Pastor Reginald W. Sharpe, Jr. - God WILL Get In It (2018)

of genesis chapter one come with me to the book of genesis chapter one i know you know how to get to the book of genesis especially chapter one i really don't need to preach deep deek already preached loki i mean but i'm gonna try to say something on the occasion of this anniversary in men's day genesis chapter 1 verse 1 out of the king james version reads like this in the beginning god thank you you may be seated in the beginning god preachers i'm captivated by the first word of the bible to let a word end somebody say in i'm captivated by that first word of the bible and i want to talk today from this thought very simply god will get in it god will get in it and if you're not too mean i hope you like who you set by if you don't like them that's your fault because you sure did sit down beside them or either they flop down beside you either way smile at that neighbor with a real genuine smile and say neighbor one thing i know god will get in it that's the wrong neighbor some of y'all didn't say now word find another neighbor that don't want to be bougie on a sunday and say neighbor god will get in it he god will god will get in it i would like to commence this sermon by sharing with you that there is no space too small too tight or too dark that god can't get in it there's no space too small too dark too tight that god cannot squeeze god's self into it there's no space too small too tight too dark that god can't get in it i said there's no space too small too tight too dark that god can't get in it there's no space too small too tight too dark that god can't get in it you waiting on me to move on i'm waiting on you to act like you got it i said there's no space too small too tight too dark that god can't get in it there's no space too deplorable too dangerous too daunting that god can't get in it there's no space too crazy too confused and too chaotic that god can't get in it there's no space too painful too problematic too piercing that god can't get in it there's no space too bad too broken too battered that god can't get in it there's no space too discouraging too devastating too depressing that god can't get in it there's no space too lonely too low too languished that god can't get in it there's no space too ratchet too ridiculous too rough that god can't get in it there's no space too broken too bruised too bruised and battered that god can't get in a matter of fact you can't keep god out of anywhere because god is already everywhere somewhere in my sunday school class we learned that god is i'm not present which means god is everywhere at the same time god is the only one who's always going to where he's coming from and coming from where he's going to god is the only one who moves and has to say excuse me self because god bumps into himself every time god moves in that good news that you have a god that can't be kept out of anywhere because god is already everywhere as a matter of fact some of our songs and music confuse me because it reveals we have bad theology when we get up singing i'm chasing after you no matter what i have to do why you chasing a god who never left you in the first place i get confused when we sing songs like take me to the king i don't have much to bring god is looking at you saying you don't have to be taken to me i never left you to begin with everything you've ever been in god has been in it with you you don't believe me yet because you're waiting on the bible to affirm what i'm saying i'm glad you're a studious learned church because i know what to tell you have you ever read over in psalm 139 it says if i go up into the heavens the whole he is there if i go down into hell or she oh when i get as low as i can go behold he is there if i take the wings of the morning and fly out on the uttermost parts of the sea behold he is there god is in everything i see you don't believe me yet have you hollered at david yet david will tell you the lord is my light and my salvation whom shall i fear the lord is the strength of my life of whom shall i be afraid when my enemies and my foes came upon me to eat up my flesh they stumble and fail though in hosts shouldn't camp against me my heart shall not fear though war shall rise up against me in this will i be confident have you ever read psalm 46 it says god is my refuge and my strength a very present help where in the time of trouble come here paul paul said what shall separate us from the love of god in christ jesus shall tribulation shall distress shall persecution shall famine shall nakedness shall peril shall soar and then paul gets some sacred swag and he answers his own question and he says nay in all these things we are more than conquerors church folk don't know in the shout i didn't say after you come out of all these things you are more than conquerors paul said while you're still in it you're a conqueror see that's the only time a christian you ought to be shouting is not when you out of it you ought to be in it and say but god is still good god got this under control matter of fact let's go and practice right now you may be in some this morning but don't let what you're in take your praise out of you you need bible for that too paul said and all things give thanks too fast and all things give thanks too fast in all things give thanks in all things gift i know you ain't got it because you're still looking at me like huh i said in all things see some of y'all are waiting on thanksgiving in a few weeks matter of fact every day is a day i don't need collard greens and cornbread black-eyed peas and yams to have thanksgiving when i think about how god's been with me in every season and every struggle and every stumble and every storm i can't help but holler on a sunday morning and say this is the day that the lord has made i will go and touch somebody and say thank him while you're in it if you can't thank him for it just think of why you're in it because yeah though you walk through the valley of the shadow of death you will fear no evil because he's with you i'm here to tell you some of you are here right now on the second to last month of 2018. because god's been in it with you you lost your job but you didn't lose god and i know god was with you because how you gained weight and you were broke you didn't miss one meal because when god gets in it with you you don't need a dime in the bank and you can look like a millionaire your boo can leave you and you get cuter after they leave somebody open your mouth for 10 seconds and give god praise just for being with you in it i said open your mouth and give god praise for being with you and in every storm every issue unemployed struggling depression despair he's been with you he's been going he's in it with you he's in it with you that's all i came to tell you i came all the way from the atl to tell you god will get in there with you he may not get you out of everything but he shall get in everything with you you you're not feeling me like i need you to feel me anybody recall this story that happened in 1987 a little girl named baby jessica in midland texas she was stuck in a hole that was eight inches wide 22 feet deep she was playing in her auntie's backyard there in midland texas and she fell unexpectedly into a hole that was eight inches wide 22 feet deep she was just 18 months old and was stuck there for 52 hours they had to be careful how they got her out because if they pulled her out too fast she would break something or either be killed the news was watching paramedics and ambulance and police officers lined the streets of the neighborhood the whole world was watching and when i read the story i shouted reading it the whole time because here's what they did they sent an apparatus down into the hole where she could hear somebody that was 22 feet above her saying hold on we coming to get you we can't get there too fast but just hold on baby we're on the way to get you have you ever in your life been in something and you heard somebody above you that you could not see telling you hold on i'm gonna get you out of this eventually have you ever heard somebody your insight wasn't working but your your eyesight wasn't working but your insight was working and you heard somebody saying weeping may endure for a night but but joy comes because because this apparatus just didn't allow her to hear them they could hear her and they reported that she was in the hole singing winnie the pooh songs this girl is stuck in something that could potentially kill her but she didn't let the situation take her song and it may be true that she got more sense than half of us in this room and she was just 18 months old because the minute some of us go through something we're ready to uh you know tell everybody about it on facebook on instagram on twitter having a public pity party want to invite everybody into your misery you on the telephone i mean the telephone gossiping about what she did what he said maybe you have allowed your storm to take your song but one reason i love pastor thurston is because no matter what he was facing he never let it take his song you better have a song in your spirit it don't matter if you can sing just sing so low that can't nobody hear you but you need a song can i tell you my song great is thy faithfulness oh god my father there is no shadow of turning with thee all i have needed thy hand hath provided great is thy faithfulness lord you better take a song with your trouble in my way i have to cry sometimes i lay awake at night but that's all right jesus or you better take a song a charge to keep i have a god i wish i had a church a god to glorify never dying soul to save to fit it you need a song in your storm [Applause] but it gets even gooder because the world was watching and they raised 800 000 and put it in a trust fund and said just in case she survives when she turns 25 years old she can access the money nobody knew if she would survive or not but when she turned 25 years old she can access the money did you hear what i said eight hundred thousand dollars that's eight zero zero comma zero zero zero eight hundred thousand dollars and y'all she did survive and in 2011 she did turn 25 and she was able to access a trust fund that was set up while she was stuck i told god if that's what you do for people who get stuck in a situation let me get stuck every other day because god is so good and gracious that while you think it's all over he's setting up stuff in a trust fund that's gonna be for your future that you can't even see yet now this ain't for everybody because some of y'all only shout once you get your blessing but can anybody turn up on a sunday and tell god thank you for the stuff you haven't even seen yet the blessings that haven't even come yet the miracles that are i said open your mouth and tell god thank you that eyes have not seen you shall know where you are i'm shouting over away i'm going and i don't need the details to shout i know i got a guard who's here and already there somebody up and tell them god's in it with him that's all i'm trying to tell you god's in it with you and it's all right in the text preacher you making this up no no it's right here in the text god is in it with you number one god gets in it from the beginning [Music] it's so simple i'm embarrassed to tell you he gets in it from the beginning preacher where is that i'm glad you asked right then verse one slow down tiptoe through the text in the beginning god stop right there that's enough for us to shout about until jesus come back in the beginning god i remember when i got to morehouse i was a little young neophyte freshman and i thought i was going to corner the dean of the chapel lawrence edward carter with a question that would even stumble him i'd wrestle with this question from a little boy so i asked the dean of the martin luther king jr chapel at morehouse college a question that i knew would trip him up i said dean i have a question where does god come from they looked at me and said well i would answer your question but your premise is problematic in its initiation he said because god does not come and go god just is y'all sleep he's not a coming and a going god he's just is god and when you look through history you will never be able to look far enough in history to get past god when you look back as far as you can go you're gonna bump into god philosophers and theologians have wrestled for years to set up an argument for the existence of god and one of those arguments that that aristotle and later on thomas aquinas later developed was called the cosmological argument let the church say cosmological that's just a twenty dollar word with a two cent main and all it means is that the word cosmos is the root word where we get our word world from it says the world was created by somebody who could not have been created themselves whoever created this they said watch this now could not have been created themselves so therefore they call god watch this dr thurston the unmoved mover i ain't telling you no you don't know it's because god can move things but nobody moved god they call god watch this the uncaused causer because god can cause things to be but nobody calls god to be god is the undesigned designer because god can design but nobody designed god god is the uncreated creator because god can create but nobody created god god is the unfathered father because god can be a father but god doesn't have a father god is the unmothered mother because god can be a mother but god doesn't have a mother because when you go back as far as you can go you're going to bump into god preach we ain't coming for no philosophical lesson we ain't coming for all that today what's your point i came to talk to arrogant people who have forgotten their beginning and the truth is you are arrogant now walking past people you used to speak to everybody when you were broke but you got one degree but one new car moved to a new side of town and now you excuse me i'm trying to get to set your boujee pseudo-booze yourself down if it had not been for the lord on your side you wouldn't be where you are right now is there anybody in this church you can testify i can't afford to be humble because god i can't afford to be arrogant because god has been too good to me since my beginning when we were eating pot licking cornbread and putting baloney sandwiches on white bread god was with me back then i wish i had a few more witnesses that'll holler at the preacher and say i got to tell him thank you because everything i have god did it i tell you right now to look back over your life and give god praise over where he brought you from now if you're trying to act this morning this ain't for you i'm talking to the folk who know that you know that you know that you know that you know that you know if god didn't take you through school if god didn't put your name on somebody's mind if god didn't take care of your grandma on them if god didn't let them hand me the house be handed down you wouldn't i said give him praise because he's been with you every now and then you ought to look back you know just look don't do it just go and practice one two three look back they don't look back over your life all the car accidents you walked out of all the jobs you weren't qualified for but god did it all the relationships they said you weren't gonna be nothing when they left and you went higher when they left because when god's be when god is with you fire can't burn you water can't drown you rumors can't destroy you gossip can't ruin you you looking at me like i'm lying up here anybody know i'm telling the truth god's been with you since the beginning and can i just go on and testify this this getting up here to preach this morning is hard today because the last two weeks in america it's been absolutely crazy i don't know if we're in 2018 or 1958 a young man was lynched last week a church last night on that saturday night service in alexandria virginia and the alfred street baptist church in the middle of their service got word that their church had a bomb threat pipe bombs sent to anybody who's speaking against president donald duck i mean donald trump two people killed in kentucky just for being black jewish synagogue murder mass murder just because they're jews and they forget jesus was a jew [Applause] i gotta get in the pulpit and preach looking at the craziness in this world you in church this morning you might just crazy that i am you coming to church in the middle of the list absolutely because where else have black people go when life got crazy are y'all looking at me i said where else have black people go when life got crazy god's been with us since the beginning when they took us off the coast of whatever country it was in africa brought us through the atlantic slave trade showed up on these wicked shores in 1619 in jamestown virginia through cotton fields cotton picking chitlin cooking corn shucking [Applause] [Music] and you're gonna come in church and act like you don't know who god is if anybody ought to be shouting black folk ought to know the same the same god that took care of your grandma the same god i feel like preacher the same god that took care of our ancestors he's the same god right now if he did it but for that [Music] same god right now [Applause] it's the same god back then he's been with you i feel like preach y'all just sit there and look at sleeping you want to i'm preaching all of this he's been with me since the beginning thank you lord he's been with you since the beginning but then secondly it gets even better because he gets in it to be a blessing tiptoe in the beginning god turn me up a little bit in the beginning god stop right there god in english we see god but the original text was written in hebrew and it doesn't say god it says elohim let the church say elohim it is a hebrew word that denotes or suggests singular plurality one entity expressed multiple ways don't get confused i am singular plurality hello i'm reginald wayne sharpe jr depending on who calls me i become different things if brianna says reggie i'm her husband if faye original seniors say little reggie i'm their son if henry etta vivian paul or grady say reginald i'm their grandson if more house calls me i'm in debt i mean i'm an alumnus [Applause] if house of hope macon calls my name i'm their former pastor because i'm one person but if you call me you're gonna catch a different essence of my personality which makes sense that god is elohim singular plurality because it makes sense now when moses said well i'm going to pharaoh who do you want me to tell him send me god said just tell him i am that i am which means i'm gonna be what i'm gonna be because you really don't know what you need me to be until you get in the situation but when you get in the situation whatever you need me to be i'm gonna be that and see some of y'all ain't said amen the whole service because you've forgotten all the stuff elohim has been to you doctor in a sick room lawyer in a courtroom lily in a valley bright and morning storm bridge over troubled waters mama went mom and dad daddy when daddy died anybody in the room can testify he's been so much to me gonna shake your neighbor's hands and ava if you catch me shouting it's because you don't know like i know what the lord has done for me food on my table brought me out the hospital put peace in my mind put joy in my soul as a matter of fact the lord is blessing me that's why when you come to church stop looking at folks shouting you worry about yourself you walk around here that's just ready to grab people that shout no grab some of these cute folks grab some of these folks who forgot this is a sanctuary and not a cemetery don't grab me you don't know what he's done for me paid for me to get through school truck me out of depression rock me to sleep [Music] is there anybody around this church you can testify he's been so much to me you can sit there and look as dead as you want to but when i think of the goodness of jesus [Music] not some of not a little bit not every other thing but when i think about all he's done for me i'm done y'all ready to go home somebody that got a hallelujah in your soul go and get it out stop worrying about who's sitting around you they didn't come for church they came to show off their outfits but open your mouth and tell god thank you for being everything [Music] yahweh jehovah god my father prince of peace mighty god everlasting father jehovah shalom jehovah [Music] [Music] [Music] from the beginning god gets in it to be a blessing but all thoroughly and finally i'm going to my seat going back to atlanta then finally god gets in it to make it better [Music] text says in the beginning god create it watch it now heavens and earth come down to verse two let's tiptoe and the earth was without form and void and darkness was over the face of the deep in hebrew that word deep means that to whom it means absolute confusion and chaos y'all forgive me somebody got happy in the back and i dare not let her shout by herself because he might have been a provider for her but he's been a protector for me he might have been a keeper for her and a sustainer for me so i just need my three of y'all open your mouth chaos was everywhere and at the end of verse 2 it's a little something right there that just blessed my soul blessed my socks off it says and the spirit of god [Applause] [Music] moved [Applause] everything that was out of order he's on top of it [Applause] everything you can't control he's on top of it and i'm glad he started moving in verse 2 because whenever he moves he's getting ready to speak because verse 3 says and god said [Applause] let there be light you don't need a new job you need god to move at your current job you don't need a new marriage you need god to move in the first marriage you don't need new members you need to wake up some of these that's dad members of the living god let's go look at somebody and say i'm gonna tell you i'm here to tell you when the spirit moves stuff gets better oh how i wish we could go back to the old church when folk loved to come to church not to be seen but because they needed to be [Applause] seen oh when god starts moving stuff gets better matter of fact and some of these young gifted singers get on my nerves miss jackie all these runs ain't prayed one day before they got up the same but all these runs all these give all these vocal actrebacks but oh you let old mother get the microphone with three teeth and let her start singing amazing grace maybe you ain't seen the shekinah show until somebody that know god starts ministering the spirit of god will move and everything gets better if you need the spirit lift your hands and say spirit of the living god fall fresh on me fall fresh on my house fall fresh on my job fall fresh on my pasta fall fresh on my church fall flesh on the choir fall fresh on the deacons fall fresh on the mother's spirit [Applause] when the spirit starts moving everything gets better just a little bit over a month ago my grandmother went home to be with the lord vivian sharp she passed and went home to be with the lord there was a leak in her old building in her soul at the moment she was 91 years young and she loved jesus but uh come monday morning you better not talk about her come across her the wrong way because she knew the bible but she also knew how to cuss too reverend she taught me a great balance i love him too but don't cross me on monday my grandmother loved the lord but my grandmother had an uncanny ability to heal you without ever taking you to the doctor on friday if i was sick my mama knew if she dropped me off at grandma sharp's house by sunday morning i'm gonna be better she was old school straight from the country on my heart georgia down near columbus georgia y'all don't know about that she's straight country i'm talking about she smell country i get out the car sick and nose running throat itching and my grandma look through the windows it's like she can look at how i was walking she can look at my forehead and look at the unusual amount of sweat and perspiration on my brow and she was like baby come on in this house you look clammy i don't know what clam is yet i've been to three schools i ain't figuring that out yet but my grandma said i look clammy she said going in there baby sound to me like your throat itching is it hurting i said yes grandma it saw she would move in the kitchen and get some hot water put some salt in it get some vinegar stir it up she said come on in here and gargle while i'm gargling she'll move to another cabinet reach up and grab something called father john y'all don't know nothing about this [Applause] don't y'all fool me chicago but i'm glad she grabbed father john because i didn't want what was behind father john that was castor oil moving give me two or three teaspoons of father john then i go lay down on the couch and she'll get the hottest quilt she had i said grandma it's 97 degrees outside she said i don't care you need to sweat this out i laid all day sweating on grandmama's couch nighttime will come the evening will come the sun would bow down in the evening in the western parts of the sky and my grandma would say tonight you don't need to take a shower you need to take a bath you need to soak and i'm thinking she's gonna put some old spice and some bubble bath and some make it real pretty naw she went underneath that cabinet she moved up underneath that cabinet and grabbed some epsom salt and she turned that water so hot she had the hot on and didn't even had a coal on i said grandma it's hot it was like my skin but it was like i was sitting in a liquid hell she had good sense she didn't go to nobody's medical school but she said grab your handkerchief grab your rag and dip it in the hot water and put it over your nostril and breathe in the steam it'll open up your nasal passages and i said grandma i had enough now i'm good i'm going to bed put my lotion on put my pajamas on and i'm running down to my bedroom and said come on by my room i said omg that means oh my god i said smh that means shaking my head i went into her room because i knew she had a little blue tube with a green top on it i said grandma what is that she said vicks ass she put vicks on my forehead vicks on my nose vicks on my neck vicks on my back vicks on my stomach vicks on my knees vicks on my feet i went to bed greasy and striking [Applause] but by the time i woke up in the morning the stuff that was bothering me from the night before it was all cleared up because when grandma starts moving everything gets better and my grandma is just like elohim because when god starts moving everything gets better is there anybody around new covenant who can just lift your hands in the sanctuary and give god praise on a sunday morning because you know when he starts moving everything gets better now if you don't know what i'm talking about you can sit there with your arms folded up and your legs crossed showing on your chewing gum but if you know that when god starts moving everything gets better reach over and slip your hand in your neighbor's hand and tell your neighbor when god starts moving everything gets better your house gets better your joy gets better your swag gets better your walking gets better the hallelujah gets better your children get better your husband or your wife gets better you marry anybody here on a sunday morning they won't let this preacher preach by himself but you ought to stand up and be a witness and say i know for myself that god's been moving in my life removed this morning kept me up on time moved in my refrigerator made sure i had some needs moved in my closet and i had options of what to wear he moved over the road this morning and made sure that your tire didn't bust and your windshield wipers were working is there anybody here who's glad god is still moving now i know i'm at a baptist church but i've got a little kojic in me every now and then i need his spirit to move in my life because when the spirit starts moving whatever the devil was working on it gets canceled when the spirit starts moving up the rain stops falling and the water stops flowing and the lightning stops flashing and the thunder stops rolling do me a favor for the second to last time and grab your neighbor by the hand and hold their hand like you got a testimony grab their hand like you know jesus for yourselves and tell them i speak over your life everything you touch is about to get better every place you walk is about to get better tell them your job is about to get better your money is about to get better your faith is about to get better your family is about to get better your visions are about to get better your dreams are about to get better anybody here can give god praise while he's still working while he's still moving while he's still fixing him i know that he can move because one friday he moved up a hill called calvary and all he died until the centurion soldier said surely this must be the son of god he moved off the cross into a borrowed tomb and he stopped moving all day friday he stopped moving all morning saturday he stopped moving all afternoon saturday but something happened around saturday evening in my baptista imagination i can see jesus calling up to heaven he asked for an angel on the operating line he said may i speak to an angelic operator the angel said jesus whatever you want you can get it jesus said i need a wake-up call the angel said what time do you want to 4 a.m at 5 00 am 6 00 am or 7 am jesus said i don't care what time you put down just make sure [Music] he tells me [Music] around your name put your arm around your neighbor shake them and rock them welcome and shake them up [Music] he's got you he's he covering heal you he can save you he can deliver we'll take care [Music] it right now he's working it all right now but don't you wait until the battle is over praise him you got 30 seconds to give god some praise like you know everything is [Music] you

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Published: Thu Apr 15 2021