When God Smells Honor - Bishop T.D. Jakes [February 23, 2020]

there's an old saying you hang around the barbershop long enough sooner or later you're gonna get a haircut to get something you never had you have to do something you never did you never did if you are not in the room where changes are occurring you are in the yard where consequences are received register before March 1st and same [Music] we're gonna go to the book of Genesis chapter number 8 verse 15 through 22 and I'm gonna ask you to stand for the reading of the word hallelujah I'm gonna be reading out a NIV version of the scriptures when you have it's a man then God said to Noah come out of the ark you and your wife your sons their wives bring out every kind of living creature that is with you the birds the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it so Noah came out together with his sons and his wife and his sons wives all the animals and all the creatures that move along the ground and all the birds everything that moves on land came out of the ark one time after another then Noah built an altar to the Lord and taking some of all the clean animals and clean Birds he sacrificed burnt offerings on it it's what I want you check out the Lord smelled the pleasing of Roma the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said it is hard never again will I curse the ground because of humans even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood and never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done as long as Earth endures seed time and harvest cold and heat summer and winter day and night will never cease can the church save man back to that God smell the Lord smelled this is what was got me going this morning the Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart never again will I curse the ground that's good I want to talk about when God smells honor when God smells honor her there's some things that I have in my heart to share with you this morning I'm so excited I feel like a little boy on Christmas Eve something is about to happen in this place today there's something that happens in your life in your heart between you and God when God smells anybody want to honor God this morning anybody ready to honor God in such a way that then you break a curse over your life with it anybody wanna honor God in such a way that that he closes a door on your history and says never again anybody wanna honor God in such a way that he closes out the past and opens up a bright new future and gets you ready for what God is about to do with your life shout amen father I pray that these lips of clay would be endowed and anointed by your grace and power and such a supernatural way that we're able to be infused with life and give that what you have placed down inside of us without restriction bind every devil and every evil spirit that would get in the way of what you would have done today I think you in advance for what you're about to do move in the midst of your people in the name of Jesus we pray somebody who loves him shout a man you may be seated in the presence of God yeah let's go to work I have been really really busy this week I've been in various retreats have been preaching everywhere I've been preaching so much I don't even know what day it is or what time it is one of the interesting things that one of the sessions said I was in this week we were talking in a team of pastors and get away into a retreat every year and they were talking about how important it is that you rehearse the simplistic stories of the Bible because we can no longer assume today that the congregation knows the word it used to be that a text like this is so so elementary that that I wouldn't even rehearse the text but let me explain to you that one day God told no it was gonna rain and told to Noah to build an ark now you must understand that it had never rained before so Noah didn't exactly know what rain was so he's building for something that he doesn't even understand and yet he builds an ark an art that looks ridiculous to his neighbors and friends but he builds an ark and as God has says he says I'm going to take the righteous his family and put them inside of the ark because man is so wicked that the wickedness has become so destructive and so overwhelming that I'm going to start this whole process over again and I want you and your three sons ham Shem and Japheth to get on the in the ark with your wives and together the eight souls sealed in with all of the animals that they could gather representatives of all of the animals two by two and the Lord shut the door on the ark and it began to rain drip drop drip drop little by little the rain became so pervasive that the ark begins to lift and it's the heart began to lift and take its buoyancy it began to set sail for forty days and forty nights as the earth itself was submerged beneath water and finally finally as the waters receded Noah comes to a resting place on the top of a mountain and it funny how God will move you where he wants you to be Noah comes to a resting place on the top of the mountain and our text begins at this stage of the story when the door of the ark is opened and God begins to speak to him and I want to talk a little bit about the whole what what really God wants us to understand about this this this amazing experience that happened during the antediluvian age and and what it means not only there's so much that it means that I could talk all day about it on one hand I believe God wants us to understand that he provides a safe place for his children that that no matter what's going on around you that if you belong to him that he will always put you into a place of security and take you through things that you couldn't get through by yourself on one hand I want you to understand that God opens doors and God closes doors and when God closes a door no man can open them I think he wants us to understand that when a door is open we have to seize every opportunity to maximize that moment not assuming that the door will stay open that anything you're going to do for God you must do it now that if you're gonna accept it you have to accept it now and if you're gonna receive him into your life that there is no guarantee that opportunity will remain open to you I think he wants you to get that out of it I think he wants you to understand the buoyancy of a new beginning often is symbolized by water that Noor and his sons were actually baptized in the oceans and the waters in the seas and those that were not committed to God were drowned in what the righteous sailed through I think he wants you to understand the advantage of being a believer that Noah built by faith to the saving of his house and that ministry begins at home not a church I think he wants you to understand that he's more concerned about you winning your family that is you winning your friends of being impressive to other people that walking around with egg to some of your cars and crosses around your neck had Bibles in your hand and you are not who you say you are inside your own house I think he wants us to understand that if the love of Christ is going to show it's you show up first in the way you live outside of Sunday morning I think he wants you to understand that he has a way of designing a safe place so secure that no matter how violent things are outside you can have peace inside and I think that's a real problem today finding peace on the inside it's written ahead of time in the world when the whole world is going crazy every time you turn on the news you see something that makes you want to throw up God says I want to insulate you the Bible says that art was pitched within and without in such a way that Noah and his family were secure I think he wants to understand that they were secure and they were safe and I think that the Ark is figurative of the church but I also think he wants you to understand that even though it was secure and safe it was kind of smelly in there imagine being locked up in an ark for 40 days and 40 nights with all kind of animals and no bathrooms and no restrooms and only one window I think he wants us to admit the fact that you could be a Christian to be a believer and be surrounded by other believers that it can still be smelly in there I think he doesn't want us to have any false illusions that that his arts are air conditioned that they are climate control that if you believe where everything's going to be comfortable all the time I think he wants you to understand that in the course of dealing with other people that they bring their own drama into the atmosphere and that each living thing contributes to the odor including you so that you don't become judgemental and started talking about the person next to you and what they did and how awful they are I think he wants you to understand that all of us bring a certain stench with us with our same self with our Handclap itself with our foot stomp itself with our Jesus love and Bible told the scripture quoting him singing self we all bring a certain stench that you have to learn to live with I think he wants you to understand that the stench on the inside is better than the storm on the outside so before you give up on the church and say I don't want to be in the stitch just remember that it's either the stench or the storm how many people would rather have the stench then they have the storm I know the church has a lot of problems and a lot of issues that a lot of stuff for Noah but that stint ain't so bad when you think about the storm going on on the outside are you hear what I'm saying to you today but there's something deeper that I want you to see this morning about the ark because because this there are certain things about God that that never ever change he is what he is his methods may change but he is who he is you must understand that we are to perceive God before scriptures just by his doings and his actions and his deeds amongst the people and when I look at the ark I begin to understand that God works with cocoons yeah that he will he will put you into a place of protection to develop you that how you go in is not always how you come out that this incubation that he does with Noah not only brings us some historical context context of how God dealt with the flood and how God recreated a new environment for man to dwell in but I think it hips to how God handles us as well then he'll put you in a cocoon sometime in a holding place sometime make you wait sometime make you endure something sometime that God has a way of holding you up while you develop and will open the door until everything is ready for you to step from a smaller place into a much larger place no wonder he says despised love today a small beginning the god incubates greatness in small places in tight places in isolated places that God will hold you back until everything's ready and being he'll open up a door for you people are amazed to find out then I spent the first 10 years of my life pastoring less than a hundred people in the back side of a mountain in a city with one red light and they said you TV says yeah yeah yeah but let me tell you something God starts you out small put you in a cocoon where he can work on you and work on your attitude and work on your leadership and work on your character and work on your disposition and work on your integrity and work on your relentlessness and some of you are trying to get out of the womb but I want to warn you that it's dangerous to get out of the there women will have two more pregnancies and and if the baby doesn't stay in the room or the baby begins to just stayed outside of the world generally the baby doesn't make it because when God cocoons you is for your own protection I want to talk to somebody who feels as fixated in their own life and frustrated in their own circumstances that you've been praying for God to get you out of something I want to tell you to just get comfortable and ride it out anybody understand what I'm saying I want you to see when we look at the arcs something about how God incubates greatness in cocoons and I want you to understand something about God because when I looked at the arc and I started thinking about the arc floating in all of that water and all that would live being in the arc I begin to see a pattern I begin to see a pattern I begin to see that the same God who gave the direction for Noah to build the ark it's the same God they gave the insect the cocoon that nature itself that Noah is it's doing what God told him to do but he's also imitating what nature is teaching us about gestation that God puts the insect in the cocoon so that it can discover itself so that when it comes out it will be greater than it was when it went in so that it can be protected in its early stages of development that God will conclude greatness sometimes that you might not give the reward immediately you might get your wings immediately you might not take flight immediately you might not get married immediately you might not find a happiness immediately then sometimes God has to put you in a cocoon so you can find out who you really are and you have to have enough faith to stay where he put you until he opens up the door to take you into the next dimension without crawling your way out to your own destruction [Applause] am i talking good this woman and it occurred to me that the womb that will bend the arc and the cocoon are not new ideas that what God had no one to build with the arch had been done when God built the woman that the woman was the first art that God would he form the woman y'all don't hear what I'm saying to you but when he put Adam into a sleep and then he built the woman out of Adam that he built her with the womb so that the world would hold life and suddenly I saw a connection between this and this and this I will hear some woman talk to me right now that when God made the woman out of the man and the man woke up and sold the woman he doesn't start talking about her hair and her makeup and her fingernails or anything like that the thing that got him was she was a man with the womb so he called a woman oh y'all what I'm saying to you you have to understand that when God God is showing you his methods this is a pattern that continues to occur all through the Bible that when God gets ready to just say anything he puts it in a controlled environment to incubate it for what he's going to do next that life is in the womb that life is in the cocoon that life is in the arc that God creates this to protect you so what could feel like a prison could be a promise Oh so somebody's gonna catch me here in a minute what could feel like a prison what could be restrictive what could it be uncomfortable what could be tight what could feel like it's like like like not easy for me to be in here he could be God producing a promise in your life and when the door opens you shall come forth who am I talking to this morning I don't know about you but I've had to stay in some tight places I understand some places that were kind of stinky I came to play I've had to stay in some places that were kind of sticky I've had to stay in some places that were kind of tight and I wondered how long Lord how long will I be like there how long before I get my breakthrough how long before the job comes how long before I give the money how long before I get to breathe how long before I get but God knew how long to keep me to protect that which he had committed into my hands are you following what I'm saying to you Tessa might say hang in there see you don't want to abort your promise because of your impatience or you may say that's too good to ignore you don't want to abort your promise because of your impatience you want to go through the whole process if it's 40 days or not lunch Lord don't let me give birth to something that hasn't fully developed in my life here thank you for holding me back thank you for the doors you didn't open thank you for the things you didn't release [Applause] [Music] see I can't get off of it see every one of these every one of these every one of these feels stuck if you're in this argh you feel stuck if you are in this cocoon you feel stuck if you are in this womb you feel stuck you cannot live out of your feelings because God doesn't put you in an ark to make you comfortable and appease your emotions he puts you in a place to protect you until the storm is over until the test is over until the trial is over and in the fullness of path they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength they serve an upper wheeze just looking somebody said just wait till I come out of this [Applause] just wait until I come out of this just wait till I come out of this just wait till I am obscure right now but just wait till I come out of this I'm broke right now but just wait till I come out of this app lonely right now but just wait till I come out of this nobody knows me right now but just wait yeah just wait just wait just wait just wait just wait just wait just wait just wait just wait just wait just wait I got out of my bed this morning to tell somebody just wait I put on my clothes this morning to tell somebody just wait I got dressed and came down the road to tell somebody just wait when the storm is over and the door opens up God is going to do a new thing in your life can I get 30 seconds of praise [Applause] let me go on a little further I wanna go on a little further there there are all kinds of arcs that God issues the woman was the first one she wasn't the only one the ark that Noah built was the next one but he wasn't the only one Egypt was a womb where God incubated the nation of Israel they went in as a family and they came out as a nation God incubated them for 400 years of slavery and the Bible says the more they afflicted them the more they grew I want to talk to somebody that's incubated in a place of affliction that the more you're afflicted the Lord [Applause] [Music] in fact the very Ark of the Covenant itself is a cocoon the Ark of the Covenant in the temple is a cocoon to house the life-giving power of God's Word and God's truth and God's relevance and one day God Himself decided to come in a cocoon so he wrapped himself up in flesh y'all don't hear what I'm saying he poured out of himself his glory and honor and stepped over into a Virgin Mary and said I need to build me an ark so then I can come from eternity down into time and he said let me use your body for some construction and we beheld the wonder of his glory the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth I'm on a roll with this wolf thing it's working on something with this wolf this I wonder this bit of time in your life that God shuts you up and shut you down so he could bring you out stronger did you have a bit of your life if you understand that shall a man let me [Music] the other thing that fascinated me about the Texas said that God talks to Noah and his family while they're yet in dark he doesn't wait till they get out to talk to them but the Texas while they were yet in the art garden beginning to talk to them and and it made me thankful because sometimes the only time I could stand being in the ark he said God have you ever had God talked to you in a tight place [Applause] yeah yeah yeah yeah he God talks to them in the arc and tells him to come out of the arc and it for some reason it made me go to Jeremiah chapter 1 where Jeremiah and God having an encounter and God said before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee our danger and I say to her see everybody loves you when you come out but we have a God who's doing all kind of things in your life while you're still shut in and the Lord announced to him it's time to come out I made everything ready for you to come out you've been in there long enough now I'm gonna bring you out the Dory is open you can come out I don't know who I'm talking to this morning but you've been shutting it long enough God is saying it's time it's time to come out looking somebody say it's time to come out when God opens the door don't stand there afraid to go through the door when God opens up a door for you don't be afraid to come into the next area can I can I go deeper you see we like to shout about coming out and we like to dance about coming out we like to sing about coming out but coming out is traumatic coming out of your cocoon coming out of a hole coming out of the arc can be a scary thing it can be hard it's like there's not an inmate in jail that doesn't want to come out a prison until they don't open that door and he realizes out is scary new can be frightening new can be intimidating see God never brings you out of a cocoon into something smaller [Music] he doesn't bring babies out of wounds and put them in mason jars if God opens up the womb he's gonna bring you into something that's so much bigger than where you were before they're coming out could be a scary thing who am I talking to we like to think about it we like to shout about it we like to talk about it but when the door is open and you realize I've been in my little world so long they're coming out into a larger place means I may not know the language I may not know who to trust I may not know how I act I may not know who to talk to they're coming out to coming out and coming out of a home for baby it's traumatic I learned so much being in the labor room with my wife she was having a baby I was having class first of all I found out that that babies don't look like the pictures on TV they come out they're kind of messy and they're kind of bruised RNA and and they kind of they kind of smelly in and all of that it's not like TV I wanted her to have the Gerber baby you know the nice fat job baby that they turn into about five weeks later but when they first come out there's a reason that they wake up screaming because birth is traumatic all the bones have to move everything has to share birth is disruptive come on talk to me somebody birth means all systems have to shift in order to accommodate what God is about to do in your life and those contractions are for reason because everything around you has to ship to get ready for the growth that has happened to you while you've been shut up in the world come out come out wherever you are [Applause] come out come out wherever you are can I go deeper with this it occurred to me that Noah and his sons were saved and their wives were all saved but it must have been really traumatic just think about it for a minute to be in the ark and hear the calling outside and the screaming and the drowning and and and to be the only one left imagine if everything outside of this church exploded was nuked or flooded or destroyed and we survived just us and on one hand you're happy because you made it but you're stepping out into something you have never experienced before bit like the bruise body of the baby sometimes deliverance is traumatic sometimes better is traumatic sometimes bigger is traumatic it's scary you can see it with college graduates and you got your degree in you standing there thinking now what I'm out here now what do I do outside of this controlled environment outside of this prison outside of this room outside of this cocoon outside of this arch and still God called him out Noah has a grandson through cush named Nimrod Nimrod builds a great Kingdom one of the kingdoms that he controlled would become Nineveh that great city Nineveh is founded by Nimrod and where Nimrod what Nimrod does is he builds a tower called the Tower of Babel later where that tower would was built would be called Babylon are you hearing what I'm saying now Josephus the historian says check this out that Nimrod didn't just build the tower out of defiance to God he built it in part out of fear of the flood in case this ever happens again [Applause] Oh yo y'all got with me this morning in case this ever happens again I'm gonna build something high enough to escape the flood because Nimrod is still angry and traumatized by what his father went through because Nimrod wasn't alive in the flood but trauma passes from generation oh come on come on come on come on trauma passes from generation see some of the nervousness you got you inherited it recent psychological reports have been done on survivors of the Holocaust several generations later their DNA has been altered by what their great-grandparents went through now LeBron is fighting his father's experience and he is trying to build up a defiance against something he himself did not even [Music] can I go deeper can I go deeper with this I want you to understand this the thing about Nimrod he said Nimrod built out of fear Noah built out of faith are you building out of fear or are you building out of faith the Bible says Noah being warned of God of things not yet seen built an ark to the saving of his house he did it by faith he did it by what he did it by what yeah by faith Lord being warned of God of things not yet seen built an ark to the saving of his house to all of you who are building my faith whatever you build my faith will affect your children and your children's children this thing is bigger than you faith is contagious faith is continual faith passes now I know they may not look like it right now but sooner or later if you build it by faith they were having awakening no built by faith and Nimrod built in fear and anger and negativity that's why you got to watch your attitude while you're building it's not just what you built but why you built it it's not that you're quiet that's why you're quiet see some of you are so afraid to be loved to be known to be discovered to be real to be honest that you have built a quiet wall of defense around you to protect yourself and now God is calling you to do things that are out of your comfort zone because you built towers but Noah when he comes out he does not build the tower even though he has gone through the trauma Noah does not be if anybody had a right to build a tower you know how to be Noah after all Noah already knows how to build number two Noah is the one who's gone through the trauma and yet the one who experienced it doesn't build a tower he built an altar what do you do when you come through something that was traumatic and scary either you build a tower to protect yourself or you build an altar to submit yourself which one are you going to build when the storm is over everybody builds something everybody in the story builds something but Noah built an altar live rock built a tower what are you working on can I get into this good God Almighty Nimrod built a tower because he didn't trust God to protect him I'll protect myself I'll build something so if it ever storms again we'll go up this tower and we'll be safe I'll build a tower to heaven because when you have been through trauma you always build something you know I love this church when it gets quiet everybody else loves church when the shelves I love our church when we get quiet because when we get quiet it means you're saying what did I be I don't know but I bet you spouse does because they're having to live in or with or through what you built Oh Oh y'all look like you you just swallowed a canary [Laughter] sometimes you build things you don't even know you built sometimes you snap back you don't even know why you snap back sometimes you're in rage you don't even know why you're mad you didn't even realize that you were building this tower that God will have to tear down and that the ashes and the destruction of that tower would produce a Babylon that would affect all of history because you couldn't handle the trauma of what you went through that's why this text is so powerful because Noah opens the door after coming through the trauma into a world that he has never seen recognizing the fact that the ark is a type of being born again he comes out of the womb like a baby birthed into a new experience and a new world and before he builds a house a market a grocery store anything at all the first thing he builds is an altar the problem with us is that we build the ultra laugh with your other bills our ultraverse Oh help me Holy Ghost we bill our altar after we have done everything else we can do and when nothing else works then we say why I guess I'll just pray it's nothing left to do but pray you don't pray the last you pray first no one imagined this with me hey daddy we don't have no house I ain't worried about the house baby I'm building this altar the better we got kids if we got family we got stuff where you got nothing to do dime the rules there are no highways there's nothing everything's in chaos nothing till I build assaulter safety bus [Applause] oh I wish I had some kingdom secrets the Bible says seek ye first the kingdom of heaven in all this righteousness and everything else shall be added unto you see you trying to get yours and give God's what's left but if you give God first everything else you're vibing with me you bother with me you feelin this so the first thing no wonder nor makes it to the Hall of faith in Hebrews 11 no I'm not only built an ark he gets out the ark and he builds an altar where is your altar where is your altar where is the place that only God [Applause] if I ask you where your car is you know where your car is if I actually wear your suit is you know where your suit is if I should wear your brooch is you know where your bro where is your off no wonder you act out like you do you got a war without an altar and a head he he offers up a sacrifice out of the Animal Center on the arts y'all understand that's all we got left that is really a sacrifice because there's always God when was the last time you gave God your oh no and I'm not just talking about money no no no no no no no no I mean your everything when was the last time you worship and gave him your all when was the last time you prayed and gave me your no wonder you take your money you can't even get pray you you give our little drops of praise like you're doing God a favor when was the last time you gave god yo [Applause] [Applause] so Noah who built an ark say I'm getting into this building thing or can I talk about that a minute Oh God I wasn't even don't say they said you trusted my spirit I got to give this for somebody I don't know who this is for because it if you want it you gotta build it if you want this you got to feel this nobody's gonna will you this nobody's gonna hand you this you're not gonna marry into this if you want this you gotta build it if you want a better life you gotta build it if you want a better marriage you gotta build it if you want to build a business you gotta build it stop running around people waving in the head you something for nothing there's not going and going you have spent years waiting on people to give you something that they are never going to give you know understood if you want to argue gotta build it if you want an altar you gotta build it if you want a house you gotta build it if you want good credit you gotta build it if you wanna degree you gotta build it if you wanna business you gotta build it if you wanna chat you gotta I'm not gonna guys so you can pastor I'm not lying show you the pastor oh my god but I won't die so you can be mad stop trying to kill people put your brain [Applause] touch me people tell them I got some building to do got some building to do I got some building with you I got some building to do I got some building with me I got some building to do I got some building to do if I don't have better I got a building if I don't have love I got a build it if I might have a relationship I gotta build it [Applause] [Music] [Applause] miss Nora couldn't bill mr. Nora's altar [Applause] every person I don't care how close you are to them every person got to build their own altar I can't bill you all to tell you I love you I can't bill I can't bring your office but you gotta have your own altar your own place you only look up your connection and you have to build it and so Noah builds an altar this morning I'm gonna ask you what are you gonna bill what did God put in your life the raw materials that need to be built and your complainant cuz then any bill I gave you the Woollett I gave you the wood I'm not gonna make the chair I gave you the wood and it is whatever it is it is what it is a result of what you built it you want it to be better build it you want to enhance it build it you want a better relationship open your mouth and start communicating it's not gonna happen if you don't you won't God to bless your business God will bless your business but he can only bless what you build he will bless it but he will not build it so that means you got to get off the phone with the people talking about people I am 62 years old and I have never met a rich gossiper I don't know no rich costumers every gossiper I know is broke because rich people don't have have to be in your business they got to be building their own stuff then you get the record F ragazza back because if you take them to my business you ain't got time to take care y'all [Applause] pestering people said buildin buildin buildin this missing I'm almost finished but is anybody getting anything out of this word this this this is really to be honest this is really a weird Bible story it's not really a cool Bible story cuz all these people are dead except eight people this is a catastrophe this is a calamity of mammoth proportions these eight people be therapy maybe counseling they might need medication no wonder Nimrod freaks out and the question becomes how do you respond to God when he does something you don't like see you always preach it real pretty and realize about them coming out but they coming out of my stall of these dead people the real test of a true son is how you respond what I did something you don't like the Bible said if you in do a chest Heisman then you are sons are not bastards if you're an illegitimate child with a chest prize you can walk away but if you're really my son with tears in your eyes you will come back to me because you came out of me come on here's somebody God said the test of sonship is how you react to unpleasantries anybody can praise him when he's doing stuff you like can you praise him on a kidney machine can you praise him in a hospital bed can you praise them at a graveside can you praise them when you're getting laid off cuz you're praising when you're scared now we talked about real Christians you see how the shout range went way down because half of the people in the world only praise God when they did good news but if you're really his child you'll praise it with you don't understand it you're crazy when your heart is broken you're praising when you're upset I was struck by the presentation this morning our new Thomas Dorsey wrote pressures Lord but I didn't know the circumstances around him right now but four dead wife's from the Dead may be buried in the same casket he stumbles to a piano and builds an altar not understanding why God would give something and take it away he doesn't complain about it he doesn't get bitter and uses it as an excuse an excuse to backslide he stumbles to the viana and pins to where his precious Lord take me up take my hand lead me on let me stand I'm tired I'm weak I'm worn but through the storm yeah through the night lead me on Lord to the light take my hand I can't go through this without you take my hand precious Lord lead me on [Applause] [Music] [Applause] it is that spirit that made Noah step down out of the ark and get some wood and build an altar and he offered up a sacrifice a sacrifice not a tip not a toy a sacrifice a sacrifice means that God doesn't want you to keep giving him stuff you can't feel because if you can't feel it he can't either what makes the sacrifice of sacrifice is its significance to you it's a statement of value it's a statement of value and Noor says I know I should have drowned too you had mercy on me you let me succeed where others fail you let me get in where others were locked out you let me complete what other people stumble there you let me survive what my friends did not survive even though I did the same stuff they did oh you ain't gonna talk to me this morning you ain't talk to me so I'm building this Alton I'm often I'm dis sacrificed partly as an admission of the fact that I should have died too so I offer these animals in my stead this is the gospel you took my place he offered a sacrifice up to God and as he slayed the animals and laid them out and set them on fire a burnt offering is always a sin offering Oh God I hope you get blessed without Sharia whoa I couldn't wait for you to get here I wanted to preach this so bad I started to come to your house I start to come in your living room and just let you have it just so I could get this out of me cuz when he gave me this is bless my soul I want to give him something he can feel cuz I realize had he dealt with me according to my sins I should have drowned with the rest of them you didn't make it to school because she was better you made it cuz he was merciful you did what you got to do was better you made it because he was kind to you don't still get up there and stick your nose up in the air and I got you something bring ya halleluja halleluja hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Applause] no wait before I do anything I gotta go [Applause] wife will you let my children live is there anybody in this house is grateful I said is there anybody in this house disgraceful is there anybody in the balcony anywhere watch it on TV watch it on your phone [Applause] we went to the haunted he went to the altar to wash up [Applause] he went to the altar to worship [Applause] and as he lay his sacrifice we ain't cooked in 40 days and I'm hungry and I want a meal but then I'll eat later I'm going off of this up I haven't had any meat for 40 days but I'm giving the protein to you for the Yaqui [Music] [Music] [Applause] and you see it's important that you know that he set it on fire because when you set something on fire you can't take it back when you said it Oh far you can't reach in and get it you can't give it to God and take it back and give it to God take it back and give it a gun take it back away with all these people talking about I gave it to the Lord no you didn't you took it back in the car you took it back in your house you took it back when you give something to God you put it in the fire the manner that is what drove me to the text it was that when he put the sacrifice on the altar on earth that God smelled it in heaven honey the whole story is about when God smells honor and I'ma prove it to you in medical anyway I'm a proven to you the the last verse in Genesis 822 that we quote all the time it's not God's words while there remaineth they were always be seedtime and harvest cold and heat summer in winter holic that's not God's words it was God's thoughts the Bible says that when he smelled the sacrifice the God said to himself [Applause] [Music] when he looked down there and he saw no on his knees and he smelt the first meat go to him he said no matter how wicked they get I'm not gonna do that anymore while the earth remaineth there will always be seedtime and harvest day and night Cole and he there are some things I will never take you through again because I smell honor later he would tell Moses honor that father and our mother that that days maybe longer upon the earth which the LORD thy God giveth thee when God smells honor I'm gonna stop we got it we got a lot of church people that come to church and we got a lot of people who come to service but out of this great crowd of people we got a few folks that offer up a sacrifice and really give God honor and if there's anybody out there under the sound of my voice who's got something to be thankful for don't wait on nobody else around you because most people don't do it but bill you an altar and offer you a sacrifice in the presence of your God and the glory if he wants you to do anything if you watch you're on a sub you thought you couldn't get out of it me heal your body is here indulge your mind it's the watch your child through something they get that Albert dip God up because with God spells [Music] real worship is a funky business is the fact set on fire it's a bad thing to God [Music] with God smells honor he smells it in tears and praise and honor and sacrifice and your praise is going up before the throne as smoke before God and when God smell Dada he gives promises when God smell huh he gives promises when God smell vada ah people coming to church all you want to that I go to nothing [Music] Godspell mama when God smell Dada young man with God smells on he didn't care about what you have or what to grab or what you hold until God [Music] God smells on [Music] he'll make a decision he'll give you a promise hill-hill your land he'll hear you laugh but he can't do it till he spells [Music] you want it right now strength when God smelt up right there if your bedroom right in your living room right by your couch you need to stop a minute and let God smell much smoke coming out of the chimney you are a sinner praise [Music] with God smells off [Music] [Music] and the power [Music] and I go [Music] for [Music] is the [Music] and [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] we rest in your presence we're a senior we're resting in your presence [Music] we're asking in your presence consumers with your power [Music] we rest in a present she [Applause] we're [Applause] [Music] how the news [Music] I see smoke going up in the balcony I see smoke going off in the back of the church I see smoke going up in the choir with garlic smells with God smells are with God smells are with God spare with your spare [Music] when God spells when God's man [Music] with Godspell when will it stop wyngarde spells when will I still live with God smells with God smelter with God smells leather give him something he can smile smile with God's will gods and gods fella I will leave tear smell on won't stop tear smell [Music] go sing to your smeller go clap to your spell I don't give to your smell [Music] it all belongs to you [Music] to do it allows for you the grave can appraise you the grave can appraise you if you let me live I breathe if you're not believer I'm crazier with God smells [Music] when Godspell [Music] Oh [Music] we see [Music] father this morning I thank you because your presence is is in this house and it is you that we came to see not a reed blowing in the wind not a song from a boy so words from a man this you that we came to see your presence is in this place right now and in your presence my problems shrink so small in your presence my complaints sound so foolish in your presence I recognize that I breathe by your grace forgive us of our foolishness and give us back our focus we have a world to build [Applause] we have a world of work to do now like never before we need to focus on the assignment before us forgive us from the folly and the foolishness of the frivolity of our own vanity our own the egotistical ideologists if stood in the way it's always me me me and I need and I wanted I apologize it's not about me it's about you it's not about my feelings it's all about you this morning we pray like David created me a clean heart and renew a right spirit of right a right spirit if ain't nothing else right let my spirit be and my job's not right if my friends aren't right if my situated they let my let me have a right spirit let let let what I do come from the right place with the right motive and protect me from those with ill motives for Dionysus Kingdom whoa for thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever never and ever and therefore and ever [Applause] a man a man [Applause] [Music] that the church say man let the church say man as you moved back to your seat I want you to move loving and sharing and praising God for this moment that we have had in his presence [Music] this is good this is good [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] yes [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] ah [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] ha Cory you're Oh [Applause] my god my god [Applause] brothers and sisters [Applause] found the door family of God the Lord is in this place you don't have to have somebody to lay hands on you for God to lay hands on you the Lord is in this place you don't need anybody to touch you for God to touch you the Lord is in this place and he said to himself [Applause] as long as earth remaineth I will never take this prove that again I don't know what it was you been through but while the earth remaineth that will always be [Music] [Applause] hey night good God Almighty let me stop I feel it [Applause] Wow that's hard to pick my favorite woman are loose Mahmoud there were so many I think perhaps it might be bishop noel jones and i preaching together [Applause] God over a period of eternity has set an appointment in a particular moment when the natural meets the supernatural we tag-teamed priest ed he ended up crawling across the floor like the woman with taste of blood the place erupted and it was just an unforgettable moment [Music] it's time to come home [Music] you

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