you do not have a right to determine or define or decipher somebody's worthiness when it comes to Calgary Chowdhury so bloody all of us look the same and and what i'ma tell you where we got off we started grading and measuring degrees of wickedness oh yeah I'm working in here that's where the whole in this movie got wrong cuz some wickedness was okay permissible allowable that wickedness is extreme when God looks at the human condition he's not like that c+ wickedness that's b- wickedness oh that's eff wickedness it will all get you to hell the religious spirit loves to categorize depths of wickedness like if you're having sex out of marriage you do you you wicked but don't you been that ever be gay I said that because that's an abomination at least what I'm doing is natural both you ninjas Lord they won't help me today and evangelical Christianity they are pro-life ish they are Pro unborn but Moe some racists so they're not really pro-life they probaby it is so so the problem is religious bias on a condition that is continually corroding and calling down and the greater wickedness is churches are not crafted to handle the human condition pain is not welcome in most of their seats praises but whenever you come into a place where pain should be and you feel uncomfortable about being broken you know Jesus ain't there it is so wherever Jesus is people in pain should be comfortable he went to him bandaged his this is all nations pouring in the oil and the wine Danny put the man on his own donkey because here's the objective of healing his individuality once we restore you get you whole get you looking at life differently looking at relationship differently it's not our jobs to take responsibility for your life it's our jobs to put you on your own so rather than make you dependent upon us and what we're doing and make you like a Christian drag addict who the whole of your success is ultrabass everybody come come back get a hit I'm gonna lose Monday but I'm gonna come back get my head and make sure I'm good our objective is to get you heal enough to send you on your way and to make sure that you can finish school and you can helpfully engage family and you can help me engage relationship it's healing to send you on your way if you're in a hospital and you can only be healed in the hospital you're not healed the vision of the hospital is your home we hear you to send you back there's no such thing as a permanent residents of a hospital you don't pay rent at your hospital you understand what I'm saying so person who is restored the complexion of that show was up Monday morning and how they engage people and how they interact with and how they're able to start family you will never really know the full depth of freedom until you can engage family healthily thank you for all two of those all the amens I really but a lot of us are in the mess we're in because the family done wrong right whatever about your family was old and free your testimony wouldn't be your testimony you understand what I'm saying so healing should show up in the house healing should show up in how you see people and what you're afraid of in what your age is for Papa says in verse 35 No verse 34 he put him on his own donkey brought him to an inn and took care of him the next day the man took to de neri gave them to the innkeeper and said look after him and when I return I'll reimburse you for any expense you may have the miracle that guy had no reason to do or be what he was to that person but he gave money he sacrificed he budgeted he made it a personal expenditure of his to make sure somebody else was whole that is grown-up Christianity we don't know how mature you are in God until you do something for somebody who can't repay you you want the Gospels you are New Testament culture this is self crucifixion rubbing shoulders and providing favors with the hopes or the anticipation that one day the recipient is going to do something or pay it a whiff that hope is anti-biblical what i do i do as unto the Lord I don't care what you do I'm confident that God keeps good records sorry sorry almost lost it I said God keeps good records he never uses whiteout he don't make mistakes he remembers everything sanal cows I'm grateful who don't remember who overlooks I did what I did for him and the book of Hebrews says God is not unjust he will not forget your labor law that you gave to the sense so your maturity can be seen what you do for people who can't do it Mack we have no interest in doing it back I paid the price that is all nations we are crucified a Li for what we are supposed to be to another person you don't deserve to say you a Christian if you despise caring about the death of the Lord Jesus in your body unto the sake of others now this is a paradigm shift because many of us are selfish in our salvation salvation is about how much I can get what I can be what I can achieve and what I can accomplish but all of you are called to ministry which means influence on an average on a daily on a consistent basis crucified people do it better they love better they're more patient crucify people don't have the attitude problem crucify people don't live their lives in their emotions crucified people don't live to get even crucified people are not even focused on what's fair or not crucify the decision this is my mental you use you twitching I see you you know I cause ain't nobody called you to the cross all year we've been calling you to car locks we've been calling you to gyms somebody needs to call your pal to Calvary and it'll help you live verse 36 which of these three this is Jesus asking do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell in the hands of robbers now Jesus is testing him the expert of the law replied the one had what what problem with us this is a lot of people who would love to flow in miracle miracles deliverance healing our expressions verse and whenever you find somebody who's merciful you are not ever toy with them because the Bible says it's the Meech that inherit the earth and you ought to be merciful just in case you're gonna be being one day my attitude on this I'm gonna give mercy every opportunity I can cuz I intend to be remembered and so because nothing Chicago's gonna know me the nation's gonna know me London don't know I messed up in Canada going on I'm gonna distribute as much mercy as possible so that I can afford a mistake when you're not merciful you will reap that exact criticism that exact judgment that exact statement I'm smart but I'm done you know men and women have native intelligences you know my wife and I both educated professionals we have careers if she says baby clean up there's just something about how she does it it's a lot different from me and I think we approach it the same way but she's just much more detailed I guess that is a native intelligence right she can't go I don't just that a season nothing I don't like lemon on everything you understand what I'm saying when she starts cooking my kids good night good gotta say what I'm saying strong in one area weekend another but not mercy to the weakness of another person allows me to be more strong in my strength you have got to see how we're missing out by not extending mercy God does nothing supernatural for the hypocrite for those that don't understand the value of mercy and just because you are innocent here not me you not guilty there and you want to look for the opportunity to extend mercy so that you can afford a mistake I really feel bad for mercy less people cuz I guarantee you you're gonna need it and the only reason you won't need is if you don't intend to do anything with your life you intend to be here stay here not accomplish not achieve that you never ever need mercy but anybody that wants to change stuff and use their life in their days wisely you're gonna need a lot of mercy in your attempts - do people better to serve better to feel bigger things your humanity is going to cause you to err if you have no records of mercy in heavenly places you will immediately reap the same consequences you inflicted on somebody else that's why not own the life feel like the Spirit of God is telling me to labor here but this is why you cannot forgive and not forget I forgive you I'll never forget you demons when you forgive you release from judgment you release from penalty you release from death let me help you but it does not mean Yuri qualify them to be who and how they were in your life there's a lot of people that forgive that I don't talk to y'all not ready for their gospel that's a little too much for you I can forgive you and release you and healthily interact with you and not be dumb enough to reinvent you into a place of violation I was told to forgive you I don't have to trust you the Bible don't tell you trust you one another it's a lovely one another you're stupid if you trust everybody come on church nobody tries to sit in the chair that you keep telling you it's broke we forgive by faith we trust by proof People of the Lord said verse 37 Jesus told him go likewise that is in all nations culture now it doesn't mean that everybody comes to go and be homeless in and talking to their self and twitching and need Veterans Affairs and no they are very successful broken people they are very achieved grieving people there are people who have money that are miserable this is not an economic Scripture this is about a scripture about how you engage with the maimed the robbed be attacked and what you do when you don't see them as an opportunity so next time you in a store and somebody come up smelling like we and you grab you the cheap Percy bought out the trunk the next time you see somebody with a tight leather miniskirt on and you act like they want your ugly husband so you have to remember everybody don't see your man the way you see them they steal ugly every home wrecker don't want your house you're not about people stick even in lust you still got a taste for it took off when I was in fornication there was some people who just could not get it so [Applause] or be to God when you drop your steel see no ma'am I'm a bit enclosing full want them to be Wiggly with no ma'am not available for that that's how our people do some I got all read you little skeezer [Music] his bluff stain you can't see his belt you'll have to love him everybody don't see him the same way so stop treating every woman would have thinner waist like they are a threat to you it's ugly is religious and his profane she fast no more clothes just look better than yours you see the judgment look at the judgment no just her she be twerking in front of people you just don't remember when last time you could do it [Applause] I'm doing it there are some people with bad motives but if your man hallelujah gets turned on by that you have a house problem that's not a church problem you wanna check here about why he's doing it we automatically get him mad at the external party look at somebody else I'm gonna go put him first [Applause] I'm sorry judge I'm gonna just ask her what do you why are you going home when you do leave I bought that Biggs Bakula wanna have Church give my don't you take an earring give me that hair give me them boots [Music] didn't idea with him but look at we answer people do it kills me YouTube and worldstar folks fighting over people could fight this palace and I'm not gonna violence I'm just sayin y'all don't still off the right people Ichi you attacker save her a fighter later I don't wait for tomorrow get him is this too real for the I'm shipping very serious this church as long as I'm the pastor of it will have a mercy value system period you know why cuz I remember now refuse to forget that's how you keep drunkenness loneliness homelessness despair self-hatred suicide confusion emotional distress when you don't remember but when I look at you I remember and I don't have the right because I didn't shed blood for you to impose my personal timelines on where you should be bad way in I'm gonna charge your process that's Jesus He shed it look something go look at you [Music] I don't deserve to be impatient with you about what God is working out of you we come from different stuff with different pressures with different enemies fighting us so I can't talk with a church down the street up the corner but as for this place everybody has a home a sexual non-sexual trisexual white black Irish Chinese now you just can't be sensitive though if culture you know the bj weekly talks about people's wigs from the mic and I don't know how they endure it me he'll tell him on time that's a good one I like that how much was that [Music] you need the defendant that'll run you about here he talked about scalps and eyelashes people understand it because it's a merciful environment fathers show us mercy show us mercy helped us to protect our memory that we won't forget but it was too be like the person attacked by robbers I pray for every empty seat in this building for there's somebody in this city in this nation that is in need of manifested mercy show us that ministry is mercy that miracles are mercy and that you desire to extend mercy to people who have only been granted judgment but open the hearts of this people through this series and give us convictions about what we walk past and what we walk over help us to see that there is not a place in the world that your blood does not and cannot touch we love you so much in the same way that you saved us that you healed us that you restored us give us a conviction about that unto eternal life in the glorious name of Jesus amen put those hands together for the Lord I must I'll scream a little bit at 10:30 but I wanted to let you know that this is on God's heart this is on God's heart if I were Nicki Minaj after y'all attacked her for singing so what she said that she shot the devil and so I would never come to yonce Church y'all still lying about stuff on your taxes you claiming cats and dead relatives and folk you ain't seen all year but that judgmental spirit harsh critical is exactly why most churches have a building find it is so because the people that could pay for it need mercy yeah I don't like that gospel you'll be merciful you'd have more money it's 2018 y'all frying fish dinners how civil rights is that we should get a stupid thermometer on a come on y'all let's go I'm even at the momment on the side of the wall the vision will come to pass what my grandkids are here that thing is moving up very slowly hallelujah but there are millionaires around the world that need mercy Jeff you offended amen be merciful be merciful if you're here you you

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Published: Tue Feb 20 2018