Starve One. Feed One | Pastor Ken Claytor

hey what's up everybody this is pastor Ken and Tabitha Hey so glad you're tuning in today I know that this message that you are about to watch right now has something on the inside of it that will transform your life that is so true God always has something to say whenever his word is going forward so let's enjoy the word today and so we want you to grab a pen grab a notebook matter of fact share this message with somebody else sit back and enjoy y'all ready for the Word of God today if you're ready just say I'm ready let's pray father we thank you so much for who you are we thank you for what you're doing we ask for you to have your way in our hearts today that we don't want to come into this building just to say that we've come to church today we want to have an encounter with your word your will in your ways Holy Spirit make yourself so real to us today that we can no longer deny your existence let us not ever resist or reject but let us receive you today and as we continue in this journey on the Holy Spirit we thank you that you bring all things to our remembrance we thank you that you stand by us that you you help our understanding that that you give us revelation and you draw men to Jesus father we thank you for what you're doing today and we give you the glory all the honor and all the praise in Jesus wonderful name somebody say man and a man if you have a Bible go with me over to Galatians chapter 5 verse 16 Galatians 5:16 and today we're in this series on the Holy Spirit and it's one of those things that like I said this is the first time that we've done a series that doesn't have an end date and we're just going to keep on it as long as God tells us to stay on it but my hope for you is that you'll get something divine out of it today my hope for you is that you won't just hear this as a sermon but you'll hear this as a way of life today today's message is entitled starve one and feed the other go ahead and tell your neighbors starve one feed the other alright now this is a set up message for what's gonna happen the next two weeks now next Sunday pastor Tabitha's going to be preaching and we've kind of talked about it a little bit she's gonna be preaching on power and authority come on Robert madula and she's gonna talk about the authority and the power that God has given you as a born-again believer because some of you all don't know the power that you should be walking in and she's gonna hit that and then the next week after that is Mother's Day and she's gonna be preaching about healing how healing is the children's bread how you should receive healing but also God's giving you the authority to disperse healing all right and so you don't want to miss this now these two weeks are gonna be some clues for things that have changed the next 10 to 20 years of your life somebody say man now sometimes in the church we talked a lot about the devil you know and we said what the devil made me do it and we blame a lot of stuff on the devil messed up a marriage and the devil made me had a bad attitude and I'm here to proclaim to you that some things aren't the devil it's you can I keep it real can I keep it 100 in this church today some things ain't the devil it's you and we need to sometimes deal with us because the greatest enemy is really the enemy and sometimes we talk about the devil devil devil Satan Satan Satan I'm so tired of hearing people talk about the devil who is defeated and underneath your feet for Jesus came to destroy the works of the devil because the problem sometimes ain't the devil it's our flesh and until we understand how to crucify our flesh we're not gonna have this relationship with the Holy Spirit like we should have because the Holy Spirit this is a very spiritual atmosphere this is a very spiritual thing and what is flesh is flesh and that which is spirit is spirit and sometimes we have to crucify our flesh daily so that we can tap into what the Spirit of God wants to do go ahead and tell your neighbor I'm glad you came to church today so what is the flesh your flesh is the fallen part of you it's the part of you that's not saved come on somebody it's that part of you that carries your sin nature okay that flesh part of you is that worldly part of you see there's a war going on on the inside of every human being your spirit man wants to obey the word in the will of God and your flesh wants to do the exact opposite and we want to dive in the galatians chapter five and we just want to unfold Galatians 5:16 I believe your answers are in the word okay and I believe that when you go to God's Word and you dive into the word of god and you meditate on a thing day and night you'll get healed you get set free you'll be empowered so I say watch this walk by the spirit verse 16 and you won't gratify the desires of your flesh so he gives us the answer off the top that if you want to overcome your fleshy tendencies it's not by you focusing or not doing stuff because whatever you focus on will expand now some people say well I'm just not gonna sleep around no more I'm just not gonna cuss anybody out no more and I'm just not gonna do it and then they go do it again and then they feel bad because they are focusing out of their willpower on what they don't want to do but the Bible says that if you walk by the spirit you won't fulfill the desires of your flesh so it's not about you saying what you don't want to do it's about you being so consumed with God so consumed with his word so lost in his presence so lost in his will that all of a sudden you look back and say oh I'm not like I used to be because I'm walking by the spirit and I'm not fulfilling the desires of my flesh verse 17 says for the flesh desires what's contrary to the spirit in the spirit what's contrary to the flesh and they're in conflict with each other y'all here today with me so the Bible basically say there's a war that's going on on the inside he says you got your spirit man and then you have your flesh and they are in a battle with each other okay they are in conflict with each other that's why when you want to do right sometimes you end up doing what's wrong okay and so so that you're not able to do whatever you want to do verse 18 but if you're led by the spirit you're not under the law and the acts of the flesh are obvious all right notice it doesn't say the acts of the devil it says the acts of the what okay so here they are these are the acts of the flesh all right sexual immorality impurity debauchery idolatry witchcraft and we could go and break all of these down when we want right now hatred discord jealousy fits of Rage that's when you just go off for no apparent reason then you feel bad that you don't went off on your family it's just flesh I safely selfish ambition this is when you're so concerned with getting a new home a new car making more money that you put that as a priority over your walk with God it's not that you can't be ambitious it's just that you're just doing what you're doing for you and not for the kingdom of God let's move on dissensions factions that's when you want to get debates with other people about what the Bible says Envy drunkenness you don't know what that is orgies and the light and I warn you as I did before those who live like this come on read it with me will not inherit the kingdom of God but the fruit of the Spirit if I say but the fruit of the Spirit is love joy peace forbearance kindness goodness how many all could use some more that in your life and so what it's saying is that the more that you walk with the Holy Spirit the more you will produce this fruit this fruit of joy all right now this joy will eradicate depression and sadness come on somebody this joy of peace that guards your heart in your mind through Christ Jesus kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness self-control against such there's no law and those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires if you wit me saying with your pastor it hears that here's the answer now I love it that it says that they have have done it it's almost like past tense but the truth is is that you don't just crucify the flesh one time okay and that's what some people think that well I did that before I crucify my flesh no this is a daily thing anybody who got flesh know what I'm talking about okay this is a daily thing I gotta check my attitude this is a daily thing I gotta try not to slap somebody this is a daily thing where I gotta be on time come on somebody this is a daily thing when you got to lift your hands and worship when you don't feel like it this is a daily thing and sometimes instead of buffeting our flesh we buffet it we just give our flesh whatever we want all of the music that it wants all of the movies that it wants everything that everything is we just feed our flesh and then we wonder why we don't hear from God because we are buffeting something that we should we're paying something we should be buffeting and so that basically means the Crucifier or deny the flesh but anyway these verse 21 I'm already there verse 24 I'm already there verse 25 and since we live by the spirit let us also keep in step with the spirit so that means that we should be walking with the holy spirit let don't be conceited provoking each other in love and I love how the Bible was written you know the Bible was written not with chapters and verses like we have today this was added after the fact so that we could know where we're going in the Bible and so I love to read Galatians 5 and 6 more like a run-on thought like this is a continual thought and it kind of breaks for a moment and let me break if it's okay kind of break but it says brothers and sisters Galatians 6:1 if someone is caught in a sin you who live by the spirit should restore that person gently I like the New King James on this one it says those of you all who are spiritual should restore that person and the spirit of gentleness so that you don't be tempted as well all right now notice what it says it says those of you all who are spiritual any spiritual people in the house today okay because sometimes we don't want to be too spiritual because we don't want to be weird and we don't want to be like those other people that we saw and the Lord gave me the specific word because some of you are more concerned with being cool than being powerful and being anointed and I'm telling you your priorities are wrong because if you're gonna walk with Jesus you're not gonna be cool to everybody come on Apostle Paul come on David come on Jeremiah come on Daniel in the lion's den come on Jesus on the cross and if you want to be like the world there's some times you're not gonna be able to win something that you want to be like and so what God does is he calls you out from that system the world system to be more like heaven system or y'all with me today and so what it's saying right here it says you who will live by the spirit those of you all who are spiritual meaning that we need spiritual people we need people that cry during worship yes we do we need people that operate by the gifts of the holy spirit and pray in other tongues and know how to call down fire from heaven those things aren't strange to the believer their biblical their kingdoms come on some are y'all with me today and so we need some spiritual people but I love it because it gives us order it lets us know how important community is it says those of you are who are spiritual should store people who make mistakes it doesn't say condemn them it doesn't say throw them away it says that there should be restoration can I preach to somebody who's here today there's a difference between forgiveness and restoration forgiveness is easy you do something wrong I release you god bless you you don't owe me an apology you don't owe me my childhood you don't owe me anything the restoration is different restoration takes a process like when you restore home and restoration wants to bring something back better than it's ever been before it wants to bring it back better than new see we should look for restoration in relationships restoration and friendships restoration and covenant we should look not just to be forgiven but to be restored because it comes back even better than new and so it says those of you all who are in the house of God you should look to be restored back into your rightful place that's why you got to be careful that when certain people mess up you don't just throw them out no we should always look to restore person and get them right back to where they were and even better than before when they messed up if they go along with the restoration process I got to move on but anyway but watch yourselves that you also be tempted verse 2 it says carry each other's burdens and in this way you'll fulfill the law of Christ if anyone thinks that there's something where they're not they deceived themselves how many of you all are like that nobody raised their hand so none of us are all that right we are who we are by the grace of God each one should test their own actions then they can take pride in themselves alone without comparing themselves to somebody else their social media is messing up your day you should probably get off of it for each one should carry their own what load I hope you ask ask your neighbor are you carrying your load just look straight this way it's okay verse 6 nevertheless the one watch this I like this one I like it it says who receives instruction in the word should share all good things with their instructor there's one translation of this it says pay those who teach you the word hallelujah amen only me and pastor Charles said amen to that if the Bible literally says that now I love this verse because it says the one who receives instruction in the word somebody say that's me it says that you should share all good things with your instructor now you can break this down and say what does that mean a we could you know we could we could talk about what it means but I tell you what one thing that I really believe that it means you know what I really believe it means is that you should share all good things with your instructor one easy way to do that is that when you get the Word of God share with your instructor how good it was yarning already what I'm saying is that don't just go to your small group and take take take take take without letting your small group leader know thank you for opening up your home thank you for praying over me Oh y'all don't understand what I'm saying don't just come down for prayer every Sunday morning without saying thank you for praying for me thank you for a church that gives me an opportunity to have my needs brought before the throne of God to disperse angels on my behalf I'm not going to take it for granted so it says whoever's instructing you in the word now let me give you a principle that when honor goes up miracles go up sometimes we come to church and we judge the speaker we say well today's message is not as good as last week's message and I like this preacher but that person they okay and that's why you don't have miracles in your life because whenever the Word of God is being preached the Word of God is good the Word of God is powerful the Word of God is sharper than a two-edged sword the problem ain't never been a style or or a preacher the problem has been how do you receive it now if you sit back and say well that's okay and everything within the manifestation in your life is gonna be okay but if you can lean in go ahead and tell your neighbor it's time for us to lean in if you can lean in you can get blessed out of the book of maps in the Bible you can get blessed by the index in the Bible you can get blessed leather cover or you're out there there is power and authority come on Robin but do I don't know where you came from y'all hear what I'm telling you the problem has never been God's Word it's always been our posture in our position in this fight listen I'm boxing right now and we're taking boxing and one of the things they want me to do is not go do my legs like you get knocked out that way you got to put your legs you got you got a cup see some of your position in the spirit ain't right and when you posture any position yourself in a fight that's the only way you're gonna win you got a posture in position yourself in worship worship ain't like this worship is like thank you Lord that I'm in the house of God today and I got hands that I can lift in a voice that I can raise come on and let everything that hath breath praise God I don't know if y'all ready I'm the only one excited post-easter whatever whatever so what would happen in your life if you made the discipline to share all good things with your instructor what would happen what would happen if every Sunday before you leave church or sometime in the evening you just got on social media as a man that was a great word this is what I got out of it what would happen if every single week no matter who was preaching no matter what group you was a part of you just picked the good out of it you didn't get into did they say all the words right or did it have white stuff on they lips or what kind of white pants they was wearing with hose him didn't get into all that you just somehow look beyond that and said God thank you for a word that charged my spirit today I am not leaving this place come on somebody the same way that I came what would happen if you just started to share all of that I'm telling you miracles will go up in your life if we didn't take what we get for granted I told you guys it was gonna bear off we're gonna come back to the flesh in a minute and so it says verse seven don't be deceived God can't be mocked a man reaps what he sews that's a principle I wish I could preach on that I ain't got time I'll give you one real quick your life right now ain't nothing but a harvest of sees that you've sowed in the past and if you want to change your future change you'll see you say pastor I ain't got friends that's cause you ain't so in a friendly see and if you start if you start being friendly then you'll have a friend harvest come on somebody first ate whoever souls to please their flesh I'm going back now from the flesh will reap destruction in whoever souls to please their spirit from the Spirit will reap what one translation says everlasting life so every single day all of us who are Christians we have an opportunity to sow to our flesh or so to our spirit the reason that you're in church today is cuz you're sowing to your spirit give yourself a round of applause give yourself those of you all who are watching on youtube god bless you what are you doing right now you could be reading a novel somewhere you could be reading people's magazine here you are sowing to your spirit I just want you to know that if you want to change your harvest you've got to change your seed now if you deal with depression if you deal with sadness if you deal with doubt if you deal with a lot of unbelief and fear it's probably because you've been sowing the wrong direction if you want to change that harvest of your flesh you have to sow to your spirit instead of sowing towards your flesh and so it says whoever souls to please their flesh from the flesh will reap destruction and whoever souls to please their spirit from the Spirit will reap life everlasting now some of you all might feel like pastor I just I deal with so much doubt I hear you preach I even clap about it but when I get home it's just like I'm attacked with all these thoughts I would suggest that maybe your flesh is too strong somebody might say well pastor I just have a hard time believing you know I hear what you're saying in the Bible but then I get on YouTube and somebody else says something different there's a bunch of Devils on YouTube that's why but here's the thing I would suggest to you the reason you have a hard time with unbelief is because your flesh is too strong can I speak to somebody today that you just you you're married but you're always looking for somebody else always looking at somebody else and you say pastor why can't I stop always looking for somebody else I suggest to you it might be because your flesh is too strong it ain't the devil sometimes as you okay same thing as it was with David remember David David here he is the Bible says that at the time now here's David here's the second king in Israel and a palace God's been good to him he's known as a man after God's own heart David has so much integrity and honor that there was a time where Saul wanted to kill him throwing javelins at him he saw saw in the cave he cut Saul's robe and felt bad about it this is a man that was trying to he felt bad about cutting the robe of somebody trying to take his head what was that a man of honor a man of character and a man of integrity this great man that man you go to Israel now they still have a replica of the City of David I mean it's still there you can still kind of walk through it I mean this was David this was King David but the Bible says there was a time where the Kings went out to battle and David should have been out the battle because he was a king but instead he was at home now watch this sin doesn't just happen overnight it's progressive so what happens is that your first Lord away from your connection and you're out of place and you don't think anything's wrong with it cuz you know I'm a little tired today or you know I'm just I don't feel like going a small group today and you make all of these excuses that I'm sure David did to not be out at battle and here he is at home and then the next step and progression is that he's looking out the window he could have stopped it right there and then he saw a woman and she was taking a bath or name was Bathsheba ironically and he could have stopped it right there but he didn't because sin always wants to go the extra mile come on somebody then he calls for her sleeps with her impregnates her could have stopped there puts her husband on the front lines of the battle has him killed Uriah is killed what's this this is a man who was once spiritual but now his flesh has gotten gotten hold of him this is where many people are sometimes they're on the mountain with God and sometimes they're in the valley and many people's lives are like this I'm home far for God and then I take six months off a church and that's why you don't have victory because you got to come to the place where you consistently seek the face of God judgment comes on David's house simply because he didn't understand about the inner in a war that was happening on the inside of him it's kind of like the Apostle Paul you all remember over in Romans chapter 7 the appall he went into this whole thing like this he's like the things that I want to do I don't do in the things I do I don't want to do a wretched man that I am who can deliver me from this body of death but then Paul gets it right thank God in Romans chapter number 8 and watch what he says in Romans chapter number 8 verse number 1 there is therefore no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus who don't walk according to the word but according to the word he finally says you know what I don't have to give in to this inner war if I walk by the spirit I won't gratify the desires of my flesh Romans 8:6 4 says for to be carnally minded is what death but to be spiritually minded is what life and peace this is Paul this is his whole revelation you got to read Romans 7 and 8 when you get home romans 8:8 says watch the so then those who are in the flesh cannot please are you kidding me how many y'all want to please God you can't do it if you're in the flesh I'll give you one more Romans 8:13 it says for if you live according to the flesh you'll die are you reading this with me but if you by the spirit put the debt the death the deeds of the body you later you say pastor why do I feel like I'm dying on the inside maybe because this your flesh is strong and you got a star one and feed the other I love this illustration let me get a few guys to help me real quick let me show you something I'll show you this haven't done this in a while and I love this illustration y'all come up here ready y'all hurry Stooges here what is this okay let me get pastor come stand right here right here right here I'll just stand right here okay and Randy stand right here the Bible in first Thessalonians five and I think verse 12 it says that we are three and one just like God is three and one so we are spirit we have a soul and we live in a way a body okay and so the real part of us is our spirit man all right the spirit in the soul are going to go on to live forever depending upon what you do and your physical body will depend upon what address it goes on to live forever hand but the spirit and the soul are very closer together the Bible says the only thing that can divide it would be God's Word all right but the body part of you is the flesh part of you and so when we talk about flesh you know we talk about our body like this is his flesh this is his flesh but it's not just what you see that's you know your skin it's also his carnal nature when we talk about flesh and the Bible says to be carnally minded is death meaning that you can think with a fleshy falling mindset and the Bible says that as a man thinketh in his heart so is he all right now everybody turn to your right for me if you don't mind see go this way yeah there's like which way is right this is how you look before you accept Jesus you're headed the wrong way okay every part of you spirit soul and body all you know is like let's have a good time all you know is listen lie and cheat my way to the top all you know is to do what's wrong and just to try to get ahead in life but what God does is he begins to send the Holy Spirit who begins to convict you and convince you to live more further than just yourself and if you're smart you surrender your heart to Jesus when you do what happens is that your spirit doesn't 180 you were headed towards darkness now you're headed towards light you are born again you're on your way to heaven but the problem is you still got us thinking thinking now your soul is made up of your mind your will and your emotions are y'all with me class your thinker your filler in your chooser okay this is what your soul is and so basically let's just call it your thinking capacity now there's a but there's a principle in the Word of God that says wherever to go the third has to follow you know and so basically what happens is if you get saved but you still have an unrooted mind and you still walk according to your flesh you drag your spirit come on spirit man you drag them into the nightclub you drag them into wrong relationships and you feel bad about it because you got Jesus living on the inside but these two people aren't renewed so what happens in Romans 12 it says don't be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you can prove what is it acceptable and perfect will of God now that we're transformed is the Greek word Metamorpho where we get the English word metamorphosis it's like a caterpillar being turned into a butterfly and so the more you get in the Word of God there's a transformation that's happening it's a process now this is an event you said Jesus I need you you came only inside of you darkness with the light but the renewing of your mind the more you get rid of those wrong relationships the more you put the right relationships the more you come to church the more you go through growth track the more you do your first 15 you're not thinking like you used to think any longer okay now you control how fast this happens but watch this wherever toward an agreement the third got to go so now because of your renewed mind now you are carrying your flesh into worship I know you don't want to worship but lift your hands anyway come on go you ready come on I know you don't want to give but praise God God gave something to me i'ma give back to him and this is what it means to die to your flesh daily and don't follow its desires are y'all with me today so listen the the answer to this is that you gotta renew your mind that's why you're here today once again right but if you live according to how you feel you're dying how many of you all sometimes you don't feel like praying how many all sometimes you don't feel like worship how many sometimes you don't feel like coming to church how many sometimes you don't feel like turning the other cheek don't do what you feel like doing choose to do what's right because it's right and you'll get what's right come on with somebody give Jesus praise y'all can be seated welcome to see so here's the thing here's the thing star one feed the other starve one fede I become a star one feed the other come on you say pastor what's the answer starve one come on what's the answer quick story now I don't condone this story I don't believe in dog fighting but I'm gonna give you the story because it was given to me and it's very sticky 15 years ago I heard a preacher say this story and it stuck with me for over 15 years okay the story goes down like this and it's a fictitious story but watch he says that this guy he had two dogs and that he liked to have the dogs fight okay and he noticed that one week one dog would win the next week the other dog will win then the other the next week the first dog will win the next week the second so it basically it went back and forth are y'all with me somebody who was watching came to the guy and he says how in the world do you get one dog to win one week and the other one to lose and then the next week the other dog who lost now he wins and the other one loses he says the one that I want to win I feed it and the one that I want to lose I starve it if you want to win in your walk with Christ you have to feed your spirit and starve your flesh or y'all hear what I'm telling you let me say it again you have to feed your spirit and starve your flesh you say I don't know sense God because your flesh is strong and you have to crucify your flesh and feed your spirit starve one feed the other starve one feed I'm talking about the Holy Spirit today I'm talking about being in connection with a God that you can't see because God is a spirit and those who worship Him must worship Him how in spirit not in the flesh and so if you say pastor how do I do that here's three tips for you three keys how to starve your flesh feed your spirit number one you got a fast and pray you know I just came back from Australia and my whole system is off for two weeks I'm sleepy in the morning and I'm up at night because it was 14 hours ahead of us so right now it's like 9:30 so there it's like two o'clock in the morning the next day okay so I came back and I was walking through the kitchen and we got a young lady who helps take care of our kids and I was just like I was eating this chocolate cake and I was like man since I came back from Australia I've been eating cake I've been doing this I can't sleep today and she says well you need to fast man my flesh got so upset at her I wanted to grab her up and body slam her said no but I knew she was right see there are certain seasons that you have to know where you are and you got to die to self and so over May I'm gonna be taking some things away put some things on the altar actually gonna be reading a chapter of Acts every single day you can join with me if you like like May 1st acts 1 May 2nd acts 2 and every single day will read a chapter together putting some other things on the altar just so that I can get myself back into into now this ain't the devil y'all that's you you make these decisions of what you want from your walk with God I got to move on number two is that you got to increase your intake of the Word of God now don't miss these three you need these three ok you got to increase your intake of the Word of God all right that means that maybe you should be listening to more podcasts download the app make sure you get the message listened to I have certain messages I listen to 5 to 10 times ok because faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God does description Jude 20 that says that when you pray in the Holy Ghost that you build up your most holy faith how many of you all ever feel rundown you ever just feel rundown like you know what snooze snooze snooze snooze snooze maybe cause you need to build yourself up you need to stay built up man we are in a fight so you have to do everything that you can to be spiritually sharp surrounding yourself with the Word of God one of the things that I did is playoff time y'all know how I feel about the NBA I just said no more TV until Jim why is that because I need to replace that time with feeding my spirit just because of where I am right now now if you're not a person like me maybe you ain't believe it for anything you ain't gotta do this but for those of you all who have big dreams and you believe before a big God to show up in a big way like right now we're believing for the Orlando campus and right now we believe in the build the building here right now we're believing to touch the world I don't have time to watch a bunch of millionaires dribble the ball that ain't gonna save anybody there's no problem with that I am an NBA fan through and through but I need to know what season I'm in and there are seasons where you have to be more sensitive to them I got a move on I got to move on last but not least number three is you got to be careful of what you open yourself up to here's the thing it's not the devil a lot of the times it's us and it's just that our flesh our flesh can mess up our marriage flesh to mess up our relationship with church our flesh has offended at people that we should be spending time with it's just our flesh and so one of the ways that the devil will attack you is that he wants to put words in your ear look up what goes in the ear affects your heart so the Bible says guard your heart above all else for out of it flows the issues of life how do you do that well relationships the people you hang out with all carry C and they're sewing words I don't know about this or D or you can hang out with faith-filled people girl you can do it you can do all things through Christ who strengthens you need to make sure that they're sewing the right seed into the ground of your heart okay but also what movies you watch and what music you listen to you know I'm always the guy that I'm so careful not to create legalism and to allow you to hear from the Holy Spirit yourself but as a spiritual father and a teacher I want you to be a little bit more prone to what you are allowing to come into the ground of your heart it's amazing those of us who are allowing adultery and murder and mayhem those are our favorite movies and yeah I'm gonna pay 15 dollars to go see murder and mayhem yes and I'm not saying what you can't do what I'm saying is that there in certain seasons that if you want to know why you're not hearing from God or if you want to grow in the anointing check out these dials here you know me and AD we were at I don't know we were traveling somewhere I don't know we went we were traveling somewhere two grown men without our wives right and I was preaching at a church I think it was outside of Washington DC and we decide we're gonna go to the movies he said man we don't go to the movies I said what you want to see anything I said let's go see Madea Madea funeral movie whatever so here we are two grown men looking crazy without our wives walking up to see a movie together get our popcorn we get everything that we want we sit down we enjoy the previews movie come on there's so much profanity so much sexuality and sensuality in a four minute I'm like well I'm sure that'll go away I mean Tyler is saved and everything something I'm sure did go away 15 20 minutes into the movie I look at ad I was like hey what do you think he is like I was like you want to go he said yeah we got up and walked out of a pg-13 movie come on somebody better clap for me I'm trying to get you so sensitive to the Holy Spirit that there are certain things that you just say you know what that is down here and gods called me to be up here for I am an ambassador come on somebody don't you understand that there's more working in you than working against you there's more working for you there are certain investments that I got to make in this season of my life right now and what I'm trying to do is get you to the place where at least you're sensitive enough again to let your heart break with the things that break God's heart not telling you what you please don't be that church that you see somebody at my dear now you're judging them let people live at the level of their conviction but my job is to help you just get a little bit more sensitive if you're struggling in your marriage you might not want to go watch a bunch of other people struggling in theirs come on somebody there comes a place where you just need to sow a good seed so you can get a good harvest y'all ready to worship come on everybody stand up to your feet come on let's worship God I set you if I did that everybody standing for me ain't ready to go hey here's the thing could you come down to the front if that's you just come down let's let's worship together just come down to the front everybody who wants to just go deeper because I want to talk to those of you all specifically that worship is uncomfortable for you I want you to know it's cuz your flesh is strong I want you to come down come down come down those of you all who are like you know what I hear God but I don't know let me think about it I want you to get like reckless abandon so when the preacher starts saying stuff like come down you don't even wait for me to finish like okay praise God we don't get something from God today I need you to come to the place where you set off your mind for a second so God can deal with your spirit I'm talking about I don't care who you are if you're saying pastor I want to go deeper with God I want to take a step towards God I want you to know it starts in worship now let people in guys be self-aware look at everybody around you let people then come on down come on down any worshippers in the house if you are worshiper would you come to the front if you want to be a worshiper would you come to the front if you want to be a praise or would you come to the front come on somebody the Bible says those who worship God must worship Him in spirit and in truth when we lift our hands it ain't because I ain't got nothing else to do I give God a sacrifice of praise meaning my flesh is not saved my flesh don't want to open my mouth my flesh don't want to move but I'll crucify my flesh to obey God and I'm going to give him a sacrifice of praise because it says let everything that has breath given praise so I'm gonna lift up my hands by my choice i'ma lift up my voice by my choice I ain't gonna wait on the music to give God praise imma give God praise because he's a good god and my praise stills the Avenger from a respirator [Music] me my Oh so yes [Music] you got a press you want to sing like you believe [Applause] father we thank you for every person that is at this altar today they just made a decision just to go after you from this day forward just let us be more sensitive to your voice let us not be so desensitized by the culture that we allow anything to go into our ear gateman to our I gave is entertainment but God let us live a life where we choose to walk by the spirit so that we don't fulfill the lust of our flesh we thank you that we carry revival revival is happening right now in US and around us that you're bringing dead things to life again we thank you for what you're doing with every head bowed and every eye closed if you're here today and you say pastor I want to surrender my life to Jesus today I've lived in sin I've messed up I've made some mistakes but I want to be forgiven today I want to start this relationship with God through Jesus today I would love to pray for you but I need to know who that is if that's you could you very boldly lift up your hand all over the building so I can pray for you today all over the building thank you I see your hand and your hand in your hand and your hand in your hand and your hand and your hand come on let's pray together say Lord Jesus come into my heart today forgive me of my sins from this day forward I'm born again I'm saved I'm a Christian thank you so much for saving me in Jesus name Amen come on charge you to put your hands together and give the Lord praise I pray that that message bless you today I know for me God's Word changed me it changed me it helped me overcome years of depression sexual abuse even poverty and I just know that God's Word is changing something for the better inside of you yeah if this message today has blessed you in any way you know the greatest compliment that you could ever give us will be to share this with someone else you know when I go out to a great restaurant I don't want to keep it to myself I want the world to know you got to go here to get that fried chicken into my sweet potatoes man and so if this has been good groceries for you if it's been good food it's been life transformation for you do us a favor share it with a friend comment below make sure that you subscribe to our Channel today and we hope we'll see you again real soon god bless you we'll see you soon

Channel: Alive Church

Views: 712

Rating: 5 out of 5

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Length: 42min 43sec (2563 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 17 2019