IM NOT ABOUT TO QUIT

you have your Bibles this morning turn with me to the New Testament book of the gospel of Saint Mark Gospel of st. mark chapter 2 beginning in verse number one we got the right kind of Bible just turn to page 1713 make it easy for you mark would write of this account and said in again he speaking of Christ entered into Capernaum after some days and it was noised that he was in the house speaking of peter's home and straightway many were gathered together in so much that there was no room to receive them no not so much as about the door and he preached the word unto them and they came unto him bringing one sick of the palsy which was borne of four and when they could not come near unto him for the press they uncovered the roof where he was when they had broken it up they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay when Jesus saw their faith he said unto the sick of the palsy son your sins be forgiven you and I want to use for a subject ministering just for a few moments tonight I'm not about to quit I'm not about to quit if I gotta tear the roof off the joint I'm going to get to Jesus I'm not about to quit let's pray Heavenly Father we come before you in the name of Jesus Christ we thank you for your presence that is in this place we thank you for your grace and for your mercy and what we ask that you would anoint us tonight to minister your word and knowing our ears to hear what you would have us saying we ask it all the mighty name of Jesus and everyone said and everyone said amen and amen to start this message off I want to give you a little illustration humorous but yet it applies to what we're going to be ministering on here this morning it's a true story something that really took place last week when Torrance nasha was here Torrance myself and Keith babban we went out to dinner one night we're sitting at the restaurant it was after crossfire on Wednesday night we're sitting at the restaurant table and we just begin to talk about you know talk about things and talk about the Lord and just talk about different things that were taking place and Keith's begin to tell us a story that really took have they really took place with his daddy he said he told us God he said listen I don't know about y'all but I don't know anybody that's got the faith of my daddy we kind of looked at him and I knew where he was going but Torrance had never yet heard this story he said my daddy without a ticket will walk into any football game and find himself and find a way into that game no ticket he doesn't have a ticket to get in and yet he will find some way to either sneak in or get in or someone will give him a ticket free of charge he said one day in the year of 1992 New Orleans Superdome the two best teams in the country met to play for the national championship Miami hurricane you were the favorite and keeps Team Alabama Crimson Tide don't say that well Keith Keith and his men and his brother Mike each had a ticket to the game mr. pokey his dad did not have a ticket they drove down to New Orleans 1992 January they arrived at the Superdome Keith's daddy parks the car Mike and Keith commenced to get out of the car his dad turns to them and says if I don't get into the stadium I'll meet y'all at a particular restaurant here in New Orleans but I'm going to do my best to get into this game he said daddy you don't have a ticket you can't get into the game he said watch me he drives around the Superdome and finds a door with one man standing at its entrance one man everybody else is on the other side and here is one man standing at this door mr. pookie walks up to the guy and says I'll give you all the money in my wallet if you let me in this door the guy said I'll take your money but I can't guarantee you're going to get in the game they'll probably kick you out he said I'll take my chances he gave pays the God the money opens up the door goes up one flight of stairs down one flight of stairs up another flight of stairs and it gets to one door and he happens to just open the door up and when he opens it his momentum is carrying him one way and he hears someone say let's go boys and he turns around and it's the University of Miami football team and the camera gets on mr. bookie and he's running and leading them out on the field I mean now can you believe this he's running him out on the field the entire Miami Hurricanes football team is right behind him and for the whole game no ticket no press credentials nothing on him he's standing on the sidelines of the Superdome watching the national championship game those guys are stretching out he's walking up to him come on you ready got you ready you can do this it's time to play ball and people looking at him like who are you he said to his sons I don't care what I've got to do I'm getting into this game and I'm not taking no for an answer and a few years later ESPN runs a special of strange things that take place during games and they get down to all the way to number one and the announcer says who is this man on the big screen there's mr. Pookie running them out and they list they're looking at they're asking people do you know who that man was is it no we just thought he was there we all know who he was little humorous but there's something to that there is something a spiritual lesson that we can take into all of this that as a believer when all the cards are stacked against you and the deck is stacked against you and you don't know what else to do and circumstances around you are saying one thing you've got to have a result to say that I will not take no for an answer that I'm going to give them miracle I'm going to get my healing I'm going to get my deliverance but I'm not about to quit no matter what happens I'm not stopping and I'm not quitting you gotta be just like him running those boys out onto the field making yourself know that no matter what I am going to get what I need from Jesus now I want you to take a lesson on them don't stop don't quit when doctors say one thing you know the doctor when people say one thing you know the one that provide the answer because he is the answer now you think about that who is this man people ask who is this man talking about Jesus who is this man no one spoke like this man no one ministered like this man no one performed miracles like this man now Jesus had just arrived back into Capernaum he had spent weeks and months on ministering around the areas of Galilee he arrives to the home of Peter one of his soon-to-be disciples and there he is and all of a sudden noise begin to spread throughout Capernaum Jesus was back in town Jesus was back in town Jesus is back in town are you getting this Jesus is back in town Jesus has arrived and he's in the home of Simon Peter word begin to spread like wildfire people from all over that region begin to flood the home of Simon Peter till there was no room for them left on the inside of the House people would bring the sick bound by demons spirits lost and they would bring them to the home of Simon Peter if they can just get a glimpse of this man Jesus as I mentioned no one spoke like this man the words that would flow from his lips were like water to the dry and thirsty soul the words that he would preach and teach was like fresh manna from heaven to the hungry there has never been a man quite like Jesus this man Jesus Christ and I don't care what the world has to say there will never be a man you can have your list of most influential people of the years of the century of the millennium but you have to just report my expression they can be one thing but there's a whole nother category for Jesus Christ because he's not like everybody else there's something different because he is the son of God no one ministered like it as he would preach to these people they may have heard in the synagogue's the religious leaders teaching from Genesis to Malachi but they had never heard a message like this the anointing of the Holy Spirit was upon him and if Jesus had to have the anointing of the Holy Spirit where does that leave us here today now listen to them Jesus was the son of God but yet he was very man and as man he needed the leading the guidance the moving the operation the anointing of the Holy Spirit and if he needed that how much more do we need it here today and his word began to spread there was a man paralyzed many years not able to walk laying on a cot of some sort for men that were their caretakers if you will bringing him where he would need to go and all the sudden the word begin to trickle into his ear Jesus is back the one that could turn the water in the wine yes he's here okay he can hear it throughout the land the one that healed Simon Peters my mother-in-law yes that's the one the one that would cast out Devils yes that's the one and all of a sudden something began to stir on the inside of this man who was paralyzed who said I've got to get to Jesus and he can do that for Peters mother-in-law I think he can do that for me if he can do even change the water in the wine I think he can change me and he tells his Phyllis Gus pick me up we're going to Peters home for what Jesus is back in town and I'm believing right now that I'm sick and tired of being in this situation in this condition and the only one that could help me is this man they call Jesus Christ they picked him up and you got to understand this man was not saved but yet at the same time he had a physical condition and a spiritual condition not only was he paralyzed physically but spiritually as well he knew his only hope was Jesus Christ these four men picked him up to begin to walk toward the home of Simon Peter this man's faith began to boil over believing this is my day this is my time I'm believing God for a miracle but all of a sudden a sight met their eyes that they were not expecting the crowds were so large there was no way for them to bring that man right on in to Jesus you see I want to look at three things here this morning if I have the time number one every time that faith is presented in the life of an individual especially in the life of the believer that faith must be tested faith must always be tested and great faith must be tested greatly when you are believing God for something or the Lord begins to instill something within you to do something for his kingdom and you begin to believe reach out by faith and hold on to that promise understand that faith will be tested it has to be proven to see whether or not it is genuine faith I'm reminded of dating 17 years of age where he fought Goliath and he stood before that giant as he would curse the God of Israel and yet whenever no one else would do anything David that seventeen year old young man stood up and said I'll do something I'll do something if no one else is going to do it I'll stand and I'll face this giant and so told him you're just a kid what do you have well I got my sling my stones and my staff he says you need some armor and he put on the armor of salt it was too big notice in the scriptures David said he took it off and said this this disarmer has not yet been proven but what he had in his hand was proofing because he already killed a bear he already killed a lion and he knew what he had was proven track and through so ladies and gentlemen understand your faith no matter what is going to be tested it has to be proven has to be and know this that every attack that the evil one comes against you with is not so much against you but rather against your faith to move your faith away from Christ and him crucified to something else he will stop and nothing to try to deter you and make you go into a detour and turn away from Christ and him crucified and let me help you when we begin to evidence faith as many of you have some of you watching and listening you're doing this right now you begin to hear the message of Jesus Christ and him crucified it's resonating in your spirit it's something that you know is right you've looked at the scriptures and it's there you know it's right and you begin to set out on this journey of faith believing God that that that whatever is in need of your life that God has already met it at Calvary's cross and the moment you begin to do this don't think that the evil was going to sit back and said well he's found the answer I've got a slide back and let him have his way uh-uh expect all Hell to excuse the vernacular to break loose expect everything to come against you as you've never seen before all in a motive or his motive is to move your faith away Jesus told Peter Satan has desired you to sift you as wheat but I have prayed for you that's your faith he didn't say that you won't fail he knew he would but he said that your faith fail not that your faith doesn't quit that the trial and the testing is sent out to just prove if it's legitimate and real faith and let me help you despite circumstances the trial is not meant to stop your faith because faith is active faith is not passive faith is active faith when you believe something you believe something not even get that I said when you believe something which something is only inside of you then no one can tell you otherwise if you believe that the sky is green then you have it in yourself to say I believe it no matter what and if God himself has told you he's going to do something for you then no matter what I know that Jesus Christ is going to perform it faith cannot be stopped and here's these men they're telling him we can't get any further there's nowhere for us to go the crowds are too large it's too big there's no room for us to sneak in and one of the guys come here Robert real quick real quick real quick real quick easy he looked he said he said wait you see something wait I got something look out over there what am I looking at other than the crowds are right there yeah but but just look out right over there what do you see steps I will steps for what you see there there's either steps there that leads to the roof of the house it leads to the roof of the house you see the roof is flat we know the roof to sweat every home here the roof is flat but there's a trapdoor then if we can just open it and tear the roof off thank you man now I'm going to get here for something first there is a trial and the testing of their faith but there has to be a tenacity to your faith a resolve to say no matter the circumstances no matter what's around me no matter if the cloud is too large no matter if my husband walked out on me no matter if my kids I'll live and like to devil himself no matter if my boss has told me stop talking about Jesus hard you're going to be fired no matter if there's no money in the couch no matter if there's no food on the table you've got to have a result within deep and inside you just say no matter what no matter what no matter what I'm not about to quit I'm not about to stop I'm not about to quit come on now I think some of you starting to get this the devil has told you it's no use your husband is gone he's walked out but you can still say devil greater is He that is in me greater is He that is in me and not God said what God has put together let no man tear asunder you've got to have a resolve to say I don't care what anybody else says I don't care what the media says that'll the press is always going to try to shut God up guess what you can't do it there's no way for you to shut God up Wow because there's too many people no no come on now there's too many people that still believe in Jesus Christ who he is and what he is done I hate these things you've got to have a result keep inside of your spirit let this devil no matter what you throw against me no matter what you do to stop me no matter what circumstances come my way I am NOT going to quit these men had a choice turn around or go forward it was easy for them to turn around it was easy for us to turn around when everything was against us the church was against us the church was wanting to shut the doors of this place the world said it's no use no more too bad what used to be I [Applause] remember what used to be I remember what it used to be like and the good old church folk was that it'll never get like that again well we had a choice to turn around and walk back and say it's too long is too hard it's too much the press is around the people were around it's too hard to get to Jesus but in the midst in the midst of all hail standing against us you said devil there's not enough demons in Hell that can stop me from getting to a miracle there's not a resting big enough to where you can't stop me from getting to my Jesus you have to have a resolve to say I will not quit I won't give up I'm not about to quit that I've come too far to look back I've come too far to look back I've come too far to look back I'm not about to stop I'm not about to quit he's done too much for me I can't help it I can't stop I can't quit I can't stop I can't quit my feel this just let me shop for a moment devil I'm not stopping I'm not quitting I'm not stopping I'm not quitting I'm not stopping I'm not quitting I will not stop I will not quit I will not stop my lord we've come through Devils with concrete demons we've come through hell we've come through hot water and guess what I will not stop until I get my miracle you've got to have as a believer a resolve to know that no matter what Jesus will always come through Jesus Jesus not Mohammad he can't come through for you Buddha cannot come through for you what their Six Feet Under bones are there and rotting away but Jesus Jesus Jesus will settle that - on the third day man is out Sears bubble right hand of the Father anything said go guess what I'm going that they said I'll do it guess what I will not stop believing until it comes to pass glory to God glory to God general it's not over til it's over it's not over til it's over it's not over til it's over it's not over till the fat lady sings and she get ready right now not until that trumpet sound double I'm not giving up the battle I'm safely I said on safely holding my ground that fight of faith will not be finished till I hear that trumpet sound it's not over till it's over when the devil's told you it's no use you tell them devil it's not over till it's over it's not over till it's over [Applause] let me tell you something Church no matter what you go through God's not going to leave you there to let you die in a wilderness but if he said I want to bring you through you may have a wilderness to go through but the key word is you're going through you're not staying there when you're sick and need need of a doctor you've got the greatest doctor on the planet Jesus Christ you've got to have a result in your spirit to say that I'm not quitting until I get what I came here for for Jesus I'm not stopping if it may take years then don't stop and let me tell you it's hard to go through day after day we're so used to getting everything now but at times God may not bring it to us now I want to read something to you just give me about two minutes to read this for you when I read this and I'll put this down I just had a camp-meeting faith even though there are obstacles we'll never give up the moment you begin to believe God for something more than likely it will not be answered right away and at the same time there will continue to be obstacles that come before you faith does not let these obstacles deter you from getting the Jesus faith will not let people stand in the length of your miracle faith does not let the press hinder them our sway them from receiving what God has in store for you if you have to tear the roof off of the hole it's so bent if I've got to tear the roof off of somebody else's home then so be it I'm not stopping until I get to Jesus they saw this the crowds were large they saw those steps they brought that man right up them steps boys are we close we're getting there you're close we're getting there one step at a time one step at a time one step at a time one step at a time one step that mom my lord I feel this one step one step one step one step at a time they finally got to where they needed here's the roof can you imagine the scene can you bring me a chair out David real quick can you imagine this real quick go back 2,000 years in your mind everybody is seated listening to Jesus come on bring it out here real quick thank you man stay close by and here's Peter he's enjoying what's going on around he has his water with him listening to the words of life and in the midst of it he hear stop looking around like what's that don't know what's going on and all of a sudden a trapdoor roof flies open and he's looking up and there's a man looking down do you get it he's looking down I said there he is I see him I see him I see him I see him there's the one I know he can heal my friend there he is despite obstacles faith will find a way faith will find faith will find a way get this into your spirit faith will find away he looks up and all the sudden a hand comes out and starts tearing the roof apart and Peter's thinking mud goodness what are they doing I just had that put in it's a brand new roof people say down here roof I say roof I don't know why it's a brand new roof what are you doing I'm coming to Jesus I'm coming to Jesus I'm not stopping until I receive my miracle he is sort of flying around group starts being torn apart and all of a sudden about 10 or 15 guys came up and they begin to lower the man down they called him and brought him down and laid him right at the feet of Jesus there's a testing of your faith but there has to be a tenacity to your faith and the third there's going to be if you don't quit I said if you don't quit if you won't stop if you just keep telling the devil I'm not about to quit you knock me down but I'm not about to quit there's going to be a triumph my lord my lord I said there's going to be a triumph to your faith that means this whatever you've been asking for whatever you've been believing for if you don't quit if it's the will of God he will provide it for you they lowered him down and Jesus looks at him and says number one the Bible says when Jesus saw there dealt no because doubt would have said it's too much doubt says I can't do it I got to turn around but faith says I'm not quitting when he saw their faith he looked to that man who is paralyzed and the first thing he said was not healing physically but healing spiritually because you look to that man you said you got to understand his condition was a result of his sin did you get that his physical ailment his paralyzation was a result of his sin all sickness as a result of the fall but there are some sicknesses that are brought on by our failures and our sin some cancers not all but some are brought on because of our sin AIDS HIV at times can be brought on because of our sin there are certain diseases and sickness that come upon us because of our failure but all sickness as a result of the fall all sickness but here he is looking into the eyes of the one that soon would hang on Calvary's cross and pay the sin dent that hung over that man and every one of us here and that would satisfy the debt that hung upon us that would satisfy the demands of a thrice holy God and he would go to Calvary and shed his life's blood to do for you what we could not do for ourselves and he looks at that man and he says thy sins be forgiven he didn't meet the physical need first he met these spiritual need o my lord God God to meet the spiritual need a man but he also died to meet the physical need of man but before the physical need could be met the spiritual need has to be met first and he said thy sins be forgiven and at that moment the religious religious leaders in their heart begin to question yea it's all religion does you see religion tries to shut the mouths of the chosen of God in the name of God they tried to destroy the person of God the one God has chosen in the name of God because they couldn't control him they hated Jesus because they couldn't control him they couldn't stand him because he would put them in their place every single time and they begin to know hearts so bad who's this man it says he can my sins be forgiven you who is this man that confer gifts and Jesus knowing what they were thinking the Holy Spirit began to tell him what they were thinking and he said is it easier paraphrase for me to say thy sins forgiven or take up your bed and walk is it easier for me to say you're forgiven or to take up your bed and walk and he said just to prove a point I've already forgiven the man your sin so now now in the face of religion take your pure bed get up walk and go home [Applause] can you imagine him laying there had moved in years and all the sudden oh I felt something from the top of my head to the soles of my feet what was lifeless what was not been able to be used all of a sudden stuff my lord I guarantee you he didn't just stand up and say thank you and walk away but he had run and I believe he didn't get to run all over that place I'm healed I'm healed I'm healed I'm closing singer's desicions make your way back always there will be a testing of your faith but you have to say I am NOT going to quit I'm not stopping God in your rivers that you think Arn crossable God any mountains you can't tunnel through but God specializes in things thought impossible and he's going to do for you what no other how can do and when you won't quit when you have that result God is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him stand your feet sing it right now if you can [Music] [Music] you say there's no one else to help me but Jesus step out of your seats right now [Music] oh hello [Music] he'll do for you what No if there's any physical financial around this one right now is start believe in God [Music] and that you think [Music] haha castle [Music] specialize [Music] Oh [Music] you [Music] [Music] boy dismiss so to read something to you when I was looking through a book last night I saw this story and it prompted something in my spirit kind of goes along with what we're saying here this morning what we tried to do our best to deliver true story it happened many years ago a woman recounts a story that took place to her son his name was George it said this when my little son was about 10 years of age his grandmother promised him a stamp album for Christmas Christmas cane but no stamp album no word for grandmother the matter however was not mentioned but when his playmates came to see his Christmas presents she said I was astonished after he had named over this and that his gifts received to hear him add and a stamp album from grandmother I heard it several times when I called him to me and said but George you did not get an album from your grandmother why do you say that you did there was a wondering look in his face as if he thought it strange that I should ask such a question and he replied well mama grandma said so it is the same as I could not say a word to check his faith a month went by nothing was heard from the album finally one day I said to test his faith and really wondering in my heart while the album has not yet been sent she said well Georgie I think grandma has forgotten her promise oh no mama he quickly and firmly said she hasn't I watched the dear trusting faith which for awhile looked very sober as if debating the possibilities I had suggested finally a bright light passed over it and he said mama do you think it would be do any good if I should write to my grandmother and thank her for the album I don't know she said but you can try a rich spiritual truth begin to dawn upon me in a few minutes a letter was prepared and committed to the mail and he went off whistling his confidence in his grandmother in just a short time a letter came saying my dear Georgie I have not forgotten my promise to you of an album I tried to get such a book as you desired but could not get the sort you wanted I sent on to New York and it didn't get here - after Christmas and it still wasn't right so I sent for another and it has not come yet but I'm sending you three dollars to get you one in Chicago your loving grandma as he read the letter his face was the face of a victor now mama he said did not tell you [Music] came from the depths of a heart that never doubted that against hope believed in hope that a stamp album would come while he was trusting grandma was working while he was trusting grandma was working and in due season faith became sight while you're trusting God is working while you're trusting God is working that no matter what the situation is there's going to come a result if you don't quit God will not quit and he will reward you with what you've been asking for if it be is will we're going to sing it one more time and I want you to stretch your hands towards heaven and I want you to begin to believe God Lord I'm believing you that my need will be met one more time well thus the kind of God [Music] I know my god [Music] shouting he's there when I need him I would have banned Oman as well [Music] started believing

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Published: Thu Aug 03 2017