Speaker 1: It's good to be in God's house.
Speaker 1: Amen.
Speaker 1: Thank you, wife, for helping me out with the cords.
Speaker 1: I hate cords.
Speaker 1: If I could do everything wireless with no cords at all, oh man, that's when Jesus is coming back.
Speaker 1: As they mentioned, I've been meeting with the district pastors of the Church of God On June 4th at 4, sorry, june 5th at 4 pm.
Speaker 1: We're going to do a district-wide church service.
Speaker 1: Like I have been preaching and screeching and treaching teaching.
Speaker 1: Whatever you want to say for the past year or more every time I have the opportunity, is that we need to start having a united front, one nation under God.
Speaker 1: But the church needs to display that if we're going to preach that.
Speaker 1: So we need to get together and not worry about other people stealing our people, because if they're going to go there, they're going to go there, no matter what.
Speaker 1: If that's the spirit they have.
Speaker 1: Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you.
Speaker 1: Other churches are not my competition.
Speaker 1: The enemy is my enemy.
Speaker 1: Churches are not our enemy.
Speaker 1: So if you'll stand for the reading of God's word today is going to be a little bit of a precursor to what is to come in the next few weeks.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk about in just a second, that we are going to be starting a series about detoxifying our spirits.
Speaker 1: So our key verse today if you have your Bible, turn to 2 Corinthians 5.17.
Speaker 1: If you do not have your Bible, you are fighting unarmed.
Speaker 1: You need to have something.
Speaker 1: It may be digital, it may be paper, or some people call it analog, but you need to have something where God has the opportunity to be pouring into you every chance he gets.
Speaker 1: The problem is we want to go and check church off the list or reading off the list, and it's great to feel.
Speaker 1: The little Bible app say you did it one more day.
Speaker 1: You've had this long of a streak If you'd never used this Bible app that I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: But you understand if you do.
Speaker 1: But sometimes I get guilty of checking off a checklist instead of falling in love with his word and allowing him to speak to me.
Speaker 1: In 2 Corinthians 5.17, it says this.
Speaker 1: Therefore, corinthians 517, it says this therefore, if anyone, say anyone, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come, the old has gone, the new is here.
Speaker 1: Say the new is here.
Speaker 1: Father, let's pray.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, lord, for your presence that has been so evident already in the service.
Speaker 1: Today I pray a continuation and an extension of what has already begun in the hearts and lives of the people here today.
Speaker 1: In your precious name we pray Amen.
Speaker 1: I woke up this morning and I'm going to do it right now.
Speaker 1: Y'all ever heard of the weeping prophet?
Speaker 1: I promise you God's trying to put me down the path of weeping preacher and I don't want to go there.
Speaker 1: My makeup will run.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1: Some of y'all are awake.
Speaker 1: The other catch that in the back half.
Speaker 1: But this morning I woke up and I went into my office and I was praying and I was getting coffee ready.
Speaker 1: I often get coffee ready for the wife and myself.
Speaker 1: We have a cup and Tristan he wants to have coffee and he thinks he's grown.
Speaker 1: So I was in there preparing the coffee and I was grinding up the beans and I went to my office and I just started crying and it was like you ever go to that place that you touch God and you have been spending time with God and you step into that area and all of a sudden it's like it starts flowing again.
Speaker 1: I believe that's why the Bible calls us to get by ourself and to get alone and to start digging in his word and allowing his word to speak to us so that later it can speak through us.
Speaker 1: But if we're not taking the time in a quiet place and we don't have a designated spot for the presence of God to penetrate our hearts, we will go backwards.
Speaker 1: Because when you come to God, the moment you come to Jesus, now the work really begins.
Speaker 1: You need to start working and living in that new creation that he has called you to be.
Speaker 1: In the next few weeks we're going to be going through this detox.
Speaker 1: Has anyone, can anyone, bear witness with?
Speaker 1: The last few years have been a dumpster fire in our generation and there's a lot of toxins that have been floating around, a lot of issues that maybe in the, especially in the church.
Speaker 1: We in the church love to pretend like everything is good and God is always blessing, but that is not always the case.
Speaker 1: Matter of fact, you end up finding your purpose when you start pursuing the pressure, when you start allowing God to start working on you and chipping away things that you have been holding onto, cutting ties to things you still allow to pull you in the direction.
Speaker 1: That is the opposite of the spirit of God trying to lead you.
Speaker 1: We have to let that go.
Speaker 1: In this detox series we're gonna be talking a few things.
Speaker 1: We have allowed the enemy to infiltrate our thoughts, our hearts and our lives and our homes.
Speaker 1: We have allowed the enemy to make a small little camp in the back unnoticed, because when you start cleaning up your own house and getting your house in order, things begin to get a little messy.
Speaker 1: The enemy starts rearing up his head because he knows that if you grasp a hold of what your preacher's been preaching, things are going to start changing in your life and he'll begin to use you the way he desires to use you.
Speaker 1: If we allow that stuff to leave our lives, is anyone willing to make a mess?
Speaker 1: Today?
Speaker 1: You can say amen all you want, but the action will follow.
Speaker 1: If you choose this path and let me promise you something and this is not my promise, this is the word of God you will have trouble.
Speaker 1: You will face persecution for standing up for what is right.
Speaker 1: You will be faced with people who are probably going to be smarter than you.
Speaker 1: They maybe even have read the Bible more than you.
Speaker 1: Can anybody testify?
Speaker 1: The devil knows the word.
Speaker 1: He tried using it against Jesus.
Speaker 1: So what did he do?
Speaker 1: Here's what we try to do.
Speaker 1: We try to battle spiritual battles with fleshly weapons, and they do not stand against it.
Speaker 1: When Jesus went out into the wilderness, he did not start his ministry until he was first tested.
Speaker 1: He did not start what God had prepared, the path God had prepared him to walk, until he allowed the enemy in to test him.
Speaker 1: He had to get surrounded by the enemy first and stay true.
Speaker 1: And what happened?
Speaker 1: When the devil quoted scripture to him, he quoted scripture back.
Speaker 1: When the enemy comes against you and tries to come against your family, tries to come against your parents or your kids and your children, and we all know that the enemy is in our pockets.
Speaker 1: Today, porn and gambling are the two highest growing addictions in our nation.
Speaker 1: We don't have to go searching for it.
Speaker 1: It no longer has to come through the mail in a magazine.
Speaker 1: You can just look it up on Google and incognito, and no one will ever know you even it won't even have a history.
Speaker 1: That's how the enemy is infiltrating our homes.
Speaker 1: Tristan, we found out real fast that we could not give a cell phone to a 12-year-old unlocked.
Speaker 1: That took us about three months and we were like big mistake.
Speaker 1: I thought you know he's 12.
Speaker 1: He's going places with friends.
Speaker 1: I need to be able to get a hold of him.
Speaker 1: Nobody has landlines anymore.
Speaker 1: He can't just pick up the phone and call us, so I need to be able to get a hold of him, and we got 360 on there so I can see where he is as long as he charges his phone.
Speaker 1: All these things are great tools, but sometimes the blessings that come from above can be turned into a burden from below.
Speaker 1: So let me go.
Speaker 1: We're going to have four weeks.
Speaker 1: Number one you're going to be learning how to un-toxify your behaviors.
Speaker 1: If you can get here for a week one and get week one down and change your behaviors, if you can get here for a week one and get week one down and change your behaviors See, we fall into this.
Speaker 1: We call them grooves, but when you're in it too long it becomes a rut.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll go on.
Speaker 1: We have toxic behaviors, things how you react or how you respond, how you speak to one another.
Speaker 1: Jesus said before he left this earth to the disciples they will know me by you loving each other.
Speaker 1: If we don't have unification and love in the church house, they have no reason to come in here because we're just like everybody else.
Speaker 1: Week two is going to be toxic emotions.
Speaker 1: Sometimes, hello, anger is an emotion.
Speaker 1: For all the fellows who thinks they're not really emotional creatures, your anger probably is.
Speaker 1: We got some wives clapping.
Speaker 1: Come on somebody.
Speaker 1: Emotions sometimes can run and ruin our relationships and usually we take it out on the people we love the most.
Speaker 1: In week three, toxic influences.
Speaker 1: What are you allowing to speak into your life?
Speaker 1: It could be good or bad, negative or positive.
Speaker 1: What are you allowing into your mind and into your hearts?
Speaker 1: Because what you ingest, eventually you will expel to everyone else.
Speaker 1: What you take in will eventually come out.
Speaker 1: When the enemy begins to squeeze you and you are under the pressure, what will come out of you?
Speaker 1: They will know you by your fruit Y'all getting quiet, you getting scared.
Speaker 1: And week four and this is a very serious word we're going to learn how to stay clean and sober from these toxins, because you can become addicted to the toxic environment.
Speaker 1: You can feel like a piece of you is missing if you take that out and leave it.
Speaker 1: You ever heard of drama queen?
Speaker 1: Take away their drama and they don't know what to do.
Speaker 1: They become addicted to it.
Speaker 1: So I believe in the next few weeks, god is going to radically change your life.
Speaker 1: I'm going to try very hard to get this by noon.
Speaker 1: We may have to make this a two-parter, but God has some meat for you today.
Speaker 1: I hope you brought your fork and your steak knife, because God is going to feed you today In these next few weeks.
Speaker 1: I hope that brought your fork and your steak knife because God is going to feed you today In these next few weeks.
Speaker 1: I hope that this will help you grow spiritually and challenge your heart and mind to be better.
Speaker 1: You know there's a lot of things that can go on around you, and if you feel good on the inside, it doesn't matter what comes around you.
Speaker 1: It may look like I'm surrounded, but, god, I know that I am surrounded by you.
Speaker 1: I want your spiritual eyes to be open to the angels' armies that are coming at your side and are fighting on your behalf in your battle right now.
Speaker 1: It may be loneliness, it may be addiction, it may be depression, it may be anxiety, but I am here to tell you that you have someone fighting on your behalf, that you are not in this fight alone.
Speaker 1: Just because you are alone in your struggle does not mean you are alone in the battle To live better and more fulfilled in Jesus' name.
Speaker 1: So my title today is Leave it.
Speaker 1: You cannot live in a toxic-free environment if you keep going back to the plant.
Speaker 1: You cannot escape the toxic relationships if you do not block them, delete them and never remember their name again.
Speaker 1: You have to leave it.
Speaker 1: You have to leave it If you want to write this down.
Speaker 1: Isaiah 43, 18,.
Speaker 1: It says forget Now listen when we come to God and we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.
Speaker 1: One of the things that I struggle with in my life is that I would not forget who I was and what I had done.
Speaker 1: I for so long and to this day I stay humbled when I step up on the stage because I know that what I have done, who I was and sometimes who still I am, because I am still flesh, I am still sinner that does not exclude me from God being able to use me.
Speaker 1: I cannot put myself in a righteous place with God only through the sacrifice and the blood of Jesus Christ, and when that is applied, I must leave it all behind.
Speaker 1: Isaiah 43, 18,.
Speaker 1: The former, forget the former.
Speaker 1: Things do not dwell on the past.
Speaker 1: You know past hurts are real, but if you live there, you always will remain hurt.
Speaker 1: I'm speaking to somebody today.
Speaker 1: I don't know where you have been hurt or what happened in your situation but if you do not forgive them and confront them up here, you will never have the freedom you desire to live in.
Speaker 1: If you do not let go what has been done to you, you will carry it around on your ankle like a ball and chain and you will never be able to dance like you want to dance.
Speaker 1: You will never be able to run like you want to run because you will constantly have that weight weighing on you.
Speaker 1: You have to forget the former things.
Speaker 1: Do not dwell on the past.
Speaker 1: You know something that I think.
Speaker 1: Actually, brother Dale said this to me one time.
Speaker 1: He said that he's got more sunrises or sunsets behind him than he does in front of him now.
Speaker 1: And I've noticed over just growing up and we do this now, but you get older and older and older, it seems, the more and more you turn around and look at what happened.
Speaker 1: And it's a great thing to remember the goodness and the graciousness of God, but sometimes we end up missing the blessing right in front of us because we are too busy, focused on what was, or you may miss the freedom and the joy you could be having in God because you won't stop looking at what they did to you.
Speaker 1: We see this same type of situation when Peter stepped out of the boat into the water.
Speaker 1: He had the faith to step.
Speaker 1: No one else stepped out of the boat, he left his comfort zone and he stepped out onto the water.
Speaker 1: But when he got distracted by what was around him instead of what he should have been focusing on, he started to sink.
Speaker 1: What are you holding onto that you should have left behind years ago?
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a personality trait that you have inside of you.
Speaker 1: Good Lord knows.
Speaker 1: I need some buffing out personality trait that you have inside of you.
Speaker 1: Good Lord knows.
Speaker 1: I need some buffing out.
Speaker 1: I have to apologize to my son a lot because sometimes in the moment, I will react in anger when he's acting stupid.
Speaker 1: Anybody know some stupid people.
Speaker 1: Y'all don't be lying in church.
Speaker 1: I know all y'all do.
Speaker 1: And if you don't know, it might be you.
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding, just kidding.
Speaker 1: Now keep this mindset.
Speaker 1: We want to start going forward and stop looking backwards.
Speaker 1: We want to remember and appreciate what God has done.
Speaker 1: Matter of fact, I want to remember the things that I was shielded from, the bad stuff that I did and yet I still came out alive, the addiction that I put myself through, the addiction I suffered in, but yet he brought me out alive.
Speaker 1: And he brought me out without destroying every relationship that I had.
Speaker 1: Somehow, somehow, he salvaged the relationship with me and my parents.
Speaker 1: When I used and abused and did everything I could.
Speaker 1: I had a credit card that I would go and spend $1,000 a night in a bar.
Speaker 1: Guess who paid for that?
Speaker 1: Wasn't me.
Speaker 1: I would get cash advance out off of that same credit card.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go buy cocaine.
Speaker 1: There is no righteousness, there is no reason that I should be standing right with my parents except through the blood of Jesus.
Speaker 1: That can heal every single hurt.
Speaker 1: He can restore every single back.
Speaker 1: Stop living in the past and start moving towards the promise.
Speaker 1: Even the Egyptians when they came out of Egypt, they were blessed so much, the very blessing that God gave them.
Speaker 1: He told them he said get all of the gold and silver from your neighbors, get everything and take it with you.
Speaker 1: I'm going to bless you beyond every measure you've ever seen before.
Speaker 1: You were once slaves, now you are free.
Speaker 1: You were once poor, now you are wealthy.
Speaker 1: I will take you from generation to generation and bless you, because you are my people.
Speaker 1: And the same gold God blessed him with, they turn it into a golden idol calf.
Speaker 1: Gold God blessed him with a turn it into a golden idol, calf.
Speaker 1: Don't let the blessing of God that he has blessed you with become an idol in your life.
Speaker 1: And then they said woe is us, for it would have been better to be in Egypt.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
Speaker 1: Sometimes we fantasize the past like it was better than where God's brought us to now, and then we end up staying there.
Speaker 1: And then we try to fit everything that God serves up to us on a silver platter.
Speaker 1: And then more blessings, and more blessings.
Speaker 1: We tried to reshape it and remold it to fit in the mold that was.
Speaker 1: God hasn't called you to fill old molds.
Speaker 1: He called you to break the ones and start producing new ones, Because in that pressure God will start producing a divine promise to you If you have your Bibles.
Speaker 1: Would we turn to Exodus, chapter 3?
Speaker 1: We just talked a little bit about the children of Israel we're going to talk about before they were rescued.
Speaker 1: Just talked a little bit about the children of Israel we're going to talk about before they were rescued.
Speaker 1: We're going to be pulling from 3, but I'm going to read a little bit in chapter 2.
Speaker 1: So if you want to mark it and keep back at chapter 2, verse 11, we're going to start there and then we're going to do chapter 3, verse 1.
Speaker 1: So most of you know the story of Moses Early on in chapter 2, chapter 1, it talks about the bondage.
Speaker 1: It gives you a picture of what the Israelites are dealing with.
Speaker 1: And then you have in chapter two where Moses is introduced to the story and he was meant to die because Pharaoh saw the blessings of God.
Speaker 1: Even though they were so oppressed the blessings of God they were still multiplying like rabbits.
Speaker 1: So oppressed, the blessings of God, they were still multiplying like rabbits and he knew he had to do something or they would end up taking over because they outnumbered them.
Speaker 1: So he came up with a plan.
Speaker 1: Does it sound familiar?
Speaker 1: So did Herod.
Speaker 1: When Jesus was born, he came up with a plan to start killing babies.
Speaker 1: Sound familiar?
Speaker 1: We're dealing with stuff like that in our government, whether we should be allowed to or not.
Speaker 1: In chapter 2, moses enters the scene, but God had other plans for him.
Speaker 1: He saved his life Plans much greater than anyone could ever have imagined.
Speaker 1: Can anybody testify?
Speaker 1: I talked to somebody on the phone.
Speaker 1: I remember who it was.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to say his name from the pulpit.
Speaker 1: Anybody else?
Speaker 1: Their mama's favorite.
Speaker 1: Come on, somebody.
Speaker 1: We got some mama's favorites in the house and you know it's true and you will say it and proclaim it in front of your siblings Amen, hallelujah.
Speaker 1: You hear that, brother, if you're watching.
Speaker 1: Amen, hallelujah, you hear that, brother, if you're watching.
Speaker 1: But every person's mother, if you had a mother involved in your life, it may be a mother, a grandmother, a mother figure.
Speaker 1: They believe and they will tell you when you're growing up that you're going to change the world.
Speaker 1: You're going to do something.
Speaker 1: Good, oh, you got a big head, but you'll be all right, you'll grow into that.
Speaker 1: Good, oh, you got a big head, but you'll be all right, god's going to, you'll grow into that.
Speaker 1: And Moses' mother was no different.
Speaker 1: So he, she knew that she had to do something radical to save his life, and so she put him in this basket and floating.
Speaker 1: And the cool thing about God is.
Speaker 1: When he does something, he makes the enemy pay for it.
Speaker 1: When you allow God to take control and you're doing things in the name of the Lord, he will allow the enemy to pay for it.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you when the sister saw, she came up with the idea.
Speaker 1: Later, the Bible calls her a prophet.
Speaker 1: She said oh, I know that child's so small.
Speaker 1: I know a woman who would nurse him.
Speaker 1: The very family that was out to kill this baby paid the mother to be the mom.
Speaker 1: When God sets you up and he has a plan for your life, there's no devil in hell that can step up to you, because he'll end up providing financial situations for it.
Speaker 1: He'll end up paying your way to the promise God has done for you.
Speaker 1: Not only that, but then you step into chapter 2 and verse 11, where Moses is now grown.
Speaker 1: In verse 11, moses is grown.
Speaker 1: He has been raised his entire life in the house and in the courts of Pharaoh.
Speaker 1: Think about the conflict of identity in his mind.
Speaker 1: He knows who he is.
Speaker 1: His mother raised him and he has to sit in the house of the enemy that is oppressing the people that is actually his people enemy that is oppressing the people, that is, actually his people, raised in the house of the enemy, training Moses.
Speaker 1: The training Moses received while growing up.
Speaker 1: It was Egyptian, it was state of the art.
Speaker 1: Some scholars believe that through this training and upgrowing, he probably spoke three different languages, egyptian and Hebrew being two of those.
Speaker 1: This would be considered the best in the world.
Speaker 1: You get the best of the best.
Speaker 1: Now, if we look at the lineage and the adoption of what happened here, we see that Moses is actually technically the grandson of Pharaoh, because Pharaoh's daughter found him and he raised him.
Speaker 1: How many grandparents in the house know?
Speaker 1: You'll give your grandkids anything they want.
Speaker 1: The best of everything.
Speaker 1: They got it.
Speaker 1: All they got to do is ask my dad.
Speaker 1: When I was younger in age and Tristan was a little guy, he would give my son ice cream, yogurt, like that may be.
Speaker 1: His first words was ogurt my dad, he was going to be full.
Speaker 1: When dinner time gets here, he's like well, we got to have yogurt.
Speaker 1: He said yogurt, y'all melt at the mention of a grandchild.
Speaker 1: Give the kid candy and then you send them back home with the parents.
Speaker 1: I believe that that is God's little way of allowing the parents to get a little bit of revenge with those parents for what they put you through A little slice of payback.
Speaker 1: So Moses was being raised and taught by the best and the brightest.
Speaker 1: But here in verse 11 of chapter 2, we see Moses has matured a little bit.
Speaker 1: In verse 11, it says many years later.
Speaker 1: If you have your Bible read along with me, I don't have it on the screen for you when Moses had grown up, he went out to visit his own people, the Hebrews, and he saw how hard they were forced to work.
Speaker 1: During his visit, he saw an Egyptian beating one of his fellow Hebrews.
Speaker 1: After looking in all directions to make sure nobody was watching, moses killed the Egyptian and hid the body in the sand.
Speaker 1: They were not lacking sand in those days the next day when Moses went out to visit the people again listen, this is a 24-hour period where Moses just saved someone's life, but he took one the next day when Moses went out to visit his people again.
Speaker 1: So listen to this.
Speaker 1: This is what's happening.
Speaker 1: Moses is grown, he has been raised in the Egyptian house, but he is starting to feel the pull of his people, because if you are in the house of Pharaoh, you're not going to go down with the people.
Speaker 1: You're not going to go visit the slaves.
Speaker 1: You're not going to go down there and just watch.
Speaker 1: You want to be in the comfortable area that you are.
Speaker 1: So Moses, in other words, is getting out of his comfort zone.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you have to leave behind the way you were raised so that you are.
Speaker 1: So Moses, in other words, is getting out of his comfort zone.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you have to leave behind the way you were raised so that you can start fulfilling the promise God has for you.
Speaker 1: Now he walks up and he says he sees these two Hebrew men fighting.
Speaker 1: Why are you beating up your friend, moses, said to the one who started the fight.
Speaker 1: The man replied who appointed you to be our prince and judge?
Speaker 1: Are you going to kill me as you killed that Egyptian yesterday?
Speaker 1: First of all, you ever been in a situation in your career and you and someone who is your equal, you have a spat and then, a couple of years later, they end up being your boss.
Speaker 1: That's what I view this, as he has no clue that later Moses is going to be the man that makes all the rules, literally.
Speaker 1: So then Moses was afraid.
Speaker 1: He was thinking everyone knows what I did, and sure enough Pharaoh had heard what had happened.
Speaker 1: Snitches get stitches and he tried to kill Moses.
Speaker 1: But Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in the land of Midian.
Speaker 1: When Moses arrived in Midian, he sat down beside a well.
Speaker 1: Now, the priests of Midian had seven daughters who came as usual to draw the water and fill the water troughs for their flocks.
Speaker 1: But some of the other shepherds came and chased them away.
Speaker 1: So Moses jumped up and he rescued the girls from the shepherds, then drew water for their flocks.
Speaker 1: Once again, there's something inside of Moses that wants to stand up for injustice.
Speaker 1: There's something inside of Moses that sees something that is not right and he stands up and he rescues.
Speaker 1: I know today God has been placing in the hearts of God's people to start standing up for those that cannot stand up for themselves.
Speaker 1: If you see somebody who needs a hand or rescuing, you need to start extending it.
Speaker 1: You need to be the hands and the feet of Jesus.
Speaker 1: If not, why are you here?
Speaker 1: When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked why are you back so soon?
Speaker 1: Today, an Egyptian rescued us.
Speaker 1: Now listen, do you hear what they said?
Speaker 1: An Egyptian rescued us.
Speaker 1: An Egyptian rescued us From shepherds, they answered, and then he drew water for us and watered our flocks.
Speaker 1: He not only rescued us, but he did all the work.
Speaker 1: Come on, father-in-laws.
Speaker 1: That's a good man.
Speaker 1: Then the verse 20,.
Speaker 1: It says then where is he?
Speaker 1: Their father asked why did you leave him there?
Speaker 1: Invite him to come and eat with us?
Speaker 1: So Moses accepted the invitation.
Speaker 1: Now, why?
Speaker 1: Why did they think that Moses was Egyptian?
Speaker 1: He was not born Egyptian, he was born Hebrew, born Egyptian.
Speaker 1: He was born Hebrew.
Speaker 1: Some of you have been born again, but you're still dressing like an Egyptian.
Speaker 1: You're still carrying around with you.
Speaker 1: You're still carrying around with you somewhere that you didn't belong.
Speaker 1: They thought he was an Egyptian because of what he was wearing, because of the way that he spoke, the way he talked.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you why.
Speaker 1: The churches are not as full as they should be.
Speaker 1: It's because we're still wearing.
Speaker 1: We're still wearing what God has delivered us from.
Speaker 1: We're still carrying around the hurt, we're still carrying around depression.
Speaker 1: We're still carrying around anxiety.
Speaker 1: All these things are real, all these things exist.
Speaker 1: But if God has called you out, god has a higher purpose and a higher calling on your life.
Speaker 1: We were singing this song a minute ago.
Speaker 1: He has made you a royal priesthood.
Speaker 1: We were singing this song a minute ago.
Speaker 1: He has made you a royal priesthood.
Speaker 1: If anyone is worthy, jesus is, and he's so worthy and so righteous that he can take that cloak and put it on you.
Speaker 1: The way he was dressed, his appearance, how he spoke.
Speaker 1: He fled, he fled.
Speaker 1: He fled from a place where he felt shame and guilt.
Speaker 1: Imagine the inner conflict.
Speaker 1: You ever been in a place where you didn't feel like you belong?
Speaker 1: But you try to blend in anyways.
Speaker 1: He was fearful for his life.
Speaker 1: He was fearful for his mother's life and his sister's life.
Speaker 1: But he was in the enemy's camp so long when he finally fled and left and ran to a new place.
Speaker 1: They recognized him from where he had been.
Speaker 1: Moses gets him a wife through it all.
Speaker 1: Can I get an amen for good women?
Speaker 1: Come on somebody.
Speaker 1: You do the work.
Speaker 1: You get the wife.
Speaker 1: Come on Now.
Speaker 1: Let's keep that in mind as we go into Exodus, chapter 3.
Speaker 1: Y'all know I got to do one dance at least every sermon right.
Speaker 1: One day Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law, jethro the good old country boy, jethro the priest of Midian.
Speaker 1: Now this is a foreigner who had.
Speaker 1: Scholars say he was a foreigner that had come to the salvation of God.
Speaker 1: He gave his heart to the one true God, because most foreigners back in the day, if you were not Jewish or Hebrew, you automatically had other gods.
Speaker 1: So he was one that became a priest.
Speaker 1: He led the flock far into the wilderness and came to Sinai, the mountain of God.
Speaker 1: There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the middle of a bush.
Speaker 1: I don't know how much your faith is, but if I had a bush start burning and it wasn't burning up and there's a voice coming out of it, your boy would be gone and I'd be gone and paying for some psychiatry treatment.
Speaker 1: Like doctor, I need a pill because I'm losing it.
Speaker 1: Moses stared in amazement.
Speaker 1: Though the bush was engulfed in flames, it didn't burn up.
Speaker 1: This is amazing, moses said to himself.
Speaker 1: I would say that too while running.
Speaker 1: Why isn't that bush burning up?
Speaker 1: I must go and see it.
Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough, listen to this.
Speaker 1: If I saw something on fire, y'all know we all rubberneck when there's a crash on the road.
Speaker 1: We're driving by trying not to wreck ourselves while we're looking to see what happened in the wreck.
Speaker 1: When the Lord saw Moses coming to take a closer look.
Speaker 1: God called to him from the middle of the bush Moses, moses, here I am.
Speaker 1: Moses replied Somebody's going to call my name and they know me Might as well say yeah, it's me.
Speaker 1: They obviously know a lot.
Speaker 1: Do not come any closer.
Speaker 1: The Lord warned Take off your sandals, for you are standing on holy ground.
Speaker 1: Do you know why he told Moses to take off his sandals?
Speaker 1: Because he was still carrying around the residue of where he had been and he could not take that to the place God was about to leave him.
Speaker 1: He was carrying around the residue Listen to me the residue of where he had been.
Speaker 1: He's tracking in.
Speaker 1: We try to step into the calling of God and one foot out, or we start trying to walk in and we're saying God, lead me, but yet we won't take off our shoes.
Speaker 1: We keep bringing in the residue into God's presence and we cannot bring in the old into the new.
Speaker 1: You cannot walk in the calling of God if you continue.
Speaker 1: You continue to walk in the flesh.
Speaker 1: Let me speak directly to somebody today.
Speaker 1: Last week my father was here and thank God it was.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to cry.
Speaker 1: It was such an honor to be able to have a church that my dad could come to.
Speaker 1: This is the first time in the history of us that I have been the pastor somewhere and he comes and preaches for me.
Speaker 1: God has called you to live, like my dad said last week, in the authority of God.
Speaker 1: He's called you to that.
Speaker 1: Stop bringing in the residue, but you have to keep your shoes on.
Speaker 1: You keep trying to step on a holy ground and you keep bringing in residue with you.
Speaker 1: It's time to take those old shoes off and you got to start walking different.
Speaker 1: The way you used to walk will not get you where you need to go.
Speaker 1: The way you used to talk has to be left behind.
Speaker 1: What you used to watch uh-oh, come on.
Speaker 1: What you used to watch and what you used to listen to.
Speaker 1: If it's the same before you came to Christ, what change has there been?
Speaker 1: I'm looking down here, so nobody thinks I'm looking.
Speaker 1: Matter of fact, hey, you have got to leave the old sinful nature behind.
Speaker 1: If it is not reflecting of God and you start really listening to those lyrics, you will plainly see that it is not of God.
Speaker 1: Who you used to call friends this was one of the hardest things for me who I used to call I love making friends.
Speaker 1: I don't care, I will go and talk to anybody and we'll be friends.
Speaker 1: By the time we're done, my wife's like baby.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I wish I could be more like you.
Speaker 1: I said no, you don't.
Speaker 1: No, you don't, because you end up sticking your foot in your mouth and it's nasty.
Speaker 1: When there's residue, it's time to cut them.
Speaker 1: If you want to start walking on holy ground, you have to start acting holy.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna, obviously.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna t-shirt, skinny jeans and some adidas shoes.
Speaker 1: I don't care what you do, but god does.
Speaker 1: I'm not your god.
Speaker 1: I don't want you to measure what you do by what I do, because I'm not going to measure what you do by what I do, because I'm not going to measure what I do by what you do.
Speaker 1: I'm going to measure it to the word of God.
Speaker 1: I'm going to measure it to what God speaks into me to do.
Speaker 1: The reason we have a church full of members, but then we have churches that there's no converts.
Speaker 1: We prefer numbers instead of substance and we have cool whip Christians filling our pews.
Speaker 1: That it looks like there's substance.
Speaker 1: It looks like it's full but it bears no weight.
Speaker 1: Are you a cool whip Christian?
Speaker 1: It tastes sweet, but there's no weight to it.
Speaker 1: There's no substance to it.
Speaker 1: Because here's the truth.
Speaker 1: You can't snuggle up to Jesus and keep acting like Jezebel If that offends you.
Speaker 1: Good, because out of offense the Spirit prompts, and if we never see something, we need to change.
Speaker 1: If I don't ever shine a light on anything that you're doing wrong, I constantly, in my own spirit, check myself daily, because the enemy is coming to seek and he is coming to devour.
Speaker 1: He is coming to try to take the land that God has deemed holy.
Speaker 1: But you have to move forward.
Speaker 1: I got a photo that they're going to show.
Speaker 1: You may know this guy as soon as I get it.
Speaker 1: And is it clear?
Speaker 1: Can you see that guy?
Speaker 1: I know you know that nose.
Speaker 1: Golly.
Speaker 1: Now you can't tell it.
Speaker 1: My hair goes down to my back and my beard.
Speaker 1: You can't even see it.
Speaker 1: It's a dark photo.
Speaker 1: My dad sent this to me last week.
Speaker 1: You know when that was.
Speaker 1: That was after I got out of jail and started living with him again and he took me because he knows the importance of an internal change.
Speaker 1: But eventually it has to start showing up on the outside.
Speaker 1: Create in me a clean heart, oh God, so that the fruit that comes out can be pure of substance and the fruits of the Spirit.
Speaker 1: If you notice, the fruits of the Spirit actually produce more fruits of the Spirit in others.
Speaker 1: When you show love, you're producing love.
Speaker 1: When you display joy, you ever get around somebody who's happy and all of a sudden, doesn't matter what mood you're in, all of a sudden you're happy too, because good fruit produces good fruit, but also bad fruit also will produce bad fruit.
Speaker 1: And this photo my dad sent it to me because we were like.
Speaker 1: I said he was getting nostalgic and we were talking.
Speaker 1: He sent me this photo and he had to dig for that photo.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're talking eight years ago and I still go to sports clips though they do me good.
Speaker 1: But he said look at what God has done.
Speaker 1: And I texted him back and I said look, just think of the blessings between where you started turning your life around to where you are now.
Speaker 1: You see, sometimes the enemy can get so busy and we can get so busy looking at what has been wrong or what is going on wrong, but understand that what is surrounding you and trying to take over your camp.
Speaker 1: You have angels about you.
Speaker 1: Take off your shoes and leave the residue of what was.
Speaker 1: Do not carry it on to what God's trying to do in your life.
Speaker 1: I promise you, I promise you me, my perfect wife, that never does anything wrong.
Speaker 1: We all, in our spirits, in our thoughts, in our minds, we all have residue that we need to leave behind.
Speaker 1: Every single one of us, we all, have something we need to leave behind that we're still holding on to.
Speaker 1: Our life moves, to the rhythm of our strongest thoughts.
Speaker 1: If you think that you can't, you won't be able to.
Speaker 1: If you think that you're not good enough, you won't act like you are.
Speaker 1: You may think I will always be single.
Speaker 1: That will spiral you into ambushing every type of relationship you have.
Speaker 1: If you think you have to be paid to serve God, you'll never really be serving him.
Speaker 1: To move forward and step into the calling and the authority God has available for us, you have to leave behind your fleshly desires and ambitions and be willing to look, really look inside of here and inside of here, because what starts up here in your mind?
Speaker 1: That's why Jesus said take every thought captive.
Speaker 1: If you look upon a woman with lust, you have already committed adultery in your heart, because if you don't stop it while it's up here, it will bleed into here, take root and then it'll come out through here Every single time.
Speaker 1: Every single time we got to believe, we got to leave everything behind.
Speaker 1: Look at Daniel, chapter four, verse 27.
Speaker 1: And Daniel's talking to King Nebuchadnezzar.
Speaker 1: He's talking to a king that could say off with his head, and it has to happen.
Speaker 1: Well, listen to how he speaks to him.
Speaker 1: He's direct, but in love.
Speaker 1: Verse 27, it says King Nebuchadnezzar, please accept my advice.
Speaker 1: It's like one of those things where, like I don't mean to offend you, but or I don't mean to hurt your feelings, but and following the buts, usually bad news.
Speaker 1: Please accept my advice.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm going to start using that.
Speaker 1: Please accept my advice.
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm going to start using that.
Speaker 1: Please accept my advice.
Speaker 1: Stop sinning and do what is right.
Speaker 1: Break from your wicked past.
Speaker 1: We serve a chain-breaking God that can break you from your past, everything that has been binding you, trying to hold you, you trying to hold you back from god's divine destiny for you.
Speaker 1: I speak chain breaking over this group of people right here.
Speaker 1: Stop sinning and do what is right.
Speaker 1: Break from your wicked past and be merciful to the poor.
Speaker 1: Perhaps then you will prosper.
Speaker 1: Perhaps then you will continue to prosper.
Speaker 1: He wraps it up real nicely.
Speaker 1: He doesn't kill him.
Speaker 1: But I want to speak to you today.
Speaker 1: Leave your past behind, leave that residue behind.
Speaker 1: See, one thing about our shoes is that we can clean them up pretty nice.
Speaker 1: Brother Josh over here, he likes keeping his shoes pristine.
Speaker 1: But I guarantee you, even though he cleans you took a black light to it, you would still find residue.
Speaker 1: We try to clean things with fleshly weapons and there's still that residue because we're not handling business in the spirit.
Speaker 1: If you have a broken heart today, talking it out, the Bible says confess your sins one to another.
Speaker 1: When you start talking and speaking it into the air, it becomes purification to you.
Speaker 1: You ever been in a situation and you need to talk to somebody and you say it out loud and you're like well, that sounds dumber than it was in my head.
Speaker 1: A lot of times we get upset about trivial things.
Speaker 1: We're holding on to past hurts and that person has forgot even who we are.
Speaker 1: Or maybe you're in the marriage with the person that has hurt you, or maybe you're in the marriage with the person that has hurt you.
Speaker 1: God can still heal if you just let it go, leave who you were behind and give everything that you are to Jesus Worries, pain, loneliness, doubts.
Speaker 1: Some of us are gifted in hypocrisy.
Speaker 1: Didn't expect that word, did you?
Speaker 1: That we put on a good face at church, we act like we know God and then our lives define it in a different way, that we like to put the label of Christian on our shirt.
Speaker 1: But yet we like label but not definition.
Speaker 1: We like label but not definition.
Speaker 1: And all it takes?
Speaker 1: All it takes is one touch from Jesus.
Speaker 1: One touch from Jesus leaving it at his feet and not picking it up when you walk away.
Speaker 1: One touch from Jesus can heal you from your hurt.
Speaker 1: One touch from Jesus can free you from your hurt.
Speaker 1: One touch from Jesus can free you from an addiction.
Speaker 1: One touch from Jesus can give you your joy back, can make every anxiety disappear, can make every trace of depression vanish.
Speaker 1: One touch from Jesus can make you whole again.
Speaker 1: But you have to make this exchange with him.
Speaker 1: You have to give him what's hurting you.
Speaker 1: You have to give him what's been holding you back, what is causing your depression, what is the pinpoint of your anxiety, whatever it may be.
Speaker 1: You may be an overthinker, you may be worrying inside your head all the time and you don't tell anybody, but you suffer silently.
Speaker 1: One touch from Jesus and all that can disappear.
Speaker 1: That's what I believe.
Speaker 1: It only takes one touch from the healing hand of Jesus.