Raise It Up // Reggie Dabbs

[Applause] it's so good to be with you somebody do me a favor look at your neighbor and say all right all right all right oh that's good that sounds good that sounds real good y'all making me happy today uh today um first of all it's good to be home i'm a tennessee boy born and raised from knoxville tennessee go vols i like that too that's good and i love being home i love being home and i love coming here and oh by the way just so you know if you're a student middle school high school we're coming back next year to do all the schools in this area so clap for pastor for making sure we got that down it'll be fun we'll have a good time good good good time now let me just go ahead and just let's just talk about the elephant in the room what a year what a year okay the last weekend in january i was in in pigeon forge tennessee i was speaking for the united methodist church with 25 000 young people it was great you had to do four sessions a day friday saturday sunday and i had no time to blink or do nothing by the time the last session was over i'm rushing to the airport and my phone i look at it my son had left me seven messages which he never leaves one so i call him i go man what's up he goes you've been watching the news i said no i'm at this resurrection he goes oh yeah he goes bro i'm sorry kobe died i went shut up i speak for the the lakers and other nba teams nfl teams and and i literally turned on the radio and it was on every radio station i'm like oh my goodness and then march first week of march i'm in nashville right down the road at bridgestone yeah and uh it's a southeastern conference tournament so i'm speaking for kentucky tennessee alabama kentucky coach walks in and goes you need to speak really good because i'm about to destroy these kids lives and that's when they said everyone has to go home because covert started then on top of that we went back to 1962. here goes racism all over again i'm done i'm anybody clap if you done with 2020 i am done done man i mean when this year started all the prophetic people it's a year vision we're going to see in a few shut up the world now i can help you with racism because i grew up you know in a cool i grew up in foster care my foster care mom was a teacher foster care dad was a school janitor and we grew up watching everything about history about racism martin luther king jr nelson mandela rosa parks we had all the vhs y'all don't even know what that is it's a a modern day a old-school netflix so one day while i'm watching this whole netflix thing with martin luther king jr i have a dream speech on the mall in washington dc my mom comes in pushes pause she goes let me tell you about racism let me just put it to you straight so here we go cookeville let's just let me do it the way my mama did it here's what mama said look at me boy everybody chocolate you might be white chocolate milk chocolate or dark chocolate but baby all chocolate good love the world that's what mama said and of course my dad he ain't gonna be outdone by her so my dad goes hey boy it's like this it wasn't for white people hispanic people and black people we wouldn't have three games in the world today white people invented shooting pool you got a white ball hits all the color balls and say the black ball flash my latino brothers and sisters invented soccer that way they can kick the white man and the black man around all day long and black people black people invented bowling you get a colored ball and you knock down all the white rednecks there it is right there all right then he said if you ever share this just look at the people and say if you were offended by any one of those jokes you're the one with the problem because we all bleed red and we need to love each other love will find a way man i like it i like it some of you are laughing with me some of you are like to all my friends and sparta and all my friends in livingston and all my brothers and sisters who are behind bars those bars are only keeping you physically cause spiritually you will mount up like wings as eagles and you will fly and that's what we're talking about today if you've got a bible turn to psalms 23 psalm 2 a lot of y'all old school christians y'all don't even need to turn in your bible but that's what we're going to do that's what we're going to talk today but before we do that i found out that sometimes people just have a hard time just have a bad day and you know what i found out if you're having a bad day just say his name just say the name of jesus because at the name of jesus everything can get better quick it can't so this song simply says say the name here we go [Music] [Applause] [Music] my [Music] hey [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] says [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] says [Music] [Applause] [Music] why [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] somebody say the bible says that's pretty good say the bible says now if you've never been with a southern black preacher this is the best day of your life uh there's simple rules you're gonna talk to your neighbor talk to the preacher just have a good time so everybody touch your neighbor and say i'm gonna talk to you psalms 23 starting at verse one the bible says this the lord is my shepherd i shall not want i like that another version of the bible says the lord is my shepherd i lack nothing or from east knoxville we would say i like nothing because if you got nothing you still got ing but if you got nothing you po with no r that's as black as we're gonna get the lord is my shepherd i shall not want he makes me to lie down in green pastures he leads me beside still waters he refreshes my soul he guides me in the path of his righteousness for his namesake everybody say his name see a lot of times we want to do things for ourselves but when we do that we're going to fail but when it's for his namesake sake we're gonna win verse four yea though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death i will fear no evil for thou art with me thy rod and staff it comforts me everybody look at your neighbor and say that's for you the title this morning is simply raise it up everybody say raise it up one more time say raise it up there is one thing we can be sure of god is always at work when we are at the crossroads of life when we are forced to face the trials and tribulations of life when we are at the point of not knowing what to do or who to turn to god is working they say something about our brain you know what they say about our brain you can't see it smell it taste it touch it but you still got it and everybody in this room can be honest that you have a brain even though you can't see it smell it taste or touch it but because somebody told you you had one you disagree with them i have one then why don't we do the same principle with god if god's at work we may not see him smell and taste him or touch him but he's still at work he's still there he's still moving helping us some of you need to turn off the tv please it's going to hurt you i don't care if it's cnn or fox it's going to mess you up give it 30 minutes then keep going with your life cause there's some things that will make you smile still today every one of us go through valleys these experiences are a fact of life every time we go through these valleys we tend to wonder why god allows certain things to happen but in psalms 23 david speaks of a deep dark valley where there seems to be no ray of light you put your hand in front of your face you can't see a thing but i'm gonna make a statement i'm gonna do it twice so that everybody gets it this whole thing about this valley of the shadow of death what you got to understand is this valley is not a dead end gonna say it again whatever valley you're in it ain't a dead end if there's a way in there's a way out all the disappointments frustrations discouragements the dilemmas that life can put us in david even refers to it as nothing but a shadow so what i started with was looking up the definition of the word shadow so i looked it up in webster dictionary or sorry little girls i googled it a dark area or shape produced by a body coming between rays of light and a surface i'm going to give you again a dark area or shape produced by body coming between rays of light and a surface then it realized to me in john chapter 1 in john chapter one jesus said i am the light of the world so here's the deal no matter what valley you're in no matter how dark it seems it ain't none but a shadow because jesus is in there with you he's with you somebody look at your neighbor and say he's with you look at your other neighbor say he got you he's got you he's with you i know some of you are looking at me like boy you sure are getting started quick in this sermon you got to preach stuff like you know it and there's one thing i know is this y'all have no idea do you know i didn't work for 15 weeks and i i'm i'm this is what i do so when i could not travel could not fly could not go anywhere nobody was meeting they had you could have groups of 10. i literally had to figure out how am i going to figure this out but you know what's really cool some of you like well you have monthly supporters and donors no i didn't do that my wife said no my wife said every weekend you're in a church every week you go to schools then let's work let's work for our job let's not just not take money i love the church i don't think you guys understand how much i love the local church i love the local church so much i am not going to come to pastor's house and ask you to monthly support me when that money should go into the church if i am gonna preach on faith then i gotta have a god who will take care of reggie you know what's crazy not one bill did i miss i didn't miss a bill i didn't miss a payment i didn't miss nothing god i don't know how he did it but you know what i reinvented myself i went on itunes and i learned how to do imovies and i made my own 10-minute devotionals they were off the chain good i sent them to people i sent them everywhere i was like i was like i was like instagram and man why i will because i can sit and cry or i can keep moving i'm done crying hey listen failure isn't failure because you failed failure is failure because you stopped moving somebody tonight this morning you need to start moving i feel like it's tonight because this is the third time i preached this sermon today i did it last night today this is beautiful i like it groundhog day i love that dude i was thinking about that this valley valley what's the worst valley ever what's the worst valley ever when the egyptians chased the israelites to the red sea there seemed like no way there was no way there's no way some of you right now you guys are like that there's no vaccine there's no this covet 19 we could be like the russians just skip that part let's just give it to the people i'm gonna keep preaching right now okay but i'm just saying i'm just saying we could do all this stuff but no no no no but here's what happened the people i'm gonna read it to you we might as well go there go to exodus chapter 14. i'm gonna start reading in verse 13 but let me set this up here's what happened moses went to pharaoh and said let my people go and pharaoh said no so all this nasty stuff started happening frogs coming up in people bed and all that stuff people dying children dying all of a sudden pharaoh says get your people and go get to stepping out of my house so they're free they're free and all the people were like loving it we're free we're free they were singing i love moses yes i do i love moses how about you we love him more will he love him more until somebody i can tell there's certain people here who've never heard me preach before they're like welcome welcome it's good all right isn't it crazy sparta livingston isn't it crazy that there's always somebody looking back why are you looking back there's a reason why the front windshield is bigger than the rear view mirror quit looking back you can't change your past but jesus can change your future people and then look so i love moses yes i do i love mother how about you somebody in the back looked back and they saw a cloud then they realized that cloud was an army it was the entire egyptian army so from the back something worked up to the front somebody went they're coming they're mad and when it got up front all the people could see in front of them was the red sea they didn't know what a bridge was back then okay and everybody all of a sudden that's what we do he loves mother how about you and all of a sudden he changed let's kill moses let's kill moses this is his fault and all of us say here we are but did you know before there was a red sea god had already built a road through the red sea i know i know i know and here's moses and i'm about to read it to you and he's standing there and the people are yelling the people mad and the cloud of dust with the entire egyptian army is coming and some of you are like oh he knew what to do he saw his own movie with charleston heston and everything just raised that stick all right everybody say raise it up but he had no no there was no movie there was no movie because somebody hadn't lived it yet you see here's what's great when people live god's plan people live it so well people notice and so people live a life that makes people write about it to make people do a movie about it i think there should be a movie about somebody from cookeville tennessee who lived up to jesus christ so well that somebody writes about you and then somebody does a movie and you're a disney flick and all is good all of a sudden moses said this now notice he didn't know moses said don't be afraid stand your ground and you will see what god will do to save you today you will never see these egyptians again that's some big words right there y'all you'll never see these fools again that's reggie's translation the bible says bible says then the lord said in verse 14 he said the lord will fight for you and you will see and the lord just keep still keep still some of you are taking this like keep still like physically keep still no no no no keep still in your faith keep stealing your trust keep stealing your belief if you believe john 3 16 then be still and know that he is god if you believed in a den believe in it now don't let the circumstances of this world waver who you are in jesus christ because he's the same yesterday today and forever be still in your faith somebody touch your neighbor and say be still and i love verse 15. then the lord said to moses why are you crying dude this is the way i see god a lot of people have their own versions of what god looks like who jesus is some of you got jesus with a white dress on and a purple sash running through the woods hugging trees my idea of jesus is arnold schwarzenegger in the terminator with his guns drawn and he's like i'll be back all right and that girl on the fourth row agrees with me i'm just saying all right listen this is it he goes why are you crying why are you crying don't you know who i am hey don't y'all know who god is let this be the sunday that you just get it back in step again let this be the sunday where you just get in line again and go you know what and the words of david the lord is my shepherd i shall not want he says this verse 16. lift up your walking stick and hold it over to see and the waters will divide and the israelites will be able to walk through on dry ground everybody say on dry ground come on say on dry ground one more time on dry ground now here's what i love about this you know good and well the day that pharaoh said get out of my house get your people and go you know every teenager went down to the foot locker and had to get those air pharaohs because if we out we got to go out stepping you know what i'm saying and they had them on and they're marching they're singing the songs and all of a sudden they get to the red sea and then all of a sudden the waters part left and right and everybody's all excited because god parted the waters and you're going to have teenagers going oh snap i'm going to get my air free roads dirty right up until the point where it's their turn to walk into that water and where the water would have started when they step in the ground is dry now i know some of you are like that's the dumbest little story ever but let's think about this the bible says that he cares what we care about if we have a concern he hasn't concerned so if his babies wanted their shoes not to get dirty how bad well how hard was it to if you could part the red sea might as well make a dry ground so listen the same god that did that then cares about what you're concerned about today just trust him somebody touch your neighbor say trust him touch your other neighbor say trust him trust him this psalms 23 is cool i only have two more points left is everybody okay y'all good can i go on a little longer i love it when you clap like that that very first part the lord is my shepherd i shall not want i love that the lord is my shepherd it's not like david was trying to tell you what to do it's kind of like me preaching today have you noticed i've yet to tell you what to do you notice i haven't told you anything i don't know you but i'm here to tell you this is why i'm excited it's why i'm animated because this is who i am this is what i did and it changed my life if you never heard me you didn't catch it at the beginning my mom was a prostitute slept with a man for 20 bucks i'm gonna resell a 20 bill grew up in foster care my whole life with suicide as a teenager i ain't thought about killing myself in a long long time why because the lord is my shepherd i shall not want i ain't telling you what to do i'm telling you what i did i love that i love that but david he knew he knew this because back in the day when david was like 15 years old his brothers went to fight a war but he had to stay cause he was the youngest and his dad said i want you dying so you're gonna go watch the sheep okay watch the sheep wire boys go fight so while he's watching the sheep one day a lion comes out and tries to kill the sheep so david jumps between the lion and the sheep kills the lion and saves the sheep the next day a bear comes out now you think this bear would have watched the news he would have known don't be messing with those sheep because that little brother got some skills all right but no he's a and david jumped between the sheep and the bear killed the bear saved the sheep david knew if the lord was his shepherd that no matter what the world brought against david he knew that his shepherd god would jump between him and whatever was trying to kill him and that god would win that battle for him and if he did it then he'll do it now now i know some of you got to understand a few years back i got to go to africa and do schools i was in south africa speaking in public schools and as i was speaking to schools in south africa i had a blast we did a 17-day tour all right we averaged eight to nine schools a day when it was all said and done after 14 days we had spoken face to face to 73 000 public school students in south africa that's cool to say but it's hard to live i was tired but around 12 the day 12 i noticed that there was only 14 days of school but i'm there for 17 days don't leave until late night on the 17th night i'm like oh snap i'm going home early i'm going to get me a ticket i'm out of here these people be working a brother like you who are you going no no no i got to go to bed and so i looked at them and i said hey i know you have been here for 17 days but we're done with schools and 14. so i'm gonna get an earlier flight and go home if that's okay with y'all and they said no you can't we have a surprise for you we're gonna take you on a safari and i said i said who i'm from knoxville we don't have safaris he said we're going to go out because africa is known for the beast the beast that we have the lions and and we have hippopotamuses and elephants and they roam the countryside and we want to take you and let you look at those i went oh okay i said and they were so excited i no okay gee my wife or she ain't expecting me home god okay no problem and so that we we do the last day of schools and we drive three and a half hours it's probably like one two o'clock in the morning we get to this place and and i look and and i see this jeep and then and the jeep has no doors no roof no windows and he goes that's our ride tomorrow i said wait a minute so we going to watch like lions and there ain't no window no doe no nothing he goes yeah it's gonna be awesome and like you do know what you just described he goes what i said sushi and we the food all right okay people i'm gonna be honest i ain't never seen nothing like it knoxville zoo is like a kindergarten playground compared to this it was crazy i saw lions i saw like like cougars and and panthers i saw all this stuff in their heaven i saw a pack of lions rip a zebra apart now i know you're like peter they ain't never heard of peter where them people live all right dude it was um they said no one ever really gets to see this this is great i was watching like that crocodiles i was like this was nuts nuts we came down the road and all of a sudden we looked up on the second day and there was a herd of elephants in the road and my driver started honking and i'm like bro he goes they got to get out of our way i said no no this is their road we're their guests don't be rude i mean these elephants had the horns curling up and now they were huge then it happened on the last day we're heading back to the campsite sun's starting to set we come over a little hill by a little lake and there had to be 2 500 sheep in the road and my driver went oh dude that's my friend he says reggie we got time you got to watch this this is cool 2 500 sheets and they're all going that way down a little embankment to this lake and these sheep when they saw the water they went crazy like kindergarten's in the first day of playground they out there but they're jumping in the water then another dude shepherd shows up he's got three thousand sheep and another one there's like 10 11 000 sheep it was a lot of bad it was loud and they came over and they shook my hand and stuff and i'm starting to think and i looked at one of the shepherds and said bro how many sheep do you lose coming down to let them drink and he looked at me and went none i said how in the world he goes give him a couple more minutes and i'll show you he said do you remember the bible in psalms 23 the lord is my shepherd i shall not want i said yeah he goes i'm about to give you the greatest illustration you've ever had in your life so about three minutes later he looked up and goes hey freddy you good he goes yeah i got to get back mama's got dinner so you go first then he goes all right he goes nice to meet you reggie it's nice to meet you so freddie looks up and he goes hey and about 2500 sheep went back and started walking toward freddie i'm like oh snap then when i went and all of a sudden three thousand sheep started walking toward him it hit me the lord is my shepherd he can only be your shepherd if you listen he can only help you if you let him they say that god's a gentleman he would never force himself on anyone to do anything so he lets you live your life your way until the day you realize i need the lord to be my shepherd so david was perfectly right and saying the lord is my shepherd i shall not want and he i shall not want he makes me to lag down what we have to do is simply this it's time for us to let jesus be jesus every day of our life we need to raise up peace in the world raise up joy in the world raise up love raise up healing raise up redemption raise up salvation we need to do that there's a there's a group called hillsong i do a lot of stuff with them they have a song that says so i'll praise you on the mountain and i'll praise you when the mountain's in my way i love that you see everybody goes through these things everybody has this and it's almost like there's two things you got the mountaintop and you got the valley you got the mountaintop you got the valley you got the mountaintop you got the valley well the valley is a crazy place because it's in the valley where we have our difficult moments it's in a valley where we become challenged it's in the valley where we have battles and fights it's in the valley where we feel hurt it's in the valley where attitudes are developed it's in the valley where struggles and fears come in it's in a valley where hopes and dreams are dashed it's in the valley where painful circumstances come the valley is inevitable for us it's going to happen just remember this the mountaintop is where we go to meet god this is a mountaintop experience this service so if the mountain is where we go to meet god the valley is where god comes to save us there's a word and i'll finish with this yea though i walk through the valley through the valley you were never meant to live in the valley some of you have pitched a tent you made a campfire you got your sleeping bag you got your whole thing set up and you were made to walk through that place not live in that place it is time for you to leave the tent leave the fire leave your nasty sleeping bag you need to get up and you need to start walking cause that valley is no place for you yeah though i walk through the valley through the valley but the only way you can get through the valley if it's yours if he's your shepherd so that's what we're going to start with do you know him today is the lord your shepherd if not this is a good place hey i'm going to be honest with you i'm not the smartest tool in the toolbox but i might be the most loyal and once jesus touched me i ain't never gonna leave him every now and then i start playing in the water and jesus will have to go hey oh my bad bro just get back in line let's go again y'all don't expect speakers to say that stuff do you i'm just a guy you know with hurt with pain hey i haven't said it any service but i'll say it this one because god's laying it on my heart in the middle of covet 19 i got a i got i got a phone call and he said hey my pastors kids want to talk to you and can i can i call you back in 10 minutes they're walking in my house now before they come in it'll be all over the news tomorrow pastor took his life last night and all they said was can we call reggie i said yeah what do you say and i remember talking to those kids and literally i said the lord is my shepherd i shall not want and i literally out of my head preached the sermon the first time that day doing cohort when my preacher friend took his life everybody goes why why why and i'm like i don't know bro i don't have the answers but this one thing i do know the lord is my shepherd i shall not want yea though i walk through the valley i'm not stopping no more i'm not gonna stop no more i'm gonna go through it so let's take care of the shepherd and then the valley you came up in church today and for some reason you do not know jesus as your lord and savior for some reason you've been doing this thing your own way but for some reason only through god because i'm an idiot all right something was said something was sung today you watch people get baptized today and you're like i need to go home i need to get my life right i need to give my life right then you're in the perfect place because in romans chapter 10 verse 9 it says if you declare jesus before man he'll declare you before his father in heaven in romans 10 9 it says if you declare with your mouth that jesus christ is lord and believe in your heart that god raised him from the dead you will be saved and that's what we're going to do but you're not doing it by yourself we're going to all do it together i need every saint to help every sinner because every saint has a past and every sinner needs a future and this is where that kind of collide right here right now so everyone bow your head close your eyes we're doing it together you know if you need this prayer say it with me everybody say jesus come into my life be my lord be my savior i'm asking you right here right now please forgive me i'm sorry that i turned to something other than you but today i'm coming home the bible says with the words that i've just prayed i'm saved thank you jesus [Music] the lord is my shepherd i shall not walk every head bow to ever i close no one looking around in matthew it says if you declare me before men i'll declare you before my father now i'ma start at the very very side on your right my left hand side and i'm going to scan all the way across this auditorium if today you were your day today you walked in church for some reason and you were not right with god but you said that prayer and you meant it on the count of three i want you to start waving at me until i wave back and you're proclaiming god to man you can do this i'm gonna start on your right against the wall and i'm gonna look all the way around round three if you did it today you got right with god look up and wave when i wave back you can look back down ready one two three go wave at me i got you i got you i'm coming around the room oh yeah baby yeah buddy in the back i see you i see you ma'am i see you i see the couple yes in jesus name i'm in the middle yes i see you i see you i'm coming to the other side i see you in the back i see you i see you i see you buddy i see you i see you on the side i see you i see you in jesus name everybody clap for those who got right with jesus i kind of want to prolong this i love this is my favorite place i never say that i never i never said that i never said i'll come back okay we're already we're already planning on it i love your pastor his wife pray for her i know she had a loss in her family but we're gonna make it aren't we this is what happens in church people get together and it's good all right here we go yay do i walk through the valley of the shadow of death out for your new remote it's inevitable and there are people in this room in that valley so i'm a count from 10 to zero every head about ever i close real fast no one looking around while i'm counting if you're going through a valley and you're like that's it jesus i'm giving it to you you may not feel different but you you've done an act of giving it to jesus here's that act while i count from ten to zero if you're going through a valley you want to give it to jesus all you got to do is stand up once i get to zero everybody's standing we're gonna pray for you i'm going to start the prayer pastor is going to finish the prayer but we're going to see what god has and what he will do in our life somebody say amen amen i count from 10 to zero if you're going through that valley all you got to do is simply stand up it's like why am i standing because where you came where you're sitting is where you came it's an act of movement to say i'm not leaving with this so if you need prayer you're in a valley you've got 10 seconds to stand nine eight seven six five four three two one jesus father i pray for every person standing you know what they're going through you know what they need from you you know the hurt you know the sorrow but you will make a way out of nowhere park the red sea for them make the answer be on dry ground god i pray as pastor finishes this prayer that a peace beyond any understanding would be theirs that they will get in their car different than when they got out of it and it's all because of you father i've just come in agreement with reggie and all of these wonderful people that's standing lord i ask you to meet every need financial relational physical uh emotional father you said if we agree on earth as touching anything it shall be done and we come in agreement and we thank you father that you are working on our behalf and we thank you for it in the strong name of jesus and everybody said amen would everybody stand with me did you not enjoy that word what oh that was so good so so good so so good hey let me just encourage you uh if you do like my wife and i and give online we'd ask you to go to that tab and support reggie again he's not on a staff somewhere he doesn't have donors that give to him it's through churches like yourself and we're so honored that we can partner with him he's one of our greatest missionaries to send into these high schools and these college campuses amen you can also give on your way out the buckets will be there let me pray over everybody father thank you so much for the people of god i pray this week that lord you'll order their steps i pray that father they'll walk and live in your favor i pray for all of our students lord i pray for all of our families i plead the blood of jesus over them father i thank you that no weapon formed against them shall prosper no plague come neither dwelling father thank you that if you be for us who or what can be against us we thank you for it and thank you that we're going to have not just a good week we're going to have a god week in jesus name amen guys we love you god bless you we'll see you next time

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Length: 43min 8sec (2588 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 16 2020