Strange Tears - Bishop T.D. Jakes

in times of trouble it's really my company that you need its sound wisdom so this is not just about being lonely in times of trouble this is about getting insight in times of trouble because you're really feeling alone because you're thinking inside of yourself I do that sometimes it's like I grew up in West Virginia and your wheels would get on ice and they'd be spinning and rubber would be burning and your burning gas but you're not getting anywhere anytime you think the same thing five times you're not thinking you're worrying [Music] anytime you keep rehearsing the same thing over and over again well do another so oh my god what I do but if I don't do sometimes feel happy oh it's coming back Thursday and I don't know anywhere I would say at first I was thinking but if I keep repeating it I'm just worried and you're never gonna get the answers you need just by worry [Music] [Music] I want you get your Bibles almost finished a few minutes with you I'm going to the Gospel of st. John chapter number 11 verse number 35 you have it jesus wept you may be seated father I bless you I ask you to bless the world in sanctified deep down in our hearts that it might be fruitful in our lives that it might touch us in a special way then it might be it's so effective and touching administrating to your people that they would never be the same again I thank you because I'm beside you there's no other spirit Billy we got breathed on this text let it come to life in front of us Minister Tua's great God that you are thank you preacher and I honor you in Jesus name about a shout a man okay so this is what happened my family has a custom that we all sit around the table and have dinner my father would lead us in prayer it would be the same prayer every time I repeat the same pray that he did even to this day verbatim without exception every time on time and then everybody sitting around the table had to give a Bible verse I have an older brother who looks just like me named Ernest he's he's always been radical everybody wouldn't call the scripture and maybe if I would be for God so loved the world gave his own godson that was separably though I am should not perish but have everlasting life and my like my sister would do something like the Lord is my shepherd I shall not want he maketh my little eye down and greens passage we turn and look at my brother and my brother will say jesus wept while he was grabbing a piece of chicken well you know there's no glory in that there's no harder in this there's no humility of this there's no sanctification in this this is just one hungry Negro snatching the chicken wing so the first place I haven't heard this scripture was from my older brother and I heard it on as he reached for a chicken lay and generally it was in my plate that he reached okay I opened up my eyes my chicken is gone we ever see its problem there's nothing like losing a chicken leg to drive the word deep down into your spirit and in your heart I probably got PTSD right now because of the scripture okay this is true this is true nevertheless I got description down in my heart and industry this scripture right here is the shortest scripture in the entire Bible in the entire Bible from Genesis to revelations there is no competitor that rises to the level of this scripture it is just two words it doesn't tell you Jesus rode in on a donkey I'll tell you Jesus is coming back in a cloud it doesn't take who Jesus mother was it doesn't tell you that Jesus is coming back on the third day that taking these over would be raised from the dead don't say they don't wanted to tell you anything about Jesus except Jesus with Wow hidden an amazing what in the world would make Jesus cry full of me Jesus Christ I cried when I don't get my way I cry when I lose a friend I cry when bad news comes I cry when I get a bill I can't bear I cry I lost my place we cry and look outside and crime look at my taxes and I cry cry I cry all the time I cry don't let anybody tell him grow me don't cry just give him pinching me I cry all the time but when I'm crying and crying about some McCain change what in the world is it that that Jesus cannot change Jesus what this gives us a visa all the stuff guys what are our majestic out you can no longer tell me that it's feminine to cry because Jesus the he-man of the New Testament the mystery man of the Old Testament the glory man of revelations Jesus that I enter the tribe of Judah Jesus a seed of Abraham Jesus the root of Jesse G raps he comes into the house and burst into tears with his friends Mary and Martha because Lazarus their brother when you read this text the heaviness of the room will leap off the page and sit down in your house how couldn't azeris be dead you expect all people to eventually died no matter how much you love them and no matter how sad it is you've thought about it a time or two and by the time they die you're sad but you're not surprised but Lazarus was not an old man you expect men to die in war to go to battle and never go home come home and every time you see them go down the driveway you're worried will I ever see you again but Lazarus was about a soldier he's just a do dude he didn't write a book he doesn't do anything amazing he did walk on water he'd uphill the sing he doesn't race it dad he's just a guy can open up his house and say come over for coffee Jesus Lazarus was Jesus friend and whenever Jesus came to Bethany he hung out with Lazarus and Mary and Martha they were cut buddies you know they laughed and joke they had a few real say some barbecue sauce has some coleslaw potato salad they hung out and Jesus came to his house and when he heard that Lazarus was sick he read the legacy and when they told somebody go get Jesus they went to get him expecting him to respond have you ever had a crisis and you went to go get Jesus expecting him to respond on the basis and the strength of your relationship and all the years you served him and all the years you worked in churches all the way you grew up in Chuck and you just knew then if there was anybody Jesus was gonna come to he would come to you because whenever he needed you you always came to him and you witness it for Jesus and Jesus act like he was dust this scripture is very difficult to please is almost embarrassing because it stands right in other stark contradiction to everything I've ever been taught about Jesus his here is not heavy that he came out here in the armies on a shirt that he cannot see he hastens to the crier of the righteous the righteous man's Parabellum much I could do a thousand scriptures at you to stand in the face of this text of this law during Jesus he did not come because he was busy he didn't come because he was healing somebody he didn't come because he was writing the book he didn't stop it is coming because some urgent crisis to turn him for coming he just hung around till he got worse doing absolutely nothing he purposely misled light in fact the Bible says he waited he just hung out to Lazarus died his friend now I define friendship this is just me everybody's different I define friendship as be their moments and as long as you make my be their moments you can be on my friendlies if you're sure in my be narrow moment don't come around out this over talk about we feel alone or I will remember I'm I said I won't forgive you I'm just saying I will remember I will remember the next time you want to borrow some money I will remember the next time your car breaks down I will remember the next time you called me to pick you up I will remember this is embarrassing it's bad for its brand if we were in business we would say bad for his brand because Jesus had built a brand around showing up for blind people for Lam people for all people for sick people this is the Jesus who stopped a funeral processional and touched a casket and caused her dead boy to get up out of the grave Jesus stopped for woman he didn't even know never even mentioned her name she trusted him of his garlic and she was ready to hold jesus healed a blind man who screamed out in Jesus Stood Still and healed him of history Jesus sprouted a black mind's eye and probably we go wash in the pool and so long jesus healed the wizard ha ha his best friends call him he just goofed around till there's bitter and I hate him with this from I wouldn't tell anybody with you but sometimes I have needed him badly desperately needed him to fix something the urgency kept me up to three or four o'clock in the morning and I knew desperately there I needed him to come and fix this thing before bad get worse just bad does have a stopwatch it will go to worse and it's already bad when I said for you and if you don't hurry up we're a hurry-up prayer and properties that don't lollygag I need you right now if you don't get here before the fifth I will get evicted and you have a stopwatch on your prayer and you neither but right now Jesus to come right now and situation right now but he was loitering loitering just hanging out goofing around Wow death was creeping into the same house he's sleepy death creeped in on his tiptoes into the whole new house in Bethany where Jesus stayed and Jesus heard it tipping and he didn't come I am sick to death the preachers telling me to testify about how God answers prayer I don't need to be taught how to act with God answers prayer I need you to tell me what to do when God does not answer prayer every now and then my brothers and sisters I need him and it's a read a lot and if you know come quickly it's gonna be a mess up in here up in here up in here and I need to know they're not that jesus heals or that Jesus can appear and disappear or that Jesus can walk on water I need to be taught about the Lord or in Jesus who lured us while our language and I am languishing away and there's nobody who can fix me but Jesus and if you have ever said with a dying person it is an indelible impression in your mind if you ever do it you will never forget it so if you have to think back you've never done it because if you have ever been with somebody and say we're gasping and that death rattle got down in their throat you will remember that all the way to the grave you will never forget it it will wake you up in the morning it will wake you up in the middle of the night to look at your loved one and hear that sound and know what it means and know that it won't be long and have to watch them fade away Lazarus had gotten so sick that the rattle had set in and Jesus was loitering and I can't explain it because Lazarus was Jesus friend this friend it was a moment and Jesus was not there he loitered to Lazarus lay dead and then he says the factors didn't understand it either that's why don't feel bad about him in that I don't understand the disciples did not understand it either they said lord if he sleep if he doing well and then he knew that they did not understand him so he's folks plainly and said to them Lazarus is dead and the reason I'm preaching this text is not that he said Lazarus is dead he said I must go and wake him up so now I understand that he lorded because he had a strategy to raise him from laying and so I am appeased and my attitude toward him I feel a little bit better about it because now I see that he meant for Lazarus to die so he could go and wake him up so when Jesus comes to Lazarus house I understand that the law during Jesus is now late for the funeral he comes after the funeral is over and everybody said the house was aluminum for and the sweet potato pie and they're all eating chicken talking about do you remember what Lanza was six years old and all the kind of stuff we do at the funeral and then I get up at the door and is Jesus and Martha make you hot so don't be knocking on the door now don't bring the answer now don't bring me a husband now don't give me away from the house don't give me a job now that I believe in the city but you should have done that when I asked you to do it it's too late there used to be an old song and they sung when I was growing up or and be so now that I've cried my love to sleep don't wake you know now that I have faced that which I fear don't start nothing in here I have just not accepted the fact that I have to relive the rest of my life with my only brother my only brother brother and if he was gonna be my God at all after I slept you and fed you and wash you to tell you Wow can I be real why do you come up here because that's a lot of people to feed and the one time I asked you to do something you didn't come and now you will come knocking at my door like you want something no the house is full they were hot oh I know you don't wanna say so cuz you so polite and you shall spiritual and you so holy but have you ever been mad at God you have lived here bit mad at God I'm not talking about mad at your neighbors I'm not thought about mad at your sister I'm not about being mad at your mother-in-law have you ever been [Applause] [Music] Christian thing to say anything you too polite to say in front of people but I know what Jesus this morning I thought you would fix this I thought you would help me and I thought you a little bit and I thought you would healed her and I thought you were bless me and I just knew that job was where and - at the prophets prophesied it was where and I just knew I had that house right now and I just knew I'd be married by man yeah now you gonna come knocking at the door like you want some pie it won't be mad let him in the house mafia come along in the house and this is where it confused me because I thought if he said I must go and wake him up that made me forgive him for Laurie and it made me forgive him for being late and it made me put up with my own inner language they trying to be a friend with with fur god I'm mad trying to usher for God I'm mad at trying to preach for God I'm mad at trying to teach Bible class for God I'm mad at y'all y'all praying for me to good cuz I feel my help coming glory to God have you ever been side that a God that you were secretly mad at Shawn of across singing a song swaying from side to side but darling your soul you're just sick and tired of me singing time bad [Applause] neither Miriam Alvin should have strangled him out a hangar except Jesus were and they were mad because they thought he didn't care they associated his in activity with unconcerned they thought if you would have been concerned you would have come so you must not care and then they saw the cheese fired out of its face and then they remembered that in the preceding verse that it was said that Lazarus was the one whom Jesus loved how can you love me and still be late how can you love me disappoint me how can you love me and I give me something I really need this ain't about a new car I'm not asking you for Rolls Royce I might ask you for a private jet I need my brother he didn't even get to say goodbye to you anytime and he didn't even get to feel your hand comforting him as he slipped away and he died and he never got to hear your sweet voice in his heat yeah and he died until his flesh grew cold and he died until his body got stiff and I had to sit there and watch my brother grow cold and then he comes in the door and jesus wept and everything I ever understood shattered mystics fell into pieces because this is the first time and all the chronology of Jesus then I got to see him crap I didn't know Jesus cried I didn't know Jesus cried they betrayed him cry he didn't cry God who cried the Shore description all of the Bible maybe the biggest one because he cries I never will forget when Bill Clinton went through what he went through and there was a scanner I was one of the ministries in the room I was about eight feet away from from him when he told for the first time to the public he confessed about Monica Lewinsky and after he had done but he done he done and we all prayed and we left out of the building it was raining outside and the cameraman who was running across the street I never will forget it in the drizzling rain in Washington DC with the breeze blowing through the air said to himself not even to me he's a guy he's a guy like me and I stared in amazement because he wasn't even talking to anybody he was talking to himself something about Bill's failure connected him with the cameraman and the cameraman for another that my president is a man like me it is almost that feeling I have in this text because it is here in this text that I discovered that my Lord and my Savior and my king and my Messiah and the one that I adored the one that I with my life - he's a man like me he gets tired like me he gets weary like he has emotions like me it's the first time that he stopped doing that God stuff and he beats up man enough to connect me to him and I realize Jesus Jesus Jesus in my life felt as close to it as I did when I saw him cry because I've been crying all my life well my mama pushed me out of her body the first thing I did was cry and I'm in crying ever since I'm 62 years and I never had a year so far they didn't have a Tyrian haven't cried ever since he put the first diaper on me I was crying when he was cleaning me up I was crying when they slapped my behind when I come out of my mama's body and I have been crying ever since Daly said this poor man cried and the Lord heard him and delivered him out of all of his troubles oh my god I can't tell you how many times I have cried God if you get me out of this I'll never do it again God I need you right now we're in trouble the bill is coming over 12 God my daughter's in school they're gonna hear garlic hide and I cried I cried like Jonah is the belly of the fish I cried in the bottom of the mountain get me out of here I'm so glad I'm so glad I'm so glad being God that he can cross this which is so fish I can hardly find this fish to try to preach it it's too much for my theological ability to be able to articulate the majesty of the mighty infinite God who can become so minimalistic that he gets down on his knees and he cries with me I have never loved it as much as I loved it when I saw the tears fall down his face because then and only then did he become my kinsman redeemer because he was my brother in the tears Oh you don't hear what I'm saying he was my fellowship in my suffering he was my kid my cellmate in my a gandi jesus wept maybe the biggest scripture in all of the Bible and it's only two words but they so they so big that I could tell him my secrets they so be that I could talk to him about anything they so be that I understand he's not just power and might and strength and holiness he has a heart and that he cares and then he feels and then he can be touched by the feelings of my infirmity and then all of my Sunday School classes and Vacation Bible School and Tom Thumb weddings and all of my cut out put together toys they had me making it they never told it that Jesus lived I thought I was crying by myself all my life I thought I was crying by myself all my life I hear my tears from the crowd because I thought I was crying by myself maybe there's somebody in this room who thinks you cry in my previous masters to you there's a wall you know she's not crying by yourself that when you shed your tears you have a God who can come down where you are kneel down and put his knees in the pain that made you scream and shed his tears with you and the one that he said weep with them that do we and rejoice with them that do rejoice this text is the culmination of that admonition Jesus the mighty God wept and then I thought to myself why are you crying I know why I'm crying I'm crying because Lazarus were gone but I cannot reach him he's moved where I cannot touch him he lives where I cannot see him he has changed planes he's gone into a different order a different orbit a different dispensation I'm not crying for where he is I'm crying for where he left I know why I'm crying but are you crying because you said you must come and wake him up it was him and I realized that he was not the King Jesus then he's crying no no no no it's not the king they're thought to Jesus it runs heaven and earth and commands the angels it's not it's not King Jesus it's not the Prophet Jesus it stood on the Mount of Olives and said Jerusalem how off what I've gathered you as a hen gathereth her she sat that's not whose cry it's priest Jesus the weeping priests who who can be touched by how I feel he's crying with me he's crying for me jesus wept gerrae woman has ever cried yourself to sleep he did not cry alone and to every man who drove home with tears running down your face ran to wipe them before you winning out you didn't cry about yourself for every child who got confused over who you are and where you are and felt like nobody understood you you are not anybody or self for every CEO who made a tough decision and cried all the way home you're not eating by yourself to every physician who watched the life go out of a patient one time too many and took a drink and got half drunk and cried in your own drink you're not crying by yourself because yes split you right here unveils a part of Jesus that you have never seen before Jean not only walked on the water heal the sick and raise the dead Jesus went and I'll never felt any closer to her mental medium and the tears to know that my tears are not an indictment against my faith if there's nothing wrong with me being a believer who cries then I can be like Jesus and still cried you know I thought that if I was really like Jesus I would never cried if people would never get on my nerve then they'd never know happy that everything would always go right then I'd always be invisible my face would be a Charlotte and Simone at least I did not know then I could sign it and still be frustrated and still be motional and still be at the end of my rope I did not know that I could cry this scripture gave me permission to be what he made me it gave me the permission to be human it gave me to take off from this holy suit I'm wearing sometime and stripped down to how I really feeling that I have a God who can relate to me when I'm frustrated and empty and tired and overloaded and overworked and at my wit's here did you not know have been on had Jesus maybe he wept over Lazarus sacrifice maybe he wept over the magnitude of Lazarus sacrifice not nothing he burned on the altar no no no not nothing that he caught in the backyard not nothing any body and not not a wagon full of meal that he brought to the different no not that sacrifice you see Lazarus gave his life and it was a pivotal point of the scriptures this is the game-changing moment in the gospel narrative if this had not happened the cross would have been spoiled Lazarus was two traits which that call this Calvary to explode Lazard was the last straw oh my god that cost Caiaphas to put in motion the plot the land Jesus to the cross his land had my bad Caiaphas wouldn't hate it Jesus bad enough to release the plot that got him killed Jesus needed Lazarus to die Jesus needed Lazarus to die for him Lazarus died for Jesus because when landed bad he set it off he said it in motion he said the purpose of God alive in Jesus life sometimes people have to die for you to discover your own purpose lazar paid the ultimate sacrifice Lazarus bad for Jesus so that Jesus could turn around and [Music] [Applause] this is the opiate of theological understanding it is the apex of intellectual wisdom and understanding of the purpose and the mandates of God in arm in all crime axis in these two ways Jesus went and how Lazarus loved him enough to go first [Applause] Lazard went first Lazarus said it all Lazarus said it all into motion Lazarus caused it all to ignite it was when Lazarus died that the priests started whispering it was then that the wheels started turning it was then that the motion was enacted and there was no turning back Lazarus died so that Jesus could be in the purpose of God he was the sign that Jesus was waiting for Lazarus dying was the sign that it was time that he had enough haters for God to prepare a table [Music] Jesus walked in the house in front of people who were angry at him and he wept he could not have been we pink over Lazarus being did it because he knew he was going to wake him up see if I know that my loved one is going to get up my tears don't make any sense because if I know I'm just going to wake him up then we're just playing hide-and-go-seek but if I know that you love me enough to let me be late and went ahead and died without me even kissing your forehead goodbye or holding your hand or whispering in your ear that you were obedient unto the death [Music] that you were faithful to the very end that you would pay the ultimate sacrifice without wearing a uniform [Music] Lazarus Jesus misses the funeral Lazarus died and Jesus didn't even make the benediction Lazarus died and Jesus didn't even show up at the graveside service Lazarus died and they had rolled a stone in front of him Lazarus died and the crowd had dissipated Lazarus died and the family had gone back home and Jesus walked into a house having missed every major moment that they were hoping for he had completely led them down then he wept in the house and then he wiped his face I cannot promise you that I will not cry I cannot promise you that I will not shed tears I cannot tell you that you might not say something that makes my face get wet but if you ever let me wipe my face it's gonna be camos fish and hot shot if you ever let me wipe my face if you ever see me go to door like this the best thing for you to do is get on in the car because if you see me going away from my face and slotting down my nose and everything I don't care that a slum damn I know and I don't care what I look like best thing for you to do is get to the car as fast as you can he wiped his face and said show me show me show me where you laid it down show me where you gave up show me where you stopped believe it show me where you threw in the towel show me where you decided I wouldn't come in show me where you thought it was the end of the story because I will set it off were you laid it down right in the same spot [Applause] Yeah right in the same spot where you let it down I'm gonna set it off and I want you to get me by the hand and take me to the spot where you gave up take me to the place where you quit take me to the place where you gave me take me to the place where you decided nothing else was going to happen in your life take me to the place where you decided it is what it is take me to that spot right there that's why I want to be I didn't want to be at the funeral I didn't want to be at the way I didn't want to be at the graveside sure I didn't want to say the benediction I wanted to show up and make you take me back to the spot where you decided nothing else was gonna happen in your life and they led Jesus to the tomb as he would one day be carried to a tomb this is a dress rehearsal [Music] they brought him to the tomb and then he says something that challenged even the closest disciples faith he told him to roll the stone away now Lord I believe you but ain't no need him rolling the stone away they started wishing because by now he stitches God wants you to take him to the place in your life that stinks he's tired and you showing him the aromatize air condition synthesized pasteurize places in your life take me to that stinky place a place that is embarrassing a place where you gave up and then he says throw the stone if you're watching me right now there's a stone you have to roll away and God won't roll it for you I know you're waiting on God to roll your stone away but he will not roll your stone away he will lay to roll his stone away but he will not roll your stone away every man every woman every boy every girl has to roll their own stone away you have to have the courage to smell the stitch of your failure you have to have the courage to look the thing in the face that gave you PTSD you gotta roll the stone away you can't get better until you confront the thing that's driving you crazy you roll the stone away and looking right into pain at me we're honest on a land they didn't want to think of him be composing on the inside of it and they were all to stone away and it was worse than the death because now he's taking the scab off the wall brother stinky which means he's decomposing which means that according to the laws of the sadducees who believed that the spirit didn't leave the body till after the third day Jesus waited till he was dead for days so that they couldn't think that he was waking up somebody who was in a coma sometimes God will wait till there is no question that if you get out of this it has got to be a miracle everybody's doctrine will validate the guest she there yeah he's bankrupt yeah he's down yes he's out no he'll never get up no he'll never be paranoid schizophrenic the diagnosis is in the verdict is in from the court you now in the jail cell and then God shows up where everything is impossible with men and then he indulges and majira aids himself in a private conversation then he lets us eavesdrop on in the scriptures because in front of all of this crowd of naysayers and doubters and a mixed crowd of people who used to believe in some that had to lead and most who hated him he doesn't talk to none of them he doesn't confer with flesh and blood at all it's dead he lets us hear my son talking to his father and there is no conversation on earth like a son there is something about your son talking to you that is different than any other conversation you will ever have because when a father and a son talk it's not like two people talking it's like one because your brain is mine and your thoughts are mine and your facial expressions are mine and while you try to tell me how you feel I already know how you feel cuz I spat them feelings in you there is no conversation like a boy tougher to his daddy it's got a different ring to it when a boy talks to his daddy it ain't good to your daddy say it's good you you you ain't bad to your daddy so you be an accomplice to your daddy say it's because mama can't brag on you all she wants but if daddy don't say nothing it ain't over and we get to hear Jesus talk to his daddy when he says I know you hear me I know you hear me in other words we are so tight that if I thought hard Lazarus would get out of the grill but for the benefit of those who don't believe I want them to know that this didn't just happen I want them to know what my word will do so I'm gonna speak a word I didn't even have to speak the word cuz you and me got it like that you know my pops afar off if I just stood here instead he'd get out the gray but because this is the trip switch that's going to set it off that's gonna set my destiny in motion that's gonna push K office over the edge that's gonna cause some people to get so excited about me that my haters are gonna come to kill me I'm gonna say it out loud because Lazarus died for me to have this moment and I'm gonna have it in front of everybody [Applause] yeah excuse me I had to get happy a minute see if you have never been into nothing that only God could call you out of you don't understand what it is to have him call you out of a sudden that you could not get out of all you know there may be a few people in this room that have been down so deep in some stinky stuff that if God didn't call you out you would've never got oh shut up oh oh shut up he lap oh shut up a little sha you might be watching me right now I don't care how long you've been at it I don't care how long you've been depressed I don't care how long you been down I don't care how deep in sin you are with God says I don't know I don't know what part came to life first I don't know whether he's left ventricle began to pump and then it is right now begin the pump I don't know whether his aorta began to get warm and what was congealed began to turn to liquid and begin to liquefy and begin to move down I don't know which arteries begin to move down from which core muscles down to what cells in order but little by little all of a sudden something started working under some bandages until all of a sudden the bound man that was shut up in the truth that was decomposing that was falling apart that the lice was eaten Lord the lice had to draw up the flesh they had chewed up because Jesus says and I want to tell you everything that's been eating you up is about to throw up everything that's been holding you down just God said [Applause] look at your name and tell him I'm coming out of this I want to say my goodbyes right now because my time of being locked up in this situation is over my time of being held down is over now and my last night down here with you I hear somebody calling me now I don't know who this is for but the Lord said I'm calling you I'm gonna call you out of the situation that you could not get out of on your own I'm gonna call you out of that stinkin situation that you've been in and thought you couldn't get out but I want you to hear this word because when I call you again you won't leap out of that thing you only pout you ain't gonna walk out you're not gonna press out you're not gonna strut out but you gonna leap out and when I say Lazarus I want everything in here to lead [Applause] man [Applause] I'm not finished with you [Applause] [Music] yeah [Music] test your neighbor and tell him I'm cut it out [Music] [Music] [Applause] I'm coming out and he begin to come out in the crowd he couldn't come out as other man came out he could not walked out he could not stride out he could not pimp out but he began to leap out look at your neighbors say any way I can I'm coming out of this any way I can I'm coming out if I got a sweat if I got a crawl if I got a shoot in my house and speaking turns and coming out of this I need about 30 seconds of crazy praise in his food dirty look praise and praise I'm coming out I'm coming out I'm coming out I'm coming out I'm coming up Wow I'm coming out I'm coming out coming out I'm coming out [Music] [Music] summer y'all are waiting till things get better and you say when things get better I'm gonna come out but I got news for you Lazarus wasn't delivered but it came out [Applause] with my hands I need the radical folk I need the people that are tired of being in the grave with other dead people then ideas dead conversation dead imagination dead attitudes I want you to find you a spot in this room music or no music from an old rug clothes and no clothes and I want you to give God the praise like you lost your mind give it a phase right now [Applause] [Music] [Music] tell you never see daylight I see daylight I see daylight again closer onion polska onion vulture onion poseur and composer the devil sugar kill me when he had the chance but I'm getting closer to my breakthrough how dare you to take another step one more step and everything then hell you have gotta turn you a loose one more dip and the yolks go break one more step and the door go open one more step and the mountains go boo somebody take a step right now singing right now take it right now they can right now [Applause] [Music] and the Lord to you but I need a witness [Applause] I'm stronger I'm stronger I'm stronger I only cried because you trusted me enough [Music] to get in trouble you trusted me enough to let me use your life as a testimony [Music] it was just a test in a controlled environment to see if you would give your life for me I woke you up because it is not written that you should laugh for me it is written then I bad for you I just needed you to set me up if you set me up i'ma wake you up man come out of that grave jesus wept [Music] coz he knew it was time jesus knew what Lazarus death meant and he would have to leave his friends his disciples and his mom and then Jesus knew that his work was finished that is TAS was tough thus it is written and it behold us that his hour had now come the week from Lazarus Mary don't cry for him Martha you will see Lazarus again before you see me it's not Lazarus it has to go it's me I must go away that you might live come on back oh come on now stop playing around with your mother corpses you're not one of your dead friends you're not one of them I'll let you play over there for about three days but do deny they support Damon come on I'm gonna give you the grace to escape all of you they'd hear this message I'm gonna give you the grace to risk if you come right now no devil in hell gets tapia if you come right now I'll bring you out with your legs tired and your arms tied behind your back and I'll still snatch you out I'll take you with a needle hanging out of your arm I'll take you with tracks up and down your legs and then your toes I'll take you with the marks or where you try to slit your wrists I'll snatch you off the pole and turn a stripper into a saint but you gotta come now because the stone is moved if you're gonna get out you gotta get out now this is Sunday morning the Lord sent me to come get you this Sunday morning he told me to go to the cemetery and preach this Sunday morning he said there's something in that all I want there's something behind that stone I'm after are you watching me right now and I'm watching you this is the moment Oh while you was doing what she was doing he was weeping for you if you won't come back to him you better come right now drop down on your knees right where you are right now right now right now the Holy Ghost got you surrounded I have a warrant for your arrest drop down on your knees and surrender your life to God right this minute right this man I don't care what it looks like I don't care what people say right now drop down on your knees get off the treadmill move away from your friends at the gym and drop down on your knees Wow because Jesus wept and you just simply ask him to come into your heart stop playing and other people stop blame s with long she's not blaming other people take responsibilities and tell him I am the one wrong I sinned I messed up I could have got up I blew chances I didn't show up I wasn't there I didn't do what I was supposed to do stop blaming people you'll never get better blame than people take ownership he cried for you he waited for you and just because he didn't show up when you expected him to didn't mean he wasn't coming he's ready right now that stone has been rolled away there's somebody tied up in a gang right now that stone has been rolled away God has made a way of escape come on give yourself to Jesus I feel it in my spirit there's some gang activity you've been tired up here you're a leader by nature but you've been leading the wrong group of people you've been leading the corpses and you're walking around with a bunch of people like the walking dead you're supposed to be leading in the kingdom like the walking light come on ask him to forgive you of your sins created me a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me that's right you say it let the tears come it's okay this is your moment God call you off the shortest verse in the Bible if you can't remember nothing else I see it just tell everybody you see like my brother just say Jesus sweat that's enough for today back slam Jesus cried you back home come on now for the devil kill you come over home I'm reaching for you I want the church to just go into just 30 seconds of absolute warship until the angels join you until prodigal sons and wayward girls come staggering to the blood of the cross I surrender I want you to hit me up on Facebook Twitter Instagram find some kind of way to communicate with me and let me know that when you heard this word you heard this word when you heard this word you woke up out of your sleep in the grave when you heard this word you preached me so but I don't care what condition you was in I don't care if he was having sex and I was preaching I'm a preacher's where do you get out of the bed I come I'm scared of you I come right for you in the name of tonight this moment right now this second this millisecond right now this day is the day of salvation God is coming to get you you'll give up a man you can see for a man you can't see you give up a woman you can touch for God that you can't even see because he's calling you you come right now all these people are praying for you they don't even know your name but God knows your name they're praying for you right now you come on back to him he's waiting for you saints of God of God bless you today would you give him some kind of praise I do not say this in the spirit of arrogant surprise but I said in the spirit of desperation and concern this kind of preaching you don't hear no more I hear a lot of noise and a lot of cute stuff and everybody jumping around and about to split the pants run around and talking saying stuff but this whole Holy Ghost devil chasing which rebuking demon rebuke and curse breaking power of the Holy Ghost you want to be a part of this you want to join in with this if God doesn't care about your zip code God does not care about what neighborhood you come from what language you speak you need to attach yourself with this Minister I just wanted to speak a word of calm and solidarity most of us are inspired more about the truth that we teach to the response of the audience right now churches really want to embrace the community beyond our on the walls we we have connected in fellowship by serving the community well the potter's house has enlisted and the help of several chefs to cook 1,000 meals for first responders working in a kitchen that's normally used to doing banquets and high school graduations now it's turned into a relief kitchen the first-responders has been there for us and ultimately the key is to be there for them some people it may be something small but to us it's big full belly a healthy meal and fresh we're preparing right you know on site The Potter's House leaders told me faith does not make things easy it makes things possible we want to be contributors and first responders we want to offer our services to our community we want to be the hands and feet of Jesus if you see the word made flesh in our conduct of behavior

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Length: 75min 45sec (4545 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 29 2020