Rev. Ralph West preaching at SR

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] Houston Texas on last year a lot less time to be able to tell this whole career he was not able to be with us and we just don't make one is able to share with us again this year he shall come to us I would be back what slogan has given to him to us once you receive him with a hearty Amen a pastor for different minutes and confident friend Bravo [Music] that's the lowest ROI and each of you allowed to express part when my appreciation as I have already very early this morning private that you have not tired of praise and preparation of being able to be with you this week during this particular juncture and even if I'm studying the word that makes Prince I'm thankful to pass the last on item 8 again this year the big a partnership with passed the floor your Papa would like me though you want me to hurry up and get out visitors would be excited all right but I do expect people about the West View or division paroxetine no virtue that she was shot here at this church then the pastor Floyd thankfully we are acquainted with the bishop and hear about the great things that God still Aliki as a person and preacher and a past and at this church in which he'll be sharing some of those excited things well what I want to do is I want to exercise a protective proper without quenching to hold the spill all right all right so I want to state within my lovely time instead of the work so that we won't get worn out but it's time to hear the preaching of the word which is coupled with being a world of credit father we come to you tonight and asking your French that you would release perfectly teacher leadership of your Holy Spirit we've had a busy day and some of us at work all day come through the busy traffic of work you may not wait here some spring from work so physically some of us are fatigued so that when you speak to us we have put your word into practice help us to recognize your word is your word respond to it by faith and obedience in our haunted money run out of here put it into practice and I don't think that discipline it is this stuff without you Jesus Christ you read of the Old Testament they accepted the Kings chapter 6 2nd Kings chapter 6 verse 1 there was a vignette about Elisha the Prophet that the sons of the proper and I know news that when this is bridge primarily geared toward preachers but I want to speak over here above turn the night after I read this story 2nd Kings chapter 6 verse 1 and the sons of the prophets and after Elijah the whole amount of place while we dwell with me is to straight for us let us go we pray the other job and shake hands every man of being and that's a place that where we made aware that he answered going here I don't want to say that become 10 operated in gold with that service in the aniseed hour so you live with them and when they came to John they cut down wood but that's one of those feeling of being Boxhead fell into the water he cried and said alas master art it was bombed and the man of God said well fed and he showed me of the place and he cut down a stick and casted in the pillar and I did swim there for safety and take it up to me and he put out his hand and took now protagonist exit talkin about the covering of the indispensable cutting edge of the indispensable courage let me situate the store for these students of Elisha them in a particular dollar tour while the probably was spending some of them all under the tutelage and leadership of Elisha in other words they were probably at seminary all right that word seminary being in seed bayad that's what the church becomes a CV the law and steals this were than I thought and allows the control and we grow it becomes of the law has followed us to be and the popularity of Elisha primarily disaffiliation where they live shuttle profit people trusted there are students in the hand of that children of the hands of a discipline of Elisha and so many people came around that hidden I should teach until they began to run out of room I think that's apple poem for you I'm sure you can understand that they begin to run out a little but would you ride alone the next best thing to do is the start expanding so you can Havel's the people that you have as a one of the sons of the prophets says admonish you where we are too small and what we need to do is to expand to be and go follow and to continue the book yeah there's a wooded country not far from here in fact this right all the borders of the jump all right and it has anonymous possibility and cut down the trees and feel the place is bigger than where we are and if we are thrown that place there's enough land available to cut down more trees and continue to expand that's what we believe we'd also do it that was no context of this man's visionary but he had SWAT planning that I think sticks out he asked Elijah returned in second kings of the mighty News he asked Elijah but he also says he asked of man yeah yeah yeah lucious did not contest but he considered it said album and when it went together over to the wooded country what the young man needed was that as Elijah to use his influence right to get some axe so that they could use to cut down the trees most of us but that's the equivalent of somebody who has no expertise in computer software asking you for your brand-new PC to go do some work and they really don't know how to use all right that's the equivalent of some manuals and then we do this hydraulic drills and say I need to dig a hole so let me borrow your equipment and go to work it was our place perhaps the business community's late bar axis because the iron in that day was the most expensive material of its time so when they said but you put some axes but they were rid of saying it but you put along with no collateral the most expensive commodities that you have so that we can use it to go and build us a place well we could leave all right and probably I'm using sanctified imagination now probably because of the lords of the limestone the business community a businessman said on three out in the when the Prophet gets that everything looks long and a fellas pawn what's the problem he says my axe pain is gone yeah well that's all right we have fifty up you know it was I'm gonna treat that fuckness what drove this done the crowds advance along in desperation get anxiety oh yeah it was my well let me define number one what the acts they had symbolizes and give you three things about number one well first the accident symbolizes the equipment that we need to get the job done oh and so if the job was going to get done it's a night strangers rest everyone of us have to come to grips with that ax is Bob it doesn't belong with us but symbolises the cunning age to get things done that turn of cutting edge is frequently used today to apply people who are riding the crest of the way people who do it just a little bit different and a whole lot better God has given us the equipment to do it different and belt him but we have to remember one thing his father it was he crying out to Elijah because he had lost the power of service and when I discovered is in the church that a lot of people trying to cut down trees then along to our sound effect to that world it's the people you can hear out of the wood they are in different ministries and work of the church and it's not like they really doing it because you can give but then when you get the rally off you never see nothing [Applause] [Music] and so that many people have lost the power of service and so they have the power of service which is the Spirit of God who in April's us and gives us the power to get it done if he is not involved in what we're doing not very much is gonna get done right now on the church but older I get I get kind of frustrated going to church what people just go to church I mean it look ridiculous sound religious but they're not hold up you see the conclusion that when I go to worship something all be happy and so I mean I think things I'll be happen more than just be gone that are leave different from the way I some method army broke some dream ought to be renewed some vision ought to be cultivated some aspiration are behind not the way I think I do it maybe not most that cutting edge of our Christian service then they call it a few of our examples Peter lost tears of the cornfield David lost people's looking at Bathsheba not just looking but coerced into his changes yeah most of his lost years where God told and speak to the rock rather than speaking about him he counts with his pilgrimage in the cave yeah Samson law students learn in the mouth of the violin when he thought that he could get back just with flirtation but she seduced me he gave me and lost his Levitical Lockport also meant the abstraction of his strength so then he lost the cutting managed to do the job and so get the edges not much is gonna get done do you remember that that time when John the Baptist came into the job he demonstrates what happens when you have the cut again he was preaching it people can't remember whether he'll what he had to say and when they heard what he had to say he said now I'm going to do this later act took a little bit and it will do demonstrative that if the axe can cut down these tree trunks systems of government and politics and religiosity advocate down for instance do you recall that Paul and Silas Manila that's what Michael and the word went out to the government that also means you come down soon and they'll turn into words the government said well what are they using what equipment do they have for me as a piece of rolled-up piece of paper that they call a scroll which is the Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword this is the fall of Mary the soul the spirit I could have a son that get a designer of the thoughts and the intents of the heart in fact Dan said how the shade of this piece of salvation to everyone that believes so get the job is going to get done we have to understand to lose that exhale to lose the equipment you will never the Power Plus earns 92o it is lost why are you in desperation second that because master it was Bob that was a cryptic word to me I don't know how to hits you but it hits me because again the loan our walk with the loan the mom discovering and Claudia that everything I had the Lord has not only given it to me but he's given it to me all along my mother said this to me one day when I was having a difficult and dealing with the particular death she said son you need to remember God one day is gone served everybody and eternal eviction of he's don't say get your house right shut your permission back answer that door and when the picture notice come how can how accustomed you are to the confines of your house baby whether the master say you got the movie [Applause] understand we empower God gave it to us but not only to give it to us it is on loan to us I heard people cry about the death of husband or wife or children about this but the law never promised anybody to say you don't have forever the time will come when death was separated all the bucks from the people we love the materials you have what you say how do you saying just like that young college graduate in my church engineer fraternal man who walked up to me and said got out mean no harm but the whole reason I come to church because my right foot all the city that's one reason why I come to church in fact the church to me yes you're relevant it's in articulate to the real needs of people who come I want to think that what you do is good in terms of motivation but that is no real life change into what you do you Oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] it's to cement here I have to come to grips with I think when I listen you know that I said five minutes ago you wouldn't say why you shot they understood [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] what you remember the cutting it represents the power to get the job done the nothing you've done as a church you know you can have all the money I give you in terms of ministry that is serving the resurrected Jesus Christ it will be done through the power of God's actually you can do nothing how did you recover their this equipment how do I get back some of you are saying now lost it but if you say pastor how did you know it you're lost it if you're saying things like I remember how I'm used to these things attorney success that was attacked you lost the caption don't burn and worship you lost yeah if the word as it takes you to the part of disobedience go to the church you lost there are you losing this indispensable cut against a lot of losses and if I lost my own father there's a farmer in description he says in verse 6 and a man of God say when did it fall the first thing is you have to understand if that you lost it love it but notice this don't you lose it God has a god man who can brought you back to the place I love and the question come where you saw me when you could freeze oh you should have read the spot the priest yes you know certain some and passed them dirty so you believe you [Applause] you can [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] this word out to us if you have to lose [Applause] thank you so much through the word lost never mind we thank thank you that though we lose it thank you mom when you recover to give us a new life a new joy just to be replayed [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] you would release the perfect teaching ministry of the homeless speak to us through your word I must have recognized your word is your word respond to you know bigots run out of here put it any crimes thank you so much for what you're about to do it we hear ourselves we think they Jesus Christ while I open went and passed over this floor growing up in Houston I used to visit mom in fifth Ward spent the summer with half the street and her house was about 27 yards from a training track and moving is to always tell us you can play in it wet and wanted but I certainly wouldn't want you to fail the tracks because you know a train is coming and so I'm gonna play on these tracks tonight I'm gonna see what I have to say get out they should have I could give my route they said you don't have a train this country talk about a lack of caged bird sings in the book of Acts chapter 16 in this way familiar passage acts 16 convincing at verse 25 the word reads that midnight Paul and Silas pretty and the same phrases on the gun and the prisoners heard it again and some of it battles a great interest rate so that the foundations of the prison was shaken and immediately although the doors were open and everyone Spanish were loose and the keep of the prison prison of waking out his sleep and sin the prison doors opened he drew out his sword and would have killed himself supposing that the prisoners had met but Paul Orion Isaiah do thy staff go home all they cost one light of the lights brain games came in trembling and fell down before total silence and brought them out of the said service what must I do to be saved and they said believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and thy house I have no plan the Caged Bird Sings the poet Maya Angelou about black girl growing up in the South get back uncle we had a teacher that loved it and taught her how to write the Jews the power of language and the giver discover our true and best south of a pelican new self-esteem she began to use as a thing I've no mind Caged Bird Sings all right let me rushed right on into the passage and tell you what's going on you got two preachers in jail not an uncommon place for preachers during the first century trade union and they got in trouble because like most preachers they kept their nose in somebody else's business that was the young girl who was working for some entrepreneurs who use in a gift of intuition to make a profitable gain for the people she worked for and this girl came up behind Paul and Silas and began to say that they a few of the servants of the Most High she kept saying so much until that of knowledge Apostle Paul to the point that he wanted how to leave him alone in silence but she looked and said she kept saying your servants of God he decided what we need to do is just the tip of this woman from this spirit that possessed and so in the name of a farm in Powell of Jesus they tell this evil spirit leave his girl alone it departs and from that point she becomes a disciple of science of ecology of Apostle Paul an apostle silence whether you would think that would be the end whether it's from anxiety depression of whatever you can think of the night whatever you've been delivered upon you would think everybody would be excited about your liberation oh yeah I tell mewho she was making money but these men that she worked for they became upset and reported fallen scientists to the government and in turn the government took actions against these two preachers beat him up beat up to the point that they were probably almost unannounced alright strip them down and then on the web tell them dump preach know more about Jesus and put them in detail and say we're gonna keep you overnight in fact we don't keep you for a few days and we're gonna lock you up in the inner chambers of the jail there's prove to you that preaching in the main Jesus is a governmental offence that will paralyze into a maximum security and so power inside was by mg and that hands are cuffed without fever come to that mixer installed and you would think at that point they would allow that circumstances to dictate them a spirit of apathy and say well since were in jail why should we be excited I'm being locked up with consecrated incarcerated why should we be excited about that now I want you to hit the microphone and I want to show you in the scripture that you can be locked up you can be imprisoned in some corner of circumstance even at that God can give you too big to fail as a prescription of how on the children up and wait on the bus of colic and I've never been playing in one time what she did I also think something's wrong but we have the counter just sing like going to church some stuff to just all I have but what is it that if we don't have certain things you still have of the massive issue what is it about this faith that what everybody else is complaining about no not the best job and yet you got time that what we were experiencing is that we have four car parts called the opiate of the people there was Pedro inoculation that was suggested that religion was like a drug to us we went to church and talk to God and prayed to make up for what we did back put out the church and loosen everything almost I hate [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] is a creature you have come in the heat to tell me [Applause] number one even define yourself cage you need to learn to develop a consistent life of devotion the weirdest sale at Lehman with a certain body of Twilight which is at the midnight [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] we complain about what we don't have we still have more than one real [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you the way [Applause] [Music] [Applause] right now but I keep speak in tongues tense music him to me always healed me [Applause] into whatever he wants me to become not on the right you are right but God can be depended on the story of the bonds of the fiery furnace is a fascinating stone they have been taken from that native land open to battle they commanded to pray to a god that cannot hear see oh man I am and they decide we're not going to do now I can tell what love you make without another side of fact the foundation of man that they are used I remember it the oldest was probably the older than 16 or 17 and exam he done is about 13 or 14 and as deep rooted convictions that will not serve God abideth and not some image of a done yeah and when he refused about that the people said it for so long and everything else that got to do and they Simmons these parts should then in a fight of her own that way to the zone and it's so hot that the strip to say the Fogel throw away and got burned King is one thing we won't say [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] he's gonna deliver us the rain we wanna say Lord if you don't deliver me out of it then you are one that never fail in every circumstance people [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] look at me in the sweetness of [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] now you say silence you're making the Gabrielle so you say [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] Oh [Applause] so much the foundations of the gentleman in this ship [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] Oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] give us I'm not taking advantage many opportunities appreciative homes and safe bye we say talkative together the magnet thank you for the grace the goodness the generosity of God least of gospel that you've given us we pray afresh now that you would speak from the human personality all the stuff that he will accomplish in this room when he was encouraged his fame Jesus was reflected with promising in thinking about how God that's what gracious does this week nobody else in town is trying to have a robot [Music] I said or maybe y'all scared for him I said hey nobody else in town travelled about revival this weekend if I was at home with Matt and Saturday man I tell the people that I'm sure will not one of the games that's going on Sunday morning we don't home the game played us I almost say a word here about that scratch and I'll be out of your way so you can get passed over slow because I don't like you I can't get it like to hear but past a flaw I had sent when the Gospel of Luke chapter 18 verse 1 the word says jesus told his disciples of powerful to show the other that they should always pray and not give up I don't have a title for this text that you can call it whatever you want to but I want to encourage you not to give up a play I remember three and a half years ago on our trips following his on May 1 even to check into a hotel room never forgiving in this world in a world of color I never prayed this way before but I prostrating myself out of the floor because I want to make sure I exercise the deepest sense of humility I must lay down on the floor and I pray all they know and unfortunately I felt at that time God did he give next morning I went to church this was the first time we would have Church in a whole Church haven't been formalized or formulated at this time automatic and I told the church dad and still nothing happened that was the week of Thanksgiving and all Thanksgiving David I was preaching the sermon out of the book of Acts chapter 2 but they continued an Apostles teaching that tread so forth and I'll never forget that it was as if God had stepped in the room all the spirit little bit was that that was as if the burning bush had shown her with and the law disconfirming that day that he would our lands and bless option and from three people from Sherita who was pregnant and grant and there was a group of people of 38 including women and children I told you pastor this week that church had grown from that day to this day the church in attendance not on record in attendance and the question was asked to me when I was doing conference in June with Los Angeles what do you predict the secret of your success and some people talk about the preachers and other people talk to balance you just keep your focus right here if you get situated we need to be hearing what I'm saying and that's what was the secret of our church's growth and success in some say preaching some said your academics understand we're in the right location some said the youthfulness from our church and I listened all that all week long for other people telling me why God had blessed mansion and a for our conference I closed have been saying I have to be honest but if they asked me that you actually just to give you why believe God has just blessed the church the way you're headed and I thought that other churches that have grown faster than ours it's stronger now but I always have to do one fastest growing churches I would tell them it is due to a group of people who every week as a church and then another week there while I'm pretending you right in fact on the fall of fifty three culinary world is sure in some home in my church see they testified then I've told this you of last year I was pretty reliable and little Kentucky I have a staff pastor on my team who got caught up in a business gamble which forced him to have to leave town his main man Kyle Simula and when I made a call home to return a call made the meet 30 minutes later somehow I was knocking at my door at the hotel simultaneous now he's talking about Minister past okay calm minor and he said these words then they've been coasting in the class videos from Cleveland Ohio called and said he just called because the Lord had laid on his heart to pray for you my man and I found tougher been Goldstein in years we have never talked on the telephone he said without that was such a perch and saying as far as I decided to pray with him and I'm calling you to save that I'm praying for you as Carl talked to me and sung I was knocking at the door three detectives knock at the door I thought was a crane coming to visit from instead he was coming to participate the revival who say it's room service I say why did all their name so he said but you better open up this door occurs you're on the threats but I'm gonna know on three things detectives whitening an event with cop pistols in my face in my hand this is because of a group of people who every week you get on that means and friends get my behalf the word says that we are always crazy the reason why you are afraid and I'll keep it Mamluks around leadership as in a session is because everything that is an adversary you read verses 1 you understand what I'm talking about adversary who launches his attack against the spiritual leadership of the church some of you are both concerning and I thought you are may only go a place of worship eaters some of you are more concerned about the Britax then you are not a pencil there's something more concerned about the comment about the mattress gun I will say it a little better to be at home t just passed away because about some people just more interested that other things and spiritual things that consequently I met when I looked at how many churches put a ceiling over what God really wants to do for that land and mission and if you're not praying you play you not praying you strength because the only thing that keeps God's people all the holes it's how frequently we talk with him as a consequence Jesus disciple says teach us how to pray Jesus said men are always and he told this story the governor was in religion 1301 down some people who try to make me believe that there was no such things as angels and he'll stir Spain as an adversary yeah I'm not great mathematician but I took geometry and I love one thing doctor every thing is of them- that got to the apartment [Applause] and you and I must learn to develop Sandman a Vedic discipline of Prayer in a several areas praying for Neal step brandy fagioli house can spread by the Ministry of the church praying for the leadership of the church and you cannot be afraid you got the God God Jesus once upon a time that was a long so different times and she was a widow but she was a widow and she was having some problems with the land where she was paying her part and this land offer was such an antagonist that the only way she could get him off for the pump back she had to go to the pause and talk to the Dylan and of all the circuit court judges available she had to get the one that did not believe in God and we'll hold up about playing and what you were going to say that certainly didn't help now Widow do the best I can periodic now late with my rent I do the best I can sometimes I'm a week late I'm trying to get an ad but my money sometimes comes in hits the system there but I need you to do I don't need you just a bill yeah I just need you to tell my lame love my adversary my antagonist go back up and leave me alone so the man just dismissed the case is not being a bit of significance and she kept going through what she was going through and and she came back home keeps bothering me winners do I know that but now he has chat and he pitches all this to my daughter not my mother company I'm going to very best I possibly can and I got these two and he's talking about moving my furniture out of streets unless I come up with the money required to satisfy the debt and I'll have that man is this mister because he heard these cases before people trying to give back that was possibility and so taken back and dismissed and she came back again and again again and again again and it was all too bad she came back and say this reason sanctified imagination that Judge I'm coming to you and I understand your background you don't have any respect for God I also know if you have a regard for man in that sexual gender you have less regard for women because man to say parenthetically this footnote women have no rank at this time and that's why Jesus I believe use this woman to prove how this thing works and said now it's about five o'clock in the back saying unless I get my money in my veins are going out on the street corner man said I have a full load and he bothering me with this I got murder cases the track I got extortion I got there fellas and you bother me about a richness and just move your stuff and found [Applause] [Laughter] [Applause] too late I go somebody else to take their place in this envelope that is stuck with the insignia of the judge that is decent enough to come to the rescue [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] sooner than right now [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] he may not hold of the green this man in your church [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I'm holding [Music] Oh [Music] all [Music] oh show [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] ah [Applause] Oh [Music] Wow [Applause] and something [Music] [Music] ah [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] mom [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] so why you asked about preaching partner for this week past oldest quality of the pastors of worshiping with us all the night and preaches if you're an audience of an express again my appreciation for what God is doing and the michaelis people this week we implored saying on one occasion that preaching of the preaches like a real estate salesperson we the fullest is preaching is like seven real estate and if that is true then this week then I've been planning the Fox purchase for paradise that my father's prepare in paradise gracious God would ask of French people speak to us through your word we thank you for what you're about to do the perfect teaching ministry of the holy spirit got us to reach in your word and live from the scripture practical principles to put an outdated it is in the name of Jesus Christ Rock the Redeemer amen see what I have to say if I have this we can hurry up and get out of the way because I'm like you I'm here to hear what pass the flow it has the same so I'm going to say my three points of a point several months ago I said you can be seat of teaching right neck summer months ago I went along without the real business son seven months ago one Monday morning but business something at my office I tried to get to the office before anybody else of when I arrived no one was on the parking lot I had to build it and as soon as I got out of the car my secretary for love and on the part of Ayatollah I'm a little tired from yesterday so what I need you to do is to hold all my calls and messages but I really don't want to be father in a battle today and if you would keep all my calls and messages up to about twelve o'clock then I would have to do some other work for Calvin can send it to it and on a mountain quest I went in my office we beat each other good one she came around to the office before I got started brought me some papers and brought me some messages but I've been out of town the previous week so I'm calling this time between 8:30 and 12:00 noon at the good time to pray and reflect and rest breathe through a magazine for rules of paper to open some mail and maybe the last I'll just return some phone calls so I was an office Madame Ellen distance Carol is in our office minding her own business and that month door slightly open because I would expect an advisor so I just went about my day and 9 o'clock the phone stopped ringing called up the call and on what call I heard Carolyn answer and the conversation with something like this now let me qualify I will make it a day that practice to eavesdrop of my Secretary's conversation but steps she kept mentioning my name all night at Hollywood be of some interest to me to know what she was trying to discuss with the unknown party at the other hand of the land so I heard the conversation that went something like this yes he is but he's busy if you leave your name and a number I we should be returning your call yes ma'am he is him but he's not to be disturbed I know it's important but he's busy alright and then after that for Carolyn started using hyperbole that's when those sophisticated words she started exaggerate the point I moved from being busy - yes he's in but he's on a conference how's the ROI in Westwood say she began to expose this situation and she would also love them too she said just hold on she came around to my office like that with us and come in she said no and then you said you were never disturb I know you're busy no I could lose my life behind a woman on the other end of that phone who will not give up she is insisted to Tommy so I got into a good pastro posture trying to work up some hostility so when I answered that phone this woman wouldn't know but I didn't feel like being about so I snatched that comment I said no and the woman disarmed she said pastor Lance I'm sorry history that took me because she was so gentle gentle like urbanist subside the secretary told me you were busy you're you know conference but I want to talk to you about some of this information the king of church last which at eight o'clock for evening service only to discover that you do not have that service I was confused with the times and I find that this eight o'clock vision and I painted my p.m. I was invited to your church about some people who work with me a contact my family now we recently moved to the maquas area they recommended that we would come to your church and I have my family relieved of the fog we home stayed in a way I wanted to make sure that I got some things straight I want to clear up some miss information what times on your service I've told her she said but before I come one last thing do you preach Jesus ball another version of it yes I did did you preach Jesus died on the cross Berrien degrade resurrected on Easter morning ascended back to the Father nothing promise give up my Holy Spirit to live his life through the church and one day he's coming back again I said yes not that she said I wanted to get that strength because you know when I came to church and no one was bad that's a Miss in too much now so you don't think I'm just grabbing on let me tag this text and then speak about Colossians chapter 1 verse 28 because I want to ask a question from our schools look shocked notebook right four full of first Thessalonians but it is in this book and I want you to keep it balanced does everything I have to say from my next about 15-20 minutes just right there that tense did you preach Jesus born of a virgin yes I did did you preach Jesus lived on planet Earth died on the cross was buried in the grave you Catholic on Easter morning send it back to the top never promised gift of the Holy Spirit coming back to camp of the church yes I did thank you because I got some miss information bill about such a painful conversation at this missed it I thought that even when I got in my car early I told the staff I was gone and I was a typical Houston traffic jam on 16 in peace and was almost as if someone pushed the play button on my metal wood caller from the message on see her in that morning I heard that woman say again n.com all right do you preach Jesus born of a virgin men Donald Trump's been in the grave resurrected ascended to the Father nepeta promised gift of the homeless pillar he's coming back again Mother Church yes I did I thought that this mystic do you preach that just under and it dawned on me that this woman was more of an astute steal notion that I had given up credit if you've listened you've already picked up like I did she did not ask me they do believe Jesus was born of the burden but the easy bad believe that he was barely resurrected ascended coming back again from the church she wants to know do you preach this woman was so astute what she was saying is if you're the pastor of the community of faith then sometimes you should have shifted in your theology on some things that stop just believing and knowing that is what we have that's what I want to talk about the night what do we preach Colossians 1 plates this we proclaim him at monitoring and teaching everyone with all the wisdom so that we think was in everyone perfect in place what do we that's the question the church has perhaps what do we preach preacher professor say that this way next free economy next pretending as the church preaches so the church believes what do we do British it's a question that all of us need to resolve within ourselves I cannot tell you how many times I haven't taught this text and I have preached as little in the cost of my church more than four times in the years what did we put them either to background and then three things I may say and I get out the way the book of Colossians is interested in the sense that it deals with the head of the church the Lord Jesus Christ at the head of the church that was a young preacher by the man who attacked us who was the understudy of the Apostle Paul at the Church of Ephesus when a Patras was banned under the tutelage of Apostle Paul he must have been sold in a jacket that he went out evangelize the town of colossi this is quite important to know that what was going on Colossians sits in between the talons of a reckless and Lyanna see whether you know an area geographically and not important it sits in between two cities like Arlington between Fort Worth and Dallas correctness was an industrial town it was a place that was known for its wear silk garments and daddy's Laodicea was more of a suburbia type town well aristocrats me it was what a wonderful work at Colossae was right in the middle off of a Mediterranean today that town was wiped out from Matt Holliday known as the dust and a few remnants to suggest that the town is still that it was to have one time in history the Kalasha is so close to American civilization particularly Western civilization in a sense that when a purpose went there no matter did in philosophy a person all things kept Iranian borders in between from reckless and they are the oldest United in one pronounce it people would just stop in and say this is a great place to live in colossi air and so when people started coming into the city and account for Sodom the great place to evangelize the city produced a church and in his church it began to grow by leaps and vinyl talking it was growing fans people remember where I was coming because became the center place for people to come and live out their faith and trust in that God I'm very careful to say back up because even though it was the intention of impact preach about Jesus the more people who got into the church they started bringing their different ideas and philosophies and concepts from the places where they were moving from so while they were having great church on Sunday morning that was a theological feel that was this great group that came in and they started talking about bangs such as not the supremacy of Christ but the supremacy of the angels and they believed if you read this shot Book of Amos chapter 3 that deals with age Allah did what he was believing that the angellist were superior to Jesus I mean at least started fighting that argument he began to deal with the argument of astrology what people began to say that the stars were more superior than Jesus and then I was a group that came in with a word called those cynicism is it feel not to the Turner that means Jesus did not actually come in the flesh because the Greeks believed that the flesh was evil it was sinful all matter was evil all spirit was good at bat boy if Jesus has come in the flesh he could not have been holding son of God because God would not come in flesh making himself evil so they came up with the thought of emanation you separate you like he bothered me down you stained it with me I want to show you how that has affected the church today after the process of elimination that is that that was a God who spurring off a little God and that God sprayed off a smaller God only now to a little bit it does a man Lucia who they must have produced Jesus and therefore Jesus cannot be in flesh because he is sinful all flesh is sinful yeah and so God would not have anything to do with a sinful same and this was causing so much conflict in the church that calculus say I've got a five-minute ticket and get on a boat and get on not East from here to Ephesus and go see southeast and go see what my pastor Paul is saying about their people in Colossians I wouldn't operas got that he told them he said I got a comment that said that the Angels and the stars are greater than peanuts I didn't expect that Jesus didn't come to the Flex bath Lord if he's not in the flesh that did down the cross then everybody of strangers rinse the night has not been seen so Paul said let me tell you something the first thing you do is go back down to that city that's experience of this crisis and culture and in Christology don't go back and ah from a philosophical point of view because they know more about philosophy than you do of socio-political stuff but they know more about the town that needs a dozen Travis I apologize which usually I will take and then we write you of them and you take it all back and circulated in the church I Paul began the write this elaborate little em'ly called Colossians and in it he gets that about verse 15 when he talks about the image of the invisible God and from there when he goes on now for the image of the invisible God he talks about who created all things everything that is created is created by him King James is a word consist and the word consists in holes get together salut gate in a Greek term that says that Christ is the glue that holds it together and so then if you take Christ out of the center of the universe that everything is gone so it is when you go back I want you to do is go to that church and tell the first twenty we preach Jesus and we teach Jesus and we raise people up in Jesus and so what accomplice got back he went on to read this letter because that was a conflict in the church let me say that our time is not very different from the time of the pathless and cautions that there's a thing called a New Age movement gets off the scene and I'm very suspicious about people who get real heavy I have a girl in my church who said and one of my class said oh Jesus is the only person I thought oh that's good I've said but Paul said if you want to stay all the time if you don't want a shot circle if you don't want to abort your mission if you don't want to fracture your fellowship if you don't rupture your relationship with me he said you gotta follow me as I follow Christ and so if not this gets back many together preach and he says all I got to say to you today is we preach Jesus yeah so I'm gonna answer that question what do we preach and turn to this new age move who believes that there's a God inside of us I might um by the Holy Spirit now I'm saying the New Age movement is the thought that you have to be careful when people say I am my that God lives in me and when I pray I do not pray to an objective reality called Heavenly Father neither do our trust in a objective reality called Jesus Christ and neither did I pray with a subjective reality of the Holy Spirit but I am my own God it's called surely the called Garrett was a madman shirley maclaine they all who started New Age movement where the god of you lives in you surely playing writes a book that she gives her own God and saying now you may not say it that way but that other way is you got to be careful yeah you start relying on you all the people who reach out for the Lord you may have a shirt that met claim beyond and so when when the counter stood up the freak she said I got the priesthood I got cut this because I gone for my on this three things he said number one preach him that's Jesus that's the content of preacher and big rules always says we proclaim him to mohnish and everyone that is the kind text of pretty and then finally he said that we met was an every man perfect in price that is the conclusion of preacher so anytime you get to the part where you don't think preacher gets that pre-eminent function I'm not saying that that other minister of the church is not effective but what gives the church the cut a gated insight is recognizing an importance of the word of God in the church and the scripture says the night preached him that content you have one argument you will never get from the apostolic tradition of a New Testament church as we know it and the day of churches on the cutting edge that is church that are doing the work and ministry the Lord Jesus Christ you will never have argument who it is that they preach about the features of focus and of function our preaching Jesus alpha be the feet we preach teach and and so then here is the content and I want to prove it to you if you read the book of Acts out of the Holy Spirit has come into the life of the people upon the church and is living his life through our church and people are coming alive unto themselves Acts chapter 2 beginning verse part 2 coming alive themselves the first sermon that is preached it's centered in Jesus and Peter said repent and be baptized every one of you from the remission of sins that they say in one day in the name of Jesus and that's chapter 3 there's a man at the gate called beautiful and he wants money to give a listen temporary satisfaction to his permanent condition [Applause] so we have man nipples and I'm here for you in the name of cheese rise up and walk and he got up and Acts chapter 4 he gets up preaching again and Peter says there is no other name given under men other than heaven whereby men must be saved than the neighbor when you come to Acts chapter 8 you find Philip who is up in Gaza Strip and now he found the Ethiopian human the inside Candace chariot read the scripture and you don't know what he's talking about I feel saying do you understand to read he said how can understand when I'm reading I don't have anything here to interpret the scripture for me and he started at the same Scripture and preached unto Him Jesus when he was having problems with his own races and God told Peter to go out to the Gentile world that made me cry medias reenactors great vision when near the summer that everybody belongs to God and Jesus had come to see everybody who were calling his name he went to the man's house and preached unto Him you remember the night Paul and Silas was in a chick I'll say and then we were praying and priest and the main one of the kids have my earthquake profile and he said do yourself no harm will all hear and imagine what must I do to be safe they said believe on the name of the law and so what you and I want to come to grips with is the darkest power in the main [Music] not intimidated afraid the column is made in fact the scripture said just a call his name he shall save his people from that sin Frank I'm preaching professor at Emory University counter school of theology say there's no reason no secret why most of our churches over though on Christmas and Easter it becomes at the what time most don't know that they go here about [Applause] Carolyn now the young fella hepatoma but that was a young fella his children's church listening to the youth pastor preached and bought a youth pastor he was winding it up and he said but I'm a clothes over this girl expression he said what hey a third coach long ting collect nuts take them up into a tree let's go read his hand he then tell boy I said she [Applause] that new capsule was appalled he said he black sleep tom is down here to reprimand a child the data came and said you should back sister you've mitigated us and had lost that then I knew he was talking about sperm [Applause] it's good to know that you're in touch with the taco report it's good to know you watch Peter Jennings and then round it is good know he's almost happening on Twitter 20 but most of us when we get out on some bond we want to hear what the law has to say let me move our best to content the contract second that is in fact we must the teach and Walkman the Greek word is you must instruct them and warm implement yeah I'm gonna make you made of water we don't like to talk about certain things and I'm not talking about chocolate talk about the Negro's about your politicians [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] countries to recapture the one that the the warning the pastor the big thoughts of telling people the referencing in worshipping and living and praising and trusting and believing in this Living God seven years the 1976 I was invited to a frickin nefesh Louisiana me and I preached at naturally doctors Church Julius Charles and you need to hear this because the Disraeli revolution is my life preaching I was on my way to college so I already knew I'd be forwarded a lot and so when I got there just met the preacher and he stood up tall statement older gentleman and he said give they had a similar at the house yes I want to get up I've never seen that so I shook my head say what a shame here in Natchitoches Louisiana yeah talking about the various is a massive in 1976 this is the bathroom to new year we are being come up with some death words and a very dissimilar and my Judas child been preaching longer than ours [Applause] doing this because they're sending Hospital teach you something [Applause] [Music] now [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] something that money could back the mix with me [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] because I understand that but it was so good that it developed a generation of people [Applause] [Music] Oh [Applause] the content is Jesus the context the king bags wrong man and with she better get your house get your lights from here get your life get right relationship with Jesus the last thing is that concludes this one the scripture says that we make would say everyone turn get price because this is all the troops that in fact can be saved hey be safe and look what he says he said that we may present everyone his rights I think as I talk to you have reflections all about the church goes I gotta poop their faith they they all need to be shaved on my but this word perfect does not mean without ever but it is the word which means completion in Ephesians Paul talks about you are God's workmanship and then is everybody in the rules the fact God's working on us I mean he's working on many others you and I are not everything that we talk to [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] you know that yes as possible are we that yes in us God has given us again the whole sphere right who person of fruits of the spirit that people are note when they meet ups that we peace that transcends human comprehension but the column be there will be a forgiveness and a gymnast have goodness in us they cannot be matched that people with just good moms and God is trying to work that give side was Max Lucado rights to put the tiger in the blacksmith's workshop and he said that three places that all of us are at one time on either you all the shelf as a tool that is wanna you are in the blacksmith hand their Forge or shame on you are completed and you are in some kind of operation they Deezy you in the jungle either you manage shape for service are you doing so I don't know where you are tonight but wherever you are know that he wants to present us perfect completed price some of us who have not actual eyes what is God wants us to do any because but God is working on every one of us in here and a process pure luck with can be painful sometimes God has the little it just brings us break up before he can wield some of your lightning I got a stubborn wheel I will do it my way or no way and yes but it comes to God but he says go left sometimes I said but right looks good and a lot has the break me before he can bless me and pumpless some of y'all got some bad wheels and the reason why you were in the fix you in not is because you were left on break you here's a break us the best as it gets painful but the process in which he brings us through is always one in which when the Lord shows us our presence of people know that we have been presence of clinicals power Rises level for his young preacher sir I said really description was a man who had gone through the process I mean he was an active mission he was a philosopher he was a scholar he had a right to citizenship and all of that and in church guesswork that was another God decide what I need to do just keep the eyes right because because they're walking I'll say this right and so what happened was Paul goes through a process from the Masters roll all the way to when he's in that dungeon about the temple and God worked on his testimony laws of second Corinthians of evidence out that ship rent I've been snakebit I've been run out of town I've been beat I've been exposed made men I slip out of the cold I was drowned at sea my ship came apart and many pieces I think the nine I've been rejected I've been turning around and he closed the safe [Applause] and said what were the best describe a young man mother's made away - say it to me one day when he worked in Washington DC for Thurgood Marshall he asked him dr. Marshall did you ever think that you would become what you are and the only word Thurgood Marshall said the younger Wayne hatched it was racist Lumpur took some months later the Wayne say that the main when we were talking about doing some particular ministries in the area of worship in our church he looked me straight in the face and said Rock great sips Lumberton I said I'm not good at Latin he said just remember ray sips bottle I said the way if I'm gonna remember that like with know what you're telling me you say well pastor when God gets through with us there's often a racist come on Teddy said well this up it's the long-term users when all the evidence has been stamped and when you stand in that and you have nothing else really needs to be sitting your last words ought to be raised to talk with us that any help everybody sit down all I'm trying to tell you in his recent Lockwood called the evidence speaks for itself where God with you and me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] and this righteous reminds us the wrong epaulets preaching two of those bookends one been out all week John Holliman to give a bad name my benefit burger from California originally father a prominent pastor good southwestern I love the what's fantastic provided to see him by each of you then we say might say because no guarantee that we'll get to the dish are you in Houston with all the business of pleasure can stop recoverable church a church with our walls promise promise you to have a great time we dip there and don't come back you have a half stage just to why'd you turn it off sir have been blessed by the preaching ministry a pest applause this yes hurry up and get out the way I'm trying to get out but we as fast as I can we almost ran [Music] I read it from the NIV translation it says endure hardship with us like a good soldier of Jesus Christ in James they have found that for endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus console of Jesus Christ it's been more than 12 years ago when I was a student in college a girlfriend of mine from Houston is Kiel alive County's dutiful daughter of prominent pastor in Houston and I picked on the stand the wife the daughter of a prominent pastor would be killed I thought being the daughter of prominent pastor Houston not a mere relationship with the pastor would have won all for that kind of assault the young man who witnessed the murder was the son of a prominent Boston Massachusetts test what almost lost his money when he trying to tell what actually happened and I really thought that if you were the son and daughter of prominent pastors raised up a Christian environment that that would just some things have all not come your way when talking to the second Timothy chapter 2 the first when you become a part of the army of the Lord Jesus Christ you can get ready because again affiliated with him have gone to be some casualties everybody experiences difficulties I don't you are and who you know in way of being and which one aspirations up yeah everybody has had some difficulties from the top to the bottom whose hands of the force and leave them taunt and I'm certain knows something about tough and difficult times the teenagers in fact the difficulty respect a part of figures whether it be mother father policeman pastor teacher is gone through some young couples get married who found out that they were managed Bella together that one be bitter discovers that even with that kind of security individually they too would have some the aging person who's playing for that future retired and now this covers that it appears at least but that's not going to be enough money with pension to sustain or that remained in years that you know that's a difficult age and the age who have raised their children and possibly that grandchildren and our great-grandchildren that moved around that premises with so much confidence now finds it difficult to give a man on the terrain that they've traveled for many years is having a tough time but tough times and difficult data's do not merely come to us in the physical world or in the middle that psychologically when it comes to us of course and spiritual that Sunday you come to church let me just say it to come out setting that for Sunday's that you will come to church and it's as good you can reenact literally the pellet possible they've had then that big issue become the church and is as if nobody including God is back but that's sometimes that the reality of God and his presence is so overwhelmed then you don't want to leave his presence and then have some pub identities that it just seems like God cannot be family anyway the house today the fires of passion burn on the halls of your heart and I'm going to dis excitement if you're motivated if you want to do all you can for them and then that Sunday's sing like everything you do keep going wrong [Music] there are some tough times and difficult extra-strong in that kind of back when Paul was talking to a young preacher who is his apprentice now he's a senior sage and Saint on this pilgrimage and so he's talking to young Timothy is about the ministry right into a Middle East and he's given us some insight and background house of El Cajon of spring the church and here at this chap that he says that I want to make sure you get one thing clear all that your days will not be picnics now become Sundays with you they probably wish you were not part of the Ministry of Jesus Christ because now you are like the soldier get an army but his godson and so again if I was taught by the top of that kind of experiences how long this portfolio reads that his life has been pitched and baptized but the whole lot of babies and so the myth fact that he is talking to Timothy is suggested that people has been what Timothy is gone that's what these fans of him I want you to know that difficult days the kind of tough times are coming but you don't have to submit them go in the tactic just because your sky has been covered with heaven EQ just because your back is against the wall or maybe you got to give up and just because things have not gone favorably in your direction is why you have to walk around with your head that suggested that God has left you out there by yourself so say I want you to do is endure hardness like a good soldier of Jesus Christ as he came through a few things yeah you know how to resume reads you know he is of have Roman citizenship fair sale connection academic intelligence he ranks top among the bars at the Council of the Sanhedrin he sat on the influential teaching of the Merriam his languages are prolific his writings of live on the man and his world travel he did his teachings wherever he would go I came to know Christ on the Damascus better from that ship wreck a lot of times he would expose negative the metric Elliott's he was left out the dry spell payments a phone show still down to respond the web this new would admit the hell we use this word so frequent writers pop you know we talk about agricultural things one plant another waters God gives the increase he talks are particularly the people would say is your life upon the foundation of genius son chocolate in terms of our tennis you know why this race here he comes to another territory to say there's a good soldier of Jesus now what I'm relieved to the bike in the next few minutes is what it means to be of this soldier and at three things ought to suggest not one if you're going to be a good soldier in the Army of God that you need to learn to develop and add to BB D to following the commands and obey is the man's with joy among men I know some people who follow the man but they do I thought they don't do it with job repulsion at constraint turn the Thomas Keller God is a cosmic pump with hit it clinically okay every time the straighten him but God doesn't want us to obey him empower compulsion and his strength he wants us no big amount of the love if you have given your life to Jesus Christ one soldier attorneys with some others on the night he saying is what I want you to do is obey the commands of Amanda and find joy given one of the saddest things to shoes is it goes to a church when you stop preaching the word go I'm not talking about Obama talk about my church now here's a go to church on a Sunday morning choose a night of any other time step and look at the leaders of save that they are in the army always complain [Applause] so our soldier in our it's somebody who ever mind himself for missing of that many common dollars a novelty seat because I can give them a gym plan and they like that ROTC hell and they were telling me all the advantages of being in it and if I stuck with it hard to go into the service and their chaplain and how I could come in as a high-ranking official and the money out of me but I'm invited at that time I didn't like the idea of some - stands and over me telling me what I had to do and then when I found it discover that what they were really doing was bringing at the other discipline the same a huge you man our uniform which suggests you are part of our movement and if you are dressed like in our movement you don't have nothing else to do but to do what we say you have come the no price in a living personal relationship and you are wrong in the context of a belief you don't going to have mr. Hogg about if you want to make your commander and do what the [Music] when you do that then you began to enjoy the command of the command are the sense of enthusiasm and excitement about being in the heart turtleman and I always enjoy saying about Fred Brooks and I read the statement once I think that's pretty good when we are our fraternities and sororities at City Club excitement that we do with the price to get this pilgrimage one with Thailand peace they learn and jump get the man of the matter the word enthusiasm as the Greek term is Geoff's enough that is if you are in down there are will be automatically enthusiastic [Applause] do it with me so there when I'm in God in Christ there's a built-in excitement I was that time I'll take out everything that's in prices in joy and excitement yeah I've preached several years ago off to the college and Sharon Texas and the president's wife said me wherever you do that way to do not lose your enthusiasm said that we've been to some places so cold you can I see some time [Applause] [Applause] hey son I opted not to ever go to the doors the glass doors of our education ability and watch the people walk across the parking lot to go to church because I believe that if folks are excited about getting to church they'll walk with this plea they go to church and he won't like this [Applause] I was staying home [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] when you entering into the household the needs of the gauntlet attitude is down fake it till you make it kind of add too much [Music] [Applause] [Applause] 365 days don't have nothing when things are going right number two as additional vehicles that everything here is not gonna be a taker charity every day will be sunny the spring flower mist when I always bring when in your face and this of you need to understand that as soldiers in harm we are color their battle against the mountaintop that is against everything you need to know that I was the church with just come to grips with that and stop thinking that it's a hard problem problem 8 the person sitting next [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] we have to come the brick set is we were engaged in one friend that's no time for the church to believe is not what the church leads churches a week egg dish and step and dog leadership only some preachers of Stockbridge details of stop sir you know you heard about this ship that was going out and stopped out they were gonna do it one of the survival they say well cut myself a break she said [Applause] and we have to make it allowed with wind wind the captain was in abuse and when I say abandon ship [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] we were sorry [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] Oh [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]

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