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Sons of Thunder
What if the person you’re ready to write off becomes tomorrow’s testimony? We sit with the sting of rejection in Luke 9—when a Samaritan village shuts its doors and the disciples reach for the quickest solution: burn it all down. Then we follow the long arc of grace to Acts 8, where the same ground hosts a move of God, and John returns not with wrath, but with open hands and a prayer for the Spirit to fall.
We talk candidly about “Sons of Thunder” moments—the rush to justify anger as righteousness—and how Jesus redirects passion into mercy. An image of old barbed-wire fences anchors the conversation: God’s Word sets protective lines, yet love sometimes asks us to cross hard boundaries with patience and tenderness. We unpack what it means to “trespass in love,” expecting a few cuts yet refusing to let frustration lock another door in someone’s heart. Along the way, we name the everyday mission fields we often miss: the break room cynic, the slow checkout line, the neighbor who has heard our invite ten times and still says no.
There’s a challenge and a comfort here. Go to God’s throne before anyone else’s table. Trade the impulse to win a moment for the desire to win a soul. Sometimes you love from a distance until the Spirit sends you back; when that day comes, you return to lay hands, not lay waste. If God can turn Luke 9’s “no” into Acts 8’s revival, imagine what He can do with the hardened places in your world. Write “potential hope” on your heart and step over the fence with grace.
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Welcome to this episode of Beyond Sunday. I am your host, Pastor Lee Day, and I pastor Christ Family Outreach Church located in Amelia, Virginia. And today I have sitting with me at the table a brother in the Lord. He has been here before, but it's been a little while since he's been back on. Frankie, Brother Frankie Brown, how are you doing today, my good brother? I'm blessed to be here with you again, bro. Amen, brother. Doing it again in honor of the Lord. In the name of the Lord, bro. Amen. Folks, if you've got your Bibles with you, we're gonna begin in Luke chapter 9, verses 51 through 56. And this is what the text says. Luke 9, 51 through 56. When the days drew near for him, Jesus, to be taken up, he set his face to go to Jerusalem. And he sent messengers ahead of him who went and entered a village of the Samaritans to make preparations for him. But the people did not receive him because his face was set toward Jerusalem. And when his disciples, James and John, saw it, they said, Lord, do you want us to tell fire to come down from heaven and consume them? But he turned and rebuked them and they went on to another village. Brother Frankie, this village did not want to receive Jesus. The text makes that clear. So James and John were so upset about it, right? That they wanted to call fire down from heaven and destroy the entire place. So right out the gate, Brother Frankie, right out the gate, what are your thoughts on this?
SPEAKER_01:James and John is where I find myself really relating. I want to call fire down. Yeah. You know what I mean? Oh, we've all been there before, bro. Yep. And especially as growing in the Lord and stuff and all these things he's weeding in and out of our life, out of our soul, out of our spirit. Um, sometimes I still find myself getting confused of like, what am I doing? You know, I'll be you know, doing ministry, but then find my flesh rising up against a brother I may love because of something they made a said or said or done, or vice versa. Yeah. And you feel that fire, I want to call fire down, and sometimes I forget like Jesus came to save folks, man. And yeah, it's like, man, what am I what am I doing? You know, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:We set our mind towards destroying something or someone. But Jesus is there to save them and offer mercy, grace, and and and forgiveness. Yep. It's so true. And here's the thing about what James and John are doing, and here's the thing about what you do that you just mentioned, and what I'm guilty of as well. When we feel like we want to call fire down on someone, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna make a reason for it. We're gonna justify it. And we're gonna say, oh, well, well, it's our righteousness in Christ that makes us feel this way, right? Like those people shouldn't be doing this to me, or those people shouldn't be acting that way towards other people. And and we'll claim it in the name of righteousness, but yet all the while you see Jesus doing what he's doing here in the text, and he's like, no, he he rebukes James, James and John. That's right. He rebukes James and John, and he's like, no, that's that's not how we need to be acting. You know, that's not the thought process that we need to be having. Mark chapter 3, 17. We're told that Jesus gives James and John a nickname. Tell the people what it is, Brother Frankie. Hey, it's the Sons of Thunder. Sons of Thunder. You know, so so this nickname, Sons of Thunder, it it's kind of both good and bad. You know, they they get it because they've got some really great qualities and great traits. But then also those qualities and traits, when they're not harnessed and controlled and under the spirit of the Lord, they tend to veer them off path. Thus, them saying, God, can we, should we be calling down fire from heaven? Yeah, you know, to destroy not just some of the people, the entire city, you know, the entire town, the entire place. So, so this nickname Sons of Thunder, it tells of their passion, it tells of their intensity, uh, they they had boldness and a fervor in ministry as well. Again, all great things, all great traits, all great qualities, Brother Frankie, as long as they're harnessed correctly in the name of the Lord.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:You know, all great things.
SPEAKER_01:I'm thinking too, bro, it's just even for the listener for ourselves right now, like just asking God, like, what are some of our Sons of Thunder moments that we've had? You know what I mean? So good. Asking the Spirit just to illuminate that because if we revisit those Sons of Thunder's moments, I I believe we can go back and find where we where we missed the mark at and use that to actually hit the mark in the times to come.
SPEAKER_00:Nothing wrong with getting fired up, but what we won't what we don't want to do is call fire down. Right. We can get fired up without calling fire down. Yeah, you know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_01:I think it's important to note too that these brothers um they once was uh wanting to shake the dust off their feet when when when Christ told them that in the scriptures, you know? Yeah. But they went from trying to shake the dust off their feet to to turn the people into dust.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, that's right. Jesus told them, hey, if you go into a town and they do not accept you in my name, then just shake the dust off your feet, off your feet, off your sandals and and head on out to the next place. But these brothers want to turn people into dust now, you know? Yeah, man, they're ready to cook them into ashes. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? Isn't that something, bro? Isn't that something, Brother Frankie? Like, God will give us an instruction. And then we want to go 10 steps past the word that God gave us.
SPEAKER_01:And that's that that spiritual fervor, too, that that's unchecked, you know. Yeah. I believe that that helps elevate that to the next level, such as we see in the text right here. Yeah. Because they've been with Jesus for so long, you know, already. Spending every day with him. And here they are again.
SPEAKER_00:As we were praying before we came on the air, one of the things I kind of just seen like this this vision while we were praying of just an old field. And I can remember um old fields that I used to walk in or hunt in when I was younger. And the thing about old fields or old farmland, old properties, is that you see the old barbed wire fences that have been there since before we were born. That's right. You know, and oftentimes they're with an old cedar post and and it's and it's rotted or leaning over, or it's been wrapped around a cedar tree of some type, and and and you can see where the old barbed wire was. You can see where the line was that the farmer or the property owner did not wanting someone to cross or uh animals, livestock to cross. And how many times in life, you know, I look at it like the word is like that. God has laid down that line, he's laid down that property line that he does not want us to cross. And he'll even give us specific instructions on why not to cross it. But yet as as people, we justify, Brother Frankie, we justify why we want to take another step on the other side of that and thus create our own path into some pasture land or into some some hardwood property that we're not supposed to be in. And maybe some listeners out there right now are in some hard woods or they're in they're in some pasture land that they were never called to graze in. That's so good, bro. Never never ever called to be there. But the Sons of Thunder moment is what took them there. That's right. You know, they they were they were hyped up on one side, as they should be. You know, the Sons of Thunder, all these great qualities. But then they don't harness those qualities, and next thing you know it, they crossed the line. That's right. And that's exactly where James and John find themselves. Instead of what clearing the dust, shaking the dust from the sandals, you're so right, Brother Frankie. Now all of a sudden they're calling down fire to turn these people into ash. That's right, bro. The problem, the problem is their intensity clouded their vision. And we've all been there before. You know what I mean? Absolutely. Uh they're not seeing what Jesus wants to do because they're too busy thinking about what they want to do. And how many of us out there have been there before? Because I know I have. Brother Frankie, as the Sons of Thunder are so upset that they want to call fire down from heaven and kill everyone in the entire town. But Jesus, on the other hand, his heart is to save the town. And we're gonna get into that piece in just a moment. But how many times in our lives do we shut people out because they're not like us or they've they've made it clear that they don't believe what we believe, right? And so this is the part of the passage that shows a lack, it shows a lack of love and compassion for those who do not believe what they believed. So, Brother Frankie, the disciples were so quick to shut this entire town down, just straight destroy it because they didn't accept Jesus, that all of a sudden they're now unwilling to save anybody in the future. So they're willing to ruin any future opportunity of these people getting saved. So I wonder how many times we cancel out opportunities with others because we're too busy condemning them for their present actions.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, because uh verse 53 right there it says, but the people there did not welcome him because he was hit out, he was hidden for Jerusalem. I love that part, man. Like that's the rejection part right there, like you were just talking about, brother. Yeah. Getting fired up, you know, that that these people have opposed that. They have an opposition against them now. But rather than seeing them as like the future mission field, so to speak, they would just want to destroy the mission field. But they don't realize that. They don't they don't see that just yet. And I wonder how many times in our life have we destroyed a mission field simply because we had a disagreement with somebody, or we tried to present the gospel to somebody and they rejected it, and we felt we took it personally like they were rejecting us, you know? Yeah when they were when they were just rejecting the gospel, yeah, something that we fully have accepted.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:But rather than be patient and show Christ to them, even through the rejection, we just want to burn it down. That's so good.
SPEAKER_00:A mission field. Are we are we looking at people who reject the gospel? Are we looking at them as, well, they're they're condemned, they're done, or or rather, better yet, are we looking at them as you know what? That's that's my future mission field. That that that's my mission field right there. That's a fire perspective. Yeah, that that that's that's that's who I'm going out to win for the Lord right there. That's that's who I'm going to rescue. That that's that's a rescue story right there waiting to happen. Yes, it is. Rather than just, you know, shut the door on them and and and lock it, you know, three, four times. You ever seen those lock those doors that got like just a pile of locks? Oh, like eight different types of locks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So so rather than just shut the door and and just strap all those locks and say, Well, I'm never going through that door again, or they're never coming through that. You know, they they said no. I mean, think about how many times we said no. Amen. You know, like how quick we are to forget. Like, how many times did we say no before we accepted Christ? We would done lock doors too. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Those eight different types of locks. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:They used to be on the inside of us, man. And and how many times do we help people lock a door? That's right. You know what I mean? By our own behavior. And they look at that and they say, man, if that's a Christian, I don't want to be like that. Door lock. Door lock. Door lock. You know what I mean? Like, how many times do we help other people lock doors based off of our attitude at the gas pump at the gas station? Based off our attitude uh at the grocery store because someone in front of us has taken so long. You know what I mean? Like, how many times do we help people lock doors? And these are our mission field moments. These are literal mission field opportunities. You know, there's nothing wrong with getting on a plane and going all across the world uh to be missionaries. We're called to do that. Yeah. But we cannot, we cannot forget the fact that as we're flying over uh uh nations and and and states to go to mission fields, um, as we're going there, we're we're also leaving mission fields. Yeah. You know, so so there's a mission field right here where we live at. Yeah. That the people that we constantly see, they're the mission field that we should be hitting as well.
SPEAKER_01:Man, I'm I'm I'm sitting here thinking too, bro, as you're as you're saying all that, going back to the illustration that you gave us a beautiful imagery with your words about that old field, old pasture, pasture with um with fences and bob wire fences and stuff like that. Yeah. Man, if we're gonna if we're gonna trespass over a fence, man, let it let it be us trespassing over somebody with a hardened heart, like that mission field, you know. Start seeing them like that and trespass in love. Like let's start trespassing in patience. Yeah, let's let's start trespassing with with understanding, you know, yeah and finding that that that common ground where we can actually establish a relationship so that our impact can actually make it can hit his mark, man. Yeah. Amen. Amen.
SPEAKER_00:When you say that, I think about a person in a break room at a job somewhere or whatever, uh, and and he's hardened to the gospel, right? But you know what? I'm gonna go in there today and I'm gonna love that man. Yeah, and I'm gonna trespass over the boundary that he's clearly set, that he doesn't want to hear the gospel from my mouth anymore. Yeah. I'm gonna trespass over that hardened boundary, that hardened heart, and I'm gonna go in there and I'm gonna give that man love today, and I'm gonna love him the way Jesus wants me to love him. So I'm gonna trespass into that mission field.
SPEAKER_01:And look, I'm gonna just be honest too. I I done done my trespassing right. I done crossed some old barwire fences, get to that nice pond, you know what I'm saying? And look, let's just be honest. When you trespass and cross over a fence, you're gonna get cut.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:You you that old barwire still can cut you, man. It can. And so when we when we trespass in in love in the in the mission field that's with the heart and hearts and stuff, like just beware. Like, you're gonna get cut, but it's gonna be worth it. Yeah, God's gonna heal them wounds, man.
SPEAKER_00:It's not always gonna be easy, is it?
SPEAKER_01:It's a greater purpose there. So just it just have that expectation. Yeah. As you trespass in love.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. I think I think as even as we say this, I think about like missionaries that go into places like China, or they they go into places where where they're not welcome. Yeah, they're they're crossing lines, they're crossing borders where the where the government, the political system does not want them in there, but it doesn't keep them from crossing the line in hopes that they're gonna bring Jesus into somebody's life. Amen, bro. And then you look at it like back to this guy at let's just say at somebody's job with that hardened heart. It's like, hey man, I'm gonna I'm gonna cross this boundary, I'm gonna cross this line, and I'm gonna offer you the love of Jesus. And I'm doing this in faith. I'm stepping into this mission field in faith, Brother Frankie, believing that when this guy turns and accepts a softened heart, that I'm gonna look at him and say, Come follow me. I know the way back to safer pasture. Yeah, I know the way back to safer ground. Yeah, there's a path that I took to get to you. Come on, come with me. We're going back. That's right. So good. Praise God for that. Brother Frankie, there's a change in the tide, so to speak, because this town that the disciples wanted to burn down, eventually, it's got a revival going on with inside of it. Praise God. You know what I mean? Acts chapter 8, friends. If you don't know it, Acts chapter 8, 14 through 17 speaks of this town. This town that it once rejected Jesus himself. This town that James and John asked Jesus if they could call fire down from heaven and destroy all of them. This town that James and John wanted to give up on, this this, as Brother Frankie called it, this mission field opportunity that James and John just wanted to forsake and have nothing to do with. This town in Acts 8, 14 through 17 says this. Now, when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent to them Peter and John, who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit, for he had not yet fallen on any of them, but they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Then they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit. So, Brother Frankie, the atmosphere had changed completely.
SPEAKER_01:Completely, man. And look, let's touch on this for a second, bro, before we before we move forward. Like, this this is the same John going back, right? Yeah. Like it was James and John, now it's Peter and John going back. Yeah. So, I mean, you can only imagine as a as once a son of thunder, right? Yeah. Like he's being sent back to the town that he wanted to call the people, call fire down on the people, turn them in ash, and now he's going to lay hands on them so that they can receive the spirit. And praise God, like if he did it then, and as we're reading in Acts 8 and Luke 9, like he can do it again. Praise God, right? That's right, brother. So he can do it in our he can do it when we cross these barwire fences. So good. And there's gonna be scars in them trees, too. Like, like you were talking about back to that. Man, that image is so beautiful, bro. But even the trees bury the the wounds and the scars of having that fence wrapped around it. And and that's just marks, man, of boundaries that that were kept for a reason, but also boundaries that need to be crossed at some point or another. Otherwise, that fence would have permanently stayed. And I'm just believing by faith right now, bro, that that it's some boundaries being torn down. Amen, bro. And it's some crossing to take place. Amen.
SPEAKER_00:And and I'm hoping that by the readers listening to what Acts chapter 8 has to offer, that we understand that there's some there's some mission field, there's some ground that we got to go back and revisit for some people that we shut the door and locked so that it could not open. Well, they rejected going to church. I'm not gonna invite him anymore. I've asked them 30 times already, and you know, they they I've just given up on them because they ain't coming back. Like that's the mission field. That's the mission field we got to get back onto right there. Yeah. You know, these these these guys are going back to a place that at one time um they wanna they want to call call fire down as the disciples on onto these people. And you're right, brother Frankie. You just mentioned the scripture says that now they're laying hands.
SPEAKER_01:Laying hands, bro.
SPEAKER_00:They're laying hands and praying for these same people to receive the gift of the Holy Spirit, bro.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, it's so huge. And I wonder what Peter's thinking, too, man, as he's as he's going out there with John, you know, walking out with that brother, you know, that he's known in this town, like want to call, you know what I'm saying? But he's walking faithfully with him to this town because he knows, man, that laying hands on and them receiving the spirit is so much greater than the Son of Thunder moment. Yeah, yeah. John, it's it's not about your reputation. Uh uh. It's all about Christ. And I'm right here with you, bro. We're gonna we're gonna walk back in there. We're gonna walk back in there together. Because we want to see that these people, we want to see the word active and alive. Yeah, they done received the word, bro. Yeah, that's powerful.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, they've been baptized, been baptized. Yeah, so so what a humbling moment for John. He yeah, John's getting ready to come back into Samaria and see the same people that he wanted to destroy, Brother Frank. The same people that he wanted to call fire down on and just burn up to a lot of people. And why would that change you, bro? Yeah, bro. Oh, that change you. The same, the same people. And now when he walks into this this town of Samaria, he's gonna see these people rejoicing because they had salvation. This is the same people that rejected Jesus. Yes. But now they're rejoicing. I I think, Brother Frankie, I think that we'd be we'd all be much better off if we could see like John ended up having the opportunity to see. When we when we look at our enemies, we should try and see the potential hope that God would reveal Himself to them and that they would choose salvation through Jesus Christ. Yeah. The potential hope. And and and and man, if you're taking notes out there, or even if you're not, just write those two words across across your heart. The potential hope. So when you see that hardened man at work today, when you see that hardened lady at work today, think about the potential hope that's there. Think about that mission field and what it could look like.
SPEAKER_01:Hey, brother, I want to ask you a question. In all your years of experience, you know, pastoring and doing counseling and stuff like that. In your opinion, what what what would it look like if people would truly set their face towards like Jerusalem, so to speak, like the peace part of it, um, or even set up. Their face towards Jesus.
SPEAKER_00:Man, that's a great question. I noticed without a shadow of a doubt, there would be a lot less people coming for counsel. One of the things that I find people are most guilty of is when they when they come for some help in their marriage, or when they come for help with their children, or when they come with an offense that's happened from someone within the church, maybe even the pastor, who knows? One of the things that I find people are most guilty of, I will say, okay, so you guys have scheduled a time with me, so now we're here to talk. But here's my question: Have you gone to God about this yet?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:And Frankie, I'm just here to tell you, the majority of the time, the answer is, well, no, we haven't. We we just came to seek your counsel. And it's like, well, wait a minute. You know, God knows far greater than I do. And as saved people, his Holy Spirit is living inside the both of you. Amen. So it would be wise if before you even came to the table, if you approach the throne. Amen, man. Too many people come to the table, Frankie, and haven't even approached the throne. They're bringing an issue to my table, right? Yeah. And they haven't even placed that issue at the feet of Jesus. And so I think far too often we look at man to fix problems when the whole time, it's just like Jesus here in the text, you know, he's like, no, no, I got, I got, I got plans for this. I got plans for this. Don't don't don't burn it down yet. You know, like don't don't don't burn it down yet. There's a lot of people in this place called Samaria that's getting ready to rejoice in my name. There's a lot of people out here that's getting ready to get baptized. Yeah. There's a lot of people out here getting ready to see the gift of the Holy Spirit. Because guess what? John, you want to burn it down right now, but you don't see what I see. I see that I'm gonna send you back. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? And maybe that's a word, maybe that's a word, man. I just feel the anointing right now at this table, Brother Frankie. Maybe that's a word for some people listening out there right now that you need to be told that Jesus is gonna send you back. Jesus is gonna send you back into somebody's life. Jesus is gonna send you back to invite that person to church again. Jesus is gonna send you back to pray over those people or pray for those people. Jesus is gonna send you back to offer salvation and hope again. Jesus is gonna send you back to give your testimony again. That's right, again. Just as John had to come back. Because John came back, bro. John didn't come back. I really believe this. John didn't come back just laying hands on so that people could receive the Holy Spirit. I believe John came back, and in the process of laying hands on people, I believe John's in there preaching. I believe John's teaching. I believe John's testifying. Yeah, I believe John is telling people about what he's getting ready to do as he lays hands on them. I believe that John is explaining a lot of things, Brother Frankie. Yeah. And who knows, man? Maybe, maybe John is even weeping, sharing his testimony because we don't know that he is or isn't. But but you have to think. I know, I know I would have, if I was going back, I would be asking for forgiveness, man. I would be asking these people and sharing the story with them. Absolutely. I was just wanting my Lord to rain down fire from heaven and destroy you all. But here, now you're my brother. Yeah, now you're my sister, and I need to repent and ask y'all to forgive me. So, so Jesus says, No, no, John, you're going back.
SPEAKER_01:Going back, bro.
SPEAKER_00:There's a mission, there's a mission field out there, and you cross that line. You walked away from it, but but you're going back across that fence. Yes, sir. You're going back over that barbed wire. You can go back under that bob wire. You're going back through there, you're going back to that town because there's some unfinished, unsettled business that you got to go back there and take care of. You're going back.
SPEAKER_01:Amen. And that fence cuts both ways. You get you're getting cut when you when you trespass, and then when you come back and get sent back again, it's cutting both ways. You know what I'm saying? But it's cutting down, it's a different kind of cutting. But even with John going back, bro, as you're saying all this, man, I'm just seeing like, I'm seeing fathers and sons, um, fathers and wives coming, getting hands laid on them, receiving the Spirit. I'm seeing children like witnessing this, families weeping, brothers being um gained to the Lord, and just this beautiful like vision of once looked like Sodom and Gomorrah, like in the hearts and minds of God, of God's disciples. Now I'm seeing this beautiful family just like branch off like a living tree. Amen. And it's just and it's just nothing, the enemy can't stop that, bro. Amen. That's right. What's happening in Samaria at this time, the enemy can't stop, and that's what the enemy fears the most, which is why he wants us, he wants us trespassing and hate. He wants us trespassing and all those different things that our flesh wants, you know? Yeah. But he don't want you trespassing in love and stuff because when the mission field starts receiving Christ, bro, that's when the enemy starts getting slain. Yeah. He can't stand that, bro.
SPEAKER_00:Amen, bro. Amen. Yeah. When when we cross that line into that mission field to talk to that guy at the at the break room or what have you, he wants us operating. The enemy wants us operating in the same spirit that that that guy is under. Yeah. And so when we go to, when we go to witness to him or minister to that man, then and he gets grouchy, then all of a sudden the enemy wants us to get grouchy back. You know, if he's angry, he wants us to be angry and snap back. If he snaps, he wants us to snap back. But we can't do that. Okay, bro. We gotta operate in the same gifts of the Holy Spirit, the same fruits of the Holy Spirit. We gotta take with us across that line what we had before we crossed the line. And that's the love of Jesus. Amen, bro. Brother Frankie, how how grateful John must have been to have had the opportunity to look at these people and say, Man, I'm so glad Jesus did not let me call fire down from heaven and destroy these people. I'm just gonna say, God's ways are better than our ways. Amen. And in in Isaiah 55, 8 through 9, God says, For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. So, Brother Frankie, I think we would all be better off to ask God to help us see people as he sees them. Let it be so. Amen, brother. In Jesus' name, bro. Amen. I I I think this check out the difference between man's way of thinking and God's. And here it is, brother Frankie. Man's way would have destroyed the entire town. Nothing left. Nothing left. No life left at all.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:But God's way saved the entire town. Amen, bro. I mean, check that out.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:That's why it's so important to take it to God's feet rather than man's table. That's right. Go first to the throne room and not to the table of man.
SPEAKER_01:Amen. And God's way is so is so personal too. Like they just wanted to be able to call down fire, right? And be done with them. Like, just let me quickly wash my hands. Yeah. But Jesus sends them back to lay hands on, bro. Yeah. And and God's God's ways are personal and they're so sweet. So, so sweet. I just wonder who he's sending us back to by faith.
SPEAKER_00:Brother Frankie, you've got a personal testimony on this as far as wanting to call fire down and it not happening. And then seeing promise on the other side of the line. Do you want to share that with Elizabeth?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I would love to, bro. Go ahead, brother. Yeah, so everybody, man, like my old man and myself, man. We there's a lot of fire between us, a lot of calling fire down in the past. And um, my dad, he's love my dad, man. He's he's had his struggles. He's he's he's battled a lot of addictions and stuff. But man, um, just recently, after being incarcerated for a short amount of time, he got out and he started going to church three times a week, man. And he hadn't praise God. Bro, he hadn't stepped foot in a church in almost 17 years.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And uh, and and although there's no contact between us right now, I I've been praying for my father, man. And I'm just here to tell the listeners, man. I'm just here to tell somebody today that won't he do it. Yeah won't Jesus do it, man. Yes, he will, bro. You go from sons of thunders, bro, to to apostles of love, disciples of love. And and sometimes, I'm gonna just be honest with with with whoever's hearing this, sometimes you gotta love differently. Sometimes you gotta you gotta choose to love from a distance before you can ever be sent back. And until you learn how to love from a distance, I don't believe Jesus is gonna send you back because when he sends you back, then you gotta lay hands. See, if you if you're not ready to lay hands on, then you need to learn how to love from a distance first. But learn how to love from a distance, and he'll send you back into that mission field to lay hands. And I just, man, I look forward, bro. I meditate in my heart of just embracing my dad again. Yeah. Knowing that that the word of God, knowing that him being back in the body, in a body of believers for the first time in his life, I know it's changing him. Yeah. I talked to another pastor that that's been helping my dad a lot, and he said, Frankie, you wouldn't even believe the change. He said, Frankie, if if the rest of the believers in this church had the spiritual fervor to get to know Jesus like your dad is right now, he said, this church would be transformed. And I said, Praise God. And that just really hit my heart too, because I'm like, look, I'm kind of looking at my dad now, like, dad, I want that first type of love that he's got right now. I want that first love experience back in my life. And uh in a in an odd way, I'm like kind of like looking up to my dad in that in that in that regard, when a long time I looked down on him, man. And yeah, I'm just here to tell you, man, that God can do it. Amen.
SPEAKER_00:He can do it, bro. Won't he do it? Won't he do it? Won't he do it? Let's pray. Yeah, Father, I'm thankful for every person that has tuned into this episode to receive your word. Thank you, Lord. Father, I thank you for the opportunity to share your truth. And I pray in the name of the blood of Jesus that people have been ministered to today, that they would be encouraged to maybe go back to some old ground. They've been encouraged to unlock the doors that they've shut and that they've they've bolted locked. They've bolted those locks so that so that someone couldn't get through and maybe hurt them again, wound them again by their rejection. Lord, I pray in the name of the blood of Jesus that they would go back to some old ground and they would claim in the name of Jesus lost souls, lost lives, and they would bring them back on the solid ground. Yes, Lord. And that it would all be for your glory. Father, those people that have rejected truth, those people that have rejected invites to church, those people that once rejected personal prayer right there on the spot. I pray, Father, that we go back, that we go back into those towns. Yes, Lord. That we go back into those lives, that we go back and say, Yeah, it's been a while since you've seen me, but I'm back offering hope yet again. Yes. Because you are my mission field. You are my mission field today. And we ask all this in the name and the mighty, powerful cleansing, washing blood of our risen Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and all God's people said. Amen. Amen and amen. Brother Frankie, as always, thank you for coming, brother. It's been a blessing having you at this table. Yeah, God bless, man. Love you, God bless you, bro. Love you, brother. Until next time, we'll be on Sunday. Stay in the truth, stay in prayer. God bless everyone.
