"Man Up (Men's Event)" by Pastor Robert Madu

amen all right well the ushers are going to receive the honoring of the lord as they do i think we got some video announcements for you guys so check out the overheads for what's coming up here at the rock the rock is a special place not that we can be proud of ourselves but in a god who chose to take a people in a broke down city and build one of the great churches on the planet a place that has been called the graveyard of preachers for 60 years saw the resurrection of passionate on point preaching come to life again the place that the newspapers call broken has seen lies rebuilt the bankrupt city in poverty has the greatest blessings for the poor good news goes out every day and everywhere in the valley and on the mountaintops ages and cultures come together in unity and celebrate diversity not personal preference but purpose not program or performance but people not concept but commitment we are the church the rock church and world outreach center every member of full-time minister upon this rock jesus is building his church one by one you matter to god and to the family that you came to in love we grow together to maturity in life together going to destiny fully engaged wholehearted we are the church the rock church and world outreach center i want to just give you one verbal announcement as well is that uh this weekend um where's pastor antonio at pastor tony oh are we doing water baptism this weekend third week okay so not this weekend but next you got it okay mother's day weekend we're doing water baptisms 20th and 21st okay i thought it was this weekend for some reason so uh 20th and 21st all right we're doing water baptisms and so uh you know maybe in your walk with god you're saying i want to continue to grow and continue to do what god has called me to do i want to encourage you guys as men you know sometimes the men we don't want to do touchy-feely stuff we don't want to express any emotion that sort of thing i want to encourage you guys you know get involved get water baptized uh we're starting the next steps program this weekend and and that's that's that's the thing that i was thinking about you for um is that we're starting this week and start next steps and so if you're looking for what's next in your walk with god how do i grow that sort of a thing um get involved uh all of that is in the uh the magazine and then we've got the the one sheet that you can take a look at what's upcoming here at the rock church warlord center great ways for you to get involved avenues for you to join in with what god is doing here at the rock well tonight you guys ready for the word of the lord all right man i'm excited we have a special guest tonight it's his first time here at the rock church and world outreach center and and just so excited to have robert madue with us he is coming all the way from texas and uh he what really impressed me was you know not i mean this this guy travels the world he he preaches the gospel he's he's been on some of the largest platforms in the world preaching the gospel he's a great communicator great preacher you're going to love the word of god tonight but i just wanted to point out one thing i was looking over his website just checking things out seeing about his life and one of the things that really touched my heart is that he has been in the same church there in texas since he was three years old and he's been raised up in that church he's a part of the teaching team there and so you know when i see a heart like that that has a heart for the house of god that shows me that there's something more than just a great communicator you know there's something more there's a real heart behind that so would you guys give a rock church welcome and stand to your feet let's get the lord of praise as robert madhu comes to deliver the word robert come tell us about jesus well come on man let's give jesus some praise in the building tonight oh come on man you could do better than that i said let's give jesus some praise tonight come on let's lift up the name that is above every name let's just give him a standing ovation of praise come on god we honor you tonight have your way in this place in jesus name before you take your seat before you take your seat high five a brother next to you and say it's on tonight it's it's owned tonight high five a brother how many excited to be at the men's event tonight i'll tell you i'm not just excited i'm red bull excited i got on the plane ready to get here first of all i just want to pause and thank god that the devil is upset tonight because on a friday night some men are not in the club not at the bar but in the house of god lifting up the name above every name come on this is absolutely amazing so i'm just excited glad to have my chocolate face into place we gonna have fun tonight i'm believing god's gonna do something awesome i hope you came with some expectation it's actually kind of funny this is my first time coming to the rock church it's kind of funny how i got the invitation pastor dan called me up a very quick call and he said hey robert you believe in free speech i said pastor dan absolutely i do he said good come get four from this weekend at the rock church so i said all right so that's no that's not what happened but but uh now i just want to pause because as i was driving around here and looking around this church that i mean this campus is just disneyland on steroids it's unbelievable when i begin to hear the heart of your pastor and hear that over 500 000 people are fed each year come on this is not an ordinary church this is an extraordinary church and uh man everything rises and falls on the back of great leadership so before i say anything i just want to thank god for this incredible man of god your pastor come on can we salute and celebrate pastor dan for who he is come on y'all could do better than that man this is not easy to put this on to honor you we celebrate you and i i am i am from the younger millennial hip-hop generation and uh there is an erroneous theology that says started from the bottom uh now we're here and that that is that's bad theology because nobody starts from the bottom uh you start from the top because you stand on the shoulders of the spiritual giants that went before you and uh so i would be remiss tonight if i didn't thank god for the incredible spiritual giant and founding pastor of this church who is here tonight come on can we thank god for pastor jim come on for who he is i salute you sir i celebrate you come on y'all could do better than that man [Applause] come on he is the absolute man he is a better looking clint eastwood and i wouldn't want to mess with him man he would mess you up but we're going to have fun i do bring you greetings from the great country of texas uh come on somebody i've lived there my entire life uh in dallas you know home of uh god's team america's team the dallas cowboys that is just want to put that out there amen if you're a patron you're a patriots fan you can lead the building right now just go on now but uh lived there my entire life married to the finest woman on the planet got two kids and a third on the way three kids under three holla at your boy bang bang bang so uh it is busy at our home but man it is an honor to be here tonight share the word of god i'm going to jump straight to the word i hope you came to hear it because i came to preach it do you have a bible with you come on powerful things happen when men of god come around his word i want to look at mark chapter 2 tonight mark chapter 2 verses 1 through 12. if you'll just indulge me would you stand tonight just to honor the reading of god's word mark chapter 2 starting at verse number 1 and we'll land at verse number 12. how many of you never heard me preach before can i see your hand if you ain't never heard me preach oh man that's everybody uh quick quick disclaimer i am a holla back preacher so that means you can't just sit there tonight and act like you're in a library if anything i say resonates with you you can say hey man you can say preach that you could stand up and say oh that was good you could stand up and say whoa that was for me you could stand up and say oh bro that was for you any one of those worked tonight but don't get quiet on me mark chapter two starting at verse number one we'll land at verse number 12 and really just to kind of set the trajectory of where we're going it was interesting before i came i heard a story of a man who went to go visit his doctor the doctor said sir what's wrong the man said everything doctor said what do you mean everything he said absolutely everything he said doc no matter what place i'm up in my body that i touch i kill over in excruciating pain doctor said every place he said yeah every place doc said okay touch your nose man touched his nose die i said okay touch your ear touches his ear touch your knee touched his knee wow touch your hair touch his hair ah doctor said dummy you got a dislocated finger see sometimes as a man you can think that everything is wrong there's pain in every place the natural reality is just pain in one if you can fix that one thing everything else will take care of itself today i want to talk about one thing we see it in this text tonight mark chapter two starting at verse one it says a few days later when jesus again entered capernaum the people heard that he had come home and so many gathered that there was no room left not even outside the door and he preached the word to them some men some men came bringing to him a paralytic carried by four of them and since they could not get him to jesus because of the crowd they made an opening in the roof above jesus and after digging through it lower the mat the paralyzed man was lying on when jesus saw their faith he said to the paralytic son your sins are forgiven now some teachers of the law aka the haters were sitting there thinking to themselves why does this fellow talk like that he's blaspheming who can forgive sins but god alone immediately jesus knew in the spirit that this is what they were thinking in their hearts and he said to them why are you thinking these things which is easier to say to the paralytic your sins are forgiven or to say get up take your mat and walk but that you may know that the son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins he said to the paralytic i tell you get up take your man and go home he got up took his mat and walked out in full view of them all this amazed everyone and they praised god saying we have never seen anything like this oh come on somebody that is some good stuff right there i don't do drugs i do scripture that is good hey tonight i just want to preach to you briefly not not long probably about six and a half hours uh i'm just playing come on with cinco de mayo we're gonna party uh i want to preach to you from this thought man up man up look at the brother next to you get in his face get in his personal space look at him like you're mad at him and say brother come on tell him brother man up come on find you another brother find you another brother get right in his grill and say brother man up come on if you believe god's gonna speak tonight give them some praise up in here [Music] you can be seated in the presence of the lord father thank you for your word tonight god i know the grass withers the flower fades but your word shall stand forever holy spirit speak to us god we didn't come here on a friday night to waste time god we didn't come here tonight to be entertained we've come to be drastically changed speak to us so clearly and when we leave let us say it was so good to have been in the presence of jesus and somebody loved jesus say amen say amen again man up how many of you men would just say by showing of hands that you were raised in church can i see your hand if you were raised in church oh man that's almost everybody ricotta keep it lifted raised in church yeah i just need to see who needs the counseling uh no i'm playing you can put your hand down i'll lift up my hand with you and i'll let you know that i too was raised in church if you lifted up your hand you understand that the life of a church kid is distinctly different than the life of a regular kid oh come on somebody there are trials and tribulations and situations that you go through as a church kid that other kids aren't even aware of see i know this too well because growing up in my household as a kid we had to be in church okay every day the doors were open had to be in church it was not a democracy it was a dictatorship okay we had to be in church i remember one time as a kid i got bold and i got brave at 13 and i told my father i told my father i told my nigerian father okay i said i ain't going this sunday i don't feel like it told my nigerian father that and do you know what my nigerian father said to me he said let me tell you something boy let me tell you something okay you have two options huh you can get out of that bed and go to church or i can kill you and we will go to church and have your funeral but either way you will be in church because as for me and my house we will serve the lord hey that's a true story that is a true story y'all clapping at the abuse i endured um dinners dinners were different in my house dinners were different because you could not eat your food you could not touch your meal without my mama hitting you with this question what's your favorite scripture before you could eat your food you had to give a scripture before you could touch the plate you had to give a scripture brothers you don't know hunger until your mind is racing through the bible just trying to find a scripture so you can eat your food i remember one dinner being so frustrated with my mama i looked at her and said jesus wept give me the chicken why are you playing with people's food this is stupid but that is the environment that i grew up in and uh to be honest brothers i'm so thankful that's the environment that i grew up in because it has produced something in me it has produced an insatiable desire for the word of god i am obsessed with the word of god the word of god is the hinge upon which my faith has its mobility the word of god is like steroids from my spirit it is red bull for my faith i love the word of god to those of you who think that book you're holding is some boring antiquated book that don't really relate to your life you have lost your mind that is the only book that's still breathing it is the only book that's still alive it is the only book that has real power it is it is the only book that was written in antiquity but yet it can speak to the specificity of your life there is nothing like the word of god it fortifies you it builds you up and although i love the entire word i got to be honest i do have a favorite section i have a favorite section i have a favorite literary genre and that is the gospels the gospels are my favorite that's my jam matthew mark luke and john those are my boys in fact i've spent so much time studying the gospels i feel like they're close personal friends of mine i call them mad marky mark uncle luke and little john i love the gospels because it's in the gospels that we get to see these four men four men talking about the man whose name is jesus one scholar said that the gospels are christology in narrative form that's just a fancy way to say that the gospels are the closest thing that we have of a biography of the greatest man who ever walked the face of this earth and his name is jesus i i love the gospel here's what i love brothers i love that these four gospel writers are all talking about the same jesus but they do it in different ways totally different ways almost like four film directors who've been given the same subject to film but have each been given their own cinematic license to film it each one of them give us a different hd view of who jesus really is and that's why i'm glad tonight mark is our director for tonight see if you like long boring documentaries you got to read the book of matthew okay because matthew he is writing primarily to a jewish audience so he begins the long process of letting you know that jesus is the fulfillment of over 300 old testament prophecies that were given in a 1500 year time span come on any brothers in here ever read matthew chapter one get you some coffee and espresso when you read it okay excitement level is right up there with the book of leviticus okay for the whole first chapter we are just scripturally inundated with baby daddy after baby daddy after baby daddy that's chapter one okay if if you like sci-fi movies sci-fi movies you gotta read the book of luke because luke is a doctor so luke goes into detail to explain the miracles that christ did and how his miracles could do what modern medicine could not do if you're a brother in here no no judging but you like those movies that your wife or your girlfriend makes you go see them mushy gushy romantic movies if you actually like them read the book of john okay john is a chick flick john is the dude that's how he laying his head on the chest of jesus and he's all about love but if you are like me and you like some movies that have some action where things get blown up and people get beat up come with your boy to the book of mark mark is jesus christ in action mark is so gangster he don't even have time for baby jesus now read the book of mark you will not find the manger in the book of mark this dude skips christmas and just go straight to full grown jesus with hair on his chest smelling like old spice mark is not playing games with you mark wants to let you know with clarity and precision that before there was a russell crow and gladiator before there was a male gibson in braveheart before there was a denzel please believe there was a king jesus and every time he stepped in a situation it came under his divine authority because he was a man of god oh i'm so thankful for the real jesus in the bible because people are trying to dumb men down and say you got to be a punk to praise god no i'm powerful because i know i got to get down on my knees and call on the god that formed me and created me come on are there any men in here that are warriors and worshipers warriors and worshipers i feel like preaching tonight can i come down here mark chapter two mark chapter two mark tells us that jesus he's been traveling he's been picking up on his freaking walker miles and uh it's funny to me and he gets to a house a certain house historians believe it's peter's house and uh the bible says when jesus gets to this house all he does is he sits down to rest in this house i'm sure he was tired from the journey he just sits down to chillax in this house and within minutes of him sitting down to rest in the house all of a sudden throughout the entire region people start going bruh come here come here you know jesus in town right you know jesus just showed up before you know what people start getting on instagram and facebook and twitter and they start putting the address on blast saying hey you better get to this house jesus just sold up and before you know it the entire place is jam-packed with people simply because his presence sat down to rest in one place people from different walks of life people from different economic backgrounds people from different cultures all converged in one place because his presence sat down to rest in the house what is it about the presence of god coming to rest in a place that causes people to be drawn from everywhere i'll tell you what it is people instinctively know if you can ever get god's presence to rest in a place how many you know something supernatural something life-changing something miraculous will happen if his presence shows up oh come on man why are you here tonight come on you could be at the house right now you could be netflixing right now why in the world would you come on a friday night straight from work some of you drove a long way to get here just to come into the house of god you didn't come to hear the worship team as awesome as they are you know come to hear me preach you don't even know who i am i think i know why you came tonight you came because you knew god's presence would be in this place and when god's presence shows up something happens on the inside of you oh let me tell you you want to make the devil mad be a man that passionately pursues the presence of god oh you want to make demons tremble pursue the presence of god because you do know man you were created to be in his presence i wish i had time if you look at the book of genesis i love genesis because genesis shows us that in everything god created he made the environment more important than the entity in other words for the entity to survive it had to stay connected to its environment what you're talking about robert i'm going to show you he first created the sky then he filled it with stars he first created the water then he filled it with fish he first created the earth then he filled it with shrubs he then created the man and then filled him with his god with his presence if you take a star out of the sky it becomes a meteorite and it malfunctioned and it dies if you take a fish out of water it'll start doing the harlem shake and it will malfunction and it will die if you take a plant out of the ground it will malfunction and it will die and if you take a man out of the presence of god he will malfunction he will die because you were created to be in his presence i mean it's presents and i love it because i can see them all packed in this house i can see them i can see them i can see the sick in this house going if he touches me i know i'm gonna be made whole i can see it i can see it i can see practical things like a dad with his little son he ain't really feeling it he's on his eye patches and the dad's like boy pay attention jesus gonna tell you something bro that's why you get in trouble in school cause you don't listen to nobody listen to jesus he gonna change your life i can see it i can see it and come on just be real jesus was single and in the ministry so i could see some ladies in the house talking about girl hey girl yeshua is fine you see that hair girl i heard last week at a wedding he turned water into wine yes he did don't let him ask me out on a date i'm ordering water i mean i can't see them all packed in this house and they're waiting with tiptoe anticipation to see what jesus was going to do they should have been waiting to hear what jesus was going to say the bible says they're all packed in this house all jesus does is he stands up he clears his holy throat the bible says that jesus preached the word to them solid dips he preached the word and that might not get you excited but that gets me excited because i love to hear people preach the word of god something powerful happens whenever the word of god is preached and bless you if you're a part of a church that has a pastor that preaches the word of god come on because there's a lot of people today standing behind pulpits that ain't preaching the word they're preaching their opinion they're preaching cute stories they're preaching their political ideology and they wonder why there's no transformation in the people that they're preaching to because the only thing that can transform your soul is the infallible incorruptible everlasting eternal unchanging word of god that's where the power is in the world i love that people preach the word here's how mature i've gotten this believer i don't even care your style of how you preach it if you're preaching the word i am with you okay i like calm preachers that preach the word and they just stay in one spot and they say this is my bible i am what it says i am i can do what it says i can do i like calm preachers that preach the word i like preachers they get real excited when they preach the word and got veins popping out of their neck got a hammond b3 organ behind them it sounded like they have an asthma attack between each word come on you know that preacher they're like this is my bible i am what it says i am i can do what it says i can do if it says i'm the head i'm the head if it says i'm above i'm above household glad that god i mean i like those preachers too i preach like that in some places but i want to scare some of y'all here in san bernardino um in my text today in my text today hear me this ain't no ordinary preacher it's jesus this is the greatest preacher to ever preach do you know why i preached like i had six red bull tonight because i had six red bulls and i know you know why i preach with so much passion and so much exuberances because i know when i get to heaven don't nobody want to hear what i got to say come on we don't want to hear any preachers when we get to heaven put your little podcast to the side the only person we want to hear when we get to heaven is jesus the king of kings and the lord of lords that's the only one got to get all my preaching out now you understand when i preach when pastor damn preachers your pastor preaches we just have a word jesus was the word he was the word made flesh that means if jesus really wanted to preach a good message that's all he had to say and he still would have been preaching he was the word made flesh there they are in this room they're trying to pay attention to jesus they really are but like many of us in the middle of the message they got distracted wait a minute is somebody on the roof they're trying to pay attention to a sermon before you know it debris starts falling down in the middle of the house and before you know it a hole starts appearing in the roof and before you know it a few hands and a few heads appear in the hole as the hole gets bigger and bigger and bigger now historians believe this is peter's house peter's house they put in a hole in peter's roof okay let me explain to disciples for some here okay if there's any disciple you don't want to put a hole in his roof it's peter okay put a hole in john's roof you know disciple is always laying on the chest of jesus put a hole in his roof because he'll just say now i can see the stars that my creator has made for me not peter okay peter like some of y'all you love jesus but you're still working that temper out okay you love jesus but don't let somebody cut you off on the highway okay peter was crazy peter would cuss you out peter would cut you so i could see this hole getting bigger and bigger and peter's like man what the and jesus like watch your mouth peter watch your mouth boy come on man we talked about this i'm the son of god i'll make you a new roof you're gonna be all right okay all of a sudden they start lowering this man down down down down down all the way at the feet of jesus bible doesn't tell us this man's name doesn't even tell us when his paralysis occurred all the bible tells us is that he is a paralytic man that's noteworthy that's noteworthy because if you study the gospels one of the things that you will find is that anytime jesus encounters a person rarely do we get their name more often than not we just get their gender and their condition have you ever noticed this there was a man with a withered hand there was a man who was blind there was a man who was deaf there was a woman with the issue of blood we just get their gender in their condition and you know what it speaks to i think it speaks to the human tendency to identify people by their issues oh yeah we do that today people love to identify other people by their issues people love to label you by a certain issue that you have because it comforts the human conscience to put people in categories and to label people by some mistake that they made humans are the only people that will call you something for 15 years that you did one time in your past in five minutes and think the sum total of your life is the mistake that you made some of you brothers right now are struggling to give god praise because the enemy keeps reminding you of your past mistakes and what you did last night and what you did two weeks ago and you think that your issue is your identity but i got some good news from heaven for somebody in this place today how many are thankful that if a man a man be in christ come on you are a brand new creature your past has been washed away by the blood of jesus come on don't define yourself by your dysfunction you are more than your mistake your issue is not your identity it's the trick of the enemy and people to keep up bringing up your past and reminding you what you did and blogging about you and tweeting about you and talking about you you just start looking at people and talk trash to the devil and say you know what you know a whole lot about my history but you don't know anything about my destiny god has greater in front of me than the mistakes of my past never make yourself think that you are what you did your issue is not your identity you are who god says you are here they are they just label this man and they call him a paralytic man and i love it because watch this he's in the presence of god he made it to god's presence but he's still got a paralysis he's in god's presence but he's still got his paralysis ooh i love it because i know you can't say anything here tonight because you're trying to be real spiritual like you had communion for lunch and you floated in the room because that's how we do but you'd be shocked at the men in this room who are in god's presence but you got a paralysis brothers i'm talking about the thing that affects your walk with the lord talk about the thing that you cry out to god in a secret place and say god if i didn't have this my walk with you could be a whole lot better maybe you feel like this man tonight you feel like giving up you feel like throwing in the towel understand this is first century in the century rather there are no there are no wheelchairs this man would sit in one place stuck for hours can we be real tonight have you ever just felt stuck in life watching other people pass you by and going god how long am i going to be in this situation and you feel like giving up and you feel like throwing in the towel but god sent this screaming shouting sweating chocolate brother from dallas texas to tell you you can't give up you can't give up because god has a way of putting you at the right place at the right time to hear the right word so you can get up man up and walk into all that god has for you thank god pastor dan for these four men these the type of men i want in my life give me some friends like this see some of you can't go to the next level because of the people that are around you i want four men like this i don't want men to see me on the ground and say hey bro the ground ain't that bad in fact target got some more match you want me to go get you another no give me some tear the roof off brothers who will push me into my purpose and push me into my destiny and say man you can't be mediocre man with all the purpose you got and you're like no man no man jesus gonna meet with you today you know i'm crazy i will tear the roof off i don't know what to do about the situation but he know what to do about the situation come on somebody get his legs i'm gonna get his art these four men said i'll do whatever it takes to get him into the presence of god no wonder no wonder jesus responded in the text to their faith don't miss that not just the faith of the man but the faith of the four men who said i'll do whatever it takes for this brother to get a breakthrough for men who i don't want to impose anything on this text but i found it interesting that when i'm stuck in life there's four men that i need four men that i call when i'm stuck i think every man needs a father every man needs a pastor every man needs a mentor and every man needs a friend oh i'ma say it again for the note takers every man needs a father every man needs a pastor every man needs a mentor every man needs a friend every man needs a pastor a shepherd that can guide you that can speak true to you that can tell you your breast thanks yeah they can call you out on your mess a pastor to guide you every man needs a mentor somebody that can shape you in the specificity of your call because jesus did not come to earth get up from the grave and save you just so you could sit on your blessed assurance and come to a church service but he actually has a call on your life a purpose for your life a mentor can shape your purpose every man needs a father oh a father you can get here by yourself i don't care what you want to say you were shaped by some man who was your father not me my daddy wasn't ever there that empty chair at the dining room table shaped you every man needs a father if you didn't have a natural one find you a spiritual father that can pour into your life and every man needs a friend somebody that you can be real with somebody that you cannot just talk about who won the game and somebody you don't have to put on your superman cape for but you say hey bro here's my kryptonite and i'm about to die can you pray for me about this it's four man tore the roof off now when somebody comes through a roof ooh you should shut that sermon down because this is a big sherman interruption and the crowd is taken back that somebody's come through the roof but the crowd is also excited because this is what they paid their ticket to see i mean come on it's already been rumored throughout the region that jesus has supernatural power so as soon as the dude hits the ground i can see the whole crowd going oh it's about to go down i'm telling you y'all jesus got power he got power i don't know if he's gonna take mud and rub it on his legs i don't know what he's gonna do but it's gonna be good you better get your camera put this on youtube the man the man who had to be embarrassed to be lowered into the presence of all these people but all of a sudden his embarrassment is eradicated with the feeling of elation because he knows for the first time in his life he's gonna be able to stand on his own two feet for the first time in his life he's gonna be able to go for a run for the first time in his life when he's at a wedding and they do the cha cha slide and they say one hop this time he gonna be able to do it while the crowd is waiting to clap at the miracle and the man is waiting to dance jesus who has the power to heal him the first thing he says first thing he says is son your sins are forgiven what okay some of y'all too spiritual for me you're too spiritual because because soon as i said since forgiven you were like oh glory to god yes sin that is just the problem but i don't know how you read the bible here's how i read the bible i jump in the page of the bible okay i imagine what it would be like to be that particular individual in the bible and that lets me know i would have gotten kicked out of the bible okay right around genesis chapter two okay because whenever i am frustrated whenever i am annoyed i have the tendency to be a little bit sarcastic okay y'all pray for me all right so if that's me if that's me and i've just been carried through a crowd up the side of a house a hole has been cut and a reconstruction has happened for me to get into the prince of a man that everybody's been saying is gonna heal me and everybody's been saying it's gonna make me walk again and the first thing the first thing he says to me is son your sins are forgiven i'm going oh appreciate it jesus you know that's why we came all the way down here to get my sins forgiven yeah that's the real obvious apparent issue to get my sins forgiven yeah i don't need these legs huh i don't want to walk i came all the way down here to get my sins forgiven hey y'all since forgiving let's go home what is jesus talking about brothers you got to read your bible it is funny stuff in your bible this dude didn't say anything about sin this dude didn't say anything about an inner issue jesus seems to be the only ignoramus in the room who don't realize this man did not come to get his sins forgiven hello he wants to do the moonwalk but hear me brothers anytime jesus appears to be acting ignorant in scripture you got to pay close attention he's about to give you incredible insight ah let me say a little bit more eloquently uh there is a profundity in the alleged stupidity of christ that's good because because this this man just like us as men didn't even realize he didn't even realize he was in the exact place posture and position that god often reveals himself to you hear my heart brothers there is a place in life that is frustrating that is annoying but is often the place that god reveals himself to you and that place is this whenever your experience doesn't line up with your expectation god is trying to give you a revelation of who he is please don't miss that whenever your experience doesn't line up with your expectation god is trying to give you a revelation of who he is because rarely is jesus recognized he is more often revealed and he reveals himself at the place where our experiences don't line up with our expectations oh come on brothers has anybody ever been there before well you experienced something you weren't expecting but now you can look back in hindsight and say who it was good that that happened the way it did i didn't want it to happen that way but boy i'm sure glad that it did thank you that they didn't call me back for that job i wouldn't have the business i have right now god thank you that that girl never called me back and wouldn't go out on a date i just checked her facebook page i see what she looks like now thank you for shutting that oh come on somebody have you ever looked back and see that your experience didn't line up with your expectation but god in his grace was revealing himself to you he is a revealer and he does it when your experience doesn't line up with your expectation oh y'all bored yet i wish i had time can i go a little bit deeper i could take you i could take you throughout the bible and show you different scenarios where people's experiences didn't line up with their expectation and it was just a setup for god to reveal himself to them i'll give you my favorite one remember john chapter 11 we're introduced to a family remember mary and martha mary remember that brother lazarus gets sick just out of the blue he starts coughing i think i got the black lung he just starts calling and uh somebody get that tomorrow and uh they don't trip at first they don't trip at first but all of a sudden it gets worse and worse to the point lazarus can't even get out of the bed and in my mind i can see martha she's a little poised she's keeping it together but mary is freaking out going what are we gonna do this is the only present that we have it's not getting better it's getting worse and mother's like girl stop that crying okay stop that crying let me ask you something when jesus comes into town whose house does he stay at oh he stays in our house girl that means this whole house is covered in the presence of the lord it's gonna be okay it's gonna be all right it's mad bad get my cell phone get my cell phone come on y'all know this bible story takes her cell phone and sends a text message to jesus says jesus the one you love doesn't even say his name you know what i'm talking about the one you love is sick you jesus do what you do sin jesus is on the other side of town preaching the gospel as he's preaching cell phone text message noise goes off ding ding he's like what i'll tell y'all about cell phones while i'm preaching the disciples like jesus that's you he's like oh my bad pulls out his cell phone sees the text message from martha the one you love is sick you jesus do what you do he immediately responds he says do not worry this cyclone this sickness predictive text will jack you up on it this sickness will not end in death sends it back to martha martha gets the text ah look who just texted me jesus he said this sickness will not end to death i told you he's an on time god yes he i mean they start having church i'm sorry i'm sorry that was so selfish as a communicator because that was for me not for you because it was so funny to watch some of your faces go i never read this version before [Laughter] let me help you brothers that is the niv okay negro international version that's a different different translation it's not in bookstore they started shouting they start dancing off of a text message but don't miss it right after they finish dancing lazarus died and jesus jesus has the nerve and the audacity to not come to the funeral he don't show up to the graveside service he don't send a goodwill card this dude walks in four days late cool calm and collected somebody hey how y'all doing you all good you all good y'all good merry motto like no he didn't like jesus i will cut you oh rita they were so mad is ass you know how you know how women get when uh come on we can be honest you would have been here a brother wouldn't have died their experience didn't line up with their expectation they were expecting him to come as soon as they sent word but he didn't he waited till lazarus was dead and not just dead four days that's dead four days then walks right up to him walks right past them says show me the place where you laid him down goes to the grave preaches a three-point sermon and says lazarus come forth and thank god it was a three-point sermon that day because you do know his word is so powerful if he would have just gone to the grave and just said come forth every dead person in there would have been like hold on he talking about me and it would have been a thriller video but i want to thank god he can get the right word to the right person at the right time come on somebody so whatever is holding you down oh man up come play so i can land can you see mary and martha taking the grave clothes off with their brother who was dead going girl jesus off the chain what i thought he could only hear people who just think i thought he could only i thought he could only help people when they got sick but girl he's got power to raise people from the dead and we would have never known resurrection power was in him until our experience didn't line up with our expectation i'm telling you brothers that thing you complaining about [Applause] you could flip the script and start praising about it because it's just a setup for god to reveal himself to you in a deeper way now since god's presence are here tonight sometimes it's not until you get the bad doctor's report that you get a revelation that he is a healer sometimes it's not until people you thought you could trust stab you in the back you get a revelation that he'll never leave you he'll never forsake you sometimes it's not until your money is funny and your change is strange and you got more bills than you got income that you get the revelation that he really is jehovah gyra your provider come on how your pocketbook going down but your belly getting bigger cause you still eating three meals a day he's still providing for you somehow some way he's revealing he's revealing himself to you what is he revealing to this man somebody coming to play the piano because this makes it sound a whole lot spiritual soft music was playing but what's he revealing to this man what's he revealing to the man well look at what he says to him he says son i love it because he spoke to his identity he says son your sins are forgiven only a savior can say that only a savior can make that declaration and in that moment that man had to be thinking jesus hello my legs why did i come to you you don't even know what my problem is she's saying uh you don't know what your problem is ah you got a dislocated finger you think your legs are the big issue but they're not in fact your legs are just the fruit of the issue but sin is the root of the issue i cannot deal with the fruit of an issue to let go deeper and deal with the root of an issue i know in my own life i'm so good at inviting jesus to deal with the fruit of issues fix them fix her fix that so many times he shines a light on my heart says no i need to fix you this man didn't even realize watch this it's so gangster this man didn't even realize that the jesus didn't say anything but your sins are forgiven and then walk out the room and leave him on the floor how many know he still did a miracle he still did a miracle because you're better off being paralyzed and forgiven than to be walking in sin but you ought to thank god tonight he's able to do both he don't want you paralyzed with the promise and he don't want you walking in sin he wants you walking worthy of the call that is on your life stepping into your purpose into your destiny your sins are forgiven you got a dislocated soul it says before i deal with the suffering i got to deal with your soul before i deal with your external circumstance i gotta deal with your heart your sins are forgiven i love it because as soon as it gets to the root of the problem the pharisees the haters the church folk he said he's blaspheming who but god alone can forgive sins huber got alone that's who he was he was god so much god he responded not to their words to their thoughts they thought it they didn't say it and jesus goes why are you thinking these things which is easier to say to this man your sins are forgiven or to say get up take your man and walk he says so that you may know that the son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins come on man can we pause right there and thank god that we serve a god that has authority oh come on you can stop stressing about what you're stressing about you serve a god that doesn't have an inferiority complex he knows who he is he's got all authority he is the alpha and the omega he is the first and the last he knows the end from the beginning he has got all power and authority he says so you may know that the son of man has authority on earth to forgive sins he looks at this man and says i tell you get up somebody say get up oh come on sound like you got some face hey get up come on say it like you got some power say get up oh i love that jesus told this man just to get up he didn't say i'ma put some oil on you he didn't say i'ma get a prayer team he didn't say i'm gonna do a six-week series he said no not for this miracle for this miracle i've given you a word now you gotta respond to the word that you heard and activate your faith and do something come on somebody say get up oh somebody came all the way to the service tonight to get those two words get up god wants to take you to a new place get up god wants to take you to a new dimension come on man up god wants to bring you up from every single thing that the enemy was trying to hold you down in come on man man up man up from depression manna from disease manna from poverty man up from the pain of your past come on somebody would you give god some praise and just say man up hallelujah don't you let the enemy make you stay on the ground and live at this level your calling is too high for you to live that low man up i can see this man standing for the first time in my mind i imagine the whole place erupted giving god praise this man who was down now manned up i love jesus because he's not just powerful he's practical he's not just powerful he's practical because right after he told him to man up get up he said something else to the man that when i first read it made me laugh out loud he says get up he goes oh and take your man can you see that man go man i don't need this mad jesus you know how long i've been laying on this man i'm good no you ain't good take you're your man i gotta carry this stupid mat around i think it's because jesus didn't want him to ever forget that he used to be down on the ground oh come on i'm talking to some church folks now sometimes when god raises you up and you've been walking with him for a while you'll get anointed amnesia and you'll forget where you should have been and where you could have been if it had not been for the grace of god come on don't you forget you're mad brother you're mad as your testimony of god's goodness in your life you know where you could be if god hasn't stepped in your life your mat is your testimony oh does anybody here have a man of the goodness of god and where he brought you from don't forget you're mad you're mad as what makes you reach out to another brother who's down in the same position you used to be in you're mad as what makes you weak when a brother is in a place he's not supposed to be in because you know it wasn't too long ago i was down on the ground see this man walking with his man oh one more commandment go home some y'all like are we gonna be able to go home i'm almost done just go home i think it's possible if you told this man to go home you think it's possible plausible they could have had a wife i think it's possibly could have had some kids and i can see this dude walking to his house for the very first time holding this man [Music] come on that's how you walk when you just got your legs see him knocking on the door of his house you see maybe his kids coming to the front door going damn dad i can't believe dad you you're standing you're walking mama come see dad he's he's home he's standing her mom's here in the kitchen and she's cooking chicken and you already knew and just quit making up them stories you're making up stories at school your daddy is not out there no mama come see stops cooking comes to the front door sees her husband standing there for the first time my imagination tears begin to run down her face because when a man is transformed it changes the entire house the entire house [Applause] sees him i can see him looking at his wife i can see him saying sweetheart you can't even see the real miracle the rear middle curl isn't just that my legs have been healed the real miracle is that my sins have been washed away he dealt with a thing that nobody else could deal with in fact my legs are just proof positive that he did a work on the inside because whenever god wants to heal you brother he'll heal you from the inside out you trying to be fixing the external ah [Music] you gotta dislocate it so i had to preach this message tonight because god told me he wants to heal some dislocated souls tonight all your life you've been wrestling and fighting with the external but god's saying no it's an internal job just gonna ask at this moment every head be bowed every hobby closed [Music] jesus thank you for loving us enough to shine the light on the inside father tonight i stand with my brothers god i ask you to get to the root of the issue god don't let us waste years of our life complaining about the fruit of issues when you want to go so much deeper and get to the room heads about hours are closed tonight defender tonight you say you know what there's something that's at the root of the issue that i haven't surrendered to god i don't know what that thing is but i believe as i was preaching the holy spirit was speaking to you as to what that thing is for some man it could be bitterness anger unforgiveness that you keep holding towards somebody that you won't let go and it ain't killing them it's killing you god's saying today it's time to get up let me get to the root i don't know what that thing is but if you're here tonight and you say jesus tonight i give that thing to you tired of putting a band-aid on a gunshot won't do surgery and get to the road if that's you you say i know what that is would you just lift up your hand say god tonight i'm giving it to you just lift it up say i know what that is i'm gonna surrender it to him yeah yeah hands are going up all over this place tonight thank you jesus anybody else just lift it up and put it right back down thank you god thank you god heads to bound i still closed been here tonight and you've never even taken the first step which is saying jesus my life is yours some of you just need to say you know what i'm tired of doing life for my home but god for me getting up means i'm surrendering to you inviting you into my life i'm not asking you how you been to church i'm asking you have you surrendered your life to jesus if you're a man in here tonight and you say you know what i've never taken that first step which is saying jesus all that i am is yours and i'm ready to get up and walk in relationship with you if that's you i just want you to lift up your hand right where you are say that's me i need to give him my life tonight yeah yeah thank you hands going up all over this place maybe you need to rededicate recommit your life to him just lift it up put it right back down thank you jesus thank you jesus you know i just says this so strongly hands are lifted up for both of those things but if you lift up your hand for either one of those or either one of those i just think there's things that we do in the natural that are a picture of what god is doing in the supernatural when i count to three if you lift up your hand for either one of those saying hey there's something i want to surrender that i notice at the root of saying i need to give my life when i count to three i'm just gonna ask you to get out of your seat and come up here to this altar you say man what are people going to think who cares that man didn't care what anybody thought when he walked up out of there holding his man so when i come to three if you lifted up your hand or you should have i just want you to get out of your seat and come to this halter and i'm believing is god showing you that you're walking into a new place one two it's between you and your god three come on come on come on come on you lifted up your hand or you should have for either one of those just come come on come on come on hallelujah hallelujah come on walking into a new place walking into your purpose come on [Music] come on how great is our god sing with me how great how great is our god come on brothers can we declare this to our king tonight the singer how great is our god sing with me come on just begin to surrender to him all we'll say all we'll see how how great jesus is a god come on brothers just begin to release that thing to your father as we declare how great [Music] is [Music] jesus we love you tonight [Music] god we're not asking you to fix the external or fix somebody else god we're asking you to fix us we want a man up we know we can only man up when you heal us from the inside out do it tonight jesus [Music] hallelujah hallelujah are we just resting your presence allow you to do surgery you want to be the man you've called us to be i want to be the fathers you've called us to be [Music] hallelujah [Music] hallelujah jesus hallelujah god thank you jesus thank you god [Music] [Music] sorry where you are i just want us to pray this closing prayer we're all going to say it as one big brotherhood tonight but especially those of you who came to the front tonight would you just say this prayer from your heart i'm gonna give you the words but you say it just say dear jesus thank you so much for loving me thank you for loving me just like i am thank you for loving me but you won't let me stay the same jesus tonight i give you permission [Music] get to the root of the issue forgive me of my sin wash me clean make me know i am who you say i am from this moment forward i'm walking with you i'm gonna get up i'm gonna man up and take my man so the world will see that i am a man that jesus raised from death to life in jesus name amen amen amen come on can we give god some praise tonight oh come on man you can do better than that can we give god some praise tonight hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah if you uh if you came to the front tonight especially if you made that decision to say you know what i'm walking with jesus for the first time can you do me this favor don't leave i'm not talking to pastor joelle joelle is somewhere here here he is right here especially if you made that decision or maybe you just need extra prayer and say hey man this is this is something i need to talk to somebody about please don't leave without going with my brother here joelle how many of you were blessed by the word of god tonight were you blessed man [Music] it's so good [Applause] i uh i want to encourage you uh this sunday this sunday i'll be preaching both services right here so uh man use your manhood use your authority get every brother get your family your crazy cousin pookie and all them and get him to church this sunday i'm literally preaching a message that is revolutionized my life and is changing the body of christ sunday's gonna be off the chain if you can get your face in the place here this sunday uh i'm gonna turn it over to you pastor uh thank you so much brothers i appreciate you god is good

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Length: 63min 44sec (3824 seconds)

Published: Tue May 16 2017