"Man with the Withered Hand" Rev. Timothy Flemming Sr

get your Bibles if you will at this time today I would like for you to turn to the book of st. mark and your New Testament the Gospel according to Mark first well let's look at chapter 3 st. mark chapter 3 today and we will read a few of the following verses starting at verse 1 and it entered again into the synagogue and that was a man there which had a withered hand and they watched him whether he would heal him on the sabbath that they might accuse him and he said unto the man which had the withered hand stand forth and he said unto them is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil to save life or to kill but they held their peace where it's fine and when he had looked around about on them with anger being grieved for the hotness of their heart he said unto the man with the withered hand stretched forth daaad hand and he stretched it out and his hand was restored whole as the other we're going to talk today on the subject the man with the withered hand Jesus was very faithful in his attendance at the Jewish synagogue on the Sabbath he had been brought up to observe this custom strictly as a habit of his life those in Galilee who wanted to be certain of meeting Jesus knew that all they needed to do was to go on the Sabbath to the synagogue near earth where he was staying and there he was sure to be fine it was fitting that Jesus would be there the synagogue had a special significant in Jewish life because it was where the scripture was being read and expounded in public God's people gathered there to hear and learn what God had to say to them in their Bible and surely the most likely place for Jesus to go and declare who he was and who he was representing would be there because all scripture pointed to him that was in the Jewish Bible and that is true today if we want to find Jesus the most likely place is still the place where on the day of his resurrection the scripture that witness to him and all read and it's found it we should be there at that place but Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever more and it's a tragedy that that so many people missed Christ today because they will not observe this simple fact they won't him but they don't want to go to the place where he hangs out and that is God's house now Jesus went to the synagogue that Sabbath day in spite of the fact that he knew that most of them did not want him a week or two earlier the authorities of Catania had behaved very unpleasantly to him and had shown him a great deal of antagonism but he's back and we ourselves can thank God Jesus is so patient when we think of how we act in church how we refuse to obey Him and how we try to wipe him out of our mind Jesus is so patient when we run him away he comes back again he never gives up on us he works through the Holy Spirit always convicting us when we turn away from him and look he's right in front of us or he's the kind of God that when you turned from you got to turn to him at the same time now Jesus had a very keen eye for human need when he walked through the streets of Jerusalem he noticed the poor beggar that was born blind and did not leave him until the curtains of darkness would let up from his eyes and the light of God's creation came through when he passed through Jericho he souls that kirius that dishonest tree-climbing politician miserable man and he did not leave this man who was climbing trees until he had changed and stopped climbing trees and started climbing Jacob Lenna when he passed by the Pool of Bethesda he noticed a certain man that had been crippled for 38 years did not leave that man until he and his bed had changed places and instead of him being on the bed he put the bed on him and started walking praising God when he passed through Catania he saw a man named Matthew the Levi sitting at the tax collecting table Jesus did not leave him until he was changed from a tax collector to a soul collector rich or poor small agreed hollow Saint a sinner he saw their needs and never left them the same way he found them he never left them until they're not sworn tired and a ton of the Dom in the years of the Deaf one stop and heat had been run out of fever he never left them until darkness was turned and the day's shining with hope and flowers into a flower garden of joy he never left them until they I once was blind became that I now see he never left them until that we have no dealing with the Jews became come see a man he never left them until the unchangeable became changeable the unfixable became fixable their own pain became king so Jesus being so faithful in his attendance at the city garden on this Sabbath day and having such a keen eye he walked upon this man with the withered hand Luke was a physician and he asked a statement that this was this man right hand this man had a withered hand and it was his right hand now this man had a problem because his harlot trained expert member of his body was out of circulation this man had a problem because his midst of hand was a tool with which we translate thoughts into deeds and ideas into achievements this man had a problem this man had a problem because he was cut off from his powers of expression if he had a fine thought he could not write it out like another man could he had a withered hand if his heart was worn with kind of feelings he could not stretch out of hand with a friendly handshake this man had a problem if he felt a generous in Paul - what a needed person there was his withered hand blocking him all the way this man had a problem this man had a problem because he could not reach out and shake your hand and give you the right hand of fellowship this man had a problem he couldn't play basketball he couldn't throw a ball this man had a problem this man had a problem because he was embarrassed over the fact that his wither hand was there all the time if he wanted to throw his arms around some woman his embarrassed hand was there all the time this man had a problem he couldn't build anything like most men could be because the power of the hand is very crucial in our lives some of us have hands and we don't know how important it is to hell your hand with your hand you can write and communicate with your hand you can point in directions with your hand you can war off missiles with your hand you could invite for company and you can ball your fists up in anger with your hand man has been able to do some miraculous things you need to be thanking God that you got hands this morning praise God that you have hands this man in our text really did have a problem and now some of the people today that have this same problem suppose the master were present in one of our modern church worship service would he notice any withered hands I have a feeling that he would there are people now who are great leaders they get through tones of reading in the course of 10 years books papers magazines dealing with bias and crime and guilt dealing with labor problems political problems social questions the eyes are alright and they must think they're doing a great deal of good in the world because they read so much about everything in the world oh you got good eyes now some people feel like they're great listeners they go through lectures and address and fervent pleas of social betterment and because they feel so deeply about it all while they are listening they think they are that they are excellent people because their ears all right so you got eyes all right you read and you got to use your great listeners and they can talk honestly friendly honestly about these many poems of needs they can quote poetry and scripture and bear upon these problem they spend whole afternoon discussing the seriousness of situation in which modern man finds themselves there are tongues are all right they have good tongues and they can talk but when it comes to putting into practice these principles method by which they have heard read and talked about when it comes to talking these shining and taking be shining ideas of human betterment into the streets the shops and stores the factories they fall down in the hand kid will oftentimes these people cannot even get their hands in their pocket to give to the needy in any generous measure as their whole sell out of their lives expect them to do they can talk so good they have never formed a habit of translating fine words and defined these they do seem to recognize the fact that is more blessed to give than to receive they can read and listen and talk but when the I will strike for definite helpful action in a wall of sin and pain they make a sari show it why do they talk so well why do they hear so well why do they see so well but don't get nothing done I'll tell you why because they got a rid of him it is just possible that this age of ours is a particular danger at this point there's so much to read the display of the newsstand is appalling and the number of books are dropping from the press and a steady stream is so great that it's almost seen that books about the crowd as off this earth now we tell all these great things about us we can write we can talk and we have everything together but when it comes to getting it done the hands get rid and what a man is over developed in one area and on the develop in another area this is not an advantage to him he's a handicap just because you got one leg a little longer than the other does not give you the advantage over me don't go around bragging I got a long alley then you know you're not better than I am you're heading to camp because you've got one leg too much brothers and sisters if you can go around and brag about how much you know and where you've been to school and how much you've learned how much money you got in the bank and brag about all the things you have a couplet in this world but if you can reach out and help somebody then you got all withered him I know I got withered hands in the church every time I walk around and I ask some of you would you like to be in this particular auxilary no oh you talk good but I know what's wrong why you turned me down without him someone you can ride in nice cause here to church today brag about how God has blessed you but if I ask you with all that wonderful cause that you have and all the nice things where'd you go and pick up sister sawing so she needs a ride to the church I know what I fine with him some of you can shout so high it look like you're almost bought to reach up and grab those chandelier and I paid thousands of dollars for those thing they came from Egypt and you will grab them if you could but when you come back down and I said all right you just got through shouting god is good when you get in the choir no you just got to shouting about how good guardians to you running up and down the aisle tear up my furniture not gonna hold in the world running so fast and if I asks you would you come back to church on Wednesday night no I know what's wrong with you you got your shot right but you gotta with a thing I'll take some of you and put you on a Deacon move and I said would you like to serve in the church you look like you're such an anointed man look like you can pre look like you can say look like you really taking the church seriously and some of you I put on the board came from ocean boys and books and all these things now I got you on the Deacon board got the big head don't even come to your own church and what's your Excuse I'm working you were working for you got on the board I'm busy well you should have told me before I put your own I know what's wrong with you with him look at your name's that Pastor cut in this mall some of your armor bearer looked at you and said would you like to support the pastor because your name came up to me I didn't know you somebody brought your name to me like some deacons and I said would you like to serve and assisted profit yes do on the Upper Room complicating it through you standing around because people around but on your regular trustee keep Vanya and you got nobody to hold up my own you know I'm a barrel your paw barrel on this world what's wrong with you River hang freeze it in the pulpit go off to school and get a few little learning can split speak fluently and eloquently and have a great command of the English language you can sway crowds with how you can use poetry you can move a congregation with your silvertone but when it comes down to practicing what you preach when it comes down to talking and talking and talking and you good but when it comes down to being what you say are that a withered hand then quit preaching saying it doesn't take on but it took all that to get you where you are it took all that sweating for you to build up your ministry and now that you have a live I know your is good your Tundra your eyes are good you feed all right but your handi normal got a with him here's a short story told by the Prince of storytellers he SPECT as never man speak frequently in parables Jesus said a certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among thieves robbed him wounded him and left him by the wayside half dead by chance a priest came along his business as a priest wall to talk about religion he could do it so thoroughly and well he could offer notable sentiments as easily as you could repeat the multiplication tablet he was often heard to say thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and our neighbor as thyself then listen that distri thou shall not forget the poor and need it not a stranger within thy gates the priest who passed by the man on the wound that rolled on the road to Jericho was fine his lips were alright but when he saw that wounded traveler bloody and thirsty on the roadside his hand became with him and he passed by on the other side then the Levite came along his business was to sing about his religion in the temple service the Levite made up the choir he had been known for bringing in their northern through music with his heavenly voice he could sing them beautiful anthems about loving-kindness and tender mercy he was known to sing blessed is he that considereth the poor look at him believer singing in the choir Lord will make away somehow let's let him singing a charge to keep her head I sure do love the Lord let's let him say if I can't help somebody then my living shall not be in vain sing sing Levite he's he could sing he could move people his throat was in prime condition but when he passed long to Jericho and saw that blood a man wounded all that singing about a fang hip somebody you didn't help nobody that day he walked by that wounded man why he didn't want love blood on it the priest didn't walk no blood on him and the Levite didn't want no blood on him and all I was singing about the precious blood of Jesus but then a Samaritan came alone Samaritan will not offer that as a Jews they rejected all the Old Testament except the first five books of Moses and they were considered off the track theologically hmm he too saw the unfortunate man that had been lying there and he had compassion hmm he was he got that man and bound up his wounds pouring oil wine in his wounds behind him up picked up the wounded man on the Jericho Road put him on his meal care of the mold up to the hotel and painting bill why did this Good Samaritan do it because he did not have no wicked him his hands were all right some of you dis morning you all right you great dreamers here nobody beat you dreaming dreaming about a house dreaming about that's my car dreaming about that's your man dreaming about that's my woman lord I want to be married Lord I want somebody I see him I see him Lord I see him tall dark and handsome and you don't have him yet do you women here you know why you just a dreamer and not a duel you had to get out and meet people you want that house that God promised you get out and look for it if you want the car that you dreaming about get a job and get out and walk and get it it takes more than a dreamer for you young people to succeed you have to be a duel as well as a dreamer I always dream when I was a boy preacher a dream of being a great preacher I ask God take me around the world I want to preach around the world I had no idea it would take 30 or 40 years before the Lord would do it and when I went around the world to preach and you're singing went to Egypt and other places all through Africa and Germany and as a little boy my mind went back to those days when I was a child praying and I preached it sing around and the Lord and Abel meter going some places that I never dream I never thought of I never thought I a school named after me and Liberia Africa whoever thought that the Lord would take this poor boy from making an cinnamon round world brothers and sister I didn't get there too cold I just dream I did hard work there were times I stayed up till 6:00 in the next morning getting my studies at 9:00 that night didn't get no sleep that's why I preach like I won't do now with no song without notes it was a hard time those try and study neglected the crowd not running in the streets all night clapping commitment oh my knees asking God for power will them understand it it takes a duel more than a dreamer and you can sit around and dream all day you're not gonna get nothing when I got really build this church I had a dream I saw this green and white God showed it to me but no church nowhere with green and white God say you want it yeah I had to get myself together I had to go up against enemies take not crossed out popped him out called everything but a child of God I had banks to look me in the face and said you can't build when we'll judge from summer he'll you're too proud though I have no money over there no poor folk but I took nickels and dimes and encouraged my deacons and stood with them and prayed on the bench steps and I went nice old barns all over America and raised seven million dollars from selling bows made the bank out of a food and embarrass them and started the first water first mega church to be built in Atlanta this feeling I say we buy nothing from nobody we're building from the ground all black folk we're doing buying churches from other people I said we're gonna build from the ground and we did and now the result banks started lending money to churches and now you have major churches that you sit this one in but it started will a church right here when it was impossible to do it how could we do it how could I and Jesslyn William do it because we went up against the odd when people weren't building churches like this we had to stop dreaming and do and you got to take some knocks all y'all preacher brag about their churches now we started we broke the ice we did it when it was impossible to do because we couldn't just dream I might hipping somebody I hope that all you young people sitting around on the stool of do nothing stop fan and with the fan of egotism sitting under the tree of satisfaction get up off your blessed assurance and do as well as dream don't come telling me about your dream until I see you ready to do you've got to have some hands in intact you can't do it with the women head helping me Holy Ghost helping the Holy Ghost my own pastor ribbon border say happen the Holy Ghost [Applause] why do I know some of y'all hands are with it you're with it because when I thing is with it it has poor circulation and some of your right now you've got poor circulation that's why you can't praise God but your circulation is all right in the club got good way to dip in chat can't see you never could see and then they're all booking all on the foot this finger you [Applause] couldn't save in but couldn't nobody tell you couldn't saying you were a father the way you were feeling that look up and feeling that knew that you were saying but in the church it gets dried up because there's no holy circulation there's no spiritual blood coming through your soul vain to bring oxygen to get activity in your life and when you don't have no circulation in you you cannot feel nothing brother Suze you got keep that circulation going you got to stay in church if you want to be active you got stay around God's people if you want to keep the circulation you got stare out that way to the holy so you don't get drowned and dreary and lose your zeal for God the reason why some of you lose the zeal you don't hang around where you can get their circulation that's what caused the person to drift away from God when those things are more attractive to them outside then the things inside watch yourself while you losing interest is not God you've got in your mind some whales another reason wise with a man got a withered hand he can't grasp nothing he can't grab nothing he'll reach at it but can't grab it well I know that with the hands in the church is because you can't grasp nothing the other time I preached about something you can't get it I don't see that but I said pay your time see that but when I said come on church doing.we I don't know what what's all that needed for I was interested a waiter will be back for I don't see that well I'll talk my defend the Bible said do I don't see that when the Bible talk about what a man should do it I don't see that tell my woman should i all see that I know that's there but you know but you can't grasp it and I know why you can't grasp it the head with it I know my sermon right then I typed it myself can't grasp nothing get in church and people go to sinning I don't get it why they shouting all up now now you can't grasp it cross your hand with it nothing when you got it with her hand you not only can't grab nothing you can't hold nothing you try to hold it in the drop and some of y'all I can't hold you and you can't hold it you can't hold nothing soon it stretch all what rapping preach about I don't know say something bout a hand help trained all that get home and forget everything I said okay old nothing I gave you hands with it not only when you got it with a hand can't grab nothing can't hold nothing changed feel nothing come in God's house I don't know what be shy I don't feel nothing I guess not you are nothing nothing from nothing leave nothing don't put nothing in it can't get nothing out of it how you gonna feel something when you're not in it the other feel something you'll never feel it because your mind not in it you can't feel the power of God course you're dead you know what it is nothing viral Willard hand it has limitations there's so much our hand wither can do and when you got limitation you can't do nothing hello you're looking right you're looking weird this morning suddenly all look alike you withered him you know when you got limitations and yet so far you can go when you when you come to church and you don't know how to shout like us you limit it but if you could look back and see what God has done for you then you could look back I see how God and bless you cows you over Carol you're around care of your other Cal you're through something you could get up here I can praise God and I can keep all praising him I can keep on shouting I can keep all going fine and then I'm on limited but when you can't move your hands is limited when you can't shout you're limited when you can say hallelujah you don't have a little shout about because you don't remember nothing you limited limitation when you got limitation on your tailor don't move here just sit amen I think I told his story once a man one time went to a liturgical church and he got the holiday man shouting and one of us just came to him said we don't do that in here he said when I got the Holy Ghost she said well you ain't getting here she said we don't do all that shouting in here she saying secondly we don't want you in here without a neck town people in this church had to have all the time he said so you walked me out yes get out of here and don't come back without a town man I don't have no time she said well you had to have a bowtie on or something in this church so he went outdoors and got him some jumping cables and tied it around his neck he came in the church she said you can come in now but don't start nothing [Applause] don't start nothin look at the name and say you need to start something if nobody not saying nothing in your corner start something if nobody not praising God in your corner back there why don't you start something so I come and gone how to catch on fire and breathing now let me finish this chase what brought this man to his miracle I tell you what brought this man to his miracle one of the faith that this man at the wither hand will reason while he found a miracle he went to church the Bible say Jesus went to the synagogue and he was there he happened to be at the right place at the right time and he went to church so many folk missed that miracle not being in church you know what it's strange to say this is by the only place where people everything pops up to stop them from coming people see a little rain on Sunday and so old it's not a good day get on a rowboat London and go to work [Applause] robo slowly you all again filled one little egg in your tote and go to screaming get on crutches and go to work all it takes is somebody to tell one little lie on you and you go home and sit out and won't come to church and they now you're on the job all day and you go to everything the only reason why you don't come to church you don't have Church in you when you got touched in you can't nobody keep you from going to church churches in your feet you'll get up and run the church Oh use the walk 20 and dirty mouth to church they had Church in them how you gonna have Church where the notes I did you look you the neighbor said get some Church in you you got a full house folk lotta folk in the church but don't have no church in other words it's alright to have a house full of church folk but you need to get a boat full of Church I've got a house full of church folk but you don't have a folk full of Church get some shut you know some folk I said other they love that go to church and some folk love that have in church and some of y'all just love to go to church my mama went there my mama put that one in there my mama put that Pew in there my mama buried in the back you just go to church but when you have a church you don't care who told in when you have a church you don't worry about time when you have a church some of y'all came late and leave early but when you come to have a church you forget about yourself you forget about your house you forget about your car you forget about everything I came the hell out sure pop the Holy Ghost is in the house if you need a miracle is it the house if you need a breakthrough is that the house if you won't go out to lift you up is it the house was a bear one another's burdens this is the house all your blessings is in the house look at the neighbors that stay in the house you go to the hospital when you sick you go to a doctor when you're sick you're going to see a lawyer when you got legal problems you go to the Undertaker when you're dead [Applause] if God felt like this world could be solved because it has a political problem then God would have sent us a politician if God felt this world could get see because it's mathematically need to be adjusted he would have sent us a mathematician if God felt that the world could get better if they're socially connected then he would have sent us or sociologist if God felt the world got a psychological problem and they need to be straighten out he would have sent us a psychiatrist if God felt the church was broken down and needed to be real build up he would have said I was a carpenter but we don't have no carving the problem we don't have no mathematic problem we don't have no social problem we don't have no psychological problem we got a sin problem and God sent us a savior savior savior go to church I can't stay at home on Sunday morning my bad did hot Oh son the boy look like my pillows get hot on Sunday morning got to get up and water rushed to church I want to hear somebody sing amazing grace I wanna hear somebody saying my charts to keep I have I want to hear Deacon pray I want to hear the praising say hallelujah I got to go to church [Music] Hoopa need to get a gold back rules back that's it rules back then I said right yeah you need to get it get it back [Applause] don't get mad Morehouse Brothers start it now get it back I got something else I want to not only did this man go to church now listen he went to church regardless to his condition he had a withered hand but he didn't let him hand keep him from meeting Jesus see here's what see what people mess up I got folks and I don't need to be there devil talk I don't have no money and I hate going to church and pastor acid for something and I can't get em deal you want give another one you had it that's just an excuse cut off bro maybe God will give you a job come on sick you sick and go pay your bills sick and everywhere all over town how come you can't come to church see God may helium I'm on medication will sit in the back near the restroom get in church don't let your condition keep you at a church don't let your husband who's unsaved keep you at a church leave him lying there he's not so he'll he don't have no heaven or no hell he that have nothing to do with your soul that's just your body leave him there don't let you children stop you from going to church if they won't bring you kids mana get all him and assets you're at home don't let your element stop you from Chuck if you smoke I'm all smoking if you nip I don't know how to buy that one huh I gonna take come on drunk but I [Music] gotta get out of that one yep before you get a waiver that'll help nobody said never how do you leave here if you got a problem of any type don't stay some truck if you got a druggies come on well you got dope in the vein I can get your hope in the plane I got some wrong in my life but the preacher said come on it shut regardless of my condition ain't nothing but a hospital everybody got a withered hand somewhere everybody got some bad tradition subtle does need major surgery some of us need minor surgery but always needs something I like this here God gave him another revelation the he didn't allow Church myths to keep him in from church see it was a church myth going on that day though Pharisees who in fact can't you see those Sadducees who are sad changes see he that trial will warn against Jesus they didn't like Jesus there and they didn't want him there and the Bible say they watched it they watched Jesus to see if he was going to heal this man at least they knew how to connect Jesus with human needs wouldn't it be nice if or when they connected you they connected you with somebody's need but they watched him there's always a watching crowd in the church some folk come to church just to watch and see what's going on some folk come to church to see what you got on some folk come to see who didn't come some folk gets come watching something watch you all day long they peep out the Wonder and peeping through the keyhole all they spit all day long is watching you and that's some it's just watching you you don't see them but they watching you and they watch you so much so they came have a church but you don't come to church of watching people you don't getting get involved with that mess that mess doesn't happen do with your mess whatever goes on in the church you let them battle a mess up and you come over how look at your neighbors and your mission hand them doing me I have time to talk about who's going with whom I'll time to get into everybody's business I don't have time to help out the latest gossip child right you know whatever no whatever that's what I'd like or you know that was in jail or prison hey I ain't got no time to worry about judge mess I come to get my breakthrough and what I need don't have nothing to do with you stood up watching foot we oughta watch over them still watching them watch over them they had a mess gone they were tough watching Jesus see if he's gonna heal on the Sabbath that was that ensured that man I gotta do it all that I'm in church and I learned a long time ago if you want to stay in the church let church mess be Church mess it's a mess in all churches and if you gonna run around trying to find a perfect Church to join when you join one you just messed it up when you joined it there's a mess going on everywhere this man said I'm out of time without mess that had been some of us we said man way they carried on he had Jesus I'm leavin here baby you gonna always find some mess in a church but don't let mess with you you you when you know what you here for you can shot in your church and forget here don't like each other when you know what you come here for you can here miss old everybody in that church and act like you don't hear you got to know what you come from you didn't come for them they don't have no heaven no hell they don't have your blessing in your hand ahead you come they're gonna do it yeah I know what I need little thing I like my dis man he got his miracle because Jesus saw a man with a withered head why the we looking at the withered hand of the man Jesus look me on the head I saw a man I may have problems but I'm still a man I made I come up to your status but I'm still a man my hair may be kinky but I'm still a man my lips may be sick and my nose may be flat my hair my skin may be black but I'm still a man I may not have what you got but I'm still a man I can't give what you can give but I'm still a man I mean I'll be able to ride and what are you writing but I'm still a man I may not be able to wear what you can wear but I was telling man look at your neighbor and say I Know Who I am people look at your problem and George you God look at what you can become [Applause]

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Length: 52min 29sec (3149 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 02 2018