WEBVTT 00:00:00.281 --> 00:00:02.930 Wave your Bibles around, make Jesus glad and the devil mad. 00:00:02.930 --> 00:00:03.802 Say this together. 00:00:03.802 --> 00:00:06.690 Say, heavenly Father, thank God for Sunday night. 00:00:06.690 --> 00:00:13.272 I'm here because I'm hungry and I'm thirsty and, lord, I shall be filled. 00:00:13.272 --> 00:00:20.233 I thank you for revelation that builds my faith, changes my life. 00:00:20.233 --> 00:00:38.139 I'm making adjustments to my receiver so that I can more fully understand what I'm to do in these days, and I thank you for choosing this time for me to live in Jesus name, amen, amen. 00:00:38.481 --> 00:01:08.397 Let's look at Matthew, chapter 11, chapter 11. 00:01:08.397 --> 00:01:15.388 Now, chapter 11 is talking about John in prison, and he was discouraged and even began to. 00:01:15.388 --> 00:01:17.445 You know, anybody can get discouraged. 00:01:17.445 --> 00:01:18.248 He was discouraged. 00:01:18.248 --> 00:01:22.025 He even began to be tempted to doubt Jesus as the Messiah. 00:01:22.025 --> 00:01:24.647 And no, jesus bragged on him. 00:01:24.647 --> 00:01:25.070 Jesus didn't rebuke. 00:01:25.070 --> 00:01:26.159 No, jesus bragged on him. 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:29.465 Jesus didn't rebuke him, jesus bragged on him. 00:01:29.519 --> 00:01:31.106 And let's pick it up here in verse 11. 00:01:31.106 --> 00:01:38.900 Verily, I say unto you, among them that are born of women, there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist. 00:01:38.900 --> 00:01:42.671 Now, that's what Jesus said about John the Baptist. 00:01:42.671 --> 00:01:46.606 Among them that are born of women, that takes in a lot of territory. 00:01:46.606 --> 00:01:53.893 I can think of a whole lot of people, up to that point, that had been born of women and he was the greatest of all. 00:01:53.893 --> 00:01:58.766 I mean greater than Abraham, greater than Moses, greater than I mean you know he's. 00:01:58.766 --> 00:02:06.745 You start listing all these giants of the faith, and Jesus' estimationations on the Baptist exceeded them. 00:02:06.745 --> 00:02:15.766 That alone to tell you that God does rank people, god does look at people and he measures people. 00:02:16.659 --> 00:02:26.466 This whole idea that we're all you know I was talking about this morning diversity, equity and inclusion I mean it's just a lie. 00:02:26.466 --> 00:02:27.348 It's a Marxist lie. 00:02:27.348 --> 00:02:28.310 There's no such thing. 00:02:28.310 --> 00:02:29.393 Everybody's different. 00:02:29.393 --> 00:02:32.348 Some people are smart and some people are not so smart. 00:02:32.348 --> 00:02:34.187 It's just that's the way it is. 00:02:34.187 --> 00:02:37.806 And some people are this way, some people are that way. 00:02:37.806 --> 00:02:40.030 God, and here's Jesus. 00:02:40.030 --> 00:02:41.653 I mean it's amazing. 00:02:41.719 --> 00:02:46.170 You start reading that and golly, I don't know if I'd have ranked him that high man. 00:02:46.170 --> 00:03:07.759 He's good, but wow, nevertheless, nevertheless, notwithstanding I should say Notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. 00:03:07.759 --> 00:03:13.802 So now you see the new birth and what a status we have. 00:03:13.802 --> 00:03:15.605 That is what made all the difference. 00:03:15.605 --> 00:03:21.794 The new birth, it's not what we are in our flesh, it's not what we are in our mind, it's not any of that. 00:03:21.794 --> 00:03:26.609 It's what Jesus did and we're in him. 00:03:26.628 --> 00:03:42.027 That's what that means and from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. 00:03:42.027 --> 00:04:05.673 And I want to read it out of the Amplified, the last part of that verse From the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven has endured violent assault, and violent men seize it by force as a precious prize. 00:04:05.673 --> 00:04:17.814 A share of the heavenly kingdom is sought for with most ardent zeal and intense exertion. 00:04:17.814 --> 00:04:32.810 A share in the heavenly kingdom is sought for with most ardent zeal and intense exertion. 00:04:32.810 --> 00:04:38.790 And so I have a message tonight entitled how Desperate Are you? 00:04:38.790 --> 00:04:45.646 How desperate, see, I add all those words up and I come up with desperate. 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:47.949 Now, desperate means a lot of things to a lot of people. 00:04:47.949 --> 00:04:52.632 Some people mean like desperate is, you know, worried and freaked out. 00:04:52.632 --> 00:04:55.588 That's not the part of desperate I'm talking about. 00:04:55.588 --> 00:05:02.488 I'm talking about somebody that's unwilling to do without what God called them to do. 00:05:02.488 --> 00:05:10.829 They're unwilling to fall short in their call, in their share of the heavenly kingdom. 00:05:10.829 --> 00:05:11.120 Why? 00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:24.288 Because Jesus' blood paid for your share, whatever that is, whatever that inheritance is, he paid for it, and you don't want to leave anything on the table that he paid for. 00:05:24.288 --> 00:05:25.211 Wouldn't that be terrible. 00:05:27.940 --> 00:05:35.524 I mean you go to a restaurant and somebody said, okay, I'm going to cover their bill, whatever it is, just keep bringing the food. 00:05:35.524 --> 00:05:37.851 Bring the dessert tray, bring everything out. 00:05:37.851 --> 00:05:42.144 And you decide, well, I'm just going to have some tater tots and ketchup and I'm going to leave now. 00:05:42.144 --> 00:05:45.608 And you leave everything else on the table. 00:05:45.608 --> 00:05:46.380 You didn't eat it. 00:05:46.380 --> 00:06:10.627 You didn't eat the red snapper punch, a train with the lump crab, the ginger carrots and the cream brulee. 00:06:10.627 --> 00:06:11.290 I'm getting hungry. 00:06:11.290 --> 00:06:15.031 Let's break for dinner. 00:06:15.031 --> 00:06:18.545 Glad, it says I always preach about food. 00:06:18.565 --> 00:06:21.033 I see, when I read this, I see a plumb line. 00:06:21.033 --> 00:06:25.725 You know what a plumb line is, being a home builder for 25 years. 00:06:25.725 --> 00:06:27.468 Plumb lines, you know kind of important. 00:06:27.468 --> 00:06:30.134 Plumb line is just a string with a weight on the bottom. 00:06:30.134 --> 00:06:38.814 You know you just hold it up like that, and I mean you hold it up next to a brick wall and you can make sure that that brick wall is vertical by that brick wall. 00:06:38.814 --> 00:06:47.483 If that brick wall is leaning like this, you know you put the plumb line up there and you see that brick wall is kind of leaning one direction or another. 00:06:47.483 --> 00:06:50.230 That thing is not strong, it can fall. 00:06:50.230 --> 00:06:51.774 You know houses out here. 00:06:51.774 --> 00:06:53.963 They're not brick houses, they're brick veneer. 00:06:53.963 --> 00:07:02.781 I saw a house one time where the entire fireplace fell out in the backyard. 00:07:02.781 --> 00:07:21.350 Yeah, the concrete slab under the fireplace was poorly done, it wasn't tied into the slab properly, and so the weight of all those bricks going up two and a half floor I mean, you know a chimney on a two-story house, it's way up there. 00:07:21.350 --> 00:07:23.944 I mean that thing, that chimney goes way up that's a lot of weight. 00:07:23.944 --> 00:07:44.168 And if that slab is not tied in properly to the slab and everything, well then, finally, and just over a period of time, you know all this soil is moving and everything and it cracked, even with the slab, and that pad that the fireplace was sitting on started sinking on the outside edge and the whole thing fell out in the backyard. 00:07:44.168 --> 00:07:47.088 I'm really glad I wasn't standing there when it fell. 00:07:51.261 --> 00:07:52.646 Plum line, you need a plum line. 00:07:52.646 --> 00:07:59.934 A plum line makes sure that something is plumbed up or vertical. 00:07:59.934 --> 00:08:05.389 It will show and expose things that aren't. 00:08:05.389 --> 00:08:14.000 A plumb line will show something that's inferior, something that's not done correctly. 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:18.810 Same with a square, same with a level. 00:08:18.810 --> 00:08:25.819 So builders got to have all three got to have you got to have square, you got to have level and you got to have plumb, you've got to have square, you've got to have level and you've got to have plumb. 00:08:25.819 --> 00:08:27.687 If you don't have that, you don't have strength. 00:08:27.687 --> 00:08:30.689 If you don't have that, you don't have longevity. 00:08:32.520 --> 00:08:34.028 All of my houses are still standing. 00:08:34.028 --> 00:08:36.708 Every so often I'll go drive by them and look at them. 00:08:36.708 --> 00:08:38.803 Every house I ever build. 00:08:38.803 --> 00:08:40.971 I know exactly where it is and I go by and look at it. 00:08:40.971 --> 00:08:44.765 That's kind of cool to know. 00:08:44.765 --> 00:08:46.731 I mean you know, if you're an accountant you can't do that. 00:08:46.731 --> 00:08:52.028 You can't go back in the file and find the ledger that you worked on. 00:08:52.028 --> 00:08:53.070 It's gone along. 00:08:53.070 --> 00:08:57.788 But a home builder, I mean I can go back and look at every house I built and they're all still standing. 00:08:57.788 --> 00:09:00.283 They didn't fall down. 00:09:00.283 --> 00:09:01.869 I'm kind of glad. 00:09:04.539 --> 00:09:12.693 So I see a plumb line between hot and merely lukewarm. 00:09:12.693 --> 00:09:16.950 You know Jesus said in book of Revelation he said I would that you were hot or cold. 00:09:16.950 --> 00:09:26.029 But because you're lukewarm, laodicea in church because you're lukewarm, I will spew you, literally I will vomit you out of my mouth. 00:09:26.029 --> 00:09:26.831 That's what it means. 00:09:26.831 --> 00:09:34.169 Why you mean cold was better than lukewarm. 00:09:34.169 --> 00:09:39.807 Yeah, because cold just means they needed to get saved and weren't saved yet they hadn't been exposed to the gospel. 00:09:39.807 --> 00:09:45.613 Lukewarm had been exposed to the same thing as the hot person and chose to be lukewarm. 00:09:45.613 --> 00:09:48.129 They chose not to go all the way with God. 00:09:48.129 --> 00:09:52.889 They chose not to be filled with the Holy Ghost, they chose to just be less than that. 00:09:52.889 --> 00:09:57.879 And that's an anathema. 00:09:57.879 --> 00:10:01.289 See, when you see John the Baptist, that's a plumb line, you know. 00:10:01.330 --> 00:10:04.474 He got out there in that wilderness and he had that awful cry. 00:10:04.474 --> 00:10:04.562 That's a plumb line, you know. 00:10:04.562 --> 00:10:13.466 He got out there in that wilderness and he had that awful cry, repent, he cried, he lifted that voice. 00:10:13.466 --> 00:10:18.615 It pierced those Jewish hearts out there in the desert. 00:10:18.615 --> 00:10:29.711 They came out there to get baptized and in their culture, I mean, that meant they wanted a new life, they wanted to start over, they wanted a new experience with God. 00:10:29.711 --> 00:10:33.216 They were tired of the same old religion and they wanted some. 00:10:33.216 --> 00:10:39.240 They heard him speak and that's the first prophet they'd had in 400 years, since Malachi is the first prophet and man. 00:10:39.240 --> 00:10:48.285 They were hungry for what he had to say and he said you, generation of vipers who warned you to flee from the wrath to come. 00:10:49.268 --> 00:10:54.062 He wasn't an easy, you know, pat him on the head kind of person. 00:10:54.062 --> 00:10:55.905 He was a plumb line. 00:10:55.905 --> 00:11:01.075 He was radical, he was desperate. 00:11:01.075 --> 00:11:03.846 That's what Jesus spoke about. 00:11:03.846 --> 00:11:09.486 He was violent in his faith and he wouldn't put up with anybody lukewarm. 00:11:09.486 --> 00:11:11.356 He wouldn't put up with anybody half-hearted. 00:11:11.356 --> 00:11:14.346 He wouldn't put up with anybody trying to play some role. 00:11:14.346 --> 00:11:15.508 Are you with me? 00:11:15.508 --> 00:11:15.668 Now? 00:11:15.668 --> 00:11:22.202 I see a plumb line between confrontation and resignation. 00:11:22.202 --> 00:11:36.053 The church has been just resigned to saying nothing, but that's changing. 00:11:37.259 --> 00:11:52.868 You know, god told me to wake up the church and this past March the 1st, a few weeks ago, was the 25th year since that happened. 00:11:52.868 --> 00:11:57.149 25 years ago, god told me to wake up to church. 00:11:57.149 --> 00:12:01.403 Well, you know what? 00:12:01.403 --> 00:12:04.346 I have never quit, I have never stopped. 00:12:04.346 --> 00:12:05.961 We just keep on. 00:12:05.961 --> 00:12:10.365 I mean, we haven't made all the correct, maybe, moves. 00:12:10.365 --> 00:12:11.947 I don't know, I can't even judge it. 00:12:11.947 --> 00:12:13.349 I just know that we did something. 00:12:13.349 --> 00:12:15.551 We kept on trying to find out. 00:12:15.551 --> 00:12:16.251 What do we do? 00:12:16.251 --> 00:12:17.793 How do we get their attention? 00:12:17.793 --> 00:12:26.061 How do we tell them Jesus is coming soon, coming soon? 00:12:26.061 --> 00:12:27.503 How do we tell them that the church isn't ready? 00:12:27.503 --> 00:12:35.196 You know this has been going on a long time. 00:12:35.196 --> 00:12:35.836 You know that's exactly what. 00:12:35.856 --> 00:12:39.903 Oh, here's my good buddy that went to heaven, had a visitation, took God, took him to heaven. 00:12:39.903 --> 00:12:44.653 Uh, uh, from Louisiana, white-headed guy. 00:12:44.653 --> 00:12:53.932 Huh, I can't hear you, jesse Duplantis. 00:12:53.932 --> 00:13:09.249 So 1988, I heard a cassette tape where he was going to go preach and he had this urge to go back to his hotel room and he said I just went back to my hotel room and got on my knees and started praying. 00:13:09.249 --> 00:13:10.251 Instantly I was in heaven. 00:13:10.251 --> 00:13:14.168 And he has this whole description. 00:13:14.168 --> 00:13:17.571 Have you ever seen that testimony? 00:13:17.571 --> 00:13:18.946 I mean, he preached it at Lakewood. 00:13:18.946 --> 00:13:27.360 I'm the one that asked Brother Osteen to get him in there and he shows the one that he was at at Lakewood sharing his testimony. 00:13:27.360 --> 00:13:29.586 That was probably the best one that they'd ever done. 00:13:29.586 --> 00:13:35.923 And so when you see it, it probably got that old marble pulpit. 00:13:35.923 --> 00:13:39.649 It's Lakewood, 1988. 00:13:39.970 --> 00:13:43.943 And the Lord said go back and tell my people to get ready, I'm coming soon. 00:13:43.943 --> 00:13:44.445 And they don't. 00:13:44.445 --> 00:13:47.504 He said oh Lord, they know that they don't know that. 00:13:47.504 --> 00:13:54.846 Go back and tell them to get ready, lord, they know that they don't know that Jesus got mad. 00:13:54.846 --> 00:13:56.506 His eyes flashed. 00:13:56.506 --> 00:14:00.427 They don't know that's 1988. 00:14:00.427 --> 00:14:06.027 11 years before he told me. 00:14:06.140 --> 00:14:16.743 So you know, he's been trying to get our attention for quite some time, 25 more years now, and you know what I'm seeing evidence that the church is finally. 00:14:16.743 --> 00:14:23.626 That plumb line has been there, that violent assault, that unwillingness to do without what God said. 00:14:23.626 --> 00:14:24.967 Y'all get anything out of this. 00:14:24.967 --> 00:14:29.722 That unwillingness to do without what God said, y'all get anything out of this. 00:14:29.722 --> 00:14:34.269 I mean we're confronting, I mean we're going to confront, if that's what it takes. 00:14:34.269 --> 00:14:36.653 Well, you know people don't like that. 00:14:36.653 --> 00:14:42.836 Well, I don't care what they like, they're going to thank us later. 00:14:42.836 --> 00:14:45.947 We don't have to be disagreeable, but we have to be bold. 00:14:45.947 --> 00:14:47.274 We have to let people know hey, jesus is coming. 00:14:47.274 --> 00:14:49.465 Thought about a date. 00:14:49.465 --> 00:14:55.369 I don't have a date for you, but I know he's coming, praise God. 00:14:55.369 --> 00:14:58.153 And we're not ready Getting there, though we're getting there. 00:15:00.341 --> 00:15:07.788 So I see a, you know, a plumb line between hot and merely lukewarm, between confrontation and resignation. 00:15:07.788 --> 00:15:12.365 You know, resignation, that's kind of like lukewarm, isn't it? 00:15:12.365 --> 00:15:17.403 No, we've got to. 00:15:17.403 --> 00:15:27.272 We're through with yeah, we're through with that Between desperate and detached. 00:15:29.301 --> 00:15:31.629 Another word for detached would be obtuse. 00:15:31.629 --> 00:15:34.768 You ever heard the word obtuse? 00:15:34.768 --> 00:15:35.201 It's just. 00:15:35.201 --> 00:15:37.187 The word obtuse means you're just too. 00:15:37.187 --> 00:15:42.822 You know nothing bothers you, you're not bothered by anything, it's just. 00:15:42.822 --> 00:15:46.048 Oh well, yeah, I saw they had those demonstrations. 00:15:46.048 --> 00:15:48.249 No, they're evil. 00:15:48.249 --> 00:15:49.052 That's the devil. 00:15:50.298 --> 00:15:51.442 We speak against it. 00:15:51.442 --> 00:15:53.182 We're not going to allow that in America. 00:15:53.182 --> 00:15:56.085 We're not going to allow people to say death to America, death to Israel. 00:15:56.085 --> 00:15:57.200 We're not going to allow it. 00:15:57.200 --> 00:16:00.162 That's not freedom of speech, that is a riot. 00:16:00.162 --> 00:16:05.186 And they'll be answered with batons and tear gas. 00:16:05.186 --> 00:16:08.001 That's how they ought to be answered. 00:16:08.001 --> 00:16:10.364 They should not be allowed to camp out. 00:16:10.364 --> 00:16:14.799 And when you see their signs, they're all neatly done, they're printed by a printer. 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:17.866 This is being paid for by billionaires that support Biden. 00:16:17.866 --> 00:16:20.341 Every bit, every bit of it. 00:16:20.341 --> 00:16:24.897 No, we're saying no to that, we're violent about it and we talk about violence. 00:16:24.897 --> 00:16:26.682 I'm not talking about physical violence. 00:16:26.682 --> 00:16:31.360 I'm talking about Holy ghost violence, not talking about spiritual violence. 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:32.903 I mean physical violence. 00:16:32.903 --> 00:16:34.707 What good would that do? 00:16:34.707 --> 00:16:39.085 No, we've got the helper on the inside, amen. 00:16:39.085 --> 00:16:55.160 So I have some examples here, bible examples of desperate people, and I've got one in particular I want to spend more time on than the rest, and I'll just talk about them. 00:16:56.235 --> 00:16:57.500 The woman with the issue of blood. 00:16:57.500 --> 00:17:12.083 That's a violent woman right there, twelve years Going to doctors with a hemorrhaging In her body and was nothing better but rather grew worse. 00:17:12.083 --> 00:17:17.520 Heard of Jesus. 00:17:17.520 --> 00:17:24.804 See, somebody told her that Jesus heals and she got up from where she was. 00:17:24.804 --> 00:17:30.797 She came in the press behind, or she had said she kept on saying she had a systematic discourse. 00:17:30.797 --> 00:17:32.318 If I can just touch the hem of his garment, I shall be whole. 00:17:32.318 --> 00:17:34.641 Or she had said she kept on saying she had a systematic discourse. 00:17:34.641 --> 00:17:39.165 If I can just touch the hem of his garment, I shall be whole. 00:17:39.165 --> 00:17:41.888 I shall be whole, I shall be whole. 00:17:42.148 --> 00:17:44.050 Here's a woman that's probably anemic. 00:17:44.050 --> 00:17:50.741 Here's a woman that is so weak, bleeding for 12 years. 00:17:50.741 --> 00:17:51.846 I mean, there's no blood transfusions. 00:17:51.846 --> 00:17:54.942 Back then, what is she running on? 00:17:54.942 --> 00:18:07.584 She has to be physically ill and weak, along with all the associated other things that go with anemia and with this hemorrhaging and everything else. 00:18:07.584 --> 00:18:11.464 So she overcame her physical weakness. 00:18:11.464 --> 00:18:14.484 She overcame the fact of her religious. 00:18:15.315 --> 00:18:23.800 She's not supposed to be outside, she's unclean, she's supposed to say unclean, unclean, and people are supposed to flee from it. 00:18:23.800 --> 00:18:25.762 She's not supposed to be walking around outside. 00:18:25.762 --> 00:18:27.280 It's against the Jewish law. 00:18:27.280 --> 00:18:34.465 So she's risking her place, plus the fact back then women did not travel by themselves. 00:18:34.465 --> 00:18:39.679 Risking her place Plus the fact back then women did not travel by themselves. 00:18:39.679 --> 00:18:44.709 It was not accepted in their society, in their culture, a woman had to be accompanied by a man, and she doesn't have one. 00:18:45.976 --> 00:18:54.203 So she's got two strikes against her and then, when she gets to where Jesus is weak, as she probably was he is being thr frowned. 00:18:54.203 --> 00:18:58.536 There's no way to get in there next to him. 00:18:58.536 --> 00:18:59.357 So what does she do? 00:18:59.357 --> 00:19:07.281 She gets down on the hands and knees and crawls through a mass of dirty feet, stinking dirty dirt. 00:19:07.281 --> 00:19:13.279 And of course they got animals, that there's manure and there's, that's what they've got. 00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:14.423 It's an agricultural. 00:19:14.423 --> 00:19:15.003 Listen. 00:19:15.003 --> 00:19:18.637 She didn't care, she's gonna get to Jesus. 00:19:18.637 --> 00:19:20.565 She's gonna tug on the hem of his garment. 00:19:24.636 --> 00:19:32.084 And when she did, he felt virtue or power go out of his body and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague. 00:19:32.084 --> 00:19:34.542 And he looked around and says who touched me? 00:19:34.542 --> 00:19:37.982 And finally she said I'm the one. 00:19:37.982 --> 00:19:43.243 Oh, woman, great is thy faith, go thy way. 00:19:43.243 --> 00:19:46.878 Thy faith hath made thee whole Thy violent. 00:19:46.878 --> 00:19:48.644 That's violent faith right there. 00:19:48.644 --> 00:19:51.182 That is something that won't be denied. 00:19:51.182 --> 00:19:53.394 That is something you don't see very much of anymore. 00:19:53.394 --> 00:19:54.836 Is something that won't be denied. 00:19:54.836 --> 00:19:57.422 That is something you don't see very much of anymore. 00:19:57.461 --> 00:20:07.138 I had a couple that was coming here and a guy got Parkinson's and he started, you know, kind of going downhill and I ministered to him. 00:20:07.138 --> 00:20:08.242 I love on him, you know. 00:20:08.242 --> 00:20:10.853 I just tried to do everything I could, to you know, get him healed. 00:20:10.853 --> 00:20:11.273 And you know we have. 00:20:11.273 --> 00:20:13.877 We're Houston's healing center, we get a lot of healing done there. 00:20:13.877 --> 00:20:21.288 And then I noticed they just quit coming, you know, and ran into them in the store and said where are you? 00:20:21.288 --> 00:20:22.369 What happened? 00:20:22.369 --> 00:20:29.220 Oh well, you know, just so lackadaisy, obtuse. 00:20:29.220 --> 00:20:31.145 He didn't care whether he had Parkinson's. 00:20:31.145 --> 00:20:34.619 He's shaking like this. 00:20:34.619 --> 00:20:36.063 He couldn't even hold a can of peas. 00:20:36.063 --> 00:20:40.819 I don't know what he's doing at HEB With his wife. 00:20:40.819 --> 00:20:42.044 I guess he's shaking like this. 00:20:42.044 --> 00:20:45.582 He wouldn't even. 00:20:45.582 --> 00:20:46.728 They live right down the street. 00:20:46.728 --> 00:20:51.999 They live right down the street cutting green, and they're not going to come to Houston. 00:20:51.999 --> 00:20:55.961 They're not even going to come here, where the anointing is, where you can cut it with a knife. 00:20:56.481 --> 00:21:02.747 That, if you will just make the adjustment in your own self and be violent, have some violent faith. 00:21:02.747 --> 00:21:04.107 Are y'all with me now? 00:21:04.107 --> 00:21:08.592 How desperate are you to have what it is that you want? 00:21:08.592 --> 00:21:13.316 How desperate Are you? 00:21:13.316 --> 00:21:13.757 Violent about it? 00:21:13.757 --> 00:21:18.005 Are you lackadaisical, detached, too cool for school? 00:21:18.005 --> 00:21:20.569 Amen. 00:21:20.569 --> 00:21:24.125 Some people are just too cool to be filled with the Holy Ghost. 00:21:24.125 --> 00:21:30.865 They're just too cool to get drunk and be seen drunk in the Holy Ghost. 00:21:30.865 --> 00:21:31.949 They just wouldn't do that. 00:21:31.949 --> 00:21:33.521 Oh no, that's not dignified. 00:21:33.521 --> 00:21:35.459 See, we've got a big barrel out front. 00:21:35.459 --> 00:21:39.237 You just throw your dignity in the barrel and come right on in the door. 00:21:39.237 --> 00:21:39.838 We check your. 00:21:39.838 --> 00:21:42.670 Wyatt Earp made them check their guns. 00:21:42.670 --> 00:21:44.756 We make you check your dignity at the door. 00:21:44.756 --> 00:21:54.413 So she had the plumb line between relationship and religion, just what she heard about. 00:21:54.413 --> 00:21:58.142 Jesus made her want what he had and she was not going to be denied. 00:21:58.142 --> 00:22:04.039 See, she got rid of the religion thing, she got rid of that and she went for the relationship and she got what she needed. 00:22:04.039 --> 00:22:04.803 Are y'all with me now? 00:22:08.720 --> 00:22:15.124 You know there's a poor widow in Mark, chapter 12, you know that she gave two mites and Jesus watched her in the treasury. 00:22:15.124 --> 00:22:19.018 All these other rich Pharisees widow in Mark, chapter 12, you know that she gave two mites and Jesus watched her in the treasury. 00:22:19.018 --> 00:22:23.082 All these other rich Pharisees, you know, real dramatically, they gave lots of money. 00:22:23.082 --> 00:22:25.943 They were very grandiose about it. 00:22:25.943 --> 00:22:32.468 Jesus had his eyes on the little poor widow that had nothing. 00:22:32.468 --> 00:22:43.276 She just gave two mites, just a little bit of nothing, and he said you know what she gave? 00:22:43.276 --> 00:22:44.679 More than all the rest of these people put together. 00:22:44.679 --> 00:22:46.383 You know he has a way of measuring things. 00:22:46.383 --> 00:22:48.006 See, he's measured John the Baptist. 00:22:48.006 --> 00:22:49.248 He's measuring this woman. 00:22:49.248 --> 00:22:57.413 She gave more than all the rich people Plum line. 00:22:58.736 --> 00:23:06.849 She dropped the plum line between giving and hoarding, giving and tipping. 00:23:06.849 --> 00:23:09.423 Some people just want to tip God. 00:23:09.423 --> 00:23:12.682 Well, I'll just give you a tip. 00:23:12.682 --> 00:23:18.660 She gave it all, everything she had, even her whole living. 00:23:18.660 --> 00:23:21.582 The Bible said that's one I could talk about. 00:23:21.582 --> 00:23:26.747 Woman with an alabaster box she gave a year. 00:23:26.747 --> 00:23:31.767 You know the ointment she poured on Jesus was worth a year's wages. 00:23:31.767 --> 00:23:35.978 She dropped a plumb line. 00:23:35.978 --> 00:23:39.703 Judas was all. 00:23:39.703 --> 00:23:40.444 What are you? 00:23:40.444 --> 00:23:41.586 That's a waste. 00:23:41.586 --> 00:23:42.930 What are we going to? 00:23:42.930 --> 00:23:44.501 We could have helped the poor. 00:23:44.501 --> 00:23:46.362 Well, the poor got with you always. 00:23:46.362 --> 00:23:47.539 Me, you don't always have. 00:23:47.539 --> 00:23:48.700 I'm fixed to leave here. 00:23:48.700 --> 00:23:50.882 You know what she did is a good thing. 00:23:50.882 --> 00:23:53.123 She had ordered my body for the burying. 00:23:53.123 --> 00:23:54.780 You know I appreciate her. 00:23:54.780 --> 00:23:59.165 You should drop that plumb line between religion and relationship. 00:24:00.576 --> 00:24:09.968 Glory to God, between worshiping in spirit and in truth and worshiping in vain. 00:24:09.968 --> 00:24:15.824 Worshiping in spirit and in truth is what Jesus is looking for. 00:24:15.824 --> 00:24:17.657 That's what the Father's looking for. 00:24:17.657 --> 00:24:22.941 He's looking for those who will worship him in spirit and in truth, but a lot of people just worship him in vain. 00:24:22.941 --> 00:24:25.047 Jesus said that. 00:24:27.596 --> 00:24:34.221 Way back in the 80s I heard RW Schambach said the biggest sin in the church that's back then and I think it's still true today. 00:24:34.221 --> 00:24:37.575 The biggest sin in the church that's back then and I think it's still true today. 00:24:37.575 --> 00:24:41.239 The biggest sin in the church to him was worship with no sacrifice. 00:24:41.239 --> 00:24:42.721 What do you mean, worship with no sacrifice? 00:24:42.721 --> 00:24:48.069 Well, you know, somebody just wants to sing the songs and then they just don't want to give everything they have to him. 00:24:48.069 --> 00:24:55.146 You know, we don't have to give everything we have, like money, but we do need to tithe and give and be generous. 00:24:55.146 --> 00:24:57.838 We want to lay our lives down before him. 00:24:57.838 --> 00:25:00.967 We want to do whatever we need to do to obey him. 00:25:00.967 --> 00:25:02.076 That's what I'm talking about. 00:25:02.076 --> 00:25:04.381 You know, the old timers. 00:25:04.381 --> 00:25:08.909 They wouldn't even pray without laying up an offering. 00:25:08.909 --> 00:25:12.240 The old timers, you know. 00:25:12.279 --> 00:25:16.855 You take some of these Pentecostal women, ladies, you know, I don't know. 00:25:16.855 --> 00:25:19.285 Tell them how many people are in heaven because they prayed through. 00:25:19.285 --> 00:25:35.699 They'd go in their bedroom during the day, they'd go to their dresser drawer and they would take a little of their money and they would lay it up in one of their doilies Anybody ever remember what a doily is? 00:25:35.699 --> 00:26:03.909 It's a little piece of fancy handkerchief type thing, you know and they'd lay their offering and fold it in that doily and put it up, lay it up on the dresser drawer and get down on their knees and begin to pray, and sometimes the Holy Ghost would fall on them and they'd fall on their face and pray for hours and hours and hours and they would cry and they would give birth and travail. 00:26:03.909 --> 00:26:07.821 It's almost a lost art. 00:26:09.775 --> 00:26:12.179 Sometimes when we have prayer meetings, people get into travail. 00:26:12.179 --> 00:26:13.421 People go what what happened? 00:26:13.421 --> 00:26:14.142 They're all upset. 00:26:14.142 --> 00:26:14.603 No, they're not upset. 00:26:14.603 --> 00:26:16.385 People get into travail, people go what what happened? 00:26:16.385 --> 00:26:17.347 They're all upset. 00:26:17.347 --> 00:26:22.545 No, they're not upset, they're in travail, they're giving birth in the spirit realm. 00:26:22.545 --> 00:26:27.046 There's a lot of things that are going on that they prayed about 30, 40 years ago. 00:26:27.046 --> 00:26:39.241 But they wouldn't dream of praying without that korban, without that offering laying there before the Father to honor him, worship without sacrifice. 00:26:39.241 --> 00:26:44.962 And we could talk about Zacchaeus. 00:26:45.316 --> 00:26:54.520 Let me get over to James, chapter 5 and get into this one, because I hadn't touched this in a while and I want to touch it tonight. 00:26:54.520 --> 00:27:02.234 Give you some background, kind of ties in with what I'm preaching Sunday mornings on receiving your kingdom supply. 00:27:02.234 --> 00:27:21.029 James, chapter five, verse one, that James is an end time book Talks about the precious fruit of the earth and James is the Lord's brother. 00:27:21.029 --> 00:27:31.605 In chapter 5, verse 1, go to now, you rich men. 00:27:31.605 --> 00:27:33.405 Another word, a prophetic. 00:27:33.405 --> 00:27:40.741 This is a prophetic scripture for the last days Come now, you rich men. 00:27:40.855 --> 00:27:44.425 It's talking about rich, ungodly men, not rich men in the church. 00:27:44.425 --> 00:27:45.794 Rich, ungodly men. 00:27:45.794 --> 00:27:52.067 Come ye now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. 00:27:52.067 --> 00:27:57.143 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten. 00:27:57.143 --> 00:27:59.567 How many of you know that? 00:27:59.567 --> 00:28:01.069 He's not talking about clothing. 00:28:01.069 --> 00:28:08.780 He's talking about they don't have the righteousness, they're not saved. 00:28:08.780 --> 00:28:11.521 Are y'all getting this now? 00:28:11.521 --> 00:28:18.324 He's not talking about their clothing, so he's talking about the ungodly rich. 00:28:18.324 --> 00:28:21.184 He's talking about Bill Gates, george Soros. 00:28:21.184 --> 00:28:25.185 He's talking about these people that are funding this garbage that we're seeing. 00:28:25.185 --> 00:28:32.567 Hate to be so specific, but you need to understand who this is talking about. 00:28:32.567 --> 00:28:43.721 Specific, but you need to understand who this is talking about. 00:28:43.721 --> 00:28:45.210 Come now, reap and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you. 00:28:45.210 --> 00:28:55.104 Your riches are corrupted, your garments are moth-eaten, your gold and silver is cankered and the rust of them shall be a witness against you and shall eat your flesh, as it were, fire. 00:28:55.104 --> 00:28:58.739 You have heaped treasure together for when? 00:28:58.739 --> 00:29:01.021 For when? 00:29:01.021 --> 00:29:03.065 The last day. 00:29:05.368 --> 00:29:14.448 So this is a prophetic utterance here in the Bible, in the book of James, and it's aimed right now. 00:29:14.448 --> 00:29:18.255 Utterance here in the Bible, in the book of James, and it's aimed right now. 00:29:18.255 --> 00:29:20.095 We're in the time when this prophetic thing is coming to pass. 00:29:20.095 --> 00:29:22.021 It's about to come to pass. 00:29:22.021 --> 00:29:26.480 I said it's about to come to pass. 00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:33.200 Behold, look at here now. 00:29:33.200 --> 00:29:38.951 Behold, look at here now. 00:29:38.951 --> 00:29:43.192 The hire of the laborers, the hire of the laborers. 00:29:43.192 --> 00:30:06.023 Hire, the hire, the wages, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you, kept back by fraud, crieth, and the cries of them, which have reaped, are entered into the Lord of the armies of heaven, the Lord of the Sabbath, the Lord of the armies of heaven. 00:30:06.023 --> 00:30:11.298 They've entered into the ears of the Lord of the armies of heaven and remain. 00:30:11.298 --> 00:30:13.305 The cries remain in his ears. 00:30:13.305 --> 00:30:20.904 When you look that up in your concordance, I was reading this years ago, 2006. 00:30:21.255 --> 00:30:24.722 Just returned from Canada preaching across Newfoundland. 00:30:24.722 --> 00:30:31.263 All up in there Talk about the frozen chosen. 00:30:31.263 --> 00:30:35.483 They did not like to hear about tithing. 00:30:35.483 --> 00:30:40.201 We had some confrontation. 00:30:40.201 --> 00:30:48.760 I had a group of businessmen wanted to meet with me and the pastor had took me to lunch and said you know, I've got some businessmen want to meet with you before. 00:30:48.760 --> 00:30:50.185 I'm not meet with anybody, I'm not. 00:30:50.454 --> 00:30:52.000 You don't like what I'm preaching, pastor? 00:30:52.000 --> 00:30:54.117 You just let me know I'll be glad to get out of here. 00:30:54.117 --> 00:30:57.946 I don't like what I'm preaching, pastor, you just let me know I'll be glad to get out of here. 00:30:57.946 --> 00:30:59.471 I don't have to be here. 00:30:59.471 --> 00:31:00.071 I'm a pastor. 00:31:00.071 --> 00:31:06.359 I've got a church that I left to come here If you don't like me oh no, it's not me, it's them. 00:31:06.380 --> 00:31:09.463 Well, you know, you need to be the pastor and they need to be the sheep. 00:31:09.463 --> 00:31:10.925 They need to hear what I've got to say. 00:31:10.925 --> 00:31:11.727 They're the truth. 00:31:11.727 --> 00:31:13.930 He kind of. 00:31:13.930 --> 00:31:17.785 When you see Canadians, they're just see, they're just, they're resigned. 00:31:17.785 --> 00:31:19.500 There's no confrontation. 00:31:19.500 --> 00:31:24.135 The plumb line was dropped already and he just he's slobbering, he can't. 00:31:24.135 --> 00:31:26.319 Oh, I'm going to lose my big dippers. 00:31:26.319 --> 00:31:27.141 We'll lose them. 00:31:27.141 --> 00:31:30.046 I don't care. 00:31:30.046 --> 00:31:31.829 They're not anything, they're a sharp stick. 00:31:31.829 --> 00:31:37.182