"Idols in the Heart, Stumbling Blocks in the Face" - Bishop Jackie McCullough

all of you can fill in here there's some seats in here so that we can make room up there amen just come closer praise the Lord [Music] praise the Lord Jesus you're the sweetest name I know and you're just the same as your holy name and that's the reason [Music] if so Jesus you're the sweetest Jesus you're the sweetest name I know come on and raise your hand and worship Jesus you're the sweet Jesus sweetness and you're just the same and you're just the same as your holy and that's the reason why last [Music] for Jesus you're the sweetums Jesus you're the sweetest name I don't know put your hands together if he's sweet amen you may be seated you may be seated I greet to you all of you in the name of Jesus I say a special good afternoon to our streamers thank you so much for tuning in and we hope that God will minister to you in a very special way today the doors of this church are open during the week Monday through Friday you can come particularly for noonday prayer somebody will be here and you can spend time with the Lord remnant women meaning September 9th at 8 o'clock if there if there any changes of these announcement pastor Dianne and pastor angel would get into you you know about the church trip to going to Bethel and how do we do that if you're going you're going to carpool pastor Dana will be giving you all information about the choir how you can travel together to get there for their 7:30 service in Queens I just want to thank the the ushers and the hospitality people for your service particularly during the high time of founders thank you very much but let me just say to the security and to all of you I know your challenges in the parking lot and the reason why is because this is a commercial strip and now we're sharing the little bit of space that we have with a new business and you see the rope and you see the sign which means that we have to be careful not to violate their space because we're sharing a space so usually the security is so preoccupied with making sure that we don't get in anybody's way so that the landlord will not send us a note because we want to stay here in good standing until we leave here we came you're in good standing and we want to leave in good standing so the security may seem a little aggressive and some of you is aggression but stubbornness you know even even even in the compartment which means that they're aggressively trying to keep the order and you're stubbornly trying to find your own space so it caused a little problem so when you see them doing like this or doing gestures that would intimidate you it's not personal it's just that they're thinking about so many things keeping the cause from the fire area all right making sure that we don't violate the other businesses and then making sure that the people who really need to be closed because they're physically challenged that their spaces are kept it's just a lot going on so when you give them a little slack and that feels so personal and I'm not saying that they should be rude but I'm saying that they're thinking about when we get the new church and we have a whole you gonna still have problems there but at least you'll have a problem with a problem but women will have more than enough space for everybody amen so just just bear with us another another thing is when it comes to the ushers we thank you so much and we thank you particularly those of the door they've been doing a good job they'll just be smiling a little bit more and could it be the reason why there one smile is because it's rough by that door it's right I'm thinking ain't rough it's rough because people want their seeds but let me tell you what the other problem we're having we have to keep moving because just like we move all these people this morning because the church is getting crowded beginning bigger but in the same space so sometimes they have to ask you after you sat down and claim your seeds and put your name on your seat now you gotta get up and move your seat I know that it's aggravating but can you just bear with us amen cuz we're trying to get everybody into a tight space and make them comfortable so when we go to the new church that's why you're gonna give more cuz you want the bigger seat in the new church amen and you'll have more room okay and I'm not taking up for rudeness or harshness I'm just trying to tell you how things can get you know the dynamics of stuff so you can understand that they can understand it and we all can work together thank you for praying for the lochs parents Deacon locs mother is doing better and also Beverly locks a mother they've been under a lot of stress with their parents I know what it is to have to care for the elderly or careful to be a caregiver I know what it is in the hospital of the hospital in the hospital of the hospital it's not easy amen so if you pray for them maybe you know the Lord will just help them and give them what they need and also pray for their healing but the earnest is doing better in the surgery I don't know if he's home but is there any like very came out of the surgery thank deacon mark became organ Pastor Brian for going to visit him okay down syndrome association is having their Buddy Walk 2019 in Central Park amen and we have the lady of the hour sister Gabrielle Jackson amen amen and if you would like to if you'd like to support the Jackson family excuse me on this walk it's a walk to be mindful to be aware in a1 one of the UM Down syndrome young ladies very high functional she is in what is it she's she does gymnastics and she does so well that now she's a model she became a teenage mother I don't remember her name but but she's doing very very high functional so we don't know what Gabi's gonna be but we know she very high functional a man but if you would like to toss that participate and register for the bunny walk when you see the Jacksons and they will tell you exactly that's Reverend Jackson sister Julie Jackson is September 14 Amen if you would like to support because we know that gabby is a very interesting powerful young lady amen I'm going to ask you to turn your Bibles very quickly to the Book of Ezekiel Ezekiel chapter 14 if you need a Bible the ushers will accommodate you but I'm sure it will appear on the screen to my right into my if Ezekiel chapter 14 I'm reading the first seven verses Ezekiel chapter 14 beginning at verse 1 and ending at verse 7 and reading from the King James Version here begins a reading of God's Holy Word and I hope that the people to the streaming will also turn their Bibles and join with us then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me and sat before me and the word of the Lord came unto me saying son of man these men have set up their idols in their heart and put the stumbling block of the iniquity before their face should I be inquired at all by them therefore speak unto them and say unto them thus saith the Lord God every man of the house of Israel that set up his idols in his heart and put in the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face and coming to the Prophet I the Lord will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols that I may take the house of Israel arranged from me through their idols therefore say unto the house of Israel thus saith the Lord God repent and turn yourselves from your idols and turn away your faces from all your abominations for every one of the house of Israel or of the stranger that sojourneth in Israel which separated himself from me and set it up his idols in his heart and put it the stumbling block of his iniquity before his face and coming to a prophet to inquire of him concerning me I the Lord will answer him by myself so far the reading and hearing God's Word you may sense somebody said I didn't come in here to hear that sorry about that we welcome our visitor assistant sister Beverly it's so good to see you this morning you know how we miss you but we know you're in good hands amen praise the Lord praise the Lord and all of our visitor are visiting lady over here it's good to have the way you from if you're up here somewhere Milltown okay and you've been here before yes ma'am thank you so much thank you all right very quickly within the space of time allotted me I'd like to talk to you from the subject idols in the heart stumbling blocks in the face idols in the heart some limb blocks in the face well as I started saying at 7:30 when someone comes to you for counsel or advice or ask you to do something or explain something it's a it's flattering if they say counselor or inquiry is is a great form of flattery in other words if I say to Pastor Diane how how do you how do you fix salmon you know it's very very flattering and flattering in the sense that I'm coming to somebody who knows and when I walk away from her I should have the information okay so when somebody ask you something your opinion your take on the subject your instruction it really affirms the person because if the person assumes that you're truly interested in what you're asking for they also make the assumption that you're gonna follow through well Ezekiel was a very outstanding prophet they're a noble man and and and Ezekiel along with the other prophets when into captivity along with the people you know Israel and Judah went into captivity meaning that Nebuchadnezzar from the Babylonian Empire went to Jerusalem and just whipped them and took the people in three different movements into Babylon and enslaved them or or took away their rights and they were now under the Babylonian leadership okay so when the children of Israel went down to Babylon the prophets went there the preachers didn't stay in in freedom and everybody went into captivity the preachers went in captivity with them so what should the preacher do in there in captivity with the captives they should do what they always do which is to preach and they had to keep their morale up they had to keep them focus on what God is going to do they had to keep them pointing to the day of deliverance the day of freedom they had to speak to them so that they could be hopeful so that was the main thrust of the prophets so they would talk to them about what most of Isaiah the first part of Isaiah is about Isaiah encouraging them comfort G conferencing my people though you're in captivity the Lord is going to bring you out so these prophets really worked so that the people won't become what depressed so here we have in this particular chapter God is dealing with the people in captivity and in captivity they're coming to Ezekiel or the priests of the leaders of the elders they're coming because they want answers what's going to happen to us what about our future just like somebody's streaming right now what's going to happen to me five years from now what's going to happen to my children where am I going you know what what's gonna happen to me financially if I get sick who's gonna take care of me all of these things are real questions that people asked and they they ask the questions because they're the leaders have to give the people answers what's gonna happen to the Israel what is the future of Israel how are we gonna get out of this so they came to Ezekiel because Ezekiel was a trusted prophet and he usually he was credible he was credible so here we have the first point the first point is fake students fake students yeah fake news fixed come on yes fake eyelashes I'm just trying to use the word fake I'm just trying to use the word fake so you can identify with fake in case you didn't know what fake meant all right fake means it's not real it's false whenever whatever all right it's phony so the first point is fake students these elders are coming to the Prophet in a discipleship mode in a student mode and how do we know it was in a student mode the first verse tells us then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me and sat before me that is the Jewish way of learning the teacher sat High and the students sat below and they came and sat at the feet of Jesus and the multitude sat at the feet of Jesus that was the posture of Education so the they recognized Ezekiel was a bonafide prophet he was an accredited prophet and some of his words had already come to pass so here they come sitting at his feet meaning I want you to teach me I want tell me I want you to give me instructions isn't that a wonderful scene just sounds so so real so honest you know I'm saying second Kings 438 gives you another example of sitting at the teachers feet you know enlighted took over the school of the Prophet from Elijah and he was the teacher and they ran into a little problem and they came to Elijah to give them one instruction so second Kings 438 I'm just gonna read the first verse 38 verse and Elijah returned to Gilgal and there was a famine in the land now what we're going to do how we're going to eat now the sons of the prophets were sitting before him sitting at his feet and he said to them put on the large pot and boil stew for the sons of the prophets that was instruction they said was a crisis they sat before him and they were ready to receive instruction for solution that's the posture that's why you come that's the assumption we made it's a crap assumption Ezekiel 33 31 my people come to you this is God saying to Ezekiel my people come to you as they usually do that means they always come in and sit before you to listen to your words but they do not put them into practice with the amounts they express devotion mm-hmm-hmm I see I see I understand yeah that makes sense hmm with the Emmaus Express notion but their hearts are greedy for unjust gain indeed to them you are nothing more than you you ain't don't get all deep here here you're nothing more than what one who sings love songs with a beautiful voice and plays an instrument well for their hear your words in other words you are just entertaining them they like to hear you talk you sound good the way you talk it gives them attention they sit there and they act like they're really hearing you but they're just being entertained with maybe the tone of your voice maybe the the way you put words together you know some people are impressed with words and language all you are is like listening to some good music but when they get up they don't intend to do anything you said they sat at the feet Mary sat at the feet of Jesus and heard his word Paul sat at the feet of Gamaliel and heard his word in acts 20 to 3 but these people were fake they sat like there were students and some people love for you to sit with them for hours it takes them three hours to hear their story and then you have to talk for another three hours for them to just sit there and make you believe they don't hurt something listen second point divine EKGs how many of you have had an EKG or heard of EKG it's electrocardiogram that's when they take pictures of your heart cuz you don't know what your heart looks like I know you're bad and all that you can't Google that you can't Google your heart you need a machine to open up to take pictures is this amazing that we're walking around with something that we can't see so in order to see the heart you have to go and get a picture and they hold it up it's called an x-ray or some kind of picture to you saying oh that's where this is and that's what this happening whatever well this is God's divine EKG while they're sitting this is such an interesting thing I'm almost finished right here they're all sitting looking at the Prophet just wearing him out asking all kinds of questions all right and looking sincere I mean looking like it's real and then God taps the Prophet say hey hey this ain't real right this is a joker this is a joker right here they don't want to change they want your time but they don't want to change this is foolishness and father and then when you don't give them the time they go around the church and try to tell everybody nobody cares about me nobody loves me nobody wants me don't go to that church cuz they're not friendly but they're a joke they were a joker that's what you are a joker you come for counsel and you don't want the counsel you're a joker this is not my conclusion this is what God said hey is he killed don't be impressed by the hours that you spent with them they're asking real questions real concerns the questions are legitimate but seven wrong what is wrong God now is he kiddin say that and Sica didn't say that they were a joker God said it God said it's Zika was sincere he was doing his job prophesy sitting up all through the fourteenth whatever giving answers giving answers giving answers and God tap Ezekiel don't be flattered by this when people come to you and wear you out like that and make you feel special that you're the only one that can counter them don't get flattered cuz I'm gonna tell you what it is now the Lord gave me this message two weeks ago I am saying so this is what he says and the word of the Lord came unto me while they're sitting talking the Lord spoke these people have set up their idols you're not talking to people you're talking to the idols waiting ain't change you are not talking to someone who wants answers idols don't want answers idols want worship so you're talking to people who are worshiping something that has nothing to do with what they're talking about their idols have made no room for your counsel their set of idols where in their hearts what are some of the idols anger what are some of the idols entitlement what are some of the idols neediness what's some of the items lies lies what are some of the idols division confusion what are some of the idols you know feel forsaken feel like you've been dropped ignored what are some of the idols greed all of the things that that we hold on to what's an idol anything that means more than it should anything that eats up your time and this is all you talk about every time you talk to somebody that's all you talk about every time you get mad that's all you talk about all of your energies surround I just want worship they want time they want language they want energy and that's all you do is talk about it you worship it so here you are sitting down sitting down and the person says okay I think you should do someone so and you're still sitting there not only are the entitles in the heart listen to this stumbling blocks in their faces something that they iniquity before they face what is a stumble you're tripping come on stumbling block means you are tripping your own iniquity is tripping you up so then they have this is a psychological mess right here take a pill this is a psyche what no wonder you're weak no wonder some of the leaders send you all to therapy this is a psychological this listen to me this is a psychological mess this is a suicidal mess of the mind where you're sitting in front of truth but your own Idol won't let you hear it see it so you know how you gonna practice something that you don't hear you understand it's like you know you know I like to help the children with math or listen I do math because I don't know what that is well I like to have the children with some of their homework you understand that you say so and so and so and so and so and they'll tell you no that's not it you want to pass this exam you you want you you better do what I tell you because I you know Barbara is that right yeah that's why we send them to you because you know my patience goes out of the window but but but you want to get through this then you have to follow instructions but if they're coming with their own answers they're gonna fail the test you too smart for you your idol is too smart for your own good but you're coming you're coming and you're sitting I said you're coming and you're sitting and you're asking and inquiring and you're acting like you want truth but you're I know what is your idol your needs your need for attention your need to be right you need to be in charge you need to have territory your whatever it is we all have it and when in me or in you that's more important than the Word of God there's no change stop expecting people to change cuz they sit in here because they said you don't mean to change it what is a guarantee of change when you tear the idol down you receive the Word of God the Word of God is powerful and transformative it is able to penetrate but you have to get the idol out of the way it's not in the wrong with there's nothing wrong with the word tell your neighbor nothing wrong with the word now listen to the word here they set up idols do you know what setup means that this thing is more important now what you say listen when people come to you and they're talking to you and their eyes get all glassy like that you know they don't had some bad drugs or something and they look at you like crazy there's a look there's a look of faintness and you know that look psychologists knowing psychiatrists know it they all know that look the look is I hear nothing you saying I'm just glad I'm sitting here taking up your time the thing that that really the thing that God God is saying to you Zika you want to be a prophet for me then you have to know what's real and what's fake you can't represent me and be easily duped and flattered just go somebody say a man to your to your preacher when you go out there Gary they don't mean they hurt anything you said no what is the test that they heard it when they practice it when you go out and start doing what the word says that's a sign you heard it now you need to ask yourself and I need to ask myself why can't I practice it why do I live the same way at the Bing in church all this time after all this counsel oh this laying rolling on the floor just rollin she rollin more Carlene does that's how you just you should get up she look like somebody beat her just rollin I hear over all that draw all that stuff trying to do what penetrate the idol that's what it is get the Idol stumbling-block get the tripping stop the tripping so you can at least hear one word one word one word of hope one word of change one word of rebuke one word of clarity one word that will transform the raggedy life one word that will bring hope to depression one word that will give you guidance one word that will help me to stop doing the same dumb stuff easy kill they they you know listen when when when you think like this and when you behave like this so long it becomes normal you can be happy with tripping and in your mind it's okay I've been trippin all my life see only a myth rapid I don't believe in tripping triple your life so you don't see anything wrong with that behavior because the Bible says in your face is what you look at every day is what you believe in your face means it's in your thinking this is your thinking and if you're not ready to give up your thinking you're not ready to change I'm talking to the streamers this is just an audience listen to me talking to you but I'm talking to somebody out there who wants to change I feel you you have been crying why don't I change why can't I stop tripping why do I keep doing the same thing over and over and I'm getting older things things are becoming too difficult for me and I want to does Christianity work this coming to church work does it make sense to even call in the name of Jesus when there's no change in my life the word of the Lord to you is give up your Idol there's something that you want more than Jesus and until you want even more than you want that you will not be able to live a Christian life then you're gonna say it doesn't work the church is this the churches in that ain't got nothing to do with Church here this is not Church this is an individual relationship with the Lord so is he killed what what is God's response to this he says I'm gonna deal with them myself I deal with them myself because you know what they have learned how to be skillful but you see when you're skillful like that you're not hurting anybody no matter what you do you can't hurt this ministry you can't hurt this pulpit you can't stop the work of the Lord what you're doing is shooting yourself in the foot I want to stop I told you the story about pastor joseline and I only have ten minutes left and I'm almost finished see this is this this is a half a page professor principal Charles you see pastor jostling preaching up here you don't know where she came from and when she got saved you know I used to pray with her and pray with her because she really wanted the Lord she would walk from my house to from her house to my house which is probably about 15 blocks or 20 blocks and she was standing in front of my door and just ask questions ask questions then I would pray and she would cry and whatever and one day she called me and I said no I called her to pray with her and she said I'm on my way and I don't feel good so what's wrong she says I'm going to see my therapist I said what what's wrong with you she says you know when I got saved I stopped smoking marijuana and she was a straight marijuana where I'm smoking I mean I didn't even know it then I didn't know what she talking about cuz I didn't know what marijuana look like and I still don't and she used to be a street marijuana work where I'm smoker and she said what the Lord took it just like this two days out of my mouth but I couldn't stop smoking cigarettes she said I just couldn't she said I know I'm offending God and I don't want to offend him I said because you're lying you're on this phone line right now cuz you know why you'd want to say to me I'm not I'm just gonna just gonna stop you know you know this is my this was my last trip that's why I want to see my therapist cuz it's my last trip and I want to stop I said you're still lying cuz tomorrow you won't be smoking you need to tell the truth you need to come you need to lay that idle down and the way you do it is by speaking to it as it exists you need to say I love smoke I'm telling you how to get delivered I'm talking to somebody you like you sitting for this long counseling I won't own your stuff see you won't always say everybody else's fault but yours she didn't blame anybody else for a cigarette she said I I said no tell him that you feel powerful when you puff because you know puffing there's a whole psychology with blowing smoke out of your mouth it's a sign of power like the Dragons it's also a means to tighten up your nerves and it's also a social thing that's what you do when you get with your smoking buddy you feel connected tell him all of that tell him that you use it when you're anxious then there to smoke when you're angry come on and that you like it you know you like it your mind spirit you know you love it and you like it and you want it come in yes no no stop it stop the fakeness I like it I like cussing people out I like porn I get my kicks off whatever that means whatever y'all be doing see if you see what I'm saying they came fake didn't come to be honest a broken and a contrite heart I will not despise when you keep it real that's when God responds when you play the game he leaves you right in your mess you'll be smoking for another 10 years I said just tell him that but don't leave it that way tell him I'd rather have you than this cigarettes as much as I like it I want you to get out her mouth and that wasn't even laying hands on her it was on the phone when you get real with him he gets real with you as long as you faking it you're gonna be messing with that stuff for the rest of your life Saints are in church for years and can't be delivered from stuff cuz they won't only that stuff you like it you like trippin you don't mind trippin you don't mind getting drunk you like it you don't mind getting that marijuana cuz it make you feel feel some kind of way cuz you ain't got no other feeling you know you you ain't got nothing you're empty so you gotta use something to feel you have any intelligence or purpose or character you just want to feel some kind of way that's an idol you take them feel some kind of way to the Lord maybe you can change maybe God can use you maybe you can have some beast maybe you can have some joy maybe you can wake up with confidence maybe God can empower you to make a difference in the world if you just own your stuff yeah I'm a soda myself just you don't have to own it publicly you can own it in your house get real with him you might you don't you don't have to tell me out of them no you have to tell me you can sit by your bedside in the shower you know by yourself God really or call somebody with some sense somebody that can help you you understand so what's the problem here that's why she called me I went straight to it I didn't cut the chase I don't wanna know nothing else you love this stuff you love that silver silverware they call them limpets silver whatever it was that woman cigarette whatever Virginia's thank you cuz they act like they never spoke none [Applause] when you say how much it makes you feel a certain when you admit that this consumes you and that's all you want right now you would do anything to have it when you worship that thing and nurse that anger and spend time talking about it and getting people to hear your side of the story that's an idol and there's no room you won't be tripping you won't be tripping after a while so even if you come and sit and act like you're interested there'll be no change when you get up and then I end with this and with Matthew 15 and 8 this is a word of the Lord to the people of God I didn't write this you're Matthew 15 and 8 the people you and I draw near we in here we in here tell your neighbor we in here streamers you streaming you right up in in we draw near we don't mind coming well today they don't come they stay home but sometimes you just come you come cuz you want nobody calling you and coming for you and bothering you but you draw near you drawing I like that word nice some words really just turned me on I love words you draw nigh that means you get close you know you want to get close to somebody you snuggle up you draw nigh you come close you come here across here to be oiled and slain you draw nine now you draw nigh with your mouth and then you know how to honor me you know what to say you know what to say you mean in church you know what to say yesterday young lady for the sex trafficking that we didn't want to come cuz you know we feel some kind of way and we didn't want to be involved in it you know I'm saying not knowing that this is one of the most devious deceptive we can evil force in the church because we think is just in the world sex trafficking is in the church we just do it differently we do it differently for preachers were arrested in Toledo Ohio for sex trafficking the young girls are the choir so don't tell me it ain't in the church but we don't want to touch that we only want anointing somebody's coming to tell me who I am and where I'm going no no no where you're going right here is to help fight this demon but we come we know how to honor and one of the things that they said that I can transfer to this illustration is that when the person the pimp we used to call them pimp you know they used to wear the white hat and the bell bottom pants and the um and the hi his shoes Cheryl you know in the 70s Superfly Superfly and you knew that was a pimp when you see Morgan say and its shirt opened all the way down here and a big old chain on its test too bad they don't come like that anymore but one thing is common whether it's 70s 80s 90s or 21st century they know what to say that's how you got dude that's what the girl was saying they know how to honor you with their lips but their heart so far from you they said after they that went to the website how to break down a person she sent it yesterday and while she was talking I looked it up how to break them down so they lose their identity and their purpose how to do it but you can't break God down see you know what to say to him cuz if you've been in church for a while you know what to say we tell you what to say say hallelujah glory to God glory to God praise Him praise Eva Eva we know what you say but here's what Jesus responds to he's not impressed with how close you get he's unimpressed with how many times you come on the Braille line and do come but what is impressed is the heart because if the heart is changed you will go home and change the way you live Ezekiel tell them repent give up the idol have fun you haven't no fun you know that boy was vaping that ain't no fun he saved himself into a coma that ain't no fun the devil makes you think it's fun the fear of transformation is what the enemy intimidates you with if you become real with you if you become really real if you really come all the way you're just gonna be a freak you won't be like them old folks in bed Rafa you're not gonna have any life or have any fun that's what he says even to the old people y'all know what I'm talking about if you get really really won't never get no husband no no not husband you're gonna never get no man it's a difference you see and I'm gonna leave it alone cuz they ain't got time to work it cuz I feel a little working coming up they'll make me [Applause] it's a difference between a man and a husband he doesn't want you to cross all the way over because when you cross over your Idol will be destroyed and you have been married to it so long it is a sphere how can I live without this Idol this is how I get attention this is how I make decision this is how I do whatever if I give this up how will I be a person and the Lord said if you confess your sins he is faithful and just to forgive your sins and to give you Farrah P you know I'm not against them you can do any way but when God gives you therapy your whole life has changed the problem is what does my life look like without my idol what does it feel like to live without this need being met what does it feel like to live without all of this stuff that I hold on for so diet if I give that up the Lord said you'll have me seeing the problem he's not enough if you just have him the Jamaican one says sauce on him you know what so-so him me interpretation only him I don't know how some mean only but whatever it literally means all you're gonna have is Jesus ideon Sophia you mean all you gonna have is a joy of the Lord all you're gonna have is courage to live you mean all you're gonna have is peace of mind and a sense of sink come on I mean that's all I'm gonna have the other side come on with me now what's your Idol giving you talk to me talk to me about your Idol now what is your idol giving you that's so wonderful you're miserable you're angry you're frustrated cants leave all of that going on you're craving the more you're getting is the more you want and in my last conclusion pestered Anila brown Jesus met a woman and the woman wanted to change she just didn't know wish it was gonna get it she came by the well by herself when nobody else would help her nobody else nobody is one to be bothered with her cuz they knew she had problems but Jesus came you're looking for help get off of people and go to Jesus they can't help you [Applause] and Jesus talk to her about this living water and she got all excited you mean to tell me that I can have living water so I don't have to come to this well anymore it's okay now she's a little stuck I'm gonna have to help her I'm not talking about physical water I'm talking about living water that will give you a certain kind of life well you don't have to live the way you used to live so you know Jesus I'm thinking Josh could have just said here drink baby come in come in baby dog you know we do come in baby dog drink this here water here and you'd be all right she said oh no no no because you see if there is a blockage in there you're not going drink like you're supposed to you say you can't sip this water you've got to cook you can't be simply like you sleep your wine I felt something right then [Applause] you can't be doing that come on with me to get rid of the mess inside of me I can't be sippin [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you can't be cute sipping your sin is not cute your misery is not cute your pain is not cute your disappointment is not cute it's almost driving you out of your mind so Jesus attitude is you say no candy I'm not giving you no candy I'm giving you life a life that you've never had before so in order for this to be real and not fake where's your husband what he was actually saying is where's your idol what means more to you than anything else in the world what is it that you can't live without just say I don't have one he said this is real now this is real you own up to something like this I can work with you now I can work with come on with me Carmen I can work with you coz you just told the truth you've had sighs I feel my help coming I'm the one you have now is not your own come on baby you ready you ready to have a real relationship that's fake stuff it's your students as well I don't know what you're talking about and you know what this husband have to do with living water you know this discussion is over this discussion is over cuz you try to take me somewhere where I'm not [Music] [Applause] [Music] the girl wanted a change tell your neighbor that's why I come to church the church for a change I didn't come in here to play and I'm not gonna play with him he's the real deal where else can I go and get real deliverance if I play with him there's no hope come on ladies and gentlemen if you don't keep it real with him when who else is gonna deliver your psychiatrist your doctor your friends this is a real hope right here this is my moment this is my getting right moment don't miss your gettin right moment jesus said okay you're ready drink through worship drink receive everything I teach you get it down in your bed you've made room for me you've gotten rid of the idol you've made room for me to fill you up and she got so filled up she went back in the same city with some of the men that she still flirted with and the one that she was living with was up in there your lingo help me right there I said the one she was sleeping with was in there too but the girl was so drunk she forgot [Music] [Applause] she didn't have any more change her attitude is I might have slept with you last night but I ain't gonna be tonight somebody help me praise [Music] that's what happens when you keep it real when you stop sitting hearing all this stuff but no change because your Idol means more to you than the Word of God when you want a real encounter you're ready to put everything on the table you're not hiding nothing you go under the bed and pull it out you go in the closet and pull it out you understand you empty it you empty it said God here it is because I want to be able to live differently for the rest of my life here is an opportunity at this moment to pull down idols of the heart and something walks in the face you know my mother often told the story sometimes daddy get a little antsy because she adds something to it but anyway but it's just the way she fixed her mouth to say it that you know he gets a little antsy but she said she went to a Pentecostal church that she had never been to before and she got saved she went to the altar and you know in those days they asked you a couple of questions you know they don't just lead you to the Lord they drill you first in my life they say is there anybody would like to give up see that's the first thing am i lying that's a tradition I came from we're nice we just say you raise your hand and I'll confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised from the dead you shall be safe in those days it was an interrogation at the arts is there anything in your life you'd like to give up my mother yes there's a young man that I'm giving up right now cuz I want Jesus why she was giving him up he was home hollering in the streets save me Lord the Lord saved him by himself and fill them with the Holy Spirit why she was giving up making room and I'm not saying that you have to give up something to get saved I'm saying that because she surrendered her life to the Lord and they were married for 66 years listen to me there's a life outside of your Idol tell your neighbor there's a life outside of your Idol my Nadia socialized you don't have to stay in bondage to your idols every time you turn around trip trip it you don't have to live a trippin life you can see that chance uh I know you I know you I know you so well I can see with my eyes closed but you ain't gonna trip me today you tricked me last week not only not gonna trip me today but that shipping time is over Heather the Lord ever brought you all the way I know he brought me out of some things door closed or closed never to be open again I'm free praise the Lord I'm free no longer bound no more what chains holding me my heart is resting it's such a blessing praise the Lord you know what it is to be free from your own self praise the Lord no more time ends hallelujah [Music] somebody help me oh come on you better praise it I been appraising like a an appraisal that thing almost killed me something's almost killed me saying something's almost made me leave here but praise the Lord hallelujah everybody's that day video super boy [Applause] Kennedy I'm [Music] [Applause] Christianity works for those of you that are streaming or even in here thinking of leaving the Lord and leaving this church doesn't mean you're leaving the Lord let me just say that so wherever you go don't leave the Lord it works after you get saved you bring idols with you stumbling blocks failures and lifestyles and the Lord said don't play me come straight bring your idol bring your lovers bring your favorite things you know your favorite things bring the things that you like don't hide it I know it but I want to hear you own it bring the things that turn you on bring the things that I just you know I'm doing okay except that certain things just I just can't handle it just can't handle it I just bring that to I just can't stand certain people bring that to some things that I want so badly that I don't want to give it up I feel good when I have it bring you feel good too cuz gosh I can't do nothing with you if you won't let it go it'd help you you're gonna be married to that thing for the rest of your life and then you'll tell people that Christianity doesn't work that's a lie how do you soon you gotta get to die so what if you don't believe in Christianity the voodoo man works necromancy works is that what you're telling me Hinduism words no there's only one person who can redeem set you free give you a new way of thinking and feeling and that person is Jesus Christ but you can't play him gotta come straight anybody wanna come straight the door is open not perfection just straight straight means I'm not faking it now anybody won't come now cuz you know they think I'm watching them but come on I turn my back but some of you just may be your last chance you can stand right there sis [Music] just complete when it when it comes straight and I'm waiting if I were giving our prophesies in candy the line would be fooled but nobody wants to give up their idols so quickly because they give up the idol is to totally surrender when it comes straight I don't want to be in church for all these years and then I get older and I'm still tormented bound attach the things that I can't get rid of if you come in come quickly act like you really want to do it anybody forced in you this is a personal salvation [Music] and don't be watching the bodies if they're watching you you better come for your own life hidden in the anonymous Oh Ana nanny I'm near a bush a rubaba circle of us maybe a tedious old come on raise your hand is worshiping now some of us have hidden idols expose it Lord I mean I think it's an idol I think it's okay today near an irrevocable OTC my anger my unforgiveness can become an idol how I spend my spare time all of the stuff that I spend more time nursing [Music] supporting with ideas and feelings instead of just surrendering to the Lord I find it easy to do me and to do him as an idol so raise both hands II come on come on streamers raisin you may be in Australia Indonesia Japan you may be North Carolina you may be in Jamaica buddy table some I raise your hand now shove us this is a day of freedom you are in it anymore now mom I don't have to be tormented or my life I don't want to go back to that I like what I do I love what I do but I want you more that's what you have to tell yo me stand up you like you clean and sweet I like I like what I do I like lying to my parents I like living a double life but I want to I want to love you more cuz you're the ads so you see come on praise him I say he's the answer come on I am Oh somebody help me bring some it is I see only answer ladies and gentlemen come upon unknowable survives it is against the warmth of a sticky Russia since you go this way [Music] you can take the whole family with you come baby come take your finger out your mouth and in a rosy color sharin a key and sous-vide under DuBose worship the Lord worship the Lord worship the Lord worship the Lord Lydia Nessun wanna be free [Music] wanna walk in wholeness one of mijo now that evolution of about so - sir don't wanna walk that over I don't want to walk this over I'm tired of living my life bent over wanna be a dad oh come on worship the Lord in about so terrible the years I've been carrying a grudge I want to get rid of this grudge it takes too much energy robs me of my joy is aging me come on it economy is rubbish eight-six I'm a horse of us glory glory glory glory glory glory even if you're not online you need to worship not I want to live differently and I know I can with your help I want to think differently I don't want to be stuck like this come up in his soul shipment of the Asuza you never could really never sue glory glory glory glory come on open your mouth and praise a robot suit worthy worthy worthy it's a visa must change before I go into the new year I went in there differently one of the different Leonie come on Oh suitable the glory glory glory glory praise to truth [Music] [Music] [Music] to say yes fix my soul wanna be blessed [Music] what Almighty God talk to me oh my with my soul Almighty God take control [Music] fix my soul [Music] lift my heart oh mighty God bless my life oh mighty just watch [Music] so on [Music] bless my fix my soul with me higher [Music] walk with me oh my my Almighty God lift my soul believe my soul my [Music] lift me high take control Oh [Music] talk to me [Music] fix my [Music] you Oh [Music] you [Music] [Music] Oh talk to me [Music] let me hire [Music] you now listen hey that the Lord just gave you an answer now you know why you couldn't live holy is that right I couldn't live holy cuz when I came for counsel and when I came to hear the word my idols blocked me but today I surrendered everything I want to be an empty vessel so the Lord could fill me with himself feeling my heart Almighty God fill my soul oh my god she try mine oh my god hyah lift me higher take [Music] [Applause] talk to me [Music] big smile [Music] is there anybody here today who would like to accept the Lord as your personal Savior you've never committed your life to the Lord if this is what you want to do publicly come down we want to lead you son with the glasses do you know Jesus you're safe have you been filled with the Holy Spirit you speak in tongues praise the Lord you look like it amen anybody here would like to surrender their heart to the Lord we will take time out amen anybody would like to join the church just walk with me it's time to worship [Music] come on you think it'll be idle he shouldn't be hard for you to stand up [Music] your children can be yo [Music] what [Music] to me [Music] Oh me take control and you want to be saved you are saying you want me Phil you [Music] you [Music] you change [Applause] [Music] leave me [Music] [Applause] [Music] my live me all my talk to me talk to me [Music] Oh with me higher hey control [Music] listen to me this message may not have been for you because you like your Idol but this message save somebody's life did you know what I'm saying it's still like what you want but somebody said what I want is not as important as who Jesus is to me and I'd rather have Jesus just praise the Lord [Music] [Applause] you [Music]

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Published: Sun Sep 01 2019