The Cold Shoulder // Pastor Earl McClellan

today today today i'm ready i'm ready to open up this word of god a little bit more how many of you want to fulfill your purpose who wants to feel yeah everybody i know i do i know i want to fulfill my purpose i know you do i know this about all of us you want to fulfill your purpose there is not one of us that just wants to live and die and not have made some type of a difference in our generation every single one of us want to make a mark now with that uh being said i got a little little principle or or truth that i i want you to hold on to and it's if you don't know how to deal with people you'll struggle to fulfill your purpose because unless god's called you to be a monk i guess you don't really have to deal with a whole lot of people if you're a monk you're like i'm alone with god and i guess fine but for most of us we're not monks most of us have friends and family and jobs and a desire on the inside of us to want to make a difference to want to make our lives count we have boyfriends and girlfriends we have uh well hopefully you just have one boyfriend or one girlfriend have a husband or a wife you got your friends and and for all of us here in order for us to be who god has called us to be we're going to have to know how to interact and to deal with people effectively so uh today the title of today's message is the cold shoulder the cold shoulder for those of you taking notes go ahead and write it down those of you who solamente hablar espanol you can write down uh you can say let me see el hombro frio i believe i believe it's right el hombro frio i might be wrong but fine i think i got the free all right i'm not going to tell you who in my house i'm not going to do that um but but a couple of weeks ago onik and i go to bed early and we're happy about this we're like in bed by 11. and for us you know that that's early so we're like we're in bed we're going to get a good night's sleep one of my children i'm not saying who come and knock on the door i don't know it's 11 45 so you're kind of like getting in that groove sleep you're like and then when you hear that knock you think somebody's trying to break into your house so i you know i'm up quick i'm like and there's one of my children i'm not saying who standing out the door standing at the door uh it's one of my sons we got two sons one of my sons not my daughter and um they begin to tell me and mom the the toilet upstairs is is overflowing and i'm like okay wait what what you know i'm kind of angry a little bit you know i'm not as christ-like as i want to be because i kind of just kind of came out of my sleep so i'm like what would you say fool and then uh no i didn't say that i'm thinking it i didn't say it why'd you wake me up right now there there's water i'm like wait what are you talking about like did you plunge did you plunge the toilet yeah yeah i plunged it but every time i put the plunger in the water just keeps on overflowing and then i hear i hear a dripping i hear it dripping and it's coming through my vent because that bedroom and bathroom is above our bedroom so i see i like hear dripping and i was getting i'm still kind of out of it and i go upstairs and i go into this bathroom and one of my sons again i'm not saying any names and i'm not going to give any details but the toilet is overflowing with presence that only a son can bring a parent so the fans on in there i'm trying to breathe in my mouth because you don't want to inhale and we were trying to figure out what to do and i'm like okay let me see you grab that plunger i'm not doing it right you grab that plunger because that can splash up on you and i'm like man get in there and i'm seeing it and the water just keeps overflowing overflowing and then there's blankets if you ever come to our house don't use the blanket that there's blankets being put around this thing i mean it was hours later your uh we had to call plumbers and they kind of were able to get it all unplugged i mean it's two o'clock 2 30 in the morning before we ever get to sleep well onika was able to fall asleep way earlier than that but but i'm up here no she was she was on the horn trying to help us get a get a plumber but but the next day we go to sleep the next day it's kind of done right toilet's unplugged water's been cleaned up we're kind of we're kind of past it and a friend comes over and their face is like you know you know that face i don't i don't want to say anything but but i gotta at least express this physically what i am experiencing when i come into your home i'm like wait what what's wrong it stinks in here yo i couldn't even smell it had been in it so long we couldn't even smell it it took someone else from the outside coming in going you all know it stinks up in here right i forgot i lost sight i got used to the smell we're going to look at a passage of scripture right now where one friend didn't realize his house was stinking and he had to have another friend come in and let him know stuff's not smelling right in your house galatians chapter two galatians chapter two we're going to begin reading in verse number 11. when cephas came to antioch if your name is cephas congratulations what a great name that is when cephas came to antioch some of your bibles might say peter when cephas came to antioch i opposed him to his face because he stood condemned for before certain men came from james he used to eat he used to sit at the table and eat with the gentiles but when they arrived when these friends of james arrived he began to draw back and separate himself from the gentiles because he was afraid of those who belong to the circumcision group the other jews joined him in his hypocrisy so that by their hypocrisy even barnabas was led astray when i saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel i said to cephas in front of them all you are a jew yet you live like a gentile and not like a jew how is it then that you force gentiles to follow jewish customs we who are jews by birth and not sinful gentiles know that a person is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in jesus christ so we too have put our faith in christ jesus that we may be justified by faith in christ and not by the works of the law because by the works of the law no one will be justified okay here's the bottom line to the book of galatians bottom line right here you just need to know this of those of you who are bible scholars you already know this others of us who are jumping on the journey you know the bottom line to this letter this book of galatians is this a person is made right with with god by faith in jesus not the works of the law that means you giving money does not make you right with god you giving your time does not make you right with god you helping little old ladies across the street does not make you right with god you doing whatever good work you want to do you when you stop sleeping around that does not make you right with god when you're nice to people that does not make you right with god what makes you and i right with god is us putting our faith in his in jesus death burial and resurrection and it's because of his work that were cleansed now after we receive his work then we go to work and we do the things that god has called us to do because he did that work for us that's bottom line but i've got some friends on the platform with me today wonderful friends individuals that i care about i love each of these people so much all of them all all of them are are special just like you're special and fantastic and wonderful but again you're going to struggle to fulfill your purpose if you don't know how to deal with people so in this passage of scripture you see this man peter and some others with him living what we see in our day today i want you to say this word i want you to say us them everybody say us say them say us say them us and them us and them us and them us and them this is how our world operates our world operates with either you are in us or you're them and if you're in us i roll with in us i help in us i have the back of an us i love and us but if you're them i can't even associate with you or i'll talk about you when i'm with us's but i'll change my language when i'm with the themes us them this is the way the world operates you can see on this platform and we've had people on the platform at other times i've got people from all different backgrounds on this platform romney's my handsome one yeah yeah yeah it's romney back there robin's handsome your wife would agree with me too rahm she would agree she would agree romney was a professional baseball player uh back in the day and also uh runs a fantastic company uh now uh and some people to some people romney's of them i got michael in the background over here as well michael you're handsome too okay i've got all these fantastic folks on the platform and every single one of them is in us there's some group that will say hey you're in with me you're in with me you know crystal she's latina yeah and single and and loves god it works hard full of faith well shoot so and if you would like to date her [Applause] dm me okay because i want to check you out first because she's one of our daughters as a matter of fact all these ladies up here are actually one of our daughters so with that being said with that being said i want you to see peter is at a table and peter is a jew and he's sitting at a table with them gentiles when some other jews come into the room peter gets up from the table because he does not want the jews to see that he's connecting with the gentiles so when they show up he scoots back he steps away from the table no the crazy thing is kovid made all of us in us because everybody was like what the heck is going on right now lives taken from us the way we were things used to things going it was disrupted our jobs our finances so many different things were messed up now we're kind of all in something together a winter storm will do the same thing using uh a plumber used to be a them to you until your but your your pipes burst the the the the folks who pick up our trash used to be at them until no trash has been able to be picked up you start to realize oh oh oh maybe the thems there's a whole lot more us than i ever even realized and pain and suffering has a way of going hey everybody wake up you're not better than anybody here why are you getting up from the table jesus said uh this in matthew chapter 22 verse 37 you can jot it down uh it's the greatest commandment it's the greatest commandment jesus they asked what's the greatest commandment he said here it is love the lord your god with all your heart and love your neighbor as you love yourself love your neighbor as you love yourself love your neighbor as you love yourself i'm gonna i'm gonna submit this to you i heard miles mcpherson say this a long time ago he talked about how if i can label you something other than the neighbor then i can love you less than i love myself so if i can label you karen don't get uncomfortable on me don't get uncomfortable come on feel it just feel it feel did you just say that in church yeah yeah yeah yeah if you're another part of the world you might not know what that means google it okay so here if i can label you karen that means i don't have to label your neighbor so i that gives me permission to love you less than i love myself if i can label you felon if i can label you thug if i can label you illegal if i can label you the right-wing left-wing progressive conservative if i can label you then i have to love you like i love myself because i know what jesus asked me to do is he asked me to love my neighbor as i love myself but if you're not my neighbor then i don't have to love you like that so again in galatians chapter two you see peter he's at the table he's at the table right and somebody else comes in he scoots away from the table he he he moves another direction i was wondering i was wondering oh what what direction are you and i moving are we moving towards like the way of christ or the way of comfort [Music] which way are we moving come on stick with me today stick with me okay because i'm actually interested in us increasing i'm actually interested in us becoming who god has called us to be actually interested in us looking like jesus i'm actually interested in us being a city on a hill in order for that to happen we're gonna have to deal with some stuff in our house it just does not smell right but we don't even realize it doesn't smell right because the church got became okay with labeling people so we can treat them less than neighbor but not this church not this church not not shoreline city we're not doing we're not doing it like that we're not doing it like that that's not how we're interacting with each other that's not how we're talking with each other that's not how we're praying for each other that's not how we're standing beside that's not how we're going to do it here here we're not going to get up from the table when somebody else comes into the room we're going to stay at the table because these are my brothers and my sisters i'm not concerned about what you think about me i'm not living my life for your your pleasure i'm not living my life for your applause i'm living my life for the applause and pleasure of my savior of my lord and of jesus christ and jesus christ alone so in luke chapter 10 luke chapter 10 um there's a parable of the good samaritan if you've never read it i want to encourage you to go through and read that parable fantastic parable it starts off a religious uh leader an expert in the law steps up and he steps up and he's like hey hey jesus uh talk to me here tell me tell me about this whole eternal life thing tell me what what do i need to do it's luke chapter 10 what verses am i in i think it's verse number let me find it here verse 25 on one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test jesus teacher what must i do to inherit eternal life i want to i want to inherit eternal life what's written in the law jesus replied how do you read it he answered love the lord your god with all your soul with all your heart remember we talked about that love your neighbor as you love yourself verse 28 jesus said you answered correctly do this and you will live verse 29 i love this but the the religious person wanted to justify himself what's my loophole tell me give me the trapdoor tell me how i don't have to actually live this so we asked jesus who's my neighbor let's split some hairs here tell me who's my neighbor she says okay okay let me tell you a story there's this road guy's going uh he's on this jericho road and uh he gets robbed he gets mugged okay they beat him strip him leave him half dead priest comes by priest walks by on the other side of the road levi comes by walks by the other side of the road a samaritan walks up sees the man beaten half dead and he goes hey i'm gonna help this guy out grabs the guy puts the guy on his horse takes the guy to a hotel puts him up at the hotel puts everything on his tab hey i'll pay for this money not a bad thing he's using it to help somebody here you go if anything is over this amount that i just gave i just gave you a thousand dollars anything over this amount let me know i'll pay when i come back covers all the man's expenses then jesus asked the religious leader who was the neighbor the religious leader can't even say samaritan because jews and samaritans didn't get along so jesus picked a hero in the story that he knew this religious leader would have a hard time with you can there's a black guy on the side of the road he's beaten religious person walks past activist walks past proud boy stops puts him on his puts him on the donkey see in today's day and age we want to post yeah yeah i'm gonna post about it that's what i'm gonna do i'm gonna post about it i'm walking i'm walking i'm walking oh look at somebody hurting on the side of the road filter filter filter wait are we the ones that post about it are we the ones that do something about it [Applause] oh black history month black history you got any black friends sex trafficking oh sex let's end it let's end it have you given volunteered prayed i can't believe we're doing this with the orphans in our world are you giving serving loving blessing helping anything at all i'm not asking are you just posting come on am i being too real here am i being too real i'm talking about come on are we going to be jesus followers are we just trying to be cultural christians okay because this cultural christianity thing it's not working i'm talking about us being so changed and transformed from the inside out that we have been so impacted by the grace of almighty god that we are compelled to share the love that god has given us with the people of our world and we are willing to even look foolish to those who are religious that we're willing to sit at the table with those that the religious will say you should never sit at the table with them look at what our savior did all the time they were like what are you doing you're with the sinners and he's like duh where am i supposed to be i'm not mad if i feel mad if i sound that i'm not but i am passionate i i am fired up about this because i feel god has called us to live a life that will reflect his glory not for our fame and name so that people will know who jesus christ actually is and get a very real picture of who our savior is and what he has done for all of humanity if you keep on going through here in the book of uh galatians uh you'll see in verse number 12 you'll see the reason that peter got up from the table or cephas got it from the table it was because he was afraid he was afraid of the other jews that were coming in what they would think about him hey i'm not saying i'm not saying you don't need to be smart about who you're spending all your time with okay because some of y'all you're not strong enough yet okay you're not strong enough yet some of y'all are are honestly right now you just came out of so much stuff that if you are in some environment it will hurt you yeah it'll hurt you yeah okay so you're gonna have to take a little bit of time but like i gotta i gotta build a little bit of muscle here so that when i'm back in that space and they say puff puff pass i go no pass pass pass of you you know you're not ready yet you're not ready it's okay there's no guilt or shame in that yeah that's wisdom so but he they're afraid they're afraid keep on going through keep on going through uh i got verse number uh in galatians um two uh verse number number 13 verse number 13. he's 12 he's afraid of the circumcision group verse number 13 it was his hypocrisy that led others astray [Music] it was his hypocrisy that led others astray it was his hypocrisy that led others astray because he's saying hey we love everybody but when somebody else came into the room he decided to walk away i'm okay sitting at the table with somebody that i don't agree with because i'm sitting at the table that does not mean i endorse everything that's going on in your life that's a that's a weird argument that we have today it's like if you don't accept just all of me and don't validate everything then you can't really love me it's like man i've sat with some people that have done some things okay they cheated on their spouse or they really negatively hurt somebody or they abused someone and they needed some restoration and i sat with them i'm not validating what they did to those other people i'm just validating that what jesus did for them is greater than the sin that they committed against those other people so if i have to agree with everything you do in order to sit with you then we can't even talk yet but if you're okay with me loving you because you were made in the image of god [Music] and i'm made in the image of god and the same savior died for both of us even though i might know it and you don't know it yet [Music] let's be friends [Music] let's be friends their hypocrisy led others astray put it this way their action had outcomes their actions had outcomes how they lived mattered it mattered and i know we like to be in a day of like no no that's my life i can do what i want i can post what i want and i guess you can but friends you got another generation coming up behind you ladies you got another generation coming up behind you man you got another generation coming up behind you if it is just all about you then please get on that rover that just went to mars and hang out there [Music] because i got people that are watching you there's more people watching you than you even realized i was asking this question you can fill in the blank if if everyone blanked like you would it look like heaven on earth if everyone loved like you would it looked like heaven on earth if everyone gave their money like you gave your money would it look like heaven on earth if everyone prayed like you pray it looked like heaven on earth if everyone served like you sir if everyone laughed like you laughed if everyone talked how you talked [Music] would it look like heaven on earth no guilt no shame okay those of you like man i'm brand new to this thing what you talking about man i'm like my friend invited me okay hey hey let's jump on the journey here you're okay i'm talking to those of us who've been in this for a while and hoping hoping to help shape those of us who are just starting so our our christianity is more biblical than it is cultural that's that's what i'm hoping [Music] verse 14 and i'm done here he says when i saw that they were not acting in line with the gospel they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel i had to say something i had to say something [Music] i i'm wondering i'm wondering can we be a church that lives lives that are in line with the truth of the gospel that it's not our works that made us right with god but it's the work of jesus christ and we have been so wrecked on the inside out yes we stand with our principles and we stand with the truth of god's word i'm not trying to dumb this down at all i believe it's the word of god i believe jesus is the way the truth and the life i'm not talking about watering anything down you don't have to water anything down in order to love people well i want to live lives that are in line with the truth of the gospel and i want us to be a church family that sees and understands that we get we get the power of together over the poison of i'm better [Music] because there is a poison in our world and is trying to seep into the church and the followers of jesus so today is just a love letter from the heart of god saying hey church we don't take our cues from instagram we don't take our cues from twitter we don't take our cues from clubhouse we take our cues from jesus as it's revealed in the word of god let us be a church that lives our lives in line with the truth of the gospel if you're in mind church family wherever you are by your head for just tomorrow i want to pray for you i'll pray for you father thank you for every single man and woman that's under the sound of my voice right now no matter where they are in the whole world thank you that you love them exactly how they are exactly how we are but you also love us too much to keep us that way so keep on changing us and molding us and making us into who you called us to be show us our blind spot show us the parts of our lives that stink show us the parts of our lives that are inconsistent with being transformed from the inside out we surrender our hearts our lives to you today in this moment as your heads are bowed for just a moment no matter where you are around the world in a home in your kitchen in a living room wherever you may be i just want in this moment for you to pause for a second and ask yourself is jesus christ first in your life is he first not do you believe in god and not do you have a bible and not do you like what the sermon was today that's not my question my question is is jesus christ first in your life is he lord is he in charge of your life are you have you adjusted and rearranged your entire life to follow his path and his way if you're under the sound of a voice and you've never done that you've never gotten on this journey you've never taken that step you've never responded to the grace of god and said you can have all of me or maybe at one point in time you did you were a kid at some camp or something or you had a friend in college or in high school that that kind of pointed you the right direction but you've since gone your own direction you're living your life for your own self in your own way but today you're saying i don't want to go my own way anymore i want to live my life in line with the truth of the gospel if that's you you've never given your heart to jesus or one point in time you did you slipped away on the count of three no matter where you are i want you to do something simple but something bold i literally want you to throw your hand in the air and say yes that's me i want to give my heart and my life to christ ready one two three just put your hand in the air yep you're in a coffee shop or in this room right now you're like yeah that's me i'm gonna give my heart my life to christ i don't want to go my own way anymore i want to go his way might ask everyone to do me a favor put your hand over your heart if you would not mind let me ask you to repeat this prayer out loud after me say dear jesus i ask you to forgive me of all my sins i admit i've made mistakes and today i give you my heart i give you my life give me the power to live for you in jesus name amen and amen come on lift our heads no matter where we are let's clap our hands with enthusiasm hey i've got three quick things for you number one is i want to know i want to know that you today prayed that prayer would you do me a favor and text jesus first to 97 000 text jesus first to 97 000 one word that lets us know that you prayed that prayer so that we can help you get on this journey to help you understand what it means to be a passionate follower of jesus christ uh also your next step ought not be just to go back to living life how you've always lived your life your next step i want it to be growth track i want you to take the step and say hey i'm going to be a part of the family i'm going to jump in i'm not going to be a spectator i want to be in i want to i want to allow god to transform me from the inside out i'm not just praying a prayer and going back to living how i've always lived i want to pray this prayer and jump on this journey to really flesh out what does it mean to be a follower of jesus christ so growth track that's your next step and then for everybody whether you're in the room or you're around the world again i wanna i wanna remind us that there is something powerful about you and i leveraging the money that god gives us and giving back to him what he's already given us because every dollar every penny every nickel every euro every shilling whatever it is is your currency around the world that money came from god and it belongs to god so let's be a people that keep putting god first in our research resources so that very real people on the other side can say man god is good and he loves me because he used that money to reach me let's keep on being generous church family

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Length: 36min 34sec (2194 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 21 2021