I Feel Like Walking Now

I want to read out of the message Bible and they might be able to put it up on the screen if not if you don't have the message Bible just trust me amen but I want to read today out of Mark chapter 2 I preach out of this passage many times but I want to give you what is on my heart today I believe it's for somebody I know I couldn't get away from this this text for the last few days and usually when that happens it's because somebody needs to hear what is in this text so I hope you come with your heart open ready to receive a comb hope you come with your ears open in your spirit open because I believe the word is for you today I'm gonna begin at the first verse and the Bible says in mark chapter two first mark chapter 2 verse 1 after a few days Jesus returned to Capernaum and the word got out that he was back home a crowd gathered jamming the entrance so that no one could get in and no one could get out he was teaching the word can you imagine could you imagine Jesus just teaching the word that would be pretty awesome to me they brought while he was teaching they brought a paraplegic to him carried by four men when they weren't able to get in because of the crowd they removed part of the roof and they lowered the paraplegic on his stretcher I love how the King James calls it his bed in James calls it his bed impressed by their bold belief jesus said to the paraplegic son I forgive your sins well that got some religious people all stirred up some religious scholars were sitting there and they started whispering among among themselves and thinking he can't talk that way that's blasphemy God and only God can forgive sins but Jesus knew right away what they were thinking cuz he always knows what you're thinking he knew what they were thinking and he said why are you so skeptical which is simpler to say to the paraplegic I forgive your sins or say get up and take up your bed and start walking well just so it's clear that I am the son of man and I am authorized to do either or both it's basically he says I'm through talking to y'all and he turns to the paraplegic and he says get up pick up your bed now go home and the man did it he got up he grabbed his bed and he walked out with everyone there watching him they rubbed their eyes incredulous and then praise God saying we've never seen anything like this he told the man get up grab his bed and he walked out I want you to look to your neighbor on the right and say neighbor I feel like walking now whoo turn to your other neighbors say neighbor ain't always been able to say that but I won't tell you now God has touched me I've been in the presence of God and because of that I feel like walking now high-five somebody and tell him walk on walk on walk on spirit of God I thank you for this moment I give her your presence I thank you for your glory I ask God that you would just move in this place you drew us here name by name face my face you knew who would be tuning in today I believe that your word will find every hearer that is in this place somebody might be here with a discouraged heart I pray God that they hear joy in the words today I pray that they find fresh strength fresh oil fresh anointing Lord may every dreamer begin to dream again because of your word today we give you thanks for it in Jesus name Amen and amen on your way down hit somebody tell them I feel like walking I feel like sometimes you got to walk it out y'all know what I mean if you got to walk it out I'm very grateful for the presence was a little bit dry I'm very grateful for the presence of the Lord that we have experienced in this church I mean from the very beginning but I am very very grateful for what God has done in our hearts over the last what is this May so over the last six months can you believe it's been six months five months five months that the Lord has has done in this church there is there is a hunger that I am appreciative of there is a thirst there is a desire for God that I am grateful to be a part of because wherever God is desired that is where God comes I said wherever God is desired that is where God comes he comes to where he is wanted he he comes to where he is appreciate he comes to where he is invited he's coming to the place that has been prepared for him he comes where there has been room room has been made ready for him he comes where people will say I will accommodate your presence he comes where where hearts have been prepared the the the song that we sing at Christmas says let every heart prepare him room I think that song should be saying more than just Christmas I think it should be saying every day I I think we need to wake up and sing God help me to prepare room for you in my heart because if you pare prepare room for him that is where God is going to come and when he comes his presence whenever his presence comes into the house or whatever wherever he comes whenever his presence comes he cannot it's absolute absolutely impossible for him to be hidden just like beams that come shining through the Sun and they cannot be hidden such is the presence of God whenever God is in a house somebody's going to find out I said whenever he's in a house somebody is going to find out whether the house is is the human heart of mankind whether it is a Christian family whether it is a spiritual family which is the church if people find out that God is in that house they are going to come to the house let me tell you something that the glory of the church is not the building in which we worship the glory of the church is not even in the social status of those who are its members the glory of a church is not in the oratorical ability of the pastor the the and I'm so grateful for that the glory of the church is not in the giftedness of music and singing and all of those things know the glory of the church is that he dwells within it it is it is that he lives within us that he a BA within us that he makes young to take that calendar off the screen that would be great that he makes it his home he he makes it his home got a look at the calendar just look at me whatever that's that's what makes her church a church I don't care how beautifully it is I don't care how many dignitaries go to that church if the presence of the Lord is not there I don't want to be there either anybody know what I'm talking about however if Christ is within he will always attract those that are without I said whenever Christ is within there is an attraction there is there is something that's like magnets like magnets and it draws people in whenever whenever the Lord is in the house why because create is Christ in you that is the hope of glory so whenever Jesus went there were crowds that followed him if success could be measured by followers Jesus would have been incredibly successful on that level alone however everybody that comes to that comes in a crowd it's not necessarily for you you all know what I'm talking about they might act like they for you and they might talk like they are for you but not everybody that comes around you is for you you know why because success breeds contempt and it is very obvious that Jesus had his share of critics he had skepticism all around him he attract attracted skepticism and the reason he did was because he brought hope to places that other people couldn't bring hope and they couldn't figure out how he was bringing that hope so because they couldn't do it they were skeptic that somebody named Jesus could come on the scene and do it began and and they went people were desperate for hope people were there which they were tired of being poor they were tired of being rejected they were tired of being outcast they were tired of being kicked to the curb they were tired of being sick and they had finally reached a point to which they could not take it any more and it was into this type of environment that he came now he was in that type of environment that he walked into their world into their lives into their dilemma some y'all know what that's like he walked into your chaos he walked into the disappointments he walked in to the poverty he walked in to your displacement and without with he walked in he walked in and without a social media team without a social media presence without a television ministry without a website without a marketing team to push his name without a speaker or without a microphone without a book deal without any of those things he turned the world upside down he drew all types of people he drew he drew different different types of people he even drew different classes of people different cultures of people he became the common denominator he became the gathering point he became the center of the gathering he became the meeting place where people were gathered together and there were so many people that it became overwhelming to him because people when they realize that you have something that they need they will cling to you and so they came after Jesus and he at moments the crowd became so overwhelming that at one point he climbed into the boat and he pushed himself out into the water to give a little bit of space between him and those that were asked to him he also told his disciples he said I've gotta go away I gotta go into the mountains to pray I've got to come I've got to come apart if I'm going to do what I'm doing I've got to set some time and come apart and just talk to my father isn't it amazing he's Jesus I think about all the power that he has and even he himself still had to get away so that he could be strengthened in in God but demands of the people were coming at him left and right and everyone that came to him had something in common every one that came to him was instinctively aware of they had an inner awareness of the fact that they needed him know that they had this you know they don't always know what they needed but they knew he had something that on his life that they didn't have in their life so perhaps perhaps I need I need to find this man and they would they would clamor to get around him because perhaps he might have something that could meet my need that could change my life forever and like many would gather around the well that was in the cities Jesus became the well that was springing up and he met you know like when he met the woman at the well you know who I'm talking about the one that had been married five times and the one that who she was living with now was not her husband and here comes Jesus he's sitting at the well now that's funny right there because he's the doctor she's the patient very rare does the doctor sit and wait on the patient but on this point in this particular situation here he is Jesus away oh well and he sits down on Jacobs well he sits down on Jacobs well Jacob was a trickster a he'll catcher a deceiver a lie Jacob had some issues in his life but Jesus sat down on table oh I'm telling you if you'll ask him he'll sit down on you he sat there so we got a whale that is now sitting down on top of the well so Jesus became a well that was springing up and those people who were thirsty would gather all around him because no matter who you are no matter where you live no matter what should drive or what you wear everybody eventually sooner or later will get thirsty and Jesus was so well that those who had a multiplicity of needs would come and gather themselves around kind of much like what we do today we understand that Jesus is in our midst he is the well and so when we are thirsty we make our way to the church the church is a picture of everything I just described to you many people from all different classes all different races all different colors all different ethnicities they come and they gather around the well and we do it because we are understand that we need him but that's what the church does the church lends itself to those that are in need we we lend ourselves to those who are broken we lend ourselves the church lends itself to the hurting if you don't like to touch hurting people or help missing missing situations you really don't want to be a part of the church because that's what you got when you got the church and don't act like don't act like it's so strange to you because believe it or not you wouldn't have cried save me Lord had you not needed him at some point in your life so that's what the church does it helps those who are broken it helps those who are in need it is a part of our mission as the church and often those some you know that there are occasions that those who need him the most are so in debt they are so in denial of their need that they cannot even get the very thing that they desperately need even though they do come into the church they they are still in there but but but they are still thirsty they're trying to they're trying to satisfy their own thirst they're trying to satisfy their own longings they're trying to satisfy their own needs by by trying this I'm gonna try this and see if that will help I'm gonna try her and see if that will work I won't try him and see if that one right there where they are trying to fix their michelle's and and they are in such a denial that they're right in the place where they could get the help that they need but because of all of the denial that's going in their life that they they can't they can't get what they need the thing of it is is that in all of their denial the one thing that they can't deny is that can't deny that what they feel they can't deny what they sense when they are anywhere near him and so they come they come from the north the south east and the west and they gather at the whale on Sunday morning they might be at the club on Saturday but they coming to church on Sunday and when they come sometimes it's really sad because you know thirsty but they don't have anything to draw with so they have to watch her straw with with joy we draw waters with our praise we draw waters with with our worship we draw waters and and so since they have nothing to to draw with they just stand next to you and if you draw out enough it doesn't just fall on you but it sprinkles over on the person that's sitting on your right and Oh anybody ever came to church and didn't have anything to draw with you were tired you were exhausted you were burnt out you I tell everything you knew to do but you came to church and that day you sat next to the right person because as they were worshipping in this they were sending praises up the glory of the Lord began to come down and you got under the spout where the glory what's coming out come on thank God to the spout of glory people get in denial but they still come to church they come because they're looking for ways to numb their pain they were looking for ways to quench the thirst they're looking for ways to distract them from the tormenting thoughts that are constantly bombarding their mind thoughts of despair and thoughts of depression and thoughts of of destruction thoughts of suicide thoughts of of self-inflicted sabotage they they come just to get into the atmosphere of God's presence so wherever Jesus was they would rush into his presence that they would desperate the reason they would rush is because they were desperate for his presence they were desperate for his power and so wherever he would go they came they were broken but they came they were physically broken some of them but they came they were mentally broken but they came many of them were emotionally broken but they somehow found their way to where Jesus was men and women and boy boys and girls the rich and the poor the humble in the proud they all came they came from broken marriages they came from broken families they came from broken relationships they came from broken childhoods they came from broken ministries they came they were broken but they came anyway they had broken dreams they had a broken home they had a broken they they knew what it was like to have promises broken they they they came from broken commitments they came with broken spirits they came with broken hearts and and yet they came to church anyway I mean they came to wherever Jesus was anyway hmm because they know they know if anybody in the world could help them it would have to be him they were sick but let me tell you something there's a lot of ways that you can be sick I said there's a lot of ways you can be speaking you can be physically sick you can be financially sick you can be looking fine but be financially bro you can be fine in your body but be sick in your mind you can be sick in your passions you can even you can be even be such an arrogant person that everybody around you is siti you hello and while there are listen to me while there are some sicknesses you can see there are some that you cannot see yeah y'all better say man make no mistake about it you can't always tell that people are sick just by looking at them you'd be amazed to know just how cute a sick person can look really you could you'd be amazed to know that and you can't just look at them and determine how sick they are by what they drive or where they live or how much money they have or how many degrees and all behind their name no matter how how their suit fits you cannot just look at them and think oh yeah they're well because they look well-off you you can't just look at their charisma you can't just look at their charm you can't just look at their personality you can't just look at the package not today I said you can't I was having a man in there I said you can't look at the package today no you gonna have to dig into the package and look at the content but before you buy into it make sure that you look in and you dig in look at somebody tell them take a little deeper you better do I don't know who that's for but somebody ought to hear me today you better do a little deeper don't leave a stone unturned before you make any commitments to go anywhere with anybody dig a little deeper pray and keep digging don't just pray pray and dig and then dig and keep praying cuz sometimes you won't know what you're getting into until you do both you gotta dig a little pray little dig a little pray a little Oh tell somebody I dare you to dig it I dare you you better dig your way through it so wherever Jesus was he drew all kind of people wherever he came into the room people just clamored they wanted to get excuse me I'm sorry I didn't mean to step on your feet I just I just can't see him from here I'm so sorry sorry sorry okay I'm sorry I said I'm sorry I I just you don't understand I I know you might have been here first but but but this is an emergency for me okay you know it's like the emergency room when you go to the emergency room you might have been sitting there for five hours but somebody might come in that they might immediately take to the back and it makes you who are sitting out in the waiting room you're like what I've been here for five hours but see their situation was an emergency I said it could have been life-threatening and so they'll let them pass right excuse me I know you got here earlier to get your say but I can't help it I got that Casey him from here I wouldn't say I can't hear what he said I got to get to where he is I cannot see him from where I am excuse me part of me I'm sorry scoot over get just get out of my way okay cuz I need playing about this I have got to have chase has have on the verge of losing everything I'm on the verge of throwing in the towel I'm on the run has anybody ever been on the verge and you just came to churches here I have gone here I'm on the verge of Thailand it was shoving and they were pushing all their way around just because of the wrong need that they were experiencing and they were doing that because they just wanted to get where he was and so without billboards without facebook ads was how do any Instagram things posted it was talking to be noise abroad Jesus is in the house Jesus he's over there in the house Jesus is in the house and whenever Jesus was in the house they didn't have to advertise they would just pack the place out they had come to see him they come to hear him they come to get anywhere they could that was near him because when they did when he came it was like heaven has come to Capernaum heaven has come to Capernaum so now now that he's come to Capernaum to get anywhere near him you had to be strategic somebody and ask them do you have a strategy they had to be strategic if you were not strategic you would never be able to work your way through the crowd culture or through the church culture to get close to him you had to be strategic because if you wanted to be in the room where he was you had to have a strategy because people would always try to keep you out and so oh they would try to keep you out y'all didn't hear that let let me tell you something about church people I've been in the church long enough to tell you what I know about church people I've been around Church people long enough to tell church people sometimes let me tell you something if you're one for Jesus I wouldn't put up with narrow one of you I wouldn't put up with you or you see if you're gonna worship if you're gonna worship around Jesus you've got to be prepared to deal with crazy folk with lying folk with backbiting folk with hateful folk with evil soul with cheatin folk with sneaking folk let me tell you if it weren't for him I wouldn't put up with none of y'all but since he chooses to be in this mess that is called the church if I got to deal with you in order to get to here God knows I will deal with you because I got to have him so whatever is in the room high-five somebody tell him deal with it just deal with it I don't care what's in the room deal with it I don't care how crazy people are just deal with it just look at them and say excuse me past excuse me elder excuse me deacon excuse me parking lot attendant excuse me children's ministry excuse me servant leader I didn't come to see none of y'all I came to see Jesus I came and I'm not leaving this church but till I touch him until I thank him until I have my moment until I experience his presence and until I give him the glory for what he is about to do in my everyone that came every when I came to him they had a need everybody that came to him had a need but this man had something more than a need this man had tenacity he had a need but he had tenacity and he was relentless okay he was relentless about the fact I got to do something in order to make my life better he refused to see his condition as a life sentence he said I know I'm a paraplegic but I just don't believe that I'm gonna have to be like this all of my life here if you see some people give in so easy and this is my fate I yes this is just what I got a have and what I gotta go through but he was he was one of those that refused to become a victim of his sickness look at somebody tell him I'm doing it I doing it I'm not gonna be a victim of it arrival site cuz there's a fighter down inside of me I refuse to just perceive this as normal this is not normal I refuse to perceive it as such I refuse to just accept this that this is how my story is going to end ah the devil is a liar I'm gonna I'll go through what I gotta go through I'm gonna do what I gotta do I'm press through whatever I gotta press my way through and I will change whatever I have to change but I refuse to accept that this is the way that it will always be in my life hit somebody and tell them I gotta get my fight back I'm after Jesus and whatever I gotta do to get wherever he is then I just gotta do it when I tell you that this man was tenacious please believe me on that he knew that his chances of ever getting to where Jesus was were absolutely zero he know he could never get himself into that house he knew he could never get himself to where Jesus was see that would have been discouraging enough for some of us I can't get there ain't no need me even trying I'll just have to watch everybody else get a brick through after watch everybody else get there I have to watch every other family every bless I know I'm not gonna get it how am I supposed to get that I don't even have the ability to get there now that would make enough of us just want to throw up our hands and quit but instead of turning into a quitter this man turned into a creative he didn't turn into a quitter and into a creative because this man knew if he was going to get there he was gonna have to have some help he knew he was gonna have to leverage some relationships in his life he knew and in order to get the kind of help that he really needed he had to surround himself with other people who weren't quitters either that's the problem with some of us we put people around us all the people that around us are quitters and so when we come up against an issue we can't draw no strength from those that are around us cuz they are quitters too but I'm gonna tell you something sometimes life will demand that should become brave enough to insist this is gonna change in my life I can stay on this mat I can stay in this mess I can depend on people that are around me I can I can live handicap the rest of my life I can live Limited the rest of my life or I like that word or or I can make a divine decision to change my mind to change my surroundings to change my circumstance to change my mentality and to change my pride and holla fight help somebody that needs Jesus holler for help this man was strategic he was also strategic about who we asked the help he knew he needed it but he was strategic about who he asked so he's laying there on the mat saying ain't no way in the world I'm gonna let him get this close let me not be able to get to him no I gotta call for strategic people I got a call for people that are strong I got a call for people that have finishers I got a call for people that are fighters I got a people call for people who are crazy like me I got a call for people who can believe I got a call for people who are radical I got a call for people who can get up under the burden of some wait and help me get to where I need to be I've got a I got a call for people who will hold me and not drop me lord help me Jesus I can stop right there and preach it I do not want to live my life at the mercy of somebody who could drop me I don't want a man that would drop me I don't want a man who hits a hard place and since whoops I can't take it anymore and he dropped me I'm telling you I want somebody that will get up honda-san will tell you something we are not perfect none of us are perfect and every now and then we will all face issues and we'll face things and that's the day that we need people in our life who says listen I know you're in adversity but I'm your brother brothers are born for adversity y'all better help me today look at your neighbor tell him I need people to help me work it out I need you not to drop me I need you to help me work it out I can't be at the mercy of somebody who drops me every six months I can't be like that I refuse to be married to a woman who sinks in depression every six months and drops everything like it's all only about her I refuse eirick no child should have to be at the mercy of parents who want to pair them today but not pair them tomorrow look at somebody and say do what you have to do get yourself together before you grab something that you are assigned to carry that's preaching right there I'm sorry that's good preacher I don't always feel like it but you gotta talk to your south I said you got aa does anybody know what it is to have to talk to yourself I haven't talked to myself this week it dawned on me this week that my mother's death this was the week of her anniversary this was my first Mother's Day without her this was the anniversary of the day she died this was also the anniversary of the day we buried her and I got to thinking about that this is three major events in my life that happened within seven days and if that wasn't bad enough I got to thinking and it's probably gonna be like this for the rest of my life so what do I do city and I decide to praise God if you gave your life you better live it [Applause] you gotta talk to yourself you gotta encourage yourself in the Lord hey it ain't easy but he didn't bring me this far to leave me does anybody know it and bring you this far look somebody and tell him I feel like going on and even if I don't feel like it I'm still going on [Music] hallelujah this man this man couldn't afford to be dropped do y'all hear me I said he couldn't afford to be dropped he was already broken I said he was already broken he could not afford to be dropped he was already shattered he was laying on a cot look at somebody and tell your neighbor I can't take another one I can't take it no you need to tell them like you tell yourself I can't like god I can't take another one I cannot take another one I cannot take another drop not another drop if I go through another God so he's like I gotta find somebody who'll help me sit down for just a minute and somehow this man managed to find not just one person but he found four that's amazing right there that you could find four people that are willing to get up under the weight of your burden and help move you towards your victory for friends would pick him up and they would carry him into the atmosphere where anything could happen y'all are so slow I'm telling you when you walked into the doors do you realize that you are in the atmosphere that [Music] [Applause] well I reminded myself of that today when I was sitting over there we were doing praise and worship I'm like God I'm in an atmosphere that anything could happen I'm in an atmosphere that you can take and do something impossible oh look at somebody and tell him I'm glad to be in the room I'm not worried about what I got on I'm just glad to be a knight even wearing I know it's money outside it'll be in a room see people grumble it kill it just gets to me y'all know we've been working for a long sit down so I see everybody y'all know we've been working for a long time just trying to get our parking lot straight because you have a pastor that will not go it don't want to go into debt for anything like that y'all should say thank you right there praise God hallelujah the people I can't help it but every now and then I hear somebody will grumble come on well I would go to church but I don't know where I'm gonna have to park and I cannot get my car and all that mud I'm not it rains Saturday that means it's chick I ain't going to church Sunday I ain't talking to none of y'all cause y'all are here okay I ain't talking y'all I'm talking about other people I ain't goin to church cuz I don't know where no park I don't know where they gonna end up making me and I don't know once I do park I don't know how far I'm gonna have to walk see these are the very same people that will get out of the bed when it's still dark outside throw some clothes on get in their car and drive down to Best Buy parked their car get out of their car park on the opposite end of the parking lot get out of their car walk up to the building when it's still dark outside stand in line and it cold and they'll stand there forever how long they have to stand there holding their low coupon in their hand hoping to get 50% off of their off of their CD player whatever we have today I don't know off of their television I need me I'll tell her I got a 50 bring us Black Friday I'll do whatever I gotta do it I'll get up while it's still black outside and I'll stand in line oh it's the same people and they'll do that for a TV set that will grow old that will break down that will become obsolete and in a minute that TV set will be outdated because somebody else has got somebody something better but they won't come to church and they don't want to stand in line and they don't want to be ushered around and they won't they'll forsake the assembly on the past I could preach like this if I want to there forsake the assembling of themselves and they'll forget about worshiping the God who has freely give them a life that will last forever you can tell your low coupon uh cuz he said this gift of salvation is not yours to purchase I purchased it and I gave it to you I don't get it I really don't you know let me maybe I do get it maybe I do get it they're not as desperate as we they try to make us think that they are because if you have ever been hurting bad enough you will refuse to allow a few difficulties and a few inconveniences to stop you from getting in the house where Jesus is look at somebody tell him I got to get in the house I gotta get in the house I gotta get in the in the house because let me tell you some things real quick three things when you when you're in a house where Jesus whenever Jesus comes into a house there is automatically attraction there is automatically attraction people will automatically be attracted to that place there is automatically instruction when Jesus and is in the house and there will also automatically be a benediction which means I blessing I'm not saying that the church is over I'm saying I'm talking about the kind of benediction that's just I bless you I bless you in the city Blainey time Jesus isn't in the house you got attraction you got instruction cuz he stood and preached the word and then you got the blessing look at somebody and tell him I'm here for the blessing Jesus was in the house and the word spread like wildfire and because of that people came from everywhere the four men picked up this one man they carried him over home the mountains of Jerusalem and brought him into a place called Capernaum the roads were rough they probably walked at different paces and there were probably at times that he felt like could y'all just please you know but you can only say so much because they care in you but their pace was probably a different at times some of them probably got tired every now and then just kind of lowered their arms so so now he's uneven he's long on rough roads not even good paved roads there they're walking on these rough rough roads and so that means he's probably having shifts from time to time but jolts behind the time and all because he's on the journey that is rocky but he had one thing that one thought in mind ain't go saying that but just don't stop moving till you get me there don't stop moving please don't stop - you getting it look at somebody tell him don't stop till you get me there Joseph Tina Keesha all y'all up here don't stop don't stop till you get me that pastor Brady don't stop preaching till you get me there I know I'm here yeah normal weight I don't sometimes I'm a burden but whatever you do don't stop til you get me there cuz I got to be there it's okay if it's a little bumpy it's okay if the road is a little rocky but whatever it takes I got to get to where Jesus is well I don't know how long it's gonna take for me to get there I don't know how many obstacles I might have to overcome I don't know how many bumpy roads I'm gonna have to face but the one thing that I do know is I got to get there I got to get where Jesus is they got to the house when they got to the house people were gathered around everywhere they said man we can get you clothes but I don't think we're gonna be able to get you in the doors are shut tight the windows are shut I mean people are jammed in there every way there's not even room enough for a bad spirit in that place I mean I don't know I mean if we if we look at your neighbors say tear it up tear it up tear rip it open look at somebody Saint heather roof off the place the roof hey it'll be messy but through some systems rip through some structures rip through some religious spirits rip through some attitudes rip through some mindsets rip through some people that said I will not be I will not be moved do whatever you gotta do because I refuse to get this close and not be able to get it I dare you hit five people and tell them tether of all scope it mess a tether a fourth scope be messy but you don't get a miracle it's gonna be messy but you'll get a miracle don't let nothing separate you there's no way in the world I'm gonna get up on a Sunday morning and drive all the way to church and get myself in church and not be able to have Church because there's some mess around me the devil is a liar you can't look at me crazy enough to hurt my feelings to make me stop worship Him you can cuss at me if you won't why you cuz I praise [Applause] and I'm in the place where thing can happen and I refuse to let anything separate me get somebody to tear the roof off tether and fall ain't got time to finish it so I must go I have to stop well let me tell you something here's what jumped out at me he's four men anywhere in the text you see their name no name no title no position no spotlight but they did it anyway they did it because it was a deed of love they did it because they understood that they were their brother's keeper and so the deed was documented but the doer wasn't I said the deed that they did was documented but the ones that did it they're never King their name never came up their work was seen but they remain unseen unnamed unrecognized and unsung but that's okay because I bet you they understood my record it's not down here in earth I did the deed in Earth but my racket Tessa Bonnie my racket is own huh that means the Lord knows at the Lord sees this is average thing you've ever done and if you don't try to get the glory for it I said if you don't try to get the glory for God where receives the glory for it and at the end of the day when this whole selling time he said I will look at you and say well done this man was rare because they were all about love and they were not about reward I said they were all about love and they were not about reward so I got a close but they lifted him up they lifted it on him up they told the roof off they had rope so they started lowering him down in to the presence of Jesus because every now and then everybody needs somebody into the presence of the Lord right in the middle of Jesus's message he hears a ruckus he looks up hay straw everything's falling apart the owner of the house is like Lord Jesus I had no idea that if I invited you into my house that they were gonna tear my house okay sometimes it'll cost you to host Jesus I said sometimes it'll cost you to host the presence of more studies flying everywhere Jesus looks up and he sees this man being lured into the room by these ropes here comes the guy can you imagine I don't even like to get up and go to the bathroom in church cuz I don't want to distract anybody let alone coming down and I mean ain't just any preacher to Jesus he took a risk know what I mean the guy goes I bet you pity excuse me I don't mean to mess up your message I don't mean to tear up things I didn't mean I mean I'll pay for any damage it's done but I could not let you get this close to me and difficulties keep me away from where you are I need you too bad in my life sir I need your help you've got to help me I have got palsy I've got palsy and I need you to help me I need a miracle you're the only one that could fix this for me the only reason he was there just because Foreman the man could have never got their own ism it took those four men to take him there to carry him there to lead him there and to lower him down into the presence of God Church that's our mission you understand that's a mission to get people into the presence of Jesus who have no ability to get in there themselves that's our mission it is not about a more to church to get my next message what is the world you ain't even lived the last one well I got to have got to be fair really what are you doing you're sitting there getting fat off of what you're being fed you ain't walking it out you're not sharing it you'll get fed so that you can take it out of these somebody else that's why you get bad the church system has taught you something different the church system has taught you to come in and be picky I don't think I like that when woman preacher I don't think I like what they said I gotta go to this church so feed me I gotta go to a church where I could be fixes I've got to be fit you understand why you ain't gonna do nothing with it I mean historically what have you done with it that's the mission of the church the mission of the church is to help those who are desperate those who are lost those who are dying it's not so that we can come in here and sit up in our nice suit and our nice dress in a nice hat I love fine things y'all know how I find things but you know what it becomes a problem when those fine things have you and you no longer have them hello we got to be blessed look at somebody tell him I gotta be blessed somebody's got to finance the kingdom of God so I'm looking to be blessed but I ain't looking to hold it all myself I'm ready to do whatever I got to do I gotta stop Jesus but y'all love that I say that I got to stop Jesus Jesus looked at the man he was amazed at their faith all of them was amazed at their faith the first thing he said to the guy is you would have thought he would have spoke to the need the I mean that let's say like this you would have thought he would have spoke to the obvious need you would have thought he would have spoke to the palsy he what I thought he would spoke to the shaking your thought he would have spoke to whatever he was see but he went right he bypassed what he could see and he looked at him and he's the first thing you said to him is son okay I'm gonna stop right there because he immediately adopted him don't see that Paul's you know he adopted it he gave him a place in the family let me tell you something you can't wait for people to get cleaned up to come to our church and say now I accept you oh you're a normal family that's awesome come on in here we got a seat for you no you gotta be able to say listen I know you got nests and you laugh I know your kids are jacked up and I know your marriage is messed up and I know you just got problems but it's okay come in here sit down next to me cuz you need Jesus you need to be in his presence and let me tell you how I know because I need him to and I'm sitting right here beside you Jesus didn't resent son who loved it he gave him a place immediately in the family he sets the vessel and in the families he adopted him it called him his own he said son before he said I'm gonna hear your palsy he said your sin he did not talk to him about that obvious bed that I just come through the roof he didn't talk to him about the ropes he didn't talk to him about all of those things he didn't talk to him about the things that he Jesus had the power to fix that would help him to fit in with other people no he talked to him about things that would help him to fit into the family he said your issue is sin look at somebody tell him get to the root you better get to the root of it you better get to the roof he went right to the very root of the problem hello and when did he talk to him about he talked to him about his issue let me tell you something he called it what it was all right can I say that today in 2019 he called sin sin I said he called sin sin we can't call it our problem oh it's my problem it's my issue it's my look it's my little situation no it is sin and unless you get to the root of the issue you're never gonna see outwardly what's you longed to see God said I want to go in and I want to clean your heart out and I want to forgive you so he talked to this man about forgiveness he adopted him and he forgave him he adopted him and he forgave him from the moment that the church the moment that he did it the church religious people started who are you to say you can forgive you can't forgive nobody sin jesus said what are you talking about let me show you yeah I know tell you let me let me show you take up your bed he's a take up your bed I don't know how long that man had been on that bed but I do know that the Bible said when Jesus said take up your bed and walk immediately snap your fingers say immediately he might have been on it all of his life but immediately Jesus said take up your bed and walk now I would have thought why would Jesus even said anything about the bed why did he just say get up and walk leave that crazy bed he'd have been on it long enough he didn't say that I think sometimes we do the people in an injustice because we say come to Jesus he's gonna fix all your problems you're never gonna have to worry about that bed again she said no pick up that banner cuz that dad's gonna be with you forever it's called your cross huh and if you would come after me you gotta pick up your cross everybody's gonna have something in their life that they have to carry even you know makes you almost won say something what's the use why why do I go through all this if I'm still gonna have to have that crazy bed with me I'll tell you what the use is now he's no longer laying on the bed and the bed carrying him he picks up and now he's carrying the bed that's a big difference look at somebody and tell them say neighbor now I'm carrying what used to carry me and the only way I'm able to do that is cuz I've been in the presence of Jesus we're not getting to the presence of Jesus I don't need what I used to need I don't have to have what I used to have to have but now that I'm in his presence I can pick up my band and I can carry it it's not gonna hold me anymore it's not going to consign me anymore thanks guys I appreciate [Music] but I'm okay I'm good I got can you imagine the people like oh let's help you ah don't worry I got it I'm good now I dare you to look at somebody say I'm good now listen I'm good I needed your help to get in here but I don't need your help to get out hey I said I needed you to help me get in but I'm gonna be able to get out by myself I'm gonna get out on moans whose feet there was a day I could have never done it but because I've been in the presence of Jesus I'm coming out on my own now I'm coming out of own two feet and I feel like walking I'm okay no you have to give me a ride on your donkey I'll go ahead and walk look at somebody and tell him I feel like walking why don't you just turn around and walk right where you are move your feet I feel like walking right now thanks everybody for helping me but I feel like walking now thanks for being there for me but I feel like I can do it now I feel like I can break it now thanks for carrying me thanks for prized for me but I can walk now [Music] Oh everybody's standing every head bowed every eye closed if you're in this room let me tell you

Channel: Sheryl Brady

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Length: 60min 41sec (3641 seconds)

Published: Thu May 23 2019