Striving For the Mastery - Sam Emory

this is a great church never think anything smaller than that always you serve a bit God so always dream big that's our that's our theme and Merced if you're gonna dream dream be you don't serve a little God you serve a bit cos over dreams big if you're gonna pray pray big prayers pray stuff you don't think that God can do because he is able to do exceedingly and abundantly if you're gonna believe God for anything believe God for something big way beyond your imagination because he is able to he is able he is able 1st Corinthians chapter 14 verse 10 I'm sorry first Corinthians steps sorry right book wrong scripture 9:24 I'm sorry it's my part oh they got it right their father might know some 19 father my own knows all right know ye not that they which run in a race run all but one receiveth the price so run everybody say so run you run so you may obtain and every man that striveth for the mastery its temperate in all things now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown but we an incorruptible I like but taking my text in that little phrase striving for the mastery that's what we're gonna be just what we should be doing striving for the mastery alright I'm it's gonna help me preach in a minute okay good and then we've had a great music let's get the music department at that one little group with the jazz and that goes alright a man you may be seated it seems that to me at least in my diminutive mind that the Apostle Paul had a fascination with the discipline of the Roman soldier and the discipline of the Greek after leaked in our text he paralyzes the try a path on the marathon run with a spiritual race and these games that these runners and you know Olympians competed in only one of them could win a prize and it was like a I think just it was a olive olive branch crown that faded at some point in weathered up and he says but we are in a race as well but we're not running for a corruptible crown we're not running a 440 relay we're running a marathon race so it's not coming in first or coming in the middle or coming in last that it's the most important thing the most important thing in the race that we end is simply getting across the finish line so we're not trying to run fast we're trying to run sure the Bible says the race is not given to the Swift nor the battle to the strong so as this thing it's not how fast you're running on how strong you are is that you simply have what it takes to finish the race doesn't matter if you come in first place the last place what matters is you cross the finish line you you're striving for one thing to win the prize if I said to win the prize the prize is Jesus that's why we're running this race so you got to be serious about the race you got to be determined to run to win to finish therefore we're temperate and discipline everybody said in all things our crown is a crown of gold it will not wither away it is the Bible said is saved up for us peace he god wants you to finish the race that you're in today 1st corinthians chapter 4 and 10 there are it may be so many kinds of voices in the world none of them without certification there are many voices each voice is trying to get your attention that's what signification means they want your ear to hear them they want your mind to think who they are we must understand that these voices and things that we're hearing to try to capture our intention can get us off course if we're not careful we have digital stuff all over the world and we have billboards and you know advertisements and everybody wants you to buy their product they want you to commit to their brand you know Starbucks just took a cup of coffee that used to be 25 cent and drank all you want until you couldn't drink anymore and they put a funky little logo on it and put some milk in there and told you what's a latte and then instead of $0.50 they charge you five dollars for it that's why I don't drink that stuff I'm gonna go down to the little neighborhood cafes I'm giving that 25 cent get me a cup of coffee that's all in it yeah I'll make my own latte without the funky little logo and I'm good what is that it is bran laboring it is to influence you that this cup of coffee is gonna make you suave yeah and so it's to influence use to have significant in your life it is to provide you with a feeling of you're a part of something bigger than yourself if I'm gonna be influenced by anything at all I want to be influenced about the power of the Holy Ghost if I'm gonna be influenced if I'm gonna lend myself to something I want to find out what is it going to take for me to win this race that I'm running certification is there to get you to buy into you get you there this to run get you there to take that brand but we have the Word of God that is saying listen keep your eye on the prize and and keep the prizes Christ and we're running for this incorruptible crown and you need to run and you don't need to run fast you just need to keep running everything about this is to influence you significant every commercial is to influence you to get you to buy into what they're selling or what they're doing if I'm gonna get anything I wanna I got to get something that impacts my spiritual life to a point that it gives me the desire to run even when I don't feel like running I have to watch you you have to watch what you give yourself to look at your neighbors and neighbor watch what you give yourself to why is that because whatever you give yourself to is what you ultimately will become and I'm not I'm taking it slow yeah once I hit my speed you I don't wanna leave me behind Steph Curry he doesn't pop three points on accident he goes to the gym probably every day and he marks the three corners he marks the three places from where all around the little circle there and on the end points where he wants to pop those three-pointers he does it every day religiously he's in the gym because he understands if I keep giving myself to it this is what I'm going to become he understands the science of muscle release and reflection and he understands if he he he learns how to jump at the right height and your brain they would take a computer as big as probably Sydney to do what your brain does inside of your head and your your your muscles really knows exactly how far and how much thrust and how much push to do you're doing this without a computer you're exercising geometry in your head don't ever let anybody tell you you're dumb or stupid they don't know anything you got a brain that does complicated stuff in his head without any kind of patterning you don't have to have a computer to do it your brain knows how to do all this stuff so he knows exactly how to talk how if I had to get up off the ground the arc of his arm the speed and how to let it roll off his fingertips in order to hit that three because whatever you give yourself to it's what you will become so I say men was Michael Jordan extraordinary probably but he gave himself to the game football players give themself to the game anybody that becomes anything and anything will give themself to it because whatever you give yourself to it's what you will become drug addicts become drug addicts because they give themselves to the drugs you will become whatever you give yourself to it's a law of nature and so if that's true I'm gonna give myself to God because whatever I give myself that's what okay I'm gonna get myself to prayer because no matter what I give myself that is what I'm become I'm gonna give myself to worship because whatever I give myself to it's what I will I'm gonna give myself to Jesus every morning in the evening in the night in the day I'm gonna visit the altar and said lord I give myself away I give myself to you because I realized no matter what I give myself to it's what I ultimately will become you're not gonna be successful in God on happenstance you're gonna have to give yourself to it proverbs I said through desire men haven't separated himself secretly enter meeting with all wisdom and sin you have the capacity and the drive within you despite what you think despite what you know if you give yourself to God in every way you can you have potential and you draw yourself and God is drawn to your desire he's drawn to your potential he's drawn to you because if you begin to give yourself to the Lord and every way you can it creates a hunger down in your soul and God is drawn to hunger God is drawn to those that crave after him pause God to you all you have to do if you lift your hands and you say I'm a reached after you God is drawn to that God will not leave you there by yourself if you don't want him he will not come around but if you have this desire said I don't know who you are I don't know if you real show yourself to me and God will come right where you are because he is drawn by that hunger and by that desire and you gotta understand friend you got to get hungry for God you got to get thirsty for him and God will move toward you there is no obstacle that God can't jump over there is no situation that God's that you can manufacture that God cannot reach you it doesn't matter where you are you can be on a desert island all by yourself but if you lift your hand you have the power of one you can lift your hands and begin to call on the name of the Lord you don't need a whole congregation you don't need a band you don't need a choir all you need is hunger all you need a desire all you need is some hands to lift up God are you here are you with me in my darkness are you with me in my pen God will settle now somebody shout Amen he will settle down right on you you don't believe me ask the Ethiopian eunuch it's in the middle of the desert he's reading a book he has no idea what it's talking about he's reading the book of Isaiah and God now take supper manna whoops I'm innocent they've got let do you know what you reading where'd you come from bro God sent me here to tell you see that's supernatural we don't serve just a God we serve a super natural God listen he is the God you gotta get dissing him he is the god of the one you said what does that mean if you were the only one he still would have died at Calvary I know some of y'all don't believe that you need to hear the the bald-headed black guy right now if you've the only one he would have still died for you if nobody else in this world wanted him but you want him he will come right to where you are there is nothing that can stop him there's nothing that can hold him back the wind can't stop him the Warriors can't come on somebody nothing that you've gone through can stop him from reaching you he will come to hell he'll come to high water he'll come around the way all you gotta do sit I need you Jesus in the power of one he'll be there with you I [Applause] says I have potential all right one person said back here everyone said I have potential you wouldn't be here if we didn't have potential doesn't matter two obstacles you're facing God has a way of seeing things that we don't see hearing things that we don't hear sensing things that we cannot sense adversities challenges obstacles it's those are the things we kind of focus on like he was saying jurrasic Jesus I like them I'm gonna told him as well still the sermon and call it Jurassic Jesus you know I thought about it brother Shawn I figured if you change a few things in a complication of a math still the outcome is out different just move things around and the outcome is always different if you begin to change the numbers so I said okay help me see better so I got this little thing as you know and of course you guys know him partly crazy partly de minute 100% Doug you don't so I began to change the way I saw obstacles and it started like I just then I begin to to change the way I saw challenges and I come up with this conclusion a challenge for me it's nothing more than an opportunity for him to show me my challenge is nothing that he cannot come my obstacles now begin to be an opportunity for God to prove to me how powerful he is among my adversities now become a door for God to step in is it have you any rivers that seem impossible have you any mountains that you cannot tunnel to god that's a lot God specializes in things that seem impossible he is the impossible God he is the dinosaur killing God he is the God that raised us from the dead he is the God that carries your sicknesses and diseases your situation is nothing more than an opportunity for God to show you I can do that wait a minute I've got a I got a report from the doctor that cancer is gonna kill me and there's no medical cure and God said I can do that his wife is a two-time survivor of cancer my wife is a survivor of cancer I don't get to marry two or three times I'm married to the same woman or hear what I'm saying and when you give me in an impossible situation I'll give you a God that knows no impossibilities all things are possible with him I wish to have somebody help me preach up in here Oh Oh what so everything's are impossible with man or impossible with our God I serve a god that is everything that's possible so if you're gonna dream got a big guy so if you're gonna dream dream big Romans 8:28 twenty eighty and we know that all things work together for good to them that love God to them who are called according to his purpose I always have a problem with that Scripture until I understood what it meant here's what it's not saying we interpolate interpolation is we transpose and interpolate things and make them work out the way we want to again but with the formula here you got to keep the formula right do you want to get the right answer to it what we just read and put words in there's not in there mostly the way we say this is and we know that all things work together for the good there's no duh there I'm sorry every time I hear somebody go well I know all things working for my goodness no matter we interpolate we put words in there to fit us there's no though and there's no mind here's our problem we want to make it personal because it oh don't worry I'm good God's working it out for my good that's not true come on man don't blow my thing here I mean as it says it works out for good to them we'll call calling this verse but it doesn't define what the good is until you keep reading and so he says everything that happens to me it's so that I can become conformed to the image of his dear son now I see that when when I read that then my brain without shaming lanes I mean like it was like I get the lotto in Las Vegas because then I understood it doesn't matter if it's good or if it's bad or whether I understand it or where I'm left out in the dark that God will take every situation and work it no matter how he can get it to move me into position that when it is over I am becoming more like him and that's not always pretty the word conformed means he is pret he uses the pressures of life he uses the good and he uses the bad he uses the upper and he uses the down he uses the things I like and the things that I don't like he uses my mountaintop experience and when I walked through the valley alone he uses the daylight and the night time he use it when I was somebody help me preacher he use it it's when I got money and when I'm broke and can't even pay attention and he says some don't worry about it because my nail scarred hands off for me and it don't feel good it doesn't feel good when God is conforming you that means there is pressure that means oh come on somebody and he is not a powder he is a he is a carpenter so his hands are callous and they're rough and they're hard and he's got me on the wheel and I said oh that hurts yeah I know it hurts but when I get through with you when I get done with what I'm doing you asked me God I want to be more like it's gonna take some rest it's good it's gonna take some pressure look up so I just said keep on bring the pressure he wouldn't pressure you if you couldn't take the pressure you need to tell the Lord Lord bring it on I can't take it Oh something I know you're you're you can sit there and get mad or you can say come on Jesus because when you get through I'm gonna be the devil's worst nightmare when you don't look at what you are look at what you are becoming and when I understood this I understand the last verse in that chapter what shall we say to all these things what things the things we go through what shall we say all due to all these things if before me who then what then where then how then can idiot these things work against me because God is using everything to make me more that's why in the middle trial you ought to enjoy sir and the devil wants to know how can you adjust because I'm gonna be more like him I'm gonna love like him I'm gonna walk like him I'm gonna forgive like him I'm gonna heal come on folks open your mouth let your haters say God keep on working them don't stop working [Applause] every pain in your body every heartache you go through every downtime all the darkness in your life are they on security Angela is pressure from God he's got you on the wheel as I keep me on the wheel I don't want to be thrown in the potter's field keep me on the wheel make me what I want to be do what you gotta do but don't let me go holy moly shake because I'm striving for the mastery [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I'm striving to obtain a prize Paul says I'm pressing toward the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus he says I'm I'm stretching like a man that's out of join them my my my humerus is coming out of joint trying to get a hold of him and the good thing about it while I'm reaching for him no doubt about it he's reaching for me what I feel like I can't go on one more time you gotta you got to run just if you got a slow up slow up just don't stop running because the race is not to the Swift its to him that endureth unto the end come on somebody here if you got a run with the limp run with them Jacob said I don't know if I can make enough but he wrestled with an angel all night long and the only way he could get away from the angel is a boner and Jacob had to run the rest of the reason with a limp ah but I've run a run with the Ripper then not run at all brother run they're not run at all huh always somebody help me you need to shout you need to give God praise you did the God closer didn't either God harder because he's molding me and shaping me and fastening me to become more alive [Applause] you said you don't awesome I know brother saw he didn't leave this world hold do you know I understand that Jesus didn't leave this world home he was broken shattered bruised rejected do we think we're gonna get out of this race any better that was you never stopped running that's interior looked at me I thought it's gonna die no no no you can't die they'll kill me for you die I've got to get you to Calvary so he called this black guy that's what you know I'm in the Bible you know black people in this Simon it's arraigned he's from from Africa called his black guy cuz I told his cross the brother goes right i man scoop those brother gets up under the cross with him he's the first one that experienced the blood of Jesus when I look in the book of Acts I found a cat by the name of Lucius a serene you just raise your buckets and therefore something I'm making this look I can't me they hung them up there but here I saw what he's supposed to do I finished the race I'm here I cross the finish line that was it that's it so when I'm telling you it doesn't matter how you crossed the line just don't stop running the race because we're striving Paul said I press I'm pressing we've seen songs that we don't but don't really understand he says I got a purpose and purpose I got a potential we were created for purpose God put purpose inside of you we all have challenges but our purpose and then then then Paul writes to us that we're not to be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of our mind that we may be able to prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God I'm thinking like wow okay it's pretty rough kind of stuff until I have to break it down and since the first thing I gotta prove is what is good and then there is a comma which makes me stop and say okay let me look at that how do I prove what is good it's pretty easy we know what is good and what is bad see the Bible is very simplistic it gives you the formula you just have to work it out on the table so I can look at my life assist okay if I'm gonna serve god that's not good this is not good this is not let me see no hanging out with some of my old friends is not gonna help me cross the finish line it's gonna take me back to the starting point okay let's be seated I'm watching the clock cuz I haven't ate well I did eat a little bit breakfast but I'm getting hungry right hunger in a preacher is your best friend because then we'll stop preaching to go get chicken all right that's good and so I don't need a whole lot of stuff I don't need somebody breathing down my neck I just got to look and be honest with myself if this is this gonna get me closer to God or farther away if I answer correctly if I answer honestly to myself that is not gonna get me closer to God so that's not good for me it's hanging around this person or or those people that I used to hang around are they getting me closer to God or taking me further away please don't try to make this hard when it is real simple once I prove what's good in the next thing I know I have to prove what is acceptable , notice this comma and then the conjunction we go to school they teach us this common means stop pause sometimes we're like people you know I it sitting is pretty a tough place man if you run through a red light they take a picture of you that if you don't go to court and try to do that next thing you know two or three weeks later that's a bill for two or three hundred dollar with your picture with you it's this you that's my cousin I have a twin brother that looks exactly like me and you say that because he was driving his car you know that's what's acceptable all things are good but not all things are lawful what does that mean all things are lawful but not all things are expedient there are certain things that violates principles in the kingdom of God that I need to watch I have to know my danger zones for me to go in certain places it's not acceptable to me now you may go there and you'll have a problem with it but my I have spider senses that go off danger Will Smith danger we went to Myrtle Beach South Carolina it was spring break I'm sorry I had my ray-bans on I mean I did everything they told me to do right put your Ray Bans on and look at the horizon it wasn't working I mean it's spring break there's all these hotties out there here's I mean there's Bambi just goes like oh my god I'm like mom I said are you okay I said no I am NOT okay she said what's wrong I guess I'm having a problem with my eyes I just my allergies are acting up I'm gonna keep it real with your phones y'all kid you know what y'all could play games with God if you want to nominee for real so we walked a few more down the beach from there maybe a couple more feet here comes another oh she's got the image one is implanted in my mind it was a lime-green two-piece bouncing across the sand and my wife goes like oh my god would you look at that and I said I think I will [Applause] it was an invitation I could not refuse and then she summarily said I will poke your eyes out I said you told me I can't look make up your mind you are James Brown or do you want Stevie Wonder [Applause] even Stevie would have said isn't she lovely [Applause] so I stopped in the sand my pasture was not there I didn't have a Bible in my hand but something was telling me this is not acceptable to you I don't need a Bible study I don't need a I don't need a King James or a New King James or amplified something in my heart said run Forrest get out of here boy this ain't good for you this is not good this is not acceptable this is not the will of God for you rah quit playing with dog quit playing with yourself if you're in a position you'll know you're not supposed to be there I stopped I stopped right there I told my wife I said you know what this ain't working milla gonna have to rise in the sunshine it's not getting it and I want to stay saved but most of all I want to stay married but the third thing I don't need my wife's index finger poking in my eyeball so I made an executive decision that was a little shot right here I'm gonna got me a very large bag of popcorn and the largest soft drink I can get and I told my wife have fun she said where are you going and I pointed I said look over there and there was a dock I said I'm going I said I'm not gonna make this journey here but I want you to have fun I can't do this I know I'm a danger zones this she said well what are you gonna do over there watching the time cuz I can handle the tides I can't help Bambi like I can't handle the fuchsia pink and the Red Lion green just bouncing oh look oh the devil is a lie I ain't going to hell for nobody else I gotta get to safe I gotta get to safe ground I gotta get come on somebody there's something in me said you gotta get out of here boy you're safe for you anymore that's it all you there's a new man living in my shoes I'm swaggin totem I strip I'm running for the prize of the high calling [Applause] so we're be renewed in our mind regrettably there's no time machines you can't go back in time fix your mistake is proven you go back in your past you manipulate one thing your changes your alternate future we're created for his purpose you're created for his plan you're designed to overcome these things when God designed you he did not make a mistake in your design you need to expect God to show you opportunities out of things that look like there are adversities God has a way of making blessings comes when you don't think they're come through he brings the growth and abundance to his own word you know it's time we quit wasting time transformation is a real surreal process it isn't easy Kingdom dynamics with Christ speak of spiritual actions God will do his part will you do yours people do not leave God because they don't love God you see God sees your potential then he has a plan then he gives you purpose and all of that works they guess the power to work the plan the problem with all of that is the fifth determining factor of me running the race and that's called process and most people walk away from God the cost of process seems too long because we think I should have been perfected by now why am I still going through this if I thought I'd be further along by now and now the process becomes grueling and then we give up we never give up on God most people don't give up on the church most people don't give up on their potential but they give up because the process is grueling I've never ran a marathon and folks if your marathon runner I mean I got nothing but love for you but I ain't running 26 miles it's a Popo ain't after me he's number this guy got a gun and are you crazy or are they saying every marathon though that your body gives up you get to a point where exhaustion sets in you've been running for five miles seven ten it happens sometimes they say around the 18th or 19th or 20th mile you don't have that you come so far but you have a little bit more to go and that's winning fatigue begins to set in right and what happens in there is everything in your body because of the process of the marathons let's stop running you're killing me we are careful you'll stop running right before you cross the finish line your lungs will hurt your blood seems like it's poor agya lating in your veins your knees are hurting from the pounding your ankles or her every joint and your now you run it on sheer determination to make it to the finish line I wonder what the butterfly feels like he's a callow pillar he wakes up one morning in this dark shale don't know how he got there it's a three week process but to a butterfly that's Oh are they trying to do that's why it happens to us isn't it we go to a Sunday night service I've got my praise you wake up Monday morning your praises on Sunday night your praises on on Monday morning your praise is gone y'all laughing guys don't know what I'm talking about and the process starts I get to process God but how long if God doesn't answer they say the butterfly decomposes and to a DNA soup nothing is left but its eyeballs and that's absolutely nothing to see but the cocoon then he's in he's left abandoned on side of a limb hanging upside down with the Predators of every bird every deals come they pluck him at any time the only thing that keeps him is the hands of God he is suspended he's abandoned and the owner protection he has is God and that's what it feels like when you're in the process the process of becoming what you started the race to become the process of you gaining Christ in that process it's what you've got to hold on you got to remember why you started the race in the beginning and if in the beginning you started the race for the right reason then you can summon something deep down in you and says I know the race I'm running and I know that I'm gonna lay hand on the prize everything when I cross the finish line what's the prize I'm gonna lay hands on Geo I don't know where you are today Simon you're in process seems daunting seems overwhelming you're thinking will I ever make it there only if you stay in the process one day nobody knows the time your process may be longer than mine it may be shorter than mine I don't know I just got to stay in my process like you got to stay in your process it's called transformation it's called one day or in that darkness the but the Calla pillar notices there's something different about it after all these days not sure when it starts I read up on it I called the poor man God called Google y'all know the poor man God he don't Google doesn't know anything that some nerve created an algorithm to Trent a witch that you know I went to WikiLeaks I don't know what that is somebody told me about it so I'm you know I'm I'm a baby boomer I don't know half the stuff you know I think series of crackheads til she calls me pastor but she never faced I said he starts he doesn't know he's developing wings you see know what wings are it's just noticing in that thing that he thought was a prison in the situation he thought was I want to be his in where he was going to die there he's becoming something more than he can imagine now in that confined place he's flexing these whatever that is a man that feels pretty good it feels like I'm fighting back come on somebody now I don't know what that is but I'm pushing against something that I felt like had me bound for a long time if I just keep flexing I keep getting stronger and I feel this thing trying to break around me I better keep flexing because I feel like in a minute this thing is about to break I come to preach for somebody don't you give up now push it back there's no time to give up you're already you almost where God wants you to be here flex that muscle this ain't no time to stop praying pray on this install time come on somebody it ain't time to quit works of it worship honor you said what do i do what do I do when I don't feel like worshiping worship is not a feeling it's a determination [Applause] you go to work when you don't feel like it because of determination I was going to a trial I couldn't even feel God for six months this is crazy on time I forgot was inappropriate president time I walk out of the pulpit no God I'm just about there musicians can come play soft and easy to give them hope that means I hope he's done I'm hungry so I made up my mind I'm gonna praise the God of my salvation I got up I got searched often times my wife I'm just like and she goes I hate minions because she knew what I was going through what are you doing she wasn't but then you was in the flash I said I hope so if you ain't got no flesh how you gonna praises you've got to have arms to lift you gotta have legs to dance this is the only thing I got to praise it and I don't need a band and I don't need an organ and I don't need a all I need to know is God is worthy [Applause] I can clap my hands without a beat I can move my legs without the music all I know God is worthy of all my praise when I feel like it he's worth it when I don't feel like it he's worth [Music] [Applause] listen everybody standing while you're in the process there by Stan while you're in the process and let me tell you what's gonna happen to you you will be isolated nobody will call you they abandon you God will make sure a little bit lower because they don't think I'm really done not quiet I can't let them off the hook you know you start putting out cause nobody calls you back send out text nobody Texas your back like soap opera people like when the world turns it's like you don't know what soap operas don't be lying to me all of my children we're just drama queens and kings for every you know you lyin God puts you in isolation all he wants you to do is make it through process he wants to make sure when you come out of the process he is the only one that gets the glory for bringing you [Applause] so that see if somebody extra Cates you from the process to be four time it will kill you that butterfly has to break out of the cocoon on his own if you extricate him prematurely he will flap and flap and then die he needed the resistance of the cocoon to get strong enough to break out of that thing on his own so the next time he's alone and the next time I'm alone and the next time you're alone you understand one deal I love my church I love my pastor but I can come through this thing all by myself me and God or a majority on our own if I get somebody to pray with me great if I don't I can pray myself through Oh by myself I can dance my way all by myself because ultimately I'm gonna be caught in a situation where I'm oh I'm just a power of one but there is a God they said if you by yourself you're still never alone because I will never leave you and I will never forsake you and I'll be in the fight with you and I'll be in the darkness with you and I'll be the pain with you and you're not gone to this by yourself keep striving for the mastery keep running the race until you cross the finish [Music] [Applause] tap your neighbor and save I don't know who I'm talking to he are somewhat of us this is not time to stop the run run off run old boston marathon them is done there's a steep hill called Heartbreak Hill it is the last elevation of the run and that's where most people stop when you get your heart broken things not working the way feel like God abandoning you the church turned it back against you the pastor don't return your call it's the devil isolate he's trying to get you to give up it's time to get you to quit here we'll bring everything but you've got to if you if you get a heart break he'll they tell me because again I'm not running 26 miles that the rest of the race is down and since I'm not carrying whether I come in first to last just as long as I'm finishing the race my job now is to make it to Heartbreak Hill whatever that heartbreak is because if I can get over that the race is mine Heartbreak Hill Heartbreak Hill is the loved one that dies Heartbreak Hill is the fiance that doesn't marry you Heartbreak Hill it's when your wife or your husband leaves you Heartbreak Hill is different from all other people everybody's gonna have one but if I can get it to the summit of Heartbreak Hill everything in the race helps me run because once I conquered that heel the race is mine so you're not running alone you can't see him and often times you can't feel him but he's running the race with you every step you take he takes he said come on I ran this race you can run it don't stop now don't give up I know it's Heartbreak Hill I know it's all uphill from here but once you get to the summit the race is gonna be yours Healing is coming your way deliverance is coming your way power is coming your way authority is coming your way we're striving for the mastery what am i mastering myself you're not running against anybody else but you so you're the master of your destiny now I'm running against me you're just running against you you know how I know you can make the race because God doesn't choose the losers God doesn't pick quitters God picks people you can make this right I know you can I know you don't think you can but I'm telling you you can make it and you can make it and you can make just keep right here don't stop reading don't listen to the voices say stop listening listen to the voice and said come on gorilla one one more come on just one more step then one more foot down just one more come on don't look at the racer on the mouths of looking at it's inches it if I could go one inch I can go to I could go two inches come on I mean somebody come on get those hands in the air said I can run this racer I can run it and I can win because all I have to do is cross the finish [Music] lift those hands [Music] all of this diligence in the name of Jesus I command every opposing force every negative voice that's speaking in the year of your people telling them you're not fair to them and why is this happening to me it's all a part of the race but I speak to you in the name of Jesus you have the authority you have the power you have the ability to run so wrong that you may obtain run when everything say stop running run on anyway here run one more step one one more block one one more now just run on I gotta see it run I'm gonna win huh I'm not a loser I'm a winner things are not going my way but that's okay here I got a car that's on my side that's running with me every step I make up he makes a step up and when I can't he'll carry me when I can't go on my own he'll break me up and put me on his back up [Music] last but not least this kid is running around the track he's running let's go give me one this way he gets my right there pulls a hamstring that's good but he's myself he's determined that later come on like an old-school pimp man tracking me hello so he said danger I'm not making it to the finish line hold on right there and out of the stands his father comes this is true story comes down to the race grabs his son and the son limps was the old man and he gets right to the finish line and he says okay dad I can make it now and he limps across the finish line you say what are you trying to tell me you can pull a hamstring the flower will calm down [Music] I said you can say I can't make it but the father will come down he'll get under one arm if you really want to finish this race he'll walk the race with you I'm crippled but rotted I don't know but as long as Jesus is right there by my side I can wave the register I can round the razor cause you let your hairs over your mouth come on [Music] come on somebody get out of that ow raise our hands like this I can finish this right ah confettis this right [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] somebody cuz you can win this race chatter right now but right it's my break heel but you at the top [Applause] [Music] wait on you Jesus I'm gonna wait on you geez [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yeah [Music] I'm not turning back now I'm not turning back now turning back now [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] you've got [Music] [Music] you got [Music] here got [Music] your stairs [Music] listen to me this is coming very quickly we're done there was a Special Olympics race everybody in this race had some kind of physical or mental or something situation it's special so they're running around this race that's just running one of the little guys fell down this is real life stuff he fell on the track and so my god looks around the seat oh this guy's not running so he quits running he goes back and then it started a chain reaction to everybody forgot about winning they went back to get the one that had fallen down and they picked him up winning the race seems to be the number one priority finishing the race so they all come together and they say if I want to finish this race you got to finish this race - and they all start to hug and they all walked it didn't matter who was in first it didn't matter who was last it's just better to do it all I feel the Holy Ghost you need to find somebody and said it's not my priority just to be first in line but I need you to finish the race with me once you grab a hold of somebody said I'm here to help you win the race I'm gonna help you I'm not here with trying to win the race I'm trying to cross the finish line and I don't want to cross the finish line all by myself why don't you find somebody random by the hand it's not important to me and further it's important to finish the line finish the race cross the line up why don't you hold somebody hands up right now come on let's forget to pray [Music] [Music] come on look like somebody had some say [Music] let's finish this right let's cross the finish line [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] yeah [Music] god [Music] I'm not back now I'm not turning back [Music] wait on you Jesus I'm gonna wait I'm not turning back now turning back now [Music] [Music] [Music] you

Channel: POSydney

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Keywords: preaching, Sydney, Australia, Pentecostal, Apostolic, sermon, UPCI

Id: pED4F7B04cU

Length: 76min 37sec (4597 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 16 2019