Throwback Thursday (Bishop Eric Garnes)

[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I'd beat the blood I need to let you know that the blood still work [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] give it breathe yes could not go down the risen King come on open your mouth there is no other flight then no one can be equal to him this all by himself thus we have the title the LOV the self in this thing God somebody opened Allah put your hand over your head and give him long [Music] No [Music] [Music] somebody just shout glory while you remain standing in celebration to the risen king to the only wise God the only one that will ever exist we not only celebrate Jesus but we give Him thanks for being the God that gives us wise and good leaders to do the kingdom work on this call terra firma earth I want you to celebrate a scholar a gentleman appraiser a worshipper a servant a father in God the leader amongst the leaders I'm again honored to be present here but he also is a brother and friend I'm glad that we can celebrate him as presiding bishop but I'm also glad when we can go and be one-on-one as friend and friend and talk brother to brother shall we celebrate the servant of this house the only presiding bishop Giroux rocks [Music] [Applause] [Applause] he if clean like a whistle tonight I whisper Timmons that no one told me the real white but you are clean so that's Bishop Clark would say no I don't like what you said living ready not casket ready living ready you're gonna live long somebody to clip Fisher Ross gon live long come on say it again Bishop Ross is gonna live a long and healthy say it again mr. Ross is gonna live long and healthy and he's gonna have all the money he needs to do the thing that must be done now while you're celebrating my brother my friend our presiding prelate and bishop I want you to also celebrate the queen of this house the first lady Patricia Rawls come on give it up for her thank you for being me to be in your home what I'm honored to be present give it up for all of the bishops that are around me please all of the women and men of God celebrate the bishops overseers that are sitting on the mean platform and then clap your hands in front of somebody else and say this is for you don't get jealous [Music] allow me before I go to the Word of God would know not to single out anyone but my colleague and my friend anytime I sit next to him I have to ask God forgiveness when I'm finished Bishop Timothy claw please give it up for the brother he promises to give me the red watch that he has on by the end of the worship service it represents another brethren that he's not a part of hallelujah amen Kapil in the house god bless america hallelujah to me a kind favor grab your Bibles in your hand electronic old-fashioned Kindle Samsung iPhone iPad whatever you got lifted up high lift it up high and I want you to repeat these words with and after me as an affirmation of faith for the receiving of God's Word this is my Bible I am what it says I am I can do what it says I can do I am a believer I'm not a doubter I walk by faith and not by sight so tonight I commit to do all that my Bible says for me to do in Jesus name Amen would you be kind and open your Bible please to Matthew chapter 4 to the presiding bishop of Cleveland Tennessee Matthew chapter 4 I want you to look at verses 1 to 11 Matthew chapter 4 share your Bible with someone who doesn't have one you can ask them what's up with that afterwards Matthew chapter 4 1 to 11 it says and reads thus then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil and when he had fasted 40 days and 40 nights he was afterward a hungered and when the tempter came to him he said if thou be the Son of God command that these stones be made bread he answered and said it is written man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God and the devil taketh him up into the holy city and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple and said unto him if thou be the Son of God cast thyself down for it is written he shall give his angels charge concerning thee and in their hands they shall bear thee up lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone jesus said to him it is written again thou shalt not tempt the LORD thy God again the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them and said unto him all these things are will I give thee if thou wilt fall down and worship Me then said Jesus unto him get thee hence Satan for it is written thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve then the devil leaveth him and behold angels came and ministered unto Him may I extrapolate verse 1 and verse 11 first one says then Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil verse 11 then the devil leaveth him and behold angels came and ministered unto Him father bless your word because you were to come alive again announce spirit open our hearts to be receptive our ears to hear our mind to comprehend zealousness to live and for this we are grateful that we are present in Jesus name that the people say Amen as you take your seat please I push the shield look down your aisle carefully and do two things number one I want you to look down your aisle carefully and say I'm looking for greatness look down your aisle again and just say I'm not staring at you for nothing else then I'm looking for greatness now I want you to look to the left or the right and say these words in terms of strengthen in the subject say to the person wilderness time the mark of greatness I have this privilege to stand here not right but privilege to stand in your presence as you open this season and time of this year concerning this fellowship you are a people who have gathered together and some of us tell the truth shame the devil we have had to do a number of things just to get to Columbus Ohio you had to make some changes you have to cancel some items you had to budget yourself carefully to assure that you will be able to sustain the three nights or four nights that you will be gathering it's not a time in the season for us to show off with one another and I would hope that at some point in time we would get mature and stop feeling we have to impressed Joneses it is okay to take the suit to the cleaners and get it cleaned up get the shirt washed and you press it real nice present yourself with something mix the clothes around and look like it's something brand-new rather than to put yourself in debt so that you can be identified so that someone can recognize who you are what a awful feeling it must be to have spent a whole lot of money on something only to walk into the crowd and nobody looked at you [Applause] you know that the item you are wearing as a Massimo Dutti outfit you know that the shoes are Salvatore Ferragamo but nobody else knows it you've spent three four five thousand dollars for one night to impress people that don't even know who you are none of them have recognized none of them have identified and God forbid they leave you in the backseat as opposed to the front seat because you believe that you are who you are as opposed to being identified by God it's more important for me to have come into a worship experience and receive an impartation from the Word of God than to have it been impressed and flip and jump over chairs and pews because you moved my emotions and not my intellect many of our leaders today and people are challenged today because most people honestly don't know who they are when you are who you are when you know who you are regardless of what you wear if it's even a burlap bag or a Payless Shoe the anointing on your life will be singled out regardless of whether you sit next to a college graduate or a high school graduate you must know who you are and who you are off times as sometimes rather validated by the senior pastor of the house what's more important without you being from the swinging the to the far right or far left what's more important is that you know God has a purpose and a calling on your life also must get to the point of where you stopped allowing people to be the final validation that once they've sanctioned you now you believe you could go on as opposed to knowing that you could go on whether you've been sanctioned or not many of our challenges even without people of color in this day and season is they don't know who they are because we don't know we are each decade or each age decade we seem to go from one thing to the next we go from Negro to african-american to black power hands up hands down now you do this now you do this now you do this we go from this to peace we're still trying to find out who we are have you not recognized that you've been identified already you've been marked prior to your arrival here to earth you've been predestined to come at the time that you came through the womb that you came through the parents that you came and the breathing on the earth has already been marked as to the beginning and to the conclusion as to how long you've been here if you look at Isaiah carefully the text even tells us in the Book of Isaiah when the prophetic word says in 9 and 6 for unto us a child is born to us a son is given indicating this is whom God has put his stamp on I've come to talk to a few people tonight primarily primarily pastors that you ought to know who you are in order for you to get through what you must get through to achieve what has already been designed for you to achieve if you look at the text that we will look at tonight the Gospel according to Matthew is the one I read if you read it from the Gospel according to Mark it's a much more straight way immediate text in mark he moves you in a speedy expeditious journey in terms of the baptism of Jesus and in terms of the wilderness of Jesus but when you look at the Gospel according to Matthew he decides to be much more detailed and letting you know about the deity of God Christ whom is God himself and yet goes through what you once go through in order to achieve the purpose that was already designed prior to his arrival so rather than moving swiftly which most of us like to do we like things microwave we like to speed up the process we would prefer there be no process we will prefer that we get this quick crown we watch what they would used to call me June bugs who would love the June bugs or the Millennials of this day would quickly desire ordination before training ordination before catechism they would prefer that you speed up this thing because there's an anointing on their life may I suggest that when we look at mark mark also tells us something in the swiftness of the text he wants to know very carefully about Jesus because if he's Jesus the Son of God and did all the wonderful things that he did why did so many people not recognize who he was on earth why is it that they did not realize who he was may I suggest it's like the story writer the story writer with the mystery you don't get all of the information in the beginning you get it as you keep reading and the more the writer writes intriguingly the more you want to keep reading so that you can see the final end may I also suggest that when Mark is making this claim different to Matthew he's asking if Jesus is the son of God and he is the Messiah and he is the great one one could consider that that would then mean that the long-promised day of the Lord has not only arrived but the powers of darkness and evil are about to be conquered if he be the Son of God then we must recognize that Jesus is not only the Son of God but we expect confrontation has to take place because whenever Jesus shows up it is a clear message that all that the enemy has already planned is now coming to an end if Jesus shows up and confrontation does not take place then you must question is this the real Jesus so for those of us who don't like to handle conflict resolutions and we have problems challenging people are problems firing people or problems removing people or handling issues I question your truth of your leadership because when you are about to conquer you first must confront you must deal with the enemy you must deal with the battlefield you must deal with what we will call tonight wilderness so the first thing that happens after Jesus received the assurance of his baptism we find something carefully being noted that purpose and identification has been declared Jesus goes for the baptism Jesus is baptized people are looking people are watching people are observing people are also listening because they're trying to figure if this be the Son of God then why would he be of need to be baptized but the baptism repetition is not necessarily for Jesus it's for the others who are around and therefore because the DNA identification for Jesus for quite some time is that he is the father is the carpenter's son he is the boy from Nazareth he has the ability to bewilder philosophers and attorneys and cause them to be questioning their own degree after they have been through into the institution of higher learning and he was the one who got lost in the field on the marketplace and now he wants to be baptized John the Baptist even questioned it if he should do this or not be it are you the one should we look for another but when it takes place an identification of a voice comes and says this is my beloved son he's not dressed in any particular way he looks like everybody else he's not trying to get the front seat he is not looking to see if he will be recognized by a group or cleep he is not concerned about who was around we're going to recognize what he is possibly or possibly not wearing he has a purpose for being here and it has nothing to do with the materialistic things of the earth it has to do that his father has designed him to be present and he is known to the onlookers believe it or not as Joseph's son the forgotten father if you will Joseph the man who takes care of another person's child in the season of which he wanted to put away the wife prior to betrothing her he's Joseph's son but that's what they thought because the voice opens up and says this is my son in other words I am identifying my DNA with him his DNA is my DNA he's connected to me he belongs to me his whole makeup is completely different so from this day forward you would no longer connect him to Joseph from this day forward you now connect him to his father you now connected to the one that has allowed him to be present and note the text because he is the Lord's son he doesn't get the same type of job description that others get most of us would also believe that if he be the son of God he should be thrust to a throne he should have his crown ready where is his red carpet where is the velvet for him to walk on instead he doesn't get that he doesn't go to a palace no the text of Matthew what it says the text is careful and I'm going to work this introduction and take you for a second the TExES carefully declare then was Jesus led up of the spirit for those of you are so deep and the Lord leads you into the wonderful play a promised land of Canaan they ain't no Canaan land before you go through wilderness and let me just share that with you real ministry is when God takes you up and traps you in an unknown place God takes you up to a place unbeknown to others a place where others don't want to go you don't believe me watch how God works that works interestingly even with Moses when he cooks him up into the mountain beholds a burning bush and the next thing you know he is in the middle of challenges of Egypt dropped in Egypt watch even better when Ezekiel receives this vision I was in the spirit on the Lord's Day you mean to tell me the only place God could drop you in the spirit would be in the valley of dead bones why wouldn't he put you in living bones he drops you in dead bone and you were in the spirit John on the Isle of Patmos I I was in the spirit on the Lord's Day and where does he drop me in the Isle of Patmos he drops me in a jail Center trust me in a place away from everybody but I'm in the spirit notice Jesus has led up into the spirit into the wilderness rather to be tempted of the devil may I suggest to you that as he is being led up there is no question would you like to go up say with me here Church there is no question how would you like to have your burger would you like tomato onions would you like ketchup would you like us to hold the cheese no no you are my son because I have identified who you are because you are different to everyone else that walks on this earth because you have a mark on your life you don't get to have a say-so in what the next move is going to be if you read the text that says he wasn't driven he wasn't asked he was not invited he was not encouraged it was not may I have your permission as coaching techniques teaches us it was not me I can I should I he was compelled to go it was because there was a mark he was moving into the place of confrontation he had just come from being identified he had just come from being recognized now it's time him to confront now it's time to make a difference here on earth it's time to bring the powers of evil in the central hold our world to its feet your purpose is now about to be moved but before you can do that you've gotta know what demons do you got to know how demons act you know how demons functions and I know that you're Jesus but you're the fully God fully human and since you're fully human right now let's teach what this thing looks like because you know when your assignment is great it's when you're driven into the wilderness you know when your assignment is mark for a move of God it's when wilderness awaits your presence John the Baptist went into the wilderness Elijah went into the wilderness Moses went in to the wilderness Daniel went in to the wilderness the wilderness is the dwelling place of the demons the wilderness is the forces of evil the wilderness is the moral and spiritual dumping ground the wilderness is the spiritual hood of the spiritual world hood wilderness is the place the godforsaken place of chaos the wilderness is a place of abandonment the wilderness is the place of loneliness the wilderness is the place of fearfulness at night the wilderness is where the wild and vicious beasts roamed this place on its own turf territory and rules the wilderness is the place where the children of Israel wondered and punishment was everywhere the wilderness is where there is no trust in God every man is for itself and you might be the next prey after the last prey the wilderness is the place where Jesus engages in temptation but may I suggest the wilderness it's also the place where you learn to pray where you learn to fast those of us who understand the wilderness is the place that you turn stuff around somebody said Oh al and I sit down for a second don't make me nervous here Church there was a wilderness that Jesus engages he learns to understand that in order for you to become something great you cannot speed the process look at your neighbors say don't speed the process you got to learn how to go through some stuff because it's not going to be quick how do you know that because the text says he was there for 40 days and 40 nights a long time to be in the wilderness long time to hang out with demons a long time to be in the midst of a spiritual dumping ground a long time to be among chaos and wild and vicious beasts a long time to be among that which is considered a spirit of confusion but remember who he is he is God walking in the flesh the Incarnate one the wilderness is not unknown to him in the spiritual realm because he is the same one who kept them for 40 days and 40 nights while they made it through the rain of judgment well no was in the arc it was him God who kept them in stayed on top of the waters and everyone else drownded 40 days were the number of days for him Egypt was mourning for the beloved Abraham 40 years the children of Israel wondered in the desert and ate manna 40 days Moses was on Sinai 40 years was the day of peace in the time of Gideon David reigned over Israel for forty years forty days was the times of Lent and forty days Jesus endured agony testing in the Garden of Gethsemane this number does not frighten him what does work is that he learns how to function he learns the tricks of the enemy he learns what ministry is about to be light he learns that he must have the book underneath his belt in order for him to walk against the enemy because the realities are about two of many one is that our greatest temptation as followers of God's grace will always come immediately after we have been blessed and inspired by a great revelation after you have heard from God and he shows up and gives you a moment of victory you dance your way through you come up and you give offering you hear and you give a testimony and as you pull out the door it's like demons come from everywhere trying to snatch the very joy you just finished it's because this mark of greatness on Jordan life look at your name is a mark of greatness is coming that's not only that but here's the other portion of the reality number two of the many is that the enemy knows more than you know who you are now that's the bad part it's horrible when you than the enemy knows more about your greatness then you know about your own greatness it's a bad place to be in when the enemy sits back and sees what you're about to become and you're still wasting time trying to see who's recognizing you in the floor of the earth you're still wasting time trying to figure out what seat you're going to be seated in you're still wasting time being aggravated because your name is not on a program because you didn't get a chance to open up and preach yet and you're making a decision whether you don't stay with this Reformation or not because you have not yet been used but let me remind you Church if you ever knew who you really were it would not be about a position it would not be about a seat it will not be about of recognition it would be about an impartation of fulfillment and eating up of the Word of God so that you can be able to stand against the wiles of the devil sabotage on the taxes telling us you got to know who you are look at your name and say look in the mirror know who you are notice what the devil says to him the devil opens up and sesang him if thou be the son of him to use a subordinate clause indicating if which represents perhaps possibility you could be maybe you are maybe you're not and you use if I don't know who I am what the devil infers is possibly you heard wrong when he said this is my beloved son maybe you didn't hear right maybe your ears were filled with wax maybe you met you missed the mark and he stuttered and he said something else maybe it wasn't magic if you be the Son of God you want to have power you want to be able to have kingdoms you want to have crowns of rubies and diamonds look at what you're about to get thorns and a cross rather than getting diamonds and rubies look he's your father you mean your father identifies you with a cross and identifies you with a son your father takes care of you like that because it's to recognize how God really works yes he does he always works strangely opposite to humanity the life of Joseph tells us best Joseph gets a dream he is going to rise and be great but then he falls in a pit and gets tossed away to Dothan in slavery and ends up in jail and has another crazy woman ripping his clothes off so he is losing it because he knew the dream he saw was great how is it that I end up here when you told me I was going to be great how is it that I end up with 40 minus 1 stripes and I'm supposed to be great how is it that the ultimate is that these challenges are coming after me left and right and I can't see greatness it's because one has to recognize when I identified who you were although people were listening did you listen do you know who you are it's one thing for somebody to come and identify you it's another thing when you know who you are for yourself perfect and upright man watch me perfect and a bright man perfect and upright man perfect and upright man description of Joel chapter 1 and yet within a matter of verses now flips the script lose this family children house cattle challenges coming left and right and the devil is so wicked even his wife says once you curse God and die and here is a perfect and upright man mock for greatness but goes through wilderness before he sees the hand of God you might be here tonight you're trying to question why you've been through some stuff you're trying to figure out why hell is still breaking loose and how come everybody else seems to be having more victorious testimonies and everyone's Church seems to be prospering faster than mine while there are some personal introspections may I suggest that you question know more and recognize your mark for greatness there's something Satan's job was to convince Jesus what he was and what he was not Satan's job was to make him believe that what you heard wasn't what was true but Jesus expressed about who he was because he had it is Richard underneath this belt was the ability to rebuttal back and tell Satan who he is and what he is and where he has come from underneath his belt his ability to fight back quick and slap the enemy with the word the word that he had written from the very beginning it's just like Hillary Clinton who has to hit back quick to a Trump and Trump who is being managed has to try to find his way out of the teleprompter to hit back quick because if you don't hit back quick you'll end up on the floor the tax tells us that Jesus knew how to stay in ringg he knew how to respond I said it is written you can't fight the devil and you don't have the word in your spirit you can't tell me you've been anointed and you've been called by God and you don't study you don't divide don't find yourself in Bible class you have a collar and a cross but you have no studying habits you can't tell me that the anointing is on your life and you haven't picked up the book can't find Genesis much more revelation and both of them is Alpha and Omega you can't tell me that there's an anointing on your life and you haven't laid before him fasted and prayed in the last that once in 2 and 3 months why is it that you think you can fight the devil and you don't have his word underneath you the word knows how to fight against the word that is written against it wrongly you have to have the word underneath your belt so that you can fight why because we're on our way to the wilderness we're on our way to the wilderness look at some ice around the way to the wilderness sit down Church I'm almost in the middle there we're on the way to the wilderness where is the wilderness the wilderness is the place where Jesus is enduring the temptation of the enemy he needed to identify before he went in he needed to make sure he had the book underneath him before he talked to the devil he needed to let the devil know ah you don't call the last word I call the last word notice what the devil said if you be the Son of God then where are your angels thrust yourself down they will catch you before your - your foot hold on just a second the wilderness is for me not you the wilderness is to grow and develop me not you angels don't come because you are speaking about them angels show up when I call them you need wilderness Church so that you can prepare for your mentor you don't want greatness if you really don't want wilderness if you want greatness you got to accept wilderness if you want to be marked higher let God really use you you've got to be willing to let the devil play games and play tricks and just be ahead of the game by the studying of the game you have to go through this so that this can make you you have to allow folks to stab you so that you can become something greater you can allow Judas's to be in your life so that you can learn to discern the next one that is coming folks who would rip you off smile in your face stab you in your back because all of that is making you so that you can get ready for what's coming in your direction because the death says in Matthew chapter 4 and verse 1 it was clear it says then Jesus was led in the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil but then when it got to the end after Jesus finished dialoguing with him the tax pen says that the devil left him Wow let's go there real quickly first you take me to call the devil first you put me in the devil's camp first you allow me to have conversation with the devil now the devil and I are in the spirit of chaos confusion vicious beasts and scapegoats at its best I'm in his territory running his territory I'm in his spot controlling his spot and when he thought that he had the best of me by the end now you said the text says the devil leaves him the devil leave him because he not only knows who he is but he also knows that he knows who he is he has been identified by his father he is my son in whom I'm well pleased I've already got rid of you the first time devil but you messed up in the year in the heavens and you came against me the first time I you and your Posse out I put you in the Devils camp called the earth and you've been down here making Hapuku chaos messing with folks always trying to see who's gonna leave me to go with Shu but now I've come back and now I'm getting ready to take what already belong to me the devil knows who he is he knows who he is do you know who you are you see that's why when the demon saw Paul and the movement was taking place he was able to tell the Skeever brothers Jesus I know oh I know but who are you look at your neighbor say you better identify yourself the devil left him that's because Jesus not only knows who he is but he comes out of the boat in one of the other sticks and when it comes out the demons say why have you come to torment me why have you come to get rid of us yet time is up you've been playing games and now those who I've not for greatness I'm not gonna let you rip them to shreds I'm not gonna let you think you're gonna have the upper hand why because the angels are coming the text says the angels came and they ministered unto Him they never showed up when the devil said pass yourself down but they did show up when it was all over and if this written had already been declared like the fish when he told the disciple go on the other side my master we told ammonite bagozzi because they come up when I tell them to come up angels are coming up look at your neighbor so the angels are coming come on tell us a matter the angels are coming what do you mean the angels are coming up the angels are God's invisible army they're the ones that watch over us then when we get driven into the wilderness we are not left for the enemy to rip us apart he puts angels to check out standing at the battlefield just before the fall of Jericho yeah the question when it saw a man standing in the front who are you are you with us or are you against the army host a message that's gonna get you out of this when the angels shower they got a message that's gonna bring you through look at your neighbor lady angels are coming oh yes he is the Bible since Daniel was in the den of lions they thought he was dead they came back the next morning Hey Oh angel shut the mouth in the next chapter and wintergreen and asking God rain down the Bible the angels we're fighting in the atmosphere and they came down and told Daniel we hurt you from the very first time that you open up your mouth and we were caught up in the war with the answer that you need in the wilderness in the challenge but the angel team in the form of a raven I'm giving him strengthen the Bible Jesus was in the tomb looking for Jesus they did not find the Angels why [Music] you know [Music] I [Music] [Applause] there's [Music] [Music] [Applause] for great you [Music]

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