Losing My Religion | Dr. Matthew Stevenson | The Missing Man

we're going to go into our installment of this series losing our religion if you have not been up-to-date with the conversation the Lord has charged us to re-evaluate the core fundaments of our faith and it has almost taken a very powerful turn into the direction of trusting the Bible for what it says and not feeling the need to contribute to what it says and as we do that and we strip our understanding away from what we read we're finding that a lot of what we believe is not backed by the scriptures we're also finding that a lot of times what we believe is not because of our trust in the Word of God it's because of our trust in the teacher who taught it and sometimes when you challenge what people believe whether then logically go through the information they go to the credibility of its first presenter I was always taught that's the statement and that is a statement of confidence in the instructor not the information and we've got to get back to valuing the Word of God in case you haven't heard me say it I love the Word of God I love it I trusted it's my friend and I have found that if we approach it the right way it will talk to you say yes it'll counsel you say yes it'll bring clarity there and so if you need to keep current with this go back and watch what we've done so far but I'm going to labor this I feel like I hit a vein and so what we're going to do is push this all the way to the end of the year because I want to be able to strip you of any philosophy any ideology that did not come from heaven so that you can become more effective on the earth and the people of the Lord said I'd like you to go with me to James the first chapter we're going to James the first chapter and we're going to be reading I think this is the New Living Translation I'm not certain I don't have it here but I'm going to verses 19 through 27 James chapter 1 verses 19 through 27 when you're there say I'm there if you're not there say what on me all right till the way Tom means to hurry out obey me say hurry up James chapter 1 verse 19 in my version it says understand this my dear brothers and sisters you must all be quick to listen slow to speak and slow to get angry human anger does not produce the righteousness God desires so get rid of all the filth and evil in your lives and humbly accept the word God has planted in your hearts for it has the power to save your souls but don't just listen to God's Word you must do what it says otherwise you are only fooling yourselves for if you listen to the word and don't obey it is like glancing at your face in a mirror you see yourself walk away and forget what you look like but if you look carefully into the perfect law that sets you free and if you do what it says and don't forget what you heard then God will bless you for doing it if you claim to be religious but don't control your tongue you are fooling yourself and your religion is worthless here is our thought pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you Father help me to preach this in Jesus name our thought this morning is the missing man the missing man the missing man if you're writing and taking notes I want you to put that at the top we're studying what happens when the man goes missing the Bible is a book of encrypted fames they are very consistent and so it is a collection of books offered by specific people in specific areas of the world with specific skillsets experiences writing styles audiences and views and this book of James is very very very intriguing to me because it was written first of all by the Apostle James whose name in Greek is yacouba's iakovos that's not a tongue it's a name that means yacouba's what makes that significant profit jason is that yacouba's is in greek but in hebrew it's Yaakov Yaakov for those of you that are angry about churches who don't baptized in Jesus name I'm afraid we all have it wrong because there is no J in the Hebrew language which means that yeah cold is the English term Jacob so the Apostle James his name is really Jacob in the life of Jesus there are three Jacobs or Yaakov's there are two that are in the immediate service a circle but this Yaakov or James or Jacob is the the brother of Jesus Christ literally the half-brother of Jesus Christ this is important for you to realize in order to understand why his book is structured the way it is say yes Yaakov his story is in the book of Acts we find that he becomes more and more premiere as the Apostle Peter departs to plant more churches it leaves for a seat of seniority among the twelve and yeah called naturally being the brother of Jesus Christ is the one that raises to prominence over what you and I considered that council so he is the apostle that sits in the Presidium when they're trying to settle theological issues when they're trying to settle and interpret whether or not what Paul is teaching is a right or not which means listen that a major part of jacob's role was to keep what they were taught authentic I want you to write that now the theme of Jacob's ministry was to not allow the gospel to be corrupted because of the seeming demise of his brother if you look at it who grew up with Jesus among the twelve it would have been his brother James so a part of how he writes this book is to make sure that there are factors of what you and I call religion that remain authentic say authentic say authentic now the word authentic is not what you guys use it for which means to keep it real it means to maintain organic status it means to maintain a status and a state that is not mutated that is not deranged that has not been polluted by other contributions to it it was to make sure that the faith didn't get diluted there is a such thing as an inauthentic faith and what that means is that if Paul's statement is true if meny Christ are going out then a part of what those Christ do is establish versions and variations of Christianity you have Christianity then you got Christianity American style you got Christianity and then you got Christianity Republican style you got Christianity then you got Christianity democratic style you got Christianity then you got Christianity Pentecostal style you got Christianity then you got the Baptist version then you got the Methodist version everybody has a variation of Christianity and the only trustworthy litmus test for whether or not our Christianity is authentic as was written in this Bible huh and so the Apostle James Rises for 20 years of leadership listen in Jerusalem and he rises to leadership during the time where there are too severe crisis say yes number one he rises during the time of famine that means that there is a lack of sustenance the economy is it's broken the harvests and sickness and disease are prevalent so whenever you hear the term famine what you think is there's just a loss of rain but famine is so much more than the absence of water famine is the death of children famine is the lack of provision for families famine is the rise of strange disease famine is also fire because whenever you have famine that breaks out the absence of water license is the right for destructive fire so you got this going on in Jerusalem the second thing that you got going on is that there is harsh persecution pay attention between Jews and Messianic Jews so the segments of the Jews that did not believe in Jesus were violently and hostile murdering Messianic Jews his leadership is in that temperature and his leadership is in that context now the letter of James is different from the letter of Paul is this boring you Paul writes epistles which means a letter that's why you got to read the Bible for what they are there are letters one of the did the latter part and Paul writes and his epistles letters to local churches addressing specific problems the churches that came out of him all of them had certain ailments that hindered and impeded their maturity and so Paul would write to address specific letters at Antioch or specific issues at Corinth in Romans and Ephesians but he writes James Yakov a generalized letter to anybody that was claiming Christianity the letter of James is not directed to a specific congregation but the letter of James is written to anybody that is facing persecution because of an authentic Christianity and so this letter is a synopsis here's what's gonna bless you up the two teachers Yoko came up listening to and the to teachers he came up listening to was his brother Jesus Christ and King Solomon pay attention so as you're reading the book of James you're going to hear two frames of mine two blends of writing and it's going to be similar to the Sermon on the Mount and it's going to be similar to the book of Proverbs so you're gonna find that James is the New Testament wisdom book James is to the New Testament what proverbs was to the old and so you find James writing this with very emphatic short wisdom statements to keep the thing authentic now as we delve deeper into this book what we learn cherish is that Christianity has a sociology repeat that please there is a sociology component to Christianity and what sociology is is the science of a society what it means is the study of an aggregate of a congregation of people that live together under one morality under one system and under one belief and so if you only see Christianity as a thing you do on Sunday and you don't see it as a society and a civilization of those that are join one to another because of what they believe and at the core basis of their transformation is what they believe and the core basis of why they marry who they marry is what they believe and the core basis of why they pursue what they pursue is what they believe then you're going to miss out on what Jesus started to institutionalize on earth so there is a sociological component the way these people live and this is not just the way they live individually it was not about personal PT it was about what they did and what they contribute to the surrounding areas of their society it's a sociological book and now what he does is he gives us some clarity on the authenticity of Christianity while it's competing against different versions of it all right so he's talking and teaching about life in the kingdom but then because of how he grew up what the theme of the book is pay attention is the only way to test authenticity is my persecution I said the only way to test if it's real is what it can go through if it can't be tested under survived persecution it is not authentic this is why Jesus says those that build their house on the sand it's going to notice it very soon when the storm come there'll be no stability there but those that build their lives on the rock if it can last through harsh environments you'll find that it is authentic let me put a little bit of expository information there every real relationship ought to be able to recover from a storm every real friendship ought to be able to disagree and then go to dinner every real partnership ought to be able to have a rough spot and grow up past the break to find closer maturity if all a disagreement means departure then you've got the wrong definition at the door if our definition is the premise for how we interact then we can disagree and still commit it will be dedicated to why we came together in the first place that was free I'm gonna walk you through the themes of this text and then I'm gonna give you my points a preach number one he starts off with a five or a six core fundament in this segment but what he says in 21 considering everything that I taught you in verse 21 he says get rid of the filth in your life I want you to get rid of the filth in your life and the reason he starts off with that is because if you do not get rid of the filth you will not be able to humbly accept the Word of God so step one is get rid of what the Bible considers is dirty okay and in this context it's not just talking about sin it's talking about bad beliefs dirty beliefs because the context of this is encouraging and pushing for authentic Christianity says if you don't get rid of the filth you're not gonna be able to humble yourself before the Word of God he says and if you don't humble yourself before the Word of God it won't be able to be planted in your heart which means that the Word of God is a sea and when you hear it and when you study it and when you put yourself before it it's looking for some seeding space it's trying to find an opening not just in the mind but in the heart so that it can be watered and produce much fruit therefore and thereby and consequently if you do not allow the Word of God to be seeded in you then it is impossible to mature into son ship I'm getting there his objective is not to look at you as Mary or Agnes or Deborah or John or Jeff or James or Jimmy what he's trying to do is get his son out of you he's not looking at you just to refine who you are and he's not looking at you to affirm who you want to be he's not bad to validate your approach to life and he's not there to sign off on your personal dreams and goals what he's trying to do is look for a suitable outfit to get his son manifest in the earth he does not care about your individual uniqueness and he does not care about how many degrees you go and get he's not concerned about the decorum you put on your life if you don't look like his son he can't do nothing with you if he can't look at you and find the son of man being raised in you he can't use your type ha ha ha ha ha he can't use what's behind your name or before he cannot use your good looks hallelujah he can't use your talent and your voice now we see a paradox God is not trying to get you more visible he's trying to position you so that when you are in a point of platformer he can pull up umba see that's in here and make the son of man sir for this cause I go through anguish Paul said until cries not your mama you come out of here not your daddy not your culture not your race or your ginger I meant Ravana to Christ be formed in you he's got to be formed in you he's got to be fun he's got to be formed in you he's got to grow in you and he's got to start to stretch out lie pass everything you want uh-huh everything you believe everything you desire everything you want after he's got to go in here and so he says it the way to get that to happen listen is by allowing the word to be planted in your heart and then he shows this Chelsea he says if you allow the Word of God to be planted in your heart it is able to deliver your souls but if you read this you would never tell an unbeliever to humble themselves before a body of information that they don't believe in which means that the only way that this is effective is he saying yes you're saved yes when you die you're going to heaven pay attention but the rest of your life on earth you're going to experience a war between your soul and your spirit what sanctification is is the fight in your belly the narrative in your genetic self for the spirit part of you trying to get the driver's seat in your life what you call sanctification is not hats it's not long skirts it's not all white it is the spirit of the man up trying to push the soul over man to the passenger seat now he's not trying to put him in the back seat because eventually the spirit part of you pay attention it's gonna have to hold hands with the soul part of you in order for you to be like the Son of God and we don't have a high priest that is not I can't get help with the feelings you need your feelings you just don't need to be led by them it's got to be the spirit put your feelings on the passenger side so that your spirit can take do here snap somebody say I'm taking the wheel I'm taking I love your word it is I know to deliver your soul he says the only way past your coughing and Pat I'm sorry my I feel it coming here pass you're spitting and pass you're running the only way to really be delivered is by your didactics I believe in the power of laying hands on folk but if I lay hands on you and you don't allow that vacancy and that void to become the opportunity and the invitation to a brand-new lesson and a brand-new series of information in every area in your life occupied by the devil is going to remain as it is so we cast the devil out listen so we can put the Bible there I'm working to do I said we cast the devil out not to leave that space empty we cast the devil out so that the word can be there without resistance and without battle we want the word to occupy where the demons used to point number four and I'm not at my message he says sorry that because the word is planted in you it is the only thing that's able to deliver you glory I said you know what the heck let me just preach that means the word is more powerful than nicotine it means the word is more powerful than sex it means a word is more powerful than hynny cognac he sop god i love your word it means that the only thing that can deliver you is your study of the word of God I'm challenging somebody in here with an addiction you cannot go to that word and read what it says and you not be checked at the molecular level I'm telling you if you bow yourself in it long enough and bury yourself in that Bible hard enough you're gonna stop reading and then you're gonna go on the rehab now I believe in therapy and I believe in chemical reintroduction but I also believe that this Bible is there to reorient it your mind and change what you are doing what it says he says if a man is a hearer of the word I'm warming up and not a doer of what they read then they deceive themselves listen to me cager it means that wherever there is deception somebody ain't doing something it means that deception is the fruit and the power of the lack of the productivity of somewhere else so he says if you read this Bible the objective is not to beat people up with it and the objective is not to behave like you're some superior human being I'm going to show you why the objective is not to act like you are better because you know more because you know how y'all think the more Bible I know the better the standing I get in heaven no no no no no the whole point is to know more to do more to know more to do more and then he gives us this he says if you read it it's gonna make sense in a minute and don't do it what you've done is you've looked in the mirror throw your hands up and say read me open your mouth say read me have you ever seen somebody that swore they was fine get my dilemma and and and they had a big old red stain on a teeth because there did their makeup without a mirror have you ever seen somebody with a booger in the nose big old green slimy one and they tried to talk to you and you were so distracted you wanted to interrupt them and you was like never seen somebody with coal and they are my family call it an eye booger you got one here right on in the eye and you wanted to talk to him but you were so distracted that Bible is the mirror of the Christian I said the Bible is the mirror of the Christian Christian you Negros look in the mirror expecting to find somebody else so what you do is you go to the Bible to prove why they're wrong but the Bible is supposed to read you when you put that book in front of your face you're not looking for the lipstick on a teeth and you're not looking for the pool in there if they don't read you is cuz you ain't ready I feel like preaching in here I said if they don't read you is Plus you ain't ready come on through here with preaching power that he says you look in the mirror and you walk away and you forgot what you look like that's what hypocrisy is I looked at this and now I've roamed away and I forgot what I look like so yes I have the right to judge you yes I have the right to condemn you certainly I can bully you absolutely I can reject you yes I can't impose and inflict upon you standards and I don't live by cuz I went to the Bible to find out why I was right and why you was wrong look at that pompous position you already abuse the usage of the scripture you ought to look at the Bible and say it's me it's me o lord standing in the need of prayer it's not my mama I'm trying to find it's not my sister I'm trying to find her I'm not going to a Bible with my opinion so that y'all can validate what I feel I'm trying to get ride I need to see me here I need listen [Applause] he gives us that structure can I take a sharp u-turn but it's weird pastor Rosie when you land dr. torn your theologian in the making you know the bottom line is the sociological motive for the affirmation the Apple mention issues he gave us except the word let it be planted in your heart it's going to deliver you do what it says don't just read it control your tongue is next because you cannot be a Christian and say what you want to say wow I feel a chill in here so you cannot be a Christian and talk in tongues and not know how to attain yours then he gets to the real issue I am James say I am James the only book I had with me and my brother were going up besides the profits with Solomon's book Mary and Joseph my mom and my daddy will be in the other room cooking and me and Jesus my brother would be in the other room playing Nintendo so I know what's important to him I grew up with Jesus before y'all got to see him do miracles we would play hide and go seek this is called expository preaching he would walk through the walls because he had miraculous power to hide for me we would be playing tic-tac-toe and he always knew the answers all the time there was no way to trick them he's always like that he would go to the water fountain if he wanted some wine and just play with it he had that ability all the time I know what's important to him so I am the one who can keep this thing authentic and in order to keep what he did authentic this is not just to one Church this is why I told you this this is to all of you that want to contend for authenticity pure religion has everything to do with how many goats you offer pure religion has everything to do with the turtledoves you sacrifice at the morning oblation no religion has everything to do with where the women sit in the church and where the men sit in the church and whether or not the women wear pants or Holly was baptized the authenticating apostle said the only way you know that you're doing what my brother said is you care for people who's impacted by a missing man [Applause] my goal is to minister listen to all those that have been impacted and program by the departure of a man this is why you got to understand why this is important hey hey hey in Luke 3 during the genealogy the genealogist writes don't lock up now the genealogist writes and he says the gap began began and then he goes to Adam and he says Adam the Son of God God has never been looking for followers he's never been trying to grow fans he didn't even really want a congregation what he's wanted are those that were not afraid to be sons I'm about to crack you upside your head he wanted to be able to mature sonship traits sonship character sonship sight sonship conversations from the beginning and James says if what we're doing is to be real we need to position ourselves by everybody that's either been impacted by listen to me the death of a man or the departure of a man he says true religion pure and undefiled is caring for widows that's a family that's experienced the death of a man then he says then after you care for widows you got to care for orphans those are people whose fathers didn't die they just left if no Christianity is a part of the devil's agenda to castrate men it is an inauthentic Christianity one of the things that's normal to Christian sociology if we make sure that we've got real men I know you don't want to hear this here's why Christianity is an invitation from a man Christianity is the beginning point of a man here's why men are starters women are cultivators men are slaughters women are cultivators listen whenever anything is started is going to start with a progenitor cell the progenitor cell is the masculine responsibility source of Delap derivation I come from somewhere when you say I am a son what you're telling us is where you came from and where you came from determines what I'm going to do and be now there are two realms of this that you've got to understand pull yourself out of depression there are two rounds of this you've got to understand sonship is about blood and name blood and name you are a son by genetic which is blood and you are a son by name your father had the right in the Bible to name you now we whatever version of your Christianity that does not emphasize caring for positioning yourself by respecting and regarding and ministering to those that have been shaped in the departure of a man it is a selfish Christianity now the reason this is revolutionary is because the Bible clearly tells us how to test of its pure and got nothing to do with rings and rules nothing to do with matters and staffs and everything to do with fathers and sons you don't want this gospel it has everything to do with relationships that engage the future so the widows and the orphans are the immediate audience that should experience our Christianity now here is why this is scary to you you don't really put a lot of energy into examining how hard it was for Jesus to remain a son when you look at Jesus especially did you know the blood version of him you think that he always wanted to do what the father told him to do when you look at Jesus you think that it was very easy to know how hypocritical y'all would be and remain on the cross indiscipline you think it was easy for him not to slap the dog spit out of Herod or Jude or I mean I'm hearing or or Judas but all of his restraint was not just because of who he belonged to it was because he came to the earth to show what sons do and sons do what they're told to did lord have mercy today this is what the Bible says and as many listen as believed on him to them gave he the power to become and if you gotta be coming it mean you ain't born it for unto us a child is born unto us a son is given the problem is many of us are the children of God but very few of us are the son I can't get help back there you are his creation but until you are formed one not his son listen I want you to open your ears do you hear that listen harder do you hear that do you hear that I hear it I'll wake up hearing it sale I go to bed hearing I hear that Starbucks Courtney I hear it in Tripoli I heard it through my bachelor's degree I heard it through my masters I heard it through my doctorate and it's not a divinity I heard it for the manifestation the creature the creation is groaning the planet the Sun the Moon the stars Jupiter possible whatever else is out there they're waiting for something and it's not for cumference and it's not for a book and it's not for a tape they're waiting for the manifestation of the revealing not people that go to church but the manifestation of the Sun's up now are we the sons of God see because being a son the word son is journey I'm journeying into my identity I was born it now I'm learning how to beat it and to become this this is why it's gonna intrigue you in the Book of Psalms what is it in the book of Psalm 68 it says a father to the fatherless and a defender of widows is God in His holy dwelling in the church we read that and thought about everywhere but he said I've got to bring you into the character of sonship because sin orphaned you what happened in the garden Adam did not just displace his Dominion and displace his privilege and displace his conversation what he laid down was his sonship the minute he start talking to an alternate voice for those of you that go to this church and I taken the counsel of other leaders the minute he started hearing another voice that one his voice he abandoned his identity as a son and he became an orphan how do I know he ran [Applause] Adam son where are you I told you to bring your black butt to church son where are you I told you to serve here son where are you I heard the sound of your voice and I was afraid so then the devil wants you to stay in sin because his favorite people to use are orphans those that act like they have no house to protect those that act like it's not their job to bring dignity to their last name those who act like they're living for themselves from themselves in themselves orphans now you realize about this is an issue to God because if you preach like an orphan pray like an orphan love like an orphan you're living in defense and in protection of nothing but yourself often life is survival life do what I have to use who I want to if you look at psalms 146 and 9 says the Lord watches the foreigner he sustains the fatherless but he frustrates the way of the wicked Satan is a father to god I love your word you know I'm a theologian Satan is a liar he is the father Greek word Peter source carrier of he has nothing to give birth to but lies Satan loves 2:02 father lies in the fatherless so you'll find that the people who struggle most in Christianity are those who have no father experience because what the devil does is finds them and it's not hard to find y'all he finds them positions himself by them and start being what that void needs but because you've been orphaned you have no greed to recognize the truth from a lie you just like the way that you no longer feel what you used to feel so James is arguing that the people that are most vulnerable on the planet are the fatherless and the widows those who live in and with the absence of a man the way this is important or the reason this is important because in the Book of Numbers God says to a whole nation I am NOT a man that I should lie orphans have no faith orphans can't be optimistic you'll notice an orphan mind by a pessimist spirit only see the negative only see the bad only talked about that all of that is the survival world you know what y'all are a generation of Mowgli's you were raised in the jungle and you took on the nature of whatever beasts accepted you and then when we tried to get you into civilization and prove to you that you were actually a human being you were still crawling around like a gorilla the whole of your life you need to be protecting your sonship character well guess no praise break there if you are in here and you've convinced yourself that this is not a part of what you need to do in your life every grown man still got to protect his sonship every grown woman is gonna always be a daughter what the devil did was produced shall in the line of broken men and because you were born two broken men your definition of fatherhood is fracture and because your definition of fatherhood is fractured when God changes his tone to you you connected to the father fracture in your heart the generation of orphans Oh young Baptist Methodist Pentecostal all around the world if you look at your own story where would you be how would you be if you had a whole father I'm not trying to depress you I'm telling you what Christianity is about this is why Louis gave Timothy DePaul take this boy please because even with as good as a momma as I am remember Eunice they were faithful women I still ain't a man this is why our women are so masculine and I'm not talking about being butch and how you dress I'm telling how you talk how you think how you interrelate with one another it's because it's the father's that give you the permission to be a daughter so no matter how old or young you are if you've not delved into this identity you don't know Christianity coz when God wants to get the job done he sends his son for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten choir member his only begotten supervisor his only begotten missionary when he wants to get yes Lord go to Hebrews 12 because I'm a prophet when you get quiet I get stirred now listen to me no other part of my ministry is under attack like this one this is the one the devil hey he like crap go ahead and prophesy I kiddin about that I plant these look dumb churches but don't you don't you ever again try to make a son out of somebody stop it it's the one area that's under attack the most and it's under attack because the devil knows he can do a lot with a lot of orphans you came building with fatherless babies it's a daycare without a teacher smells awful it's dirty mm-hmm go to Hebrews the twelfth chapter I'm over my time and I know it but we bout to have a move of God in a minute Hebrews 12 are you there all right I want you to go to verse 5 of Hebrews 12 and I'm reading this in the Living Bible have you quite forgotten the encouraging words God spoke to you his child he said listen to this oh it's so quiet in here my son don't be angry when the Lord punishes you don't be discouraged when he has to show you where you're wrong for when he punishes you it proves that he loves you you only ought to be concerned if the father is ignoring you if he's decided you ain't listening it stops talking that's when you ought to be scared but when he punishes you verse 6 it proves that he loves you and when he whips you it proves you are really his child verse 7 let God train you look at this for he is doing what any loving father does for his children watch this watch this who ever heard of a son who was never corrected it's in your Bible I did not write this verse 8 if God doesn't punish you when you need it as other fathers punish their sons or prove but it means that you aren't really God's son at all and you don't really be in his family since we respect our fathers on earth though they punish us should we not all more cheerfully submit to God's training so that we can really begin to live the thought of the rider is if you're not a son you're not even alive often life is zombie life verse 10 our earthly fathers starters starters our earthly fathers fathers our starters I'm going to give you a revelation on that before I close our earthly fathers trained us for a few brief years doing the best for us that they knew how but God's correction is always right and for our best good that we may share in his holiness being punished isn't enjoyable while it's happening it hurts hello this culture teaches that hurt is a justification for departure God don't care about you been hurt he wants who holy it hurts but afterwards there is life after her we can see the result a quiet growth in Grace and character that's what sonship is fathers are starters right so that means whenever God wants to start something he looks for an available man they start now that impacts us both ways because because fathers have the the power to start it means that even when they departed they've started something when they arrived will Nick conceive with your mama they started something when they walk away to every action of a father starts or something just makes sense to you this is why James James basically tells us in memorandum of my brother y'all ain't doing nothing until you get this father-son issue right that's the whole of it caring for widows and orphans you got the the the the feminine race under strain because of the death of men which is why in the book of Hebrews it says and the women received their men back to life I want to I want everything in here that is male stand up one of y'all see her brothers sitting down just gently encouraging in the spirit in the spirit if you could look in the eyes of these guys and see the decades of brokenness waiting to happen waiting to come out and Sam here you'd be horrified for our Christianity Satan cares Nate you a greek lord have mercy sorry i know that if you consider how many of us have been surviving on the back of our women if you consider how many of us are only alive because of a strong woman Helen Bayless I had a prayin grandmama where was Papa where was Papa how do we know that the reason grandma wasn't prayin was because Papa wasn't right think about our society and why our Christianity hasn't really taken root it's because of the father issue what we do as men is we put it all away back here nobody has time to hurt when we've got work to do nobody has time or room to feel this if we've got people relying on us because when we're broken we don't stop to take care of it we keep going and our medicine becomes who needs us I got to do this I got daughters I got to do this again sir but God is trying to get this issue right and it's more than about how many races did God create one y'all made racism but there is one race the human race and was consistent in the Miss seedtime and harvest or father time and son time what we're sitting in in Chicago is a harvest it's not a crisis we are reaping decades of the death and the departure of men I believe in the spirit something came upon Chicago with the murder I believe the assassination of Harold Washington this is why the black man is so angry and does not want to pray are we the only generation are the only race of people that have no David among us me me at this altar [Applause] [Music] and you gonna have to push me back this is heavy this is heavy this is heavy because fathers are starters a large part of how we see that or how we understand that is at the foundation level it's at the fundament of something which means that a large part of your identity may not even be real it may be a response to survival life in survival culture in other words until you get this thing regulated in you there may be parts of you you will never know but the Lord is trying to restore you in such a way in such a way that you don't even it now let's say you had an amazing father experience your rare you actually very very rare I remember being an elementary school when I would hear my classmates talk about their dads in the home we would mock it it was so strange we thought that was a weird thing and Daddy in the house because in our culture we had to wait for months to see him or we had to wait for years when daddy came around it was like a visit it was like a holiday so we got and many of us at the altar don't even got grandfathers it's like if you think about the way it's gone grandfather's now in like 30 that's what's happened so now we got men that are still trying to understand what manhood is about and they got grandkids then let's say your father has been in prison or incarcerated let's say he went there at a earlier time was a spur and now women don't get bored cuz this is impacting you if you're out there you like I always tell my dad man you came from one and you hopefully should marry one this other concern you it also concern you if you have one in your house that you're grooming nothing will frustrate a woman more than trying to father a son if you want to know where ovarian and breast cats and all that infirmity come from this cause of a strange female experience God's trying to do this and it has nothing to do we're being told what to do by other people and everything to do with just your character how you posture yourself and the way it works in the kingdom I'll get there at 11:00 is that as you start to grow you will never do it alone God will summons people in your life to exhibit where you're going now people are there moves of God to you they're like pads they're like guides they're like examples this is why the Bible calls us living epistles so and what happens is if you get impatient and you act like you know you just in a rush to hurry up and have it happen you go back to orphan life and you get destructive what you need to do is posture yourself right before the Lord and he will send teachers to you more than what several examples but you got to if you come out of that posture and you don't humble yourself before a teacher then you'll never be taught this is an issue and many of you are first generation husbands first generation everything's first time of you are first generation college and you might have the head - I figured this out the goodness the good news is your pressures are not abnormal your fight is not individual every man in this room is struggling with something you struggle with they wear it differently they don't like to show it but they are the Bible says no temptation has taken you except that which is common to man but the Lord who is faithful huh will not allow you to be tempted above that which you are able everyone look at somebody next to you as a brother look at your brother say me to pull the bass out your voice telling me to I'm not trying to be sexy PO if we are to course-correct this issue of Christianity I really believe we got to start at the men [Music] one of the words for father is the same Hebrew word for bless part of what that means is if you've never had the experience of a man speaking over you but you attracted curses the father's blessing the right hand which makes sense that James real name is Jacob it's been trying to get a nation and a species of men who gonna do it well lift your hands take a minute we will have a little group therapy and I want you to be honest with yourself as your hands are lifted about your experience with that role sing god is father your views are judgments about your natural father if you know him abuse of coaches or teachers at grade school that may have hurt you pastors that may or may not have been what you expected them to be allow yourself to go there for a minute in your mind and for some of you that may take longer than others because you got to go back on the deep red of the father for those of you who maybe your father died before you knew him or left or whatever the issue is the first thing you have to do as your commander I want you to just let it the first thing you got to do is divorce your mother's narrative of him you've got to let go of what your mama taught you about your daddy what he was not what he did not what was wrong with him a ye is even if it's true it's not helping you I feel the Holy Ghost I said even if it's true it's not helping you let it go let it go let that narrative go you got to divorce that because that's a part of what the enemy uses in that Ford in your life is a narrative that you taught we're taught about whoever you trust it more let that go [Music] now the next thing the next thing that I want you to let come up and you'll in your stomach right now is the line that you want worth paying attention to come on just keep them hands lifted this is worship the deception that you were not important enough to be wanted huh the deception that you were not important enough to be cared for the deception that you are not important enough to be provided for you got to let it go I know it's hard but you're doing this for God not him you've got to let that thing go some of you don't realize that it might have been in your best interest to not be grooved by your man that God couldn't change and even though it might feel hurtful there you just got to let that stuff come out of you come on let that thing come up now the reason it feels weird is because I'm not talking to your spirit right now my words are hitting you at that soul level it feels uncomfortable because you put a lot of achievement over it you put a lot of sex over it some of you suppress it by abusing the women around you by throwing yourself into destructive behavior come on let that thing come up right now right now the lie that you were ignored the lie that it's wrong to be emotional the lie that it's wrong to not be different from your brother come on let that thing come from you if you don't you'll never be a good husband eventually you're going to be a father you got to allow this thing to be reoriented in you it's a part of your destiny you are a son on purpose he created you male cuz he wanted you to be male you got to allow that thing to hit you now throw them hands up and imma begin to pray for you right now come on there you go miss I want you to get the most vulnerable you've been on all year come on put your masculinity on the altar right now put your ego on the altar I need some more in Vaughn come on put your masculinity on the altar put it right there put it right there right there father right now these sons stand before you and they don't stand before you in adulthood they don't stand before you in achievement they don't stand before you in accomplishment but they stand before you as seeds god you're vulnerable seeds those that you sent to the earth when you did why you did those that you said to the through a lineage and a legacy of a story already been born Lord your words declares that you write stories through starters so father I present these men to you not just as men and boys but as the starters of stories and I present them to you Lord every fear that they have every fear that they have every enemy that they have every torment that they've lived under every memory every traumatic experience every every memory of every month moment when they realize they were alone not doing it right father I'm asking that you would send your axe to the root right now you know these men have been in cycles and circles a performance because many of them didn't know how to let you put the axe to the root but right now Lord I make intercession for the man at this altar the men at this church put your ass to the in the name of Jesus and let the fruit that's formed in their lives because of the desire to be accepted to be wanted to be respected let those fruit that fake fruits fall off and allow fresh fruit to grow in their lives even the fruit of righteousness even the fruit of godliness even the fruit of authority and right now and their hands are lifted I take authority over every curse trying to operate on the shoulders of these men throw their hands up sons I take authority over the curse of poverty over the curse of witchcraft what were the curse of death over the curse of castration I take authority over the curse of infidelity even the curse of horrid Emma I take a party of over every premature sign the time every word curse every word judgment of operating in the bloodline of beast men operating in the genetics of I take authority over 2 I'm commander every demonic contractor if you're a woman you want to be in travail right now I take authority over every demonic contract every legal document and decree operating over the heads of these men I tell them my tire even paper and smoke in the name of Jesus and I save it right here right now a new narrative oh oh oh oh I a new narrative has been born in the belly of these men a brand new narrative father I'm asking that you would bring the story of pain to an end bring the story of struggle to any bring the story of defeat to an inner and begin a write a new narrative in this belly in the name of Jesus under you've never left them you never left them you are the only reason there you were with them through preschool now you will rip them through first grade you you came to the eighth grade graduation Holland you will whip them at their football games you will with them in their basketball games Oh you soak them how to choose a woman huh you sew them on their job applications with father and mother was saving the world to the top I'm so fond of a fellow Lea but you've been taking them up take care when the name of cheese taken in Santa Clara man ha ha ha they're moving I stay pretty they embraced alcohol to lead us embrace tomorrow pitch coming up on there curse-breaking authority with the mouths of the they're gonna be those only power to quit curses holy even the power that just fine they're all new but they reversed home let's talk may I become nation Jesus I play for this I quit for the men that come out of them I work for the dynasty that you won regarding this to steal any you are I said God is true over these dollars true the father blessed I set the father's lesson Shami what deliberate speak to you today power the Fatherhood of call fatherhood Norton we grew up from Gauri Oh God come on let's have some wife Samantha right there that's a good price that's a good place come on you don't you but you not gonna be charged while Wow brothers Russia Network when man was the world is this change was about the world no just I mean the building watch what I said keep on worse Oh watch what I say he's calling you towards a man I feel this one to walk you just no words right look at the father what everything he knows about you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the war the conflict the civil war going on in your soul because you mad and your sonship experienced today the Spirit of God calls a cease and desist to it and on the other side of your reconciliation with your own manhood and who you've been called by God to be are the instructions for your destiny let's play follow the leader look at me I'm about to show you what to do whenever you get afraid whenever you're frustrated whenever you're angry count to three you just do what I do it's real fun game I count to three give me four throttle this is what men do when they're scared one to three [Music] well stop I hear the let's say I'm doing something new today I'm getting ready to do something new you are in the midst of a new phase that the Spirit of God my news in the my new and it's not just for this church' Bob said I'm doing something new this is the posture come on everyone in this building come on the hot ways of God the hot bodies of Cosby in this room come on brothers once you get up in your feet Melania brothers right now come on come on come on come on brother like he's rich victory has been given Oh the mohawk somebody else at that altar [Music] [Applause] I sense the pleasure of God I said I sense the pleasure of God what's happened today in your heart has pleased God and he's pleased now from this day forward there's going to be pieces of your purpose that you've never seen before that's gonna be clearer because you've given your heart to a father if you're excited about getting to meet to God of your purpose lift up one last Shabak in this real winner come on I've been targets I can add victorious he-hey victorious Pam you kill we are the tires all right take your seats [Music] [Music]

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Published: Mon Nov 18 2019