WEBVTT 00:00:03.120 --> 00:00:08.960 If you would, could you turn your Bible to the Gospel of Mark chapter 5? 00:00:09.279 --> 00:00:13.359 We're going to launch our reading at verse 35. 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:22.480 Depending on your Christian journey, most of the time when a preacher tells you to turn to Mark chapter 5, they begin to speak about this woman who had an issue of blood. 00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:35.200 That's not what we're going to speak about because before this woman had an issue of blood and touched the hem of Jesus' garment, Jairus came to Jesus first and said, My daughter is sick. 00:00:35.359 --> 00:00:37.280 Will you come lay your hands on her? 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:39.920 If you do this, I know that she'll be made well. 00:00:40.000 --> 00:00:42.719 So that's where we're going to pick up from this biblical narrative. 00:00:42.799 --> 00:00:43.840 If you're ready, would you shout? 00:00:43.920 --> 00:00:44.560 I'm ready. 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:48.799 Mark chapter 5, verse 35. 00:00:48.880 --> 00:00:56.799 It says, While Jesus was still speaking, some people came from the house of Jairus, the synagogue leader. 00:00:57.119 --> 00:00:59.359 Your daughter is dead. 00:01:00.560 --> 00:01:04.000 So why bother the teacher anymore? 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:10.560 Overhearing what they said, Jesus told him, Don't be afraid, just believe. 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:16.640 He did not let anyone follow him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James. 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:26.480 When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw a commotion with people crying and wailing loudly. 00:01:26.719 --> 00:01:30.560 He went in and said to them, Why all this commotion and wailing? 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:34.000 The child's not dead but asleep. 00:01:34.319 --> 00:01:35.599 Watch the text. 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:38.400 But they laughed at him. 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:44.560 Sidebar, be careful of allowing other people to put labels on your situation. 00:01:45.120 --> 00:01:51.920 Because if you get in agreement with them, you could be signing a death certificate on the very thing that God intends to raise up. 00:01:53.439 --> 00:02:02.480 After he put them out, he took the child's father and the mother and the disciples who were with him and went in where the child was. 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:17.280 Immediately the girl stood up and began to walk around. 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:21.919 She was twelve years old, put a mental bookmark there. 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:26.319 At this, they were completely astonished. 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:36.159 And he, speaking of Jesus, gave strict orders not to let anyone know about this and told them to give her something to eat. 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:45.120 A clause of concern, the two verses of emphasis that I want to bring to your attention first lives in verse 41. 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:51.199 When Jesus walks in the room, touches this little girl by the hand, and says, Get up. 00:02:51.360 --> 00:02:54.719 Can I get somebody to look at your neighbor and tell them, Get up? 00:02:55.599 --> 00:02:58.879 Oh, you don't even recognize you're being used by the Holy Spirit. 00:02:59.039 --> 00:03:04.319 That was prophetic because God has been telling them the exact same thing all year long. 00:03:04.639 --> 00:03:07.120 Get up from the ashes of disappointments. 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:08.240 Get up from that. 00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:09.599 Get up from bitterness. 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:12.719 All bitterness does is contaminate the container. 00:03:12.879 --> 00:03:14.000 Get up from worry. 00:03:14.240 --> 00:03:17.919 Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have. 00:03:18.560 --> 00:03:20.080 Any overthinkers in the room? 00:03:20.319 --> 00:03:21.120 Overthinkers? 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:27.199 I'm talking about the people where God gives you an instruction and you're like, hold on, let me go overthink and I'll get back to you on it. 00:03:27.840 --> 00:03:30.319 If I was a note taker, I'll write this down. 00:03:30.719 --> 00:03:35.120 Overthinking is a misuse of your creative self. 00:03:36.560 --> 00:03:38.240 Look how creative you are. 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:47.199 Making horror stories in your mind that may never happen, creating scenes, and you know you have it real bad when you have pre-planned clapbacks. 00:03:47.599 --> 00:03:53.520 Like I already know what I'm gonna say when I see them, and if they say this, I already got this loaded. 00:03:53.680 --> 00:04:00.639 You overthink so much and forecast what's gonna happen and prepare for the weather conditions of what you're overthinking about. 00:04:01.199 --> 00:04:09.199 Get up from that, get up from resentment, get up from jealousy, get up from seeking attention in the form of likes. 00:04:09.360 --> 00:04:12.080 Get up from that person's bed that you're not married to. 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:14.639 I'm not sorry, my generation requires real. 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:16.639 Get up from the same struggle. 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:17.600 Can we talk? 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:19.439 Y'all didn't say nothing. 00:04:19.600 --> 00:04:20.800 Left side, can we talk? 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:23.759 Like, I'm cool with taking test. 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:26.560 I'm just not cool with taking the same test. 00:04:27.360 --> 00:04:29.040 I'm cool with taking test. 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:32.800 I'm just not cool with taking the same test from the same teacher. 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:33.920 I'm gonna keep going. 00:04:34.079 --> 00:04:35.600 I'm cool with taking test. 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:40.319 I'm just not cool with taking the same test from the same teacher in the same class. 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:41.680 I'm gonna keep going. 00:04:41.839 --> 00:04:43.519 I'm cool with taking tests. 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:49.439 I'm just not cool with taking the same test from the same teacher in the same class over the same subject. 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:50.639 I got one more. 00:04:50.720 --> 00:04:52.319 I'm cool with taking tests. 00:04:52.480 --> 00:05:00.480 I'm just not cool with taking the same test from the same teacher in the same class over the same subject and keep making the same grade. 00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:02.720 After a while, I want to pass. 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:04.480 Does anybody want to pass? 00:05:04.879 --> 00:05:12.240 The devil should have to think a little different now because he can't get me with the same things he got me with in 2020. 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:25.519 See, there's a reason why the fifth grade chair and the pre-K chair are different sizes, because after a while your butt should not be able to sit in the same place, and don't misconstrue what I'm saying. 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:31.120 Maturity has nothing to do with age because you could be a 73-year-old foo. 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:34.160 I let my lip hang on purpose. 00:05:34.319 --> 00:05:43.439 You could be a 73-year-old foo, and you could be 26 and more wiser and hungrier in about the things of God than somebody older. 00:05:46.720 --> 00:05:49.120 Then, verse 35. 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:51.279 This is where we're gonna park. 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:55.040 35 is gonna be the waiter for this sermonic presentation. 00:05:55.680 --> 00:05:59.360 Jairus, your daughter's dead. 00:06:00.399 --> 00:06:05.199 So why bother the teacher any further? 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:07.680 Let's speak around this thought from this subject. 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:10.959 God, why didn't you stop it? 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:27.120 The statement that echoes in emergency rooms after tragedy, after loss, God, why didn't you stop it? 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:33.839 And see what hurts even more is we know that God has the ability to. 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:58.399 It did not happen because they had a conversation with a Muslim. 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:05.439 It didn't happen because they had a conversation with somebody who practices new age. 00:07:06.000 --> 00:07:13.199 It happens when we are believers who don't know how to handle pain. 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:17.759 That's what's making us leave. 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:19.600 We don't know why. 00:07:19.839 --> 00:07:23.120 We don't know if God is so good, why did He allow it? 00:07:23.279 --> 00:07:25.279 I had this whole conversation with this brother. 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:31.439 He said, I couldn't be a Christian because I don't understand why good God could see all this evil and still allow it. 00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:33.199 And I said, Brother, what is evil? 00:07:33.279 --> 00:07:35.279 He said, You know, murder, killing, rape. 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:37.519 And I said, Who does that, God or man? 00:07:39.199 --> 00:07:41.920 So what you're really saying is, why didn't God kill everybody? 00:07:42.079 --> 00:07:45.600 We tried that before, Noah, but we keep on reproducing wickedness. 00:07:45.680 --> 00:07:48.959 So I think the real question is, what type of love does God have? 00:07:49.199 --> 00:07:53.279 That he would send his son on behalf of us, okay. 00:07:53.920 --> 00:07:58.959 And he was like, I still not with you yet, because why would he send people to hell? 00:07:59.040 --> 00:07:59.920 I don't agree with that. 00:08:00.000 --> 00:08:06.879 And I said, Doesn't don't you have the right to decide what somebody has to wear to get in your house? 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:20.160 I said, So if you had a party and everybody who came to this party, you gave them a red outfit, and the only way you can get in is if you have on this red outfit. 00:08:20.319 --> 00:08:27.279 What do you look like standing at the door in this yellow outfit saying, I don't believe in this stuff, why won't he let me in? 00:08:27.600 --> 00:08:31.360 I have the right to decide who gets in my house. 00:08:31.439 --> 00:08:46.080 Well, God gave us an outfit, the blood, the blood of Jesus, and everybody who is a believer must have the blood of Jesus on them so that when we step before the Lord, he doesn't see our sins because they've been nailed to the cross. 00:08:46.240 --> 00:08:47.919 He sees the blood of the Lamb. 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:53.360 So I could come boldly before the throne of grace because I recognize that I'm blood covered. 00:08:56.399 --> 00:09:08.960 If you look a little closer at this text, it's not just about this girl who is pronounced dead, it's really about faith under fire. 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:30.320 It's when you're believing for God to do something, trusting for God to do something, seeking the Lord, 21 days of prayer, getting in your groups, and then you get this negative doctor's report, you get this bad news, you get this situation that makes you question what was all that for if you're really good. 00:09:34.159 --> 00:09:36.879 Why bother the teacher? 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:39.679 That was bothering me when I was reading this text. 00:09:40.000 --> 00:09:43.120 Because I'm I've probably been to more funerals than anybody in here. 00:09:43.200 --> 00:09:44.799 I hate that part of pastoring. 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:47.759 Funerals is just and then I don't lie to people, I don't get up here. 00:09:47.919 --> 00:09:48.960 We'll see him in glory. 00:09:49.039 --> 00:09:53.360 I don't, unless they accept the Christ, I'm speaking to people who have it in the room. 00:09:54.879 --> 00:09:58.000 This they didn't say, Man, your daughter passed. 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:00.879 We extend our condolences. 00:10:01.279 --> 00:10:04.080 They said, Your daughter's dead, so why bother the teacher? 00:10:04.720 --> 00:10:06.399 Listen to what they're really saying. 00:10:06.720 --> 00:10:08.799 All that Jesus stuff didn't work. 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:11.440 You missed it. 00:10:11.759 --> 00:10:16.480 All that I'm coming to him to be a healer, he can't do it now because she's dead. 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:19.039 All that praying and all that fasting, it didn't work. 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:19.840 So what's the point? 00:10:20.000 --> 00:10:22.320 All that seeking his face and crying, that didn't work. 00:10:22.399 --> 00:10:23.039 So what's the point? 00:10:23.200 --> 00:10:34.960 All that decorating your prayer closet and posting it on TikTok when really the Bible says, let it be your secret place, not something where you're posing online to look if the camera angles are right, worshiping and make sure the tear. 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:37.200 It's supposed to be your secret place. 00:10:42.399 --> 00:10:44.159 Why bother the teacher? 00:10:44.879 --> 00:10:46.879 Saying all that Jesus stuff didn't work. 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:48.480 If I was a note taker, I'd write this down. 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:50.720 Mint Hill, you write it down too. 00:10:51.360 --> 00:11:00.960 Why bother is the devil's favorite lyric that he wants us to do it with him when disappointment hits your life. 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:11.840 Why bother is the devil's favorite lyric that he wants us to do it with him when disappointment hits your life. 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:20.480 And I learned this personally, the devil doesn't have to attack your faith if he can convince you it's a waste of time. 00:11:23.039 --> 00:11:28.559 He knows I can't stop God from loving them. 00:11:29.440 --> 00:11:35.120 But if I can get them to stop loving him, y'all missing it. 00:11:40.879 --> 00:11:47.200 But if I can get them to doubt that his promises will ever come into fruition, I can get them to faint. 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:52.639 Be not weary in well-doing, for in due season you will reap a harvest if you faint not. 00:11:52.879 --> 00:11:55.360 We don't talk about the faint not part a lot. 00:11:55.600 --> 00:11:58.080 Yes, the Christian doesn't have four seasons. 00:11:58.240 --> 00:11:59.039 We have five. 00:11:59.279 --> 00:12:05.759 We have winter, we have spring, we have summer, we have fall, and we have something called due season. 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:09.039 But the thing about due season is you don't know when your due is due. 00:12:10.639 --> 00:12:14.240 So you're gonna quit right now, and your due season could be next week. 00:12:15.120 --> 00:12:19.039 The faint part is what the devil works on. 00:12:19.919 --> 00:12:24.799 It's this demonic math equation, is what I like to call it. 00:12:24.879 --> 00:12:26.639 I have a whole chart for you to see it. 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:29.120 A visual learner. 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:32.080 It's this demonic math equation. 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:45.200 He wants to add a voice to subtract clarity, which will multiply confusion, which will cause for there to be division between your will and the will of the Holy Spirit, which equals uncertainty. 00:12:45.360 --> 00:12:46.799 Preach, Holy Spirit. 00:12:47.039 --> 00:12:49.039 Do you have the Bible to corroborate your claim? 00:12:49.120 --> 00:12:49.759 Yes, I do. 00:12:49.919 --> 00:12:51.360 You won't surely die. 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:57.759 For God knows the day you eat the fruit, you're gonna be like him, knowing the good and the evil. 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:02.159 The devil's so stupid because man was made in the image and likeness of God. 00:13:02.320 --> 00:13:05.360 If Eve understood that, she would be able to respond back to the devil. 00:13:05.440 --> 00:13:06.480 I'm already like him. 00:13:06.720 --> 00:13:08.399 It's a whole other sermon. 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:12.080 He adds a voice. 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:17.600 Be careful where you bleed when wounded. 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:20.559 I promise you, social media is the worst place. 00:13:21.519 --> 00:13:23.519 People they're venting on social media. 00:13:23.600 --> 00:13:25.120 I'm like, what are you doing? 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:29.200 Did you not see that Jesus had this relational management principle? 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:36.720 He spoke to thousands, sent out 72, selected 12, but was vulnerable with three. 00:13:38.799 --> 00:13:49.919 You're so hurt because you're bleeding with a thousand, not liking your three, and trusting all of your 72 with your problems. 00:13:50.080 --> 00:13:51.039 Break that down, Pastor. 00:13:51.200 --> 00:13:52.799 Thousands that's social media. 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:05.679 My bother teacher any further. 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:12.639 All of this begin to plague. 00:14:15.919 --> 00:14:21.759 And if I would have came to Jesus yesterday, maybe my daughter wouldn't be dead. 00:14:23.759 --> 00:14:32.559 Maybe when she first started coughing, if I would have came to Christ then, because you know your mind likes to torment you when you get bad reports. 00:14:33.679 --> 00:14:36.960 Or maybe, maybe it's this woman's fault. 00:14:37.120 --> 00:14:39.600 Remember that woman with the issue of blood. 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:46.720 I came to Jesus first, and I asked him to come touch my daughter so that he would heal her. 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:51.440 You're not even supposed to be out here because you're considered ceremonially unclean. 00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:55.360 Oh, church family, what's your posture when somebody gets healed before you? 00:14:58.320 --> 00:14:59.840 Y'all should see your face. 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:06.240 What's your posture when the Lord allows you to watch him do it for somebody else? 00:15:06.559 --> 00:15:09.840 There really is two types of people you could be in this situation. 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:20.000 When you see the spiritual Amazon coming down your street and it blesses a brother or a sister, you could get mad, you could get jealous and ask, where's my package? 00:15:20.159 --> 00:15:21.919 Or you could have this perspective. 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:24.960 I'm gonna rejoice with those that rejoice. 00:15:25.200 --> 00:15:27.759 I'm gonna mourn with those that mourn. 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:36.000 I'm gonna applaud like it's mine because if the spiritual Amazon came to your house and you live on my street, this must mean I'm next. 00:15:37.519 --> 00:15:42.559 Well, I have just four people who recognize I don't have to get jealous, I have a good father. 00:15:47.360 --> 00:15:48.879 It's this woman's fault. 00:15:49.039 --> 00:15:52.320 Now remember, this woman had an issue of blood how long? 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:53.919 12 years. 00:15:54.159 --> 00:15:56.080 Jarrah's daughter was how old? 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:12.720 So the same day this woman got the diagnosis is the same day that your daughter was born, and now 12 years later, I'm gonna heal both of them on the same exact day. 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:16.879 Because if I could do it for them, I could do it for you. 00:16:21.440 --> 00:16:23.200 This is so good, family. 00:16:24.799 --> 00:16:35.279 The problem is, if we be honest, most of us, when we see suffering or when we go through it, this is how we feel. 00:16:38.480 --> 00:16:41.039 Y'all don't, y'all holy, so I'll just excuse me. 00:16:42.159 --> 00:16:43.440 God, that's not fair. 00:16:43.600 --> 00:16:46.159 Why do I have to keep getting purged? 00:16:46.399 --> 00:16:48.240 Why do I keep getting pruned? 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:50.960 You know, I read that scripture and it messed me up in 2023. 00:16:51.039 --> 00:16:55.039 It said, anybody who does not produce fruit, they'll be cut off. 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:58.080 But then those that do produce fruit, they'll be pruned. 00:16:58.159 --> 00:16:59.679 I'm like, I'm gonna get cut either way. 00:17:02.159 --> 00:17:08.240 But I learned, ooh, I learned it is better to be cut on than to be cut off. 00:17:08.720 --> 00:17:11.759 Whatever you have to cut off me, Lord, cut it off. 00:17:11.920 --> 00:17:25.279 If it's my pride, if it's arrogance, if it's entitlement, if it's lust, if it's anger, if it's trauma, if it's me saying that I'm an introvert when I'm really into hurt, and I'm trying to blame that event on why I'm mean and why I'm petty. 00:17:25.440 --> 00:17:44.720 God open up my eyes so that I can see the areas in my life where you need my heart to be soft, but the devil is trying to make it hard because there's a people that you called me to reach, there's a people that I'm supposed to serve, their feet that I'm supposed to wash, and I don't want the betrayal and the kiss of Judas to cause my heart to get so hard that I don't know how to love people. 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:48.480 Nobody cares that you post that you're a Christian if you're mean. 00:17:48.640 --> 00:17:52.640 People remember how you live and how you treated them, not what you posted. 00:17:53.839 --> 00:17:55.839 I feel like preaching up in here. 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:00.720 That's not fair. 00:18:02.160 --> 00:18:08.559 God, my sister back home, she said, Listen, I've been absent five years. 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:11.039 I'm serving in ministry. 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:18.880 This sister was on a stripper pole last month, and she already got discovered by a godly man. 00:18:19.519 --> 00:18:29.839 Lord, being real, if I have to be somebody else's bridesmaid, somebody gonna catch these hands. 00:18:31.039 --> 00:18:37.440 And I tried to get her to understand: listen, just because somebody got married doesn't mean they got blessed. 00:18:39.519 --> 00:18:44.720 You could be comparing where God has you to where the devil is taking them. 00:18:44.880 --> 00:18:45.599 Talk. 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:51.279 And so now you feel some type of way about somebody else's disaster and progress. 00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:54.000 You don't know what's behind that curtain. 00:18:54.240 --> 00:18:59.119 Anything that God has for me, that's what I desire for Him to give me through my obedience. 00:18:59.279 --> 00:19:01.759 I don't want nothing that nobody else has. 00:19:06.480 --> 00:19:10.079 Reminds me of this parable that Jesus gave. 00:19:10.400 --> 00:19:12.640 The parable of the workers in the vineyard. 00:19:12.880 --> 00:19:18.319 It was people who worked from nine to five, and there were people who worked from four to five. 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:26.319 When the people who work from nine to five saw how much the people who work from four to five got paid, they said, Oh, we're about to really get paid. 00:19:26.400 --> 00:19:27.759 Let me show you how much they got paid. 00:19:27.839 --> 00:19:28.160 Okay. 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:31.519 Matthew chapter 20, verse 10. 00:19:31.759 --> 00:19:45.200 It says, Now when those hired first came, they thought, somebody say assumption, they thought they would receive more, but each of them also received a denarius. 00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:52.640 And on receiving it, they grumbled at the master of the house. 00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:55.279 Grumbled. 00:19:56.079 --> 00:19:57.519 See, we have to understand this. 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:07.200 Nothing shocks God, nothing has ever occurred to God. 00:20:07.920 --> 00:20:22.079 So this means that Jesus already knew when Jairus came to me to ask for me to be a healer for his daughter, I'm not gonna be a healer, I'm gonna be the resurrector. 00:20:22.400 --> 00:20:23.519 Wait, wait. 00:20:23.920 --> 00:20:30.240 So, what appeared to be a delay to you is actually on time for me. 00:20:30.559 --> 00:20:44.400 So I could take my time while I'm walking through the marketplace and allow a woman with the issue of blood to touch the hem of my garment because you came to me to be one thing, but I'm gonna use this pain to teach you I'm everything. 00:20:45.440 --> 00:20:52.000 See, this is why scripture refers to Yahweh as the I am that I am. 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:55.440 You don't know what am you gonna need for him to be. 00:20:55.759 --> 00:20:59.039 On Monday, he may be I am your mind regulator. 00:20:59.200 --> 00:21:01.920 On Tuesday, he may be I am your defender. 00:21:02.079 --> 00:21:05.279 On Wednesday, he may be I am the way out of nowhere. 00:21:05.440 --> 00:21:07.440 On Thursday, he may be Jarab. 00:21:07.680 --> 00:21:12.319 On Friday, he may be the one that can give you water in the midst of a wilderness. 00:21:12.480 --> 00:21:15.119 You don't know what am you gonna need for him to be. 00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:19.839 Can we pause real quick and just give God praise that he is the I am? 00:21:21.359 --> 00:21:22.799 Y'all don't get it. 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:40.799 Whatever you need for him to be, peace, he is that joy, he is that dopamine hit, he is that good, he is that faithful, he is that a savior, he is that, a teacher, he is that, a miracle worker, he is that. 00:21:43.200 --> 00:21:45.440 Gosh, I'm trying to help somebody heal. 00:21:45.759 --> 00:21:48.400 Your therapist has been trying to get you to get this. 00:21:49.680 --> 00:21:54.799 I'm trying to introduce another dimension of who I am to you. 00:21:55.119 --> 00:21:59.599 So while you're asking God why didn't it happen, the truth is you want. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:02.799 Something happened because you gave me your deadline. 00:22:03.519 --> 00:22:05.359 But I don't work for you. 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:12.559 We have to stop with this preaching in America that makes you the main character of the Bible. 00:22:12.799 --> 00:22:28.720 And so when you hear sermons like it's your season and it's your time and it's your moment and your breakthrough is on the way, it is classically conditioning a people to not know how to handle it when it's not your season, it's not your moment, your breakthrough is not on the way. 00:22:28.960 --> 00:22:32.160 God is not handing out promotion, he's handing out crosses. 00:22:33.039 --> 00:22:42.480 As though Jesus did not say, if anyone wants to come after me, he must pick up his cross daily, deny himself, and follow after me. 00:22:42.640 --> 00:22:50.559 As though Jesus did not say, In this world you will have trouble, but be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world. 00:22:50.880 --> 00:22:54.480 I'm trying to get us to have the trouble and the cheer. 00:23:05.920 --> 00:23:11.599 But when you meet Jesus for real, you can never sin the same again. 00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:17.200 Thank you for the golf claps. 00:23:18.240 --> 00:23:23.920 You can never sin the same again because your father's calling you. 00:23:24.400 --> 00:23:29.279 I remember when I was in high school, I was on a step team and I was about to graduate. 00:23:29.599 --> 00:23:39.759 18 years old, who's who of American high school students was on the honor roll, and there's this party I'm about to go to, and my dad says, you gotta be home at midnight. 00:23:43.920 --> 00:23:45.839 I'm on the honor roll. 00:23:46.319 --> 00:23:47.119 Who's who? 00:23:47.599 --> 00:23:48.559 I'm 18. 00:23:48.880 --> 00:23:50.400 I feel so judged right now. 00:23:51.839 --> 00:23:55.039 I go to the party, it's 11:30. 00:23:56.000 --> 00:24:00.559 Starting to get real turn, because it's you know it's not gonna be exciting at nine o'clock. 00:24:01.759 --> 00:24:03.039 1145. 00:24:03.279 --> 00:24:07.599 They're like, Jay, come on, let's go! Let's go! I'm like, I gotta go. 00:24:08.799 --> 00:24:10.960 And I'm trying to enjoy myself. 00:24:11.359 --> 00:24:13.039 1150 gets here. 00:24:14.160 --> 00:24:15.359 1158. 00:24:16.480 --> 00:24:18.559 Why y'all looking at me like that? 00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:22.240 1159. 00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:25.440 My father must have just had the phone in his hand. 00:24:26.079 --> 00:24:28.640 Because as soon as at midnight, mm-hmm. 00:24:32.559 --> 00:24:35.759 And I did what you're supposed to do. 00:24:35.920 --> 00:24:37.279 I ignored it. 00:24:38.640 --> 00:24:39.839 I'm 18. 00:24:40.400 --> 00:24:41.279 Who's who? 00:24:42.079 --> 00:24:43.039 Honorable. 00:24:46.799 --> 00:24:47.839 1210. 00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:49.920 They're like, Jay, are you all right? 00:24:50.640 --> 00:24:53.599 No, it's live though. 00:24:53.920 --> 00:24:55.039 I see it yet. 00:24:58.799 --> 00:25:03.759 I could not enjoy it because my father's calling me. 00:25:06.319 --> 00:25:10.160 Whoever you are, last night trying to enjoy it. 00:25:12.079 --> 00:25:15.039 Going over with your homies, trying to get high with them. 00:25:16.799 --> 00:25:20.319 Dating somebody that you know is not strengthening your walk with Christ. 00:25:22.319 --> 00:25:28.640 Co-worker that you want to cuss out, and you're constantly trying to ignore it. 00:25:28.720 --> 00:25:32.319 But the good thing about God is He doesn't stop calling you. 00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:40.319 Now I understand why the psalmist says that rod and that staff they comfort me because there was a time in my life I didn't feel it. 00:25:41.599 --> 00:25:45.680 I did whatever I wanted to do, but now the Holy Spirit convicts me. 00:25:45.839 --> 00:25:47.519 Now God guides me. 00:25:52.400 --> 00:25:54.079 This is prophetic for somebody. 00:25:54.160 --> 00:25:57.359 You're trying to enjoy rebellion. 00:25:57.920 --> 00:25:59.680 Wondering why you don't have any peace. 00:25:59.759 --> 00:26:01.759 The melatonin didn't work, did it? 00:26:02.799 --> 00:26:05.119 Taking the magnesium didn't work, did it? 00:26:05.279 --> 00:26:12.400 You're following all this advice from Chat GPT and threads, and not recognizing the Bible already gave you the best wisdom. 00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:16.000 He gives his beloved sweet sleep. 00:26:20.160 --> 00:26:22.799 There's this delay chart. 00:26:22.880 --> 00:26:23.839 I want us to get it. 00:26:24.160 --> 00:26:24.480 Okay? 00:26:25.119 --> 00:26:26.079 I want us to get this. 00:26:26.160 --> 00:26:27.519 And y'all are gonna preach it with me. 00:26:28.000 --> 00:26:29.200 Three types of delays. 00:26:29.359 --> 00:26:34.480 It's not a delay to us, it's not a delay to God, but it does feel like a delay to us. 00:26:34.799 --> 00:26:36.319 First type, first type of delay. 00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:37.279 What's that word? 00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:39.519 That wasn't confident. 00:26:39.759 --> 00:26:40.559 First type of delay. 00:26:40.640 --> 00:26:41.440 What's the word? 00:26:42.400 --> 00:26:45.359 Second delay, third delay. 00:26:45.440 --> 00:26:46.640 We don't like this one. 00:26:47.759 --> 00:26:48.079 Okay. 00:26:49.599 --> 00:26:51.200 First delay. 00:26:51.680 --> 00:26:52.480 Introduction. 00:26:53.440 --> 00:26:57.839 Jarrus, I can take my time because I want to introduce you to. 00:26:58.240 --> 00:27:01.440 I'm not just a healer, I'm the resurrector. 00:27:01.599 --> 00:27:04.799 Mary Martha, all throughout the fabric of scripture, you see Yahweh doing this. 00:27:05.039 --> 00:27:07.680 He introduces that he's multifaceted. 00:27:08.079 --> 00:27:13.599 You can't compartmentalize or box me in, box me in to a certain is, I just am. 00:27:14.160 --> 00:27:14.480 Okay. 00:27:15.039 --> 00:27:17.039 Next delay, instruction. 00:27:17.839 --> 00:27:21.119 That's when God is preparing you for what is to come. 00:27:21.519 --> 00:27:24.079 We see episodes like that in scripture with Joseph. 00:27:24.400 --> 00:27:27.039 God giving him wisdom about a famine. 00:27:27.200 --> 00:27:29.839 So now there's an instruction that you must follow. 00:27:30.160 --> 00:27:36.240 God can give you instructions in your chapter six because he knows what's coming in chapter nine. 00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:40.880 And it doesn't make sense why he's telling you in chapter six, stop eating out. 00:27:41.119 --> 00:27:46.240 It's because in chapter nine, there's something that you have to do in ministry that you need to help fund. 00:27:46.400 --> 00:27:49.279 So I'm trying to get your finances in order right now. 00:27:49.440 --> 00:27:52.000 I'm trying to get your mind in order right now. 00:27:52.160 --> 00:27:54.880 I'm trying to get your rid of lust right now. 00:27:55.039 --> 00:27:57.599 Because, brother, one day you're gonna have to pray for sisters. 00:27:57.680 --> 00:28:04.160 And I want you to be able to see her as a sister and not a potential and not a potential sex object. 00:28:04.319 --> 00:28:06.160 So I need for you to heal. 00:28:08.240 --> 00:28:11.200 The last delay disobedience. 00:28:11.680 --> 00:28:19.119 That's why this statement that people say all the time in churches all across America, what God has for me is for me. 00:28:19.279 --> 00:28:23.359 And I be wanting to shout back so bad, not if they don't obey. 00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:33.279 I don't ever want to be a preacher that's great at delivering the word, but poor at the word delivering me. 00:28:35.920 --> 00:28:37.920 That's why many people are frustrated. 00:28:38.079 --> 00:28:44.079 You're not getting the promises the Bible speaks about because you're not being the disciple that the Bible speaks about. 00:28:44.480 --> 00:28:51.440 And everybody is cool with rocking the brand, Christian, but everybody's not cool with being the witness of a Christian. 00:28:54.240 --> 00:29:01.440 Jesus gets to Jair's house, and he does something that most of us just overlooked. 00:29:02.240 --> 00:29:05.119 It says, after he put them all out. 00:29:07.279 --> 00:29:08.400 Y'all missed it. 00:29:08.559 --> 00:29:10.960 That's the Jesus I need to see on TV anymore. 00:29:11.599 --> 00:29:14.240 Not this peace be unto you, Jesus. 00:29:14.480 --> 00:29:17.359 I need to see the Jesus that flipped over tables. 00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:23.039 Show me the Jesus that came in and was like, She not dead, she asleep. 00:29:23.119 --> 00:29:24.240 Oh, you think it's funny? 00:29:24.480 --> 00:29:25.200 Get out. 00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:27.839 You smiling in the back, out. 00:29:28.880 --> 00:29:30.319 Let me help somebody heal. 00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:32.480 Maybe they didn't go ghost on you. 00:29:32.799 --> 00:29:35.839 You prayed, Lord, anything that's not your will. 00:29:38.160 --> 00:29:40.079 Oh, let me help you forgive them. 00:29:40.559 --> 00:29:50.480 Anything that's not your will, anything that will get in the way, anything that will interrupt my intimacy with you, Lord, remove it, block it, reroute it. 00:29:50.640 --> 00:29:56.880 And so God came in your life and said, Listen, I don't come in here to renovate, I come in here to occupy. 00:29:57.119 --> 00:30:00.799 I'm not coming in your house as a renter, I'm coming in as a landlord. 00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:02.559 I want access to every room. 00:30:02.720 --> 00:30:03.519 I want your attic. 00:30:03.759 --> 00:30:04.640 I want your bathroom. 00:30:04.720 --> 00:30:05.599 I want your bedroom. 00:30:05.759 --> 00:30:06.640 I want your basement. 00:30:06.799 --> 00:30:13.680 I want full access because any room that you do not allow Christ in is a room the devil can wreak havoc in. 00:30:14.160 --> 00:30:17.119 Jesus is literally handing out eviction notices. 00:30:17.359 --> 00:30:18.000 Get out. 00:30:19.839 --> 00:30:20.640 It's funny. 00:30:20.880 --> 00:30:21.519 Get out. 00:30:22.880 --> 00:30:28.000 Maybe the very person that you said left you, Jesus handed them an eviction notice. 00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:34.960 He goes in the room. 00:30:36.000 --> 00:30:39.519 After he raises her, he says, Give her something to eat. 00:30:40.319 --> 00:30:41.039 I heard you too. 00:30:41.200 --> 00:30:42.480 I felt your toes. 00:30:43.920 --> 00:30:45.759 He says, Give her something to eat. 00:30:46.240 --> 00:30:47.039 Hear me. 00:30:47.279 --> 00:30:50.319 After she raises, he says, give her something to eat. 00:30:50.720 --> 00:30:53.440 Be careful where you feed after the miracle. 00:30:55.039 --> 00:31:01.680 Buffet style Christianity right now is dangerous because everybody's not preaching doctrine. 00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:05.680 And everything that sounds good is not sound or good. 00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:08.559 Podcasters are not pastors. 00:31:09.119 --> 00:31:17.279 Some of them are shepherds, but other people are addicted to attention or they're wounded and they're causing division in the body, so they attack the bride. 00:31:18.079 --> 00:31:19.599 Everybody's not edifying. 00:31:19.759 --> 00:31:24.160 Scripture tells me, to the best of my capability, live at peace with all men. 00:31:24.319 --> 00:31:27.759 Scripture tells me to build each other up in the holy faith. 00:31:27.920 --> 00:31:29.440 That's what scripture tells me. 00:31:29.519 --> 00:31:35.920 So everything I do in the name of the Lord should be edifying the body of Christ, not making you impressed with me. 00:31:37.680 --> 00:31:40.240 Enough with many stars. 00:31:40.319 --> 00:31:41.680 We need more ministers. 00:31:42.559 --> 00:31:43.680 Enough with it. 00:31:47.359 --> 00:31:51.279