It's Still Mine - Bishop Noel Jones

[Music] [Applause] you can get into something in 15 [Music] [Music] [Applause] Joshua chapter 14 and verse 10 Caleb says and now behold the Lord had kept me alive as he said these forty and five years even since the Lord spake this word unto Moses one of the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness and now lo I am 85 years old as yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me as my strength was then even so is my strength now for war both to go out and to come in now therefore give me this mountain where if the Lord spake in that day for thou heard is in the day how they anakims were there and that the cities were great and fenced if so be the Lord will be with me then I shall be able to drive them out as the Lord said and Joshua blessed him and gave unto caleb the son of jehoiada for 9 Hebron for an inheritance I want you to touch somebody and said I've waited for it but it's still my amen I waited for as I was on my way I I I looked at a quote from the Hasidic rabbi sucia and he said and I quote when I get to heaven they will not ask me why were you not Moses but they will ask me why were you not associate why did you not become what only you could become and of course I would add to that this is definitely the existential guilt that comes when one realizes what one's vocation is and fails to respond to it it is not in the effort to be anybody else that you have a fulfilling of your destiny it is in being who you are and when I looked at Caleb I thought it fit so naturally because there are many questions that you ask as it relates to how God deals with people as well as how he deals with you and deals with me I I asked many questions sometimes there are many things I don't quite understand I say that and not to bring any gloom but I had to preach at be IP and the night that I was preaching someone was coming to church to enjoy the service and was killed in by a car right as she was crossing the street on the way to church I don't know if you deal with those kinds of things often it shook me because the question came to my mind if anybody ever needed a chance to escape the oncoming of a fast car it would seem like she should have been to find out I knew her and and had to preach right behind that was difficult it is often difficult in our lives to understand the the hand of God and why he does what he does but I've since learned that when you can't understand what he does you have to understand who he is and I look at Caleb in particular and he stretches me with Caleb because here is a man who was faithful enough to believe God but unfortunate enough to be in a group of men who saw themselves as Giants as grasshoppers rather when they should have seen their God or believed their God as powerful enough to prove that he was the God who overcomes Giants it is interesting that when you take your eyes off God and put your eyes on yourself you see yourself as a grasshopper and that's where you get defeated it's it's how you see yourself because if you see yourself in light of the God that's behind you you do not assess yourself as miniscule or as microscopic but rather you see yourself in light of the power that God has given you the uniqueness of Caleb strikes me because he was 2 out of 12 he was 1 out of 6 and ultimately of the men who left Egypt only to mated in which makes him one out of 300,000 you'd have to go through 300 thousand men to find one Kalyan and the significance is because he understood the grace of God as it relates to deliverance and the grace of God as it relates to inheritance he was not complaining like Israel because he was seeing the circumstances that he was going through as a measure of how powerful of God he served I want you to notice now that the man has to endure physically for 45 years he has to endure psychologically for 45 years he has to endorse spiritually for 45 years and in order to deal with the folk who got him 45 years extra time on a blessing he should have had he must have had to endure socially and if you won't take that figure he had to go through some things emotionally have you ever been around somebody who has their foot on your vision and you have to deal with them because God has not released you from having to deal with that kind of thing the question now becomes the philosophical issue the issue behind the scenes of the account in the book of Joshua and of course from Exodus from Exodus to Josh we have to ask ourselves are we prepared to understand divine revelation and the knowledge of God within the sphere of history and the horizon of promise I want to say that again are we prepared because as I operate in my calling and as you operate in your calling are just in your walk with God are you prepared to understand divine revelation within the parameters of your normal everyday life in your history because if God is to reveal himself he does not reveal himself to your sensual perception I have never seen God I have served him I have worshiped I have lifted my hands I've cried I've stretched out before him I pray to Him but I have never seen him with my naked eyes my sensual perception that's not grasped the hold of God my sensual perception helps me to operate in my world but my sensual perception does not operate in the world of spirit and God is a spirit and so now am I prepared to understand the revelation of God and the knowledge of God within the things that happen in my life if that is so then then to me God has to reveal himself as God where he shows himself as the same and is thus known by his promise in other words for me to know for me to have God revealed he has to give me a promise and then he has to reveal himself by making the promise come to thanks because I will not see him he will not show me himself I will not be able to sit down and since you will a deal with him I will have to believe the promise of an unknown God on seeing God rather I will have to believe the promise of an unseen God and get to know God in the revelation of the promise that he gives if he gives the promise it has to come to pass in order to reveal himself to me because I can't see him bringing it to me I will see it when it's completed but I have to believe it until the completion so that I might have revelation of the same said God this is why he cannot lie this is why he has to be faithful because in order for him to generate my faith he has to be faithful to his word that's why the Hebrew writer said Jesus Christ the same yesterday today and forever he cannot change because it's in his unchangeableness that establishes the consistency of the attributes that establish faith if he is unchangeable then I can latch on to his unchangeableness and have him dragged me through all kinds of circumstances for 45 years and still maintain my faith are we talking about trusting God you see God then must be faithful and he must be consistent if he's going to build me because this establishes and I've taken you too far down and I pray the preposition for the knowledge of God is the revealing of God by God it is God who has to set up how man I put it he creates a situation for revelation and in order for me to have him revealed to me I cannot initiate or bring him into my world he has to come into my world to bring me into his and so circumstance is just a setup for God to reveal himself to me in the middle of what I call calamity so now then God remains the subject yes and Lord even of the process of man's knowledge of him he doesn't give up the process oh I feel it now amen he does not release the process because you can't grasp all of God at one time no more than you can put all your clothes on at one time you gotta put piece by piece until you get the full picture of what God is intending to do in your life it is impossible then to be in the world and be not of the world except you have the power of expectation that what God has promised he will bring to pass so while others are falling by the wayside because their sensual perception has overcome their faith for you to believe God then he can drag you from 45 years through the depth of others into the place that he told you he would you uh what that makes you is not of the world even though you're in the world because only those who are not limited to time and space can be in time and space and not be of time and space because time and space is only a platform for the Eternity and the infinity of God to reveal himself to your spirit my time and space is my situation my encounter with God is my revelation and it's going to take the revelation of God that's going to bring me through every situation that I face so I don't live any longer by situation I live now by revelation because I have to have revelation to overcome what I have to face from day today oh I feel it here touch your neighbor say I don't have it yet but it's still mine I'm on the way I'm on the way when the revelation then but since the revelations of God are promises then God Himself is revealed wherever he keeps his covenant and his faithfulness forever it is the process of the revelation of God why because I can't see the entity God I can't see the being the supreme the magnanimous I can't see God but when he says I'm going to do something and he brings it to pass in the middle of what seems to be such an impossibility then I know that the promise he gave was the promise of God because nobody else could have brought it to pass but God himself I feel it where God is faithful then where he's faithful to any promise he has given he becomes manifest and knowable as the self-same God you cannot know him fully by the historical representations of others you cannot know him simply by what somebody said to you about their life he has to drag you through the seeming impossible and bring you out until your very soul declares this is my god that's why I worship Him that's why I lift him up because he brings to pass whatever he says I feel it you have to know him then in the future of his promise to you because much of the life of the child of God is future oh yes indeed you have to know him and you have to know him within the parameters of the vision when to the point where the vision drags you through whatever it is that comes against you because now in light of the vision what comes against you is not an obstacle it is the way oh I feel it here would you rather go down a street that had no difficulties and it wasn't going anywhere or would you rather go down one that had difficulties but at the end of the difficulty was the achievement you see it's not the easy way that proves God but God likes to deal with the hard way so he can show you and I that you didn't bring this to pass I did it and I deserve the glory but promise them the promise the promise the promise must be distinct from any situation and personal historical event the promise has to be outside of the circumstance in other words the promise cannot be connected to the event of your present and God fixes it so that the promise seems to be so ridiculous in spite of the circumstance that you're facing that's what makes the promise such a promise because there's nothing that's going on around you that will indicate this thing will come to pass and it god doesn't it seem like that he taps to you in the worst time of your life and gives you the most grandiose promise about what he's going to do for you because to ensure it is God the promise is often contradictive to the situation and the history of the situation that's why after you get over what boggles your mind when you tell your friends what God said they look at you like you must be crazy the situation then must make the promise more pronounced like his promise to Abraham like this promise to Caleb then God confesses his promise by adopting and confirming and renewing and continuing and ultimately fulfilling them that's why every time you go through a Jehovah Jireh situation it looks real bad going in but there's a ram in the bush you don't see the RAM in the bush or you see to trial but I heard him say greater is He that's in you than he that's in the world you see prey but greater is not seen oh I feel like preaching greater has to be believed greater has to be trusted it was Jurgen Moltmann who said he said and I quote he said the essence and the identity of God lies not in his absoluteness over and beyond history but in the consistency of his freely chosen relationship to his preachers the constancy of his electing mercy and faithfulness unquote the historical action of God within the horizon of promise is simple and it's to the point I'm going to bring you out this is yours how you're going to do it he doesn't always say how he just says this is yours he is not seeing them in the obscurity of liturgical or symbolic ritual he has to operate within the action of your life he operates in the thing that causes you fear that forces you between fear and faith if he pulled you into fear and you only dealt with fear you would be one sided disappointed failure but if everything was easy in your life you would never expand what it does is he hold you between the two he stretches you by you feeling it'll never come to pass only to get a word from the Lord that'll keep you believing until ultimately you lift up both your hands and said the glory praise Israel yes he is I feel like preaching now it is clear then that you must have the victory over Passover the pastor because if the past stays in front of you that you will never ever receive the promise of God it is this promise that has got to pull you out of the negatives of your past and move you from apprehension to anticipation I wish you were sitting on the fence when you met the Lord but when you met the Lord you were already steeped in the attitude of satanic debilitating negativities and he had to bring you out of what your family never did and bring you up out of what nobody around you ever became bring you up out of the look of your neighborhood and the room that you grew up in just to show you if I put a promise in your spirit I will give you the talent to bring the promise to pass and I will strengthen you so that 45 years later it still doesn't matter it's mine we little churchy here reaction then is generally borne out of the negatives of the past and God pulls us into the anticipation out of the future of the positive of the promise a promise can change your life somebody was coming over here tonight and somebody said well do you have a ride I'm coming to get you and he said no don't come get me I have a ride well I'll write to you they didn't show up God and now you say you didn't come get me and I depended on you you didn't have a ride you had a promise of a ride but because you had the promise you turn to other things away I'm here to tell you when God gives you a promise and you trust the promise you will look the devil in the face and say that ain't good enough I'm gonna promise from the Lord now becomes the past promises of God because the knowledge of God is then the knowledge of the future of God touch your neighbor say that's the only reason I'm alive is because God gave me a promise and I can't die til it comes to pass [Music] and so now the future of God is upheld by the hopes that are called to life by his promises and the past now becomes the past promises of God and His faithfulness remembrance and expectation what brings me through this next difficulty is I have expectations because of a past promise can I just take a little further you see the difference between the Old Testament and the new is that the old promises the coming of a not yet existing reality from the future of truth when God declares a promise it is an already existing reality in the mind of God but it's not an existing reality in your mind I hope you understand it as far as God is concerned it's already done because 45 years doesn't matter to God because the man's life is in his hand and the promise is in his hand and the fulfillment is in his hand so I don't have to worry will I get it or will not die before it comes or would it leave before I get there if it God said it's mine it's and no devil can do anything about it I feel somebody believing God give somebody a high five say I have a ministry and it shall come to pass Oh God the future then is that reality which fulfills and satisfies at the promise because it completely corresponds to the promise and it accords with it it is the promise then is the ground of the revealing of the divinity of God and it depends entirely upon real fulfillment when the promise demands personal adjustments because the promise causes me to contradict my existing reality because reality is not only actuality reality is also potentiality I might be struggling with this today but according to the promise I will not be struggling with it tomorrow I might as well have Church I don't know I got a little more time this revelation recognizes then as promised and it embraces this thing and what it does is it embraces the promise so intensely that it embraces the suffering of the present time if I got to go through this then I got to go through this because what's about to break it's going to be greater than anything I'm going through I feel this thing here without promise the revelation of God in Christ would be in danger of being incomplete and literally collapsing altogether because Jesus has sensed the cross knowing he's coming down with all power in his hands if you want to get all power you got to go through your cross you can't back up from your cross and expect your reward but if this is a 45-year cross then so be it but I'm not gonna let a giant run me away because I've got to hold on to the promise of God as God promised you something then looking there in the face and say it's got to come to pass I feel like preaching here that's why he says the just shall live by trust because promise makes faith possible and promise makes patience possible because you can't do anything with a promise but wait for it I feel like preaching especially a promise you can't work out and that's what God deals who is that we might as well have Church Pat as I feel something pushing me the channel is that of faith and it comes across through faith because there's no way that Caleb can keep himself as strong as he was 45 years ago there is no way all he's got to do is stretch his hands out to God and said you promised me the impossible and I'm going to believe you for it and I don't care who's backing up on the left and the right I'm holding on to the promise of God can you think about Abraham he waited 25 years and had a baby at a hundred and his wife touch somebody say a double impossibility but here is a man that walkthrough with the folks who would not believe God and I rose to tell you sometime you've got to deal with folks all around you that question everything you believe you've gotta shake em off and tell them I still believe God because you don't determine my future I don't have to have your validation if God said it hold on God this is mine I had to wait for it I had to cry through it but it's still mine I think about Moulton and Mulligan when they defined faith they said faith is the substance the hostess's of things hoped for the Emma costs of things not seen and when I looked at the word who possesses it means that the title deed then I preach like I feel it I bought some property I'd do it all the time and I haven't been to the properties yet I just bought a complex the other day and I haven't seen it yet and if I got the title I got to see the land I feel like preaching here Caleb got him a title 45 years before he walked in the land but it was still his but you neighbors of faith is my title to my new car to my new house to my new husband to my new wife to my new church to me praising the Lord I haven't seen yet I feel the Holy Ghost in here shake somebody's hand and said give me this mountain cuz God promised it to me and you will not give it away don't look at my age don't count what I've been through don't wonder if I'm able make me give me that you'll give me the strength I feel the Holy Ghost in here I feel like having victory pull on your neighbor say shake yourself get out of your despair let him go and I wanna go hold on to your dream hold on to your faith that hold on to your vision I know you've been fought I know you've been talked about but you're oughta give God glory for your enemies but again ready to get you Lester I feel like preaching in here lifting him up y'all pray for me a little while but pray because the god I serve beeps is a word he's always right you might be crying but he ain't through yet you might have opposition but he ain't through yet when he gets through you won't possess the land wherever your feet walk it's yours whatever you step on it's yours tell your neighbors step on it shout on it jump on it run on it get em [Applause] I feel them in here I feel them in here do I have some people in the house with the rest of Israel when I get to heaven I ask me why aren't you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] at the end of the day you will walk into exactly what he said and what kept you was your trust whoo I'm closing I'm closing we like things within the parameters of our ability to control you don't mind driving fast as long as you're behind the wheel you don't mind going fast but when you're going fast and someone else is behind and and and to take it further you can have trust in a particular driver and they can go fast in fact you rush them on got somewhere to go man come on what's going on but put another driver in their place and you say you know what give me the wheel the more control you have the less you have to trust [Applause] and our challenge that drives our duplicity is when God takes the thing out of our control and he forces me to trust him and what God said to me is this as I looked at that in light of this theme he said when I promise you something never worry that when you receive it you'll be too old to enjoy because I am the same one who controls your life as I controlled what I'm giving you nobody can take what I give you and you'll not be stopped from receiving what I have you and I heard something else he said if you'd hurry up and get busy he said I'll redeem the time I shortened the time cuz I control you I control my promise and I control the time what would it took in ten years I'll do it in five what should happen in five I'll do it in a year and all of a sudden somebody said where did you come from whoa I'm not gonna preach far to shake somebody's hand let you go shake it off and say neighbor where did you come from I never heard about you but I've been trusting God for years god I feel like preaching now I feel touched somebody said God's getting ready to reveal me God's getting ready to pull the covers off my gift God's getting ready to show me to everybody around me that I've been sitting on this gift and God say it's your time now the painting is finished that the sculpture is over you suffered enough and I'm getting ready to reveal [Music] reveal I want you to get one person by both hands take one partner Kalin you have been waited 45 years yet you're not even 45 years old walked in there and took that mountain ran the Giants out as I get ready to pray the only problem with Israel was that didn't understand that if the land is flowing with milk and honey everybody wants it but everybody can't have it if it's yours because if God has given it to you everybody can have so it don't matter how big the cooperation they're sitting on it don't matter what the title of the person is that's there if it's yours it's just yours and to that person who has believed God through years of poverty you believed him from years of being alone you believed him when you had to cry you believed him and couldn't find any support nobody believed what you believed but in the midst of that you still praised him and you still honored him as your God he says I'm going to introduce you I'm going to use you as a reference cuz somebody's gonna see where you're coming from and know that God is real hallelujah hallelujah squeeze one hand I bind every spirit of doubt Lord in the name of Jesus a bind discouragement a bind self second-guessing a bind low self-esteem a bind right now and agonizing and agonizing on decisions that need to be made and steps that need to be taken choices that need to trust you in for Lord only you could do what you put in our spirits in our heart and in fact lord I know as a fact that you'll do more than the vision that I have because Lord my mind is not capable of grasping the fullness of the vision you have a buying low self-esteem right now I bind the grasshopper spirit I bind the grasshopper spirit in the name of Jesus I bind fear I clean it right now I clean it bound by buying satanic oppression now squeeze the other hand I loose your faith I loose your anointing I loose your gift I lose your calling I lose your boldness I lost your aggressive moves in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus I lose your joy now loose your hands and give God a praise [Music] [Applause] [Music] who you are blessing for who you are blessing for who you are blessing for what you can do lesson for what you will do lesson for how you will operate blessing for your calling blessing for your gifts blessing for your talent don't minimize them don't act like you're not somebody don't act like God didn't promised you something bless him for where he's taking up bless him for what you've been through it was not a hardship it was a preparation bless him for your preparation bless him for your enemies thank you for every one of them somebody in this house may be in here and not say in here tonight and don't know the Lord as you stand and just worship Him for those who want to sit it's fine amen I won't impose a hardship but for those who are here tonight and have not been born again you don't know the Lord as your personal Savior first of all you did not believe in your heart you haven't confess with your mouth because that's what it takes to lead you into the waters of baptism and to receive the power of the Holy Ghost if you're here somehow you got in here tonight and you're not born again you know that if the Lord would come tonight or if you would die suddenly there's a question in your mind as to whether or not you'd be saying I call you to come right now come from wherever you are from the balcony come from all over the place just come just go just come just come come come give God the glory give God the praise somebody else just come you you you

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Published: Wed Jan 08 2020