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um me i open up so my mic is on what's happening everybody this is the day that the lord has made the shenanigans that go on in here are off the charts listen you got to have joy you got to be able to laugh i mean if you can't laugh something is absolutely wrong you ought to laugh because you're just excited to be alive you're glad to be alive we're culminating thanksgiving weekend we hope everybody had a good listen i'm so full i couldn't even eat dinner yesterday we didn't even eat dinner too much food it's too much eating been eating like turkey and well some of us ate turkey for breakfast and potato souffle and potato salad i made from scratch let's tell the saints yeah the only thing i haven't had but i'm gonna have today are chitlins i've had it every day yeah i'm gonna have my chitlins today for all of y'all with mustard for all y'all that don't eat chitlins peter said rise slay and eat god called everything blessed so we gonna eat some chitlins listen we are so excited to have a virtual family and friends day today i'm so excited and uh i hope that all of you that are watching on facebook first of all i hope some of you that may normally watch on the website or on youtube decided to use your facebook page today now we're still streaming of course on the website on youtube but i hope you have invited some people and have started a watch party yeah there it is or if you just start a watch party some of your friends will come and join you today i'm i'm really believing god for an amazing harvest today of souls i'm so excited about uh this word that the lord has given me today and so we want you to not just swipe and invite but to start the watch party i got a little scared because when i went on you know i've gotten used to certain numbers showing up right right of people watching and the numbers were low and i was like oh lord jesus the focus that's because of the watch that's because of the watch party because when you do a watch party you see your numbers but but we don't see your numbers and so if you are watching for the first time today get ready for the most amazing place on the planet get ready for the most amazing worship you've ever had today pastor and also continue to take those uses and those selfies we enjoy seeing your creative pictures on the bethel experience community page and also to our visitors who are worshiping with us for the first time welcome thank you so much for choosing the bethel church to be a part of your worship experience this morning you know what i think they ought to do besides uh not well yet besides start to say instead i don't want to say instead but inclusive with their selfies is if you're doing a watch party take a screenshot of your watch party page that way we can see the numbers how many people you have we can see you're having a watch party and then we want you to uh place it on the bethel facebook page and hashtag being bethel just hashtag being bethel so you're doing a watch party screenshot it you know what i mean and lord you know my purple and gold it's about you have an instrument yeah i got an instrument yeah it's like i'm scratching like snoop dogg last night with the fight and so so if you're watching for the first time this is what we do we believe you ought to have fun we believe worship ought not be drab and dead and boring what you see who said that was that flip wilson what you see is what you get so that this is what we do and we're just excited to be here today jeremy our praise and worship leader is with us you know in this pandemic we're not bringing uh the entire praise team in so we just decided uh to make jeremy the one to catch it no i'm just playing so we so we just jeremy's going to lead us in praise and worship we've got some exciting announcements today some great videos going on in the life of our members we really do and you're going to see all that jeremy come on he's going to lead us in this worshipping so you just walk off from me huh jeremy come on see what i'm saying shenanigans then he say jeremy come on so i'm walked off from me let's go god bless you so listen jeremy's going to lead us in praise and worship and then i want you to pay attention there's a great video you're going to see right after that praise the lord everybody praise the lord everybody if we know that our god is wonderful he's so great and powerful and we just want to live to him today i've never known you to fail you remain the same and wonderful is your name you remain the same and wonderful is your name we'll sing it one more time cause all of my life i've never known you to fail you remain the same and wonderful is your name and you started and wonderful and wonderful and wonderful wonderful listen you woke me up this morning and you started has never changed you believe he's wonderful and wonderful and wonderful how wonderful is your oh listen you woke me up this morning and you're started me on my way you put food on my table and brought joy till my day you woke me up this morning and you started me on my way you put you woke me up this morning and you started me on my way you put food on my table it brought joy to i'm my your love has never changed and wonderful and wonderful and wonderful and wonderful and wonderful wonderful is your at the name of your name every knee shall bow and tongue confess that jesus jesus your savior you are lord and woke me up this morning and you started me on my way you put food on my table brought joy to my day and i'm glad you're a love that's never changed and wonderful and wonderful and wonderful and wonderful and wonderful is your name jesus jesus at the mention of your name every knee shall bow and tongue proclaim that jesus jesus god you are savior you are the lord and you the one are sustained us now take 10 seconds to give god the greatest praise you have in the sanctuary that you've already created because god we love you we give your name glory there's no one like you then we know that our god is greater our god is stronger lord you are higher but uh you got the gist of what was going on those were just some sights and scenes from this past tuesday over 1 000 families were blessed this past tuesday and so we wanted you to just get a glimpse of what went on this past tuesday what an amazing and awesome time we had in the lord serving this past tuesday and i want to thank our staff all of our ministry volunteers all of our ministries were represented all those who volunteered i want to thank farmshare uh who partnered with us uh but to see the smiles on the faces of people in a time where there is they call it a food insecurity it's like a food scarcity where people all across the country lines are miles long for food banks people are in need some people are in a need that they've never been in before and so for us to be able to bless a thousand families was just absolutely amazing but it didn't stop there on wednesday sister annette hughes and her entire team from our culinary ministry i need you to hear what i'm about to tell you they cooked 350 thanksgiving dinners you heard me write 300 thanksgiving dinners that's amazing and it went to over 150 of our shut-in of our seasoned saints two meals in each one and there was a book a gift a book a postcard with pastor and i on there uh 350 they cooked cooked did you hear what i just said cooked 350 meals and our deacon's ministry and our kingdom care ministry took the time to deliver we didn't have them pick it up we delivered uh those meals wasn't it i just that's what if you were watching us for the first time today and you're part of this family and friends and i hope i hope you all have started watch parties as we're uh i'm just looking at comments you know i hope you started a watch party but if this is your first time watching that's what we're all about we don't want to shout in the sanctuary but not serve in the community we are a church that is about serving because that's what the lord has called us to do to serve the least the last the lost and the left out and so i i just i i don't know if i've ever had a prouder moment as a pastor to watch our entire staff that was here and all of our volunteers that were here engaged in an incredible moment it was just absolutely phenomenal and amazing and i i want to thank god for them but we continue service this coming saturday you know i've read i've seen on cnn and other places where millions traveled in spite of the cdc warning us not to malls are still filled families still gathered and they are expecting the craziest covet spike we've seen and so we want to do our part to help people this coming saturday we will have free covered testing and i'm so excited because it's going to be that and much more we're partnering with florida blue and i want to thank the great flowers uh for making this partnership happen but free covet testing will take place on this saturday no one will be turned away and i i would admonish you but not only that if you see it on the screen you'll see that we will also have free flu shots so there will be covet testing there will be free flu shots and there will be information on obamacare let me check cause i think greg told me uh that there might be some sign up see that's why i bring my phone up here to check my notes right here uh there will be obamacare information um all of those who are uninsured enrollment ends on december the 15th it ends on december the 15th and so i want to admonish and encourage this is not once again a bethel event you invite any and everybody to come get their free covet testing their free flu shots get obamacare information so that they can be ensured once again it's about serving in the community and beloved we are only able to do these kinds of things because you are faithful in your giving a thousand families we purchased 1 000 turkeys did you hear me we purchased 1 000 turkeys because you gave you gave enough that we've got the seed money launch pad to do it again for the christmas season we had such overflow in your giving that it's become our launching pad but i'll be asking you for the christmas as well one thousand and then because of your giving we were able to get enough groceries and think about that for a minute enough groceries to cook 350 dinners because of your faithful giving that's what giving is all about it's first about your obedience it's not about getting something from the lord it's about your obedience and so you see on the screen now every one of our giving platforms which are so important in seasons like this it's so important in seasons like this and i want to encourage you to be faithful in your giving i want to encourage you to be faithful in your giving you see it on the screen our cashier put it back up for me one more time i'm sorry our cash app is the bethel experience dollar sign the bethel experience givealifei which is the giblify app if you just type in bethel baptist church jacksonville you'll see a picture of the church that will come up you can text to give all you have to do is text bethel jacks jax text it as one word to 77977 or if you're on the website or if you're on youtube you can go to the website look at the top and you'll see a tab that simply says give you can click on that and give that way or if you're watching on either of those platforms you can use any of these other giving platforms i need you to hear me today i heard it again on cnn yesterday where they are declaring uh that online shopping is going to be higher than it's ever been online shopping is going to be higher than it's ever been because people are reticent to go to the mall the danger of the online shopping they said is you sit there and once you get rolling you keep rolling and so they've declared church specialists have declared that giving during this holiday season will be at an all-time low in the church i don't receive that because i believe we're going to be mature in our faith and mature in our spirituality and a part of maturity is being not only obedient to the word of god but trusting the promises of god god's word says that if you bring the tithe and the offering into the storehouse he'll open the windows of heaven and one blessing will be so huge you won't have room enough to receive it and i declare to you that if you practice your faithful stewardship don't hold back from god in this season because you've got gifts to bind you want to buy more gifts in this season because you won't be able to visit people oh no make god first make god first and i challenge you even on this fifth sunday that you make today a sacrificial day of giving trustees are here as well i can see out the window and see people driving up even as i am talking and so if you want to drive up and bring your tithe or your offering you want to do that right now hear what i'm telling you you can't have fruit without first sowing seed did you hear me you don't get fruit without sowing the seed you don't even get a tree without planting a seed which means in every seed is represented a forest you want exceeding abundance it's not simply because you give but it is primarily because you are obedient so i want to ask you today to be obedient to take up the challenge give give because you see that we are a church that is about serving we are a church that is about servanthood we are a church that is about service if you're watching me today you haven't heard me say one thing about giving for me or giving for the lights or giving for the budget you're not gonna hear two or three offerings one offering because we believe that if people give the provision god will give me the vision and we will do the ministry and so i encourage you this morning to give today to sacrificially so today and even while i'm preaching while i'm preaching if the lord touches you or convicts you or challenges you then i want you to run back and so and again seed and just say god i thank you this word this morning i pray for the last three mornings that god would bring us an incredible harvest of souls and persons returning their connection to the church and i believe god's going to do it in grand fashion i hope you all are sharing your watch parties i keep looking and uh okay greg said we can enroll for obama obamacare and said wow that's pretty awesome so if you don't have insurance you will be able to enroll for obamacare on this saturday at at the uh the covet testing walk-up listen that's awesome so if you don't have insurance you'll be able to enroll for obamacare we are a church that's doing stuff even in a pandemic i i've said it before corona doesn't cancel commandments and we've been commanded to save to disciple and to serve and we're going to do that even in the midst of a pandemic come on jeremy bless us listen i need you to prepare your heart if you've got somebody you've invited to share today and you know they've never given their life to jesus christ or you know they've been out of the church because of everything they may have heard about the church as jeremy is leading us in this moment of worship and preparation i want you to be prayerful that they're tuned in on your watch party or they're tuned in to streaming and that they let this word bless them this morning i know many of you are home and i know you've already went to your secret place but i want you to begin to open up your mouth and begin to talk to your god to ask him for vision action for wisdom ask him for strength because all of our our guidance comes from give me vision give me wisdom because you know just what to do give me vision to see things like you do god i look to you you're where my help comes from give me wisdom because you know just what to do god i look to you i won't be overwhelmed give me vision just to see things like you do god i look to you cause you're where my help comes from give me fish cause you know just what to do and i will love you lord my strength and i will love you lord my shield yes i will love you lord my rock forever all my days i will love you god we focus on you jesus god i look to you i won't be overwhelmed give me vision just to see things like you do god i look to you you're where my help comes from give me wisdom cause you know just what to do god i look to you i won't be overwhelmed give me vision to see things like you do god i look to you you're where my help comes from give me wisdom cause you know just what to do and i will love you lord my strength and i will love you lord my i will love you god you can raise your eyes and i will love you lord my strength hallelujah you are a shield for me i will love you lord my rock forever all my days i will love you god and i will love you lord my strength and i will love you lord my shield yes i will love you lord my rocket forever hallelujah our god reigns hallelujah our god reigns hallelujah our god rage forever all my days hallelujah the highest praise hallelujah our god rage hallelujah forever all my days hallelujah hallelujah reigns hallelujah our god rings forever all my days hallelujah hallelujah come on lift your hands with us in your house and just say it it's real easy come on reigns hallelujah our god reigns forever almighty one more time hallelujah oh come on one last time hallelujah hallelujah forever all my days hallelujah forever all my days somebody ought to just lift your hands and give god come on give god the highest praise even in your home if you're on your job wherever you are hallelujah is the highest praise to give to god hallelujah hallelujah is that i can make a quick switch yes on yes test fail fail yeah all right well that's okay we'll just move to the handheld i don't know what happened uh i'm sure they tested it this morning and found all things well at least i hope they did but that's okay next sunday we begin a series entitled i'm glad i'm a sinner i know that's the craziest title you probably have ever heard but it's our christmas series and i promise you if you tune in not only will it make sense not only will you be glad you're tuned in but you're going to leave saying you know what i'm i'm so glad i was a sinner it's going to be an amazing series that you do not want to miss once again if you're watching on facebook i hope you have shared a watch party invite your friends to be a part of this watch party with us today you have family that's just not in the church never giving their life to the lord today is going to be the day our prayer lines are open what's that prayer line uh number pastor uh 904 4 pastor's also going to put it in the comments as well and uh if you need prayer while i'm preaching you can call that number and be absolutely blessed luke chapter 15 luke chapter 15. one of the more familiar stories of the new testament luke chapter 15 beginning at verse 11. luke chapter 15. begin y'all cut it off i can hear you all over here please thank you so much luke chapter 15 beginning at verse 11. this is the word of the lord jesus continued there was a man who had two sons the younger one said to his father father give me my share of the estate so he divided his property between them not long after that the younger son got together all he had set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living after he had spent everything there was a severe famine in that whole country and he began to be in need so he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country who sent him to his fields to feed pigs he longed to fill his stomachs with the pods that the pigs were eating but no one gave him anything when he came to his senses i love the way the king james says it when he came to himself he said how many of my father's hired servants have food to spare and here i am starving to death i will set out or i will arise and go back to my father and say to him father i have sinned against heaven and against you i am no longer worthy to be called your son make me like one of your hired servants so he got up and went to his father but while he was still a long way off his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him he ran his son threw his arms around him and kissed him the son said to him father i have sinned against heaven and against you i am no longer worthy to be called your son but the father said to his servants quit bring the best robe and put it on him put a ring on his finger sandals on his feet bring the fattened calf and kill it let's have a feast and celebrate for this son of mine was dead and is alive again he was lost and is found so they began to celebrate i want to preach this morning going back to that verse where the son says to his father give unto me the share of the estate that belongs to me i i want to preach this morning about playing with house money playing with house money whoever said that change is overrated either had not tried it weren't persistent in it or did not know the real value from if anything remains the same or if anything remaining the same is greatly and grossly overrated to declare this is just me is not as bold a mantra as some people make it or to declare well this is just who i am and i'm just different can oftentimes make you more deficient than you are valuable everything changes seasons change times change bodies change change is something that is valuable and necessary as a matter of fact i would dare say the only people who will not change are people who think they are on the level of god the only people who declare they need no change in their life are declaring that they are equal with god it was the prophet micah who says that god does not change he is immutable he changes not so then if god does not change and you think you don't have any need in any area of your life to change you have just equated yourself with god and slipped into idolatry if you are stubborn and set in your ways then you are somebody who has deluded yourself that you are in the same position of god i'll say it again change is valuable change is necessary and some of you listening to me this morning may not like what i'm about to say to you but it is your responsibility to change change occurs on purpose and by design change takes place when truth is embraced there is no change without a certain level of understanding about things for instance there has to be a reason a purpose and a goal the question has to be asked and answered am i changing for what am i changing to do what you you have to put in front of you what you are changing towards you have to have a goal to change and a picture of what that change looks like but i also want to share with you that a commitment to change also requires more listen more than simply exposure to information and logical reasoning what do you mean it was lucio pavarotti who was once asked how he got to this level of greatness he said in one book that people were coming up to him all the time and commenting on his great voice control and would say to him how in the world are you able to do that others would say to him you must be terribly disciplined to have that kind of control to which proverati would respond to them i'm not disciplined i'm devoted because when i am devoted to something it means that nobody has to get behind me to make me do it i'm motivated from within because i have an affection for what i am devoted to in other words you will only listen you will only change when you are devoted and that devotion will lead to your discipline imma say it again you only change because of devotion and devotion is what leads to discipline you are devoted because you love seeing yourself improve the critical question today is what does that change look like and what does that change require this text is very familiar to us there are these two sons and this one son goes to his father and says before his father is even dead give me the portion of the estate give me the money that belongs to me watch this give me your money that you have decided will come to me hear it again give me your money that will come to me not that i earned but that you choose to give me and let me go live with your money that you give me my way he he decided he wanted to play with house money playing with house money is when you take what the father gives you and in this parable it is a patriarchal society so they give this patriarchal example of father but in playing with house money it is when you take the resources god has given unto you and decide watch this you want to use your rules with god's resources to live your way come here let me say it again when you play with house money you have made the decision to take what god has given you it's life it's breath it's resources and you've decided to live your way your rules with god's resources because it's your life he decided i want you to give me what yours what is yours that you have decided belongs to me and i want to live it my way in in the context of the text there are three parables but there's one lesson they get upset with jesus these religious leaders these church folk get upset with jesus because he's hanging out with publicans and sinners he's hanging out with the drug boys he's hanging out yes with the stripper from the rolex club don't ask me how i know he's hanging out with people who drink grand marnier all day long he's hanging out with the weed man he's hanging out around the trap house and they get upset with jesus because jesus how can you declare that you are a preacher a teacher a messiah a leader how can you declare you belong to the church but you hanging out with the folk doing their own thing and jesus decides to tell these three stories about a sheep a coin and a boy that the story and the motto of the story is about being lost in the house hearing teaching but loss having religion but you ain't got relationship so the text says i'm just going to run through it to get to where i'm trying to go that this boy takes the father's resources and runs to what he calls the far country the far country yeah don't try to put geography on that just put theology on that the far country means this that this boy wanted to go as far from the father's presence as he could go don't miss what i'm saying for for the son his father's presence in his life was an obstacle to his selfishness and one reason folk really don't want to deal with the church is because number one they don't like how religion has set up rules but more importantly they don't like how you have to be obedient to what the lord calls you to do and so god's presence becomes an obstacle to the goals of your selfishness you want to do what you want to do with god's money god's time god's resources god's air god's life he gave to you you want to play with house money and so the father gives the son and as i said he goes to the far country because he wants to be as far away from the father's watch as possible he wants to get as far away from the father's rules as possible he he he he wants to be as far away from the father's eyes as possible the text says that because he got out there living his own way he started making bad choices he settles beneath his vest see whenever you make bad choices there will be a who there will be aware and there will be a what what do you mean bishop the text says he he got hooked up with a who he got hooked up with somebody beneath his value he got hooked up with a who that took him where god helped me made him live in the hog pin he because of his bad choices got hooked up with a who that took him to a where that had him doing a what slow down the kissing they were going to get it because of his bad choices he got hooked up with a who that took him to a where that had him doing a what he got so desperate that he was eating what the pigs would eat and i'm talking to somebody this morning you've been out there living on your own you got disconnected from family disconnected from faith you got disconnected from positive influences in your life and your bad choices hooked you up with a who yeah you got hooked up with somebody beneath your value beneath your potential beneath your dignity beneath your identity and because you got hooked up with a who they took you to a where now you hang out in places you ought not be you hang out in places that don't match who you are and not only did you hook up with a who that took you to a where you start doing a what you start acting ways you weren't raised to act you start acting in ways you know is against and contradictory to who god has made you you know that you're fearfully and wonderfully made but you're acting like you're lower than a duck's footprint you know that you're a king and a queen but you act like a slave because your bad choices will always connect you to a who that will take you to a where that will cause you to do some what some of y'all watching me today your life has gotten out of control because you're hanging out with people in places doing things beneath who god called you to be god help me deliver somebody today but the text says while he's there something shifts in him don't miss it while he's there he goes through a change yeah i don't want you to miss it he's there with a what in a where doing a what he's there with a who in a where doing a what he's there with a who yes in a way doing a what he's hanging out doing something he shouldn't do hanging out with someone he shouldn't be with hanging out in a place he should not be but while he is there something shifts inside of him and i came to make an announcement today that wherever you are today wherever you were last night whatever you've been doing i declare there's gonna be a shift in you this morning the holy ghost is gonna shift something in your mind the holy spirit is gonna shift something in your attitude the holy spirit is gonna shift something in your thinking and a change is gonna happen today and what i love about this boy he does not get permission from the people he's connected to for him to change y'all better hear me today is your day of change today is the day where things are gonna turn around today is the day where you gonna shift your life and begin to think better than you've been thinking and i want you to watch what happens i want you to watch what happens i want to give you three quick things and if you're listening to me today i don't want you to miss it don't you go anywhere you're not gonna like this first point if you're gonna change don't blame your evil on the environment yeah don't blame your evil only now now let me balance and help you i understand that sometimes environment can play a critical role i ain't a republican i understand that there can be moments and seasons where environment can play a critical role in what you don't have and what you do have when you look at schools in our black communities and when you look at what we don't have or what they won't give us and then you wonder why some of our students are performing below standard i understand that environment when you look at somebody who is who is raised in an environment where they are taught criminality instead of taught identity i understand that sometimes in the critical analysis of your psychosis environment can play a part but at the end of the day when you look at this text this text says to me that environment cannot be blamed for why you won't change okay look at the text text says he came to himself hmm he came yes preacher mckissick he he came to himself in he came yes to himself he he had to want it for himself because there was nobody around him who would want it for him i said it too fast he had to want it for himself because there was nobody around him who would want it for as a matter of fact the people he was now around would do all they could to keep him like he is so they could use him read the text he is now working for somebody who uses him to clean up the slop of the pigs y'all didn't get it he's now working for somebody who doesn't care who his family is doesn't care that he's a jew knows that working with swine is the lowest thing a jew could do but uses him because the boy doesn't know who he is because when you don't really know who you are you'll settle for who people make you when you don't really know who you are you'll settle for what people give you but you've got to reach a point where you can change for yourself even though there's nobody around you who wants to change for you y'all better hear what i'm trying to say you've got to be able to change for you and in spite of who does not want it for you i'm trying to talk to somebody you you've been hanging out with a crew and you've you've had a good time hanging out with them and hey none of them in church they they ain't tuned in to nothing they they only come to church on mother's day for mama easter because they want to show off a suit in new year's eve because they think they can get penance for all the hell they caused all year long you've been hanging out with some pig folk you've been hanging out in some pig places you been participating in some pig slop and i want to tell you today if you've decided that you're better than that and that's beneath you there's gonna be nobody around you that's gonna do it for you but yourself sometimes you gotta be like david when the amalekites had taken all the women and all the children and all of his soldiers were mad with him the bible says when nobody would lay hands on him when nobody would speak to him he had to encourage himself in the lord that sometimes you gotta encourage yourself you gotta talk to yourself you don't need others approval you don't need other people's validation you've got to come to yourself he came to himself the implication of that is he hadn't been himself said one more time the implication of that phrase is he hadn't been himself some of y'all haven't been yourself you haven't been yourself all year you haven't been yourself since you lost your job you gave up on the church because if god is who god said he was you wouldn't have been fired you wouldn't be broke your marriage wouldn't have messed up you stopped coming to church five years ago because you got sick of hearing folk praying praying and praying and then acting like their life was all peaches and cream and so now you have decided you don't want anything to do with the church you you haven't been yourself you haven't been yourself with your family you haven't been yourself in your marriage you haven't been yourself because you don't hang out with your friends who used to pray with you and pray for you you haven't been yourself but baby today is the day you gonna come to yourself you're gonna rediscover yourself and nobody around you is gonna want it for you nobody around you is gonna agree with it for you they want to keep you in the pig pen so they can use you but you got to get to the place where you say if you're waiting on me to apologize for changing you're going to be waiting all your life yeah i wish i would apologize to you for finding me y'all didn't hear it let me say it one more time i wish i would apologize to you for finding me emma said one more i wish i would god help me preach it apologize to you for finding me because at the end of the day i am not required to live at the level of your vision for me you didn't hear what i just said i am not required to live at your vision for me i'm not required to live at the level of your vision for who you think i am you're not that needy you are not that thirsty you're not looking for that much affirmation you're not looking for that much attention you're gonna decide to change for yourself now here we go with environment notice where he is when the change starts better yet let me let me put another one but he had noticed where he is not he comes to himself he gets himself together here we go just for all y'all watching on stream this for all y'all who ain't gave your life to the lord it's for all y'all who ain't been in the church in five years he gets himself together and he ain't in church come here he gets himself together and it ain't sunday morning worship see there are some folk who invite you to church i'm not inviting you to church i'm inviting you to change whoa cause you don't need church to change but you will need church to stay in the change say it one more time you don't need church to change oh i know i'm messing with some of y'all baptist sensibilities now no you don't need to be in the church you ain't got to be on the mooners bench you ain't got to be saying jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus jesus no and i'm not knocking any of that and i think there's power in all of that but at the end of the day to box people in to act like they got to be in church is wrong and it ain't the word of god i can change anywhere i can change in the club y'all ain't talking to me i could change while i'm taking the patron shot i can change while i'm hitting the roach i can y'all ain't gonna talk to me this morning i can change when i'm laying next to my sin i can change when i'm selling the drugs all i got to do is shake myself look at where i am and say i'm bigger than this i'm better than this i'm greater than this and i ain't got to be in church jesus god says i'm going to change some people without the benefit of the structured church after all you ain't in church today you in church but you ain't at church god says i'm i'm going to make you change wherever you are so you're going to pray for yourself you're going to start your own bible study you're going to teach yourself how to pray you're gonna lay hands on yourself i came to tell somebody today that environment can keep you from changing stop using your environment as your excuse to stay the same if ain't nobody else they're gonna help you with it come to yourself let me keep let me keep going bless somebody today holy ghost um here's the next thing don't don't let guilt make you gullible don't let guilt yes make you gullible yes i yeah don't let guilt i see you all right make you gullible see see change write this down or just listen to me change is rooted in how you deal with your failures the devil loves to use your past to ruin your future he good at it he's good at it he's he's he's good at it he's good at it his his weapon against you oh i'm going to deliver somebody his weapon against you is the illegitimate use of guilt and the feelings that come with it but i want to tell somebody listening to me today to deal with your past you must first deal with your guilt see see feelings of guilt can be like an albatross around your neck weighing you down it guilt keeps you tied to your sin or to your mistakes guilt keeps you wedded to your past failure and psychologists have said listen that the energy spent on keeping guilt out of your mind can put a strain on your body and cause strokes breakdowns alcoholism and drug use unresolved guilt can cause depression you you start to feel hopeless and worthless because you feel like you've blown your life help me holy ghost and because your past can't be reclaimed you now feel like there's little to no use trying to live a fruitful life which means until a remedy is found that can be applied to your guilt it stays there then you got to deal with negroes who keep you in guilt who reminds you of what you've done and they have to remind you of what you've done because they are projecting their own insecurity onto you because i have to remind you of the stuff you've done so that i don't feel as bad about the stuff i've done you know how church folk are yes at least i ain't this at least i ain't that at least i ain't got babies out of wedlock that don't mean you ain't screwing around at least uh y'all don't like me this morning and y'all ain't even here at least at least i ain't gay yeah what does that even mean i don't have time for that yes at least yes i'm hanging out here selling drugs but you just smoking it at least at least i ain't doing this and at least i ain't doing that and the only reason you have to do that is because you need to feel better about the stuff you doing you you you y'all really ain't going like this tim you you you you mad at them because they out here still living crazy you living crazy you just haven't discovered the mantra be discreet till you get delivered y'all don't like this kind of preaching don't don't be gullible your guilt will keep you feeling like you can't make it your guilt will keep you feeling like you can't get back in the church your guilt and church folk will make you feel like you don't have a place there your your guilt will make you feel like you you don't belong there your guilt will make you feel like folk are giving you the side eye cause they know what you've done don't be gullible you got watch this boy that boy came to himself and said i'm gonna get up and i'm going to my father and i'm going to tell my father i have sinned against heaven and disrespected you and daddy i just want to be back in the house jesus that's all god needs you to do today all he needs you to just say it is confess i've sinned i've messed up i've made mistakes i've done some things that have failed and i just want to be back in the house i'm coming back to that he deals with his guilt by admitting his mistakes but then not staying in his mistakes saying i'ma get up and i'ma go back and get this thing right he he's ready to own his choices and seek forgiveness because only then can you move forward he he neither does he just show up and say i'm home as if nothing ever happened you got to deal with your past before you can experience freedom in your future because that sin that troubles you today sank roots into your life before the day but i won't let you know your past does not have to control your future see the enemy wants you to think that you've gone too far the enemy wants you to think that if you fail there's no use in attempting to rise but i want to declare unto you today what can't be reclaimed does not have power and here's my prophetic word over you today that may make you throw your phone across the room while your past can't be reclaimed you can be redeemed imma say it one more time because it went past you you can't take back whatever you did you can't take back how you've been living you can't take back what you've been doing but you can be redeemed you ought to just yell out redeem me lord redeem me in spite of my failures redeem me in spite of my mistakes redeem me in spite of my bad choices redeem me in spite of the seasons i was stuck on stupid there it is redeemed that's what i want you to be redeemed yes that's that's the only word you need for today it's on the screen redeemed that's that's who i am that's what i'm called i'm redeemed i'm redeemed i'm redeemed because i've discovered god's got a way of recycling old trash i don't care what folk think about you i don't care what folk know about you you can deal with your guilt when you declare i can be redeemed even if my mistakes can't be reclaimed i can't snatch back what i did but i can't run forward to be who god has called me to be i just want to be redeemed that was that was that old hymn and the old church redeemed how i love to proclaim it redeemed by the blood of the lamb we don't sing them songs no more it's child and forever i am you just need to yell redeem me god redeemed me redeem me redeem me and redeem me y'all see it on the screen and those of you who know you've been redeemed i need you to write what you see on the screen so that somebody in your watch party will know that you can start over come on don't just let it be on the screen write it in the comments redeemed redeemed i can't reclaim the stuff i've done i've done a whole lot of stuff yes people think i'm preaching because i'm a mckissick or they think i'm preaching because i had a silver spoon or they think i'm the pastor of this church because of who my dad is it's because i've been redeemed i can't reclaim the stuff i've done i can't reclaim breaking somebody's jaw in junior high school i can't reclaim getting high every friday night i i can't reclaim all they talking to me now i can't reclaim doing freebase in the backyard of the parsonage i i can't reclaim a young lady having to have an abortion for me when i was in college i can't reclaim being so drunk at florida state that i woke up in somebody's bed and didn't know how i got there i can't reclaim the mistakes i've even made with my marriage or with my children or in my church but i thank god today that even though i can't reclaim my mistakes god can redeem my identity you can be redeemed you can be redeemed you you can be redeemed see and i know some of y'all are listening now like lord why would he tell all of that see because when you've been redeemed you don't care what folk know about you you think i care what negroes know i've been living with rumors all my life i'll deal with your rumors because i know the truth and i'll deal with rumors because god knows the truth and still loves me see you got to get past caring about the rumors folks starred on you here is all you need to know god knows the truth about you and still redeems you you just got to get up and say for yourself i will arise go back home let me let me keep going i i got a few more a few more things to tell you you you can't blame your evil on your environment no no no you can't blame your evil on you don't let guilt make you gullible don't don't let guilt make you feel like you can't turn it around don't let people trying to keep you in guilt make you feel like you can't change but then there's got to be a vector in your values y'all know before the pandemic i used to fly a lot i used to fly used to fly a lot and uh sometimes when you would hit bad turbulence or that would be a bad storm the pilot would perform what's called a vector jesus help me god help me the vector means that you're no longer going to keep flying on the pre-programmed path yeah but you get a word from the tower jesus that checks the air around you and they give you a new path to keep traveling now for some of you the path you've been on as far as what you value and what you think makes you valuable has got the vector it's got to change i'm going to show it to you right in the text in this text he says i will arise and i will go to my father now we often look at it from the perspective of the father who's waiting on him and runs to him i'm coming to that in a minute but i want you to notice something about the son look at what he says he's when he comes to himself he said women wait amen my father got all these servants and to spare he said wait a minute wait a minute um i'm out here by myself covered in chitlin juice he was with the pigs i'm out here covered in pit pig slop and chitlin juice and my father is such a bad man that he got servants jesus he said i'm going to get up and go home and go back to my father's house don't miss this he puts value in the relationship with his father and he knew here's what gets me killed he knew he could go home and he knew he could go home because of what he knew about the father god help me preach it it's not he doesn't calculate what his brother's gonna think he doesn't calculate what the servants are gonna say he feels confident to go back home because of what he knows about his father beloved you can feel confident to turn it around today because of what you know about god but if you don't know nothing about him let me tell you about him he's merciful he's kind-hearted he's got kindness he's got tender mercy he's got faithfulness he's a forgiving god he's a merciful god he's a loving god he's a justice y'all ain't talking to me see you've heard some other stuff about god that made you leave the church you heard that god wants to make you rich i'm coming to that in a minute you heard that god wants to blow you up now what you need to know today is that god loves you that god forgives you that god's got grace that god's got mercy but god's got unconditional love and when you have confidence in what you know about the father you don't hesitate to come back home i can't prove it to you i can prove to you from texts that he done shifted his values because he changes without money huh okay mckissick slow down and give it to him um this story only gets started because of the sun's value for money give me the money that belongs to me let me go out here and do my thing so he allowed his love of money to change him now he has no money and changes come on i sound like the riddled lone batman come back um he allowed his love of money to change him now he comes to himself and ain't got no money okay before he thought he was nobody without money now without money he realizes he's somebody what is one of them sermons i wish i had a whole church before it was as if he was saying i can't be who i want to be without money now without money jesus he realizes he always was who he didn't think he was this boy is preaching this morning he he before he thought he could not be valuable without money but now he has no money but knows he's got value see when you learn to value your relationship with god you don't have to chase things for significance and i know you've heard some of these preachers and you've watched some of these preachers who make you feel like god wants to blow you up and god wants you in a rolls royce and god wants you in a million dollar house and now ain't nothing wrong with that if you work for it and you treat your money right and you got your credit and you can buy buy whatever the hell you want to buy and don't care what nobody say about it but that's not the chief aim of god y'all better hear me this morning god wants you to know who you are without having to have money without having to wear gucci without having to wear louie without having to drive a bentley sitting on 20s without having to live in a gated community y'all ain't talking to me you got to be like this boy i ain't got money and if i chan i'm going to hit somebody now and if i change i may lose money cause i only got money because of what i've been doing but i came to tell you today i'd rather find me and lose money than have money and not know who i am you've got to get to your place where you say god i just value who i am in spite of what i don't have he ain't got no money but he got value i won't tell you you got value so he gets up and he's headed home i'm i'm really done let me let me talk it out he he gets up and he he goes home and his father sees him coming and when his father sees him coming the bible says he runs to meet him jesus and covers him covers him tim just just just play a song with the lord i don't want no just just just let it tickle he he comes and the father covers him don't go nowhere because you need to get this part he's been in the pig pen he's got the stink in the stench of where he's being all over him he smell like his mistakes jesus he looks like his mistakes he can't hide what he's been up to everybody can see it the father runs and greets him and covers him there are two things to that it was a judaic law that if you had sinned and your community saw you you could be stoned to death jesus y'all didn't hear me jesus if it was a judaic law that if you had sinned and if you had disrespected disgrace and dishonored your family that anybody in the community could stone you and this father knew that there were folk waiting to stone his son so he runs to the sun and covers him to protect him from the rocks of other people jesus i want to tell you today you decide today you gonna make this change you got some folk that's gonna throw rocks at you you got some folk going through rocks and hide their hand you got some folk going through rocks at you on facebook you got some folk going through rocks at you when your crew gets together but i need you to know today that just because you decided you gonna change and get your life together god is covering you which means every rock they throw at you won't hit you every stone they throw at you will not touch you every lie they tell on you will not hurt you will not harm you even if they tell the truth of what they know about you god's got you covered jesus covers you and he covers you in all your stink he covers you in all your dirt so this this son said father he starts speaking what he rehearsed i've i've sinned against heaven and i've i've disgraced you remember when he was rehearsing in the hog pin he said i'm gonna go home and say to my father um i've sinned against heaven and against you um i'm no longer worthy to be called your son make me like one of your high services don't miss this he gets home kim and he starts replaying what he rehearsed i've sinned against heaven and against you before he could get to the part that says i'm no longer worthy to be called your son it's as if the father knew his boy was about to speak out of his mouth against his own value and the father stepped in and said um bring a road and bring a ring because it's obvious from the way my son is talking that he wants to be back home but he doesn't know who he is jesus see some of you you're going to have an identity crisis jesus because you're going to think your worth is beneath because of what you've done folk know you got child out of wedlock folk know you've been divorced folk know you on drugs folk know you've been in the penitentiary folk know you've had the affair folk know your children were out there in the streets acting crazy folk no you were in the streets acting crazy folk know you dropped out of school folk know you were a gang banger folk know you were an alcoholic folk know you were a gambler and you've allowed what people think about what what they know to make you feel like you're beneath who you are and god said uh-uh it doesn't matter what anybody says about you i'm the one that made you which means i'm the only one that can give you your identity and you're fearfully and wonderfully made you're crowned with truth and righteousness you're made a little lower than the angel but you're higher than the beast which means if i'm hiring the beast you don't get to call me a if i'm higher than the beast you don't get to call me a dog you don't get to treat me like a dog and i'm not going to act like a dog he said let me show him who he is today god wants to show you who you really are you are not the mistakes you've made maybe if i were the mistakes i'd made i'd be in jail i'd be out on the street i'd be divorced i'd be disowned you are not your mistakes god said bring him bring bring the robe and bring the ring because i need him to know that i refuse to let him talk down on himself let people think and say whatever they want to say about you you just don't repeat it i'm done i want you to get this please don't go anywhere he says i just want to be your servant i just i just want to be back in the house and the father said i know that's all you want but that's not all you're gonna get you're gonna get a party you're gonna get the fatted calf you're gonna get a signet ring and you're gonna get a royal robe because god says because you return i'm going to give you more than you ever imagined you could have jesus whoa because you change because you turn it around i'ma give you what you thought you could never have i'ma give you more than the devil that convinced you you could get i'ma give you more than you had convinced yourself you were worth god help me talk to somebody today and all god wants you to do they say god i want to change i want to turn my life around he covered his son that's what god did for you he covered you through the blood of jesus christ jesus christ stands as the example that you can change you ain't got to stay the same listen to me very carefully and i don't want anybody to leave nobody sign off nobody sign off nobody go anywhere jesus two things two things i want to do um pastor grab my mic and just tell everybody the prayer line number for me real quick cause some of y'all i feel in my spirit need prayer and our intercessors are ready 904-438-4922 give it to him one more time 904-438-4922 intercessors are standing by if you need bread you need to call that number call that number here's the other thing today bishop i want to give my life to jesus i i'm in the hall pen but i'm coming to myself i've been out there living my life my way doing my thing hooked up with a who in a where doing a what but today i want to change today you've you've taught me bishop that i can be greater than i ever thought i could be you've taught me today bishop that i'm bigger than every mistake i've ever made you've taught me today that i can have new life in jesus christ because god my heavenly parent stands ready to forgive me he's waning on me to just come home not come to church come home come to him return to god come back to god get your life right with god child of god today is all you got yesterday is a cancer check tomorrow's a promissory note the only ready cast you got is right now bishop i i i yeah i was in church but i just got sick of church folk and then i got out there living my life and folks in my family that were in church beat me down so bad i just decided to hell with church i don't want none of that it doesn't matter what any god's going to cover their rocks you just make a choice to return today and we've made it so simple for you here's all you got to do text in all caps tbc decision just one word there it is on the screen to 40691 everybody watching me that says i'm i'm not saved bishop don't i have to be baptized to be saved no that ain't in the bible you have to confess to be saved oh i'm saved bishop but i i'm making my return well bishop i'm i'ma return when you open the church child of god this ain't about you coming in the sanctuary this about you coming back to god it's on the screen text tbc decision to four zero six nine one i believe there's gonna be a harvest pastor reginald caldwell i need you to remember that name keep that up on the screen for me pastor reginald caldwell is gonna be contacting everybody that does this when you text that you're going to get a link and in that link you're going to get a welcome all i need you to do when you get that link you can do it right from your phone from your ipad from your tablet all you got to do is fill it out and hit send right from your phone right from your ipad right from your tablet or if you're on the website you can do it right on the website there's still a link there called decisions on demand you just click it and fill it out and send it but you don't even have to do all of that just go and text what i've put down right here don't miss this opportunity today come to yourself come to yourself today and say you know what i am made for greater than what i've been settling for it's up to you it's up to you it's up to you your life is not going to be perfect the devil is already orchestrating a new plan to try to prove to you that the decision you make today was emotional but the devil is a liar ain't nobody mad but the devil and he didn't intend to change anyway giving your life to the lord or coming back to the lord is not a guarantee of perfection none of us are perfect i'm not a perfect pastor i'm not a perfect man i'm not a perfect husband i'm not a perfect son i'm not a perfect father because none of us are perfect but i'm forgiven i'm redeemed and i'm saved don't you let the devil make you scared because you know you still got weaknesses child we all do put it back on the screen for me one more time production room because i want everybody to get it tbc decision to 40691 today is the day of your turnaround and then come back next week and see why you ought to be glad to be a sinner today is the day you give your life to the lord today is the day you become a part of the bethel experience but it's up to you you listening on somebody's watch party you're watching on facebook you're watching on the website you're watching on youtube today is your day i'm going to pray and the band is just going to worshipfully play us out and you hang in there for a few minutes keep the streaming going don't forget saturday covet testing healthcare sign up free flu shots wednesday night 7 pm meet me for bible study i challenge everybody to join me on wednesday night for bible study and so god i pray today that this word in my transparency has met somebody in their hall pen that somebody today is making the choice to change i pray over somebody's life today that's going to make the change i declare strength i declare power i declare grace and i declare anointing to walk away from weaknesses and walk away from pigpen people walk away from pigpen choices walk away from a dignity beneath their value walk away and walk back into your loving arms we love you today we thank you that we're loved we're forgiven and we're redeemed in jesus name oh in jesus name put it up one last time for me tbc decision four zero six nine one just put it right back up for me one more time thank y'all tbc decision keep it up there pastor give them the give them the prayer line number one last time or 922 said one more time 904 438 there it is on the screen thank you production room you're quick at it there it is right there you need prayer there is the prayer line right there thank you so much production room listen the blessings of the lord maketh us rich i ain't talking about in your bank account but i'm talking about in your life come home today god's waiting on you peace so you

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