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The service opens with greetings, church updates, and recognition of visitors and members. The speaker introduces a special segment on sickle cell awareness before handing off to the presenters.
Elcart this week.
I appreciate y'all for rocking with me.Um, it was amazing time.I'm sorry that we was in church for like 7 hours.And they put me up at time to get church out.Amen.
We started at 7:00 and what time they put me up?They put me up at 8:50.Amen.I wanted to be out at 9:00.Yeah.I was like, "Oh my goodness."I I don't know how we going to do that.Amen.Like somebody tell me I know they lying.I'm glad y'all here.Uh Amen.If you tuning back in, sorry.It seems like every time I come to church, uh the live go out.Uh so we don't know if that's a lot of power coming in or um I don't know.We going to figure it out though.We going to figure it out.Amen.I I want to do this um cuz this young lady claimed she didn't feel good last week.So I want to make sure that we can give her her due diligence.Come on, little girl.Come on, Trinity.Hallelujah.Trinity got baptized on the 30th.
On this side.Stay on this side.On this side.This is my good side.Amen.Look at she the only one that stepped on the step.
Hallelujah.I'm glad to see brother Randy.I think that's him back there.Amen.
Hallelujah.Brother Antoine is in the house.
Where my OG's at?Amen.
Amen.Don't let them slip back.Amen.
Okay.All right.Make sure they make me want to preach sometime.Amen.Um we're going to go into uh our segment with uh Na Na and Shondaanda um for SELE.Can you bring them down um for them to talk about uh sickle cell because this is sickle cell awareness.And then we'll sing a song and we'll go in the word.We'll go into the word and you can go enjoy the rest of the summer.
Amen.
Amen.
Amen.Amen.
Amen.
And so let's let's do that now.Let's go.Can y'all clap your hands for um Andre and Shondaanda as they come and prepare us and educate us even more about sickel.and then I'll be back with you after these messages.
Amen.
Andre and Shondaanda discuss common sickle cell triggers, diagnosis, and the realities of living with the disease. They share personal medical experiences, including hospital stays, surgeries, and complications.
Hey y'all.How y'all doing today?
All right,
welcome back to part two.Today we'll be talking about our triggers and our experiences with cickle cell.So a couple things that can trigger our cickle cell is being nervous.Um doing big activities like going to the water park, going to the amusement park, going to the regular park outside.Um some may be like, "Oh, well that shouldn't do nothing."No, our body don't like when we get excited.It hates us.I'm just telling the truth.Um, it's not the best.So, sometimes to prevent it, we take our medicine before going to do these activities so that way we can have fun.But even taking medicine don't work sometimes because it's like they going to fight.They bigger than the medication.So, that's a few triggers.Would you like to talk about your triggers?Um, another trigger of mine is um emotions and um people that I'm connected to.
So when someone that I have a strong connection with or like a loved one when they're going through something or if they're feeling down, I can feel it and that that's a trigger for me.Um, another trigger for me would be that's a lot on y'all.I'm trying to go through the list.Another trigger is stress.a lot of stress.Like being overwhelmed can send my body, our body overboard.Like too much stress is not good.Um I'm going to jump to experiences, okay?Cuz it's a lot of triggers.We'll be here all day.So my experience with cle cell um I was first diagnosed with cickle cell at 2 weeks old.Um when I was born uh in 97, they didn't test for cle cell anemia.So when I went home from the hospital, I was crying.My mother didn't know what to do, you know.
She took me into the hospital.They tested me for all different things and it came back positive for cickle cell anemia.So after being tested for cycles anemia, I was in the hospital for two months.Um I was in a terrible crisis.They were fearing for my life.They were doing a lot of different things, procedures on me to make sure I can, you know, live a life that God has called me to live.Amen.
Um, they also, you know, say that you won't live past a certain age, but, you know, we I beat those standards a long time ago.They say you wouldn't make it past the age of 21.Here I am 28 and we'll be 29 in October.
Um, another experience is uh our immune system is very weak.So it's easy for us to catch a cold.Um uh common things that we get diagnosed with is um pneumonia, acute chest and um
chest y.It's another one.
Oh, you asking me?
Yeah.Uh a pneumonia acute chest.What else they be trying to put on us?low low oxygen.It's a it's another it's another
spleen.They go with the spleen.They are very concerned about with our spleen.A lot of our organs.Okay.So, some people with sickle cell have inflamed organs.And when the spleen becomes inflamed, it's dangerous.It's life-threatening.Then you got to go through a whole process to make sure your spleen doesn't go out because spleen plays a very heavy part in your body if you didn't know.um they're worried about the kidneys because if the kidneys fail then that causes other things to happen and which our body can't fight off a lot of different things.So when our organs becomes start failing then it's considered to be a danger zone for us.Would you like to say anything else?They didn't know that my gallbladder was inflamed.But thank God I got it taken out, y'all, before it was too late cuz Jesus God knows that I needed that taken out.
But um yeah, that was real inflamed.I had a bunch of gallstones.Um I actually just got it taken out about three or four months ago,
the beginning of summer.Yeah.So summer was great, guys.It was amazing.Yeah.I'm still alive.I'm still here today.
Okay.Um, very scary part of my life going under all that anesthesia and coming back trying to figure out which who where my parents was at.Nurse talking about, "Oh, your dad's not here.I don't even know who your dad is.Go find him."Y'all, my dad was not there at the moment.Um, but my mom was.The woman even acted like she didn't even know who my mom was.They didn't even tell her that my mom was there.I guess she thought that I was 17 and driving going to just drive my cell phone, but like I just had a procedure done.Why would I take myself home?Um, so yeah, she gave me some ice cubes and they wrote me back to my room and yeah, I was I think I was going crazy.I don't remember.Yeah, you going to talk about your surgery, too.
Um, I don't remember much.So, like if you want to know about that situation, ask my mom because she was there.I don't know if she recorded anything.If you know me and my mom, we're very funny.Yeah.Um, and then I went back.Well, actually, let me tell you guys this.They took my gall stones out first and then I went back the next day about six hours later and got the gallbladder taken out.Being under anesthesia in that amount of time twice back to back is no fun because like who remembers anything?Remembering the bed and then waking up there's nurses standing all around the bed talking about don't move your legs sweetheart.
Okay your turn.
The presenters continue explaining how sickle cell affects the body, including pain crises, organ issues, and difficult hospital experiences. They close the segment by encouraging the audience and announcing the next part.
Hey mom.All right.So y'all want to see cickle cell present.So right now I am having a mini crisis in my left side.That's why I'm walking funny.That's why my arm is stuck.And that's why my foot is propped up on this here bar on the chair.So cle cell can attack at any time, any moment.It doesn't matter the place.Doesn't matter the time.It doesn't care.It comes it comes for you like a thief in the night.All right.So we're talking about surgeries.All right.Here we go.So when I was about 15, I had my gallbladder removed because I also had a gall stones.I had my appendix removed because they were seconds away from bursting.They rushed me into emergency surgery.I also had a cyst on my right ovary.Um, I've had my atmo removed because they were bleeding obsessively, but I was supposed to get my tonsils out.
That never happened.Um, yeah, y'all.It's a list.I'm telling y'all, living with this, like we joke about it, but it's a it's a serious thing cuz like having your body fighting itself and you can't do anything about it, it's it's stressful.And what what is our body not supposed to have?Stress.So trying to keep one thing from happening and another thing is happening, you can't make everything work together.So, we got to kind of try to meet in the middle for things to help out and flow better.So, like if y'all look over there, I got a blue drink.All right.This is what I tried to drink to keep me out of the hospital because my dad just asked me this morning on me.
It is.My dad just asked me this morning that I want to go to the emergency room.I am not a fan.Okay.I am not.I could be baldled up in the middle of this floor screaming to the top of my lungs.I am not a fan of going to the hospital.
That's his favorite question, y'all.
What's the number one question that sick patient like hates to hear?Do you want to go to the hospital?
No.
No.
No, not at all.So, that mixture over there is a combination of Gatorade and water.I figured this out by fault one day that it actually helps me a little bit more than, you know, going in to get an IV because I'm a hard stick.So, my veins, they're rollers.When I get poked, they run away from the needle.They don't like it.Um, and you can feel it.And it's kind of hard to tell nurses and doctors that like, all right, this is my normal spot.So, my usual spot is right here in my thumb area right here.That's where I get all my IVs.That's where I get my blood drawn.Um, but when they go out, it's it's difficult.So, they have to use this vein ultrasound to find my veins.And then it's, you know, they're deeper, so they go for the deeper veins.
Fine.Um, would you like to say something else?
Um, no.I don't have anything else at the cost.
Okay guys, we will be back with part three next week.Thank you guys for listening and tuning in.
The pastor returns with announcements about upcoming church events, fellowship plans, and ministry responsibilities. The congregation then transitions into a worship song before the sermon begins.
Hallelujah.Can y'all clap your hands one more time?Amen.Na na is a comedian.Oh my goodness.Oh my goodness.Na ne is hilarious.I want to welcome our church in Gala.Thank y'all for showing up
and tuning in.Amen.
I love you, Jesus.
What key you in the wrong key playing that.Amen.That's an A flat.Grab your Bibles.Let's go.
You can go back to C.Grab your Bibles.But before we go, let me since we talking, let let's give some some announcements real quick.I want us uh this mainly for the live.Thank you.Uh for y'all that's tuning back in.Share, share, share, share, share.Next week, we going to have it together.We going to figure out why I keep cutting out.We're going to link it together.Me and Shondaanda have been working on it all week.But we want you to prepare for next month.Uh next month is I care.I need y'all to make some loud noise.Make some real noise.Um Amen.Man, I thought I had a media person.Okay.Amen.Never mind.Slow down.I got it.Um, next month, uh, we are preparing for I Care Fellowship, uh, convocation, which will be, um, the 15th, 16th, 17th, and the 18th.
On that Thursday night, we going to have that was going to be our opening night.We're going to have Pastor Michael Breedlove and True Worship will be uh here and and his wife co-pastor Risha will be here um to minister uh the gospel of Jesus Christ.Amen.She's going to do the inspiration when service opens up and he's going to bring the main message to open the fellowship up.Um and we're going to have a snack afterwards.Amen.Amen.Look at your neighbor and say, "Pastor going to feed us this time."
Amen.Well, really, pastor and pastor's assistant going to feed y'all.It'll be a nice little snack.And then, um, on that Friday will be the a we going to change it.Instead, everybody does this official night.This is a festure night where you know we put on this clergy, we put on all these collets and all of this stuff and all that's good and and and well, but we're going to put on uh we'regoing that night is going to be Apostles pour night where I'm just going to pour.I'mma preach, but we just going to pour.We going to have an amazing time.And then we're going to share a dinner after that service.Whether it's something small, something light, I'mma feed y'all both nights.And then that Saturday, um the location has not been secured yet.We are going to have a training uh from 10 to 12.
Listen here, if you're a member of this church, it is going to be required and mandatory for you to be there.If you plan on being in any uh auxiliary ministry or anything of that nature, you gonna have to be there because I'mma spell out what's getting ready to happen with our church and what's getting ready to happen withthe fellowship and what's going to happen um with some things.If you're a new member, listen here.I hope that you come um if you plan to join.I hope you'll be a part of that.And then that Sunday, we'll close out that Sunday morning and we'll have an amazing time that Sunday morning.Uh Amen.
Uh listen, uh our OG brothers is not here.Um but I was going to plan something.They are they on their way.Oh, look.An I'm going to make you a deacon in in a few minutes.He he going to be the head of my outreach street ministry, I think.Yeah.Y'all clap your hands for my new street ministry director.Them ain't words.I ain't even joking.I'm telling you the truth.I'm giving you a job today.Your your your new job is the street ministry director.Amen.Just go out on the street.Bring them in.Bring them in.
You you know how to clean fish.So keep going fishing.Amen.Um love you for it.Um but uh I want on the 26th I want us to have a outing.Um that's a Saturday.We got some young people that keep coming.uh celebrate Andre.Andre bringing people in slowly
next next year.Next year, he don't know it, so I'm gonna say it publicly.Next year after he goes through a couple little bit training, he might be the assistant pastor so I can give him the church uh in the next uh I can't tell you cuz can't put me out of businessyet, but but he's going to get he going to get moved up.I'm going ordain him next year.Um, y'all should shout about that.
He's doing I want to do it the year he graduate.So, not only will he graduate from Bethl, but he will uh graduate from his ministerial position
um and and be ordained um where he will have all rights and privileges uh to marry, bury, and he can be able to step up and preach.Don't don't mean he gonna preach every Sunday though.So don't y'all get happy like yes we get to hear Andre.You gonna hear Andre.All right.Amen.Um and so uh on the 26th um that's a Saturday.I want to try to do something with our young people.I want to try to do something with I am she.I want to try to do something with I am man.Uh rather we start off going bowling first or go to mega play or something.but just to fellowship with each other so you can learn each other outside of high five your neighbor, tell your neighbor he gonna do it.Um, and I want us to move.That's good right there.
I want us to to move in that um uh in that in that aspect.I want you to um also prepare yourself for uh prepare yourself for um u what's to come.um the apostles appreciation uh and anniversary 19 years pastoring uh I care.But before we get to me the last Sunday in October, everybody say last Sunday.
Last Sunday
in October,
we're going to celebrate Pastor K.Amen.
I can't believe it's been two years that she's been the executive pastor.Amen.We got to get her to preach more.Amen.She pray a lot, but we need her to preach more.Amen.Amen.I want to say thank you.Y'all celebrate Top Flight.Uh he ain't Top Flight, but celebrate our deacon and our head of security.Amen.Amen.Amen.And so I want us to um uh we're going to have So it's going to be the last Sunday.We just going to do that morning service and then November 1st will be two services.Uh the 6th that Friday will be we have I haven't decided if we going to have church or if we going to go out.Um no we going to have church that sat that Friday.That Saturday we're going to go out and then that Sunday will be my actual anniversary and we have a guest church coming in.
Yes.I'm going to feed you on the eth.Amen.on the on the 1, you can bring your own snack in between, but on the ETH we will break bread in between services.Um the other thing that's coming up between um now and November is back to basics with with Apostle Love and family and friends.So once mama stop getting off the road, we can sit down and give her a date that she going to have a musical here.Uh along with that, at some point in time, we're going to also have um uh we have a Thanksgiving joint community Thanksgiving service um that we did last year or the year before uh that we joined with MountCalvary and some of the other churches um around.So, we want to make sure that you govern.Now, listen here.I'm I'm You'll hear it in the message probably, so I won't say much, but um if I pop up and have a revival, I expect y'all to show up.
Amen.
Amen.I ain't I haven't preached out since June.And me preaching out, but it wasn't about me preaching out.It was about what I preached Thursday night that had me tripping.and and um it is very uh important that we return back to our first love.
Amen.Amen.And so I think that we possibly need to have a revival in house.Amen.Um for two days during the week and and we try to bank it out and and I promise you if you come we'll get out on time.Amen.
If you don't, your fault.All right.Amen.
Amen.Y'all love Jesus.
If you love him, I I'll wait to have I'll wait after I'm done preaching to give you the next announcement of what we need before we walk out of this building.You know, the rest of y'all church will be here by then.But they getting ready to get a real um rude awakening.
Amen.Cuz if y'all notice, I showed up early today.Amen.
About five minutes early.I'm working on it.Amen.Five minutes early.I even danced when I came in.Shand was like, "When you walk in, you just look so sick."I be want I just be ready preaching.I mean, uh, Carrie uh, uh, uh, I know I ain't seen you nothing, but go to Jeremiah chapter 1 verse 5.He is one.Grab y'all mics.Let's sing this.All praise be to the king.Y'all should be singing.And the Lord
is
all praise.
Stand to your feet.
To the King of Kings and the Lord.
He is
one time from the top.
Hallelujah.
Salvation and glory.
Honor and power unto the Lord our God.
For the Lord.For the Lord our God is mighty.Yes, the Lord our God is unable.
The Lord,
the Lord our God, he is wonderful.
One more time.Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Salvation.Salvation and glory,
honor, and power unto the Lord our God.
For the Lord,
For the Lord our God is mighty.
Yes, the Lord.
Yes, the Lord our God is omnipresent.The Lord,
the Lord our God, he is wonderful.
Oh, praise
me to the King.
The sermon begins with Jeremiah 1:5 and Jeremiah 29:11, introducing the theme of being chosen despite not understanding God. The pastor challenges the church to admit their confusion, need for help, and desire for truth.
Heat.HEAT.
Come on.I need somebody.
The Bible would read and it would record in Jeremiah 1:5, "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.Before you were born, I sanctified you.I ordained you a prophet to the nations."Go to go to Jeremiah 29:11.And Jeremiah 29:11 says, "For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope."I know, I know it may seem strange right now, but I need you to do me a favor.We're in our series that uh that's entitled What to do when you don't understand God.And for the second part of this, I need you to strongly look at your neighbor and tell your neighbor, "I was chosen for what I don't understand."Look at another neighbor and tell your neighbor, say, "I need a tour."
Be still.Be seated in the name of Jesus.I was chosen for what I don't understand.
Yeah.
I need Just look at somebody.You can laugh at them and tell them cuz some of y'all take it as a joke.But listen here and tell them I need a tutor.Tell them I need
I need a tutor.I need a tutor.Because the truth of the matter is you've been walking through life uh hearing about God, but nobody told you that he would walk with you and that he would talk with you and that he would tell you thathe that you are his.Uh, and the joy that y'all share as you, Terry, there none other will ever know.I hope y'all talk to me this morning before y'all real church get here.I I I just I just want to tell you that that where where we are right now in life.Um, sometimes you are in a place that you are chosen for things that you don't understand.And can I tell you, and I'll tell you about four more times after I say it right now, that the truth of the matter is you can have knowledge and not understand what you just learned.
All right.I want to I want to talk to somebody in here.And and and here's the real thing that I want to tell you that that you you you not only can have knowledge and not understand, but you can learn some stuff and not really comprehend what you really learn.You just walking through life with experiences that you don't even understand why you went through half of the stuff you went through in your life.I want to talk to somebody in here.And I don't care if y'all say amen at this point.I feel like preaching.I wish people in church and people in life would just tell the truth.Do me a favor.Take the stress off your shoulders and just come on.Let's be free tonight.That's why I wore y'all suit so we could just be free.Look, look, just look at somebody.
Just tell them, I wish they would just told me the truth.I wish that they would just tell the dog on truth.Quit lying to me, acting like just because I gave my life to Christ, my my young man just gave his life to Christ.Let me tell you the truth today.Uh it doesn't mean that everything is going to become peaches and cream, sometimes giving your life to Christ makes things a little bit worse.But can I tell you what makes a little bit worse is worth it.Because at the end of the day, it seems like everything on the outside gets worse.It seems like bills come and you don't have enough money.It seemed like you lose friends because you made a positive decision to change your life.People start talking about you asking questions like who do they think they are?
But if people really told us the truth when we was getting salvation, some of us would be a little bit better.But yet you have had me live a false narrative of coming to church thinking that because I PRAISED THAT GOD was going to remove me out of some stuff.But the TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS GOD MAY LEAVE YOU IN SOME STUFF.AND ALL HE WANTS YOU TO DO IS BE OBEDIENT.DO ME A FAVOR.PUSH YOUR NEIGHBOR REAL QUICK AND JUST ASK YOUR NEIGHBOR LIGHTLY.Can you be obedient ENOUGH EVEN WHEN YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE REASON WHY YOU MADE THE CHOICE YOU MADE?
COME ON.
I'm I'm going to try.I'mma try.I'm going try there.There's just some things.Come on.Let's Let's practice.You ready?Let's practice.Let's practice not lying.Y'all ready?Let's practice not lying.Look at somebody and tell them, "I just don't understand.And I just don't
I I just don't understand.I don't I don't understand.Come on.Come on.I wish y'all talked to me here.I need about seven more of y'all to talk to me.Y'all sitting in here, you don't even understand why you came to church this morning.You just got up and came.Come on.Cuz somebody invited you.Come on.You You Come on.I wish I had about three people in here.I need you to tell the truth.You got one more thing to tell the truth about.Come on.You ready for it?Let's tell the truth this morning.Here it is.Here's the other thing I want you to tell the truth about that y'all don't tell the truth about.I need help.I'm telling you the truth.Come on, tell somebody.I need help.I I need help.I I know how to live life.
I talk to you older ones like I talk to you young youngas.Yep.You got some experiences.You got some substance in your life.But the truth of the matter is you have not overcome everything that YOU'VE BEEN FIGHTING.WHO AM I TALKING TO?YOU YOU need help.Look at somebody.Just tell them strongly, I'm almost done preaching.Y'all ain't going to play with me.I need help.I need help.Y'all ain't talking to me here.I need you to help me preach this in here.I need help.We having group therapy right now.I NEED HELP.I know some things in my life.I know how to do some things.But the thing is, even though I know some of this stuff, I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND.I don't understand how people can come to church and say that they love God and say that God called them here, but then get mad and walk out the church and act like the church DID SOMETHING, TOO.
I JUST DON'T understand how people will walk with you ONE DAY AND TALK ABOUT YOU BAD ANOTHER DAY.I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW YOU CAN SEE ME DOWN, DILAPITATED, AND STEP OVER me as IF I DIDN'T HELP YOU UP.I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND ALL THESE PEOPLE THAT CAN SPEAK IN TONGUES AND LAY HANDS AND SHOUT AND PRAISE GOD AND ACT LIKE THEY GOT IT ALL TOGETHER, BUT YET WHEN YOU CALL FOR THEM, THEY HAVE NO POWER, NOSUBSTANCE.ALL THEY HAVE IS A DECLARATION.I NEED SOMEBODY TO HELP ME PREACH IT HERE.I DON'T UNDERSTAND.AND IN ALL OF THIS NOT UNDERSTANDING, I'M CALLED TO LEAD THEM.
I just don't understand how you can have a conversation with somebody but they don't I I don't I don't I don't understand how you trying to work it through with somebody but only one side of a situation changesbecause don't nobody neither side want to let anything go.Don't nobody want to meet in the middle.Can I tell you I'm tired of meeting people in the middle?We either going all the way or we ain't going nowhere.We either going to change fully or we ain't changing at all.I I JUST I JUST DON'T I DIDN'T SAY I DON'T COMPREHEND.I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND.
COME ON.
How people can say one thing and do something else.
Right.
Mama built us to be men of integrity.
THAT IF WE GIVE SOMEBODY OUR WORD, MAMA USED TO TELL ME ALL THE TIME, all you got is your word.
AND IF YOUR WORD FAILS, YOU HAVE NOTHING.
All you false flagers
saying stuff just to be impressive
when nobody cares.
Y'all seem tight in here.
I hope Thursday night didn't slip into Sunday morning.
Here.Here it is.Let me share with you my lack of understanding.
The message explores how God can multiply what is surrendered, using the feeding of the five thousand as an example. The pastor emphasizes that obedience matters more than understanding.
That's my personal
list that I just gave y'all.But when I was reading the Bible, here's the other thing I couldn't understand.I don't understand.Let me see if y'all gonna shout with me for real.Let me see if y'all gonna shout with me.I'm going to walk a lot cuz I I'm just I'm free today just for a moment.Um let me let me see if y'all if y'all got the same problem I got.
How does God take you being in black sin smear some red blood over you
and then you come out white as snow.
Come on.
Cuz for some of you in here who work certain jobs, even the soap you use, you got to wash up three different times in the shower.
Come on.
To get the film of the dirt off of you.
Come on.
So you got to do that.How is it that God can take red blood?
Come on.cover you in it.
And you come out white as snow.
I don't understand.
How how how in in John chapter 6, Jesus takes two fish.
Okay, y'all y'all I know.I know.I know.I I I don't I don't like math.I like money.I don't Let me say that again.I don't like math.I like money.So when it come to counting money, you would think I was a magician.But but but if it comes to equations and and and and and fractions and all of that and decimals, I well, decimals, I understand cuz that got to do with money.But but fractions and and and equations and and and and and some other stuff.I know you you're a magician.It's cool.You you understand math.Uh it's it is it's is it's is it's is it's I I just don't understand math.I understand.Look at somebody.Tell him he understand money.
He understand money.
He just don't understand math.Let me tell you how I passed math.They had to put math in the in the moment.And when I was in college, they figured out how to get me through math.They took me out of the average math class and put me in math theory because the theory of math is like preaching.Okay.All right.All right.Because it causes me to read why it is that the fraction is what it was.So it put me in a mindset of psychologically being able to transition as if I was preaching to somebody when I had to get up before the class and say the reason why this so the theory of mathI learned.That's how I got through math.Okay.I just gave you a secret.All right.All right.All right.Because I don't But you a magician, too.
You love math.Uh uh me and you.I know.All right.Comedian.Uh uh.I I I I love money.I I I KNOW MONEY, BUT I DON'T WANT NO MATH.BUT HERE'S MY PROBLEM.WHY DID I take that time to show you this?Because how is it that Jesus CAN TELL THEM, "STOP THE LITTLE BOY IN JOHN CHAPTER 6, take his two fish and take his five loaves of bread that he was getting ready to take home to his family andmultiply."And he says, "Anything in my hand going to multiply."And he says, "Now what I NEED YOU TO DO IS WAIT a minute cuz y'all ain't catching it cuz it ain't math to y'all either.You don't understand it either.OUT IN THE FACT THAT JESUS DIDN'T only do two the two fish and five loaves of bread, BUT OUT OF THAT CAME BASKET.
SO WHERE DID THE BASKETS COME FROM?
WAIT, WAIT.I'm I'm I'm just trying to help y'all.I don't understand something.I don't understand something.I I I don't understand.I don't understand how how he takes two fish.Let's make it Come on.LET'S TWO FISH.Two two fish and he multiplies it.And the Bible says, if you reading TO JOHN, YOU FIND you reading WITH ME?IN FACT, check this.IT SAYS HE FED ABOUT 5,000,
RIGHT?
AMEN.
YEAH.
SO, WE'VE BEEN STUCK ON HE FED 5,000 WHEN THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS it could have been more than 5,000 or it was right at 5,000.BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT, MY COMPREHENSION LEVEL IN THIS UNDERSTANDING OF THIS TEXT IS RIGHT HERE.WHERE DID THE BASKETS COME FROM?AND HOW IN ONE HAND DID HE MULTIPLY?
That's it.
Y'all sitting here come dumb found it too ain't you?
CUZ WE WAS SHOUT HE GETTING READY TO MULTIPLY.WAIT, HOLD UP.
RIGHT.
HOLD UP.HOLD UP.HE GETTING READY TO MULTIPLY AND BUT BUT HE TOOK HE TOOK THE YOUNG LAD'S FOOD
TO FEED EVERYBODY ELSE.
RIGHT.
SO MY QUESTION, WHAT DID THE BOY TAKE HOME?MHM.
OKAY.
CUZ IF JESUS IS COLD ENOUGH LIKE THAT,
RIGHT?
THE BOY HAD TO TAKE SOMETHING HOME.IT AIN'T IN THE BIBLE.DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT.It ain't You got to make it.You got to figure that thing out.THE BOY, HE COULDN'T JUST FEED THEM.TAKE THE YOUNG MAN'S FISH CUZ JESUS AIN'T LIKE THAT.HE DON'T TAKE AWAY FROM YOU JUST TO FEED SOMEBODY ELSE.HE NORMALLY FEEDS YOU WHILE HE'S FEEDING EVERYBODY ELSE.SO DO ME A FAVOR.Let's practice this.You don't have to understand it.All you got to do is obey.YOU READY?HIGH FIVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AND just say neighbor I'm giving my fish and my five loaves and he may feed all of us.I wish I had about three people HERE WHICH ONE DID I JUST SAY THAT WHATEVER GOD PUT BACK IN MY HAND IS GOING TO BE ENOUGH FOR MY MAMA'S HOUSE.IT'S GOING TO BE ENOUGH FOR MY DADDY'S HOUSE.
IT'S GOING TO BE ENOUGH FOR MY BROTHER'S HOUSE.GOING TO BE ENOUGH FOR MY SISTER'S HOUSE.IT'S GOING TO BE ENOUGH FOR MY NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE.JUST LOOK AT YOUR NEIGHBOR AND SAY I BELIEVE GOD ALLOW ME TO BE THE WHOLE.YOU MAY NOT LIKE IT.YOU AIN'T GOT TO UNDERSTAND IT.BUT DO YOURSELF A FAVOR.LEARN HOW TO OBEY WHAT HE'S SAYING.
The sermon shifts to Mark 5 and the woman who bled for twelve years, showing how her faith led her to Jesus. The pastor highlights her persistence, desperation, and healing through touch.
I got something else and I don't understand it.I'm going to preach the text.Okay.Now, the women ain't going to say nothing to me in here.They ain't going to say nothing to me.But in But in Mark chapter 5, in Mark chapter 5, Mark chapter 5.Mark chapter 5.I'm trying to figure this out.I'm trying to figure it out.Am I preaching all right?Am I Am I
You're looking at me be will.Normally I'd be gone already, but I'm talking to everybody.We going to go from laughing.I'm going to tell you how service going to go.Watch this.Okay, you just watch.We going to go from laughing and and cracking jokes right now trying to understand this thing and you going to see people start running about 15 20 minutes and they going to start jumping and they going to startholling and they going to start y'all already talking about my church.You better stop.All right.All right.You know, I already warned her.They listen here.I don't know.It's he be laughing and joking.Then all of a sudden this glory and this power come in and they be like boom.And then you start feeling something and be like, I don't know.I don't I don't understand.I don't understand.
I don't understand.All right.It's all right.BUT LOOK IN IN JOHN CHAPTER in Mark chapter 5.In Mark chapter 5.Now Now y'all talk to me in here because because y'all just talked about sick cell.I y'all just talked about sick cell.Okay.I'm I'm I'm I need y'all y'all blood got to flow the right way.So let's talk to y'all.Let's have a sickle cell conversation since y'all did so so a studious of a job today talking about your experiences.But but let's see if we can understand and comprehend today.Y'all are my therapists.Uh, so let me let me let me just have group therapy right quick.Are you ready?Andre just listen.He don't know nothing about what I'm getting ready to talk about, but y'all do.How how is it in the world for 12 years this woman bleeds?
Shouldn't she should be out of blood?Shouldn't she need a transfusion?But yet
she bled long enough to have a thought.
long enough to have a thought that if I could just touch,
not if I get a transfusion,
come on.
Not if a doctor helped me because I done gave them all my money and all my resources.I done gave them everything.Y'all making me feel like I ain't preach or good in here.I I done gave them all of everything.As a matter of fact, I gave them everything and they gave me nothing.You know what?They gave me a letter of rejection.Don't you come out here because you unclean.I I done I done bled all this out of me.And yet all I got is a thought.I I don't even know if she had enough blood to last.But it the Bible says she had a thought.If I can just touch the hem of his garment, I will be made whole.Which means those that tried to help me, I don't even need them no more.I don't even know why I went to them.
I need to talk to somebody here that's been going through something right now.You've been dealing with individuals that have no substance, no resource for they self, no situational uh opportunity for themselves.They're not trying to make nothing for themselves.I need you to put yourself in a place of this woman.Even though you don't understand, OBEY YOUR THOUGHT.IF I COULD JUST PRAISE ONE MORE TIME.IF I COULD JUST GET IN HIS PRESENCE ONE more time.Is the mic on?I preach again IF I CAN JUST GET GOD TO TOUCH ME ONE MORE TIME.IF I CAN JUST HAVE A THOUGHT AND I CAN TURN THIS OVER TO THE LORD AND I SHALL BE MADE.YOU DON'T HAVE TO LEAVE HERE BROKEN.YOU DON'T HAVE TO LEAVE HERE BEWILDED.YOU DON'T HAVE TO LEAVE HERE CONFUSED.YOU CAN LEAVE HERE.
I'm not preaching.I'm not preaching.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW SHE CAN BELIEVE THAT LONG
AND STILL MAKE IT TO JESUS.
NOW, HERE'S THE PART THAT I'M STRUGGLING WITH.WHY Y'ALL LOOKING at me like that?
Y'all getting the opportunity to figure out how I think when I'm reading the Bible?
Cuz I'm not done with that text yet.Because there's one other part that baffled me.She had the thought,
but the thought didn't tell her what she was going to have to go through to touch him.
Come on.
I might have to preach part three of this.I might have to make this a two-part message.I don't even know if I'm going to be able to finish it.And I cannot do what I did Thursday and try to preach the whole thing and be out of church in two hours.Here, here here it is.Here it is.She had to go through a crowd to get to him.Which means SHE HAD TO GO ALREADY.She was already low.BUT NOW HER PHYSICAL POSTURE HAD TO GO TO A LOWER STATE FOR her to even touch the hem OF HIS GARMENT.BECAUSE STANDING UP, SHE WOULD STILL HAVE TO BEND OVER.BUT IF HER BLOOD IS RUNNING OUT, SHE DOESN'T HAVE ENOUGH STRENGTH TO DO IT.SO ALL SHE CAN DO IS CRAWL.CAN YOU IMAGINE YOURSELF CRAWLING THROUGH OBSTACLES AND SITUATIONS AND THROUGH CIRCUMSTANCES?
AND WHILE YOU'RE CRAWLING THROUGH ALL OF THIS, PEOPLE KICKING YOU AND BUMPING YOU AND TELLING YOU YOU DON'T QUALIFY AND YOU DON'T THIS IS NOT GOING TO WORK FOR YOU.BUT YET YOU COME TO A MOMENT IN YOUR LIFE.LET ME SEE IF I CAN GET THE REAL CHURCH TO JUMP NOW.THAT A MOMENT THAT YOU COME TO RIGHT NOW THAT YOU FIND OUT THAT HIS HAND IS DRAGGING BEHIND AND YOU SEE IT AND YOU KNOW IT'S HIM BECAUSE YOU FOLLOWING THE POWER AND THE PATH OF HOW HE'S BEENWALKING THROUGH ALL YOUR HAND.I WISH I HAD SOMEBODY HERE.your hand YOUR HANDin your BODY
when I was DOWN MY
I reach out and I grabAND YOU KNOW SOMETHING SUPERNATURAL HAPPENED BECAUSE THE BIBLE RECORDS IN MARK CHAPTER 5 THAT SHE WENT AND HID HERSELF.
The pastor explains that many people know facts but still do not understand their lives or God’s purpose. He teaches that understanding is deeper than knowledge and that obedience is the key when the why is unclear.
Be seated.
Come on.
Tell your neighbor what was dilapitated
what was dilapitated
became functional again
became functional again.
But I don't understand.But I don't understand.
Cuz the truth of the matter, some of us will be healed
if we just obey.
Right.
Amen.
I want to I want to stay right here.I'm just try to stand right here the rest of the message.Um truth is we because because I only got a couple pages and I just need to read it all.What time is Okay.Yeah, we're on time.Um, truth is we we have learned.Pay attention.I'm I'mma close, Andre.Don't worry about it.We We going We going to close hard.But I I got to teach this real quick.The truth is we have learned how to do listen to me.But lack the boldness to just say, "I don't understand.Okay.
Because Erica, the problem is we are so much to everybody else.
That's right.
That to say we don't understand will make us feel and look as if we not what they saw.
Come on.
Y'all ain't got to say amen.I'm preaching my dog.
Come on.
So you become everything to everybody else
that sometimes you don't even know who you are.
You done learn I I got degree after degree, certificate after certificate.I got mad knowledge.the way I think, the the way I put stuff together, the way if you talk to me long enough.But there are sometimes when I just need to tell y'all, I don't know.
I don't I don't I don't understand.BUT BECAUSE YOU ALREADY feel some type of way in your life,
you don't admit,
you got me on this one.M
I DON'T KNOW WHY GOD WILL HAVE ME GO here and and do this and and and do that.And I'm I'm trying to live by faith.I'm trying to be strong for everybody else.But but on this one, all I can do is just continue to do what I've been doing.BUT IF I TOLD YOU THE TRUTH, I REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY HE WOULD TAKE a messed UP JOKER LIKE ME and put ME IN A CAPACITY AND A PLACE TO GOVERN OVER PEOPLE.KNOWING THAT I GOT ISSUES AND FRAILTIES.KNOWING THAT I GOT SOME DECISIONS AND SOME MINDSETS THAT PEOPLE DON'T LIKE.KNOWING THAT I'VE NOT ALWAYS BEEN FAITHFUL TO HIM.KNOWING THAT I GOT SOME STRUGGLES.KNOW Y'ALL I'M TALKING TO MY KIDS.Y'ALL WANT TO TALK TO ME.KNOWING THAT I GOT SOME RELATIONSHIP SITUATION.KNOWING THAT MY DECISIONS DON'T ALWAYS ADD UP TO HIS WILL.
BUT YET, HE LOOK BEYOND MY FAULTS AND STILL SUPPLIES A NEED AND PUTS ME IN A PLACE AND I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND.
There's a quote.There's a quote.There's a quote.Understanding.Listen, I'm almost there.I'm walking with you.Understanding, watch this, Andrew, is deeper than knowledge.
There are many people who know you, but very few who understand you.
I'm I'm gone.I'm gone.I'm gone.We We We We almost at the text.
We We at the text that there's many people who know your name,
right?you you know the biggest thing I I was sitting at my desk that I've been going through for the past two days.I'll tell y'all that.Um um um and and and the biggest thing is talking to people who know your name
and they think they know you
but they really don't understand you.
And the difficult thing is uh trying to explain yourself
to somebody who's not even trying to understand.
Come on.Let me paint the picture for you.You ready for it?
When you talk, you overtalked.
Yeah.
We're having group therapy.We'll have church in about 10 minutes.Uh you you're not being listened to.
You're not being understood.
And you know what your problem is?You're using a lot of energy trying to explain to individuals that don't have the capacity to listen or comprehend what you just said.Come on.
So therefore, when you make moments and movements and God begins to bless you, they can't understand how you just went from being weary to now being victorious.
Come on.
They can't understand how you just went from crying about losing something, but you crying about the loss in in victorious ways that because God has shifted the perspective of how you see what you just lost.Right?
So you may know me, but you won't understand me.
Right?
And you know how you know these type of people?They will actually tell you if you pay attention and listen.
Cuz you know what they'll say is, "I just don't understand why you ain't going to do this."They just admit it to you.But because you're looking for something grander and something greater, you miss the opportunity to take your exit and just say, "You don't understand me.That is right."And so therefore, what I need to do is keep moving because I'm not looking for people to understand me in this season.
Cuz to understand me sometimes gives you the opportunity to try to control what you think you understand.
And here's another shout for three of y'all that will high five me.What's understood don't never have to be explained anyway.
Because if you really understand the person you looking at, you know what?When somebody say something to you, you know what?You'll know what you'll say to them.You'll say to them, "No, that's just apostle.Don't even worry about it.Don't don't don't even worry about it.Don't don't something good get ready to come."If if if if he talking like that, if he walk like that, if he say that, if he quiet like that, that means something powerful getting ready to be released because what's understood DOESN'T NEED TO BE EXPLAINED.BUT YET YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND.SO THAT'S THE REASON WHY YOU KEEP EXPLAINING WHAT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND.AND THEN YOU FIND PEOPLE THAT DON'T UNDERSTAND THE REASON WHY YOU TRYING TO EXPLAIN WHAT THEY CANNOT UNDERSTAND.BECAUSE THE STRUGGLE IS IF I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT, IT'S GOING TO BE DIFFICULT FOR ME TO EXPLAIN IT ANYWAY.
COME ON.
Look at somebody and tell them he ain't confused me.I I'M I'M just don't understand.
AND HERE'S THE PROBLEM.MOST PEOPLE WILL WILL MIX YOU BEING CONFUSED WITH THE LACK OF UNDERSTANDING.THEY'LL BECAUSE YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND SOMETHING.THEY'LL SAY, "YOU CONFUSED?"NO, I AM NOT CONFUSED.I KNOW WHAT I KNOW AND I KNOW WHAT I DON'T KNOW.I KNOW THE ABILITY THAT I HAVE AND THEN I DON'T KNOW THE WHY TO EVERYTHING ELSE.
AND SOMETIMES Y'ALL AIN'T GOING TO WANT TO SHOUT IN HERE.
Not knowing the why can be a very safe place.
Cuz if YOU KNEW THE WHY OF WHY GOD DONE SOME STUFF IN YOUR LIFE, I'm out of here.Uh, IF YOU KNEW THE WHY OF WHY GOD IS GETTING READY TO DO SOME STUFF IN YOUR LIFE, YOU WOULDN'T EVEN TELL HIM YES.You would have told him no.Didn't I tell y'all that last week?You have told him no.Because the truth of the matter is, you got to know what to do when YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND GOD.OKAY.All right.All right.You don't understand THE REASON WHY GOD PULLED YOU TO THIS MOMENT.YOU DON'T KNOW THE REASON WHY GOD MOVED YOU IN THAT ASPECT.YOU don't know the reason WHY GOD CONNECTED YOU to this person.BUT LET ME PROPHESY TO THREE PEOPLE IN HERE THAT NEED it right quick.It doesn't MATTER IN THE WHY.WHAT MATTERS IS THE YES.WHAT MATTERS IS THE OBEDIENCE.
WHAT MATTERS IS WHEN HE RELEASES THE AUTHORITY FOR YOUR BLESSING TO COME AT YOU IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME.I WISH I HAD ABOUT THREE PEOPLE HERE JUST POSITIONING MYSELF.I MAY NOT UNDERSTAND.
DO ME A FAVOR AND JUST TELL YOURSELF, BUT I WILL OBEY.
Using Paul’s thorn in the flesh, the sermon shows that God may not remove hardship but gives sufficient grace. The pastor argues that suffering can be part of God’s purpose and that grace is enough to endure.
Max Lo states, I got 10 minutes.Andre Max Lo states, even though you may not understand how God works,
I wish the whole church show up now.Uh,
come on.
You know he does.
Yeah.
Amen.
Okay.You missed what I just said cuz I put something in between it.Maxo says, "Even though you may not understand
how God works,
here's where your shout comes in, you know."
Amen.
Somebody lied.
So, somebody lied.
Somebody in church lied to me
cuz they told me if I did this
that he'll do that.
Some somebody in church told me if I jump three times,
do a cartwheel.
Come on.that by the time I walked out of here,
I'd be changed.
But here's the problem in it.Before we get to the faith part,the faith is activated by the process.
Right?
So the thing is it could be true that if I jump three times do a cart with something supernatural.
It's going to happen to me.Could be true.But the process in the equation is this.The problem with the equation is this.You didn't tell me there possibly will be a process
before I get to the door
cuz you gave me the prophecy,
but you didn't give me the ingredients that activate the prophecy.
Come on.
Which is faith.
Okay, let me prove it to you.Let me prove it to you.Sharon, get up.Walk that way and walk like you coming in the church.Okay.Right there.Yep.Just come on.Walk like you come to church and go and sit down.
You didn't think about it, did you?
Tyler, get up.
Walk.
This better word God.Come on.Come on in.Don't sit down.Did you question it?
You You didn't question.
Come on.
Okay.
Andre, touch your computer.Okay.I play the organ.Okay.Stop.Stop getting on my nerves.
You didn't think about it, did you?Now watch here.All of these things y'all just did
out of what?Me telling you to,
right?
Okay.Questions.
You didn't think about the fact that that chair could have broke
cuz it's not bolted to the ground.
You didn't think that sitting back down that the capacity of your weight could have collapsed the frame.
You didn't think about that.You're sitting on a box full of electricity.
And that touching it the wrong way,
it will shock you.
You just did it
out of obedience.
Yeah.You know what?My problem that I don't understand is how we can be obey this materialistic command.
But God tells us
if you suffer with me,
you will reign with me.
But yet we complain about what he told us to go through because there's a quote that I came to bring you that said, "God never promised he would remove our struggle."
However, he did promise to change the way we look at them.
Yeah.Yeah.
And I don't know who came in your life and lied to you and told you that if you do the hocus pocus dance seven times that God was going to remove the struggle.The truth of the matter is here it is.I want to see if three people going to shout.The real matter of it is Pina is this that sometimes doing a hocus pocus dance and shouting and praising God and worshiping and coming to church faithfully really just made you a target for the enemy.OKAY.ALL RIGHT.SOMETIMES GOD WILL PUT YOU OUT THERE AND YOU TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY AM I GOING TO THE HELL THAT I'M GOING TO IS BECAUSE YOU ALL AND NOW HE MADE YOU A TARGET TO SHOW EVERYBODY AND IFYOU OBEY THE ENEMY MAY TRY TO COME BUT HE WILL NOTSOMEBODY I MAY BE A TARGET BUT I AIN'T GOING TO BE TOUCHED.
Y'ALL AIN'T PROPHESYING TO YOURSELF.I'M TELLING YOU THE OBEY.I'M TRYING TO HELP YOU WITH YOUR WEAK.TELL YOURSELF, I MAY BE A TARGET NOW, BUT I WILL NOT BE HARMED.I WILL NOT BE TOUCHED.
All right, I'm at the table.Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen.Cuz y'all thought that he would get you out, right?Am I Who am I preaching to in here?other than myself.Who getting something in here?Who?Be honest.Who am I boring?I'm boring.Me, too.Watch here.2 Corinthians.And I'm at the text and and and I'll let y'all go back to sleep.Uh 2 Corinthians 12:10.Watch what he says.Uh just to prove the the quote.He says, "Consider this thing."Paul said, "I don't know why y'all keep asking God to get y'all a lot of stuff.You need your paper Bible.I'm in 2 Corinthians chapter 12.He said, Carrie, he said, I don't even know why you keep praying, asking God to deliver you from some stuff.
He said, let me tell you about me.He said, I was pleading with God for three for three times.Three, n listen.Three different times.He said, I pleaded with God to take this thorn out of my flesh.
He said, and can can I tell y'all how I see the Bible?How I think about the Bible?Let me tell you how I think about the Bible.I got to hear him get y'all out of church before before 1:15.Here it is.You ready for it?This is how I think about the Bible, Erica.Uh when I read it, this is what I heard in between the words that you did that that's not written in your Bible.He said, "I pleaded with God three different times to get thrown out my flesh."
He said, "And God was rude as I don't know what."
He said, "Watch, watch this."He said, "Cuz God never talked to me back about what I asked him for."
He said, "When God starts speaking, he says, "My grace is sufficient enough."Right?
Y'all don't even know when to shout.
And I ain't going to shout you right there either.I could, but I ain't I a I'm not even going to mess with you.He says, "My grace is sufficient."And wait a minute.How I I don't I don't understand if me and God is having a conversation.Why wouldn't he talk to me about what I'm talking to him about?
I'm asking him to take something from me.He telling me what I already have is enough.
Come on.
Okay, y'all missing the message.Maybe I'm over your head.Maybe I'm preaching to the video.Can Can y'all say something to me in Ghana?Please talk to me in Ghana.In in in Nashville, talk to me cuz they ain't talking to me in Nile.See, I'm I'm just trying to figure I'm just trying to figure it out.I I've been pleading.I've been pleading.Take the thorn out my flesh.And and and and and instead of him saying, "No, at least watch this.At least give me a direct answer."
Come on, Sharon.Come on.Just give me a direct answer.No.Yes.I'm not doing it.No.God didn't give him none of that.God looked at Paul and said, "No, my grace is sufficient uh enough for you.For watch here, here's where your shout is.But my strength is made perfect in weakness.Therefore, most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me."Watch in verse 10.He says, "Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in in persecutions, in distress, for Christ's sake.For when I am weak, then I am strong.The word sufficient, mama, means adequate for the purpose enough to meet a need.He says, I'm not taking nothing from you and I'm not, how would you shout if I told you he ain't taking you out of nothing.
Come on.
He said, because I need you to stay in there because that's where my grace works.And my grace is enough for whatever you holding on to, for whatever you going through.He says, "I'm not removing you from anything, but what I will do is I WILL GET IN IT WITH YOU.CUZ I MADE A PROMISE that I will never leave you nor forsake you.I NEED ABOUT ONE PERSON just to run across the room to somebody else and just SAY, "YOU MAY NOT GET OUT, BUT GRACE IS ENOUGH FOR ME.
The pastor returns to Jeremiah 1 to explain how God formed, knew, sanctified, and ordained Jeremiah before birth. He stresses that God equips people before calling them and gives them words to speak.
I said, "LOOK AT SOMEBODY.I NEED SOMEBODY JUST SOMEBODY AND JUST I MAY NOT GET OUT OF ANYTHING, BUT HIS GRACE IS ENOUGH.
The Bible saysI'm I'm in I'm in Jeremiah 1:5.I'm in Jeremiah chapter 4 cuz Jeremiah said, "Let me tell my own story."Jeremiah chapter 1 verse4 suggests Jeremiah chapter 1.If you going to work with me, go work with me there.I can do it by myself.I'm I don't understand.I don't understand.I don't understand.I don't understand.Then the word of the Lord came to me saying, let's rock.Uh I'm only going to verse 10, then I'm going somewhere else.Before I form you in the womb, I knew you.Come on y'all rock with me right this on the screen.Before you were born, I sanctified you.I ordained you.Do not move, please.Uh uh as a prophet to the nation.Now, I got to talk to you right here because there's three things right here that he tells you that I've put inside of you.
He says, "I know you don't understand, but I want to show you what you equipped with, even though you don't understand the why."He says, "What you first equipped with is he says the first thing I want to tell you is I formed you."Look at somebody and tell them, "I've been formed.I've been I've been formed in the womb."He says, "I knew you."That's the second thing y'all.Y'all see that?He says, "I formed you and then I knew you.Before you were born, I sanctified you."Which means sanctification.Sanctified.I equipped you for what you were getting ready to go through.Wait a minute.Cuz here's where you need to shout, Pina, and Sharon right there.High five each other.He says, "I ordain you, which means I commission you.I've already given you an opportunity to go forward."And I ain't talking to about seven people in here, but I want to talk to three people in here and tell you it doesn't matter what you're going through.
I need you to tell yourself, I'm approved to go forward.I'm approved to be all that I can be.I'm approved to move forward.THE BIBLE THEN SAYS IN VERSE SIX, WATCH THIS.He he he says in verse 6, "Then said I, oh Lord God, behold, I cannot speak, for I AM A YOUTH."I WANT TO TALK TO US YOUNG PEOPLE IN here and tell you this is not the season for you to shut your mouth.This is not the season for you to be quiet.This is not the season FOR YOU TO STOP TALKING.But if God has done anything for you, I need you to learn how to open your mouth and tell of the truth.See, here's the problem.I'm talking to us young people in here.We can talk and cuss and and spit and and rap and all of this and and talk love language and all of this, but when it comes to talking about our relationship with God, WE DON'T HAVE NOTHING to
say.Just leave it off.I don't understand why it's going out.But if it's going to be a power surge in this place, it's going to be from the power of God.He is you.You can talk about everything else and you can talk to have conversations about what going to change your life and complain.But God says, "What I need you TO DO IS QUIT SAYING WHAT YOU ARE.I already knew what you are."I TOLD YOU I I FOR YOU AND I KNEW YOU BEFORE YOU KNEW YOURSELF before your father KNEW YOU.I SANCTIFIED YOU WHICH MEANS I EQUIPPED YOU.I ORDAINED YOU WHICH MEANS I COMMISSIONED YOU.NOW I DON'T NEED YOU TO PUT THAT TO ME THAT YOU A YOUTH.I ALREADY KNOW THAT.
Let me talk.I got to go.And he says I I Jeremiah says but I'm only a youth.He he says no no no no no no no.You're not You're not only a youth.You're not You're not only a youth.Hey, watch this.Watch this.This going to mess you all up because you think your chronological age puts you in a category that this does not uh work for you.But I want to talk to everybody in the room and I want to talk to the youth inside of you.He says you're not only a youth.You're not only a youth.What you don't know is you are a strong youth.Okay?How you don't see that in the text, do you?No, you don't see it till verse 10.Okay?Uh so so watch here.He says, "Not only are you a youth, not only are you a youth, you don't don't even say that."
He said, "I don't even want to hear none of that."He He says He says, "I I I I've equipped you."In verse 7, he says, "The Lord said to me, do not say I am a youth.For you shall go to all to whom I send you, and whatever I command," see that commission right there, command you to say, you shall speak.Tell yourself, tell your neighbor, tell yourself, and tell your neighbor at the same time.I'm getting ready to have to talk.I'm getting ready to have to talk.I I I don't like talking in front of people.I know that's your excuse.I don't like I don't like talking in front of people.I don't like talking.When I told N that they had to do this, the first thing that came out of their mouth, Dad, I right talking to people.
Well, I don't care.Get over it.Because something is inside of y'all that the people need Come on.Y'all ain't going to talk to me here.And I need about five of y'all.Matter of fact, let's take a praise break real quick.I need about THE WHOLE HOUSE TO JUST JUMP TO YOUR FEET AND GIVE GOD PRAISE CUZ GOD'S getting ready to give you your voice back.Okay.You're not ready to worship yet, are you?You're not ready to give me glory yet.YOU'RE NOT READY TO PRAISE HIM YET, ARE YOU?I NEED SOMEBODY TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND JUST GIVE GOD A SHOUT BECAUSE HE'S GETTING READY TO GIVE YOU YOUR VOICE.WATCH.WATCH.WATCH.God said, "You you you you may not you may not understand.Just look at your neighbor and just say, "Neighbor, you may not understand.You may not you may not understand, but just obey my command."
Come on.He said, "Obey the command."Come on.We got somewhere to go.Come on.Y'all can sit back down for a minute.I got somewhere to go.In verse 8 of chapter 1, he says, "Do not be afraid of their faces, for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord."You don't have to understand if he's with you.Can you do me a favor and lean over to your neighbor?Just lean over to your neighbor and just say, "Neighbor, I don't even have to understand what's going on as long as I know he's with me."I wish I had ABOUT SOME PEOPLE IN HERE TO GET HAPPY LIKE I'M HAPPY.I DON'T HAVE TO UNDERSTAND.AS A MATTER OF FACT, I DON'T EVEN HAVE TO COMPREHEND WHAT'S GOING ON AS LONG AS HE IS WITH ME.I got to get out of here.
Then then the Lord in verse 9, then the Lord put forth uh his hand and touched my mouth.And the Lord said to me, "Behold, I have put my words in your mouth."See, let me stop right here cuz I was I was fighting with myself about that part, too.I I was really fighting with myself about that part, too.Listen here.What what what happened?Oh, you ain't trying to techn technically figure it out.Okay.All right.Good.I don't understand either.Don't worry about it.Just just shake your hand.That's the I don't understand thing.I don't I don't even know why.But but watch this.Watch this.Here it is.Here it is.He said, "I'll touch your mouth."Here's where I hope one person jump or shout and be dead free before the 31st of December.Uh the the the thing is he said, "I I put my words in your mouth."
So if he put something in me, it ain't my problem to understand what just happened anyway.
Yo, y'all miss it.Let me slow it down.Thank you.Be different for December 31st.Let Let me slow down and say it some more.Let me say it different.Let me say it different.Let me say it different for for those in the back here.Here it is.He says he says, "I put I touched
your mouth.
When I touched your mouth, I activated what I've already put inside of you."
That's right.
He said, "But wait a minute."He said, "I want you to know exactly what's inside of you.I put my words in your mouth."So wait a minute.Here's the thing that you got to understand.All you have to do is obey his word.You don't have to understand it.Amen.
Because when you start speaking, what's going to happen is not what you said, it's what he said.And what he said is already inside of you for to come out for them TO HEAR WHAT THUS SAID the Lord.
The message continues with Jeremiah’s fear and God’s command to speak boldly despite insecurity. The pastor teaches that obedience, not understanding, is what activates God’s protection and purpose.
But your problem is YOU HOLD WHAT HE SAID AND DISOBEY what he put inside OF YOU BECAUSE YOU ACT LIKE YOU SO SCARED AND AND AND AND AND I'M SHY SO I CAN'T SAY NOTHING TO NOBODY, BUT INEED SOMEBODY TO LEARN HOW TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH.AND WHEN SOMEBODY ASK YOU A QUESTION, YOU TELL THEM, "GOD DID IT.HOW DID I GET HEALED?GOD DID IT.HOW DID I GET IT?I DIDN'T TURN AROUND.GOD DID IT.I JUST MY
GOD DID.WHY I GO?
I'm almost done.I'm almost done.
Happy feet.Watch this.Watch this.In verse 10.In verse 10.In verse 10.In verse 10.Watch verse 10.He says, "See, I have this day set you over the nations."Now, now here's mama.Here's the problem.You You called me while I was writing my message.U and and when you got the phone, I I was right about here.And and here's where my lack of understanding started.Why would God
sh Why would he?I asked you same question I asked you mom.I'm still waiting to answer from both of y'all.Uh why would God
choose me?
Why would God choose someone?No.Put Put you there.Put you there.Let's put you there.Let's put you there.Let's Let's put you there.You can preach this better than I can.Why would God choose someone that has a percentage of insecurity
to lead what he's been placed over
Okay.Okay.Okay.Maybe y'all y'all missed it.Let me see if I can break down a little bit.As a pastor, I'm only assigned to govern the local body.
Yeah.
But the moment that I told God yes
to accept the apostilhip,
apostles are not confirmed.They are sent.Yeah.
And when he sends them, watch this.He doesn't send them with low capacity.
He sends THEM WITH A LARGE CAPACITY BECAUSE OF WHAT HE'S GETTING READY TO PUT THEM OVER.VERSE 10, IF Y'ALL READING YOUR BIBLE, SAYS, "I SET YOU TODAY OVER THE KINGDOMS TO ROOT OUT AND TO PULL DOWN, TO DESTROY, AND TO THROW DOWN, TO BUILD, AND TO PLANT."WHY WOULD HE CHOOSE SOMEBODY THAT SOMETIMES IS INSECURE WITH THE THOUGHT,
you teach it?Well,
that's good.
Here's your shout, though.Here's your shout.Can Can you make it personal?Can you make it personal for your life?
Well, we talked about Joseph last week.Okay.So, let me let's make it personal for your life.I'm the one that got to get us out.
But I ain't even the oldest kid.
Come on.
Come on.Y'all talk to me in here.Y'all looking like y'all watching a theater, a video or something.Come on.I know I'm swagged out this morning, but don't don't don't let the swag get you.Come on.WHY?WHY?I you you you the middle child or maybe you the oldest child.I ain't these kids parenting, but I'm the one that got to deliver them.I don't know what I'm going through.I don't know why I'm going through this.AND YET, GOD KEEP putting me in places and keep putting me through some things and keep putting me through some situations that I I just got to I just got to I I I I DON'T KNOW.I DON'T KNOW WHY HE WOULD SET ME OVER SOMETHING.WATCH HERE.TO DESTROY SOMETHING AND THEN BUILD IT WHEN HE KNOW I'VE BEEN STRUGGLING WITH HIM.
COME ON.
Can you hear Jeremiah?Because Jeremiah thinks
I'm a little boy
having to govern over people,
right,
who claim they have more experience,
right,
than me,
man.I wish I was preaching and this is hitting home.Hey, here's here's what I need you to tell your neighbor real quick.I hope I'm preaching good to about three of y'all here.I hope you young people getting something out of it.I know y'all little I know y'all used to get out of church about an hour.We getting out of church about 15 minutes.15 minutes from the last time I said 15 minutes.
And if y'all start shouting, it'll be 30 minutes from the last time I said 10 minutes.
Now, let me hurry up and read.I might have to cut this off though for real.But it it's it's
I need you to help me.Just tell somebody, "The weight is heavy."
The weight is heavy,
but the Lord is with you.
But the Lord is with you.Amen.
So even though you don't understand and you and you obey,
it's almost like you understood
cuz as long as I'm obeying,
it's going to work.
You don't even realize you don't understand until you stop obeying.
I'mma let that sink when y'all go to the crib.Verse 17.Go to verse 17.Chapter one.Chapter one.So, you trying to figure out why hell just all of a sudden arose is because you want Okay.All right.All right.Father.Okay.Thank you.Thank you for letting me off the hook.Let me Let me go right here.I'm I'm right here cuz I got to get you right here.Uh uh uh here's the problem.You trying to figure out why hell keep arising in your life?But the truth of the matter is your testimony is, man, when I was going to church and I was giving my tithe and I was lifting my hands and I was shouting and I was getting the word andI was going home and activating and I was cutting them jokers off and I was staying positive.
Everything was going good for me.You know why?Because you was obeying.But the very moment that you stopped obeying your own request, okay, you requested, God, would you change my life?I'm tired of living like this.I'm tired of going through this.I'm tired of doing this.I'm tired of working through this.As soon as you stop obeying your own request, what happens is hell says there's an opportunity for me to step in because now their mind capacity is on themselves.It's not on him no more.They're not listening to him.So, they might as well listen to me.And now YOU TRYING TO FIND OUT HOW TO GET BACK TO YOURSELF.WELL, you really need to be trying to figure out how to get back to God.Oh, y'all not talking to me here.Can I tell y'all THE QUICKEST WAY TO DO IT?
YOU DON'T HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE PATH.YOU DON'T HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THE WAY.BUT ALL YOU GOT TO DO IS OPEN YOUR MOUTH AND JUST SAY, "GOD, I'M TIRED OF HAVING IT MY WAY."LIKE preaching to make me have church BY MYSELF.YOU DON'T NEED NOBODY BUT ONE PERSON TO SAY, "AMEN.GOD, I'M TIRED OF WALKING LIKE THIS.I NEED TO COME BACK.I GOT TO RETURN BACK TO MY FIRST ONE."
All right.All right.All right.All right.All right.Verse 17 says, "Therefore, prepare yourself."
Let's get happy.Push your neighbor and say, "Prepare yourself."
Prepare yourself.
He says, "Prepare yourself and arise and speak to them all that I command you.Do not be dismayed before their faces, lest I dismay you before them."Uh, verse 18 says, "For behold, I have," is getting ready to get better, before it get worse.Uh, he says, "Before before, behold, I have made you this day."Somebody shout, "This day."
This day.
Y'all not being a good class.Shout this day.
This day.
Y'all not being a good class.Let's try it one more time.Shout this day.
This day.
Thank you.A fortified city.He said today.This day.This day.I I I've made you a fortified city and an iron pillar and bronze walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes, against the priests, against the people of the land.And verse 19 says they will.Here's where I need to tell y'all.Y'all ready for it?because don't think because you gave your life to Christ that everything is getting ready to work out.Um, but can I tell you what's getting ready to happen?And I need about three of y'all that have already experienced it to shout right here if you believe it.They will fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you.For I am with you, says the Lord, to deliver you.
The sermon addresses opposition, misunderstanding, and the pain of being fought by others who do not know you. It then turns toward repentance, forgiveness, and returning to God without a hardened heart.
I don't know who I came to talk to before I go to my next chapter, but I need you to look at somebody and just tell them they've been fighting.They've been fighting.I've been trying to figure out why.Stop.Hold on, Andre.I want to talk one time.Can Look, look at this.Look at this.Let's look at this for real.Let's look Can we take a picture of this?Can we look at this for real?Can we look at Can we get Can we look Can we look Can we Can we look at it for real?Can we Can Can we Can we Okay.All right.Here it is.Here it is.Here it is.Here it is.Here it is.They They've been fighting.But ain't it amazing that the people that's fighting never knew you.
Right.
Why y'all looking at me like that?
Half of your fights ain't been the person ain't been with the person that you started off fighting with.Right.
It's the person that don't like you that told somebody else that they didn't like you so they automatically didn't like you because they THINK COME ON.I WISH Y'ALL YOUNG PEOPLE would say something to me.I'm trying to help y'all.The Oh my goodness.I forgot y'all don't live that type of life.Let me see if I can talk to one of y'all over here.You know, you is the you you you the queen of Niles High School.You you you you got if you walk down the hallway, I already heard about you.I'm I'm I'm sorry that the peer-to-peer people that came and I said, "Do you know na na?"And I tried to play like I wasn't your daddy.I'm trying to tell you the truth.And they was like, "Yeah, we know na na."Yeah, we know Na Na.Uh uh kind of slender, kind of t her hair this that.
I said, "Yeah."I said, "Tell Na na you met a man."And the man told you to ask her.She said, "Tell Na na that we met her daddy."Okay.Wait a minute.All right.All right.All right.Y'all not talking to me in here.And and and what people don't like is the fact that your walk, watch this.HERE.HERE.HERE'S HOW powerful you are.And you don't even know it.That your walk commands a room.All right.Y'all not going to lie.Y'all not going to talk to me here.And I'm not going to lie to y'all.Your walk commands a room.that when you walk in the building, everybody got to rise up.You know why?Because there's something inside of you that demands the attention of those who don't have substance.BECAUSE WHILE YOU'RE WALKING, GOD IS ALLOWING YOU TO PULL your walk without even talking.
Sometimes allow people to get mad at you because THEY WANT TO BE YOU.THEY WANT TO WALK LIKE YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW IN THE WORLD YOU CAN GO THROUGH THE PAIN YOU WENT THROUGH IN YOUR LIFE.I DON'T KNOW CIRCUMSTANCE in your life.Keep your head up.Keep smiling.
WALK PEOPLE TO YOU BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO BE LIKE YOU SOMETIMES.THEY JUST WANT TO BE CLOSE TO YOU BECAUSE THEY UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING IN MY LIFE WILL CHANGE.
WAIT, I got to stop preaching because you made me start preaching for real and I was trying to tell you something.But you know how when you're in high school and and and and you connected to certain people and because certain people connected to you uh and you don't be no garbage or nothing.Ain't it amazing how you don't even be no garbage or nothing, but yet people don't like you because of the garbage of other people and because you affiliated with the with the people that got some garbage.They try to put you in it, but they trying to figure out how you keep rising above it.Come on.
And then you mad at me for what?When you don't even know my name.
Cuz if you know my name, I would tell you to sing MY SONG.SAY MY NAME.SAY my name.Okay.All right.All right.All right.IF YOU AIN'T RIDING GAMES.OKAY.All right.All right.Let me leave you alone.Let me We got real church folk in the real down there.And this jogging suit got to me.I'm sorry, God.I just I just some things I just don't understand.
Look at somebody and tell THEM, "BUT GOD'S WITH ME."
God's with me.
So, in Jeremiah chapter 3, hurry up and get there.Hurry, get there.I only got a couple verses.I I got to give y'all this Jeremiah Jeremiah Jeremiah chapter 3.He gives Jeremiah instructions.I want to give you instructions tonight.Who am I still helping tonight?Let me see.Let me see your hands.I I I teach according to the hands that I see.Don't be shy.I'm I'm I'm calling I ain't helping you.Okay.All right.Some of y'all I'm gonna start calling your name.All right, cuz y'all looking at me crazy.If you came this far, might as well get all the information.Here it is.Uh, go, go, watch what he tells him.Watch Antoine what he tells him.Uh, our street ministry director, he says, uh, go and proclaim these words toward the north and say, watch here, return black backsliding.
Uh, I was getting ready to call y'all backsliding.Um, but, uh, he said, backsliding Israel, says the Lord, I will not cause my anger.See, this where y'all need to shout at because he says, "If you made a mistake and went the other way, what I need you to do is return back to me."And he says, "I will not cause my anger to fall on you, for I am merciful, says the Lord.I will not remain angry forever."He says, "I'm not going to remain angry forever."In Psalms 30:5, he says, "His anger is only for a moment.His favor endures for a lifetime.Weeping may endure for a night, but joy will come in the morning.So therefore, God says, even if you upset me, I ain't going to be upset long, cuz I want you back.Okay.All right.See, y'all y'all y'all y'all see, you are the only one that got a problem with people that you can't forgive.
But do me a favor and just tell your neighbor politely because they might get mad at you when you say this.Don't go to hell for unforgiveness.Okay.All right.All right.Y'all may not LIKE EACH OTHER.YOU AIN'T GOT TO LIKE ME TO FORGIVE ME.OKAY?You ain't got to hang around me to forgive me.We ain't even got to be together for you to forgive me.But but please don't go to hell because you ain't forgiving somebody.DON'T YOU HAVE A HARD HEART AND BE GOD STILL WON'T MAKE A WAY OUT OF KNOWING.YOU BETTER LEARN HOW TO FORGIVE AND RETURN BACK TO HIM.
The pastor reads from Jeremiah 3 and 15 about God giving shepherds and calling people back to Him. He emphasizes that believers must move forward, not backward, and let God’s word guide them.
I'm over time, but I got to get out of here.In verse 13 says, I'm going to acknowledge your iniquity.Let me read the rest.Andre, and then I'll catch something in the in the end.Uh, I'm going read straight through.I'm try not to stop.Let's go.In verse 13 of chapter 3, he says, "Only acknowledge your iniquity that you have transgressed against the Lord your God and have scattered, we on time, your charms to alien deities under every green tree, and you have notobeyed my voice, says the Lord."In verse 14 of that, he says, "Do me a favor and return, oh backsliding ch children, says the Lord."And now he goes from calling you backsliding Israel to calling us children.He says, "I need y'all to come on back."He said, "Because I am married to you.I will take you one from a city and two from a family and I will bring you to Zion and I will give you shepherds according to my heart who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
But here's a point in here that me and God was talking about last night cuz I said now if I'm telling you I don't understand why how I'mma feed them understanding.He said because what you're feeding them is what I said.Okay.All right.Come here.He says, "Now you're providing them with knowledge."And he says, "And the thing is, everybody wants a covering and wants to be connected to something until they got a shepherd."
Come on.
Not until you receive a shepherd.
You want to be connected until somebody got to pastor you.You got to be You want to be connected until somebody got to correct you.You want to be connected until somebody got to say something to you.And then all of a sudden, who he think he is?He a man just like me.I put my clothes on.I pay my bills.But yet you do pay your own bills.Thank God for it.But for some of y'all, you couldn't pay your bills unless you asked for a prayer.
Come on.
Come on.
I know.I know the wrong people in church.Y'all don't have that problem.It's the church that didn't come.It's the late folk that didn't show up at 12:00.It's all right, though.God bless them, too.But but but you you you He says, "I need you.I I'm married to y'all.So So I need you.I need you to come back.You my you're you're my children."Look at somebody and just tell them, "I belong to God.I belong I belong to God.I belong to God.He said I give shepherds after my own according to my heart who will feed you knowledge and understanding.And then God reminds Jeremiah in this because so much uh has happened in between chapter 1 and chapter three.But then when we go to chapter 15 in verse chapter 15 verse 19- 21, let me read and and prophesy and and and see if we can get to the end.
I think we there.Therefore, thus says the Lord, if you return, then I will bring you back, you shall stand before me.If you take out the precious from the vow, he says, you shall be as my mouth, letting them return to you, but you must not return to them.Wait a minute.I want to tell you, I want to tell three people in here that need this right quick.You ready for it?Uh, you can't go back to them, but they can come where you at.
Come on.
Look at somebody just tell them you can't go back.You cannot you you cannot go back, but they can come forward.And the problem is you're always trying to go back to something.And when you start changing your life, let me talk to you in here.Uh, when you start changing your life, what normally happens?People now want to pull you back and say, "You remember when you used to do this?"and they're trying to trigger a memory, hoping that you come back to be with them or to be in their presence.But the father told me to tell you that you getting ready to be his mouthpiece.You can't go backwards.You got to go forward because every word that come out of your mouth, God's getting ready to put it in manifestation.I just need somebody just to decree and declare, I'm going forward.
I am going.I'm going forward.We almost there.I'm going forward.And then he prophesies in verse 20.He says, "And I will make you to this people a fortified bronze wall, and they will fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you, for I am with you to give you and and and deliver you,says the Lord."Now, here's the thing that you got to understand is in chapter 15 20, he reminds Jeremiah the same thing that he said to Jeremiah in chapter 1.But in verse 21 of chapter 15, he assures him.He says, "I will deliver you from the hand of the wicked and I will redeem you from the grip of the terrible."Can I suggest to you Psalms 107:2?Let the redeemed of the Lord say so.Those who have been redeemed from the hand of the enemy, you got to testify.
But here's your shouting.We out here, love, for real.Here's where you should shout.
The sermon closes its main teaching by tying together Jeremiah, Romans 8:28, and the call to trust God’s process. The pastor urges the church to obey, praise, and trust even without understanding.
I don't know if you going to do it because God says in Jeremiah 29 11 and 12, he says the whole thing, the reason why I had you go through this and I understood that you didn't understand.He said, "I heard you when you said it."He said, "But the reason why I had you go from chapter 1 to chapter 3 to chapter 15 is because when to because when you get to chapter 29, I want to leave you with a message.I know you felt like because when you get to chapter 29, it deals with Israel being in captivity."He said, "I know that you thought you was in captivity.I know you thought that you was locked down.He said, "But you ain't been locked down.I've been covering you.I need somebody to help me preach and get out of here because now the Bible says, "FOR I KNOW THE THOUGHTS THAT I THINK towards you, says the Lord.
Thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you a future and a hope.Then you will call UPON ME AND GO AND pray to me and I will listen to you.You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart.I need you to do me a favor and just use your hand in your neighbor's hand and just say, "Neighbor, I may not understand, but the thing that I can tell you right NOW IS I'M GOING TO OBEYBECAUSE WHAT I NEED is in this moment is a tutor.So what to do?I need a tutor.SO WHEN I LOOK AT MY LACK OF UNDERSTANDING, I call for a tutor.AND MY TUTOR TOLD ME THIS IN ROMANS 8:28.HE SAYS, "YOU GOING through stuff and I KNOW YOU GOT SOME HARD TIMES.I KNOW YOU GOT SOME OF THE GOOD TIMES.
I KNOW PEOPLE talking about you."He said, "But what I need you TO DO IS TAKE OUT A BOWL."I should have brought one.He said, "I need you to take out a boat.I need you to take out a stirring spoon."I said, "Tutor, I don't know.I don't understand what you're doing."He said, "It's not for you to understand, but it's FOR YOU TO TAKE OUT THE B.IT'S FOR YOU TO TAKE OUT A STORY."He said, "Because when I'm getting ready to show IS WHERE YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND, I ALREADY KNOW I
do
come IN THE MORNING."EVERYTHING COMES IN THE MORNING.YOU GOT A TESTIMONY that is 8:28.AND WE KNOW THAT ALL THESE THINGS WORK TOGETHER for the good of those who love God according TO HIS PURPOSE.READY TO have surgery here.BUT IF YOU DON'T MIND THIS MORNING, I'm way out of here.Cl your name by the hand your name
YOU AIN'T READY THIS MORNING YOUR NEIGHBOR hang
I don't UNDERSTAND BUT I GOT A sing 14 and 14 and where I l UNDERSTAND ALL I GOT TO DO
IN MY
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NEVER BEEN trying to understand WHAT I'VE BEEN CARRYING AND WHY IT'S been Heat.HEAT.
I will I will I will
take my young
and LEARN FROM ME.I AM gentle and lonely and you will find rest FOR YOUR SOUL.
AND MY burning lights.We got I didn't understand why I've been going through and couldn't finish what I start.
You will believe until the day of Jesus CHRIST
and the peace OF GOD WHICH SURPASSES ALL UNDERSTAND
my response.MY RESPONSE IS FOUND IN ROMANS CHAPTER 12 VERSE 1 and 2.I see you there by the mercies of God even when you don't understand your only sacrifice
which is a reasonable service and do nothing to this world but be transformed by your may and acceptable AND PERFECT.I need I need somebody to try.I NEED SOMEBODY.I need somebody ELSE TO GRAB YOUR NEIGHBOR AND PULL YOUR NEIGHBOR AND SAY, "I GOT a response and my RESPONS
Sh
my soul here
my soul.
I feel good.
The Lord
the Lord heard me deliver me from all of my righteous but the Lord DELIVERS
AND TELL ME
THEY UNDERSTAND.WAIT A MINUTE.I need the church to do THIS WITH ME.Y'ALL LEFT ME OUT THERE BY MYSELF FIRST.But I need everybody to do it with me today because WHAT YOU'RE GETTING READY TO DO IS WALK IN SOMEWHERE GREAT.MAY NOT UNDERSTAND BUT I NEED YOU TO GO WITH ME.ARE YOU READY?I may not understand the path that I'M
TELLING
YOU TO HIS FACEinto his voice with praise.BE THANKFUL AND BLESS HIS NAME FOR THE LORD.The Lord is GOOD
for all generations.
I'LL BE YOUR I HOPE YOU'LL DO IT WITH ME.EVERYBODY
like you know your mouth like you know your mouth like you know your mouth LIKE WHY AM I
STILL
DOING WHAT HE DOING?WHAT ARE YOU DOING?YOU TURN AROUND.
I know he will.
I know he will.
YES, HE WILL.HEAT.
HEAT.
Make it smooth with a MAN IN THE BACK.HEY, we going to sing this one later, but make it real smooth.I want it jazz LIKE YOU READY, BOY.YOU WORK it out.
You work it out.
YOU WORK IT OUT.
LISTEN, I'm gone.Y'all out of church earlier than y'all got out last week.
Watch this, Tyler.If this makes sense, high five me cuz they've been playing me for the past two weeks.Sometimes it's not for you to understand.
Yeah.
It's for you just to trust and obey.
Yeah.
The pastor reflects on how obedience can become a witness for others and how suffering may signal God’s trust. He warns that salvation can bring subtraction and challenge, but God remains present.
And watch this, mama.What I learned from this message,
because we don't understand, we try to make up a narrative
and apply scriptural text to it
instead of just obeying what we are supposed to do.
We put our assignment and our obedience in a moment on somebody else.And because they're not doing it, we don't pay attention to what we're supposed to do.Because here's the question.Watch this, Kathy.What if you obeying is the nucleus or the seed
or the example
for somebody else to see?
Cuz where I see fruit is where I will sow.
Right.
You You didn't hear what I just said.I said where I see fruit is where I will sow.
And sometimes what I have to do is I have to be obedient even when I don't understand why God keep blessing those who stabbing him in the back.
Come on now.Right.
And what I've learned in this time and in this just in this two weeks of studying this, what to do when God when you don't understand God, I've learned this that God allows those who he trusts to sufferthe most.
So if you suffering right now, you should shout.
Oh, y'all don't believe me.I'mma catch it on the fourth Sunday.Ask Joe.
Joe said, "Though he slay me, yet
I'm not even going to go into it cuz I'll preach another hour just on Joe."
If you going through something right now,
that tells me that God possibly can trust you.But here's the here's why you should shout.I promise you.You You going to hang around a little bit.You going to hang around this church a little bit.I know you join.Huh?I give you.All right.Now, I ain't never I ain't Maybe I have done this before.I don't understand why why he would have me say this.So, you going to be the meteor to this to watch.It's not for you to push.Not for you even bring it back up.You ready for it?So, I give her till November 1st and she going to start being vocal in church.And I ain't never said that it ain't happening.It's going she going to go to job.We're going to be like, "Oh, this swag."
Cuz we can't give voice to everything that has nothing to do with God.
And then when it comes to God, we give no voice.
I I want I want to I want to go home now.Um
If you're like really dealing with something,
you got to knowthat God's has not left you.
And a lot of times our experiences and complaining comes at the result of us stopping.
We stop doing what got us blessed in the first place.
Now, now I want to leave you with this.Catch me.Ready?I I want to leave you with this.um right here that in the beginning seems like every time I turn around he keep blessing
right
every time I turn around
he keep blessing oh my goodness something happened here he he blessing then there's a season cuz I I don't I those of you that's going to be with us, I don't want you I don't want you to getme misunderstood.There's a season where
that ain't happening no more
right
now.Now what's happening isyou're going to have to lift your hands.No, just just just go going to have to lift your hands
now.Your blessing is not coming watch it like this right now.
I don't understand.
My blessing now is coming like this.
Because as long as my hands is lifted,
it causes him to have to put his hand on.
Amen.So watch this.There's a season, my brother, that this he the one that just got saved.Can I be Can I be honest with you?There's going to be a season, my young brother.That is going to feel real good.Like even right now, you questioning, did I make the right decision?Did I Oh my goodness, this this this feels good.I feel like I did something great.I want you to keep that joy.You know why?Because there's going to be a season that comes in your life that the church don't tell you about.
They get y'all young people saved and they get y'all jumping and crying and you like the music was good, the word was good.And then about that third month of being saved, you be like, "MAN, I KNOW HE LYING."
WHOA, WHOA, WHOA.LET'S GO BACK TO DAY ONE.
Where that feeling at?
I wait hold up I don't we was just cool.Certain people start saying hey I won't be in your life no more.Sometimes telling God yes will subtract individuals
because the level of capacity God wants to give you smallmindedness can't handle.I don't know why you connected to my son.That's a good dude to connect to.And I pray that the wisdom that's in him be restored to you.
I pray that he walks up right so that it doesn't cause you to lose your salvation.
But however, at some point in time, you going to have to be him.You going to have to go get the next one.
You going to have to tell the next one.Yep.You know what?Can Can we tell the truth?I don't want to lie to nobody tonight.Yep.I messed up.And I ain't just talking to y'all cuz y'all visit.We do this every Sunday.Yep.I messed up.I talked to somebody that messed up for real.I messed up.
Yeah.
I I done got away.I slid back cuz I wanted to feel something different.But what I'm feeling is bringing anguish and pain to me.
But watch this.There's an anchor that holds
that when I grip the solid rock, no matter how far I slip back.
Come on.
Watch me make sure you go crazy.He's still standing there like this.
He's still at you.You slipping back and you keep the door in his face and he keep
Thank you, God.
You done walked.I need to find somebody in here that didn't it.You done walked away many a times, but yet every time you walk away, unexpected visit come.A knock on the door.COME.THE BIBLE SAYS, "AND BEHOLD, I KNOCK."If you open the door, let me in.You accept with me.
The service moves into prayer and ministry at the altar, with hands laid on individuals and encouragement to worship. The pastor prays for healing, rejection to break, and God’s peace to guard the congregation.
Stand on your feet.All over.All over.Let's go home.Stand on your feet, everybody.Everybody.Everybody.Everybody.I wasn't going to do this today, but I I guess I will.Can I pray for you?Come on.Come back, girl.Come here.I love you.I love you.Grab a mic.Sing with me.I love
No, don't don't face them.They are not.Face up.Face me.
I'm firing all of y'all at the church.
in such
in such a special way.That's why I praise you.
I lift you up.
I lift you up and I
lift your hands.
I don't know why you came today, but we going to borrow these from me.I ain't going to put them on.Just don't want no breaking.God, you
But when I lay my hands on you, God is going to transition your life.
Have you been praying lately?I know saw that the word was resonating with inside you and you got a lot of words and a lot of fears and a lot of things that you're asking you like you trying to figure out what yournext place is.And you can stop me.I'm I'm real.You can tell me.
You stop me if I'm lying.You be like, I know you lying.
Okay.All right.And and so you've been been it seemed like rejection been all around you.
But when I laid my hand on you,
you're going to leave here unrejected.
Rejection will not have you another day of your life.
Do you believe in the power of God for real?
You do?
Okay.Have you ever felt the power of God?
Yes, ma'am.I can see cuz you're broken.That feeling is amazing, ain't it?
God said he wants to connect with you one more time.Here it come.
There it comes.
There we go.There it go.I praise you.
There we go.Keep her mind.
I lift you up.
Yes, God.Everything that's trying to connect itself to her,
we disconnected now in the name of Jesus.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Now, you know how this works, right?You got to open your mouth and talk to God, too.
I can pray for you, but if you don't say nothing, it just stays right here.So, I want you to open your mouth and just stand right here.I'm going to leave you alone.I want you to open your mouth and just start telling God, "Thank you for confirming."
She all right.She
No.Go ahead.You stand there.Skip everybody else.
Let her praise God.Worship.Go.Go ahead.
If you want to kneel at the altar, you can.There's a pillow.You can kneel at the altar.She want to kneel.Give her that pillow.Go onhead.Yeah.Put it right there.
Yep.
That's why
I'mma do something.I don't do much.The altar is open.I want y'all to come.Those that you know that that get that pillow and put it down there for somebody.Come on.There's some pillows in there.They they want to kneel.There's a blue one in there.Come on.
Come on.Come on.There's one in there.You can kneel.Come on.You can kneel if you want to.
Hallelujah.Come on.Come on.
You can kneel.
You can kneel.
Come on.You can.Nuh-uh.Don't touch them.Don't touch them.Don't touch them.Nuh-uh.Uh-uh.Uh-uh.Kneel.Put your hands together.Yeah.Yeah.Put your hands together.If I ain't laying hands, ain't nobody else laying hands.Yes, sir.
Yes, sir.Yes, sir.Don't help her.
Tyler, help her
on this side.Tyler, help her down.She want to kneel.Help her down.
Go ahead.Yo, they got you.They got you.They got you.Pull her leg back.
Yep.It's all
That's why.
top with
my heart is
the rest of you don't don't watch.Just lift your hands and begin to worship God.
That's why that's why my heart is
cover now in the name of Jesus.
You should come to the altar.You should kneel at your seat.The altar is open.Carrie,
Carrie, the altar is open, not at your seat.
You want to come out of something, come with obedience.That's what I just preached about.If he would have led me to lead to let you kneel at your seat, I would have said it.
My heart is
That's why
That's why my heart is
Well, even when I don't understand
why my heart will oh
that's why father we give you praise and we give you glory for this moment we give you great praise and glory for what it is you have spoken to us
even in our lack of understanding
even in the lack of understanding.
Father, teach us how to obey.
Teach us how to obey other signs.Teach us how to obey
even when we don't understand.
teach us how to obey.
Thank you, God.
And as we are obedient,
Thank you, God.
Thank you, Asobian.Father,
continue to open up the windows of heaven.
Thank you, Lord.
And pour us out of us.For those that came, God, whatever they left at this altar, we ask that you handle it now in the name of Jesus.
Hallelujah.
Let the peace of God guard all of our hearts.
Lead us
in Jesus name we pray.Amen.
Clap your hands for Jesus Christ.
The pastor invites new members, asks for financial support, and gives final instructions about church giving and communication. The service ends with declarations of victory, closing praise, and a farewell to visitors.
While you are standing, if there's anyone who is not here that would like to join our church, I want you to join.I would love to be your pastor.Don't leave me by myself.I would love to be Everybody in this room ain't a member of this church.If you online, I ain't looking at my phone, but if you would like to join, I want you to join today, you can inbox us.You can email us at admin iare experience.com.
You can put it in the inbox on iare church or pastor Andre Love, pastor-andre love, however.Call somebody, text them and become a part.remember the announcements.I need y'all to do me a favor.I don't ever ask this.And I asked God cuz I told him, I said, "What if folk don't show up?"And he said, "Don't worry about it.You ask and it shall be given."Um, we need to raise and I don't push this, but we need to raise.I need I need I need I need I don't no need too much, but I need us um I need y'all to help me raise $600 today.I believe it.Rather you online, you can give.We need to raise a minimum of $600 today.Um for what we have to take care of, we got some plumbing stuff that we have to take care of.
Um and you want everything functional, right?You want everything functional, right?
I'm trying to ask y'all.Y'all want everything functional, right?
And so it's the ministries.I've already sold 300 into this this project and and we're about 600 and something dollars short.Really?We 800 short.And there's about three of y'all in here that you you can go right to your bank right now and give 200 a piece and we can be right there.There's somebody there some of y'all in the room.I believe to pay for the whole thing.Amen.Um but we need to I need you to do that.I'm not doing no lying.I'm not saying who going to give a hundred.I'm not not today.Not today.We need it before we leave this this this edifice.We need raise.We need raise.So I know you wanted to give your tithe and your offering.And I want to encourage you every Sunday try to bring something.Even if it's a dollar or five dollars, we got we got every medium to give on.
We got Vimmo, Zale, uh we got uh uh Cash App.Amen.Uh we want you to give uh pretty soon we're going to have um giving for Subsplash for the for the website.Y'all ain't heard much on the website.It's still active.
Amen.And y'all need to download it uh and get it.go to the church app that when you go down to the church app, put I care in come up and I need you to save that to your phone so when you can't get here.Amen.And and Facebook is acting crazy because we may go off of Facebook and just go straight YouTube um and the website uh you should be able to do it.But if you can help us today, we we definitely need you to do that.We definitely need you to do that.the the giving information is uh cash app is I care uh I care that's the cash dollar sign I care umify uh is I care Niles Michigan uh either one of those are good or you can give incash if you write a check make it ain't basketball season yet so we don't need no bouncing amen look at somebody and tell them thank you for worshiping with me.
Thank you for worshiping with me.
Amen.Amen.I want you to come and just give.Now, if you need an envelope, uh we want you to We got envelopes for you.But listen, I don't want you taking the envelope if you ain't writing your name on it.Sit down.
Ican't schedule.Catch
come from all over.
And soon I will live where I want to go.Soon I will drive what I want.Soon I will have what I want.
Soon I will have what I want.Soon I will have what I want.
Thank you my brother for coming.I know who you are but tell can y'all clap your hands for our visitors.Mama Laura and brother Jerry right Jerry.Did you enjoy yourself?I'm sorry I ain't have my suit on today.Just it wasn't because it wasn't laid out.My daughter walked over there and was like, "Daddy, here.Where that?"I told y'all they dress.I was going to come in here collared up.I was ready to act, dress it down.Y'all enjoy y'all.
You enjoy yourself.You sure?Different experience.You ain't seen that yet.Come back again.Sometime we be wasn't that Sunday today.But hey, I don't know where everybody was.Y'all make sure y'all tell the rest of your mama.Call all your members and tell your members that the summer is over.
Call all your men and tell them that summer is over.All right, y'all got me.Let's go.Y'all got me.Y'all ready?1 2 3.Every debt is canceled.Every bill is paid.My reality
is we are WE ARE
I STRONG.
WE ARE
I STRONG.
WE ARE
I strong.
Look somebody tell them I know you lying.
The devil is defeated.Y'all can go home and see y'all in Jesus name.My bad.The pastor said we forgot it.Everybody say in Jesus name.
Y'all did good.I see y'all.
Hey, who all going to tune in?If I go uh if I do Bible class Wednesday, I figured out how to do it from my office.Y'all, we on with the templates and everything.Well, I do.Go little videos.We going to be there.See y'all,
ma'am.