Beloved Identity Over Performance

You can grow up around the power of God and still never feel safe in the love of God. That tension drives this message from Mark, a blend of honest storytelling and clear Bible teaching that confronts performance-based faith and replaces it with beloved identity. We talk about what it means to hear the Father’s pleasure before you do anything “successful”, and why that one shift rewires how you pray, repent, worship, and lead.

We spend time in Romans 4 and Psalm 32 to unpack righteousness as God’s declaration, not a reward for spiritual effort. When sin is removed instead of merely covered, fear loses its grip. Mark also names the hidden damage of fear-based religion: rapture anxiety, fragile salvation, and the kind of church culture that trains people to grind for approval. The goal isn’t to mock the past, but to heal it with a better gospel rooted in grace.

Then we step into David’s story as a blueprint for a “Tabernacle of David” people, believers so anchored in love that they host presence and give others access to it. David’s rejection, private victories over the lion and the bear, and his refusal to retaliate as king become a challenge to modern Christianity: our faith is proven by how we love, especially toward enemies. If you’re hungry for a church culture marked by presence, honor, and family across politics, race, and preference, this conversation will stretch you in the best way.

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Transcript

Awkward Travel Story Opens The Night

SPEAKER_01 0:00

The world would I want to preach after that? You need to hear from her. I need to hear from her. Oh man. What an amazing time and opportunity. Tim, Nicole, your family. Thank you all so much for trusting me to come with Jimmy. I know the sign says Jimmy and Tina. I'm no Tina. I'm just going to tell you right now, there ain't nothing Tina about me.

SPEAKER_02 0:24

I'd rather sleep with her than he.

SPEAKER_01 0:26

Yeah. Jimmy, Jimmy, one time when we were traveling together, this is why I stopped traveling with him. I'm going to tell you why. I'm going to tell you why I took 10 years off from traveling with Jimmy. Jimmy got up one time in a service in Louisiana.

SPEAKER_02 0:42

I did.

SPEAKER_01 0:45

And he about started a rumor that about ruined us. Keep those pads playing because this is awkward, okay? So just keep it going. I feel more anointed when you play. He gets up there and he goes, I'm going to tell you right now, he said, I've been sleeping with Mark for two nights.

SPEAKER_02 1:27

Exposed it all.

Honor And A Family Mindset

SPEAKER_01 1:30

So to clarify, Jimmy and I are staying in an Airbnb together, but we are not sleeping together. We have our own rooms, and it's we're both happily married. My name is Mark, not Tina. Oh man, it's an honor to be here with you. That's great. Well, we're we're we are family. You don't know it yet. I always tell people, I said, there um the way that I look at the kingdom now is there are people who have forgotten or they just don't know it yet that we're we're family.

SPEAKER_02 2:07

Amen.

SPEAKER_01 2:08

And um and Jimmy has told me about you guys for a while, and he loves your pastor, he loves their family, he loves this congregation, and I feel like I've heard about you way before I ever got here. I knew about you before I ever got here, and uh, I just want to honor you all for taking a path less traveled. You are in a city and in a region that is known for personalities, that's known for ministries, um, but very few that are known for presence and love. Just smile at me. It'll go by faster if you just smile when I say things like that. Just know I have a good heart about it. Um But for those of you that don't know me, I'll give I I gave a little bit of my backstory, but I kind of got thrown, I feel like I got thrown behind the pulpit before I was saved.

unknown 3:12

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 3:12

If I'm being honest. I grew up in a pastor's home. Um, grew up in a very legalistic Pentecostal church. Um we had people that thought gossiping and speaking in tongues were the same thing. Um that's the kind of church I grew up in.

SPEAKER_02 3:30

And um that's a problem, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 3:36

And that's probably why some of you all have changed churches before, right? Um, but I grew up in really strong Pentecostal legalism. And uh but I I'm but I also am thankful because in that I saw the power of God. I saw miracles. I uh my dad moved in a gift of the working of miracles, and I literally at the age of five was the first time I watched a quadruplelegic get lifted up out of a wheelchair. I watched my dad pick him up out of the wheelchair, kick the wheelchair, and then them stand and walk. I like I grew up, I don't, Jimmy and I were talking about this on the way over here. I don't ever remember being in church without the power of God.

SPEAKER_02 4:18

That's right.

SPEAKER_01 4:20

But let me tell you something. The power of God is not enough to sustain believers. The song that just keeps penetrating my heart for the past four months is pour out your power and love as we sing holy, holy, holy. And I feel like many of us know his power. Very few of us knew his love. And when you know power and you don't know love, most of us in the room, especially if you grew up in the church in this region, you were taught to perform until you got anointed enough to get approved by God. And I'm here to tell you that if you want to know the genesis of how God feels about you, you look no further than the Son.

SPEAKER_00 5:12

Come on.

SPEAKER_01 5:14

And before Jesus ever performed a miracle, before Jesus ever turned water into wine, before Jesus had ever spoken a sermon, before there was any public evidence that he was the Messiah, when John baptized him, the heaven split open and the Spirit of God descended like a dove, rested upon him, and then the voice of the Father spoke and said, This is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased. What are you pleased about, Father, if he's not done anything? Listen, when my sons, I have four kids. We had we had a COVID baby. COVID was good to us. We had we we we got shut in, and then number four came, boom, right out the gate. My wife and I believe in the touch and agree ministry. If you need any explanation on that, you can talk to Jimmy and Tim, Tim right after service. No, but um, we got four kids, but you know what's amazing is my kids come out the womb. Uh and maybe your kids are different. Now, I will say that we didn't have babies, we had toddlers. I feel like my first kid came out with a driver's license. They were massive. Like not like Ezekiel was 9'12 and 20, he was nine pounds, 12 ounces, 22 inches long. I'm like, so we had two-year-olds, but um, when my children came out of the womb, there was a love worth dying for.

SPEAKER_00 7:03

Yeah.

Ministry Platforms And Real Friendship

SPEAKER_01 7:05

Before they could ever do anything, yeah, they couldn't say my name. They had nothing to offer me. But listen, all they had to offer me was dirty diapers. Sleepless nights. Is anybody hearing me? Dirty diapers, sleepless nights, and yet in dirty diapers and sleepless nights, there was nothing that could change a heart of love and affection for my children. They didn't have to do anything to get that. So if that's if here let me say it this way if we being evil know how to give good gifts or give good things to our children, how much more? Come on, man. How much more will our heavenly father, one translation says, what one writer says, give the Holy Spirit to them that ask. But uh there's another translation that says, give good things to them that ask. And so if the father's heart, if if if we who are still being transformed to become like him, didn't have to do anything to have a love and an affection, and affection for our children come out of us, then just imagine how the father feels about us. But again, we have to go through a reprogramming because many of you were taught to earn, grind, do better, do more, try harder, another 21-day fast. Can I just tell it to you plain? It's all a load of crap. How could you say that? Well, Paul said a lot worse. Paul said, I count it all as dung. That is the he that is the Greek word scubula, which means S-H-I-T. Smile at me real fast. He's a cuss. Is he a cussing preacher? Well, I don't know. You never know. But I really feel today um that that this is the like I said, I've traveled the past 10 years and and don't don't worry, it's not been 10 years since I've preached. I preach every week at union. Pastor Tim was trying to set y'all up. You're like, oh God. I had a I had an old mentor of mine that I first worked with for four years. His name was Dr. T. L. Lowry. And the first time he introduced me to preach for him, he said, now, Mark, and this is how he talked, now, Mark, a sermon doesn't have to be, or a sermon that is eternal doesn't have to be everlasting. So I learned years ago, hey brother, just get with it and when God's ready to move, get out of the way. So um, but Jimmy, thank you, man, for bringing me with you on this trip. And Jimmy and Tina are some of the greatest people on the planet. I know you know that. Um, but Jimmy and Tina, when we were literally, um, when I was burning up the roads, when I was leading a very large ministry in Cleveland, Tennessee, um, and guys, I maybe you've never been in these shoes before, but everybody thinks that they want those platforms. Everybody thinks they want that type of ministry. And can I tell you, you can be surrounded by thousands of people and be lonely. And you can literally have what everybody else thinks is ministry success. But let me tell you something: ministry success will never fulfill what family can.

SPEAKER_02 11:07

Amen.

SPEAKER_01 11:08

And one of the greatest things, man. I was used to um when when you read the Song of Solomon, this is not what I'm gonna talk about, but you need to get to know me because we're in this awkward phase of our first blind date here. So you gotta know if you're gonna want to stick around, give me an opportunity to leave. Um, you like the appetizer? Okay, let's move on then. Um I was used to people calling me and saying, Mark, we want you to come in, preach our conference, and they would literally pick me up from the airport, take me to my room, pick me up for service, take me back to my room. And what I realized after 10, like 10 years of doing this is I realized there were people that love my gift, and there was a very small percentage of people that love me. And so one day I get this email from this guy in Ohio who said, Man, I saw you preaching on TBN. That was his first mistake. He saw me preaching on TBN. Okay, I'm gonna edit myself. I'm not gonna go any further on that. But that's and that was the day I was in. And he was seeing, he saw me on TBN. He said, he told me about his pastor, saying that we should be, we should be connected. And so this email conversation started, and then um I got invited to preach an old Eddie James shift conference. And I you man, like literally, me and Jimmy preached those for three years. Eddie James traveled all, he he pulled us all over the country for about three years, and uh, we did not ride on his bus. I just want to tell you that seven 7,500 people that lived on that bus, Jimmy and I got our own car for all of that. Um we we were sleeping together, and we didn't didn't participate in all that. Um but um I remember I was in Cleveland, Tennessee, where I was pastoring, and I was preaching a conference for Eddie that weekend in Atlanta, and I and this guy that had been emailing me, I heard that Eddie connected with you somehow, and I guess he helped you launch Overtaken in the very early days. Like he came in and did your first service. And so I found out that this guy was preaching on a morning session, and I heard the Holy Spirit say, You better leave this office right now, you better drive to Atlanta today, and you need to hear him. So that was in the morning. That was like seven in the morning. I get in my car and I drive straight to Atlanta straight and got there just in time to hear start hearing him preach. And when I heard him, I thought, this guy is insane. Like, you know Jimmy now. I knew Jimmy back then, and Jimmy was hostile for the gospel. I watched Jimmy pull a chair out one time that was bolted to the floor. That's a true story. That's a true story. I watched the concrete crack and him pull up the chair, and I was like, wild. And I was like, man, I knew in that moment, somehow, some way, um, there was something in him and something in me. I knew there was a connection, but I didn't quite know what that was gonna look like. Jimmy and I exchanged numbers really quickly in that gathering, and then I get another, I think it was a call or text, hey man, I want you to come to Ohio. So he set me up. I'm busy in that season, I'm very busy in that season of my life. Jimmy goes, I want you to fly in on Thursday, and man, we're gonna go Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and we're just gonna light it up. And I'm like, I don't know who really knows who he is. I don't know anything about his church, but I'm gonna go. And so I get off the plane, and I'm like, all right, so we're what what time service starting? He said, We're not going to church. What? We're not going to church, bro. The deal is I get off the plane, we go to do church. I was so used to being used, I didn't know how to be loved. And you know what we did that first night? I get into my hotel room, I have Cleveland Indians gear, a jacket, and they're talking to me about you're about to taste the greatest thing you ever tasted in your life: Stadium mustard. I'll be honest with you, when I heard the stadium mustard part, it didn't really raise the level of expectation in my heart. But they were like, man, we just wanted to fly you in a day early, take you to an Indians game, and just let you know, man, we care about you, not just your ministry.

SPEAKER_02 16:08

Yeah, come on, Lori. That's real.

SPEAKER_01 16:12

And we've been friends ever since. And when I was just like overwhelmed by life and ministry, Jimmy and Tina would fly in and drive to our conferences where we were hosting thousands of people. And man, just having them in the room, I would leave the platform, leave the service, and we go eat at my favorite Asian Asian restaurant, Full Lines. Oh, thank you, Jesus. Well, said it, I felt it. Um, and we would go eat, and I knew that when this conference was over, people might follow me on Facebook, but these people would do life with me. Yeah. And um, that changed everything. So I want to honor Tim and his wife and his family, but also I want to honor Jimmy and Tina for loving the Castos the way that we do. And we know the love of God the way we do because of how they've treated us. So as a congregation, let's let these leaders know how much we appreciate them and who they are in the kingdom. The big deal. I won't do you like Jimmy does. Now, I love that you're playing, but um, you don't have to if you don't want to, okay? Um, maybe I'll call you up in a little bit, maybe we can hit them with a little Benny Hen flow or something like that. Raise your hands, precious people. Hallelujah. Thank you, man. Hey, let's give it up for this man playing all weekend for um that's good. What in the world?

SPEAKER_02 17:56

They're still Lord Is it you?

Righteousness Apart From Works

SPEAKER_01 18:06

All right, so it sounds so good. I don't want I don't even know what to do. I just want to bask. Get a sun tan, an S-O-N tan. All right, I'm done being stupid. Okay, all right. I love to laugh. All right, so let's open our Bibles to Romans chapter 4. Um, honestly, you could turn anywhere. I'll probably be there in a minute. Um uh, but let's go to Romans 4. I want to read this passage to you. I feel like Jimmy really opened the door for us last night to talk about devotion and honor and the life of David, and he said some things that really provoked some stuff in my heart. And I want to just take the next few moments. I see a clock back here. He said I could go as long as I wanted, as long as I didn't teach you what I believe about end times. And so um that's what we that's what we're gonna do. That's what we're gonna do. And um, and as I've been in work worship with you guys for the past couple of days, I mean, if you guys can eat goldfish for communion, you can handle some stuff, right? Um, which by the way, excellent joy. Uh, because I love I just that extra cheesy, if you could just get a little spice on it, maybe next time. Brother, Jesus died for Hispanics too, so you throw a little spice on it, man. Throw a little flavor on it.

SPEAKER_02 19:36

Taco every day.

SPEAKER_01 19:37

Taco every day. I believe that. Um I feel like the Lord's showing me some things about some about this house and even some people that are in the room, and so we'll just kind of see how this lands. But he said I could take as long as I want. I'm not going to do that. I'm going to do what he tells me to do, and when he's done, we'll be done, okay? Um, but I am going to be respectful of your time because I like to eat too. Um, amen. So Ephesians chap or Ephesians 4, Romans 4, verse 6, and I'm going to read this out of the Passion Translation. So if you're a KJV only person, get over it. Here we go. Even King David himself speaks to us regarding the complete wholeness that comes inside of person when God's powerful declaration of righteousness is heard over our life. Apart from our works, God's work is enough. Oh, I love that. I'm gonna read that one more time. Apart from our works, God's work is enough. And here's what David says. You ready? This is actually a quote from Psalm 32. David says, What happy fulfillment is ahead for those whose rebellion has been forgiven and whose sins are covered by blood. I want to stop right there. I'm gonna read the rest of it in just a second. I'm gonna stop right there because we need to make a correction here. David is teaching us, or David, he's quoting David from Psalm 32, and in those days, sins were covered by the blood of bulls and goats. The difference that we have from David is David's sins are covered, ours are removed. Come on. Come on, man. Are you an audience participation church? Um, or at least just give me a Baptist nod, just like, well, that's good right there, you know. Yeah, praise God. Even if you don't agree, just just go like this.

unknown 21:59

I have

SPEAKER_01 22:00

A tendency at leaning towards people who disagree with me, so don't make me come back there. No, I'm kidding. So, so so sins are not covered, sins are removed, and where are they removed to? They just don't disappear, do they? Well, they get cast into the sea of forgivefulness, never to be remembered again. And then David says in verse 8, what happy progress, I love this, comes to them when they hear the Lord speak over them. I will never hold your sins against you. Come on, man. That's what is the declaration of righteousness? The declaration of righteousness is God does not just forgive sins. Jacob, what are you doing? Jimmy said, turn it off. Okay, fine. Whatever. Um turn it off. It's fine. It's fine. I'm just teasing y'all. I'm giving you a hard time. All right. The declaration of righteousness is not Jesus just forgives sins. Right? But he so removes them that he says, and on top of him being omniscient, which means he knows all things, he chooses to see you and I exclusively through the lens of Jesus, which means if he's seeing you exclusively through the lens of Jesus, then he can never hold your sins against you. How can he hold something that he has removed? And here's the crazy part. This is David speaking to us 14 generations before Christ. David has tapped into a grace that allows him to exit the old covenant and start tasting New Testament realities. The problem in the American church is that many of us are living like Old Testament saints in a New Testament church. And so and most of you in the room today, you are more religious than the Jews. Wow. I didn't expect that. Woo!

SPEAKER_02 24:20

Pang on What do I mean by that?

Fear Based Faith And Trauma

SPEAKER_01 24:24

The Jews believed that they could go all year, live their life, mess up, make mistakes, and they could wait for the Day of Atonement. And they would buy an animal, bring it to the priest, give the animal over to the priest. The priest then sacrifices the animal, and then the priest then goes into the Holy of Holies on their behalf. And if he makes it back out alive, they go, We're good for another year. Come on, boys, let's go to the bar. I mean, like that's how they lived. And you and I, we have prayed the sinner's prayer every day of our life. Don't lie to me. I know because I grew up like you. Every day we pray this prayer. Lord, forgive me of my sins, the ones I know I did, and even the ones I don't even know about. Come on. Uh-huh. Now see the truth is starting to come out. You grew up just like me, where you were taught that you had to pray the sinner's prayer every single day. And then your parents gave you PTSD every night by teaching you this prayer. Now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, wait! My mom would start praying that prayer. I had a vision. Do y'all remember Carmen's song, Witch's Invitation? You remember that? You remember watching that warlock's body just go suck through the bed and go straight to hell? When my parents would teach me the prayer, now lay me down to sleep, pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take, like it's an option. Like he might take it, he might not. So of course I'm gonna pray the sinner's prayer every night of my life because there is a chance I could slip into hell when I went to sleep. I learned that at four years old. People are like, why did you grow up with such anxiety? I was scared to go to hell every day of my life. Salvation was fragile. You didn't even have to say a cuss word to go to hell, you could think one.

SPEAKER_02 26:43

Right?

SPEAKER_01 26:44

Right? And then if we want to go on top of that, we were all scared we're either gonna go to hell or miss the rapture. Not gonna teach on eschatology, not gonna touch it. But here's what I am gonna say when I was about 11 years old.

SPEAKER_00 27:03

You're gonna be on the creek banks, look at it.

SPEAKER_01 27:06

Isn't it? No, I'm not 11 years old, 12 years old. No, I was about 12 years old. Um, I didn't tell my mom and dad I was hiding a Mariah Carey CD in my room. Uh butterfly to be exact. And um, my aunt, who was not saved, would get me good music, you know, so I didn't have to sit play Days of Elijah every day of my life. And um, and so um I was living in sin with my Mariah Carey C D in my room, and um and you know my dad lives such a double standard. If he if you're watching dad, I just want to let you know, you got on to me for that Mariah Carey CD, but you kept the Commodores in a cassette in your car most of my childhood. So I'm just gonna call you out. And he's a he's a church of God pastor, too. So how about it? Three times a lady? Yeah, machine gun, brick house, I'm calling you out. All right, so she is all right, so all right. So I wake up one one morning and my dad had left TBN on, but I didn't see the little TBN logo. We had one of those TVs that were rounded at that time, and so sometimes the logo's off the screen. And so I wake up and they're doing a newscast. Millions have vanished.

unknown 28:38

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 28:42

Plane crashes, cars crashed, millions have vanished. I'm going, oh my god. I my dad's not in his chair. And it's a Saturday morning. My dad's not in his chair. And so, you know, in those movies, they like they show, I promise I'm gonna go somewhere with all this in a second, but we're getting to know each other, okay? And so um, I want you to fully know my trauma so you can receive from me. And so uh healed, but still there, okay. So um what is it, Apostle now uh now but not yet. Yeah, okay. So um some of you got that. Okay, so I'm like, and in those movies when people got raptured, their clothes were perfectly folded, right? Like the angels of the Lord were uh just an amazing like dry cleaning press job on the clothes as they went out. It's like strippy naked, fold it, there you go, you know. Wow. And so so uh wow, okay, so we're all naked, okay. All right, so back to the garden.

SPEAKER_02 29:59

So we didn't think about that part.

SPEAKER_01 30:05

If we would have told that part, people wouldn't talk about the rapture very much, you know. I mean, I grew up in church where we did rapture drills. Y'all remember that? Any of y'all do that? That's because you all grew up in a place that taught the Bible. Y'all, at least in a word of faith community, got the Bible. We we just got the Holy Ghost. Right? It was just that's the Holy Ghost, you know. And um, rapture drills, my dad would be like, rapture drill, and everybody start jumping in the church. And then he'd say, you know, one of these days you're you're gonna do that, and your feet are never gonna hit the ground. And then I'm gonna be like, and you're naked. And so um, y'all didn't know you're coming up for a stand-up today.

SPEAKER_02 30:55

So this is my life.

SPEAKER_01 30:57

I'm not even making this up. I'm like, this is what this is this is how I am. Okay. So I go in, my dad's not his chair, there's a new newscast on. Apparently, I've missed the rapture. I believe it. Um, I run to my parents' room, the door was shut, open up the door. Guess what? Mom had done laundry, their clothes are folded on the bed. I'm not, this is before God, my hand on the word of God. And I'm like, then it triggers a moment from six years old. Where my dad does a lock-in at the church, the Ohio Street Pentecostal Church of God, our first youth lock-in. I'm a six-year-old pre-PK, and my dad decides that at 2 a.m., the greatest way to steward a bunch of teenagers in a church uh in a in a church is to play a thief in the night movie from the 70s. And so when I see their clothes folded, immediately the song begins. There's no time to change your mind. The sun has come and you've been left behind. I'm I missed it. Now they're gonna dress me in a first century robe, take me to the guillotine and cut my head off. That's my only way to get to heaven now. I run outside, I get on my knees, this is before God, and I'm crying, oh God, 12 years old, oh God, that Maria carry CD in my closet. And then all of a sudden, here comes my mom pulling around the corner. And I knew if my mom didn't go, my dad certainly didn't go. So I'm wiping self off and walk back in the house, and she goes, son, what were you doing? Nothing. Nothing, nothing at all. We're laughing about it, but it's torment. And sometimes all you can do about it now is laugh. But in those times it was real fear, and and which tells me it's not real love.

unknown 33:14

Right.

A Davidic People Who Host Presence

SPEAKER_01 33:14

Because perfect love casts out all fear. And um I learned to minister from that fear, um, I learned to preach from that fear until 2015, and the Lord's had me on this 10-year journey of discovering his love. But one of the first things that I did as I was coming out, I wrote a book called When Misfits Become Kings in 2014. And um, and I actually wrote that book. I gave it to a woman that always prayed for our ministry. I gave her the book, she read it, and she comes into my office one day, throws the book across my desk, and she said, Well, you have to live it now. And she was right. It was all about the life of David. It was um, and and and here's what I want to say to you. Um, I feel like something very Davidic is happening in this family. Um, and what what I mean by that is uh a people that so know they're loved that all they can do is host presence and give other people access to it. And that's what I really feel on this house. And and even last night, as there were other leaders here, I felt like the Lord was like, I'm setting Missouri and Oklahoma, Arkansas, and and Texas into the tabernacle of David. And it's such a such a uh revelation of the love of God that we no longer have to perform in ministry, we just host presence. And and and I failed to tell you this in particular that if you want to be in what God is doing, he said, if you will let he said, you're living in a region where I am known through men and for men, but they're about to know me.

SPEAKER_00 35:07

Come on. Come on. Great change.

SPEAKER_01 35:14

You are in a region where God is known through men and for men, but if he can find a Davidic people that want to host his presence, he said they will begin to know me. See, here's the part with glorifying men is that men only carry a facet of his nature. I only have a facet of his nature. I can't like the reason why I love running with Jimmy, the reason why I love being joined to Apostle D, the reason why I love Bryn and all of my brothers that I get to do life with, Bobby Limley, is they carry facets of God. And if you want to see God in more fullness, you can't just have me, you gotta have us all. And it's the same way in this room.

SPEAKER_02 36:06

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 36:07

Can't just be one or two. One or two may lead, but what this culture needs is less men known for God and a people that they can know him through.

SPEAKER_02 36:23

Yeah, that's good.

David’s Rejection And Beloved Identity

SPEAKER_01 36:25

And so, big, big change here. And so David has become a really important um character in my story and and things that the Lord's revealed. So I'm just gonna kind of talk about David and we'll see where we land, and then we'll we'll we'll be done. Hopefully, there's a really great place to eat. Oh, shut out of the show. Thank you, Lord. I can't I speak in tongues, not Spanish, but I can say enchilada quesadilla. Alright, so um David. David is an amazing character. Psalm 51 is a verse, this will get me in more trouble than eschatology right here. But uh here we you didn't say I couldn't touch this, so here we go. Uh Psalm 51 is uh a passage that most of us were taught that teaches the idea of original sin. Okay. Um, that verse in Psalm 51 where David says, I was brought forth in iniquity, conceived in sin in my mother's womb. People use that verse to say that means all of us in this room were born evil, inherently evil and in sin. Okay. Um that verse is not talking about humanity sin. It's talking about David's mother actually committed an act of sin, and he was born an illegitimate child.

SPEAKER_00 38:05

Come on.

unknown 38:06

That's true.

SPEAKER_01 38:07

Okay. I've done research on this. I've I I've gone back into rabbinical literature, I've talked with rabbis in Israel when we traveled over there, and I've talked about this story. David was actually, his mother actually manipulated the father, and I I won't go into all of this, but basically, what you need to know is David's mother tricked Jesse into having another child. And they switched at night, like Leah and Rachel. You can go back and read all this, and then all of a sudden, Jesse's supposed to get rid of her name. David's mother's name was Netzavit. Okay, she was about to be kicked out of the house until Jesse found out she was pregnant with his child. And so Jesse met with all the other brothers that you know about in the text, and he said, What are we gonna do? This woman's deceived me. And guys, they didn't honor women in that culture. Okay, and this is what they said. Well, Jesse came to the conclusion as a judge, he was the judge over Bethlehem. Jesse says this he says, We will not lay the iniquity on the mother, we will place it upon the child. And so, David, according to Jewish history, was treated like a reject. Scholars say that David was for when the family ate together, David had a corner that they put him in, making him face the wall while they were having family dinner. David, that's why when you get to Psalm 69, David said, I was treated as a foreigner in my own home, rejected by my brothers and my father. This is why David said, Even when your father and your mother reject you, the Lord will remain faithful to you. It's coming out of this, what I'm teaching you today about David being rejected by his own father. This is important. This is going to tie into some of what Jimmy said last night because you're gonna know the depths of what it means to honor and be devoted to the Lord, because some of you don't know how to have honor and devotion now if somebody ignores you on Sunday morning. An offense is a choice, and you can either be a victim to other people, or you can be Christ-like to other people, but you can't be both because there's nothing of a victim mentality in Christ. And many of us live on a roller coaster because we constantly are looking for the approval of men instead of finding the approval from God that can only be found by being in union with Him. So sometimes you got to know this is not just a cliche, it's real. Sometimes rejection is protection. Can I pose this to you? Maybe the reason why David was able to tap into beloved identity in the old covenant is because he was rejected by a father of law in his own house. His daddy was a judge, which meant he judged by the Torah. And maybe the greatest thing, see, people that didn't grow up in religion are they do so much better with beloved identity than people that grew up in church. Because you got taught all the bad stuff. And then we come in and go, God loves you, and you go, Me? And you've grown up in church your whole life, and you still wonder if God actually loves you. And and then there's people that didn't grow up in religion. You tell them about beloved identity, they just murdered somebody yesterday, but they're like, come on, bring it. Like, he loves me? Yeah, okay, I'm in agreement with that. Not you, because you have to get over the legalism, you have to get over the fact that you didn't pray enough, you hadn't read your Bible like you should, you haven't fasted. Like, you start going down the list of all the things you were taught made you a Christian. But Christ is what makes you a Christian. It's Jesus plus nothing that equals the gospel. David taps into this reality, okay? Because he's rejected by a father who's an expert in the law. So where does David find himself? He finds himself in the field. You tell you how bad it is for David when Samuel, the greatest prophet in all of Israel, comes to Jesse's house to anoint the next king. David's not even invited to the anointing service. What a crappy dad. So Jesse's trying to pour the oil out, and the oil would not flow, and he finally gets to the end, and he goes, Is this all the kids that you have in your house? And he goes, Well, there's this one. And they call for David. David comes in, and you're like, Okay, what's about to happen? And the oil flows on Jesse's head, or on David's head. And I've I I read this in several sources. It says that when The oil was poured on his head, it crystallized around his head like a crown. I love this. I don't know if that's true or not, but it's pretty awesome. And the beautiful part about this is I can prove to you that David is not a legitimate Jew. Because Jesse's not a legitimate Jew. Isn't it funny that religion teaches us to ignore our own dysfunction but make everybody else pay the price for it?

SPEAKER_00 44:35

Say that again. Say that again.

SPEAKER_01 44:36

Isn't it funny? Religion will literally ignore its dysfunction but make everybody else pay the price for it. So Jesse. Here's how I know Jesse's not a pure. Now Netzevit, David's mother, is a pure-blooded Jew. This is why Jesse wants to kick her out. Because he, as a judge, knows in the scripture that Jewish blood was not supposed to be, what's the word I'm looking for? It's terrible, it's religious, it's a stupid idea. Um, but this is how they believed. And you could not, you had to keep the seed pure, which meant if you were an Edomite, you couldn't, a Jewish person couldn't marry an Edomite. Okay. So guess what? Study the genealogy. There was a woman who married Boaz by the name of what was her name? Ruth. Ruth was a what? A Moabite. Which, if you study what Moabite is, it means red. They usually had red hair, red faces, freckles. Okay? Oh God. They have a child. Whose child did they have? What was his name? Anybody know? I'm not trying to set you up. Huh? Jesse. And Jesse, he's half Jew, half Moabite. And then when David's born, what is he? He's like a quarter or whatever, but he comes out with the Moabite genes, which is why God has to tell Samuel, before you go in there and anoint the this boy that's going to be the next king, just know God does not look at the outward appearance, but he looks at the heart because he was about to ask the greatest prophet in Israel to anoint a man who looks like a different race. Because he doesn't have anything on the outside that looks like what the king of the Jews would look like, but he is. So Samuel sees this little Moabite-looking fellow walk in the room, and guess what? The oil flowed on his head. The anointing for him to be king, as Jimmy said last night, is present. Yet the story goes on, and now there is all of Israel cowardly sitting on the hillside while a giant is taunting them every morning and every evening at the time of prayer. Their prayer is the Shema prayer. It's a prayer of protection. It's out of Deuteronomy chapter 6. And every day, every morning, every night they stand and pray. And when they're trying to pray that prayer about the faithfulness of God, a giant steps up to distract their devotion. Jesse says, David, leave the sheep, listen to this, with the keeper of the sheep, which meant David didn't miss that anointing service because there wasn't somebody to watch the sheep. David was Jesse's dirty little secret.

SPEAKER_02 48:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 48:02

But now Samuel knows. And then he gets anointed as king, and guess what? That changes in the father. Nothing. Still treats him like a slave. And says, here's what I want you to do. While your brothers are out doing the stuff that us Jewish boys should be doing, I need you to take them some food and I want you to serve them. Well, when he gets there, he finds his amazingly Jewish brothers scared. And David hears the giant and says, Who is this uncircumcised Philistine?

unknown 48:35

Come on.

SPEAKER_01 48:36

That defies the very armies of God. David was not, his brothers blamed him for being prideful and arrogant, but what they didn't know is the man anointed with as king, he didn't get anointed as king because he had all these accolades. He got anointed as king because he found his identity in a field of obscurity, ministering to an audience of one, and it attracted the favor of God to his life. And God said, When this whole Saul business is over, I'm going to give you a king, and there'll be peace in the land that'll give birth to Solomon and the golden age of the nation. And you don't get to the golden age of the nation acting like Trump.

SPEAKER_02 49:18

Come on, man.

SPEAKER_01 49:23

I just saw some heads turn like this. I'm kidding. Listen, listen to me. It's not by might nor by power. But it's by my spirit, says the Lord. And the golden age didn't get brought to Israel because we were mighty warriors. It got brought to Israel because David learned to be a mighty lover. David eventually became a man of peace and birthed a son by the name of Solomon and gathered enough resources that Solomon could reign in the golden age because of the resources his father had provided for him. That's a whole nother thing. But this is what's beautiful about the story of David. David's now anointed as king, still being treated by his father as a slave, sent out to take care of his brothers by giving them food and drink, and then gets ostracized, criticized by the brothers for even being there, and and saying, Is there not a word from God? And this goes so much deeper because they think David's there to do something for himself. And guys, I'm not going to say that's not involved because he did ask Saul, what's the reward for this? And he said, Well, I'll give you my daughter. And he was like, Right? So, but he didn't know that originally. Originally, all he heard was somebody distracting us in our moment of devotion. And I'm not slaying a giant because I get something out of slaying a giant. I'm slaying a giant so we can be undistracted in devotion.

SPEAKER_02 51:18

That's right.

SPEAKER_01 51:19

See, the church, we've become so militant and less love that we're focused more on the giant than the result of the giant being gone. We want to walk around with Goliath's head in our hand instead of the person who has had an abortion knowing they're loved by God.

SPEAKER_00 51:37

Come on, come on.

SPEAKER_01 51:40

We want to be known for the generation that got rid of Roe versus Wade, and we walk around with the giant's head and we taunt it in the face of people that disagree with us. But the reality is the person who had the abortion needs to know that they're loved by God, and the person thinking about an abortion needs to see the church giving them an actual option besides abortion called adoption. So instead, you can do one or two things. You can walk around and show people how powerful you are with Goliath's head, or you can hold a baby's head in your arm.

SPEAKER_00 52:10

Come on, bro. Come on, man. That's good.

Religion Controls Thinking And Allegiance

SPEAKER_01 52:14

That's the gospel. The gospel's not that I slayed a giant. The gospel is the result now that the giant is no longer present. My people can get back to union with God. I'll also show you how unselfish it was for what David did to that giant. Everything David did to that giant was based on scripture. Every one of it. Every piece of it. But let me back up. He goes in and starts talking to Saul. And thanks to my brother Jimmy, I now know this is not Saul's first conversation with David. So Lord just keeping us humble here. Right? Jimmy was like, that's not right. He actually knew him before. And I was like, no, he did not. And then he did this amazing thing. He opened up the Bible and showed me. Isn't that wild? People get mad at me all the time. They're like, what you're saying? It's not even in the Bible. The only problem with what you just said is the Bible. We just go right back to it and open up, and it's just been laying there the whole time. But religion only allows you to see what it wants you to see. Religion doesn't teach you how to think, it teaches you what to think.

SPEAKER_00 53:28

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 53:29

And if you if you're ever going to get revelation, true kingdom revelation, you cannot let people tell you what to think. You got to find true fathers in the kingdom don't teach you what to think, they teach you how to think. And we struggle with that because not only did we learn this in the church, but we grew up in an educational system that gave us a report card and taught you conformism at five years old.

SPEAKER_02 53:54

Yeah, come on. That's true.

SPEAKER_01 53:56

And because of that, we've lost the entrepreneurial spirit and we've all been turned into factory workers, and we've lived completely dependent on another man to sign our paycheck for resources when God said it is me that gives you the power to create wealth. But that's not what I came to talk about. I'm almost done here. This is my first closing. So how many closings do you do? Okay. Well, we're good. I'm just in your pastor's anointing up here. Hey, if you get hungry, I got some goldfish for you up here. So take more. Take more. Are you still offended that I said Trump? Some of you are. That's all right. You can be racist if you want to. Um, so anyways, all right. Here we go. It just feels good to do that sometimes. Because the reality is you can be American and Christian, but you can't be American Christian. You can be American, and I'm I'm glad I've traveled to other countries. I am glad to live in this country. I've traveled all over the world. I'm thankful. But you can be American and you can be Christian, but you can't be an American Christian. At the end of the day, those paths don't line up. Not what I came to talk about today either. So let's go back to it. David is sitting there talking to Saul. And Saul says, What makes you think that you're qualified to take out this giant? And let me tell you what what he said. He said, There was one day that a lion came to steal my father's sheep, and he said, I took it by the mouth and slayed it. There was another time a bear came and it tried to destroy my father's sheep, and I slayed the bear, and the same God that delivered me from the lion and the bear is the same God that's going to deliver this giant into my hand. We want to deal with giants, but we've never taken the time to deal with the lion and the bear where nobody can see.

SPEAKER_02 56:19

Come on. That's good, man. Wow.

SPEAKER_01 56:30

You know what Jewish history said? This is amazing to me. Tim, you have some weird ears, man. This thing is hurting me. My God. Jeez. No, it's fine. I'll just suffer for Jesus up here. So um be walking around for two days. Oh so, all right. So um, you don't have to worry about what I'm thinking. I will tell you.

SPEAKER_02 56:58

Um, so this is amazing.

SPEAKER_01 57:05

This is so so we all know today that David didn't keep the sheep because there was no other body, no other person to keep the sheep, because he said when when he sent him to his brothers, David, just keep the sheep with the keeper of the sheep and go take care of your brothers. But this is what Jewish history says. Jewish history said, Jesse made David go watch the sheep in dangerous situations in hopes that a lion and a bear would kill him. And it was God who actually used the father's rejection to show David who he actually was.

SPEAKER_00 57:45

That's good.

SPEAKER_01 57:46

And the thing that tried to disqualify him is the very thing that actually qualifies him to slay a giant. And some of you are sitting here looking over your past, going, I did this and I did this, and I messed it up here, and I could have handled that better, and somehow that's going to disqualify me from the good, permissible, and perfect will of God. And I'm here to tell you if your mistakes can disqualify you from the kingdom, then the blood of Jesus has just been announced as not enough. When you disqualify yourself, you have now dishonored the blood of Jesus. Well come on up, give me some closing music. Come on up. Who?

SPEAKER_00 58:44

Takeisha. You? Yeah, she's the organ. Ways the pad. She's the Pentecost organ.

SPEAKER_01 58:51

What are you doing? Wayne, just give me some closing music. If she gets on the organ, we're gonna be here to two. Um, so let's just let him give me some closing music. Your congregation is too white for me. I'm just telling you right now. I grew up in a black church. My dad and our family were the only white people in our church. It's true. We had a, let me teach you white people something. We had an organ called a Hammond B3. Do you know what that is? With a Leslie, and you can flip the switch and it'll do things to your body. Woo!

SPEAKER_02 59:29

Right?

SPEAKER_01 59:30

Am I right? Y'all need to get discipled, okay? You you realize when we go to heaven, we're not gonna be singing the Gaither vocal band, right? You do realize that. We're gonna be we're gonna we're gonna be singing a lot. My apostle says, I want a little more if we're talking about Chris, I want a little more stapled and a little less Tomlin. You'll get that in a minute. You'll get that in a minute. That's my apostle. That's my apostle. David said, the thing that my father tried to use to disqualify me is the very reason that I'm qualified to take down this giant because he rejected me and I still protected his sheep. This sounds like love your enemies. This sounds like do good to those who try to hurt you and harm you. This sounds like bless those that curse you. See, David didn't just tap into a New Testament revelation, he tapped, he tapped into a New Testament grace, he tapped into a New Testament love that says, even if my father tries to reject me, kill me, push me by the wayside, he God still gave me him as my dad, and I'm gonna honor him as unto the Lord. And so he doesn't allow dishonor to deter him from devotion, and he doesn't allow a giant to deter him in devotion. What does he do? Thank you, Jimmy Lovejoy, last night. He doubles down in honor and devotion. Come on, and he doesn't go back and blame his former pastor for why he couldn't do what God called him to do.

unknown 1:01:24

Come on, come on, come on.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:25

He doesn't go back and blame the Bible college that trained him in everything but the gospel and say, that's why I can't do what God's called me to do. He doesn't go back and blame the drugs. He doesn't go back and blame the past of his mistakes. No, no, no. He his past mistakes, no, no, no. He stands before him and says, All that junk that should have taken me out is the very reason why God put me in front of you today. And the same God that walked me out of all that mess is the same God that's gonna cause this giant to fall into my hand. And David knew the word. He said, Is there not a word? Do you know in Exodus it says that all blasphemers should be stoned? That's why he went and picked out five stones, friend.

SPEAKER_00 1:02:05

Yeah, come on.

Presence Restored Shows Up As Love

SPEAKER_01 1:02:06

He goes, picks up stones because blasphemers deserve to be stoned. Now he's still in some Old Testament grace in that one. He gives the stones, and this is what the scripture said. This is old covenant, which is why some of y'all need the new covenant. The old covenant said, and then you'll take their own sword and cut their head off. David didn't do anything to take down a giant out of his own accord. He followed the word of the Lord for his moment. And so we don't need stones, and we don't need swords. What you and I need is the declaration of righteousness. You and I don't need stones and swords. We need a revelation of grace. You and I don't need swords and stones. We need a revelation of beloved righteousness. What the beautiful part of the story is, and I'll skip ahead. Jimmy covered a lot of it last night, and it was one of the best messages I've heard Jimmy preach. David becomes king. And when he reigned on his throne, he didn't sit on his throne and go, Boy, I'm gonna make Jesse pay now. Boy, I'm gonna make my brothers bow to me. Kiss my feet, mow my lawn. He said, two things. First question, yes, he said, how can I get the ark back? Wasn't even thinking about people and what he could do to manipulate people. He said, if I'm gonna have a kingship that's gonna be worth anything, I better get the presence of God restored back to our nation. See, see, some of you all think there there's a generation of people right now that are in deconstruction and they think they're helping our nation by destroying the previous, what the previous generation did. And they get into deconstruction. And I understand why they get into deconstruction. It's called trauma. And most of the stuff we grew up in the church, it is that. So I understand. I'm not I'm not bad mouthing anybody going through it, but I'm saying to you, when you go back and try to hurt the people that hurt you, it will never heal anything. So the first thing David does is he doesn't go back and try to fix all the mistakes of the previous generation. What he does is he says, How can we get the presence back? And then when the presence is restored, here's his next one. Is there anybody from the house of Saul? The man who tried to kill him, the man who threw spears at him, the man that ran him out of the nation, the man who knew David was the next king, could have mentored him, could have been a spiritual father to him, but instead tried to kill him and run him out of the nation because he was jealous. And David's response from being seated as God's beloved as king was get the presence back and find me some enemies that I can love. Is there anybody left from the house of Saul, from my friend Jonathan, that I could show kindness to for Jonathan's sake? What kind of love is that? I never grew up with a father that rejected me. I didn't grow up. I don't know what it's like to be treated as a slave. I don't know what it's like to put my head in the corner and be forced to eat my meal in isolation while I hear my family laughing behind me. I don't know what it's like for my father to set me up with to be killed by lions and bears. I don't know what that's like. I also don't know what it's like to have somebody physically throw spears at me. I've had a lot less than that that's caused me to love a lot less than that. And the same is true for every one of you in this room. I'm pretty sure at least 99% of you have never had a spear thrown at you. Not saying nothing's bad that never happened to you. That's not what I'm saying. But I'm saying, let's do a little bit of comparison here. David had every right to make his family and everybody from Saul's kingdom say, I'm gonna put you on notice. I'm gonna wipe you all out. And instead, he says, if I can get the presence back, God will make everything right. And then just to prove that everything's right and that I'm fully seated in beloved identity, I'm not just gonna go the love the people who love me. I'm gonna find the people who have talked about me, who didn't want anything to do with me, who rejected me, who made fun of me. I'm gonna find all those people and say, is there any, can you find anybody from the house of Saul that I can show kindness to? And friend, I'm telling you, what I see as the next great move of the spirit, I'm sure it will have goosebumps, I'm sure it will have miracles, I'm sure it will have signs and wonders, I'm sure it'll have all of that, but I'm telling you, the true mark of a Davidic tabernacle being established again won't just be the way we worship, it'll be the way we love, and we won't be able to see anybody else but like family.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:08

Come on, come on.

Do The Family Thing And Bless Enemies

SPEAKER_01 1:08:14

In America today, we love people who vote like us, talk like us, go to the church that we believe in that they believe like us, and that's the people we love. And Paul says, What thanks do you have to love the people that love you back? No, that was Jesus' word. What thanks, what, what, what, how hard is it for you to love people that love you back? He said, But I want you to bless those that curse you. When they slap you on one cheek, I want you to turn the other cheek. And I'm here to tell you, in American Christianity, we are far more American than we are Christian. We're far more Republican or Democrat than we are Christian. We are far more just war than we are just peace. So I guess what I'm saying today is you'll know that you've been enthroned on love. When you can love the people that don't deserve it. When you can forgive the people who slapped you on the first cheek. When you can forgive the per person that they slapped your first cheek and your second cheek. So I guess I'm saying, Lord, make us more like love. Help us double down on honor and devotion as Jimmy called us to last night. Help us to raise our honor level. Listen, friend, if you can't do it in this house, you'll never do it to them. Search right here. Family is the training ground for loving the world.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:09

Yeah, it is. Yes, it is.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:11

And friend, I let me tell you something. You want to reach this community, quit trying to compete with the show down the road. If you'll love the person that's in front of you, they won't care what you sound like when you worship or how you preach. I had a man tell me this one time, and you all have heard this, but it's stuck with me. It's been a it's not a cliche to me. People don't care how much you know, they want to know how much you care. When love starts being the thing that we trumpet, there'll be no more white churches and black churches and Hispanic churches and Korean churches. When love begins to be trumpeted, it won't, there won't be any more Pentecostal Baptist and non-denominational, and there won't be any of that anymore. There'll just be the kingdom. And this place is supposed to be a voice for the kingdom. And I'm calling for the one new man to come up in this place, and I'm calling for every race, tribe, and tongue to begin to gather in this place and show people a reflection of heaven on earth. I'm calling this place into the tabernacle of David where you don't care about titles or positions or what you look like in front of other people. All you care about is the presence of God and the presence of God being represented well to the world around you. I call this place into the tabernacle of David. I call you into a wild, furious love affair that causes you to go into your deepest encounters in the secret place. And when you come out of the secret place, they will see the flame of furious love in your eyes, and they'll know that they know him. I prophesy over this house you will become a kingdom voice. And a kingdom voice doesn't come out of one man or one person. A kingdom voice comes out of an Ephesians 4 people who have become one new man where every joint supplies. Man, I'm asking some of you, don't do the Sunday thing, do the family thing. I'm telling some of you that I didn't see you here last night, don't do the Sunday thing, do the family thing. And when the family says we're gonna get together on Thursday nights, you don't do the Sunday thing, you do the family thing. And family doesn't do Sunday mornings only. Family doesn't know how to shut off ministry. Family doesn't know, doesn't care about titles and position. No, I'm telling you, spirit, if if if blood is thicker than water, let me tell you something, friend. Spirit's thicker than blood. Sitting in the perfect union of Father, Son, and Spirit, seated there, saying, presence is enough, and looking at the world and saying, Is there anyone I can show kindness to? Is there anyone I can show kindness to? Is there somebody that hurt me in my past that I can show kindness to? Is there somebody? I feel like some of you, the Lord's even saying, I want to take this so deep that you sow another offering into the ministry that kicked you out. I feel like the Lord says, I want to show you what my love looks like. My love is not a love that is deserved, it is one that is unmerited. The love of God is not earned, friend. Jesus earned it on your behalf, Jesus lived the sinless life, Jesus took the stripes on his back, Jesus took the crown of thorns, Jesus took the nails through his hands and his feet, and he took it so you didn't have to. And he didn't do all of that for you to suffer well, he did all that so you can love well. Jesus did not come to show you how to die. That was a six-hour time period. You can take that. That was a six-hour time period of a 33-year-old life. Jesus didn't come to teach you how to die, he came and taught you how to live. And that's why the religious didn't know what to do with him. That's why Samuel had God had to speak to Samuel because they were so used to just loving people and doing things for people who look like them, believe like them, voted like them. And when God gets ready to anoint the next king of Israel, he has to deal with Samuel's racism before he could let him anoint the next king. And this is not about racism. I don't feel that in this church at all. I'm just telling you the facts. That's what had to happen for Samuel. For some of you, you don't need delivered from racism, you need delivered from nationalism. I will. If a seasoned saint tells me to do it, I'll do it. You don't need delivered from racism. Some of you need delivered from nationalism. Some of you don't need delivered from nationalism. Some of you need delivered from denominationalism. Some of you need delivered from your preference. Well, Mark, they just don't sing my song. They don't preach my the things that I it it's this is not for you. What they're doing up here is not for you. They are leading you to how to teach you how to properly entreat the audience of one. They are not the worshipers, and you're the audience. That's a concert. We are the worshipers who make up the tabernacle of David, and when his presence is restored, how will we know the presence of God has been restored when you're able to love everybody? Is there anybody from the house of Saul that I can let me say it? Let me say it this way. Is there anybody from the house of religion that I can show kindness to for Jesus' sake? Because, friend, can I remind you? Not so very long ago, you were just as religious as them. What pulled you out? You heard a better word. What pulled you out? You heard a better gospel. What pulled you out? You started finding out things about God and things about you that you didn't you never heard your entire life, and guess what? They haven't heard it yet either. And who's gonna tell them? Better yet, old missionary used to say, said, preach the gospel and use words if necessary.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:31

Come on.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:41

That I don't have to preach a sermon, but when they walk past me, they feel love in a way that makes their hair stand up and tears flow down their eyes, and they say, What is it about you? I say, it's nothing about me. There's one who lives in me. And he did things for me that I did not ever think was possible in and of myself. And I didn't get delivered by my pursuit and devotion to legalism. I got delivered when I finally gave up the devotion to legalism. Greatest thing that ever happened in my life is when I got delivered from the ministry. And now what I do today, I don't consider it ministry. This is just an act of love that I'm required to do because of what Jesus did for me. So, Father, I just bless this house to become that tabernacle of David. I bless this house to become that tabernacle of David, that there are no responsibilities that go that go before the one main thing, and that is, oh man, this one thing have I desired, David said. This one thing that I seek, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, and may I behold the beauty of the Lord in his temple. I speak that there is a Davidic pursuit rising up in this house. It goes beyond Sunday morning, it goes beyond fellowship and special activities. I'm telling you, Yahweh's saying, you better get ready to wipe the calendar because I'm coming to seat my presence and seat you in beloved identity. I'm telling you, this weekend it shifts, and things you've been talking about, you're gonna walk in. I'm telling you, this weekend it shifts, and some of you are still playing the Sunday morning game, and I'm telling you, you're gonna leave this room, not as the this is where I go on Sunday, this is the family I'm joined to. And friend, I'm telling you, you will never know the presence of God until you can start discerning it in your brothers and sisters. Can I tell you that experiencing Christ in devotion is only half of the gospel? The other half is experiencing Christ in other people. And can I tell you, He lives in your enemies too? How did God prove his love for us in that while we were yet sinners? Christ died. Oh, Father, I thank you.