Oakwood AYM 9/17/21

[Music] [Applause] [Music] you [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] do [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] all right praise the lord welcome to ay everybody welcome to ay happy sabbath oakwood how you doing today all right how you doing are you excited to be in the house of the lord are you excited for the sabbath well all right man if you're excited for the sabbath why don't you give god a hand of praise just say thank you to him for bringing us through another week as we get ready to light our sabbath candle kind of open up the sabbath together we've been talking about the importance of the sabbath as we open ay every friday we've talked about the fact that god is the creator last week we talked about the fact that god uh rested on the sabbath so we celebrate the god who rested the god who intended for us to rest and to get our own self-care as we live in this world the third reason we celebrate the sabbath tonight is because not only did god create not only did he rest but the sabbath is a sign of the rest that would come through his son jesus christ see we celebrate the sabbath because in the garden after adam and eve sinned god said one day a serpent's gonna bruise your heel but you're gonna bruise his head and the promise was given just there and he sent his son who declared i am the lord of the sabbath anybody understand that jesus christ bids us let he who is heavy laden and burdened come to me and i will give you rest somebody should be excited for the fact that the sabbath reminds us every seven days that god gave us rest to his son jesus christ are you excited for that so today as we open up our ay we want to celebrate this god who gave his only begotten son to give us rest but not only that y'all what this means is that because god sent his son we serve a preemptive god the bible says that the lamb was slain from before the foundation of the world and so today even though you have cares on your heart although you may have been stressed out this week you can come in here and rejoice about the god who has already solved the problem he's just waiting for you to catch up to the solution anybody want to serve and praise that god tonight well let's praise that god as we open up the sabbath right now father god we thank you in the name of your son jesus for your love your mercy your kindness and your grace we're excited tonight because we serve a god who is pre-emptive we serve a god who doesn't need for us to pray but you like when we pray to you already got the solution and so god tonight i pray that you will give somebody in this audience in these seats peace tonight knowing that the problem has already been solved that it is as they like to say already done tonight we celebrate you the creator god the god of the universe we lay down our burdens at your feet god do not disappoint us let your spirit rain down in this place so that somebody can experience true rest through your son jesus christ we thank you for what you're gonna do tonight in his name we pray amen amen [Music] happy sabbath everyone how many of y'all [Music] feel free to join us we need to do [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] bless my life [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] [Music] is me [Applause] [Music] me [Music] [Applause] yes [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Applause] [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] amen amen amen good evening family i'm just here for for a minute or two um because i wanted to share something with you that god put on my heart this morning in devotion i don't want this weekend to pass us by and then we just go back to the same old same old i don't want you to miss this moment every night has been powerful hasn't it amen every night has been powerful i don't want you to come experience the word be be filled with the word and and be excited about the word and then next thing you know we go back to the same old thing so there's this thought that god put on my heart and i want to share it with you because god is after more than just a temporary moment he's looking for a lasting relationship he's looking for commitment so i just want to share a brief nugget with you and i'll start off by saying this god is not pleased with premarital praise did you get that god is after our hearts the parable of the sower you've heard it before i'm just sharing this real brief and then i'm gone the parable of the sower he throws the seed out in random places right he throws it it hits different soil that soil represents our hearts right and there's certain soil that it falls on this rocky ground that it falls on and and when i think about the parable i'm thinking to myself man that pair that that farmer that that guy sowing the seed needs to be fired who's who's throwing seeds on concrete i mean you trying to feed pigeons or you're trying to plant a seed but that's not the point the point is the word goes out the reason why he throws it indiscriminately is because that soil represents all the people in the audience in the different states that they're in but here's the thing the soil i'm sorry the seed falls on top in order for a seed to grow it must go beneath so you see it's not enough to just come hear the word it's not enough to just come and praise if we don't follow it up you can come to the sermon receive the word and then afterwards the cares of this life and y'all here at oakwood you got cares of life right you got classes take some time afterwards meditate on the word that you hear and allow the holy spirit to take that word and bring it beneath the surface into your heart and then you'll see a change so i just want to give you a couple of practical tips and i'm going at the end of the sermon whether that's right after or tonight or during the weekend take some time and reflect on what god said to you see the way it works the holy spirit is here we felt him right but then he also speaks to us individually so let's take thursday as an example pastor was talking about how religion can cover right but it it blocks the real me so as i heard that i was thinking about certain things in my life as you heard that you were thinking about other things in your life take some time and reflect what was god saying to you and then just be real with god and let god make that thing practical in your life if all we do is come out and receive the word but then don't spend any time with god so that he can make that thing sink in then before you know it i forgot about power pack weekend so don't let this opportunity pass you by god is looking for your commitment or your recommitment and i guarantee that god will bless you that change that you've been looking for that deliverance that you've been looking for god has it here and he's chosen his manservant to deliver the word have you been blessed by pastor henderson this week amen amen i know he's going to give us another powerful word and when you go home take some time reflect with god meditate on the word and let him speak to you in that still small voice god bless you can everyone hear me can everyone hear me happy sabbath church mm-hmm that's not gonna work let's try feliz abedo iglesia come on somebody bon do we have any haitians in the building come on somebody happy sabbath church family there you are well the only reason i did that is because i want you to remember that we are not just a church in the states but we have church we are a church of multicultural ethnic ethnicities and cultures and i just want to remind everyone that september 15th to october 15th is hispanic heritage month oh yeah and with that being said we have some lovely programs in place for everyone involved and actually two weeks we'll have a hispanic takeover come on somebody those from ola church are going to come and worship with us and we're going to do our best to keep up with their spanish yeah all right not only that not only that but next week what week y'all next week is all nations aym all right oh we're excited we're excited so we got any jamaicans in your house coming in jamaican gear if you got any people from france come to your friends gear you got any a.t aliens come your atl gear amen amen come in your gear we're calling out your places we're calling out your homes we got in the canadians come here canadian gear we're going to we're going to have a great time together as a diverse community so we can celebrate um all nations there ym one more thing one more thing as usual if you are in the church you want to have your mask on all right amen amen so you want to have your mask on right and then you want to be in every other row so if you are in a row and you got somebody directly in front of you you either want to go back roll or you want to go up a row so that we are every other row all right keep your mask on sit every other row and let's have a blessed evening i just want to take a few more moments i know we talked about it yesterday at chapel who all by a show of hands remembers carvel goodlow mercy saints of god for those of you who did not know him carl goodloe came in 2017 my class he was an engineering major from detroit michigan and carvel was one of the brightest lights on this campus in our time and i know in your tenure here at oakwood you're going to hear time and time again how back in my day we did this and back in my day we did this well our testimony is carvel why do i see he's my testimony carvel he he would tell you himself it was a privilege to be at oakwood it was a privilege to be anywhere that he wasn't in detroit he his reputation preceded him not in not not so much that he was from detroit but more so his love of god was the first thing you heard about him he would show up to every worship most likely first and if he wasn't the first i bet you he was the loudest it didn't matter what the occasion was carvel was ready to worship and so the reason i bring him up is because yesterday marks the third year of his death and when i say it hit the campus like nothing other nothing i've ever seen why are we spending so much time talking about carvalho i don't want to bring the campus down i don't want to bring the mood down but i do want the campus to understand that the theme for this year isn't random when i'm talking about making it personal personal i'm saying that because a personal or personal relationship with god means something to me it meant something to carvel when this relationship has nothing else to hold on to but sorrow and death and fears and failure that personal relationship with god makes it all worth it carvel lived a life so much so that if you knew anything about him you knew that despite the struggles that he had despite the history that he owned despite the place where he came from he was going to allow his relationship with god to redefine his whole life and he did that's the memory carvel left we can get into the specifics about his life ended on another date but i want you all to keep in mind with the rest of this service that if you take nothing else away from this service from your time at oakwood take away that a relationship with christ is the best thing that you could ever take away from this place this world is a very cruel world life is very unforgiving but god's love god's personal love is one of the things that keeps us going those that remember him and those that never had the opportunity to meet him i promise if you take that journey just take the first step with them i promise it'll be worth it with that being said i'm asking that as the praise team comes on out y'all continue to think about those that have felt some hurt this year the past two years the past three years keep them on your heart present your own fears uh towards god and let him have them happy sabbath church [Music] glory to god [Music] praise the lord everybody i know a lot of you probably haven't seen me in this position in a while i'm grateful to be here [Music] i got into an accident this week and honestly i was upset i was upset at god because things are just starting to come together my life is just starting to make sense and now you're going to go and throw something else at me like god what are you doing [Music] but to understand that his purpose and his plan are bigger than any idea that i could have is something that i continually struggle with so this song reminds me to give him the all that i had in my worship and my love let praises rise [Music] from the inside from the inside [Music] [Music] come fill my life from the inside from the inside call me send me [Music] cause all i was [Music] [Applause] [Music] some people know what i'm talking about [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] from the inside [Applause] inside is [Music] [Music] worship is important to me because this is how i find my way through because when things don't make sense this is the one place that i can go the one place that i can come where i know [Music] if you don't understand worship you don't have to have it for yourself just look at mine [Music] because i want him to have it up [Music] we give glory to god glory to god glory to god forever we give glory to god glory to god glory to god forever we give glory to god glory to god forever [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] glory to god [Music] all i want [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] for [Music] is [Music] is for you [Music] for you to be glorified to be live [Music] [Applause] [Music] how many of us know that god is in the midst of this program god is in the midst of this campus and no matter what is going on on this campus he's here moving on our behalf jesus is pleading on our behalf for all the things that we have going on when we know that we just need some peace he's here he's here all around us [Music] do [Music] there's [Music] [Music] in this place [Music] me in this place [Music] even though [Music] [Music] me [Music] there's about to be [Music] is [Music] me [Music] [Applause] [Music] even now you are here [Music] dear god we thank you for this day o lord god we just thank you for being near and dear to our hearts oh god we thank you lord god we're seeing your angels in front of us behind us and on the side of us the word god and we pray for those people who are struggling um with depression and suicide of god so lord god i know you can get me through it that you can surely get them through it oh lord god so i prayed in the name of jesus oh god in a moment so lord god that they might feel depressed for a moments oh lord god where they don't know who or what to turn to oh lord god i pray that they will turn to you and only you o lord god i pray for their families oh god i pray that you cover their households we pray that you bridge gaps in their relationships oh god show them who to hang out with and who not to hang out with o lord god show them where to go and where not to go lord god open their eyes so they can see what you've been trying to tell them oh god and open their ears to hear what you've been trying to tell them oh lord god i pray in the name of jesus oh lord god that you shall direct their mouths oh god cause you said that the righteous steps are ordered by the lord oh god so i pray the name of jesus just order through your steps or god and when they don't have anything else to say oh lord god just call let them call on your great name oh god cause your great name is the tower oh lord god your great name gives your comfort o lord god in the midnight hour oh lord when we find ourselves crying and we don't even know why we're crying oh lord god i pray o lord god that you come in and just hug them o lord god send your holy spirit to let them feel your prices o lord god i pray in name of jesus that this is the best year that shall be yet to come o lord god we speak that into existence oh god we speak all aids oh god we speak financial clearance oh god we speak strength in our mind our body and our souls oh lord god we say we speak o lord god that we shall see you show up and show out like never before oh lord god so we come together oh god we come together just believing oh god that you shall do the impossible o lord god because we know that we serve an impossible god that makes the impossible possible lord god and so we thank you in advance of god that what you are doing through us and in our student body o lord god you are preparing us to go out in this world and serve you but be with us and get us ready for you when you come in jesus name amen [Applause] [Music] all things are possible right here right now [Music] [Music] right here right now [Music] right here [Music] you can do [Music] [Music] [Music] now you can do [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Applause] is [Music] even now you are moving even now you are moving [Music] [Applause] [Music] amen amen man oh you man i'm you got me in tears right now i am i knew what it was like to lose students on campus we lost a few when we were at pc we get reminded of how precious life is and how there are not a lot of guarantees except that jesus loves you this i know i want to thank you so much for your warmth and your love the last past few days i've enjoyed myself here on the campus and connecting with a number of you we've been asked to just be rooted and get in the word of god and i i am feeling a little bit emotional tonight but i also am pretty excited about the word of god and what he has to share with us i've been asked to also remind you to to sit every other row and to remain masked and all that stuff so you know get that out of the way y'all ready to get into the word we're in second kings chapter five second kings chapter five and the song i surrender all so he messed me up man listen i know this day and age y'all gone through stuff i already know you've gone through stuff i'm twice as old as you so i've i've gone through stuff too man and let me tell you something that i surrender all it it means something different for me at this stage of my life than it did when i was 18 19 and 20 years old and man i like the new praise but sometimes that old praise just just hits me a certain way the bible tells us second kings chapter five second kings chapter five starting with verse 1 it says now naaman was commander of the army of the king of iran he was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded because through him the lord had given victory to iran he was a valiant soldier the bible says but he had leprosy he was a valiant soldier but but he had leprosy let us pray father god i just asked for your your spirit to fall afresh on us oh father we want to be rooted deeply rooted and you've been taking us on a journey with elijah and with sam the samaritan woman at the well you've been you've been taking us on a journey and father we're asking for this journey to continue may we be stripped of ourself may we be transparent and vulnerable before you and father may that realness activate something that we've never experienced in our life may we experience a true connection with you we ask these things in jesus name let everyone say amen and amen he was a valiant soldier he was great he was great he was great and then it says that god that god had had allowed him to have great victories i know the scripture kind of says it a little different it says that through him god had given him great victories but you need to understand something although the bible is inspired the bible is not perfect although scripture is god breathed meaning that god did inspire these writers not every word is ordained or divine or perfectly placed in scripture all that simply means is that inspiration is filtered through our brokenness and filtered through our imperfection so there's going to be times things are worded a certain way in scripture that kind of make god look a certain way like this particular verse that god somehow was was was was working victories in naaman's life in order to uh to to harm his people and torture his people and because you remember naaman and the roman the ramyan army they were fighting against god's people the iranians were were a vicious group of people and naaman was their star player there's no way in the world god was behind that mess god was not inspiring that mess but because of the mindset of this author and many authors in the old testament if it happened it meant that god was behind it if it went down then it was god's will how many times have you heard people say stuff like this oh the person has cancer well god's will that was god's will that he had cancer or it was god's will that their little baby girl died because that drunk driver you know sideswiped her on her tricycle that was god's will let me tell you something just because god allows something to happen doesn't mean he willed it to happen just because god is willing to accept our choices does not mean that god's will is being done god has a permissive will which is a which allows us to act like our crazy selves and god has a perfect will and i am willing to say god's perfect will almost never happens god's permissive will is what we most likely always see in scripture even when joseph says stuff like this you guys meant it for evil but god meant it for good first of all jokes take a seat bruh god did not want you to be arrogant telling your brothers about your dreams walking around with your little long sleeve colored coat trying to tell your brothers what to do and then tattling on them all the time god was not behind that god was not behind jacob over indulging joseph spoiling joseph god was not behind that god was also not behind the jealousy and the hate of joseph brothers just because god works out something good in our messiness doesn't mean he wanted it to go down that way anyways too many times man we excuse stuff man i've heard people say yeah man i was i was on drugs for like 15 years and you know i wasn't there to raise my kids but you know what god's will was done in my life nah man you're a punk and you're a coward and just because in the end it kind of works out don't try to don't try to like you know spiritualize your your messiness to spiritualize all of your dysfunction to spiritualize all of your mistakes you just better be glad that all things work for the good of those who love the lord you just you just better be grateful that god is good in spite of your bad we just be we just need to sometimes sit back and say lord thank you in spite of me you just continue to be you and that is the only reason why i'm here so i i just before i moved on i just need to clear that up god was not working in naaman to to to to be a war hero because god is not about that kind of life but they believe because it happened god must be behind it that was their world view this author is not the only one that felt that way and we gotta that's why we gotta look in the old testament with a different lens the bible continues on it says that he was a valiant soldier that part was legit he was a valiant soldier this look at back in the day they didn't have they didn't have nba stars they didn't have nfl players they they didn't have jay-z or beyonce they didn't have they didn't have rock stars like that if you wanted to be popular you needed to be a war hero so this is who naaman was man these the kids were buying his sandals at their foot locker right i mean this is how popular he was he was a valiant soldier but see you know everything was sounding good until that but and we all got him don't we we all got butts some small some big but we all got butts oh yeah she cool she cool but oh yeah he's up there all trying to act spiritual talking about the lord and happy sabbath and praising but i know what he was doing last night but man those butts always get in the way and let me tell you something every preacher up here also has a butt and if y'all knew how big my butt was you wouldn't have invited me to preach for any kind of power packed weekend we all got butts no matter how valiant we are no matter how many phds or doctorates we have no matter how much we've accomplished no matter if we're famous or influential no matter if we think we look cute and we all that it don't matter everybody got a butt and just because you're used to your butt and you think it's not all it's not it's not that bad it's not like that but over there doesn't make you any different from anybody else everybody has a butt and neyman's was huge in this situation naaman got a big old butt see leprosy leprosy was a death sentence in this day nobody up to this point in earth's history had ever been healed of leprosy no one not even god's own people had a testimony of how god had delivered them from leprosy no one not a good person not a semi-good person and for sure not a notorious enemy of god no one had ever been healed of leprosy verse 2 tells us that now bands of raiders from aram had gone out and had taken captive a young girl from israel and she served naaman's wife do y'all hear that she was taken in a raid of israel this little girl was taken from her family from her mom from her father from her brothers and sisters taken away she was a she was abducted and she was she was now a slave in the house of naaman serving his wife i don't know about you but that's not a nice thing to do to anyone an adult a child it doesn't matter who you are being taken against your will oh i got this i'm on this i'm gonna land here something real quick listen listen anytime you are forced to do something you don't want to do that is no bueno okay i'm gonna say because you know we're about to land up on october right now okay so i'm gonna go get a little bit of my espanol out there as well right it's no bueno if somebody says no no means no now watch this let me watch this watch this watch watches but some of you will kind of encourage yourself and say but but pastor i never used force even your manipulation and your control and your gaslighting all of it all of it it's abusive anytime you are trying to coerce someone to do something they don't want to do and you want to make them feel bad and make them feel burdened out if they don't do it you want to make them feel shameful or guilty or you want to withhold your love your attention or affection let me tell you right now this is just as evil as what naaman did to this little girl we keep trying to take people captive because we want their attention we want their affection we just want them to make us feel good you are my personal slave you are my sex slave you know what i'm i'm not i'm not a trafficker i ain't as bad as them but you know what i will learn how to manipulate you emotionally psychologically and even spiritually so i can get you to do what i want to do hey girl we're going to get married anyways we're going to get married anyway so i'm just saying listen does it really matter i mean who cares what the government says when we become one god already sees us as married so i'm just saying why don't we just experience it now and we'll and we'll legalize it later i just made it sound like only dudes do that oh man i made it sound like just only guys do that because let me tell you something because i got some experiences i got some experiences let me tell you ladies y'all can come hard at brothers and especially when a dude is trying to do the right thing and trying to keep you get even more turned on by oh he's trying to be good okay i see you oh you love jesus huh i see you you mean time i would hear women say stuff like i just want to take care of you i want to take care of all your needs i would hear stuff like that as a minister of the gospel people talking like that so let me tell you something is men is women is everybody in between still questioning trying to figure it all out it's all of us we all got butts [Music] but all of this manipulation all of this control all this gaslighting must stop among god's people this university has to feel different than the other universities here in alabama it has to feel different so they took this girl against her will not a good thing took her against her will and now watch what happens here she finds out that her master is sick and is dying and she says in verse 3 to her mistress if only my master would would see the prophet who was in samaria he would cure him of his leprosy say what if only my master would see the prophet in samaria he would cure him of his leprosy see this is why jesus tells us to and we have to become like little children because this little girl clearly doesn't get it first of all little girl ain't nobody ever been healed of leprosy you didn't read that in your sabbath school lesson you didn't hear that from anyone else what gives you that type of ridiculous faith to make you think that god would do something that he's never done before in anybody's life this is what i love about children they have an imagination they begin to wonder out loud just maybe is it possible if i just touch the hem of his garment it's never been done before but is it just a possibility if i can just catch a little bit of his shadow is it a possibility faith unlocks our imagination and this little girl just like i i just perhaps now i grew up in an era my mom man may she rest in peace my mom she raised us a certain way beautiful person man character man oh but to me it was like christ but my mom would have these moments of righteous indignation like all of us do from time to time and my mom would say stuff like this when something went down that wasn't good she said the lord don't bless ugly anybody ever heard that before lord don't bless ugly so we knew that when someone did something bad [Music] lord don't bless ugly i see my brothers in trouble and i go lord don't bless get a mama lord don't bless ugly and we feel that way when we're driving you know down the highway and we see someone pulled over by a cop and we just look at them like um you know you were up to no good as you're going 10 miles over the speed limit you know you were up to no good my buddy ain't big as yours you up to no good but this little girl she doesn't have the spirit of judgment or an attitude of revenge at all she just knows that someone is hurting and she knows someone who can heal little children have a way of forgiving some of the greatest evils this world has ever seen there are people here tonight who have forgiven mothers fathers and uncles and older cousins that are still dealing with the wounds from their sexual abuse and and yet as a six-year-old and a seven-year-old you've mustered up something that just feels supernatural to be able to still smile and love on these caregivers that were supposed to protect you but they left you open and vulnerable to abuse and some of these caregivers were the ones who actually abused you it wasn't fair and it wasn't god's will god was not a part of that he didn't sit back there and say oh i hope this little girl at four years old learns a lesson one day of how much i love her if she continues to go through this abuse year after year that is not god it's satanic it's demonic it is evil it is not god well some of you will say but pastor then why doesn't he just step on evil step on evil's neck why doesn't he crush the head of the serpent like he promised adam and eve he would do in genesis chapter 3 the problem with that approach is that if god is to put it into all sin right now all the molesters all the sex traffickers right all all those folks that are abusive all those who murder if he would have to put all those people down right now and stop evil the problem with that is he would have to take away their choice and that puts god in a kind of precarious situation and not only would he have to interrupt their choice he would also have to interrupt yours see it's for us it's it's easy for us to say god just kill the molesters just just destroy them right now lightning strike them give them leprosy right now god and we will know you're a just god and god says yeah but you know what the other night when you were on bathsheba.com when you were on pornhub um yeah i was gonna click i was gonna take away your phone from you but i knew you were gonna trip if i did that so um you don't realize how you support certain industries and and you continue to support sex trafficking not even knowing it by all the sites that you go to and and i i would have to take the evil out of your life as well but god you made this you made this this is from the earth it's it's medicinal lord yeah but it messes with your mind right and so that's the problem that i have no man but it's good it takes away the pain no it actually masks the pain you actually deal with the pain see what i want to do is heal you and what you want to do is pretend you're no longer hurting so we're not on the same page i do want to get rid of your pain but i want to do it through healing i'm not trying to get you to pretend that pain doesn't exist because watch this fam pain points us to where our wounds are so when you're feeling that pain don't cut it off don't don't get high don't don't get drunk don't don't don't try to ignore it don't turn up the stereo don't turn up the radio don't turn it up when you're hurting your mind and your body is telling you something needs our attention why am i feeling so lost right now why am i so emotional right now why am i experiencing so much anxiety why am i so depressed why am i so angry anybody ever wake up and you're just angry you go to class and you're just angry and you don't even know why you're angry when you experience that don't shut it out don't even come here and praise trying to wait because let me can i be honest with you i'm sorry chap i shouldn't even go here because some of y'all you're so righteous and you're so pure you're like pastor not even talking to me i've never gotten high before all i've ever been is high on jesus let me just deal with that for a little bit here because some of y'all use worship as a drug some of y'all use worship as a drug you getting your praise on has nothing to do with god has nothing to do with your personal relationship with jesus some of y'all just like the music and you like to groove and you haven't been moving like you used to move when you had a little freedom at home but so this is where you can get your groove on some of us we will just kind of lather ourselves up and listen listen i am not trying to speak to anybody's sincerity or authenticity i'm just saying for some of y'all the music is always turned up it's always loud and you'll say but pastor it's gospel and i'll still tell you yes it is and it's a good message but right now for you you're using it just for noise and you just don't feel good right now and you want to feel good so you want to go to a service where they try to tell you to get up and clap you if you're if god has been good to you and you oh yes yes i've seen some people preach man and it sounds and i've seen if you've been in churches when people aren't paying attention and the pastor says something they shouldn't say amen to but they in a rhythm and they'd be like you know and the devil just wants to be in your life and you're like oh yes lord oh wait oh what what just happened what did he say just a lot of noise i didn't catch it you know there's a problem when after the service someone says hey man what was the sermon about you go um um well it was good what was it about oh it was good it was good wait a second um he was talking about hold on hold on he was talking about um but it was about jesus okay i'm close right it's about jesus yes uh hallelujah um and uh wait a second wait wait there's this one part was so funny it was we were all laughing um um but you don't remember because it's all about a run and pushing certain buttons at a certain time and being cued this is not for everybody i'm not saying everyone does this i'm just saying for some of y'all you don't get you don't get distracted and use painkillers of the world you use the painkillers of the church so more ministry get more involved pray a little bit harder that's why i love the story of elijah we talked about on wednesday elijah was like he was hyped on mount carmel hyped on his religion hyped on his faith hyped on his doctrinal understanding but then jezebel came at him and then he got super depressed and he got real with god all i'm simply saying anything even the good stuff even the righteous stuff if used out of its context if not used by the way that god prescribes us to use it it will still become noise to us and distraction that's why god was not in the fire that's why god was not in the earthquake and god was not in the strong wind and elijah was in tuned enough to know he wasn't in those things and then he humbled himself when he heard the still small voice so sometimes when you get in the car i know i listen man i love kirk franklin too i'm just saying sometimes don't turn on the stereo just see what god has to say to you so the bible tells us this little girl said lord i know i know you're going to do something special sounds kind of crazy lord but i'm going to put it out there to my mistress if if only you could meet the prophet in samaria you would be healed and so of course the wife is like there's somebody in israel that like can heal my husband i just believe yes so the wife rolls up to name and it's like um honey i mean that little cute little israelite girl um she says there's somebody who can heal you he's like you believe that you want me to go to israel it's a trap that little the little girl is just a mastermind genius she's she's trying to send me to the enemy so they can kill me mock me laugh at me i'm not going there um dear i don't mean to be disrespectful but um you're gonna die anyways so i'm just saying why not give it a try and this is what i really want to encourage you fam sometimes we just need to give god a try it's not like it was working for you anyway right listen happy people don't get high they don't have to happy people don't need give me a little sip of that so i just want to loosen up a little bit and just kind of feel like myself do you know what you actually sound like when you take a little sip of that you don't even sound like yourself anymore you're fooling yourself you're hurting and you're afraid and you're hoping you can take something that will distract you so much that you don't have to feel any kind of fear or anxiety you you keep drugging yourself because you're not comfortable enough in your own skin you don't even accept yourself and you're tripping on people not accepting you and you can't even accept yourself so honey i just need to be real with you right now i think it's time you're real about your situation i think it's time you're real about your wounds i think it's time honey you're real about your insecurities because all of this faking all of all the gaslighting that's going on right now that you ain't tripping you ain't hurting i know i see the skin baby you ain't yourself i'm just saying give god a try can you just do it for me and if that do it for me do it for your kids just just him a try so naaman goes to his king and says hey king i got this um intel um from a little girl anyways um so um somebody in israel supposedly can heal me and i'm just gonna give it a try and the king of aram is like there are enemies i know but if you still want me to fight for you i mean king's line all right it's worth a try so these two enemies of god they they draft this email they they send it off to israel and the king is presented with gifts right they venmo him money that i mean all this stuff man he's getting hooked up and when the king reads the message he goes everybody else is like let's just give it a try let's just give it a try little girl's like yeah why not give it a try wife's like yeah you should give it a try name is like yo i'll give it a try the king's king of ram is like i'll give it a try everybody wants to give it a try but the king of israel when he hears the message the bible says he tears his clothes he's upset he's like i can't believe you would even come to me with this mess no one's ever been healed of leprosy you're trying to pick a fight with me you were trying to find an excuse to to invade my land no no no so interesting how people who are supposed to be leaders among the people of god aren't even willing to give stuff a try you still want to hold on to old stuff we've nev it's never happened like that before why don't you just give it a try just give it a try who knows what may happen give them a try give them a chance let them lead just give them an opportunity to be a a bit creative outside of your comfortable box just give it a try who knows do you know how many miracles happened in scripture because people just said who knows see the problem is we have been taught to believe that faith never doubts but that is not the way the scripture teaches it faith and doubt always have worked together just like courage and fear do courage is not the absence of fear and faith is not the absence of doubt faith simply means that we overcome our doubts and courage means we overcome our fears but let me tell you something you know how many times i doubt and believe in the same day all day long every single day as a minister of the gospel do you know how many times i have stood up here and preached and said lord i'm not sure if i even believe this right now and god says keep talking oh don't you try to judge me look at john the baptist was like jesus are you the one or should we look for another man i mean i know you're my cousin all but i mean just this weird what you're doing and you haven't even come to visit me man like what's up and that's the greatest man ever born of a woman because faith and doubt are always bed buddies the question you have to answer is which one is going to be stronger which one will eventually rule in your life i doubt all the time but wait for it i also believe all the time i doubt and believe and there's a tug and there's a pool and there's a push and it all happens and listen even christ went through it not my will your will be done not my will your will be done but he kept praying [Music] i know what i just said i know what i just said but listen hey dad wait a second hold on hold on i mean i you know how much i love them i wouldn't have come here but if this goes wrong i'm never going to see you again and man that's crushing my heart right now and my spirit is sorrowful unto death and come on tell me there's another way that's jesus the same one had said you'll crucify me if i be lifted up i will draw amendment to myself and i will be raised up after three days on the cross he was doubting he wasn't sinning he was doubting my father daddy really right now of all the times that i've needed you you choose now to not love me you choose now to leave me you choose now to abandon me of all the time he was doubting he wasn't sinning he was doubting man auntie ellen says in desire of ages he could even see past the portals of the tomb he could not see past the portals of the tomb he did not see himself even victoriously coming through the tomb that means when christ was dying he actually was dying as if he would be lost he was dying the death of a sinner man this is so deep when jesus was dying he was actually really saying i may never see my dad again but i'm gonna make sure you do [Applause] but we know that in the end jesus has enough faith because into thy hands i commit my spirit i can't feel him i can't see him but i'm going to allow my faith to be stronger than my doubt give jesus a chance but pastor i doubt well of course you do you're always gonna be doubting but the bible says blessed are those who have not seen but yet still believe yes that's still true happy are those who haven't seen but still believe that's a great thing that doesn't mean they're still not going to doubt if doubting was evil christ would have said to thomas how dare you thomas what did you just say hey come here come on i know come here touch me come on right here you feel that are you good feel this all right we good give me a hug right she jesus didn't rebuke him he said i know thomas look at not everybody's going to have the same opportunity you're going to have to hug me like this so blessed are those who haven't seen and yet will still believe give them a chance give them a chance the king is up king all right so elisha remember elijah's sidekick finds out about this finds out about this and elisha hears and he texts the king he's like yo you are tripping send him to me now sinned emojis angry emoji omg in the name of yahweh amen send him to me and i will prove that there's a prophet in israel so so so the king's like all right yeah y'all want to be crazy you wait when you can't do it he gonna kill you go on go on and try to be spiritual right now go on and try that and so and so you know uh naaman gets the coordinates and and and and he makes it over to elijah's house the bible says he knocks on elijah's door elijah doesn't even answer the door my man is so cool man he's like he's like at the breakfast table eating frosted flakes and stuff like he's just chilling gehazi opens the door his servant looks at naaman the great the one they would see on television the one you know he's probably wearing naaman sandals right i mean name in the great he's famous he's popular he's powerful he's influential you should fear him he sees naming he says my master told me to tell you it's an honor to meet you sir my master told me to tell you to go wash in the jordan river seven times and you will be healed and then closes the door naaman has a cow naaman loses it naaman the bible says start saying i can't believe the man of god wouldn't even come up to the door and meet me face to face i thought he would wave his hand and heal me but no he's gonna tell me to go wash in the jordan the short listen the j i know we sing a lot of songs about the jordan the jordan was a dirty filthy cesspool of a river man like animals died in that river man you no one bathed in that river no one went swimming it was a sewer they mean like i'm not i'm not ah no there is no way in hades so he's just throwing a temper tantrum throwing things and finally his servant speaks of hey sir um hey uh listen it's kind of a reoccurring theme um listen uh it's dirty it is it's terrible but so is your skin so um and it's not like this is in scripture it's not like the prophet asked you to do anything that was difficult that's in scripture it's not like the prophet asked you to do anything great master had he asked you to walk backwards all the way to your home from here you would do it if he asked you to climb mount sinai on your elbows you would have done it if he had asked you to do something that was worthy of your excellence you would have done it but all he asked is for you to do something really simple just just wash your dirty ashy skin and some dirty water so you could be healed and i'm sorry sir please don't kill me you see this is the funny thing is most of us don't like simplicity god's word is actually really simple we make it complicated all throughout scripture god is just trying to have a relationship with us abraham meeting with him by the trees what's up man what's going on what's up what's up man give me that's what i'm talking about hey yo i'm going to bless you and abe is the one that wants to make it all difficult hook up with hagar cause all kinds of mess that we still dealing with in the middle east you i boy when i see abe i'll be like father abraham i will never sing your song again all this drama because you couldn't wait and trust i know he eventually trusted he was like 100 years old come on at that point what other choice did he have all right lord whatever you say i'm going to have a kid not like i can do anything about it anyways i'm just not working all throughout scripture people just messing up stuff god is trying to have a conversation with these people on mount sinai moses is like no come on come into the dark cloud god wants to meet with you now everybody come let's talk to jesus and they're like no no no no that's a lot of thunder that's a lot of lightning that's a lot of dark cloud no moses you speak to him whatever he tells you then you tell us they're the ones that ask for a prophet they're the ones that want a priest they're the ones that need this sanctuary service and everything to be religified right they're the ones that require because of their experience in egypt well that's the way we did it in egypt those religions seem to work yeah right we're the ones that make it complicated he's not asking you do anything difficult something simple and we always mess it up man you know the sabbath was supposed to be a blessing you know the sabbath was made for us you know the sabbath is really our birthday celebration that god celebrates every single week you know we turned it into something that's only about god yep yep it's his day y'all ray ray's that way it's his day it's the lord's day so it's the only day he asks for six days you can do whatever you want to do just one day he asked for and you can't even give him that that's not what scripture says the sabbath was made for you but pastor it is honoring god's creative work i know and guess who his creative work is it's you you don't even know that baby girl is you it's all about you all of it is about you no no no no no no it's not because the bible says have no other gods before me that is clearly about god because he's jealous yes he doesn't want you to have other gods before him because when we follow other religions and other ideologies we rape one another we murder one another we sacrifice our children to other gods so when god said don't have any of the gods before me he wanted to keep you alive when he tells us to not lie and to not steal and to not murder you think that's about him it's about you the sabbath is about you he gave you the weeknd thank god it's friday that is all god and you're complaining i can't believe god would give me a week and he's so selfish we get a holiday every single week and we're tripping but it's not your fault you were taught to see it that way and that's why the sabbath for most of us is the most dreaded day out of the week and a lot of come on let's keep it honest i mean well some of us depending on how great the worship service are it can be pretty cool but let's be honest some of the churches we came from they ain't like oakwood the praise is sister jenkins up there [Applause] there ain't no drums and she's saying oh what a mighty god we serve but it's not in tune it's not in key she all over the place and there's 10 people there praise the lord praise his name and you are dying of boredom the sabbath should be the most joyous day and if it's not you ain't doing the sabbath right we make things so complicated so difficult so messy and it's not supposed to be that way it's supposed to be simple it should even be common sense meaning meaning that even if god never said anything we most likely would come up with a weekend hello we most likely be like you know i think it might be nice if we just have one day out of the week where we don't have to work even if god never said anything i believe i'm talking to couples now i believe you would come up with thou shall not commit adultery honey if you're gonna tell me you love me and be with me forever i'm just thinking i would just prefer you keep it with me or i might have to kill you right i think we would come up with it all and listen brothers you're all that's messed up you would be tripping if your girl were hooking up with everybody else listen ladies there's a little secret of god you know listen guys don't hurt me at the end listen listen look men are so insecure they're so insecure we so insecure we are so insecure if you start liking somebody else we are so insecure and the reason why we get so angry is because we don't want to cry so we just get mad and we get silent and we get high and then we want to try to hook up with somebody else because we so angry and we asking questions uh uh how tall is he does it does he play ball right we're all insecure asking about size and proportions and everything like that because we tripping we insecure come let's keep it real we would come up with the ten commandments on our own if god let us alone hey i don't like you i don't like you lying to me hey that's mine don't steal it we'd come up with the ten commandments on our own you wanna know what because they make sense we are wired this way i was just watching a series on netflix powerful series on 9 11 in our war on terror man it was just it was it was so disgusting to watch and even how our country handled the situation we talk about being a christian nation we weren't about no forgiveness we weren't about any kind of grace we were about vengeance all the way [Music] the amount of people that we killed over there and how many were civilians is disgusting and the way that docu-series ended was a woman saying it's really about love in the end i don't even know if she was a christian i don't know if she was muslim i don't know what but even she after seeing what life looks like when you're hateful and when you can't forgive people eventually get to the point you know it might just be better if we forgive one another love our enemies everything god tells us to do is about us making our life more simple more enjoyable he didn't ask you to do anything difficult he has to do something simple so you know name is finally like all right i'm going to get you in the end bud all right you got some truth there the bible says he gets down to the river and it smells of course it's dirty a cow dead cow floats by it's messy but he has to get in the water right you know how it is when you have to get in water some of y'all can't swim and if you're like me you're terrified of cold water man man i lick it no man it's i i want my pool water lukewarm so here's neyman it's cold he gets tried to get a little bit in the water there hold my hand hold my hand hold my hand hold my hand ah something's down there tell me that somebody touched me somebody touched me something touched me all right let's do a countdown i'll just jump in all right one two wait wait are we gonna do it on three or is it gonna be like a pause after three and then i'm gonna go in sir just get in the water remember used to cry like that no air comes out just sir you did it six more times [Applause] six more six more something got in my mouth for sure naaman goes in a second time and when he comes out nothing has changed nothing's changed nothing's different he's still the same dude i'm the same dude you lie to me nothing's even improving in my life that's the last time i go to church i'm not reading my bible anymore i still got issues i'm still dealing with insecurities i'm done but god didn't tell him to wash two times he told him to wash seven times and let me tell you something you get the best out of what god is offering when you are consistent so some of y'all trying to date god on the weekend and that's it and you got a long distance relationship you ain't never talk to him again and you wondering why your relationship feels estranged so he tells him to wash again and he goes down a third time and a fourth time and i'm telling you consistency family let me tell you something you're not going to be perfect you're still going to have drama and you're still going to have issues but the beauty of our walk with jesus is that we remain remain in me remain continue don't let go i know look at i know sometimes you're not gonna be fruitful i know you're gonna have some weeds i know you're gonna have some issues and drama but remain in me remain in me stay connected stay consistent keep coming keep trusting but i have doubts i know you do keep coming keep trusting the bible says he goes down a fifth time a sixth time in the seventh time and the bible says when he comes up the seventh time family this is the part i love when he comes up the seventh time he looks at his skin and the bible says his skin is like a baby look at that oh master what you do with your skin you know i just took this little mud bath over here you know i'm just just trusting in the lord oh look at that let me oh like you you all brand new kind of like you were born again let like like god hit the reset button in your life and everything has changed oh that's good god wants to hit that reset button with you i know you've been angry you've been hurting i know some of you feel like you've been an enemy of god you've been like naaman but let me tell you something jesus came for us one of those of us who are angry and bitter those of us who've been fighting against god and his people those of us who have been terrorizing and gaslighting and controlling and manipulative paul tells us in romans 5 that while we were his enemies that's when jesus came not while we were his friends not when we were living right while we were yet sinners while we were yet sinners that's when he came while we were lost and confused and blind and enraged this is when jesus came all you thought he came for people that liked him for people that loved him no when the bible says god so loved the world it was when the world hated him which should let you know this there is nothing that you can do either evil or good that can change the way that god feels about you right now even if you were even even if you even if you were to be demonic from this day forward his love for you would never change and even if you were good from this day forward he wouldn't love you more hey you my baby girl oh i love looking i love i love you i love you to death and that is never going to change while we were his enemies and paul tells us in romans 4 that god's grace is a gift he says if it weren't a gift it would be called wages but we can't earn what god gives right we can't earn what god gives it's a gift and naaman finally goes back layman finally goes back to elijah's house he knocks on the door this time elisha does open up and he goes let me touch oh that's what i'm talking about that is nice brad give it up damon's like man i'm so excited i just i just trusted i mean i doubted but i still trusted but you know it's kind of weird i know i know my master my teacher elijah he was tripping like that too but you know it's all good you remained so naaman says all right i'm gonna give you money everything i was gonna give to the king of israel i want to now give to you here it is you tell me how many zeros i need to put behind this one you are going to get hooked up unless you're like nah i can't i can't do that no no no no you will you're going to take this right now nah bruh i can't no you're going listen dude i'm just being real with you i can't why not what god gives is free oh that sounds too good to be true yeah that's our god no there has to be a but it can't be free it's salvation is free but it's a gift but if there's a but after the gift it ain't free it's either free or it's not and my bible tells me it's free my bible tells me in romans chapter 5 that god freely justified the wicked not the righteous the wicked so that we cannot boast that means even when we get to heaven we can't boast we can't say oh i made it look what i did that's the problem with matthew 7 when they said lord did we not prophesy did we not cast out demons did we not perform many miracles he says man i don't know you bro because if you knew me you wouldn't come with that line did i do it or not no no no no no did i not my grace is sufficient but pastor no don't try to teach this cheap grace you think that's cheap grace i want the person who thinks it's cheap grace to look jesus in the eyes and while you do it grab a hold of his hand put your finger right in the nail print and look him in the eye and say this is cheap nothing cheap about his grace you just didn't have to pay for it pastor no we gotta we gotta be hard on sin yes yes god is hard on sin he's the only one who can truly say he hates sin but loves the sinner none of us can say that you know that none of us can say that because christ proved that he hates sin and loved the sinner and while you're still a sinner guess who's loving on you still but pastor we got to be hard on sin because god if we know better if we know better and we still are doing wrong god can't forgive that what bible are you reading i mean you know how many people sinned up to their last breath samson hello samson lord give me strength one more time so that i can glorify you is that what he said lord give me my strength one more time so i can take vengeance on my enemy for taking out my eyes his last act was a vengeful act yet he's going to be in the kingdom how about moses speak to the rock no i'm going to do it the way i did it back in the day back in the day i took my bat and i hit the rock it was old-time religion that was good enough for me back then is going to be good enough for me right now and he hits it moses messed up so bad that god said bruh you ain't going into the promised land but he made it to heaven even david's last act on his deathbed was to get revenge hey son hey man this dude threw rocks at me when you know your brother absalom was chasing after me and i let him go i was merciful hey as i'm dying before my last breath go and kill him that was david's last wish my point is simply this where sin abounds grace all the more watch this watch this you cannot out sin god's grace there is never going to be a point where god says oh if i could have if i could have only hung in that tree a little bit longer i could have covered that you cannot out sin god's grace and no matter how bad you are he's better at being good than you are at being bad so here naaman take the gift and watch what happens family naaman's all right but can i take some dirt from your front lawn [Music] because i want to worship your god in my land knowing that grace was free initiated something in naaman that made him want to worship [Music] if your worship comes from anything other than knowing the goodness of the lord and his grace and jesus christ in him crucified the bible says in romans it is the goodness of the lord that leads to repentance it's not repentance that leads to the goodness of the lord it is the goodness of the lord he is good to you no pastor when praises go up blessings come down nah nah nah you trippin praises go up because blessings have come down when you have a real relationship with jesus praises go up even if blessings don't come down oh king nebuchadnezzar our god can and will save us but if he chooses not to let it be known that we still won't bow down our faithfulness to him is not based on his faithfulness to us we like him we love him we're in a relationship we've been kicking in with each other so long we would rather burn alive than bow down to your gold statue [Music] i know you want to bear fruit people tell you to bear fruit all the time but you can't bear fruit unless you're rooted you can't bear fruit unless you get the basics you can't bear fruit if you don't understand grace if you don't understand grace you'll be like that that that un that unforgiving servant the one who has forgiven a million dollars see someone who owes five bucks and he loses his mind because he did not understand grace family some of your parents don't understand grace that's why they're judgmental that's why some of them have abused you that's why they have used religion to abuse you because they don't know grace but you have an opportunity to know grace for yourself i know there are hypocrites in the church but there are hypocrites everywhere even you are a hypocrite but the bible tells us that there is room for people that have this but this but there are people for us people there's room for people like us that don't have it all together there is room and god invites us even if you've been an enemy even if you don't you feel you have enough faith god is still inviting you he still wants you he's still in love with you he just wants to be with you and he's not going to give up until he's with you there's someone here tonight you've been more concerned about bearing fruit but never were rooted so your fruit was plastic fruit it looked good but it wasn't the real thing it was fake it was shiny but it wasn't the real thing but you want something that's real we've talked about elijah we've talked about sam at the well we're talking about naaman we're talking about elisha this is real stuff real life and god wants something real with you [Music] and he's telling you right now you don't have to worship me for me to love you you don't have to do anything for me i want you to know what i've done for you i want to be with you i want i came to this earth because of you i've gone to prepare a place because of you i'm going to spend eternity with you i just want to be with you [Music] so there's someone here tonight you were raised in a church that told you you better do or else and so your relationship with god has been toxic you've been afraid of him you have lived in fear of your calling election isn't sure i'm not gonna give that kind of appeal i'm not gonna tell you if you don't come down that some you might die tonight and it might be too late i i believe in a grace that is so profound it even takes into account our future mistakes right now god is simply wanting something authentic the branches that don't bear a lot of fruit and still need pruning are still a part of jesus because they remain you may still be smoking weed tomorrow week tomorrow i mean tomorrow or next week you may still be getting high you may still be hooking up you may still be manipulative but christ is saying tonight i want to start something with you i want to begin something with you will you just think just just connect with me right now i know you won't be perfect i know you won't have it all together but can we start just give me a try just try it out [Music] if you don't want to talk every day we don't have to talk every day we'll just start we'll start small if you don't if you just want to read one text message just one text message of mine just once i just want to start some just put your toes in the water give me a try i am dying to prove myself to you you don't have to be afraid there's someone here tonight that has never made that decision and i'm gonna ask you to come out of your pew and to come forward listen to me listen to me this is not sit if you want to go to hell or not this is this is not even about heaven right now this is about you and your friend jesus [Music] and you want something that is authentic that worship doesn't come because someone tells you to stand up and someone tells you to clap and someone says you need to be louder but your worship comes from an authentic connection with god it's not coerced it's not manipulated it is in the still small moments that we experience god even in the loud moments but even in our quiet moments if that's you i'm going to ask you to come down right now we're going to have a special prayer and there may be even some that want to give their life to the lord in a way that is is you you want to get into the baptismal waters you're saying hey pastor i i want to take my dip too i want to get in that jordan river as well i want to do my thing as well now don't don't come down if everybody else is coming down just know your heart in this moment because the realness part is so good even those of you are sitting the realness part is so special so necessary that even when you sit it's beautiful because you can be real with god in this moment and that's all god is asking for just be real christ is asking you to enroll in his school baptism is not graduation baptism is enrollment it's admission into the school of christ you may flunk some of your classes you may fail many of your classes but watch this your teacher jesus christ will never fail you he will never fail you just remain in class remain in him there's someone else there's someone else someone else this is a listen this is about you it's not about me it's not about it's not about god in this moment it's about you for you to be able to experience what it feels like to be vulnerable in front of your friends and your classmates to be able to say i have heard something and i want to taste and see for myself if there's anybody else anybody else [Music] and for those of you who want to make a decision to enroll in the school of christ you want to make it official we make this decision every day i i have to make i have to make a decision every single day to go to class with jesus amen every single day i'm enrolled into his school i was baptized i'm enrolled but i have to make a decision every single day to go to class and sometimes i don't want to sometimes i don't feel it but my teacher is always feeling it amen and he won't mark me tardy he won't even say i'm absent he just wants me to come to class if it didn't work the next the first day he says come the next day and if i stay away for a week he says come next week he's always going to keep inviting you always going to keep asking you so you can come i get it you doubt it's okay i get it that doesn't mean you can't follow christ it doesn't mean you can't give him a chance there's someone else and if there's anyone here who wants to be baptized pastor i think we can do something special tomorrow we can do something special tomorrow if there's somebody who wants to be baptized i'm going to ask you to talk with me speak with me speak with chap speak with chap kp speak with us talk to us because we may we man we may do something special we may get up in this jordan tomorrow and take a dip [Music] that may be what you want to do if that's what you want to do i'm going to ask you to talk with us tonight we will we'll make it happen we'll make it happen but for those who are coming for a renewal those who just say pastor i've took the dip before but i need to be spiritually renewed i want the reset button to be hidden in my life you don't you don't understand how my butts are how many people remind me of my butts but god is going to hit the reset right now brand spanking new today i know what you were doing with your boyfriend before but you know what you can tell your boy from this point on something's changed something's changed there's a new sheriff in town i love you and i know you love me but i have to change up the way that i've been doing things because my way hasn't been working and i want that water that if i drink it i never thirst again if this is what your belief is i want you to pray with me right now father god thank you so much for the challenge that you've given us father we've been in your word for a minute but father this has been a special a special power-packed weekend where we just simply want to want to give you a chance we want to give you a try father you know how inauthentic we are you know how insincere some of us are but you take us even right now in our insincerity just with the little bit of faith that we had that that that caused us to to step out in faith and walk down here father you will honor that tonight so i am asking you father to have an experience with your children let them feel you in a way they've never felt you before let them hear from you they're turning the noise down they're turning down the noise of their insecurities they're turning down the noise of their anger and their hatred right now they're wanting to hear your voice speak to them in a way or maybe they've never heard your voice before father speak to them in a way that's so special and so personal and so unique to them and father may this be the beginning of a new relationship [Music] not a not a religion but a relationship and father we can never be fruitful unless we are rooted so we're just dealing with the roots right now we're dealing with the core we're dealing with the core issues right now we're not talking about strategy and vision that's that's that's another time period that's another conversation later in our journey with you right now we're just dealing with the roots of our pain the roots of our doubt the roots of our heartache the roots of our distrust and jesus we're taking we're putting our toes in the water right now honor that faith [Music] help us to forgive the way the little girl forgave help us to help us father to to see you with new eyes and may this be the beginning of a new relationship that is transformative and gives us the joy the happiness and peace that you promise because now for maybe the first time in our life we're being real with you so continue to be real with us we ask all these things in jesus name let everyone say amen and amen amen and amen amen and amen amen and amen amen and amen [Music] amen amen hey guys can we do a quick favor and give pastor henderson another round of applause [Applause] listen listen i don't know about y'all i really don't know about y'all but i can tell you guys that the holy spirit was speaking to me during the service i feel super inspired right now pastor thank you so much for the message guys let us not just hear it but also let us live it okay so one quick announcement um [Music] if you guys want to come to oakwood church tomorrow for sabbath you guys have got to register and the website is ouc sda dot o-r-g o-u-c s-d-a dot o-r-g see the qr code on the screen this does count as a worship credit so for us who need our credits that's the uh qr code but that's the check out so if you guys didn't scan the code earlier um talk to the chaplain and uh he'll get you set okay let's stand to our feet as we uh dismiss once again guys let us not take what we have learned today lightly let's definitely use it live it and apply it heads are about eyes are closed father we love you god we thank you for your message we thank you for your messenger god we thank you for every aspect of this service god we thank you for the praise team we thank you for the prayer team we thank you for the one that intercede interceded for us today during the intercessory prayer god i thank you for all these people here god not just students but alumni and faculty and staff god i just thank you for what you did tonight god for that one person who is encountering you for the first time thank you and god for us who are renewing our relationship with you thank you and god as we separate and we go back to our dorms or we go back to our apartments or we go back home god go with us go with us guide us and finally father i accept your holy spirit just be with us just run rampant in our lives bring us back if it is your will tomorrow morning where we will receive another word from you it is my prayer it is my belief and it is my confidence that we will not leave the same way we came in jesus name i pray this prayer amen all right god bless you guys amen amen amen right before you leave right before you leave don't forget what pastor john said if god is calling you into that relationship come talk to us god is calling you to a baptism or re-baptism come talk to us and if you're a little uneasy about it right now and you don't come to us take a little time to think remember meditate on it and if you feel god calling you to make that decision then come to church a little early tomorrow i'll be here early come find me and after if that's the decision you want to make we'll make it happen so you can come talk to us right now [Music] if you don't want to come right now take a little time to think about it overnight and if god is telling you he wants you into that commitment and you want to seal that decision through baptism or re-baptism come find me tomorrow morning all right god bless you love you have a great sabbath one more one more all right before you guys leave um if you enjoyed the sermon tonight and you want to keep the conversation going the community is having the upper room in mosley i do believe it's room 104 is happening right now so if you enjoyed the sermon you want to keep the conversation going explain want to give your thoughts on the sermon go to the upper room it's in mosley room 104 oh sorry and without walls is happening at 2 p.m if you if you're not going to this service tomorrow feel free to come to without walls at 2. now you need to come to this service amen [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] 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Length: 119min 45sec (7185 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 17 2021