When You Have Done This by Pastor Claude Whittaker (LIVE SERMON)

When You Have Done This by Pastor Claude Whittaker recorded live at Deeper Life Ministries located in Salisbury Maryland  

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SPEAKER_01 0:00

Something that you've been trying to do on your own. I saw God doing something great for you. I saw it. Now you're gonna have to believe it. Because I already saw it. Amen. In the scriptures that we read, amen, in the Gospel of St. Luke, chapter 5, and verse 1, it says, and it came to pass that as a people pressed upon him to hear the word of God. Chapter 5 and verse number 1. They pressed upon him because they wanted to hear the word of God. And he stood by the lake of Genazareth. As the people pressed upon him, they wanted to get something from the Lord. They pressed, they pushed because they understood the importance of hearing the Word of God. Yes, the Word of God, Amen, is like water to a thirsty soul. The word of God is like manna to those that are hungry. The word of God, amen, is what builds you up. The word of God is what gives you strength. The word of God is what gives you direction. The word of God is what gives you hope. The word of God is what is gonna keep you from falling. And to present you false before his coming is the word of God. We need the word of God. We don't need less of the word. We need more of the word of God. Can I get an amen on that? We need more of the word of God. And we don't only have to be hearers of the word, but we must be doers. The Bible teaches us that not only the hearers of the word are justified before God, but the doers. We must be doers. We must to endure. Amen. The enemy knows how to try to stop people from getting the word. But amen. But people of God, we must get full of God's word. Yes, we must get full of the word. In the Luke Gospel of St. Luke chapter 5, the verse 1, it said, and they pressed upon him to heard the word of God as he stood by the lake of Genesar and saw two ships standing by the lake, but the fishermen were gone out of them and were washing their nets. So the Lord Jesus Christ was standing on the shore. And then he noticed that there was some empty boats, and he noticed that the fishermen were washing their nets. Which means that, amen, they had given up. They were washing their nets because they were finished. And right when you think that it's over, then here comes God with a blessing. That's why you can't give up too quickly. That's why you can give up. You can give up. Because you might give up at the time where God is about to bless you. We must be fortified and we must be strong in God. And we must, amen, have the faith that no matter what happens, we're gonna hold on until God bless us. Yes? And so they were they had given up. Put their nets aside because they realized that uh they couldn't do what they wanted to do, which was catch fish. And the Lord uh entered into one of the ships, which was Simon's ship. Simon Peter. And uh he prayed or he asked him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he told them, get out a little bit from the land. And he sat down and he taught the people out of the ship. And so Jesus took an opportunity because they wasn't using the boat, they'd given up. And God's getting ready to bless them. And uh he began to teach them out of the ship. He began to teach them who he is. He began to teach them, amen, how to have eternal life. He began to teach them to trust in him and not to lean to their own understanding. And he began to teach them, amen, to walk with him and to believe on him. Even when it seems like it's impossible, you can still trust in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. When things seem impossible, he specializes in impossible situations. That's why we can't give up on no one or nobody. Amen, because we're all precious in the sight of the Lord. And the Lord died for us all, even though it might not be in your timing that I should be where I'm supposed to be, but in God's timing, his timing is perfect. And so he pushes out from the shore and he sat down and he taught the people out of the ship. And so, for all of those theatrics in the pulpit, and all of those who get excited by the preacher uh with a uh cadence reverence when he's speaking and well and uh uh uh uh you can't even understand what they're saying, and and uh they're sounding like they're choking. Some of y'all get excited by that, but I don't get excited by that because Jesus didn't do it like that. He spoke with clarity so that the people could understand what the word of God is saying. Oh, yeah, it's not in the theatrics, it's in the anointing, and it is the anointing that destroys the yoke. Yes, I've been in churches where the preacher changed his voice. Yeah, glory, and then y'all standing all up clapping your hands. Don't even know what the preacher's saying. Preacher's saying, Hickory, dickory, doc, the mouth read up the clock, uh, and y'all shouting and jumping, amen. But the hickory dickory nursery rhyme just ain't gonna do you. People need real deliverance, people need real substance, people need to hear something really from God. Anybody need something really from God? Yes, I need a word. The people pressing upon them. I need to know that God is gonna help me get out of my situation, and I need to hear that God is able to deliver me, and there's nothing too hard for God, and God can take something that I can't get rid of, but God can give me the victory. Yes, he can do it. Give you the victory over alcoholism, give you the victory over drug addiction, give you the victory of messing around with sorcery and and and sage, and and and and God can cleanse your soul, and God can give you the victory over fornication and adultery. God can give you the victory. We need to know that we serve a God that is more than able, yes, that is more than able, so he teaches them. And when he had left speaking, he said to Simon. Now, I want you to launch out into the deep. Because where you were before was surface. And a lot of times, amen, we we the devil wants to keep us as being surface Christians. And if surface Christians, amen, uh we we we like babies. Now, now a babe, if a baby's a babe, a baby's okay. And so Navea's a baby, and so babies do what babies do. But now, if if if if uh if uh uh sister Lake had Beverly in her arms and she was patting her on the back and was giving her a bottle and changing her diaper, then that'd be a problem. For when I was a child, I act like a child, I spoke like a child. But when I became a man, I put away childless things. Tell somebody time to get mature. Time to let's get out of the surface stuff and let's launch out into the deep that we can get something from God. Let's get away from the surface problems, same old things year after year after year, same old surface issues. Let's launch out into the deep. Who wants to launch out into the deep with me on today? Let's go into the deep places. Let's go, let's get from the surface, let's go a little deeper. He told them now, once you're out in the deep, let down your net for the draw. Once you get out of the surface things and get to the deep things of God, then you can really get something from God. You can really be blessed from God. Don't you know folk deal with the same surface issues year after year after year after year? And God is trying to push us all to go deeper. See, in order to go deeper, you're gonna have to take a chance. In order to go deeper, you're gonna have to have faith in Christ. In order to go deeper, you're gonna have to leave some of that surface stuff behind. In order to go deeper, you're gonna have to step out on faith. In order to go deeper, you're gonna have to stretch yourself. Then you're gonna say, For God I live and for God I die. If you're gonna go deeper, you're gonna have to stop hanging around with surface people. You're gonna have to stop hanging around with people that are doing and acting and talking like you're doing what you're trying to run away from. Y'all gonna make me preach in here now. If you want to go deeper, you're gonna have to change the way you think. If you want to get free, you're gonna have to stop hanging around the people that are keeping you bound. You're gonna have to take a step out into the deep. I know I'm talking to somebody.

SPEAKER_00 10:22

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 10:23

Yes. Expecting for a draught, an overflow. And Simon answered and said unto him, Master, we've told all night. Now, the Lord is asking them to launch out into the deep and let down your net. He already knows what's awaiting them. He already knows that a breakthrough is coming. But he's just trying to get them to do what he asked them to do. And so Peter said, now he said, Let down your net, launch underneath. Peter said, Master, we done told all night. And the reason you worked all night and got nothing because Jesus wasn't involved. See, you can do this thing on your own and come up with zero, or you could do this thing with the Lord and allow him to be your hero. I just said something right now. You can try to do this thing on your own and get nothing. Jesus said, Without me, you can't do nothing. So he has to be the center of your life. He has to be the one that's leading you. He has to be the one that's guiding you. You tried on your own, you can't do it. Because you keep going back and you keep falling for the same old okey dokey. Yeah? Same old okey dokey. All right. So they said, well, we toiled all night. Aren't you tired of toiling? Do me a favor, ask somebody, aren't you tired of toiling? Aren't you tired of working on your own? Don't you need some help? Your help comes from the Lord. The maker of heaven and earth. Yes, your help comes from the Lord. Aren't you tired of trying to every time you try to do something on your own, you wind up failing. Every time you try to work this thing out on your own, you become frustrated. Every time you leave Jesus out and try to do this thing, you get mad. But once you allow the Lord to lead you and guide you, He'll give you the victory in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. Yes, I'm trying to the Bible. Yes. That's why marriages fail. Because people simply trying to work things out on their own. No, you need the Lord. You need the Lord. You need him. I need him. We need him. We all need the Lord. Anybody need the Lord in here? His power is limitless. He can deliver you from everything. And keep you delivered. Why? Because he that keepeth Israel neither sleeps nor slumbers. All power belongs to him. The master. We worked all night and taken nothing. Nevertheless, at your word, I will let down the net. Here is the problem. A lot of people are praying. God's wanting to bless people, but they won't follow the Lord's word. I just said something right there. The Lord will tell you to do it this way, and you'll go back doing it your way. Yes, but God's ways are perfect. And if you'll just submit to the word of God, He'll give you the victory. Him might know the Lord and give you the victory. David says it like this Thy word is a lamp unto my feet. It's a light unto my path. Thy word, oh God, have I hidden in my heart that I might not sin against you. The word, oh God, is sweeter than honey in a honeycomb. Yes, you've got to love the word. You've got to want the word, and you've got to follow the word. Anybody want more of the word? Nevertheless, let me try the word. Let me try the word. Let me do it his way. Let me do it his way. Are y'all listening to me? They said, nevertheless, what we need is some nevertheless in here. Lord, I tried to make this work and it won't work. But nevertheless, God, at your word, I'll follow you. Nevertheless. Nevertheless. See, uh, somebody let a man down, she's beat beating at the door like a little cat. So when you try to do it your way, I forgot what I was gonna say. When you try to do it your way, and it don't work, instead of you sticking with the same playbook, glory to God. Listen to me. Instead of you sticking to the same playbook, you need to get into the book and follow what God said. You need to get into this. You need to ask God, God, show me how I can get what I need from you. I heard the word of the Lord said, The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord. Oh Lord, order my steps in your word. He says, Nevertheless, at your word, we're gonna do what you said. We're gonna let down the net. And the Bible says, when they had done this. When they had followed the word, said the baby. When they begin to do it like Jesus said, when they begin to follow the word of God. See, when you follow the word, you're following God. Because in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. So you can't follow God and not follow his word, and you can't follow the word and not follow God. There are can't interchange them, they are the same. Anybody want to follow God? You've got to follow his word. You've got to follow his word. Then that's elementary. That's elementary. That's nothing great. That's elementary. You gotta follow the word. The word is God. When we get the elementary rudiment parts of the word, then we can really get something from God. Now I'm gonna go a little deeper now. Somebody say go deeper. Now, if y'all want me to really go deeper, y'all got to give God some glory. Yes. I'm tired of surface stuff. Now, some of y'all need to be in the surface. Because you can't even get the surface stuff right yet. So you can't go deep if you can't get the rudiments elementary stuff. But once you did what God told you to do, now you're ready to launch out into the deep so I can get something from God. Alright, here we go. The Bible says that uh when they did this, they enclosed a great multitude of fish and their net broke. God says, uh launch out the deep, let down your net, brother Danielle. He said, once you let it down, there's abundance waiting on you. And uh, and uh there's something waiting on you that you couldn't get on your own. There's something waiting on you that you've been working for and you couldn't get. But you've got to go a little deeper in God so that the Lord can give you what you need. I don't know who I'm talking to, but you've got to get from around the surface, get from the ankle deep water, and you've got to launch out into the deep. It's time for you to go deeper in Christ. It's time for you to go deeper in Christ. The surface stuff. But you've got to get deeper in Christ, you've got to go deeper in the Lord. Deep calls underdeep. God Almighty, can't you hear it? Deep cries underdeep. The surface will keep you immature and keep you with nothing. But there's a few folk that want to get all that they need from God. They might want to get all that you need from God. So there was an abundance. It was so much that the nets that they had broke. The nets broke. The nets broke because of capacity. Now, when you launch out into the deep, you got to ask God to give you the capacity to receive everything that God has for you in the name of the Lord. Hallelujah! Yes, God, enlarge my territory. Give me more capacity that I can receive all that you have for me. Capacity is everything because you can get something and lose half of what you got. The gnat's broke, and they weren't expecting to get all that God had for them. But once I launch out in the deep, I know the blessings of God are limitless. So I am prepared with capacity for God to fill me with everything that God has. Just don't give me a little bit. God fill me till I overflow. Fill me up, God, till I want more. Fill me up, God, till I can't handle no more. And give me the capacity to hold them onto it. Somebody say, Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. How don't we want the blessing? How about the capacity to handle it? Yeah, I don't think y'all are ready for me to go deeper. I don't think y'all are ready for me to go deeper. Y'all might like y'all a bunch of surface folks. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's why we call deeper life ministries. Yes, because we go deep into the word of God. And you're gonna have to go deeper if you want God to give you deliverance. If you want what God has for you, surface prayer is over with. Now I lay me down to sleep. Pray the Lord in my soul to keep. No, you gotta go a little deeper than that. You got to get down on your face before God. And you got to cry loud. And you got to tell God I need you, you got to stay there till something breaks. You got to stay there till something moves. The net broke. You don't think that the creator of the world knew where the fish are at? The gold is his. Good God Almighty. The silver is his. Everything belongs to God. And you mean a surface-minded person will think that God can't help them? I'm not just satisfied. I'm not just satisfied with a little. I want all that the Lord has for me. Now, it's scary because if you don't get all that God has for you, you've got to launch out into the deep. You just cannot stay on the surface. Because you'll get surface stuff back. Now, if a treasure ship goes down in the Atlantic, you might find a few coins that wash up on the beach. This will get your attention now. I'm talking about money. You might get a few coins that wash up on the beach. But in order for you to get the treasure chest, you've got to put on something to submerge yourself down deep that you can get what God had. I wish I had three that really want to go deep with me in prayer. Deep with me in consecration. Deep with me in fasting. Deep with me in studying the word of God. Put my deep people out in here today. Hallelujah. I want to go deeper. Tell somebody I want to go deeper. I want to go deeper in God. Scratching the surface. You're going to have to put them aside and go deeper. Y'all are going to be seated. I'm going to wrap this up in a minute. Part two is coming up shortly at 3 p.m. Amen. Nobody wanna go deeper. Somebody say their net break. Amen. I want you to circle that, underline it, or holler it in your Bible if you ain't got a Bible. I want you to put it in your notes section on your phone. The net break. Because this is gonna be the this is gonna be the part. The net broke. Somebody say capacity. God give me the capacity to handle what you're about to give me. In Jesus' name. That's a good place for you to shout right there.

unknown 26:11

Hallelujah.

SPEAKER_01 26:14

Because if God bless you with something and you don't have the capacity to handle it, you're gonna lose it. You'll lose it. So when the net broke, some of the fish were lost. Y'all don't want me to go deeper. Sarah, I don't think they want me to go deeper. See, when you don't have the capacity, then you wind up losing something. That's what happens in marriages. That's what happens in relationships. You don't have the capacity to handle love or to project love. Without the capacity, something's got to break. And when something breaks, loss happens. But I don't want to lose anything. That God is blessing me with. I don't want to lose anything. The Bible says that he beckoned unto their partners which were in the other ships. They should come and help. And they came and they filled both ships so that they, both ships, began to sink. Let me tell you something. God is able to bless you with overflow that you won't be able to handle it. But the ships weren't on the shoreline, they were out in the deep. Where the overflow was. You want overflow in your life, go deeper. Get out of the surface. Three-minute prayer ain't enough. Take it to 30. If you're doing 30, take it to an hour. You're fasting once a week, get the three times a week. Go a little deeper. You want deliverance? Get on your face and cry out to Jesus. You gotta get deeper. And the Lord is able to do it. Where are my deep people at in here today? Some of y'all. Some of y'all are too deep. That you're missing the word. Tell me how too deep. You gotta get deeper with some substance and ask God, pour out in me. Yes. Pour out in me. And give me the capacity to hold on to it. Glory to God. Come get ready to go. The Bible says that when Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees and said, Depart from me, for I'm a sinful man, O Lord. Peter over a few fish. Recognize Jesus as being Lord over his life. If you're ever gonna go deeper in God and get what God has for you, we must obey his word. You must obey his word. You can't be blessed of God and be disobedient to his word. That's what the devil tells people. You can disobey God's word and God still bless you. No, God bless those that obey him. You want the Holy Ghost? He gives the Holy Ghost to them that obey him.

unknown 29:44

That's right.

SPEAKER_01 29:46

Yes. Go deeper in God. Cry out to the Lord. Stop letting surface be your portion. But go deeper in God. And all that were with him at the drawth of the fish which they had taken. And so and so was also James and John, the sons of Zebedee, which were partners with Simon. And Jesus said unto Simon, fear not. For henceforth, you greedy catch man. God, the Lord took them to the deep. He took them to the deep, brother Fred, to show them what he could do with them. But they had to be prepared with capacity. Because now we're dealing with fish. But then he tells them, don't fear. Because I'm ready to take you deeper. And now you're going to not only catch fish, you're ready to catch men. See, a lot of folk miss it because they're at the surface and they're trying to figure out what God wants with me. God wants to use you so you can go out and catch people after God delivered you, then you can go out and help somebody else in the name of the Lord. Let's go deeper, people of God. Let's stop thinking about our own selves and start thinking about what God wants us to do for Him. Let's go deeper. Let's surface. There is a deeper revelation that God wants to give us that the net don't break. That you can get all that God has for you. So that you can change somebody else's life. Don't you think for a moment that nobody in here hasn't been through nothing, into something, came out of something, that they have a testimony now that God brought me out of it, that God delivered me, but I had to go deeper in God for God to help me. People in here were alcoholics. People in here were drug addicts. People in here have been incarcerated. People been in here were fornicators, they were adulterers, people in here, everybody been in here was in sin. We're born in the sin. But what we did was we went deep in the Lord. Some of us tried to fix ourselves and tall all night because we can't fix yourself. We got off from the surface and launched out into the deep. And when we got in the deep, the Lord filled us with the Holy Ghost. Then we started living for God. And we started saying, For God I live and for God I die. Launch out into the deep. It will help you. It will bless you. I wish I had some people that just wanted to go deeper with me. I'm not a surface preacher. I'm not a surface teacher. I go deep in the Lord. Launch into the deep. Let down your net. I need some folk to say, Lord, I tried it on my own. But nevertheless, I'm going to do it your way. All He's looking for is for you to obey the word of God. Now, if you think you're going to get what you need from God, tip-toeing around the issues of your life, being surface, if you think you're going to get what you need from God, the devil is tricking you. You've got to forsake all. Listen to me. When the disciples saw what the Lord did, the Bible said, then they forsook all and followed him. Anybody left some things behind? You've got to leave some stuff behind. If you want to get with something from God, they forsook all. What's all? All. Let me say it like this. Something else. Let me earthing. Earthing and erbada. Excuse my ebonics. Earthing and erbody. You got to leave everything and everybody behind. And launch out into the deep that you can get what you need from God. Are you listening to me? Some of y'all really need something from God. I'm telling you, you really do. Whether you know it or not, you really need something from God. And inside of you, listen to me, can we wrap this thing up? And inside of you, you know you need to change. But the enemy has you in fear. Yes? You're going to have to give up people, places, and things. But the enemy has you in fear with one word commitment. And he tells you you're going to throw everything into it and it still ain't going to work. Because you throwed everything into your previous relationships and it didn't work. I'm talking to somebody. But I told you you can't judge God based upon your old relationships. You got a new lover now. Yeah. Yes. And he's not a man that he should lie. Not the son of man that he shall repent. The Lord said it. It's gonna happen. I need to feed him the one that lost out of the children. Yes. Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something. You've got to do this thing on your own. You're listening to me. Whether they want to go or not, whether they want to help or not, you've got to do this thing on your own. The good thing about it is that Peter has some friends. When the net broke, they didn't mind launching out into the deep and helping him recover what God blessed him with. You've got to stop hooking up with people that don't think like you think, act like you act, and don't want nothing from God like you do. I know it's tight, but it's right. You've got to get around folk that want to launch out in the deep and people that's been in the deep. Anybody been in the deep in here? Once you go into the deep, then God can bless you with resurrection power. Jesus said it like this: You sinful and adulterate generation seek after a sign. But no sign shall be given unto you, except for Jonah the prophet. As the son of Jonah the prophet was three days and three nights in the belly of the well, so shall the son of man be in the heart of the earth. So he was talking about resurrection. Going down to the lower part, getting deep, but coming back up again with power. Power to deliver, power to save. So he had friends. Stop hanging around with people. It's keeping you on the shoreline. Stop hanging out with surface folk. Stop hanging out with religious people who can quote scripture but don't have no power to back it up. Stop hanging out with people and all they do is talk, but no power with them. They're not doers of the word. You want to be around somewhere where the power of God is and you get what you need. So Peter has some friends who the Lord was calling, and they helped him, and they helped them get what God had for them in the name of the Lord. You gotta hang around with the right folk. You gotta hang around with the right folk? Go get some deep folk. Where's my deep folk at? Now, this is gonna be too much for some of y'all to handle. This is gonna be too much for some of y'all to handle. Some of y'all scared now. Sister Debbie, they really need something powerful from God. We all do. We need something from God. You need the Lord showed me in a dream last night, I was praying for you. And uh, I'm gonna pray for you today. I told my wife when I woke up, the Lord showed me. When I saw you walk in, I said, honey, I told you. The Lord wants to take you deeper. Listen to me. Listen to me. When he takes you deeper, the Lord wants you to understand that you're not gonna drown. You gotta trust God that you're not gonna drown. The next step that you take, God is gonna wipe tears from your eyes. Listen to me. And sadness from your heart. But you're gonna have to go deeper in God. What you're doing now surfacely ain't gonna, it can't happen that way. You gotta get deeper. Am I right about it? You gotta go deeper. You know you need to get deeper.

unknown 40:45

Amen.

SPEAKER_01 40:45

That's why you're in the right church. I told you when I baptized you, I'll watch out over you. Me and my wife, we pray for you. I heard from the Lord for you gotta go deeper in the Lord. You gotta get deeper. And God's gonna bless you with something, and He's gonna use you. Who wants to go deeper? Who really wants to go deeper? You want to go deeper? I know you do. God's gonna take you deeper. He's gonna take you deeper. I mean, God take you deeper. I don't want you to look around at nobody. I just want you to tell, call on the name of Jesus. Time out for surface. Launch out into the deep. There's a great reward waiting on you. Ron tell you time to go deeper. Surface can't do nothing for you. Time to get deeper in the Lord. So here's what they did. When Peter launched out, that was Peter's boat. When he launched out, he didn't have the capacity. And the nets broke. But he has some friends. You don't have the capacity to handle what you're going through. That's why you need some friends. To help you get all that God has for you. Oh glory. Amen. Those of you who want to go deeper, I don't want you to come alone. Here's what God is asking for you. They say, Lord, nevertheless. But at your at your word. At your word. He wants a yes.