WEBVTT 00:00:01.221 --> 00:00:12.885 Yeah, come on, give the Lord some praise and while you're standing, hold on, I still got some time. 00:00:12.885 --> 00:00:22.292 So next week is Father's Day and the title of my message for next week is who's your Daddy? 00:00:22.292 --> 00:00:36.588 So make sure you come, because we have a struggle of identity in this nation and in this world that is wrapped up and encompassed by sin, and they don't understand who they are because they don't clearly see who their father is. 00:00:36.588 --> 00:00:39.444 So make sure that you invite. 00:00:39.444 --> 00:00:43.790 Maybe a father who hasn't been in a while, but today we're going to be talking about lethal language. 00:00:43.790 --> 00:00:44.277 Look in Proverbs 12, verse 18. 00:00:44.277 --> 00:00:45.219 Maybe a father who hasn't been in a while, but today we're going to be talking about lethal language. 00:00:45.219 --> 00:00:48.109 Look in Proverbs 12, verse 18. 00:00:48.109 --> 00:00:51.646 Cassie will also kill me if I don't mention this. 00:00:51.646 --> 00:00:56.871 We are having a diaper drive, so make sure you bring all that baby diapers right. 00:00:56.871 --> 00:01:02.189 Okay, just clarifying that we want the baby ones. 00:01:02.189 --> 00:01:07.725 Oh, my wife's going to kill me later. 00:01:07.745 --> 00:01:11.849 All right, proverbs, chapter 12, verse 18. 00:01:11.849 --> 00:01:13.186 If you got it, say amen. 00:01:13.186 --> 00:01:15.625 If you need some more time, say hold up. 00:01:15.625 --> 00:01:17.531 All right, one of y'all. 00:01:17.531 --> 00:01:28.174 The words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. 00:01:28.174 --> 00:01:30.545 Let's pray, father, we thank you so much. 00:01:30.545 --> 00:01:39.691 We thank you, lord, for the word of our testimony, being able to enable us to be more than conquerors, to be overcomers. 00:01:39.691 --> 00:01:44.891 Father, I pray for everybody under the sound of my voice, whether here or watching at home online. 00:01:44.891 --> 00:01:50.765 I pray, god, that your spirit move and change the atmosphere as we go on today into your word. 00:01:50.765 --> 00:01:52.427 In your name, we pray amen. 00:01:52.427 --> 00:02:06.614 So we're going to talk today about yeah, you may be seated lethal language, so the words that we speak can bring life or it can bring death. 00:02:08.401 --> 00:02:16.481 I have a story, and to you it may sound silly, but to me it let me see myself in a way, literally, that I'd never seen myself before. 00:02:16.481 --> 00:02:22.770 When I turned 30 years old, my wife said hey, you're getting old, it's time for a checkup. 00:02:22.770 --> 00:02:27.455 So I went. 00:02:27.455 --> 00:02:29.700 I got checked up. 00:02:29.700 --> 00:02:34.092 It was this doctor that I had never been to before, this doctor that I had never seen. 00:02:34.092 --> 00:02:35.526 Her mother knew of this doctor. 00:02:35.526 --> 00:02:40.906 I think she used this doctor and she said, oh, he's great, why don't you try him out? 00:02:40.906 --> 00:02:44.948 Because I was looking for a primary and I said, okay, awesome, let's do it. 00:02:44.948 --> 00:02:45.641 Let me you try him out. 00:02:45.681 --> 00:02:48.689 Because I was looking for a primary and I said, okay, awesome, let's do it, let me meet this amazing doctor. 00:02:48.689 --> 00:02:55.950 So I went to this doctor and I did a checkup, I did a physical, I checked you know all the little under the arm, things to check, see if there's any whatever. 00:02:55.950 --> 00:02:58.383 I'm not a doctor, but he tickled me a little bit. 00:02:58.383 --> 00:03:00.806 It was weird and awkward, and then we went on about our business. 00:03:00.806 --> 00:03:08.895 Well, he tells me to go like this, and I'm staring him in the face and I'm going like this and he's doing his thing and he says do you know? 00:03:08.895 --> 00:03:09.716 Your nose is crooked. 00:03:09.716 --> 00:03:17.288 No, I did not, but I do. 00:03:17.288 --> 00:03:23.651 Now I have no clue what happened the rest of that doctor's visit. 00:03:23.651 --> 00:03:27.907 I have no clue what happened the rest of that doctor's visit. 00:03:27.927 --> 00:03:30.734 Now you may say, well, that's silly, that's weird, that's kind of whatever. 00:03:30.734 --> 00:03:39.938 But now every time I look in the mirror I see a crooked nose. 00:03:39.938 --> 00:03:49.707 The things that someone speaks to you or the things that you speak to someone, the way you handle things, the way you respond, the way you react, they will linger with someone. 00:03:49.707 --> 00:03:51.693 I don't remember that doctor's name. 00:03:51.693 --> 00:03:55.508 I couldn't even tell you where the doctor's office is in Tyler. 00:03:55.508 --> 00:04:01.927 I have no clue, but I remember the words that he said. 00:04:01.927 --> 00:04:03.651 That hurt my feelings. 00:04:03.651 --> 00:04:06.406 The words that he said, that hurt my feelings. 00:04:06.406 --> 00:04:07.549 I got up in my feelings. 00:04:07.549 --> 00:04:09.032 I left there and I told my wife. 00:04:09.032 --> 00:04:15.372 I said that guy's a moron, he got my money once. 00:04:15.372 --> 00:04:19.848 You don't fool me twice. 00:04:19.848 --> 00:04:24.502 I'm not going to pay a guy to tell me eh, your ears are a little off too. 00:04:24.502 --> 00:04:25.704 Oh, your nose is crooked. 00:04:25.704 --> 00:04:45.880 I know it's funny, but I'm telling you every time, literally this is not an exaggeration Every time I look in the mirror to fix my hair, brush my teeth or put my little beard oil on or something to get a little shine to it, every time I look in the mirror I see my bent nose. 00:04:49.507 --> 00:04:59.221 I never, I never in my entire life, saw my nose being crooked until someone spoke it into existence in my life. 00:04:59.221 --> 00:05:03.129 Rebuke it in the name of Jesus. 00:05:03.129 --> 00:05:05.894 Straighten up in the name of Jesus. 00:05:05.894 --> 00:05:19.471 Now, chances are you may not have never noticed it on me before, but now, since I've spoken into existence over you, you won't be able to have a conversation with me without tilting your head a little bit. 00:05:19.471 --> 00:05:34.836 Is it this way? 00:05:34.836 --> 00:05:40.341 Just straighten up and see how did this come about in my life? 00:05:40.401 --> 00:05:45.509 When I was 14 years old, I tried alcohol for the first time with a cousin of mine and I slept, walked, and so I was. 00:05:45.509 --> 00:05:53.687 We had this pullout couch and I was laying there and the only thing I remember is a huh and I opened my eyes. 00:05:53.687 --> 00:06:07.023 Or I come to and I'm, I'm sitting over this guy and he elbows me right in the nose and it gushes blood and it's bleeding and it's bleeding and it's bleeding and he was a little bit still under the influence. 00:06:07.023 --> 00:06:13.990 It just startled him and he just pow right in the kisser and apparently it cracked or broke or something. 00:06:13.990 --> 00:06:14.451 I don't know. 00:06:14.451 --> 00:06:17.749 I mean, it's not Owen Wilson bad, you don't even know who that is. 00:06:17.749 --> 00:06:26.574 But something happened to me when I was 14 that I'd forgotten about. 00:06:26.574 --> 00:06:31.490 Someone brought it up later and it affected me the rest of my life. 00:06:31.490 --> 00:06:41.430 The stranger's words you say well, it's a stranger. 00:06:41.430 --> 00:06:43.466 How did it affect you? 00:06:43.466 --> 00:06:49.769 I'm almost about to be 37 years old and I still remember it and I still see it in the mirror every time. 00:06:52.380 --> 00:06:59.004 The things that you say, the way that you speak, how you handle things with people, especially, especially people that don't know God. 00:06:59.004 --> 00:07:04.367 But Jesus said the 11th commandment I give you to love each other and, through that, love. 00:07:04.367 --> 00:07:07.103 The ones who don't know me will know me. 00:07:07.103 --> 00:07:10.711 How we treat each other, how we speak to each other. 00:07:10.711 --> 00:07:29.064 It bears weight and the way we say things, how we say things, the words we use, the lethal language that we prescribe to other people, can end up scarring them in a way that the rest of their lives you may forget it. 00:07:29.064 --> 00:07:33.822 They may never remember your name, but they will remember the words that you said to them that hurt them. 00:07:33.822 --> 00:07:37.449 Emotional scars last for a lifetime. 00:07:37.449 --> 00:07:40.781 Spiritual scars last for a lifetime. 00:07:40.781 --> 00:07:47.803 Mind your words and be careful of how you speak, because the way you speak could drive someone away from God. 00:07:47.803 --> 00:07:50.309 That bears a lot of weight. 00:07:50.309 --> 00:07:59.466 The very words that you speak and how you talk to someone can literally make them never want to darken the doors of a church again because of the way that you spoke to them. 00:08:05.601 --> 00:08:13.927 There's a popular saying I know everybody in here has heard it sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. 00:08:13.927 --> 00:08:16.160 You know what that was. 00:08:16.160 --> 00:08:19.656 That was a cover-up to the real hurt they were feeling by the words spoken over them. 00:08:19.656 --> 00:08:22.341 Because that is a lie. 00:08:22.341 --> 00:08:28.170 The words that you speak, the words that someone speaks to you, can leave lasting and eternal damage. 00:08:28.170 --> 00:08:42.246 I saw an Instagram reel I think it was maybe this morning or last night and it was this guy walking up and it's King David and he's walking in the pearly gates and he's all happy and he's like, yeah, I made it to heaven. 00:08:42.246 --> 00:08:53.022 And then all of a sudden you see Uriah that's Bathsheba's husband, the one he sent to the front lines to die. 00:08:53.022 --> 00:08:56.244 And then he was like, oh, who's over here? 00:08:56.244 --> 00:09:03.462 You know things you do in your life, one day you'll end up facing them, whether on this side or the other. 00:09:03.462 --> 00:09:08.657 So be careful how you act, be careful how you respond, because this pain and this hurt. 00:09:08.657 --> 00:09:13.956 You'll remember what they have said or you will remember they will remember what you said. 00:09:15.458 --> 00:09:25.945 But as equally as the words that we speak can be destructive, so can they bring life, so can they bring joy, hope, peace and love to people's life. 00:09:25.945 --> 00:09:30.885 If you have your Bibles turned, we're going to go just a little bit further into Proverbs, chapter 18, verse 21. 00:09:30.885 --> 00:09:40.957 And as I was studying, I realized that I literally got Proverbs 12, 18, and now we're going to Proverbs 18, 21. 00:09:40.957 --> 00:09:44.764 The New Living Translation. 00:09:44.764 --> 00:09:53.003 It says it like this the tongue can bring death or life those who love to walk in, it will reap. 00:09:53.003 --> 00:09:56.797 Or sorry, those who love to talk, excuse me will talk. 00:09:56.797 --> 00:09:58.923 They will reap the consequences. 00:09:58.923 --> 00:10:05.586 When you say something and you do something in a manner that is not pleasing and honoring God, you will reap those consequences. 00:10:05.586 --> 00:10:11.067 It may not be today, it may not be tomorrow, but there are lasting effects to our words. 00:10:13.375 --> 00:10:29.514 Anybody in here have a mom or a daddy that knew what the Bible said about correction and they did not spare the rod and they sure didn't spoil the child and they sure didn't spoil the child. 00:10:29.514 --> 00:10:36.196 And I know one of the life-changing words and phrases my mama would say to me was wait until your dad got home, woo. 00:10:36.196 --> 00:10:38.082 It sends chills down my spine. 00:10:38.082 --> 00:10:43.863 Now I can remember those words and it literally just gave me chills. 00:10:43.863 --> 00:10:46.982 Words that lasted and affect. 00:10:46.982 --> 00:10:52.966 And now me and my dad are friends, but I still remember that fear that was inside of me. 00:10:53.034 --> 00:10:57.787 Look over in Psalm 64, 1 through 3. 00:10:57.787 --> 00:11:04.885 And this is David talking, and we know that David was on the run for a lot in his life. 00:11:04.885 --> 00:11:07.081 Oh God, listen to my complaint. 00:11:07.081 --> 00:11:10.524 Protect my life from my enemy's threats. 00:11:10.524 --> 00:11:14.222 You notice he didn't say enemy's attacks. 00:11:14.222 --> 00:11:18.163 It wasn't an action they were doing, it was words they were saying. 00:11:18.163 --> 00:11:24.620 Enemy's threats Hide me from the plots of this evil mob, from this gang of wrongdoers. 00:11:24.682 --> 00:11:31.519 Verse three it says they sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows. 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:54.789 People of God, we have to make sure that we are not shooting our words like sharpened arrows, sure that we are not shooting our words like sharpened arrows. 00:11:54.789 --> 00:11:56.054 We should not be using the Bible. 00:11:56.054 --> 00:11:57.176 See that? 00:11:57.176 --> 00:11:59.339 Sorry, squirrel. 00:11:59.339 --> 00:12:03.423 Probably nobody on camera saw that and they thought I went crazy for a second. 00:12:03.423 --> 00:12:04.966 Something fell, nothing. 00:12:04.966 --> 00:12:15.399 But we oftentimes we pray this prayer and we have this perspective and we get on this defense mode. 00:12:15.399 --> 00:12:17.206 We let one person hurt us and all of a sudden everybody's out to get us. 00:12:17.206 --> 00:12:22.110 So then we come back with harsh words when someone may be joking or someone isn't even thinking about what they're saying. 00:12:22.331 --> 00:12:24.096 Anybody ever put their foot in their mouth before? 00:12:24.096 --> 00:12:26.201 And you said something you didn't even think about? 00:12:26.201 --> 00:12:28.687 Y'all know I'm a fast talker. 00:12:28.687 --> 00:12:31.605 Let me tell you I can't even count how many times. 00:12:31.605 --> 00:12:32.556 I know. 00:12:32.556 --> 00:12:38.659 God knows the number of hairs on my head, but there's no way he kept up with that count, because that is a lot. 00:12:38.659 --> 00:12:42.782 But listen, we have to get out of listen. 00:12:42.782 --> 00:12:44.186 Anybody ever been hurt in church before? 00:12:44.186 --> 00:12:48.269 Have you ever been hurt in church before? 00:12:48.269 --> 00:12:48.995 Have you ever been hurt in church? 00:12:48.995 --> 00:12:55.443 Has words from someone in church been said to you and you took it home with you and ate on it for months? 00:12:55.443 --> 00:12:59.419 This is easy to do. 00:13:00.554 --> 00:13:06.985 I had a friend, one of my best friends, in junior high when I came to Texas seventh, eighth and all the way through 12 and graduated together, my best friend Julian. 00:13:06.985 --> 00:13:07.317 He called me up last night. 00:13:07.317 --> 00:13:08.513 He said seventh, eighth and all the way through 12 and graduated together, my best friend Julian. 00:13:08.513 --> 00:13:12.121 He called me up last night and he said hey, man, I need some advice. 00:13:12.121 --> 00:13:15.144 He said I know you're on a new level now and you're a pastor. 00:13:15.144 --> 00:13:20.164 I said yes, I know all the word from cover to cover and magically I don't do anything wrong anymore. 00:13:20.495 --> 00:13:21.981 That's how we view church people. 00:13:21.981 --> 00:13:31.268 Because you're in church, because you're in church, you're not supposed to say anything that's mean come on, come on. 00:13:31.268 --> 00:13:42.937 You're not saying amen, because you know it's true, it's easy to do, it's easy to bring the world on our shoulders inside of the church and then we respond in worldly ways. 00:13:42.937 --> 00:13:58.596 But we need to get past the woe is me mentality and the thought process and we have the authority, through Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy Spirit, to cast out demons, and they have to leave. 00:13:58.596 --> 00:14:01.702 We can speak to sickness and it has to leave the body. 00:14:01.702 --> 00:14:06.177 We can call to dry bones and they have to come back to life. 00:14:06.177 --> 00:14:20.727 This authority is available to every person under the sound of my voice, but we first must realize that we are sinful creatures and that we are in desperate need of a savior. 00:14:20.727 --> 00:14:29.924 You see, if we never will see how sinful we are, you can't truly understand how great our God is. 00:14:29.924 --> 00:14:39.100 If you don't understand you're in need of a Savior and you don't understand that you are a sinner, you will not understand how great God is. 00:14:39.100 --> 00:14:40.624 I am a sinner. 00:14:40.624 --> 00:14:42.447 I need a Savior, god, I need you. 00:14:42.894 --> 00:14:51.167 Isaiah, in chapter 6, if you have your Bibles turned to Isaiah, chapter 6, we're going to read a short story and I'm wrapping it up quick, I'm moving along fast, I'm trying to fit it in there. 00:14:51.167 --> 00:14:54.297 Isaiah, chapter 6. 00:14:54.297 --> 00:14:58.202 Now Isaiah is. 00:14:58.202 --> 00:15:02.009 He meets the Lord in a very real way. 00:15:04.215 --> 00:15:14.649 Isaiah, chapter 6, verse 1, and it gives you a little bit of time frame and it says it was in the year of king Uzziah died that I saw the Lord. 00:15:14.649 --> 00:15:19.679 He was sitting on a lofty throne and the train of his robe filled the temple. 00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:26.240 Verse 2 attending him were mighty seraphim, each having six wings. 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:33.842 With two wings wings, they covered their face, with two they covered their feet and with two they flew. 00:15:33.842 --> 00:15:41.221 They were calling out to each other holy, holy, holy is the Lord of heaven's armies. 00:15:41.221 --> 00:15:44.708 The whole earth is filled with his glory. 00:15:44.708 --> 00:15:52.379 Verse four their voices shook the temple to its foundations and the entire building was filled with smoke. 00:15:53.863 --> 00:15:56.527 Then I said this is Isaiah. 00:15:56.527 --> 00:16:03.702 Then I said it's over, I am doomed, for I am a sinful man. 00:16:03.702 --> 00:16:08.309 When you come into the presence of God, your sinfulness will begin to reveal itself. 00:16:08.309 --> 00:16:17.586 When you start stepping into the presence of God, you understand how much in need of his mercy and grace and his love that you really need. 00:16:17.586 --> 00:16:21.557 I am a sinful man. 00:16:21.557 --> 00:16:29.006 I have listen to this filthy lips and I live among a filthy. 00:16:29.006 --> 00:16:31.910 I live among people with filthy lips. 00:16:31.910 --> 00:16:34.461 Do you know Isaiah's job? 00:16:34.461 --> 00:16:35.326 He's a prophet. 00:16:35.326 --> 00:16:52.308 If a prophet of the one true God will say that I am a sinful man, that I have unclean lips, the very job that he has to speak, to speak God's wrath or love or whatever God tells him to speak. 00:16:52.308 --> 00:16:53.958 He said in the presence of God. 00:16:53.958 --> 00:16:56.105 I see now that my lips are unclean. 00:16:56.105 --> 00:17:03.476 Yet I have seen the King, the Lord of heaven's armies, verse six. 00:17:03.878 --> 00:17:10.519 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. 00:17:10.519 --> 00:17:17.805 He touched my lips with it and said see, this coal has touched your lips. 00:17:17.805 --> 00:17:24.221 Now your guilt is removed, your sins are forgiven. 00:17:24.221 --> 00:17:30.798 What was it that made his sins forgiven and his shame to be washed away? 00:17:30.798 --> 00:17:39.817 There was a purification process that came from the altar of God. 00:17:39.817 --> 00:17:44.807 The reason we don't have purification in the house of God today is because we won't get in the altars. 00:17:44.807 --> 00:17:53.347 We don't want God to put the hot coal on our lips and purify us anymore. 00:17:53.347 --> 00:17:57.775 We want God to come alongside of how we're living our lives. 00:17:57.775 --> 00:18:06.675 We don't want him to rearrange and mess anything up our lives. 00:18:06.675 --> 00:18:08.381 We don't want them to rearrange and mess anything up. 00:18:08.381 --> 00:18:10.126 God put the coals on my lips so that I may be pure Verse 7,. 00:18:10.126 --> 00:18:12.135 He touched my lips with it and said see, this coal has touched your lips. 00:18:12.135 --> 00:18:16.423 Now your guilt is removed, your sins are forgiven. 00:18:16.683 --> 00:18:19.209 There is such power in coming to God. 00:18:19.209 --> 00:18:23.618 In the presence of God, you begin to see who you are through his eyes. 00:18:23.618 --> 00:18:35.039 We are sinful beings, we are sinful creatures, but when you get a touch from God, he will put the coal on your lips, your shame will be removed and you will be cleansed and purified. 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:39.757 But you cannot do it unless you receive the coal on your lips. 00:18:39.757 --> 00:18:45.188 We want to walk in his grace and mercy. 00:18:45.188 --> 00:18:53.548 We love that. 00:18:53.548 --> 00:18:55.775 He loves us, but we don't want to sacrifice for him. 00:18:55.775 --> 00:19:03.638 We want God to do what we want him to do, like he's Santa Claus, but we don't want to conform to him. 00:19:03.638 --> 00:19:06.996 Now your guilt is removed and your sins are forgiven. 00:19:07.316 --> 00:19:12.045 Then I heard the Lord asking listen to me, church people today. 00:19:12.045 --> 00:19:19.988 If you have been cleansed and washed and forgiven and your shame is gone, now it is time to start working in the fields. 00:19:19.988 --> 00:19:26.679 We are living in a time where sin is running more rampant than I have ever seen. 00:19:26.679 --> 00:19:35.489 They are glorifying and they are tainting what truth is and painting it up, but they are still whitewashed tombs. 00:19:35.489 --> 00:19:36.954 They are still being hypocritical. 00:19:36.954 --> 00:19:44.669 They don't even understand what truth is because they will not receive the coal and the purification of God. 00:19:44.669 --> 00:19:58.007 If you have received this, you need to get busy, because the harvest is full, because where much sin abides, greater the harvest of God will grow. 00:19:58.007 --> 00:20:09.674 Of God will grow, because when sin is prevalent, god shows up and reveals. 00:20:13.615 --> 00:20:28.306 It says then I heard the Lord asking listen y'all, when God saved me, when God restored me, there was nothing that he would ask me to do that I would not do. 00:20:28.306 --> 00:20:31.321 You see, the problem with the modern church today is that people come and they want to be filled, but they won't do any pouring out. 00:20:31.321 --> 00:20:39.023 They don't want to be sent, they don't want to be working in the fields, they want to come and just get their little checkbox marked off that oh, I went to church. 00:20:39.023 --> 00:20:47.797 Oh, yes, god was good, the worship was good, praise the Lord. 00:20:47.797 --> 00:20:48.999 And they go back out into the regular life. 00:20:49.019 --> 00:20:50.702 God has called you to live above a regular life. 00:20:50.702 --> 00:21:02.249 He wants to do more through you than you could ever think or imagine, because his thoughts are above our thoughts, his ways are above our ways and you have to allow God to do what he wants to do in your life. 00:21:02.249 --> 00:21:05.980 But it starts with purification. 00:21:05.980 --> 00:21:07.726 We don't talk about this in church anymore. 00:21:07.726 --> 00:21:12.705 We want to just come and give a good message to where you feel encouraged. 00:21:12.705 --> 00:21:16.877 I feel encouraged because I know that I am a sinner, yet he still loves me. 00:21:22.282 --> 00:21:29.548 Then I heard the Lord asking whom shall I send as a messenger to this people who will go for us? 00:21:29.548 --> 00:21:37.644 There is a lost and dying world, and they may not say it to you, but their spirits are crying out. 00:21:37.644 --> 00:21:39.134 Who will minister to us? 00:21:39.134 --> 00:21:41.903 And it is the church of the living God. 00:21:41.903 --> 00:21:46.239 If you have God in your heart, you are a minister of his gospel. 00:21:46.239 --> 00:21:51.088 It is not brought from a classroom by a denomination. 00:21:51.088 --> 00:21:53.019 It is not brought from a pulpit. 00:21:53.019 --> 00:21:56.307 If you know Jesus, you better start preaching his word of truth. 00:21:56.307 --> 00:22:05.442 Who will go for us? 00:22:05.501 --> 00:22:14.815 And the prophet said here I am, send me God whatever. 00:22:14.815 --> 00:22:19.864 Whatever obedience looks like, I will do it. 00:22:19.864 --> 00:22:21.897 Whatever tough conversations I have to have, I will do it. 00:22:21.897 --> 00:22:26.507 Whatever tough conversations I have to have, I will do it. 00:22:26.507 --> 00:22:36.150 Whatever it is in my life that no one else even knows about that I'm allowing inside of me. 00:22:36.150 --> 00:22:50.128 It may be unforgiveness, it may be an addiction, it may be, but we have to present ourselves to God and say I am a sinful man, I am a sinful woman, I am sinful. 00:22:50.128 --> 00:22:51.873 God, please purify me. 00:22:51.873 --> 00:23:04.261 Whatever it is that is blocking, whatever has built a wall between you and I, tear it down, god, shine your holy light in every dark area of my life. 00:23:04.261 --> 00:23:17.162 And he said yes, and go and say this to the people Listen carefully, but do not understand. 00:23:17.923 --> 00:23:18.643 This confused me. 00:23:18.643 --> 00:23:23.469 Watch closely, but learn nothing. 00:23:23.469 --> 00:23:27.755 Harden the hearts of these people what? 00:23:27.755 --> 00:23:30.460 Plug their ears and shut their eyes. 00:23:30.460 --> 00:23:35.449 That way they will not see with their fleshly eyes. 00:23:35.449 --> 00:23:39.338 How many of you know? 00:23:39.338 --> 00:23:40.644 The heart is deceiving. 00:23:40.644 --> 00:23:45.345 It will trick you and make you feel something that is a false. 00:23:45.345 --> 00:23:52.006 You see, we want to read the word of God through our lens. 00:23:52.006 --> 00:23:58.243 We want to hear his voice, but we don't want to listen. 00:23:58.243 --> 00:24:01.080 We listen in the way that we want. 00:24:01.080 --> 00:24:02.358 We plug our ears, shut their eyes. 00:24:02.358 --> 00:24:10.739 That way they will not see with their eyes, nor hear with their ears, nor understand with their hearts, and they will turn to me for healing. 00:24:11.019 --> 00:24:14.268 Have you ever been to a place where you didn't understand and you had no clue? 00:24:14.268 --> 00:24:16.178 What you saw? 00:24:16.178 --> 00:24:19.083 What you heard Didn't make sense. 00:24:19.083 --> 00:24:21.125 It only looked like doom. 00:24:21.125 --> 00:24:23.809 Until you begin to see things through the eyes of God. 00:24:23.809 --> 00:24:32.558 That's why, church, you need to be filled with the Holy Spirit, so that when you don't know what to pray, you can pray in a heavenly language. 00:24:36.467 --> 00:24:42.122 I heard a story last Thursday and you know, actually, brother Vernon was telling me about this too. 00:24:42.122 --> 00:24:43.675 He said it in this perspective. 00:24:43.675 --> 00:24:45.559 I never, ever, thought of it this way. 00:24:45.559 --> 00:24:46.823 I love this man right here. 00:24:46.823 --> 00:24:55.875 He said when they came out of the upper room on the day of Pentecost, the Bible doesn't say that they spoke in the languages of the people there. 00:24:55.875 --> 00:25:01.642 It doesn't say that it actually said they heard in their own language. 00:25:01.642 --> 00:25:08.407 You never know. 00:25:09.449 --> 00:25:11.692 Listen, I deal with this all the time as a preacher. 00:25:11.692 --> 00:25:20.714 I say things and I'm like I get off the stage and I ask my wife did I sound stupid? 00:25:20.714 --> 00:25:25.773 My main question I ask her now did I even make sense? 00:25:25.773 --> 00:25:35.486 Because when you're speaking for the Lord, sometimes you don't even understand what you're saying or you don't think that it actually will do anything, but yet you hear over and over and over again of God doing something from something you said and you don't even remember saying it. 00:25:35.486 --> 00:25:46.026 On the day of Pentecost, they were saying things that they didn't know and understand, but God used their spoken word and he twisted up the people who didn't know. 00:25:46.026 --> 00:25:47.588 They had no clue what was going on. 00:25:47.588 --> 00:25:48.277 Oh, they're drunk. 00:25:48.497 --> 00:25:55.276 No, let me tell you something when you speak on behalf of God, don't worry about how it comes out. 00:25:55.276 --> 00:26:17.795 Don't worry about how you say it, because, with God's anointing as it flows through the air and it hits their ears, exactly what they need to hear is going to be what comes into their mind, because that's what the Spirit of God does, and we come to God for our healing. 00:26:17.795 --> 00:26:21.942 Then I said, lord, how long will this go on? 00:26:21.942 --> 00:26:33.278 Who has asked God that before Lord, where you at bro, about three days late? 00:26:33.278 --> 00:26:41.289 Because our time is not his time, our thoughts are not his thoughts, our ways are not his ways. 00:26:41.289 --> 00:26:51.068 That's why God wants us to release things to him, because if we don't, we'll mess it up. 00:26:51.068 --> 00:26:52.352 Anybody else like to control things. 00:26:52.352 --> 00:26:59.621 I like a schedule, and when things get me off of my schedule, I get an attitude how long will this go on, lord? 00:26:59.661 --> 00:27:07.971 And he replied until their towns are empty, until their houses are deserted and the whole country is a wasteland. 00:27:07.971 --> 00:27:18.115 Now see, this sounds like it's a negative thing, but when you miss 10 days, it's a blessing. 00:27:18.115 --> 00:27:24.775 It sounds like a negative thing that God is saying to let all their things be destroyed and be gone, because there's things in our life that we're not allowing God to destroy and get rid of, but we're asking him to build on it. 00:27:24.775 --> 00:27:30.007 We want God to be an addition to our home instead of a whole new construction. 00:27:30.007 --> 00:27:32.480 Oh, all right. 00:27:32.480 --> 00:27:50.443 And then, until the whole country is a wasteland, until the Lord has sent everyone away and the entire land of Israel lies deserted, even in a tenth, even in a remnant. 00:27:50.443 --> 00:27:54.951 If they survive, it will be invaded again and burned. 00:27:57.915 --> 00:28:01.866 God is tired of us leaving that little bit that he's been trying to get rid of in our hearts. 00:28:01.866 --> 00:28:05.394 God is tired of us leaving that little bit that he's been trying to get rid of in our hearts. 00:28:05.394 --> 00:28:25.095 He wants us to get rid of it, but as the terebinth, which is a tree that made turpentine, where an oak tree leaves a stump when it is cut down, so Israel's stump will be a holy seed. 00:28:25.095 --> 00:28:32.731 Today I'm looking at a stump. 00:28:32.731 --> 00:28:37.705 God has been doing a work in this church since its conception on this property. 00:28:40.696 --> 00:28:46.535 Now I want to ask you this, and this is a serious question I want you to think in your head. 00:28:46.535 --> 00:28:55.434 I don't want you to say it out loud, because I'll call you a liar From one to ten in your heart. 00:28:55.434 --> 00:28:56.457 How bad do you want revival? 00:28:56.457 --> 00:29:02.327 How bad do you want revival From one to ten? 00:29:02.327 --> 00:29:07.404 Now think about this Before revival, there's usually a drought. 00:29:07.404 --> 00:29:15.423 There's just like we read here in chapter six there is death, there is destruction. 00:29:15.423 --> 00:29:25.840 There is a great void to where God can get our attention again, because when we go through hard times and we go through seasons where we don't feel God, it's where we cry out to Him the most. 00:29:25.840 --> 00:29:27.340 I wish it wasn't that way. 00:29:27.340 --> 00:29:31.641 I wish we could always be in prayer and always be worshiping God. 00:29:31.641 --> 00:29:40.542 But it's not until we're hurt or we don't feel God or we don't see God that we start to really cry out and we get serious in our prayer time and ingesting the word of God. 00:29:40.542 --> 00:29:50.836 And that is when revival will begin to break out, when the people of God start calling on his name and we will put in the work it takes. 00:29:53.800 --> 00:29:57.346 We don't receive revival because the church people are lazy. 00:29:57.346 --> 00:30:00.190 Come on now. 00:30:00.190 --> 00:30:01.238 Come on now. 00:30:01.238 --> 00:30:14.835 If the devil can keep us busy with blessings, he can distract us from the divine destiny that God has for every person. 00:30:14.835 --> 00:30:40.601 Under the sound of my voice, we ask God to do things like we've seen years ago, but we won't do the sacrifice that they did, then, holy Spirit of God, break us when we realize and we. 00:30:40.954 --> 00:30:44.445 The Bible says that you need to confess with your mouth. 00:30:44.445 --> 00:31:00.605 Confess with your mouth, but here's the truth for anybody under the sound of my voice watching at home or people that you may know if they do not confess with their mouth and accept Jesus Christ as the Lord and savior, they will be going to a lake of fire. 00:31:00.605 --> 00:31:12.619 That's the truth and it doesn't change because of the culture. 00:31:12.619 --> 00:31:13.760 We have work to do. 00:31:13.760 --> 00:31:17.243 We stopped looking at people as needing a Savior and we just need to love them. 00:31:17.243 --> 00:31:24.351 We do need to love them, but we need to also show them what truth is and show them what real love is. 00:31:27.682 --> 00:31:29.170 Jesus sat with the sinners. 00:31:29.170 --> 00:31:34.987 He rebuked the Pharisees, the church people, because they were all high and mighty. 00:31:34.987 --> 00:31:37.275 The disciples they had to learn and be taught how to get their hands dirty. 00:31:37.275 --> 00:31:38.617 That it's not happening in the church. 00:31:38.617 --> 00:31:40.905 Most of the miracles they happened on the way to the synagogue. 00:31:40.905 --> 00:31:45.804 They happened on the way to somewhere. 00:31:45.804 --> 00:31:54.880 You may be broke, you may be imprisoned, but your miracle is on the way. 00:31:56.325 --> 00:31:56.546 Why? 00:31:56.546 --> 00:31:58.080 Because that's what God does. 00:31:58.080 --> 00:32:00.701 That's just who he is. 00:32:00.701 --> 00:32:04.584 Allow Him to be who he is in your life. 00:32:04.584 --> 00:32:07.000 What does that start with? 00:32:07.000 --> 00:32:16.230 That starts by saying God, everything in my life, set it on fire and burn it to the ground so that you can start making me new again in my heart. 00:32:18.234 --> 00:32:19.540 Pain runs deep. 00:32:20.174 --> 00:32:21.421 Hurt runs deep. 00:32:21.776 --> 00:32:23.183 Our sinful nature runs deep. 00:32:23.203 --> 00:32:24.269 Hurt runs deep. 00:32:24.289 --> 00:32:25.315 Our sinful nature runs deep. 00:32:25.315 --> 00:32:31.749 It has to be pulled out by the roots, burned and allow God to rebuild. 00:32:31.749 --> 00:32:39.261 But we have to be willing to submit our tongues to God. 00:32:39.261 --> 00:32:50.143 You know that's actually when I was raised in the Sunday God church, that was one of the keys that they would teach us to being filled with the Spirit, with the evidence of speaking in tongues. 00:32:50.143 --> 00:32:56.961 Is that the reason sometimes we don't have the power, we don't have this feeling, is because we will not submit our tongues. 00:32:56.961 --> 00:33:09.223 And you see, we've strayed from even talking about being filled with the holy ghost because we don't want to be out of control with our tongues. 00:33:10.506 --> 00:33:11.528 What if I look stupid? 00:33:11.528 --> 00:33:12.549 You will. 00:33:12.549 --> 00:33:16.304 What if I sound dumb? 00:33:16.304 --> 00:33:17.626 What if someone makes fun of me? 00:33:17.626 --> 00:33:24.175 They probably will, but they will never receive the power that you will if they have that attitude. 00:33:24.175 --> 00:33:31.027 Is everything that's coming out of your mouth honoring God? 00:33:31.027 --> 00:33:37.094 That should be the number one question on your mind Are the conversations you're having, the words you're speaking. 00:33:37.094 --> 00:33:37.895 Are they bringing life? 00:33:37.895 --> 00:33:39.038 Are they bringing death? 00:33:39.038 --> 00:33:50.095 Are you saying God, here I am, send me, purify my lips, put the coal on my lips, take away my shame, take away my hurt, take away my pain, cast out my sinful nature. 00:33:50.095 --> 00:33:56.922 In Jesus' name, everything that comes from your mouth should be honoring God.