Road To Romans | Dr. Matthew Stevenson | Confronting Critical Christianity

but the book of Romans is a very very very important book and it is paramount to you accurately understanding what Jesus Christ did to situate you for salvation and Rome is a 14th chapter in the Living Bible chapter verse 1 says this give a warm welcome to any brother who wants to join you even though his faith is weak I want to read that again because these are extremely important principles that are pertinent to grace this is Romans 14 1 in the Living Bible give a warm welcome to everybody who is hold everybody who is mature everybody who looks like you everybody who is not in the process no I want you to welcome warmly any brother who wants to join you now that's gonna be very important that you understand as I break out the theme of Romans 14 there is a consistent theme here I want you to warmly welcome any brother who wants to join you even though his faith is weak don't criticize him for having different ideas from yours about what is right or wrong for instance don't argue with him about whether or not to eat meat that has been offered to idols you may believe that there is no harm in this but the faith of others is weaker pay attention to this they think that it is wrong and will go about any meat at all and best and eat vegetables rather than eat that kind of meat those who think it is alright to eat such meat must not look down on those who won't and if you are one of those who won't don't find fault with those who do for God has accepted both to be his children pay attention to these things they are God's servants not yours they are responsible to him not you let him tell them whether they are right or wrong and God is able to make them do as they should some think that Christians should observe the Jewish holidays as special days to worship God but others say it is wrong and foolish to go through all that trouble for every day alight belongs to God keep reading cuz this is rich on questions of this kind everyone must decide for himself if you have special days for worshiping the Lord you are trying to honor him and you aren't doing the good thing so is the person who eats meat that has been offered to idols yet or he is thankful to the Lord for it so he is doing right and the person who won't touch such mean he too is anxious to please God and is thankful we are not our own bosses to live or die as we ourselves might choose living or dying we follow the Lord either way we are his Christ died and rose again for this very purpose so that he can be our Lord while we live and when we die look at verse 10 because now we're getting into the theme of this you have no right to criticize your brother or look down on him remember each of us will stand personally you don't like this before the judgment seat of God for it is written as I live says the Lord every knee shall bow to me and every tongue confess to God verse 12 yet yes each of us will give an account of himself to God look at verse 13 we're seeing the theme here so don't criticize each other any more try instead to live in such a way that you never make your brother stumble by letting him see you do something pay attention to this that he thinks is wrong the argument is not whether it's wrong it's whether he thinks it verse 14 as for myself I am perfectly sure on the authority of the Lord Jesus every Bible student in here pay attention to this statement on the authority there are things when Paul writes that he says I speak as Paul or I speak as by the Spirit of God he didn't say either here he said I know this on the authority of the Lord Jesus this is not only authority of my culture or on the knowledge of yours this is on the authority of the Lord Jesus that there is nothing really wrong with eating meat that has been offered to idols but if you believe it is wrong then you shouldn't do it because to him it is wrong and if your brother is bothered by what you eat you are not acting in love if you go ahead and eat it don't let your eating this is all gonna make sense once I expose you late don't let your eating ruin someone for whom Christ died don't do anything that will cause criticism against yourself even though watch this you know that what you do is right hmm for after all I'm almost done the important thing for us as Christians watch this show critical self is not what we eat not what we drink but stirring up goodness and peace and joy from the Holy Ghost if you let Christ be Lord we're in these affairs huh God will be glad and so will others in this way aim for what harmony in the church and try to build each other up just as you caught him Oh keep reading verse 20 don't undo the work of God for a chunk of meat remember there is nothing wrong with the meat but it is wrong to eat it if it makes them stumble the right thing to do is to quit it quit eating meat or drinking wine or doing anything else that offends your brother or makes him sick you may know that there is nothing wrong with what you do even from God's point of view but keep it to yourself Oh y'all don't like this all right now i'ma hit you in a minute keep it to yourself why why don't flaunt your faith in front of others who might be hurt by it in this situation happy is the man who does not sin by doing what he knows is right but anyone who believes that something he wants to do is wrong he should not do it he sins if he does for he thinks it's wrong and so for him it is wrong and anything that is done apart from what he feels is right is sin the Lord had a blessing to the reading of his word this morning for about 24 minutes I'm dealing with confronting critical Christianity confronting critical Christianity and I'm not talking about in the sense that you don't need to think critically I'm talking about the stuff y'all used as the premise for your criticisms of others for your Facebook postings about others for you look graphics about others and tweets about others and texts about others and your justification for so doing because you think you got Bible to back you Paul gives us a very profound template and the theme of Romans 14 is this last week we dealt with the divide and the stigma and the relationship between Jew and Gentile and net where we landed up we landed up with distinguishing what is a real Jew what is not a real Jew and the practice is we should have when trying to mix this keeping in mind but let's take the sake of this conversation this is written to people trying to understand how the behaviors the Christian Christianity is new I'm gonna say that again in 2019 Christianity is not new but in this scripture Christianity is new and Paul is cultural izing new believers on how to interact with Jewish people who think they have rights to the gospel that the Gentiles don't have so he's reading to both Jewish Christians and also newly appointed Gentile believers and trying to teach them how to call habitate so Paul is saying some real crazy stuff about Jew nor Gentile bond nor free male nor female didn't fame female then he starts talking about the power of circumcision in the flesh and what it means to be circumcised by the heart now for you to understand why this is important you have other apostles that do not believe this I want you to think historically about this every major argument between Peter and Paul were over Peters hypocrisy now I know everybody rather they want to be a Peter cuz you got a bad mouth but what you need to know about Peter is he had a little hypocritical people and you know what's funny to me this Negro was fresh out of denying Jesus all together and got the nerve to be mad about Paul for granting Liberty listen when you are religious and people start pursuing Liberty it brings fear in you because what happens in you as you start that well what is all of this for why I have to go through all this and you did cuz you're you and I'm me so it does not mean that the way you got it and the way you saw it and the way you pursue it is the right way it means it was your journey and what happens with us is we judge people for our journey Peter would be out with the other apostles I have to give you this background and he would be fine with them eating meats now y'all and I will was there Twelve Apostles vegetarian note the biblical phrase that Paul is referring to when talking about the consumption of meats is this if you were a traditional rabbinical Jew then what happened was you could only eat foods that were prepared kosher is the term so part of kosher law was certain things couldn't touch each other you cannot eat meat and milk within 5 hours of each other so he was saying that there are those of you who have to eat kosher and they're people who are not even spiritual who consider themselves Jews who only prefer kosher diets it was a mentality culturally about what a decent human being was and a non decent human being was so once the Apostle Paul came back from Arabia and he's talking about grace they go into this apostolic debate they bring it back to the Apostle James James settles out of judgment that's what the Bible calls it a judgment saying what Paul says is right Peter now understands it because the senior apostle pay attention James said all y'all need to listen to what Paul said because it's right the elder brother of Jesus Christ the Apostle who was older than all of them the most mature of them said he's right he was in charge of him and they settled it after they settled it in the book of Acts they sent out a series of decrees it's already quipment to emails so they sent out a series of decrees to let him know hey the gospel that we thought was the gospel ain't the gospel we now have a more illumine understanding of what the gospel is and when men come to you preaching this hearing now why is it important Peter was there when they settled the issue but culturally had theological preferences that were not the gospel they were preferences because of how he was raised and his nationality here's hysteroscopy his background so what would happen is they would be at KFC or McDonald's and Peter would be cool watching them eat but when he would get around other Jews he would act like he believed what they believed so he would be in front of Paul and the rest of them I all year giving them chicken nuggets but when he got in front of them he would put on his religiousness and he would act like he did not believe what he was just doing not that ain't hypocritical with his miracle-working himself what would what his what his limb growing back cut your ear or self he still had a realm of hypocrisy by trying to make sure that he got by both religious groups hmm how did we get here how did we settle this issue Paul alright Oldham you phony you's a hypocrite I grew up in church so I'm gonna play games with you I appreciate everything you've done but I smacked you clean in your face you're not gonna be walking around here being double tongue and and acting like you don't believe what you believe our much rather follow my assignment away from you you don't like this because we love unity don't we and we love coming together in partnerships and all that way there is certain issues call for divine divine I know you don't like that I believe that there is a season of separation lookie here and one of the reasons that the Bible justify separation is a refusal to acknowledge hypocrisy Paul said I would rather be authentic to my assignment without you then be fake to my assignment walking with you Peter walks off and said you know what I got into old-time way how come I don't care what I was always taught I was always out ha ha ha and he fell asleep and that's what God deals with everybody who won't hear him when they woke the Bible says he started messing with him and all of a sudden Peter goes up to this mountain to settle this dispute he's on the top of this mountain all of a sudden he has a vision his vision comes and his vision comes into white sheet and this she falls out and it happens three more times the number of the Spirit God was trying to convince Peter that you are after the flesh you're pursuing me and teaching me and preaching me in the flesh after the flesh so he shows him this vision of this white sheet and on the sheet was shrimp good girl from South here come it was a lobster tail for we took up y'all locator on there he had some catfish though he had some fries amen there was all kind of stuff on it and Peter was a here's what God said to him on their Mountain don't you ever again call unclean what I have clean I've sanctified it now here's how dumbness was properties he was starving the Bible said he was hungry and was so religious that he would not eat because it would be like him God what did God tell him rise kill we'll go get you something to eat you are too religious go eat it's just some food you'll be fine that shrimp is not gonna reverse the grace of God Paul now is writing in the context of arguments like that and here's why are you ready eviction is a route I want you to write that down conviction is a route I feel like preaching now I said conviction is a route when you disciple when you raise people up when you mentor when you pour into people a part of what your objective should then be I'm just kidding them to fix their character is to give them brand new roots when we start to minister to people at the behavioral level they may adopt them they may change for a couple of seasons but if the root ain't right elbow somebody say if the root ain't rights come on over United here you say if the routine rights and so a part of what we do is we love we embrace we minister to until you can see and identify roots now in order to instill conviction in somebody you got to do it at the soul level the soul level is the soil level it'll make sense in a minute so then everybody who has a conviction as a conviction at the root level but the reason why that is important it's because convictions are the premise of every lifestyle people do stuff or don't do stuff because of what their convictions are if I'm convicted about this it alters my attitude not only my attitude but my character it's gonna impact my relationships it's gonna impact what I do consistently those convictions determine that right here's the devastating news convictions are directly related to what you were taught we teach you into conviction if I teach you I open your soil and you have the opportunity to have a conviction or to not have a conviction okay now here's my bet is bad let's say by chance you were talking wrong now you've got a wrong conviction and this wrong conviction is so deeply embedded in you that it's determining how you not only look at you but how you look at God and how you look at your brother can I make you a little bit matter I believe the power of the offended spirit came from denominationalism [Applause] [Applause] did you hear me what I say the only reason we have denominations is because there were convictions that divided us Oh God and who rather than allowing our convictions to connect us we use our convictions to criticize them let me tell your story now they buried under a cool model a mostly baby Congress palace a man by the name William Seymour he is responsible I got 13 minutes it's a lot of time for the Azusa movement the outpouring of the Spirit of God he established the world's greatest revival and he had millions of people from around the world impacted by his message without the internet he didn't have text message no technology all he had was the power of the Holy Ghost and authority whole different techniques now there was one of his disciples somebody that came from his bowels a man that came out of his room by the name of Bishops eh Mason and what happened was when Bishop Mason who was a Baptist he was Missionary Baptist or later he was Missionary Baptist and got peel with the baptism of the Holy Ghost and what happened was a Ministry of deliverance came out of him I'll get Danny 11 but he started casting out Devils after he spoke with tongues you're not ready for me and so he established his revival about deliverance and about the casting out Devils and he established such a powerful following that he created something called the Churches of God in Christ he had to do something about his influence because as an apostolic leader you don't want to bring people into truth and abandon them to their own study he had to create a context for men to be discipled in truth so he went for years and there was a prayer because he was a wolf hair man that was a prayer he used to pray at every gallery and he open up his mouth and say this God rebuilt that day of evil he would start out with dealing with evil but his evil was the evil of era he was confronting the power of error his Arnall that people were didn't shade in every meeting he had so he wasn't rebuked the era of sinners he was rebuked in the era of hypocrites and you know what happened there was some Caucasian men that believed what he believed were impacted by what he believed were imported to buy what he believed but could not find themselves dealing with the cultural consequence I've been fathered by a black man or we gonna have this search or we ain't gonna do I know you don't like it so then I we get you you right but we can't get with a college so what did they do they gathered together and they conspired and they said we're going to be our version of the Church of God in Christ and we're just gonna call ourselves the Assemblies of God that way nobody knows we were with them but could not get with them so we're gonna create our own thing oh now you've got thousands of brake offs of people who really believe the same thing at the end of the day who can only use one point of the illogical tension as the justification why we don't have to be connected that's where we've I will win an issue it's an issue of criticism because we use these critical concepts to justify our skepticism others now if you want me to go deeper than that this same issue was active with the 12 G's they came around Jesus at all I heard there was some folk around the corner who got on blue jeans the men got different color hair than women in Scott on leather then got nothing on their head no ain't ain't covering up and they casting out Devils here's where we start Jesus looked at them and said Sol look at some I say show Jesus look at them instead so here's what Jesus said if they're not against us I wish I had Hill I wish I if they're not acacia if they're not pulling on me then we got an issue but if they're not against us there for us to leave them alone [Applause] whoever gathers with me it's not the same - scatters against me they can gather however they're gonna gather as long as they are gathering do you know what Romans 4 shows two principles go ruin your life it shows this you will never have the same convictions as the person next to you and there is a way to have miss prioritised convictions I came in on the gospel being the wages of sin is death and the gospel is the life death barrier and the second coming I'm gonna touch our rapture but I'm gonna tell you that that at the end of the world is good news no wonder we screwed it up if that's your good news one day is going all be over and so you realize people were the wrong gospel call all bad news the signs of the time I'll leave it alone [Applause] what I learned was the system of conviction works like this we can hear we can be exposed to the same teaching the same fundamental concepts if I believe that Jesus is the Son of God and I receive him by faith and I sanctify my life and live up to him it does not matter Church on Fridays but because you are so afraid of the fact it's fear of missing out theologically so if you were taught that Friday was the right day to worship God and somebody said no I don't really matter you know it's a strange fire just because they do it differently don't make them demonic they have preached you into a peer of difference and took their eyes off the cross so we're not going to ever have the same exact Commission fictions Paul leads rule for that that means there will be stuff at the Spirit of God grooms you in highlights to you gives you for you that are your convictions at the root level that's not where we mess up we mess up here because we all have our convictions and as you mature your convictions deepen and sometimes they change based upon what you know or what you've been exposed to that's not what we're messing up when we messed up as this we use our convictions to judge others we have our own convictions and then we want to project those convictions on other people and decide if they are saved based upon things that have nothing to do with by grace through faith I can't hear you I say we want to critique the salvation of those that have different opinions or different views but we have not made it about grace or pain if it's not by grace or faith it ain't got nothing to do with how saved I am verse 10 of Romans 14 is critical because here is the premise look at the two theological themes as Roman 14 Romans 14:10 says this don't criticize your because they believe differently from you you know what that shows me the critical spirit is rooted in bad teaching it's you're critical it means that at some point in your life you were taught wrong erroneous teaching fuels or critical spirit so when you've had white teachers over you that it fed you stuff wrong out of the scriptures what it does is it pumps you up and it gives you a leads by which to look at other people cuz they don't know what you know and you're leaving no consideration that what you know may be a load of crap it's critical Christianity I learned this I grew up on this I was taught this I believe this that's fine pull actually say yo here is the bottom line of resolving this issue if eating meat or not eating a kosher diet if you feel the Freedom and the Liberty to do it you're not in sin and you're trying to honor the Lord be religious if you want to God is counting it for you as righteousness and then other people he said now if you live with you you liberal you don't want to buy by these laws and keep these days and it's fine the problem does not come on back cuz you got Bible to back both the problem comes in when you use those bible scriptures as barriers to acceptance romans 14 has a theme criticism and acceptance criticism and acceptance the reason why the church stumbles over the idea of acceptance is because they are critical they have a critical spirit but why are we critical because we're fearful that if we accept them they're going to think we agree with them and what y'all have got to realize is that acceptance and agreement are not the same thing romans 14 open up by saying this whoever won't do them to us oh you don't want to hear me they rhino wrong the baka why don't you greet all of them with a warm hug you will prequalify a person for what they receive will believe based upon what you perceive about them it is the lens of critical Christianity I have a huge problem with people who were groomed to believe one way and use that belief to break other people if you are a woman for example and let's say you're about to kill yourself in 30 minutes and you just happen to have on pants and and this church is the only Jesus that you know you pull up to church a walking door and some furry uh sure lady [Applause] walks up to you and says sugar you're not allowed here with that arm I know you're a sinner but at least it looked like you were saying so that we could walk to value who you are as a human being and I might kill myself do it out there what kind of Jesus what kind of cross what kind of paestum it would rather turn somebody over to get over some darn genes because I know you're trying to honor God if you want to worship on another day your motive is to honor God there is no Bible that our methods have to be the same we don't have to approach the gospel the exact same way but we will get judged for mutating the gospel I never fully understood while the Apostles who moved in such boldness would say stuff like I am not ashamed of the gospel I never really got it and truthfully as you probably ain't got it either if you got all this support and all this authority and you breaking out of jail I mean read the book of Acts the angels were coming to get them out why would you need to be embarrassed about a gospel he was saying I'm not embarrassed about a gospel because the gospel was persecuted and the reason that the gospel was persecuted not just because Jesus said he was the Messiah but he had the nerve to want everybody that was the premise of the persecution they're like okay you claim you the Messiah we'll see in about three days and he's like fine I'll push you saying but destroy this temple and in three days I'm going to raise this thing up get oh wait a minute what do you tell my so he did what he said he was gonna do that was not where the momentum of his movement came from the momentum of the movement of Jesus Christ when you and I call Christianity what the Bible called the way the reason behind that momentum was that it was Jew and Gentile if it were just Jew then it wouldn't have grown as fast Holika star della verita it wouldn't have grown as fast that wasn't enough of them to change the world they were limited as a people so God kept sang to them over and over again I want every kindred I want every tribe I want every tongue and there were some believing Jews who could conceptualize it they just didn't like it and they didn't like it for natural reasons it produced critical Christianity if you think about all of the strings all of the movements that are out there every stream as men of God they have an authority on them it doesn't mean they're not like us i'ma tell you Lord Jesus what the heck man listen we're the apostolic and prophetic movement stopped moving was that they started acting like if you didn't have a revelation of the gifts you even have a revelation I don't know very many apostolic prophetic people that own stuff they are anointed him broke tell him I said apostles and prophets and prayer meeting and demons everywhere and intact and nothing in them looks up and says hmm what they do is they said oh no maybe it's just a bill giving them all their money so let's have a whole night prayer meeting and pray against all the false stuff because they don't do it like us when you got the word of faith stream that's like we don't really do a lot of that but we certainly got all these schools and we got all these banks you fly Southwest I fly my own and so what happens is the episode prophetic say you in the flesh all that money over there uh it's a demon of Mammon and what the word of faith does is say y'all are spooky and y'all crazy and your kids are not seen and y'all are demonized and you worship the devil boy do you do Jesus what's the bomb line booth will y'all write ain't nothing watch that a paranoid altar worker if you stand up the devil don't cast him out of me if all you do is talk oh no no no baby I'm under the cross I'm the only reason I need to leprous it's caused us in the way of me receiving grace this pattern from Romans 14 is saying all y'all if you're preaching the cross if you're preaching this gospel and you're not in error and you're not a heretic then we are all the same Bobby don't use your conviction to criticize them it's criticism and when you're Cardinal you fight for the right to criticize people occasion shocking criticize people for wanting to come here for deliverance and they don't have the decency to get tested after a fall but they will judge you about at least trying to come to church forget I said that forget your life together you got hell family members teaching you what's right about charge and they got their whole plot use of marijuana no crackhead charging people for trying to find the deliverance but you don't even believe you can have I got this sermon but you're also not to haul it so which part of you should I have to listen to right now well come on I know you're kicking I feel you through here what I'm trying to do is liberate you from the cohesive ties of judgment or criticism and I know you like this phrase but which traffic control I have my convictions but I don't use my convictions to judge you if you are one of them women that believer Paul said you know a woman that prayers I'll promise I'll without her hair cover dishonor and you walk up to me put it on your head and you give me a real word from God that saves my life that confirms a promise of God I'm going to receive it I'm not going to stumble listen over what I disagree with did the word come from God yes she was just religious but so what I'd rather have a word from somebody who's religious there's somebody who's hellish I want to know how kill how traditional you is if what is coming out of your mouth is freeing me I'm not gonna charge you cuz I dress differently same is true the adverse if that is also true there are people who allow Kehinde knowing that you are you got on gym shoes you're coming in here like you're fresh off the streets and I'm gonna tell you the error with that I'm not a man but error with that is that you're preaching and teaching like God goes to church you're preaching like God is a Christian well I know I'm making you man you're preaching like God and also enter a report card pick up now you go yo tell out that house with rollers in your head you barely wash your face you go in there like that garden it's cool either you'll come before the Lord like that God is at the gas station God is at the massage parlor Tolleson business will come up we cannot have doing this theology I believe you come before God presentable throw you down the way they don't Musti Thank You Benny nevertheless 30 years God is right there when you wake up and he's offended by my cheese he's offended but I'm drawers let's have consistent when you're walking in here he's offended by all [Applause] I believe what you believe I preach what you preach i'ma just put some spinners on it and do it my way [Applause] we're going nowhere in America critical critical critical you judge people before you hear them just critical somebody could be on TV preaching something that'll change your life if you don't like how I look you like aren't something is in my spirit well first of all and that's the only time you feel some spiritual when it's trying to teach you what's wrong with them when the root is bad teaching whatever what you know listen makes you worth more than who does not know it then you can be certain at what you know came from the devil Paul Warren knowledge puffeth the more you know the more you got to be careful about the spirit of pride in your life if we're preaching the same cross we hate the same devil we love the same name we're going to the same place and we're in the different kingdom here's the basis of this we can be different without stumbling over it there's some stuff I never do and as if something will never do I'm not gonna stumble or refuse to work with you because you're different from me Jesus picked twelve disciples on purpose because he knew there's some people you're gonna be effective with some people are you gonna be effective with some people you gonna be effective with some people you twelve he started the premise of our kingdom on ethnic cultural historic diversity oh yeah y'all like but okay fine in at some point you ought to change what gives you the right and I'm telling you this as a leader as a father as a visionary I have never been checked more by God on anything other than imposing the deadlines on others deliverances who do you think you are for telling people they're taking too long then come one way but after a while listen just because it takes them longer don't mean it ain't real you are not God you're gonna have 20 years with the same stuff you have no idea the levels of iniquity people are trying to climb out of you're looking at them who they are today you don't know what their preschool teacher did to bill you don't know what they mama said to them you don't know the mess they were born into and if you assume it you will not accept them my job is to accept you not to assume you now you know you know every family member you have has lived something you don't know I don't care if they're your children I'll get that your cousins each of them and when you look at me I'll back her up with you that don't mean that you know what they've experienced you have no clue about the stuff that's happened to them or around them so when you come to them with a critical gospel I wouldn't come to your church either I raised you in the church well God that will what I'm after this month what I'm coming for this month I'm a priestess at 11 cuz it's on my heart so heavy I feel a special Authority it's more than an anointing I feel a special Authority on every campus of all nations worship assembly around the area of addiction listen to what I'm telling you there is a profound power it's a strong man it's operating in people sexually it's operating in people chemically people are addicted to food they're addicted to attention they are addicted and they look normal it used to be where you could tell an addict by walking past them but now you have no clue what type of people are on what types of drugs and because the kingdom of addiction is not largely by the church what happens is every year they come out with new versions of it so it's a whole kingdom around the subject of addiction and here's what the devil is doing you will always look for peace and never find it that's what addiction does people are in pursuit of a way to suppress a pain or to suppress a memory or to suppress a happening and guess what without the grace of God and the demonstration of the Spirit nobody comes out of addiction you take a prostitute and you take them to rainbow and bounce some new clothes they may live good for a week or so but you've got to realize that there is something addictive about that behavior it prostituting gives me control over my resource then even if I know it's not good I'll go back to being a streetwalker cause it puts me in control of my life and when you are in bondage you don't live my faith Oh Lord when you are in darkness you know how to guarantee everything you get but when I come out of my darkness and I'm not got to follow something invisible and something I don't have to figure out it is harder to be free than it needs to be bound in sin and darkness certain things are guaranteed and holiness and in righteousness your whole life is faith-based so the power of addiction is a real one and what the Lord has shown me is the grace of God it's the reason why so many Christians are addicts and hiding it because Romans 14 is about acceptance will you treat me this am i still anointed if you find out I smoke every now so I deserve the same blood as you do if I have something in me that's been hardwired to self-sabotage intimacy when you look at me do you see a pimp or a or do you see somebody broken and in need of the blood both may be true but as a believer it is your obligation to wholly see one I can hear you I said it's your outlet I don't care who fall you wanna have a word of restoration in your mouth and here's why the same devil that won't you dad watch me dad and I'm not gonna help him kill you because of who I it is acceptance that's why the religious spirit hates the grace of God you're gonna accept all of that don't you like every tanga to the church house why the heck not the hospital isn't discriminate the crack house is indiscriminate the lunatic house is indiscriminate you'd have to come into an insane asylum and put on a skirt for us to love you it's only this foolishness in the church and then idea is well that's cause there's water down no it's the message of the gospel and this is my polis I'm not ashamed of it because church people wanted him to be embarrassed of that gospel and hide it to make it specifically tailored for people that look like him for Paloma I'm not ashamed of it I'll preach it to everybody I'll live out not now now 10:30 11:00 I Mahalo a little bit cuz I'm gonna preach to you the full gospel I preached to you the power of the full gospel the reason we had half Christians is because they heard a half gospel oh but fullness is coming I got to leave it alone plots raising up men under fullness and churches under fullness we don't even know what fullness when we get full there's going to be such a historic impact in America that they won't be able to recover I'm telling now it's a call to fullness but in order to receive that got to relay this foundation of Calvary a Redemption faith of love when they couldn't trap Jesus on the law they were not which one is more important in Jesus a the COS summed up this way love your neighbor as yourself and then in Romans he says and if you love your neighbor you don't end up breaking the commandments the entire point of that in Romans 1 he shows us the full depth of human wickedness it could get so bad that the law has judged you now what God turns you over to that law and that's what governs your life is called a reprobate mind but it does not have to get there people who have lived in certain lifestyles all their known life and I'll close with this and and there is a torment am i reprobate will I ever change has God given me over to this and the answer is no one hears why as long as you have the power to choose it means you have not been given to reprobate status almost took off I saw myself I said as long as something in you knows this does not have to be this when you are in a reprobate status you see no other way so you're not thinking about it the power of choice is the sign that the hand of God is still on you why first thing he gave us I set before you life and death if anything in you is wondering hey hey hey if anything in you is still contemplating if anything and you is still able to look back and forth the good news is you are safe as long as you get to study if my goal here is here if I go as long as that's active in you you have not been turned over to your devour the love of God is enduring the grace of God is enduring who God gets intolerant with are hypocrites this is what the scriptures say apostle pam judgment begins first at the house of God he measures us so that we're ready to accept them so critical Christianity is the whole point of it and many of us don't even know another way to live we got critical parents critical teachers and some of them their motive is right they see something good in us they just don't know how to groom it so they criticize it they think the way to cultivate you is to criticize you and then you've got friends and associates and people on social media who want to give you critical advice or constructive criticism and then constructed nothing they have nothing to show for their expertise or wisdom hmm we have got to start at in my own heart every day I'm laying before God any criticism help me not to choose who I minister to he'll help me not to choose who you were the Lord spoke to me something last week had me in tears for days he said son a part of your purpose is to save lives he said there will be those that fix them there'll be those that speak to them but everything you do is because I want you to save lives I thought about it in the context of salvation he said no you know how many people saved and dying major part of my purpose is to prophesy ment into life cast Devils out of people until they want to live so when you think about grace based deliverance the reason why it's important we cast the devil out of you is because a part of what they do is frustrate grace they get in the way to work against your ability to freely receive and this is a hard thing for people to conceptualize because they really want to be a part of salvation they're like knowing that Jesus did it all for me is not enough I need to be able to UM say I was a part of my own righteousness my mama taught me I got to earn it work hard for your money that that's that that it's for prosperity but not for healing not for deliverance now listen as you start noticing and hearing this stuff may come up you may hear the gospel of grace and you may hear the message of the kingdom you know that's a good time because a part of what it means that the truth is starting to fume out the lies they're just the stuff that you hid under a hypocritical belief system and now the grace of God has given that stuff permission to manifest now he can take it from the top and do away with it and put it in the sea there's I have to work on the teaching called the sea when we read the prophets and talk about where God puts our sins I was in it I was partying and and vacationing in Florida and being goofy I started swimming and I'm not a water person and I started going out there and just flopping around and I'm kind of tall so I get clumsy from time to time and I was fine as long as my foot touched the bottom of it because when you don't really swim to people who are looking and you're showing off it looks the same so I'm like on my tiptoes there was a couple of unsuspected waves and movements that I thought I had control over that thing happened in all of a sudden I couldn't feel the bottom of the sea anymore I was all this is it I started screaming at the top of my lungs help me and then another one came I was like oh god no I was literally underwater underwater I closed my eyes true story I started repenting lord if this is it I mean what a way to go I mean 19 Nations and it's going in right here on vacation Wow close my eyes and all of a sudden Hispanic guy came with a lifejacket and pulled me to shore and my process saying how my life had flashed before my eyes do you know what I couldn't not I went to my room never told anybody is I wept so hard because the scripture that says I throw your sins to the bottom of the sea fire you can put out winds eventually stop the sea is an uncontrollable bottomless resource Ricky and it's the reason why is the first thing he gave the planet seventy percent water earth is that means there is more places to bury your sin oh I wish you could be grateful there is more places to bury them than reveal them he's not trying to expose you he's trying to heal you he's trying to restore you he's trying to throw it all the way at the bottom of the ocean we all know except the bottom of the sea and they can find that they can find what you did and they can find what's wrong with you and they can find what you believe or what was after you they can find it and the truth is it'll never be there cuz he throws it in the sea if men heard that if your children heard that your grandchildren heard that if there was a gospel we preach to the thug if that was the gospel we preach to to those that feel like all they've done has been judged and it would be easier for us to have the harvest this is my jesus said the harvest is fine it's the laborers that are lacking and because they try to labor in a wrong message which is you ain't worthy enough until you get right but I've decided that Jesus is my sufficiency he is not just more than enough when I need milk and eggs he is my Sanctifier whoa whoa ho he is my I don't have a holiness it's him he is my wisdom he is my way in he's my way out he's my way through he's my way over he's eating my way around everything Father aligned our beliefs check us make us men and women of God that don't take people's brokenness personally help us not to personalize bondage in the lives of other people and keep us always in reminding or in remembrance of what you did to save us of what it took to bring us to this point and Lord we're not perfect but you are perfecting us and the way you're perfecting us is by the spirit of grace thank you Jesus for throwing who we were into the bottom of the ocean thank you for redeeming us and casting even our poverty our sickness or infirmity to the lowest places of the sea that we might be resurrected in you one new man in and through Jesus Christ now father we've asked you before but there's no penalty and asking you again a flood all nations worship us simply with the grace of God flood our marriages with it but our friendships with it flood our conversation with it flood our teaching with it our preaching with it our family members may they be conflicted and then converted by the release of the grace of God in our lives and we renounce a critical spirit of fault-finding spirit listen let me tell you something people who are critical on you I'm going to tell you something they don't want you to know they're only critical on you because the truth is they're really critical on themselves I don't know a critical person that don't have self-hatred and being able to criticize you helps them cope with their own self-hatred only the grace of God can flood that stuff out and reminds us that at Calvary we look the same father I thank you for this and finally Lord ready let an authority come upon this people against the powers of addiction but the power of God could destroy yokes because of the fiery grace of God flood our mouths our prayers our decrees by declaration even through the laying on of hands my god let there be real power that follows the gospel that's coming and the gospel that's moving rapidly throughout this movement we give you glory and we trust you because you have not changed and we love you for your cutting stance over heaven in the earth and we give you the glory and we give you the praise come on give the Lord some praise in this building I can hear you I'll say give the Lord some glory I can't hear you come on give up the play I can hear you come on take you a few seconds and fake him but what he put on to the seat well come on Zion I said thank you but when he put under the sea oh come on you ain't always been this sane things may not be how you want it but it's not how it was come on banker but what's under the sea he healed you and he left no proof of your wickedness oh come on he delivered here and show no signs of your guilt come on razor [Music] come on come on hey hey hey come on come on come on come on come on come on - summer praise come out this is what the Bible says let the redeemed of the Lord let the redeemed of the Lord let the repeat of the Lord let the redeemed of the Lord come on say so say so say so if not for the grace of God their God come on come on you could have been a stripper you could have it out of your mind you should have had a nervous breakdown I want you to praise him if you should have ot come on sire hallelujah I've been always doation of God I want always obedient but he loaded into the sea into the ocean into the ocean into the ocean [Music] Oh [Music] I love your wonderful I love your wonderful man I love your wonderful if you're here under the sound of my voice and you're struggling in your heart and your mind about whether or not this is too good to be true with it and all you've got to do is want to receive him and want to live for him and that's enough for him to work on you

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Published: Tue Apr 02 2019