WEBVTT 00:00:03.709 --> 00:00:05.113 Good morning, good morning, good morning. 00:00:05.113 --> 00:00:17.330 This is the best place to be on a Sunday morning, better than any county jail you can find, I guarantee it. 00:00:17.330 --> 00:00:24.713 We got the hospitality of the hospital, without all the needles and bad food. 00:00:24.713 --> 00:00:29.442 We're glad y'all are here today. 00:00:29.442 --> 00:00:39.890 So a month or two ago I had the honor of reversing roles with my father and for the first time in my entire life, instead of me going to his church, he was coming to mine. 00:00:40.652 --> 00:00:40.851 Yeah. 00:00:44.341 --> 00:00:46.226 And so y'all most of y'all know my story. 00:00:46.226 --> 00:00:47.149 You've heard my story. 00:00:47.149 --> 00:00:50.945 He preached he still some reason. 00:00:50.945 --> 00:00:57.549 Let me back in his house after I went to jail and cursed him out on the phone and blamed him for all my problems, because it's always everyone else's fault, right? 00:00:57.549 --> 00:01:06.033 Well then, after I got out of jail, there's a cousin of mine and I confessed to him. 00:01:06.033 --> 00:01:06.974 Y'all don't have to tell him. 00:01:06.974 --> 00:01:22.099 I confessed to him at dinner last night that I may have referenced him as the ugly cousin because I was talking about poison envy we talked about that two weeks ago and then I said it's the ugly cousin to the one today, rage, anger. 00:01:22.099 --> 00:01:27.765 And I said, speaking of ugly cousins, mine's coming next week, so you don't have to tell on me, I already. 00:01:27.765 --> 00:01:28.868 Y'all know I tell on myself. 00:01:28.868 --> 00:01:32.099 Anyways, ask him, I did that as a child too. 00:01:32.099 --> 00:01:34.323 Amen. 00:01:34.323 --> 00:01:36.367 No one ever has claimed that I was smart. 00:01:36.367 --> 00:01:43.850 So when I got out of jail, there was a family that offered me and I was. 00:01:43.870 --> 00:01:43.891 I. 00:01:43.891 --> 00:01:45.719 I was struggling, I was still in the same town. 00:01:45.719 --> 00:02:00.088 Sometimes you literally have to remove yourself out of a physical location so that you don't go back into your sin, and I even did a great thing that we, we won't, we won't say it's of God. 00:02:00.088 --> 00:02:01.210 But I deleted my Facebook. 00:02:01.210 --> 00:02:05.355 That's how serious I got. 00:02:05.355 --> 00:02:10.659 And this man right here came out. 00:02:10.659 --> 00:02:12.544 I remember we were in front of CC's over in Palestine. 00:02:12.544 --> 00:02:19.834 I was getting in the truck with my dad and they come up to the window and they say hey, we're about to move to White House. 00:02:20.796 --> 00:02:41.252 They were leading worship at a church over there, actually, where I met her, which is how he baited me to get there, and God knows how you listen, he'll talk your language Blonde woman was my language, apparently and so they offered their home up to me being out of jail. 00:02:41.252 --> 00:02:46.290 I don't even think I was sober 30 days, if that, even if 10 or 15 days. 00:02:46.290 --> 00:02:48.485 I was so broken I was. 00:02:48.485 --> 00:02:58.151 So I felt like there was no way out for me, and they offered me a way out, and I'm thankful for the people that show love when we don't deserve it. 00:02:58.151 --> 00:03:05.431 I'm thankful for people who will sit down and talk with you like you have not sinned. 00:03:05.431 --> 00:03:12.931 That's what Jesus did, and so Cassie asked him this morning so you're the reason why he is the way he is? 00:03:12.931 --> 00:03:16.590 I said no, he is the reason I didn't get worse. 00:03:16.590 --> 00:03:27.194 So it is an honor and a pleasure today to offer my platform and stage and my congregation to my cousin. 00:03:27.194 --> 00:03:34.026 I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you, so come on. 00:03:39.520 --> 00:03:40.983 You can't make me cry in this. 00:03:40.983 --> 00:03:47.572 What a privilege it is to be here this morning. 00:03:47.572 --> 00:03:49.054 Thank you for the kind welcome. 00:03:49.054 --> 00:03:58.039 I told him he couldn't make me cry and then get me up here and expect me to talk. 00:03:58.039 --> 00:04:03.218 I'm sorry whoever's following me on the camera because I move all the time. 00:04:03.218 --> 00:04:05.361 I am privileged to have a family that loves me. 00:04:06.241 --> 00:04:08.544 This guy right here is just like a brother to me. 00:04:08.544 --> 00:04:13.049 We grew up together and he talks about giving him a way out. 00:04:13.049 --> 00:04:16.932 That's what we offered, but we offered him love. 00:04:16.932 --> 00:04:22.156 That's what Jesus would do and that's what I want to do, and I want to offer love in every aspect. 00:04:22.156 --> 00:04:31.225 And I've been bitter at times and this guy right here has been the one that told me you're kind of negative. 00:04:31.225 --> 00:04:33.007 It hurt, I ain't going to lie, but it was very true. 00:04:33.007 --> 00:04:39.036 We can get so negative at times and I am thankful to have people who love me. 00:04:39.036 --> 00:04:42.567 I know you love him, so let him know you love him one more time. 00:04:42.567 --> 00:04:43.860 So let him know you love him one more time. 00:04:43.860 --> 00:04:50.406 Stephen and Jesse have been a blessing to us. 00:04:50.406 --> 00:04:52.468 Unfortunately, we moved away. 00:04:52.468 --> 00:04:54.730 That's what happens when you like people right, you move away. 00:04:54.730 --> 00:05:00.134 We did get transferred, so just to give you a quick tidbit about me and what I do. 00:05:01.074 --> 00:05:07.862 I work for a tool company called Snap-on Tools, and that is not what I want to do. 00:05:07.862 --> 00:05:13.949 I'm called into the ministry and my plan is to be full-time ministry, but God hadn't opened those doors just yet. 00:05:13.949 --> 00:05:17.331 But the day is coming and it's drawing nigh. 00:05:17.331 --> 00:05:18.233 It's very soon. 00:05:18.233 --> 00:05:24.401 I can feel it in my bones, as the word says. 00:05:24.401 --> 00:05:25.163 It was like fire shut up in my bones. 00:05:25.163 --> 00:05:33.629 I just couldn't keep quiet about it, and I find myself in almost every conversation starting to speak about Jesus Christ and his love, starting to talk about my savior. 00:05:33.629 --> 00:05:35.737 You see, I was raised in a Christian home. 00:05:35.737 --> 00:05:37.242 I wasn't a real bad kid. 00:05:37.242 --> 00:05:43.084 I still had sin in my life and I was still just as much a sinner as anybody else and anybody else has sinned. 00:05:43.084 --> 00:05:53.305 But because of Jesus and the blood that he shed for me, I was able to go up and kneel at an old-fashioned altar and beg for forgiveness and feel Jesus touch me in my heart. 00:05:54.548 --> 00:05:57.762 I love to sing and it kind of saddens me that I'm not able to this morning. 00:05:57.762 --> 00:05:59.264 It's not because he told me I couldn't. 00:05:59.264 --> 00:06:04.591 I have been fighting a little bit of voice problems and so I have just decided. 00:06:04.591 --> 00:06:09.170 I little bit of voice problems and so I have just decided I'm not going to try to sing this morning. 00:06:09.170 --> 00:06:12.209 But I am so thankful for the worship this morning. 00:06:12.209 --> 00:06:15.569 Oh man, what a sweet, sweet presence of God this morning. 00:06:15.569 --> 00:06:30.471 No matter what you may think, to get up here week after week and put a song set together that you think is going to please everyone, that's a daunting task, but what an amazing job this morning. 00:06:30.471 --> 00:06:32.081 The worship team did an awesome job, didn't they? 00:06:32.081 --> 00:06:35.168 Amen, thank you all for worshiping this morning. 00:06:36.651 --> 00:06:40.514 I want to talk to you just a little bit this morning and you'll find out I like to talk. 00:06:40.514 --> 00:06:43.103 That's because I spent most of my childhood not talking. 00:06:43.103 --> 00:06:45.892 I was a minister's kid and I was scared to death to look at people. 00:06:45.892 --> 00:06:49.687 I could sing all day long on stage and there could be hundreds of people, it didn't matter. 00:06:49.687 --> 00:06:59.084 But when you met me at the back door and you started talking one-on-one, I was scared to death, grabbed up under my mama's skirt tail and didn't want to turn loose because I was a backwards, shy person. 00:06:59.704 --> 00:07:07.995 But the Lord, when he comes into us, gives us a boldness to speak, and I pray continually Lord, give me words to speak. 00:07:07.995 --> 00:07:13.132 Every day I go to work, when I go out to see my customers, I want words to speak. 00:07:13.132 --> 00:07:17.411 You see, I can't just openly start talking about God, because that'd get me fired, right. 00:07:17.411 --> 00:07:20.488 But when they start talking about God, the door's open. 00:07:20.488 --> 00:07:28.043 And I spent about an hour and a half talking to a fella just a couple of weeks ago, and I don't know who he was. 00:07:28.043 --> 00:07:36.620 I've never met him before, but I was walking out the door, kind of like the one right there you got and I looked over and there he sat and I said how are you? 00:07:36.620 --> 00:07:37.845 You need anything out of me today. 00:07:37.845 --> 00:07:52.069 And I explained who I was and we began to talk, and we talked about God, we talked about the Holy Spirit and how much the Holy Spirit means to us and how much it changes you when you receive the Holy Spirit. 00:07:53.732 --> 00:07:55.682 I want to talk to you about a person in the Bible. 00:07:55.682 --> 00:07:57.045 He was a wee little man. 00:07:57.045 --> 00:07:59.189 I want to talk to you. 00:07:59.189 --> 00:07:59.771 There you go. 00:07:59.771 --> 00:08:02.122 I already hear his name being mentioned Zacchaeus. 00:08:02.122 --> 00:08:06.689 I want to talk to you just a few moments, and it's not just about Zacchaeus, but about his perspective. 00:08:08.692 --> 00:08:14.213 Perspective is something that each person has their own of and each person sees a different view. 00:08:14.213 --> 00:08:19.029 You see, the people sitting on this side looking this way see something different than the ones on this side looking this way. 00:08:19.029 --> 00:08:24.005 Where we are in life determines what our perspective is. 00:08:24.005 --> 00:08:29.154 If we're in a negative perspective, we're going to see negatively right. 00:08:29.154 --> 00:08:39.551 And if we are joyous and happy and we are in the middle of the most amazing move of God, we're going to be so joyful and our perspective is much different. 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:49.888 Well, we get lost sometimes in worship, because what we felt this morning was amazing, was it not To feel the presence of God sweeping through the place? 00:08:49.888 --> 00:08:54.330 When we ask him to, when we sing, come into this house, it's yours. 00:08:54.330 --> 00:09:00.130 Feel the atmosphere, oh God, and he begins to sweep through and you can just feel the sweet, sweet spirit in this place. 00:09:00.130 --> 00:09:07.933 Our perspective becomes much different than when we sit there and we refuse to lift our voice. 00:09:07.933 --> 00:09:13.965 And when we sit there and we refuse to lift our hands and surrender, say, well, I don't have to do that to love God. 00:09:13.965 --> 00:09:15.009 You're true, you don't. 00:09:15.009 --> 00:09:38.982 But if you ever want to feel God and you ever want to get closer to him, you've got to have some action, because faith without works is what it's dead If we don't have faith in him enough to trust him enough that, even though our back may hurt us or hips may be hurting us, that we can still stand or still sit and worship the Lord together, then we have an attitude problem, because worship is not about what we feel. 00:09:38.982 --> 00:09:40.706 It's about what he gets out of the worship. 00:09:40.706 --> 00:09:46.062 What we get in return is that nice cool tingle and that feeling of the Spirit sweeping the place. 00:09:46.062 --> 00:09:47.043 That's our blessing. 00:09:48.668 --> 00:09:52.202 The responsibility is for us to worship Him, because that's why we were created. 00:09:52.202 --> 00:09:54.687 We are created to be worshipers. 00:09:54.687 --> 00:09:57.153 You don't believe me. 00:09:57.153 --> 00:10:01.264 How about the TV and the shows that we watch? 00:10:01.264 --> 00:10:03.870 How about the things that we follow? 00:10:03.870 --> 00:10:06.434 And media, social media? 00:10:06.434 --> 00:10:08.647 It becomes our very best friend. 00:10:08.647 --> 00:10:10.547 Before you know it, it's glued to our hand. 00:10:11.301 --> 00:10:12.346 And then what is our God? 00:10:12.346 --> 00:10:15.206 Are we raising our hand to God or are we sitting there scrolling? 00:10:15.206 --> 00:10:32.714 Are we dead set on something to change our life and drastically start a revival right here, right now, because it has to start in me, or are we waiting on somebody three seats over to start? 00:10:32.714 --> 00:10:35.562 You know when they start, I'll start. 00:10:35.562 --> 00:10:38.490 How about you be the difference, you be the catalyst. 00:10:38.490 --> 00:10:41.610 You change what's around you by worshiping the King of Kings and Lord of Lords. 00:10:41.610 --> 00:10:51.927 There is no repentance from what God calls you to, and he has made us and created us solely for worship to him. 00:10:51.927 --> 00:10:56.543 And what an amazing, amazing honor it is to stand and worship him. 00:10:56.543 --> 00:10:57.986 I can't imagine. 00:10:57.986 --> 00:11:00.351 I mean, as a kid we were just Holy Rollers, right. 00:11:00.413 --> 00:11:01.562 I was raised in Pentecostal church. 00:11:01.562 --> 00:11:04.768 Everybody thought we was Holy Rollers because you were them Pentecostals, you know. 00:11:04.768 --> 00:11:08.321 And a lot of people don't even know what Holy Roller is anymore. 00:11:08.321 --> 00:11:22.381 But I'm thankful that I was raised in a church where, when it got too late and I was a little kid because I wasn't allowed to fall asleep in church okay, you didn't take a nap, that's your problem you stay awake. 00:11:22.381 --> 00:11:26.369 You are going to listen to what's going on in this church and you're going to listen to the Word of God. 00:11:26.369 --> 00:11:45.091 And having an uncle that was a pastor, my dad was a minister, but I remember one night we were in a service so late that my mom and dad let me slide under the pew and my dad took his old long overcoat and threw it over the top of me as a blanket, because the spirit was moving and God was stirring in that place. 00:11:45.091 --> 00:11:50.666 I longed for the day where we would just sit and tarry in the presence of God. 00:11:51.799 --> 00:11:56.292 You see, zacchaeus, he wanted to see something he couldn't see. 00:11:56.292 --> 00:11:58.366 His perspective had to change. 00:11:58.366 --> 00:12:06.403 So when we read the story of Zacchaeus in Luke 19, and starting in verse two, it says now, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus in Luke 19. 00:12:06.403 --> 00:12:16.024 And starting in verse 2, it says Now, behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus who was a chief tax collector and he was rich and he sought to see who Jesus was. 00:12:16.024 --> 00:12:17.166 So he went looking. 00:12:17.166 --> 00:12:20.732 He went looking why? 00:12:20.732 --> 00:12:27.965 Because Jesus was surrounded, he had crowds and multitudes around him, because something was different, something was going on. 00:12:27.965 --> 00:12:32.364 It's kind of like when the police lights are out on the side of the road and everybody starts watching and walking that way. 00:12:32.364 --> 00:12:46.046 It was an attraction, it was drawing people in, and he sought to see who Jesus was, but could not because of the crowd and he was a short stature and he was going to pass that way. 00:12:46.547 --> 00:12:57.822 And when Jesus came into the place, he looked up and saw him and said to him Zacchaeus, make haste and come down, for today I must go to your house. 00:12:57.822 --> 00:13:01.268 I want to stop there just for a second. 00:13:01.268 --> 00:13:04.553 Jesus gave a command to him. 00:13:04.553 --> 00:13:09.562 Stop there just for a second. 00:13:09.562 --> 00:13:10.164 Jesus gave a command to him. 00:13:10.164 --> 00:13:15.101 First off, if I'm looking for a man that's in the middle of a crowd and he spots me and he calls me by name and I've never seen him before, my attention's on him. 00:13:15.101 --> 00:13:20.111 He wanted to see something he had not seen. 00:13:20.111 --> 00:13:21.921 He wanted to see what the ruckus was about. 00:13:21.921 --> 00:13:37.086 And when he put his perspective on Jesus, you see, he had to climb up an old tree and he probably you know, as a kid I always imagined him leaning out on that limb and stretched as far as he could past the leaves to see what Jesus was doing. 00:13:37.086 --> 00:13:38.971 What's this man? 00:13:38.971 --> 00:13:40.164 What's this ruckus about? 00:13:40.164 --> 00:13:40.787 What's going on? 00:13:40.787 --> 00:13:45.929 And then we see that there was a hunger there. 00:13:45.929 --> 00:13:47.995 So he went seeking. 00:13:48.196 --> 00:13:51.225 The word tells us, if we will seek, we will what, we'll find it. 00:13:51.225 --> 00:13:56.365 So when we begin to seek God and we really want a true move of God, we will seek him. 00:13:56.365 --> 00:14:01.264 And it won't just be on Sunday morning, it won't just be on Wednesday night, and it won't be just on prayer meeting times. 00:14:01.264 --> 00:14:12.442 It'll be at home, when we start bowing down beside our bed or in our garage or wherever we make our altar, and we begin to seek him, you say, well, I don't have time for that. 00:14:12.442 --> 00:14:19.684 Kids play soccer and then football and then baseball and all these things are just keeping us bogged down and those things are fine. 00:14:19.684 --> 00:14:24.764 My kids have played sports, but at some point we have to make time for him. 00:14:24.764 --> 00:14:30.105 The things that matter in our life we'll make time for. 00:14:30.125 --> 00:14:31.910 What about the people who say I don't have time to do anything? 00:14:31.910 --> 00:14:36.265 How much TV in a week do they watch? 00:14:36.265 --> 00:14:36.908 I'm not one of them. 00:14:36.908 --> 00:14:44.644 Old-time Pentecostals that say you can't have a TV in your house, don't get me wrong, but it might not have been such a bad rule. 00:14:44.644 --> 00:14:55.777 I mean, looking at some of the filth that's out there, I don't know if it was a good idea letting it come in, but you know, we have the responsibility to oversee our home. 00:14:55.777 --> 00:14:57.861 Men, I'm talking to you. 00:14:57.861 --> 00:15:00.849 We oversee what goes on in our home. 00:15:00.849 --> 00:15:02.451 Well, they're just kids. 00:15:02.451 --> 00:15:06.113 So what? 00:15:06.113 --> 00:15:07.261 Well, my parents didn't do that. 00:15:07.261 --> 00:15:07.923 We didn't go to church. 00:15:07.923 --> 00:15:09.085 That's okay. 00:15:09.085 --> 00:15:11.028 You are now Change it. 00:15:11.028 --> 00:15:14.240 Be someone who will stand up and love their kids enough. 00:15:14.520 --> 00:15:16.325 You know how hard it is to want to spank your kid. 00:15:16.325 --> 00:15:20.212 Sometimes it's not, but most of the time. 00:15:20.212 --> 00:15:22.267 Why do we procrastinate? 00:15:22.267 --> 00:15:28.765 Why do we keep backing off from that punishment, because when my parents said it hurts me worse than it does you, I didn't believe them. 00:15:28.765 --> 00:15:32.113 I knew what was hurting and it wasn't them. 00:15:32.113 --> 00:15:37.870 But as a parent I understand it hurts in here. 00:15:37.870 --> 00:15:41.789 It hurts in here because I've taught them better and they know better. 00:15:41.789 --> 00:15:55.144 But if I don't correct them and correct them and correct them again until the day they leave my home and then start homes of their own, because I want credible members of society, I don't want this wash off. 00:15:55.144 --> 00:15:57.130 Just do what you want to do society. 00:15:57.130 --> 00:16:03.307 I want God in their life and I want him leading and guiding them and directing them and putting them into a place. 00:16:03.307 --> 00:16:04.652 So what do I have to do to do that? 00:16:04.652 --> 00:16:05.461 I got to live it. 00:16:05.461 --> 00:16:15.152 You know how hard it is to trust God and your kids and your wife are watching you and you're sitting there just wanting to break down and cry in a corner in the fetal position. 00:16:15.152 --> 00:16:18.264 We've all had those moments. 00:16:18.264 --> 00:16:32.115 But then when God breaks through and you can see him through the leaves and you say I have never seen God do that before, but I am so grateful that he did. 00:16:33.282 --> 00:16:38.971 Zacchaeus had a position and it had to be something. 00:16:38.971 --> 00:16:40.313 His perspective had to change. 00:16:40.313 --> 00:16:42.826 We read on in the scripture. 00:16:42.826 --> 00:16:46.191 We find out that he did in fact do what he was commanded. 00:16:46.191 --> 00:16:48.347 Jesus said come down, make haste, let's go to your house. 00:16:48.347 --> 00:16:50.524 The word says he came down. 00:16:50.524 --> 00:16:52.744 They went to his house and what began to happen? 00:16:52.744 --> 00:17:01.071 Grumbling here he is doing what the king of kings told him to do. 00:17:01.071 --> 00:17:05.288 He says, oh, let me jump down. 00:17:05.288 --> 00:17:20.646 I can imagine him grabbing a smooth limb and sliding as quick as he could Because he wanted to please the Lord First off, being called by name and given a commandment Zacchaeus, come down, let's make haste and go to your house. 00:17:20.646 --> 00:17:24.806 Jesus gave him a command he obeyed and listened. 00:17:26.148 --> 00:17:28.313 So many times we refuse to listen to God. 00:17:28.313 --> 00:18:04.153 I was praying this morning and I thought it's been many years and I still get so emotional because God told me to go pray for a young man who was deaf and I was visiting the church, didn't know the young man, but I knew he was deaf because his mama would come up here and worship in sign language and it touched me to see a love like that from a mother that would sit there and communicate those worship songs with him and watch him worship with her and the people in the room just like it was second hat no, no big deal, and watching them communicate worship to the Lord in a different way. 00:18:04.153 --> 00:18:12.284 But the number one thing that bothered me the most was that he was deaf and God was dealing with me to go pray for that young man and watch him be healed. 00:18:12.284 --> 00:18:17.060 And to this day, as far as I know that young man still deaf. 00:18:17.060 --> 00:18:23.749 And I deal with that in my spirit every day because I did not make haste and I did not move when Jesus said move. 00:18:23.749 --> 00:18:39.525 And every day, as a person who wants to be full-time minister, I think, god, when you give me the opportunity, I will go, I will do what you tell me to do, because I don't ever want to feel that again, I don't ever want to cause somebody to miss out on their miracle because I was scared. 00:18:40.986 --> 00:18:42.848 We sit back and we say Jesus used me. 00:18:42.848 --> 00:18:45.652 And we sing that old song and we Jesus used me, jesus used me. 00:18:45.652 --> 00:18:48.315 And then when he starts trying to use you, whoa, whoa, whoa. 00:18:48.315 --> 00:18:55.340 Wait a minute, that's not what I meant. 00:18:55.340 --> 00:18:55.721 I didn't want that. 00:18:55.721 --> 00:18:56.001 That's enough. 00:18:56.001 --> 00:18:56.202 I felt it. 00:18:56.202 --> 00:18:56.423 We're good. 00:18:56.423 --> 00:18:58.626 When we ask him, he will supply. 00:18:58.626 --> 00:19:02.294 So when you begin to get hungry and you start looking for him. 00:19:02.294 --> 00:19:03.241 You'll find him. 00:19:03.241 --> 00:19:04.987 But what next? 00:19:04.987 --> 00:19:08.817 Our perspective changes when we begin to feel him. 00:19:08.817 --> 00:19:12.049 Our perspective changes when we know the blood of Jesus and what it means. 00:19:12.049 --> 00:19:16.684 Our perspectives begin to change when we begin to move on in our life. 00:19:16.684 --> 00:19:18.409 We don't want to go back to the old way. 00:19:18.409 --> 00:19:22.648 We want to continue on in the new path where Jesus is guiding us every moment. 00:19:22.648 --> 00:19:29.609 But our perspective will only change when we begin to ask God to lead us. 00:19:31.519 --> 00:19:39.144 You ever been around one of those people that are so negative, like when you leave you're there to cheer them up and you're down, like the reverse. 00:19:39.144 --> 00:19:41.019 You know, I'm supposed to make them better. 00:19:41.019 --> 00:19:41.621 They made me worse. 00:19:41.621 --> 00:19:54.611 Sometimes that happens because in here we're soured, whether it was someone, whether it was something, whether it was just a random bad day. 00:19:54.611 --> 00:20:05.007 We're sour and I have realized that when I'm sour and I say something sour, then my kids will say something sour. 00:20:05.007 --> 00:20:16.948 I have realized if I make a complaint about something I saw in the church in the privacy of my own vehicle, my kids take on that notion that that's what's happening because they see it too. 00:20:16.948 --> 00:20:21.970 But then they get in that bad mood that that's what's happening because they see it too. 00:20:21.970 --> 00:20:32.230 But then they get in that bad mood and maybe my little comment turns into a big comment in their eyes because they continue on thinking about how wrong or how bad that might have been. 00:20:32.269 --> 00:20:39.344 When I am quick to judge, I will be judged in that very same manner. 00:20:39.344 --> 00:20:44.008 When I was a kid, people used to always say you can't judge. 00:20:44.008 --> 00:20:46.530 The Bible doesn't say you can't judge. 00:20:46.530 --> 00:20:49.634 It says when you judge, you will be judged by that same accord. 00:20:49.634 --> 00:20:53.376 So if you are quick to judge and harsh to judge, guess what? 00:20:53.376 --> 00:21:00.150 One day you're going to be judged, and it's going to be a quick, harsh judgment because we are putting in seed to the ground. 00:21:00.150 --> 00:21:06.868 Remember the old story in the Bible where he talks about the seed falling on different grounds. 00:21:06.868 --> 00:21:09.067 Let's make sure we're putting in fertile ground. 00:21:09.067 --> 00:21:16.008 Let's make sure we're receiving a hundredfold each time, a thousandfold, 10,000 times, because this church will be packed. 00:21:16.008 --> 00:21:20.828 You mark my word this church will be packed and you get on board and you back that. 00:21:21.599 --> 00:21:23.286 You may not be happy about every decision made. 00:21:23.286 --> 00:21:23.768 That's okay. 00:21:23.768 --> 00:21:36.363 You don't have to be, because when every church is together in one mind and one accord and it's perfect, you better leave because it's not going to be perfect with you there, because there ain't none that's perfect. 00:21:36.363 --> 00:21:38.527 The word tells us Not one. 00:21:38.527 --> 00:21:47.903 We can get upset at one another, but families do the same thing. 00:21:47.903 --> 00:21:48.265 We're a family. 00:21:48.265 --> 00:21:51.256 I can't tell you how many times I've walked out of the room because that awkward, weird argument was going on. 00:21:51.256 --> 00:21:52.621 Oh, I don't want to be in this one right now. 00:21:52.621 --> 00:21:58.909 But we as families have to work through things and God has given us a voice to do that. 00:21:58.909 --> 00:22:01.333 If we don't express it, we can't get it changed. 00:22:01.333 --> 00:22:03.214 And I don't know why that went in it wasn't in my notes. 00:22:03.214 --> 00:22:08.828 But we can't change things unless we give God a chance to. 00:22:08.828 --> 00:22:14.928 We can't be used unless we give God the chance to use us. 00:22:14.928 --> 00:22:18.222 What do y'all go to? 00:22:18.222 --> 00:22:19.548 About 2.30 or something like that. 00:22:19.548 --> 00:22:25.305 Okay, got a lot to say. 00:22:25.305 --> 00:22:25.846 I said so. 00:22:25.846 --> 00:22:26.086 We. 00:22:26.086 --> 00:22:30.534 We see zacchaeus and we see what he's gone through and we see what jesus called him. 00:22:30.534 --> 00:22:38.828 Jesus calls him by name, brings him out, and he calls him in to salvation, salvation. 00:22:38.828 --> 00:22:45.511 He calls him in to salvation, salvation. 00:22:45.511 --> 00:22:47.902 I'm thankful for it. 00:22:47.922 --> 00:22:51.428 When I was about three years old, I started singing on a platform. 00:22:51.428 --> 00:22:53.931 You can imagine what a three-year-old sounds like. 00:22:53.931 --> 00:22:56.795 Right, I was a plain-spoken kid. 00:22:56.795 --> 00:22:59.701 I didn't have that baby talk. 00:22:59.701 --> 00:23:02.170 I had two older brothers and you learn quick what can I say. 00:23:02.170 --> 00:23:05.327 But I would get up and sing a song or whatever. 00:23:05.327 --> 00:23:07.284 We'd travel and sing as a gospel group. 00:23:07.284 --> 00:23:13.626 My dad would preach and I would get up and sing and the presence of God would move. 00:23:13.626 --> 00:23:18.027 I used to sing an old song to be like Jesus. 00:23:18.027 --> 00:23:19.791 Remember that old song? 00:23:21.220 --> 00:23:27.385 And my dad had come up with a little thing where he would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up and we would sing a couple of songs. 00:23:27.385 --> 00:23:28.806 And when he'd say, what do you want to be when you grow up? 00:23:28.806 --> 00:23:30.688 I'd say I want to be like Jesus. 00:23:30.688 --> 00:23:35.087 And I was foolish enough to believe it. 00:23:35.087 --> 00:23:39.103 Can you imagine that I wanted to be like Jesus? 00:23:39.103 --> 00:23:46.055 I'm a young kid and I'm listening to the words I'm saying To be like Jesus, to be like Jesus. 00:23:46.055 --> 00:23:49.621 All I ask is to be like him. 00:23:49.621 --> 00:23:53.266 And then I'd sing it in Spanish. 00:23:53.266 --> 00:23:55.910 We'd do it as what if the Lord sends you to Mexico to be a missionary? 00:23:55.910 --> 00:23:57.912 And I'd sing it in Spanish. 00:23:57.912 --> 00:24:08.462 I don't know that much Spanish, but I did know that song. 00:24:08.462 --> 00:24:10.205 It was impressive, right, five or six-year-old singing in Spanish. 00:24:10.205 --> 00:24:28.565 I mean, I'm white, you can tell, okay, but thank God for the ability to go up and sing, and it changed my life forever because those words to be like Jesus resonated in my spirit. 00:24:28.565 --> 00:24:30.549 My parents allowed me to be marinated in Jesus over and over again and experiencing God move. 00:24:30.569 --> 00:24:33.320 And we're selling our children short when we won't bring them to the house of God. 00:24:33.320 --> 00:24:40.874 We're selling our children short and we're not giving them the opportunity to experience something that's far better than six flags. 00:24:40.874 --> 00:24:47.171 Ok, it's so much better than anything we could ever, ever experience. 00:24:47.171 --> 00:24:50.448 But we have to give that opportunity. 00:24:50.448 --> 00:24:52.265 Well, kids are too young. 00:24:52.265 --> 00:24:54.146 You know well what's the proper age. 00:24:54.146 --> 00:24:58.650 John the Baptist leaped in the mother's womb filled with the spirit Right. 00:24:58.650 --> 00:25:03.931 So I don't think the spirit puts an age on it, but we do. 00:25:03.931 --> 00:25:07.628 Well, they're too young, they're too naive. 00:25:08.421 --> 00:25:20.469 Let me tell you something I remember as a kid and I guarantee you this young man does too that we would be in a church house and we were raising our hands and we might not have known fully what we were doing, but we were in surrender to what was going on in that building. 00:25:20.469 --> 00:25:26.708 We weren't playing with Ouija boards, we weren't seeking demons, we weren't looking for spirits of an unknown world. 00:25:26.708 --> 00:25:35.804 We were looking for a spirit that we knew about, one that we had been taught about and one we had experienced, because when it was in the room it was such a sweet, sweet, sweet anointing. 00:25:35.804 --> 00:25:42.732 But until we begin to seek it he may not even know. 00:25:42.732 --> 00:25:53.788 Stephen, my brother, he may not even know this, but when we were teenagers I always knew I was called to be in ministry and I just always thought it was music. 00:25:53.788 --> 00:25:54.811 I never thought I'd be preaching. 00:25:54.811 --> 00:25:57.084 I don't think I'm the best preacher ever in the world. 00:25:57.084 --> 00:26:02.634 I just love to sing because that's where the most I feel God's presence upon me is when I sing. 00:26:02.634 --> 00:26:06.586 And I love that feeling and I want to be in his presence continually. 00:26:06.586 --> 00:26:07.548 I want to be like Enoch. 00:26:07.548 --> 00:26:09.366 I want to be here today, gone tomorrow. 00:26:09.366 --> 00:26:12.287 He just took me home because we just spent so much time together. 00:26:12.287 --> 00:26:14.853 He said just come on, I want to be there. 00:26:14.853 --> 00:26:24.608 But Stephen may not know. 00:26:24.628 --> 00:26:39.461 When we were teenagers probably I want to say 15, 16, he come and visited for the summer and he would spend a week or whatever, and he had made some comments about what he knew he wanted to do in life, his ambition. 00:26:39.461 --> 00:26:44.824 I don't even know if I believe at that time he was talking about the mission field. 00:26:44.824 --> 00:26:51.625 He loved going on missions trips and it was the mission field and he denounced sinful ways. 00:26:51.625 --> 00:26:59.263 So we're all you know minister's kids and we're just, you know, good old kids. 00:26:59.263 --> 00:27:00.327 You know how the ministers' kids are. 00:27:00.327 --> 00:27:01.230 They're usually troublemakers. 00:27:01.230 --> 00:27:05.424 That was at you, tristan. 00:27:05.424 --> 00:27:13.586 He knows I love him, but we were all troublemakers. 00:27:13.586 --> 00:27:19.169 I mean, we were always into trouble Not the kind that got us in jail, but we were in trouble. 00:27:20.432 --> 00:27:23.099 But he made the comment about purity Not the kind that got us in jail, but we were in trouble. 00:27:23.099 --> 00:27:35.144 But he made the comment about purity and he had no conviction in his voice when he said it I'm going to be pure to the day I'm married. 00:27:35.144 --> 00:27:37.608 That doesn't sound like much, does it Not? 00:27:37.608 --> 00:27:46.477 In our society, not in what's going on today, not when it's nothing important to anybody anymore. 00:27:46.477 --> 00:27:50.711 But it was an encouragement and a shot in the foot for me, because he stood up and spoke of right. 00:27:50.711 --> 00:27:55.951 He didn't encourage to go ahead and do what everybody else was doing. 00:27:55.951 --> 00:27:58.406 He encouraged to do what was right. 00:27:58.406 --> 00:28:03.615 His perspective was different because he had experienced something I believe he had just come from. 00:28:03.615 --> 00:28:07.851 A missions trip is probably what it was and he was on fire about what God had done. 00:28:07.851 --> 00:28:13.025 He had fallen in love with some little girl down there and you know he was. 00:28:13.025 --> 00:28:32.721 He was going to wait forever for her, wait forever for her. 00:28:32.721 --> 00:28:33.883 I guess she wasn't a blonde, so that didn't happen. 00:28:33.883 --> 00:28:51.845 But it was an amazing thing for him to mention what he planned on doing in his life, because it changed mine to know that someone else was out there that didn't want to follow the ways of the world, that didn't want to go down the path that everybody else was taking, because it was fun and easy. 00:28:55.561 --> 00:28:58.605 It ain't easy, y'all understand, ain't right. 00:28:58.605 --> 00:29:02.319 It ain't easy, y'all understand, ain't right. 00:29:02.319 --> 00:29:07.911 It ain't easy for us to get on our knees daily and beg a God who should not forgive us to forgive us. 00:29:07.911 --> 00:29:11.767 It ain't easy to get on our knees and say God, would you please send a revival. 00:29:11.767 --> 00:29:14.788 God, would you please start it in me? 00:29:14.788 --> 00:29:24.599 Would you please allow me to be a privileged person and be a tiny part of a modern day azusa street revival? 00:29:24.599 --> 00:29:38.894 Would you allow me to feel you like I've never felt you before when we will allow him to move in our life and when we will make time for him to do that. 00:29:38.894 --> 00:29:40.022 He will. 00:29:40.022 --> 00:29:42.049 His word tells us he will. 00:29:44.700 --> 00:29:47.705 Salvation what an amazing tool. 00:29:47.705 --> 00:29:51.854 Sanctification something we all have to go through. 00:29:51.854 --> 00:29:55.804 It's not an easy process. 00:29:55.804 --> 00:30:05.544 But then there's the baptism in the Holy Spirit easy process, but then there's the baptism in the Holy Spirit. 00:30:05.544 --> 00:30:05.865 There's the key. 00:30:05.865 --> 00:30:07.470 You don't want to give up too early, to the brink of your miracle. 00:30:07.470 --> 00:30:09.115 Get into the baptism of the Spirit. 00:30:09.115 --> 00:30:10.961 Well, it's not easy. 00:30:10.961 --> 00:30:11.642 No, it's not. 00:30:11.642 --> 00:30:13.403 It requires sacrifice. 00:30:13.403 --> 00:30:21.476 It requires something of you, the most precious thing you have, which is time. 00:30:21.476 --> 00:30:36.268 You see, if you will study up on Azusa Street and Pensacola, if you will study up on the Kansas City Awakening and all these things that took place, you will notice how they started. 00:30:36.268 --> 00:30:46.146 And it started with hungry people on their knees, making haste, saying I'm tired of this world and all that it has to offer. 00:30:46.146 --> 00:30:47.670 I want more. 00:30:47.670 --> 00:30:50.422 I want more of what he's got for me. 00:30:50.422 --> 00:30:53.086 I want more of him. 00:30:53.086 --> 00:30:56.894 If we seek him, we will find him. 00:30:56.894 --> 00:31:03.400 If we seek him, we will find him. 00:31:03.420 --> 00:31:19.053 If you read on into Luke 19, down in verse 8 and 10, it says Then Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord Look, lord, I give half of my goods to the poor, and if I have taken anything from anyone, false accusation, I have restored fourfold. 00:31:19.053 --> 00:31:36.673 And Jesus said to him salvation has come to this house because he also is a son of Abraham, for the son of man has come to seek and to save which was lost. 00:31:36.673 --> 00:31:40.967 He came for you, friend. 00:31:40.967 --> 00:31:48.913 He came for every one of us sitting in this room, standing in this room. 00:31:48.913 --> 00:32:01.827 He came for us and the good news is he came for you in spite of what you were, because I'm nothing. 00:32:05.041 --> 00:32:08.131 But with the blood of Jesus, the perspective changed. 00:32:08.131 --> 00:32:14.452 With the blood of Jesus, I am something. 00:32:14.452 --> 00:32:21.570 I am an heir to the throne, I am a brother to Jesus. 00:32:21.570 --> 00:32:30.833 He is my friend, he is my counselor, my comforter, my present help in time of trouble. 00:32:30.833 --> 00:32:37.009 He's not old, he don't get tired. 00:32:37.009 --> 00:32:43.865 I get tired, he never gets tired. 00:32:43.865 --> 00:32:49.411 He's always looking to improve me and if I let him, he will. 00:32:49.411 --> 00:32:54.311 You see, god's going to do some great and mighty things in your future. 00:32:54.311 --> 00:32:59.532 God's going to do some great and mighty things in your future. 00:32:59.532 --> 00:33:01.489 Connect church. 00:33:01.489 --> 00:33:03.698 You better believe when I say God's doing to do some great and mighty things in your future. 00:33:03.698 --> 00:33:04.000 Connect Church. 00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:07.859 You better believe when I say God's doing something right now. 00:33:07.859 --> 00:33:10.904 We're not waiting anymore, we're going to make haste. 00:33:10.904 --> 00:33:21.196 We're going to make haste, we're going to come down from that tree and we're going to make haste, we're going to go to the throne room of God. 00:33:21.196 --> 00:33:23.363 We're going to press in. 00:33:23.363 --> 00:33:26.126 Remember that old saying Press in until we obtain it. 00:33:26.126 --> 00:33:32.496 And one more thing Once we've obtained it, we don't stop there. 00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:56.173 Our youth minister has been teaching the kids to seek the Lord and talking about Azusa Street and Kansas City and Pensacola revivals, and she's been teaching our kids which is a wonderful thing about the Holy Spirit. 00:33:56.173 --> 00:34:01.570 And the Holy Spirit is something that is hard to understand. 00:34:01.570 --> 00:34:05.269 It's just so easy. 00:34:05.269 --> 00:34:05.750 It's hard. 00:34:05.750 --> 00:34:06.491 Does that make sense? 00:34:06.491 --> 00:34:09.809 It's something that we complicate too much. 00:34:09.809 --> 00:34:10.210 You know. 00:34:10.210 --> 00:34:14.264 It's one of those puzzles that seems to have got too many pieces, you know. 00:34:14.264 --> 00:34:17.224 So we just don't talk about it because it's too much work. 00:34:21.775 --> 00:34:23.864 But God wants to do great things. 00:34:23.864 --> 00:34:26.036 He wants to do. 00:34:26.036 --> 00:34:43.503 I mean, he would not have come to the cross and suffered and died and been punished for my sake and your sake, just because there had to be a sacrifice. 00:34:43.503 --> 00:34:48.226 There had to be a change in perspective. 00:34:48.226 --> 00:34:53.706