Understanding This Connection

we bless you we come together together tonight to hear your word to partake of the Holy Spirit and all that you have to say to us God speak to our situation speak specifically speak clearly speaking a language that we understand someone said Lord speak to me my heart is open I humble myself before you to hear you in Jesus name you may be seated in the presence of Lord as you give him or another hand clap I think he deserves it amen give a lot a hand for the music ministry [Music] amen amen how many you were here on Sunday praise the Lord I'm work on the Saints oh you know one of the things that the enemy is quite aware of is that people exalt being self-governing and what that means is is that people make decisions based on how they feel and what they want one of the things that God will do is is he will set your life on a certain course and do things on purpose and then he will actually give you a certain amount of grace as you kind of traverse the different terrain in your life that what that simply means is as you go through different things God is gonna give you some he's gonna grade you in a curb but it comes to time what he's gonna do is he's gonna kind of clamp down on you not so much because he's removed his favor of his grace what he's doing for you he's teaching you that it's one thing for you to trust him it's another thing for him to trust you so the question becomes what did God trust you with there's some things that that will never you believe in God was something major in your life right now I believe you have something major the question becomes can God trust you with it God Joshua that I was I was driving through Atlanta not long ago and a Bentley SUV passed me by and so immediately I got my phone out and I googled the price of it and I thought to myself if I were driving a car that cost that much money I'd be terrified all the time same thing was about $300,000 I thought to myself why would you want to drive anything that cost that much why we should a wreck cost you almost half a million dollars but can you imagine the owner of that car trusting someone with the keys how many of you know he won't just give those keys to just anybody has to be someone with a track record he could trust and so tonight what I want to talk to you I want this information is gonna be good for you I want to talk to you about about this connection what did I just say spell it how many of you heard this connection and we heard disconnection which one was it this connection or disconnection you think is my accent huh no it's not I know they're different in the th the D sound I think but what did you hear how many heard th is this gonna how many your D is disconnection okay then see what normally happens to us is is we can't be get confused and we don't know when we're connected and we're not and so it will be believing God for something it doesn't happen and we think that God isn't hearing us really we've disconnected you got it that's the D word this connection this connection is where your disconnection can happen see the red somewhere willing to old fathers in the faith said they said that though the most important thing in your physical Christian life apart from the cup the cup and the wine I'm sorry the bread and the wine for communion is the person sitting next to you you can't be connected to God and disconnected from his people you can't have a good attitude and prayer in a bad attitude with people you can't honor God and disrespect his leaders you see how that works and so because we get that confused what has to happen is God has taught us imma take you through some scriptures today I want to talk to you about connection everybody connection connection we know we think we know you know we say well what we talk about is we say this is he of connection what does it mean when we talk about connection you say well I got the hook-up I got some connections what does it mean when we talk about having a connection what we're saying is is that I have a way in the door I have a way up the ladder I have a way I have a way beyond myself to get things done if I share my connection with you I'm connecting you to my way in and to my way up you got that that's critical that's important because if you understand our connection to work then you understand what this year with God is about all right now I want to show you this this is important um in Matthew chapter 11 verse 28 this award it there that verses 28 through 30 that we missed jesus said come to me all you who labor a who weary rather and carry a heavy burden I will give you rescue me King James same verse to verse 28 give me King James yea come unto me all you that labor and a heavy laden I will give you rest look at verse 29 take my yoke upon you and learn of me so that would yoke here's what he says he's I need you to connect to me connection doesn't happen arbitrarily it is intentional it's something that you mean to do when you connect to someone um how many of you love people right now do you feel connected to in your life connected to um do you have their phone number not here yeah that phone number of you you have the address if other people can't get in contact with them can you do you have access see all the words that play in with connection so it's just critical that we understand Jesus said I need you to connect to me and and use that connection to learn about me and here's what you're gonna find he says he said you're gonna find that I'm meek and lowly in heart and then he says as a result of that you're gonna find rest for your soul now give me a New Living Translation same verse he said connecting me take my yoke upon you let me teach you let me what now if he says I have to teach you that means you have to be willing to do what it's easy if he has to teach you you have to be willing to learn and the problem with a lot of people is they don't want to learn you have a lot to learn I have a lot to learn I've been doing what I'm doing for a long time I still every day is a learning experience God is teaching me new things matter of fact I'm sure test somebody maybe later tonight or maybe on Sunday I don't know when he's gonna come up and come out what a powerful testimony was shared with me today about and it was for me it was a learning experience let me just tell you now so so I'm in Safe Harbor on I'm ministering in the middle of my message I stopped dead in my tracks and I said someone in here's up on charges and the Lord says he's gonna assign you a court-appointed attorney who's gonna take your kitchen you're gonna win Who am I take one to talk to you and when I said that um people raise their hands to stand up and they stood up and I pray for them well the lady walked me today she said you know pastor she said when you gave that word she said I stood up out of obedience she said because I was up on charges she said but it was false charges the first thing she said the second thing was I already had an attorney so I know the world wasn't for me but out of obedient to my pastor I stood you said lift your hands I lift my hands on the earth I did the whole 9 bister because you're my pack she said what happened after that was amazing she said we might - she said on the way back to court now my attorney quit next thing you know I'm working with a court-appointed attorney and she said I'm thinking myself what's going on and she said I'm trusting God him hand the waters she was he said what ends up happening is long story short after three years of battle the court settled my court appoint attorney won the case now let me tell you I shared that because for me that was a learning experience because I wrestle would give in that specific word because listen to this I wasn't sure but the Bible says the prophetic works by faith prophesy according to the measure of faith and how the Holy Spirit arrested me was he arrested me with the issue of faith do you have faith to release that word and when I had faith to reach the word everyone that had faith to receive it stood it because of her connection now she didn't know she did not know she would need that word she thought it's for everyone and she just well I'm in charge let me just do my man of God says and that connection a little pause and respond and the connection won the case was I talking to her here's the crazy part I thought I was talking to the guy who's sitting right there but when I asked people to send a bunch stood up I didn't know when it was I knew I'm just talk to him you got it but it wasn't it went for him I don't know how his case turned out I just know hers did what God said was gonna happen how many see our connection works now here's what it says he says connect to me learn from me and he says the first lesson I will teach you is humility I won't teach you how to humble yourself and the reason you have to be taught how to humble yourself is because listen for the natural man humbling yourself does not come naturally because what we normally do is whatever my natural man wants to do whatever I want to do I just do it it's easy to just to just you know just do it in the acts forgiveness later just is easier to ask forgiveness than to ask for permission but what the Lord wants us to do is to let now learn humility and he says you won't you will learn that I'm humble gentle heart and you fine rest for your soul verse 30 says for my for my yoke is easy your connection to me is not gonna be difficult it's easy to bear and the burden I'm gonna give you sitting I watch it I use it when you connect to me a burden comes with it everybody said the word burden how me you don't need another burden but John I don't need enough ok now here's what he said it's different now he said what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna saddle you with a backpack and everywhere you go you have to carry it with you the backpack but out of that is where your exaltation when Jesus said pick up your cross and follow me all of us follow the cross just only to the tomb but the cross was not just a way to get to the tomb the cross was a way to get to the new life remember that because jesus said I'm the first resurrected from the dead he's the firstborn from the dead which means the cross got him in a position where he could be the first of many your cross also gets you in a position where you become the first of many but you have to be willing to bear this yoke the Bible says in the book of lamentation is good for a young man tip for a man rather to bear the yoke in his youth to be connected early an early connection gives you early results I want to walk you through some things I'll put on the screen from me Micah chapter 6 and verse 8 I want to show you what what the arm the yoke looks like and don't disconnect I want you to just keep your mind on engage in this it says he says no math that you read it out loud with me ready that's real no old people Lord has told you what is what uh-huh and this is what he to do it is a heart to love and to now notice now the first part the verse says that it says no old people the Lord has told you what is what because here's the thing if the Lord does not tell you what is good you won't know I won't know what's taking place on is that we see Eve went to the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and Satan sold her on the fact that the tree was what good he thought it was good for food it was good it was good armed to make one wise and when she looked at the tree and saw it was good she ate it she didn't eat the tree for any other reason because she thought it was good is the same trick that Satan uses with you if he could get you to believe that that which will open your soul up to danger is good he'll get you to do anything very really had as I never met any Christian that did anything wrong because they thought it was wrong it always started out they thought it was good for them it did if it served some purpose it played some role they thought it was good and this is what he requires of you now I want to something this is will help you always remember this under the Old Covenant when the Lord the Old Covenant system was supplying the man or actually was demand and supply the Lord demanded it and we supplied it under the New Covenant as it's reversed God's will will make the demand of us but then he Sepideh the supplies already ready what he wants us to do is when he makes the demand we asked him for the supply and when Jesus met the woman at the way I remember the story in John chapter 4 verses 7 through 10 when Jesus said to her he said um give me drink answer the woman kind of looked at him like we'll use your Jewish man I'm a Samaritan woman you know the story and the Bible says that that jesus said to her if you knew who it was that was asking you for water you ask me and I will give you what living water so here's a rule he the Lord asked us for something and in real life he wants us to realize in humility watch it's not I can't deliver that I don't know how to do that and I turn I ask him Lois I want you to be humble you say God will you know I have armed with humility kick and you said to the Lord Lord let your let the Spirit of God let your spirit in me teach me to be humble now the Holy Spirit was supernaturally caused me to be humble when I can figure it out when my mind couldn't choose it for myself I'm you see how this works whatever the Lord asks you for 20 he asked you he's telling you what he's supplied for you if he tends to be holy then just know he supplied wholeness for you if he told you to give that just know he supplies something for you to give what he always the demand always punch to the supply say that out loud the demand always points said again the demand I was pointed to supply so he says three things here he says um this is what he requires of you three things number one he said do what's right what's right in his eyes not what's right in your eyes I'll cover that sometime later on but number three says love mercy this is an interesting word because in this word in the Hebrew it actually reads a harbour hasad a homicide and if you know anything about Hebrew he's saying it actually reads and love love but one word is just a word for be fonder but to have affection towards the word are Harbor but the word the word of this translated mercy here is the word Hassad the New Testament is translated grace in most of the Old Testament is loving-kindness or it's actually the mercy of God the committed love of God the lawyer love of God let me let me talk to you about that word love I mean the word mercy the word Hassad is a powerful word let it get into your spirit it is the word that means that God would be loyal to you whether you write or whether you're wrong that he will follow you into the worst days or the worst choices you ever make and he'll be there with you he'll bring you out of situations that you didn't know he was there with you what it means is that so he on this list mercy this aside is that I love to use this example it's the kind of love that will follow the drunk down on the street to make sure he doesn't stagger into the into the our traffic it's the kind of love that will roll you over when you throw up on yourself so you won't choke on your own jump it's the kind of love that where here you make a promise that he know you won't you don't have the propensity or capacity to keep it's the kind of love that will stay there with you over and over again and use different methods to get you right he was sure that he would encourage you and turn right around and chasing you he would laugh with you he'll cry with you he'll push you pull you drag you leave you I must when I said leave you I'm coming to leave you in some stuff you created just to stand it or what you go through it because he loved you so much and the Bible is not interesting in the Bible says now and the New Testament is related to mercy it says to show mercy so it's a show mercy now another place is it says actually to sow mercy but here he's saying to love it love it when people mess up you should love mercy your heart when you see mercy being shown it shouldn't move you the word ahaab means to have a feeling of love it I mean it moves you when you see someone be sure have you ever seen someone being shown mercy and it just you brought down and just start to cry I remember there was a video on social media years ago where a guy was walking on the street and there's a man sitting on the side of road he looked at him and he looked at his shoes he look the guy's feet he took his shoes off and went and put his shoes and when I saw that video I was driving I just bawled all the way to Atlanta like baby I was wondering I was saying you wimp you never cried when you weren't saved what's wrong with you I love mercy I love mercy the Bible says that this that's really what requires us he requires a number one to do what's right in his eyes nothing your eyes number two to love mercy to love it when people are given a chance to get it right and then number three he says it to walk humbly with your God what's number three now here's the thing about walking humbly with God to walk humbly with God means I'm walking with God free of arrogance free of self-seeking free of self-centeredness free of self serving free of the kind of ambition that will sell others out on free of this desire to satisfy my own desires to walk humbly with God means watch this not to walk humbly with God means that sometimes I will be embarrassed now let me tell you what it is embarrassment is what we call in the way we perceive things and the way we perceive things if we perceive them from a place of pride it's easy to be embarrassed if you still get embarrassed really easily it means you worked on some pride let's test something real quickly how many suppressed I tend to get embarrassed easily against you see now watch so let me show you something his problem if I didn't say what I just said half the room with the Rays that happen when I say it's Friday we were like and the people who raised the hell upper they did so let me ask you again so how many of you tend to get embarrassed really easily by show of hands put your hand up it's good it's good now I'm gonna tell what it means what it has what it means it means that God is actually systematically dismantling the pride in your heart and there's still some left and if all of us were honest every hand in the room would be up because sometimes simple things when God gets ready to reset the way we see things he would do things that we would not necessarily agree with Mitch this he will make decisions about us that we don't agree with and it kind of leaves us making I don't know how that makes me you know that right there's pride because the Bible says when I walk humbly with my god he makes decisions about me and I say yes Lord I agree say that out loud say yes Lord I agree oh say it again say yes Lord I agree and I say what I'd be telling what about the Lord you believe in God for the money for the house note and it doesn't come in and you realize that you have to move out it's hard for you to say yes Lord I agree because most of the time we so preoccupied about what people don't think that I can keep my house and so when God is working on my pride he allows me to grow through things that that I have to choose whether without I look to him and say I agree what you're doing I looked at people and going I wonder what they think the day is going to come in your life where what they think makes no difference because you understand that whatever God is doing is transformational its transitional and it never ends with you losing in the know I mean that's about the worst sense the Bible says every were you working for good right so if you if you're losing it's not good so isn't it that's not the end of it it's a transitional time and I wonder I want to take you to that because it's important for you to understand that when God can mix connections are in the body are with people he's going after your growth he's going after your development it's important to understand it and I hope you still be I'm gonna go a lot of places tonight but in dillmouth connection this one God when God says I want you to be connected to me remember this your first connection was with God through Christ it's your first connection it's the most important connection whenever you now the devil is slick this morning I was sharing on a podcast I did today I study trying to study a war today and my war today was stratus in the Greek toward Stratus and in it comes from 2nd Corinthians 10 and verse I think 4 where it says for the weapons of our warfare weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds the worst Rutles Stratis is the words strategy the weapons of our warfare I mentioned in the Ephesians 6 it's me he mentions weapons of our warfare said Corinthians 10 but they mentioned in Ephesians 6 we go defeated 6 Paul Paul lists them and he says these are defensive weapons these are weapons we use but now what you need to understand is we use the weapons that God gave us because there is a Stratis against us and God has a Stratis against the strategist against us let me put me help you out so the way it worked has that works it's like you think Satan when little things happening you're like how do you have some weird stuff happening your life recently or things that you do and what do you go what is going on recently anybody let me show you something whenever the enemy comes against you you have to understand number one is never arbitrary what it means is Satan you would never come at you if he's not coming after something what'd I just say he's always after something now remember he never comes for something with out of stratus he never comes with our strategy that means not watching us if I'm dealing with this and then something else happened don't think the two are not related since the what he would do to you is that he will use you he will use a one person to distract you another one to come to try to destroy you and watch us now and what happens in your heart is you're not you're not you're not free enough or confident enough in God to talk to him because you've been distracted over here so you can't ask him to help you with the destroyer Sarah it works its of straddles Satan never uses a frontal attack what does it mean he never comes directly at you whatever's coming at you that's the distraction the Bible said be circumspect as were the were circumspect the worst victory means to see circle means around have eyes in the back of your head it means whenever you see the enemy coming this way look somewhere something else is happening look for it because that's not the attack that's the distraction you're about to be ambushed whenever someone come you ever seen a situation where was just someone gets offended for no reason just and it's crazy to always pay attention to that and the worst thing you could do sucked into the vortex of that stupid alarm n't because that art made is a distraction and the real deal is happening somewhere else Moses got played Moses got played let me tell Moses got played God told Moses a second time when the children of Israel complained about no water God told him ignore them he says he said they won't what he said go up and he said it's time I want you to speak to the rock but Moses could not get out of his heart that every time something went wrong they accused him you brought us out here to die and Moses is like I don't told y'all I didn't bring you out here God did Moses was like I don't know I didn't care that your Egypt that was God he sent me to get you anytime something went wrong they blame him and when Moses got up on the rock the second time he got his rod and got to him speak to the rock he looked at them and he goes must I give you rebels water that's what he said must I get and he turned to the rock and he smote the rock and God allowed water to gush forth and God says Moses come inside I want to talk to you and Moses came inside has what God said gus-gus says I'm a paraphrase he said the problem with you is you allow yourself to be distracted in a strategy of the enemy I told you speak to the rock you couldn't get your heart of what the people are doing and you messed up with me be warned open the end the enemy many times wants you to take the low road because he cannot beat you unless you're on the low road the trap is set on the low road so you gotta take the high road but watch this but if your person who've not been paying attention to the lessons of humility that the Lord has been teaching you you listen you you go to every fight you're invited to you cannot afford to go to every fight you're invited to it I'm speaking by the Holy Ghost who am I talking to you cannot desk you cannot go to every fight some time you other sometimes people don't think let them think it I don't want to think I'm a punk let them think it because the enemy's trap is on the low road you get down and dirty that dirt he needs you dirty why because he knows you don't pray with confidence when you're dirty he knows that he know God darkest day but you don't believe he's hears you your faith doesn't work right so he's always tried to get you these situation his relationship the enemy is not creative he knows one set of tricks but he knows it works on you so he will always do the same thing in different ways I mean I'm in this direction for a reason and so it's going to help you to understand that one of the things he wants you to do he plays on you so you can break your connection with God one of the tricks he tell you is you'll have to go to church to be a Christian what he understands is but this connection keeps you connected because you can't see Jesus no you ain't never went nowhere see nobody barbecue no meat on a grill one piece of coal that even sound crazy how would that look you know do say hey he says he said he said do say well we barbecuing and you show up but he got one piece of coal they said well where's the rest even the rest know you you know you gotta you gotta be I'm a little I'm a frugal kind of brother and I'm just gonna like this one call you can't cook meat with one coal you got it the enemy understands that you're that if you are not connected in this connection there will be disconnection in your life he understands it and if you don't know that that means you're always in and out and some people are still circling the same situations you have not graduated yet okay so I'm gonna tell you something you know and the enemy wants you to do the wrong thing for acceptance by people and ignore the fact that when you do the right thing you accepted by God at some point you have to choose who you want please is it right I just don't want to hurt their feelings what about God you know I was praying the other day I told the Lord I said forgive me for disappointing you every chance I get that came out of my soul I said I said son I feel like sometimes you you put me in a situation and and I disappoint you because I don't want to come across a certain way of course you know he didn't agree with that but is that my perception of it was sometimes God will God would say I need you to trust me you just see some I don't want people to not like me that comes a time in your life where what God cannot get you to the next place you have to go until you let people go to connect to him your connection your everybody I see my first connection has to be with him here's the thing if your family does not like the fact that you connect you're connected to God the crazy part is if you disconnect from God to keep them you invite you eventually lose them we'd be disconnect from hit them to keep him he will give them back to you down the road he'll give him back to you see people feel you don't understand who you think you don't even know who God is he said I just don't know people no no you hold on to him innocent it could sound crazy look ignorant to people you hold on to him whatever you say say that loud what do you do you hold on to him come hell or high water let life drag you where it will don't let go of him because of the end of it whatever you let go to hold on to him he will give it back to you and more and more and more yes and more now I want to do this real quickly so go to Colossians chapter 2 verse 19 real fast I want to UM I want to give you some meat tonight it's actually it's going to be pretty good um go to verse 18 I wanted I start address this on Sunday and this is very deep thing I want to go into it because it's part of my personal study but he's teaching he Glac up to verse 16 maybe there's a part of one a read coming down I want to be the running start here's what he said don't let anyone condemn you for what you eat or drink or for celebrating certain holy days like Christmas like Easter he said because some people's alright you don't know what those are pick it hearted he said don't let him condemn you what it means is ignore or he said or not celebrating certain holy days or new moons or ceremonies or Sabbath you're not keeping the Sabbath day holy he said don't even listen to them ignore them here's what he said in verse 17 he said for these rules are only shadows of the reality yet to come in other words the purpose of these rules were not really um in and of themselves important what was important is what they represented they represented Christ it says Jesus himself he's the reality who's the reality if the Sabbath day the Sabbath day rests in Genesis pointed to Jesus coming and finishing his work and now we get to rest on him in the seventh day that's that's what it is it's a prophetic utterance and he said they will just shadows you we don't play with shadows won't even talk to shadows I thought walk about you you talk that shadow I'm gonna have you committed this shadow is something it represents something standing in lights you got it it's just uh Christ Himself the reality he says don't let anyone condemn you but by insisting on pious self-denial oh you're fast enough there's the power in fasting is not in not eating if it was power not eating the revival everywhere that is a famine right now the power is not in eating the power is in you seeking to put yourself under to get closer to God that's the partner power he says but if they insist on it pie self-denial or the worship of angels saying they've had visions about these things he said they're sinful minds have made them proud here's what a crazy but they're religious he said but sin invading their minds that their their reasoning and their rationale it made them arrogant and remember this now once you walk you cannot walk with God proudly on the journey of life the moment you become arrogant in your cur God he's gonna stop right there and he's gonna deal with your pride before you take your step further I just don't like to be bears for the people well you got a problem in the faith let me tell you right now there are times where God would allow you to be stripped I'm talking metaphorically strip naked for the sake of you seeing you not who you think you are and and I'm a tape and here's the thing the stripping is not the problem see everybody's gonna go through it everybody has been through it to some degree but that how do you respond to it you try to cover yourself or do you let him cover you or do you listen does it change your thinking when it's a guy he said to me he said I saw you preach he says so he priests he mentioned the time he says and I saw a priest this time he said something is different he said what happened to you and I said what do you mean he said there's something different so what do you see he said but it's deeper as far as I'm concerned I put you in the same way both people see me please just say something different you know what happened differences there's some things I said it's before that you can't learn standing up the perspective that you have is not good enough until you have fallen flat on your face failure has a way of teaching lessons that success can let me tell you something about victory rips um victories don't come until God reduces using thirty two thousand three hundred until God takes away from you instead of giving to you until God short listen God has a way of shipping you of your self-confidence your self-esteem your self-image so he can give you his confidence his esteem and his image it's too much of self involved now this is important i watch this so verse 19 says verse 19 says and they you speaking of the other people who require you to do all these things he said the problem is they puffed up in the mind of Philip rod and they're not connected they're disconnected from Christ who's the head your first connection is to the head your first connections to the head you are connected to you people say well I love that Church of the heading right I'm not the head he's the head what I am i'ma tell you what what is leadership leadership members of the neck God and wherever the head turns the neck turns you got it we turn what he turned and I'ma tell you what's gonna happen the day is gonna come if there's gonna come and it's upon us now you want to see this where where everything is gonna go back to Christ God's gonna leave entire systems in the dust now not almost say this and I want some time we look at people's help these people so jacked up there's some people were jacked up and that's just where they are don't don't just don't dismiss them they're going through a time how many of you were ever jacked up in your walk with the Lord jacked up you rejected okay I was but now I'm gonna tell you you know what you know what really helped me the men of God that God put me under I remember something that happened one time and I was with our Bishop and I was trying to I was trying to advise Bishop that it was in his best interest to kind of go along with the program whatever it wasn't happening and Bishop turned to me said I know what it was Bishop's ban walked off the job on a Friday he had no band for that Sunday and that was kind of funny you know maybe maybe should go you should do it a certain way hazzle Bishop says he said I want to stand with the Lord here's what he said regardless of food draws or what drives and when he said that I never forgot his what he said he said if your commitment to the Lord listen to this if your connection to the Lord does not draw people or Drive people you're not doing it right it should draw people to you it should drive people from you because the people that can't go where you're going can't watch this has a rule it should be in your life that the people that can't that the people are not supposed to be with you can't stay and and the people that are supposed to be with you can't leave that's the power of God the people are not supposed to be if you can't stay and the one that's that are supposed you can't leave the God does that you don't do it you just let you let him like a bus driver you drive the bus let him get on off let God do what he's gonna do that's everybody said the power of connection the Bible says then I connected it to Christ the head of the head of the body now this is this is the part I want to really help you wait for he holds the whole body together with his joints and ligaments and it grows as God nourishes it now so what I want to go and do real quickly and I'm kind of out of the time I met I need it but I want to talk to you real fast before I even deal with this the the theology of this because there's some powerful theology here this is words I want to define this one bless your life but I want to give you one two three four five maybe nine things that that connection provides the first thing you need to know is the purpose of connection is relationship the purpose of connection is work so if it has been said he said when he says they're not connected to Christ he's saying they don't have a relationship with him in Matthew 11 when Jesus said I'll take my yoke upon you his what he says dallisa develop a relationship with me describe how a relationship works I mean if you don't have talked to a person do you have a relationship with him I mean how does a relationship work you could be related to people you never met some of you never met your cousins did you relate it to them you that's not what he's talking about he's talking about relationship as a verb as something that's ongoing something that's happening okay so the purpose of the connection is relationship relationship provides nine things at least I want to give them to you write them down number one provide companionship companionship speaks of someone to go with you someone that walks with you wherever you go and you when you're connected to the Lord in your relationship with him what he goes with you he walks with you what's the first thing competitor relationship provides compassionate number two a relationship provides strength strength what is it well how does relationship provide strength well here's how it works it provides someone to cover my weakness that remember I'm not right now my first connections to the Lord but God has connected me to other people as well I'm gonna tell you one of the crazy things so so let me ask you a question lemme see if you get this right what am I to you no no say that i what am I to you what does it mean to you what is my function I mean no right answer me I want to hear what you let it be individual I'm until you right or wrong you said something crazy I'm against you but what's Michael mean what am i function in your life you say I'm your pastor right let me ask you a question it's pastoral ministry leadership yes or no okay now it's this pastoral many ministry provide oversight do you understand what that means okay what God give you a past if you didn't need one let me tell you all something about this and I'm gonna be really really burned about this be careful about people coming up to you talking crazy about the people that pastor you not just me I'm gonna tell you why because when that happens the enemy is attacking you it's an attack of the enemy because watch this now if the word can you imagine the example I use of that lady in Safe Harbor can you imagine what would have happened if she had a demon in her ear said oh she trusts him and I've given that water she blowing I don't know his God or not she may have been in jail today it's the difference sometimes between incarceration and promotion at the end of her letter you know she said she's a pastor the whole thing she gave me a whole story i'ma give it to read the actual thing to you I'm just give you the highlights she said individu said the job that was actually on she said by the time the case was thrown out she said that the 21 the case she said the boss that was over me who took a chance on me doing the whole thing he said he's leaving and they told me I'm in line for his job he recommended me for his job let me tell you something you guys playing games you go well you know you listen you have people in your ear talking crazy to you can they pastor you can they hear from God see you have to be careful you've got to be careful gotta be careful with these things then listen just remember time guy said to me it'd be easy huh he's hard to you I've made us an eight whose Nate he's taught mama bishop like I don't know Nate not Thomas said y'all I said no we were email back for us said no no I said you try my Bishop walking stamped on mine it is let me tell you something right now I said no you write me no more his heart torn I said you were snare and here's why when you or if you ever in a situation where they have to hospitalize you and you up in the hospital when holes is coming in and out of you from every direction every office who do you want to walk into the room heart or pastor you see how that works you have to define your connections can I tell you something as some of you need to start worshipping heroes you worship free people's gifts you know you can't do that listen don't not even mind no don't don't do that the reality is what is who God has called me to be to you is where the power is it doesn't come from me come from him what He has called me to be to you I have advisors around me and and I am the most agreed in my circle but my advisors speak I listen um both myself and enlisted my advisors why because they're there for at vco ad means it means to bring to us and what VCU misses see a different set of eyes a different vision let me give some more I'm gonna I don't want to get maybe some more so let's watch this so so you your your relationship provides companionship number two it provides strength number three it provides another set of eyes it advice means to add vision to you what about this super vision supervision is someone when you think of supervision what do you think someone that's what say that last summer that's what okay that's the thing people said what somebody let's over me know don't you think supervision don't think someone see that someone is over me so I'm gonna think someone who can see over me and they works like this pastor P come here let me see something he told me how tall you you six feet I'm 510 right six feet okay face the congregation stand right here see it you face them i'ma show you something so check this out so he's taller than me in the natural but if in a spirit God called me to be his pastor I don't care how old he is that to see him I can see further than what he could see you got it and even if I'm close enough to him to whisper in his ear I could still see past his head and ever loses his sight if the enemy ever brings him under attack where he can't see for himself if he's connected to me and I'm over him that I will let him go in the direction and I'm at a stop wall on to the Shepherd's thank you sir woe unto the pastor's that want to make you friends and won't tell you the truth I want to be your friend so I will tell you the truth and you judge my pastoral ministry whether or not I tell you the truth so you're probably here's your problem you say well I don't like what pastor said no no no you see I'm not here for you like what I'm saying I'm up if I never aggravate you if you never leave here feeling irritated if you if you want tempted at some point I just start to walk out then I'm not your pastor because your pastor would irritate the fool out of you like sand in your shoes he would be the kind of person he ever had her socks on the wrong way and no matter he he becomes to you a constant irritant until the thing that's in your soul is past it's true it's true that's that's the way it works you know I tell you some stories they some stories um so so he becomes another set of eyes on relationship provides number one companionship number two strength number three another set of eyes number four another voice an advocate to speak for you in your absence another voice number five our relationship provides another perspective someone to offer a different point of view or to help you see things from another vantage point that that's a powerful thing when you suppose you by yourself the body says two is better than one if you fall down somebody's there to pick you up at three four core is not easily broken what happens to you when you are the only eyes in your circle relationship also provides confirmation someone to confirm what you think is true but you think you see is nothing like you say am I seeing this right and another person can say yep that's what it is confirmation when you're not sure relationship also provides our encouragement someone to pick you up pull you along push you in the right direction or drag you've necessary no ma'am I am I in a relationship provides restraint in redirection now let me tell you that is someone to stop you from wrecking yourself if you don't have someone in your life that can tell you shut up how many you got a friend I can tell you listen I had a friend that used to me stop talking now how many remember pastor rod pastor rod used to go stop talking now now stop you got stop and he did it in such a way he used the only person that could tell me to shut up because he never just said shave use this you need to stop talking now and I just look at him and bust out laughing come across the room here you go you make a fish you go like you need to stop oh he walked by me I'll hear you and he will keep on walking and I'm like leave me alone he come and he said oh he can I talk to him for me he put me aside said man you need a good because it's gonna get ugly real quick someone that knows you someone that could correct you when you hear the word correct it shouldn't bother you it shouldn't offend you if your pride is hurt though someone has to correct you you don't understand correction how many you have a GPS that gives you direction after you pass the turn is that not aggravate I was riding with someone the other day and and the GPS kept giving us or says turn left on Jefferson Avenue we just passed it after the third time of it doing us it could have jumped off right now I just put it in my in my playing because this is kisses drive me crazy what good does it do you the person that sees what's right doesn't tell you what's right I can ask you a question do you think it's unloving for someone to tell you you're wrong you know I'm gonna tell you i'ma tell you about me I used to have a major major in my early days in the Lord I used to have this this crazy problem with anger after my anger that you would not believe and I was sitting my office at Fort McClellan Alabama and I was praying to God I don't be like this and the Lord had me to read a book and in the book the pastor said he said if you struggle with anger studies subjectivity I've told you this many times subjectivity as I opened one found the dictionary looked at the word subjectivity and it started teaching me the difference between being subjective and being objective how many you want to hear the difference anybody you've all read out before okay how many never heard that before the difference okay let me help your rigor so so so it's not being subjective and being objective deal with how you see life okay so if you are if you are objective it means that you could stand back and look at the whole situation and go I see how it looks without you that's objectivity subjectivity is when you stand in the center of the argument and you think that all there is is what you see that's what makes you mad what really aggravates you when your subjective is then not seeing what you're seeing but it's obvious to everybody that's what it is but if they standing in a different position you got it and they don't see what you see the only way to maintain a relationship or connection it's a step back and sometimes maybe come out of the center of the circle and go around the circle instead where everybody else is standing to see if you can see what they see when the moment I implemented that my anger starts to subside to the point where were people outside well tell me what you think at first I used to do it just to do it you know but after a while I became very important tell me what you think to the point where when I have a staff meeting I don't tell I may have vision and if our vision I cast it but for the most part what I want to know is what does my staff see because I pay them to see I need to know because they own the job tell me from your vantage point what you see and I may have a suggestion or fix for it you got you see how it works you cannot maintain connection with people and be subjective it means that when someone corrects you but someone says what you're doing is wrong you at least got to listen and especially if you know that the enemy comes at you in a certain area don't get mad with people for telling you you're wrong how many you hear me tonight nice confession time let's do some Catholic Church ok so so how many fasts do you know what I still get mad when people tell me I'm wrong okay put your now let your see somebody over here started something so how many you get mad with your mate tells you you're wrong how many you got wish you gotta make the tail your own uncle that's neither long you order you you you get mad I wish I had better take my wrong okay so just watch this sometimes stop here's the thing sometimes what happens to us it's not it's not what it said it's who says it can I help you out if your problem is people that's an authority over you can't tell you you're wrong you need to check that I tell you that is a wound a wound is not a scar a scar is a wound that went through the process and healed the wound healed but it left a reminder that something tried to kill you and then succeed that's all that's a scar a wound is something that was inflicted on you that you never went through the process of recovery here's the danger about wounds I wish I'd mop up it out here but I don't have one I wish I want you in purpose a big the kind of scary but Satan uses the wound in your life as a place to put his hand and he actually plays the ventriloquist in your life using the place that you were hurt so check out this this story in math don't put on the screen but in Matthew 16 remember the story Jesus says to the disciples here the story says who the men say that I the Son of Man am and the Bible says and they all began to answer they answered him every one of them all the twelve says some say you're John some say you're Elijah some say you did some say you want the Prophet they all answer then he asks the second question but who do you say that I am before the others can answer Peter spoke up What did he say he said thou art the Christ the Son of the Living God here's the crazy part Jesus told him he said flesh and blood did not reveal to you my father in heaven literally just spoke that through you so Peter answered twice the first time Peter answer the question what do people say about me say well you John the Baptist the second time he said the second question he's Acts but he said who do you think well I think you're the Christ the Son of the Living God three verses down Jesus tells them the Son of Man must be betrayed into the hands of sin and he's gonna be crucified and Peter said to me he said God he said god forbid that were ever happened to you and Jesus turns and looks at me and he says get thee behind me Satan for thou savourest not the things that be of God but the things be of men translation he says you only concerned about human things how did he go from speaking for himself speaking for God I'm not speaking for the devil in fact in a matter of five verses how is it possible that one person can speak from his humanity that's what people saying well that's what I heard and speak for God your God and then then rebuked the Lord how is it possible be mindful that even good people if their wounds are not healed Satan could slip his hand into their wound and move their mouth like a ventriloquist and have them speak for him because his wife here's why because they worked with the walls Peters wound Peter had finally found someone he had finally had a man his life that could teach him from the time Jesus met Peter the first encounter here's what Peter says to Jesus he says Lord depart from me he said apart for me I'm not a worthy man and Jesus looked at me says it's okay he says from this day i'ma teach you how to catch men he says follow me and Peter left a business conglomerate it was just a single business it was him and his partners he walked away from a profitable business on the day of his largest catch the Bible says that almost sunk his boat it was the mother lode he walked away from his business and we walked him from his business he found the Lord and he left everything for Jesus and I Jesus telling you about to leave you had to leave me Jesus touched a wound what was the wound rejection and whenever there is a wound in me I have to be guarded certain things not look at see what mine I had a bully wound mom I don't do bullies I've got to really stay close to them look to the foot of the Lord or a foot of the cross we're not deal buddies cuz I don't play bullies I like to wreck my life deal with bullies I had to deal with that and it's innocent and you said past they sealed it I have to be honest not all the way and you have to be honest with you - what is your wound because if your wounds rejection Satan will continue to use the wrong attractions if you listen if Peters case Peter was trying to grab on to the Lord that loss is not no no he says he said you're not you know seen as spiritually he says you're just speaking for the devil the same man in five verses spoke for himself spoke for God and spoke for the devil and you and I know how many you learned something tonight okay we're almost done we're almost done so watch this now so so where do I get what number my at now okay look in the man so relationship provides comfort that's the last one someone to calm you down some want to hold you down so I want to hug you someone to love you we all are going to need companionship strength another set of eyes another voice another perspective confirmation encouragement on restraint in every direction and comfortably all going to need them we're going to need them and so you need this connection with the Lord and with your church now there in this scripture there are two words I want you to write down taking notes and I'm almost done you're good is this helping you okay see what says say he holds the whole body together with joints and ligaments remember I talked about that on Sunday give me King James I want to show them something the Bible says in the King James it says arm not hole in the head with from which all the body ever says by joints and bands anybody a rubber band okay watch it yeah another word for band is bonds so let me tell you what this is medically medically so it's a good example music you see this right here okay so this is this is a cup of my iPad and what and what it's designed to do is this iPad powers down when the covers close but the problem is when if I put it in my bag and it's been known to happen to put it in my backpack and because it's not it's not clamped down it stops charging and I'll show up somewhere to preach with no power so that so I had one that did this so I went and got one with a band and what the band does you flip the band over and the band holds it in place see the problem is the Bible says that Jesus doesn't just a function with joints but he functions to predict or provide bands when you see joints think of relationships and I'm and the Greek word is gonna blow you away for joints and bands really it's joints and ligaments okay now there's a book called the sparkling gems from the Greek written by our a man named Rick Renner he's a missionary to Russia and when I when I first cutting teeth in ministry teaching ministry I would read Rick Reno's dictionary just to read him he's a genius he's a a Greek scholar and so I pulled a couple up instead of just going through my own definitions I pulled the definitions that Rick used okay he says that the Lord holds the body together by joints invantive everybody said joints and bands so here's what it means once I'm connected to the head once it once I'm connected to him to Lord I commit to you the first thing he does is he connects to someone and then he Institute something between us that acts like a bond I'm gonna just give it away real quickly I told you on Sunday the two main ones are peace and love in other words he will give you a love for a person now let me tell you somebody love this people say well I just don't think I don't think they have any love you know who's the most who criticized people and I have loved the most the most loveless people let me tell you I love you have got to use love as your standard you're not you're not the judge you're not the jury you're not the teacher grading report cards you don't you can't grade another person's love you have to grade your own love how are you loving I'm loving perfectly well if you love it perfectly you can't be offended love is never offended you see what we be doing we were real great people or will judge people based on how it's supposed to be well you know and we great ourselves based on logic just is just where I am and you say well you're wrong and the Lord knows my heart okay so let me show you this real quick so the word joints is a word go to Ephesians 4:16 imma walk it from there it says instead give me King James it says this but speaking the truth in love may grow up into him in all things which is the head even Christ verse 16 from hold from whom the whole body fitly joined together you see that phrase fitly joined together the word joins their points back to where you saw what you saw in colossians and compact it those word fitly joined together and compacted is the same phrase that we just saw which is joints and ligaments the word compacted is the word ligament and the word fitly joined together speaks of joints and it says by that which every joint supplies now give me New Living Translation let's see how it translates it he makes the whole body fit together perfectly as each part does his own special work now I want to give you the definitions of these of his phrase fitly joined together and then compacted and then we go home in this book sparkling gems from the Greek Rick Rena explains the phrase being fitly joined together is that is the the translation of the Greek word Sumer illegal I'm sorry sue mom are soon Armel look log a tsunami log a Oh Lord that was my photo come on soon I'm Oleg a and it's three words do I know the word soon means together that's the basic definition almost speaks of of a joint and I will give you a deeper definition and logia means to speak okay tsunami lugia now this let me say was powerful about this here's how he did explains it he said the first part of the word soon which means cooperation or partnership or the more general term is together it pictures something that is done in conjunction with someone else something that is done in other words something that you can't do alone what are some things you can't do alone work wise if you if you work a certain job there's something you can't do long name a couple you can't you can't be an assembly line by yourself give me a couple others you huh you a certain you can't perform surgery by yourself what about this one if you're moving company you can't show up at a person I throw my there I gotta wear your team an army I'm the one I'm with mutant I don't care strong you are you can so the word soon means things something that's done in conjunction a partnership or together with someone else that's the prefix soon the root word almost is the medical term that is described a physical joint in a human body so according to the Greeks any joint and your body is an almost see that it's almost now what makes the word powerful is the word look gay or normally is the word Louis which means to speak in this case there were logos that the last part of the word means to frame or to specify let me share it worse okay so soon soon means something that's done in conjunction almost mean a joint soon ammos tsunamis mean a joint that worked with that joint or joint that works with another joint but here's the problem were located on the n means with specificity in other words I'm going to tell you what fits with what so watch this I can't connect my wrist to my knee that's not what it's for the logos that God gave it says that the wrist connects the hand to the arm right and so and so I have a leg I have a foot and then the ankle joint connects the leg to the footage see how that works and so the elbow connects the upper arm to the lower arm the shoulder joint can you see how that works its specificity you if you were to see an arm I'm just laying they try to put a skeleton together certain bones are made specifically to go together that's what the word tsunami all know Gayle means fitly joined together means that God is the one that puts that one with that one and that one with that one and so I can't be just because these are together God put him together man I wish I was that leg and you know I was I wish you know saying I wish I was the ankle cuz I got to be I got the fellowship with the foot and the leg I wish I was the wrist cuz I get a be a part of pointing and that's cool can you imagine that the knee looking at the and say I wish I was a part of operation of and then when you're running you can you imagine you your wrist saying man jealous man all we do swing back and forth name but they doing it down there together that's funny when they write the word ligaments now is a different word and it while we have this is something is important that you need to know that with all three works put together of course it specifies it talks about the joints or whatever but the ligaments talked about and the word here compacted is the word soon be back so and this word means to describe the sinews which are the tissues that connect the muscles to your bones and the ligaments the whole that joints together and cause them to function now you know how I would join like this the reason that your arm when you throw a ball your arm and just come out of joint is because ligaments are holding the muscle to the bone and the Bible says when I'm connected to the Lord is what he does he puts me in these relationships with people and then he puts things in place to make sure that the joint doesn't come out and the Bible specifically calls it mentions to put Ephesians four and three on the screen if he's in 4 1 3 in the King James Version it says it clearly it says make every effort endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the what in the what that word bond the word band is the same way it says in the bond of peace so peace is when we have peace among us and we have peace among us it keeps the joint in place some of you your life is hurting because God puts you relationship with people and and because of your own the way of seeing things you being subjective and easily offended you can't stay in connection to your life hurts all the time your life hurts all the time because your life is always out of joint dislocated anybody ever had a dislocated anything I don't tell you this funny thing about dislocate if you look at my finger you'll come out with my pinky finger how many could see it which one point to the one which one can you see it once look look at it how I'm bending one and look at the other can you see that when I was playing basketball I stuck my hand in front of the ball to try to steal the ball and it bent my finger straight up came out of joint when it was reset I noticed something it never could bend like this again this is a mark to show me that there was a disconnection in this joint and what happens to us is whenever our relationships come out of joint and something goes wrong when they do go back together there's always that little thing that in a natural is not right and what we have to do is number one we had to talk about it we got to talk about it let's talk about the hump and I finger the hump in the connection we had talked about it and then together we have to go to the loss of God you put us together so fix this and then we're helping out with something that's crazy then we have to honor the purpose of the relationship someone to me my mother but I ain't she she talked to me wait wait wait you see dad working his why because in a relationship like that somebody got to humble themselves how does the humility work the Bible says I hold myself up come to the authority that God said in order so what's the authority between a mother and a daughter though y'all don't know you're looking me like one is in charge you said pastor I just like we should talk to me to treat me funny can you trust God and you walk humbly with your God enough to humble yourself in there in the relationship and let God deal with the person because if you could do that then what happens this now whatever God is trying to work on in you the your yoke to Jesus and Jesus says he looks at you he goes you know what she loves me so much she's really really valuing this connection and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna bless her life beyond measure and you got me even turn it to the point where watch us now that your mother will finally acknowledge you as an adult because your humility translates to her as adulting it's some some deep stuff it's heavy but it's real sometimes when you come across me your your pride makes you look small but humility makes you a big you humble yourself under the mighty hand of God and He will raise you up in due season and he raises you up in the eyes of those you humble yourself in front of you cannot get through pride or humility are meant to give you you just can't I just get it myself he's not gonna work like that okay perfect okay so let me see if I'm done yeah let's be I'm gonna call that tonight I'll call it let's just do this one thing and we're finished so the second ligament is the ligament of love put Colossians 3:13 3:15 I want to show them that the second ligament is a ligament of love he's making allowances for each other's faults and forgive anyone who offends you remember the Lord forgave you so you must forgive others verse 14 above all plug yourself in love which see that right there it binds us together in perfect harmony verse 15 says and let the peace that comes from Christ rule in your heart what is the governor the governor in your heart amplified version says an interesting way and the amplified says and let the peace from Christ act as an umpire continuing your heart deciding and settling with all finality about with finality rather all questions that arise in your mind in that peaceful state to which as members of Christ one body you're also called to live and be thankful he said that he said when we work a community in connection community in connection has our works we have got to at some point decide I'm going to walk in love i'ma live in peace say that out Lassa I will walk in love I will live in peace repeat this after me said lord I thank you that's another receive your word I declare over my life you've given me the capacity to humble myself before you and before others that I may walk in love and live in peace I declare over my life that my relationships are being healed by the power of the cross I declare that the most difficult relationships that I struggle with today they're being healed by my decision to walk in humility before you I thank you Lord that you're working in my heart now release into my life the things you've promised me I declare that this year I will see more manifestation of the Spirit in my life than I've ever seen before the doors that were closed we're closed for a purpose but this year as I walk before you in humility you will exalt me and open doors in my life they will close when one door closes a better one opens because you're my god and you've promised me that all will work together for good I thank you Father that you're working on my relationships I am connected to Christ he is the most important connection in my life and that connection strengthens more and more and more and it produces for me relationships that benefit me and that I can benefit in Jesus name Amen amen

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