Untied Knots Pt1

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And my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Amen. And so this is going to put us into a new series entitled Untied Knots. Amen. Wanna deal with that over for the next four weeks? And so we open up tonight's class beginning with this is going to be a very transparent series. Because the one thing that we want to understand, and we want to make this very clear to the saints of God, amen, is that we can move away from what I call taking for granted. And that is the privilege. It is certainly a privilege, privilege, excuse me, amen, to be courted by God. Amen. And then when God courts us, it is a privilege that he gives us, amen, uh, the opportunity to be a part of this way of life. Amen. Do I got a witness tonight? Amen. Does anybody out here feel that you deserve to be here? That you deserve to be given a chance to be with God. Amen. And so you agree with me tonight that it's a privilege when God decides at some point in time in your life to reveal Himself to you. Amen. And then give you the opportunity, amen, to make a decision if you want to be a part of this way of life. And we have to come to terms that there is a difference. I want to make this plain as well. There is a difference between meeting God, amen, and deciding to walk with him. Amen. Because it is in the walking with him. Understand this now. You have a lot of folks that know how to go to church. You understand. And going to church sometimes is a conscientious decision because many folks will go to church, amen, to ease the conscience. But when you start talking about, amen, meeting God and then deciding, because God gives us a choice to decide if we're going to walk with him or not. Amen. A relationship is birth. Amen. And in this relationship, amen, I want to cut past, amen, the songs of Zion. Would you allow me to do that? To cut past, amen. The heavenly language that we receive when we, amen, get the Holy Spirit. Amen. And even when the shekana glory hits the house and those that yield themselves to the power of God and decide that they want to express themselves through dance. We want to move beyond, amen. The divine behavior that comes with this lifestyle and deal currently with relationship. Because it's in the relationship, amen, that we learn who God is. Amen. Because what is happening today is people are in relationship with gospel personality, they are in relationship with their position. They are in relationship, amen, with individuals in the church. Amen. But we are in a season now where people have not learned who God is. Can the church say amen? I feel some power in that. Amen. Know who he is. Amen. Can I borrow one Desiree? Can you look at somebody that came to have church tonight and ask them a pinpoint question? Do you really know who he is? Amen. Can we cut past the fables? Cut past the stuff that you learn from your parents, amen. How they raised you and told you things about God. Amen. Can we move past that and ask the question do you really know who God is? Amen. And so when we talk about meeting him and deciding to walk with him, it is here that we learn the aspect of relationship where we learn who God is. Now watch this. Here is the twofold behind this, because it's not just a man learning who he is, because you hear people testify and they'll say things like, oh, God is a lawyer in the courtroom, he's a doctor in the sick room, he's a keeper, he's a healer. And 75% of the time, people are repeating what they heard somebody else say when they first got in the church. Amen. Because they really have not been in those circumstances and situations yet to really say God is a keeper. Amen. But it is when you learn how who God is and you start to realize, amen, who he really is, then you start to learn how to deal with him. Can I can I can I talk to you tonight? Amen. You learn how to deal with him. Can I can I can I go on record to say this tonight? And I hope I get some amens in the house. Amen. That God is not a toy, and God is not a child. Can I get a witness in here? Amen. How many know that God is holy and God is righteous? Do you really know that? And how many know, amen, that God, amen, he has size to him? Let me stop right now. I want to move ahead of myself. Amen. But God, God, we have to learn who God is, and when you know who he is, amen, you'll know how to deal with him. I'm awfully afraid, Mother Tobert, that we are in a season now because God is not being talked about a lot in his pulpits, that there are people who are guilty of really not knowing how to deal with him. Amen. And so they give him any kind of way. And so, can I say this to you tonight? So we have, amen, a season where people, amen, it's hard, it's hard for many to walk with God. Amen. I wish can I talk to you? I'm just being myself tonight. Amen. It's hard to walk with God. And you ask the question, why? You say, Why is it hard to walk with God? You know, so a lot of people won't go to a church, amen, that preach God a lot because it's hard to walk with him. And you say, Well, well, Bishop, why is it hard to walk with him? Because I'm getting ready to hit you with the A word that's gonna make you run. Because when you really walk with God, a lot of folks underestimate the fact that God believes in accountability. I wish you could look at somebody and say that God don't have time for your part-time love. No, he's not a part-time lover, honey. He's not gonna let you just get in the bed with him, man, and have sex with him and then leave when you go your merry way. He's not that kind of God. Somebody have to understand, he is a full-time God that requires accountability. Is that a fallen word today? That's a fallen word in the church today. Accountable, accountability. You understand what I'm saying? People say accountable. What is accountability? And watch this. God says that you're gonna give me these three words, Desiree, and it's hard for people to receive this. It's accountability, sacrifice, Lord, have mercy, and responsibility. God says, You're gonna give me that, amen. And this is what makes Abraham such a phenomenal biblical character because the Bible calls him amen. He is the father or considered the father of faith. Now, when you register this statement tonight, we're not dealing with somebody who had the kind of faith to believe God for a brand new house. Y'all gonna y'all not gonna talk to me tonight, huh? I done lost you already. It's not the kind of faith that'll have you taking the blessed oil, amen, and going to the car lot and laying hands on the car saying, I receive it in the name of Jesus. That's not what we're talking about. When he's talking about being the father of faith, we're talking about somebody who had to master the fact of walking with a God, forsaking, amen, what he could see. I feel power tonight. Forsaking what he could see to walk with something he could not see, and to trust something he could not see. This made him the father of faith. And so we're talking about, amen, accountability, sacrifice, and responsibility, amen. And this is what makes it hard for folks to walk with God, and then when you get these watered-down, jelly-backed preachers that make you think, amen, that God stands in our life with a red suit. It's gonna get quiet tonight, amen. It's gonna get we need some folk on this side of the church, amen. Somebody, and so and so David, amen, he was one of the most renowned characters, you believe, in Bible history. And the reason why David was so renowned, ladies and gentlemen, is because he was very transparent in his relationship with God. See, he wasn't like these self-righteous folk that want to make you think they were born with the Jerusalem Tribune in their hand and that they never committed a sin when they received the Holy Ghost. Because even after David met God and started walking with God, amen, he was very transparent because there were mistakes all through his life. I wish I can talk to somebody in here, amen. And so, being one of the most renowned characters, he was very transparent, amen, in his relationship with God. And just like Moses, we register, amen, countless events in which each was able to witness sides of God. I'm gonna borrow another one. Look at somebody say, sides of God. Yeah, there were sides of God. They were able to encounter sides of God that will only be able to be revealed through situations. Let me step down on the floor and talk to the saints tonight, face to face, and let you know, honey, if you are somebody, amen, who runs away from your situations, you will never be able to witness and understand the side of God He's trying to reveal. This explains why you have people who are so limited in the house of God. You cannot testify or tell me anything when you have not seen more sides than me. Oh, it's got quiet. So they witness sides to God that can only be revealed, amen, through situations. You can see me setting the text up already, amen. And so, amen, they will encounter this thing, amen, when you're on a journey. Now, this is imperative that you understand because situations can only come about when you're on a journey. I'm gonna say it again. Situations can only come about when you are on a journey. Because, amen, when you are on a journey, amen, you're going to encounter situations that is going to teach you amen about who God really is and teach you how to deal with your God. Yes, yes. And so, and so it is safe to say that not only would they learn about God, but it will be in these situations that you find when you study on David and even Moses. In these situations, they will, oh God, I feel power in this statement. They would learn about themselves. You see how quiet it got? Because, see, we push everything off on God, and we never understand that the reason why God has to allow situations to happen so you can see who you're denying. I don't think they caught that because we have a tendency to think because we got strong tongues, we deny who we are, and we fail to want to see who we really are. So God says, the way I'm gonna do this, ladies and gentlemen, okay, you can ignore the bishop, you can ignore amen, your prayer life, and you can decide that you're never gonna read your Bible. But the one thing you cannot get away from is when I manipulate situations in your life, not just for you to know who I am and how to deal with me, but I want you to see who you are and who you have gone through life denying that you really are. Well, I'm not gonna get no amens tonight, but that's okay because I already know I'm teaching good. Teach bishop, teach bishop. I don't need your amens tonight because it's the truth. We have a tendency to deny who we are. We have a tendency to ride down. You understand what I'm saying? A lot of folk miss that last series of Bible class that I was doing. I find saints are funny. Saints will intentionally miss Bible class and throw an excuse out there because you're teaching on stuff that's all up in their house. You understand? So they don't like getting cut, so I'm gonna find a way to throw an excuse. Oh, I was at work, I worked late. Let me say this to you. I went on threads today and I said that excuses is still disobedience. Y'all not gonna say nothing tonight, y'all not gonna like my teaching tonight, amen. But I'm gonna talk about it anyway. Look, so in order for us to become better worshipers, now David was a worshiper. Y'all understand, amen. He was a worshiper, y'all know that, don't you? He was a praiser. Watch this, he was a worshiper too. There's a difference, amen. He was a worshiper, and so, in order for him to be a better worshiper, don't you think that there has to come a time when you have to be honest with yourself? Because part of true worship is being able to expose your weaknesses to God. Y'all done got quiet. Y'all done got real quiet. See, I got respect for people who can, oh God, I feel power in this statement. I have a respect, and God has a respect for people, amen, who can expose their weaknesses to Him and tell Him what they are not. He says that when you are weak, oh God, that's when you become strong. It takes a strong person to stand before God and tell him, I'm a lazy person, I'm a procrastinator. Y'all done got quiet. I got a problem, amen, with drugs. I got a problem with a sex addiction, and I know for a fact that it's wrong, amen. But it's a beautiful thing to expose your weaknesses before God. This is what made David a real worshiper. Because when he worshiped, he exposed himself. I wish I could just talk to somebody in here who ain't afraid to just say, Lord, I'm exposing myself. Because I'm gonna tell you right now, you are not going to be a better worshiper lying to yourself. And maybe some of you don't want to be better worshipers, maybe some of you already feel that you're there. I beg to differ because I pastor you. I beg to differ. Amen. And so at the end of the day, amen, to be better worshipers, we have to be able to know how to deal with God. Amen. Know how to deal with Him and then know what it is in us because watch this. Amen. If God does not let us encounter situations, then we will not know, amen, what to stay away from if I don't know what I struggle with. My God from heaven. So I so so so so so. Joseph, first lady, I find Joseph, amen, he's being a solid figure, amen. He's out of the genealogy, gene genealogy, excuse me, the genealogy, man, of Abraham. Uh he will be considered, amen, Abraham's, I believe, great-grandson. Y'all ain't gonna talk back to me. Isaac was Abraham's son, right? And so Jacob was Isaac's son, so Jacob was his grandson, so Joseph will be Abraham's great grandson. So here in the here in the genealogy, amen, Joseph comes from a rich history. And so God, amen, who has his hand on this family, amen, comes, amen, to Joseph in a dream. And before Joseph can even get his ministry started, God would already show him, amen, who he was and what he had. You understand? Sometimes God has to get to you early because you know you got folks in your family that's gonna try to kill you.

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You're right.

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This thing got quiet in here. I wish I had some honest folk in here who can testify. Yeah, I got some, I got some siblings that hate on me. I got some people that hate on me in my family. Amen. Sometimes God will get to you early. But anyway, that's not what I'm doing. The point I want to make is he he has this strong amen genealogy that he comes from. Amen. And so God gets to Joseph in this dream, and he really shows Joseph there's gonna come a time in your life I'm going to anoint you. And you're gonna be very anointed and not just anointed, you're gonna be gifted. You're gonna be gifted in the fact that you're gonna be able to see dreams and interpret them. And he shows him this gift, amen, early when he was about 13 years old, 17. He was really young when he saw this gifting, amen. And so, amen. But watch this, it didn't really mean anything until God put him in a situation for him to see that your anointing and your gifting cannot stop your humanity. I'm not getting many amens tonight, amen, because I'm I guess I'm being too deep. I guess I need to go back and preach the old stuff, you know, baptizing Jesus' name, though with the Holy Ghost. Nah, there's more to it than that. So let me just keep on going. And so, so, so, so it did not mean nothing, Mother Tobert, because God had to show him that no matter how anointed and gifted I make you, it's not going to stop your humanity. So, I'm going to allow a situation that's going to transpire as you are in Portiphar's house. Amen. I am going to allow Portiphar's wife, amen, to come at you because I want to show you, amen, that your anointing and giftings on you are not going to make you exempt to have to deal with what's in you. It's quiet. It's real quiet tonight. Yes, real quiet tonight. Amen. Because you know why, ladies and gentlemen, can I say this tonight? Temptation tells you who you are. Can I say this tonight? Amen. For those that don't want to say, you keep holding out on me, amen. But you keep holding out, amen. I'm gonna say this to you, amen, that it does not matter, amen, how anointed, how gifted you are, and how many verses of scriptures you can read. Amen. God does not know who you are until he allows you to be tempted. In here, yes, amen, somebody. Yes, yes, yes, and and tempted, amen, it can fall under the same definition as being tested. Tested because James tells us that he doesn't tempt nobody with evil, but man is enticed by his own lust. Y'all don't want to talk to me tonight, amen. And so and so I know where I'm going, amen. So I want to deal, I want to move to the next phase. I done just set the foundation, amen, of the class tonight, of the series, and I want to move into the next phase, and I call it Independence Day. Yeah, independence day, amen. Watch. Many times we even read this powerful psalms, one of the most powerful psalms, amen. And if you don't know it, shame on you, because it is one of the most read, one of the most popular psalms in the world. Amen. And we have witnessed this particular song being read at home going services. Y'all understand? Every time somebody transitions and they set up the church, amen, for the people to be transitioned, to be talked about, amen, and to give them a home going. Now only God knows where they're gonna end up. But we call it home going, amen, because they're going home somewhere. This thing got quiet. Hey, they're going home somewhere, amen. God makes the final determination, don't He? No matter what we say over this casket, he makes the final determination of where that individual is going to be. But we have witnessed this Psalms being read, amen. He has been read at every home going service, amen, that I've been at. Somebody have gotten up and said, The Lord is my shepherd, and not really understanding, amen, uh, this psalms, because when you do the history, David writes this, amen, Psalms as a reflection of his life. And watch this. When you really read these Psalms, the many times that he got into a knot, and how God would appear and untie what served as a hindrance in his life. Can I say this tonight, ladies and gentlemen? I want to say this the strength of the believer is not how right you are. That's the strength of the believer. For you, for you ones who can never admit when you're wrong, there's something wrong with you because that's not. Strength. That's craziness. You understand? The strength of the believer is not how right you are, but it's how much has God been God in your life. That's the strength of the believer when you can tell people how many knots you've been in. Ain't nobody gonna talk back to me tonight. See, the reason why I can't respect self-righteous folk because you ain't been in no knots. You understand what I'm saying? You ain't never been in no knots, so I can't really deal with you. You can't really help me. Because you ain't been nowhere. Let's say God quiet. So so one of the strengths of David was not just his transition from the field. We know his story. Amen. I have talked about it in many, uh, many of classes and many of sermons, amen. And and and and and one of his strengths, he had many strengths, and it was not just his transition, amen, from the field to the house, because that within itself is a message to come to the field and to the house. Lord, have mercy, amen. And so that was not just the only strength of David, amen, but it would be his internal shift. Watch this, Diane. You back there asleep, baby? Amen. You got your head down. I thought you might be back there snot, snoring and carrying on. I'm gonna mess with you when you got your head down now. Now, watch this, amen. It was his internal shift. Somebody say internal shift because we look at the fact, amen. Watch this, that when you look at David, we say, Man, for him to come from the field to the house is a is a strength within itself because everybody don't get make it to the house. You understand? There are still family members of yours that's in the field, and they think that because they out in the field having fun, that you're stupid for being in the house. Because they think that you being in the house, you're limiting. It still got quiet, but I understand what goes on in the house once I get in it. Come on, somebody. You understand what I'm saying, and so what makes this is an eternal shift. Y'all follow me? The internal shift, watch this from independence to faith. That was a strength from independence. You say, Well, how was David independent? He had to use his own intellect, his own expertise, his own strength. Y'all heard what he said. He killed a lion and a bear. Oh, y'all done got quiet with his own expertise, and God was nowhere in sight. Might be watching over it now. You come into the house, and there has to be an eternal shift. Oh, yeah, I'm cracking you independent folk right now. Cracking them, and some of them ain't even here. But if you're listening, you got it. Independent. He says, Now you're gonna have to shift. Why? Because the oil is not gonna work on your own power. When you come in the house now, you are gonna have to submit to my rules. Oh, y'all done got quiet. You're gonna have to leave the independent spirit at the doorstep because the horn of oil is not gonna work on your independence. Now you're gonna have to have faith. Oh God, and believe in me, who is controlling the oil. Oh, y'all done got quiet tonight. Maybe I'm in the wrong house tonight. Amen. I'm in the wrong house tonight. Yes, indeed. He had to use his own intellect, his own expertise, his own strength to oversee the sheep, and his survival, his success depended on his own independence. Yeah, let me talk about that right now, about you independent folk, amen. Who don't want to pray to God, who don't want to go ahead and go through your losses, who you decided in your head how to work out your own stuff. I decided to go get three jobs. I don't care if it puts my soul in danger. Y'all done got quiet tonight. Yes, I'm gonna go borrow money, amen, from the borrow and checking place. Oh, y'all done got quiet in here, amen. I'm talking about trying to figure out things on your own, amen. Here, God is saying, check your independence, honey. Because I'm not gonna put, I'm not gonna be able to put oil on you and give you favor if you're trying to do your own favors. Okay, all right. So when David got into the house, he couldn't control the oil. Meaning that when God puts his hands on you, now I'm gonna say this tonight. God doesn't have his hands on everybody. Watch the people that tell you they anointed and they got a word. Nine times out of ten, they're not anointed and they don't have a word. Because when God anoints you, it humbles you. And you're not gonna tell folk what you got, you're just gonna let it shine when God gives you opportunity. It's done got quiet. I didn't get many amens there. Amen. Amen. But I'm teaching good anyway. Amen. And if you're sitting there being quiet, be trying to shut me down, something wrong with you. Because you're not gonna shut this down. You understand what I'm saying? Yes, indeed. You warlock. And so here, when David gets into the house, he couldn't control the oil, meaning that when God puts his hands on you, can I borrow one? Desiree, what's this? The third one? This is three. Look at somebody and say, when God puts his hands on you, he takes over your story.

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God, I'm grateful.

SPEAKER_00 27:47

Now I find this to be true, Sister Pat. I'm gonna just gonna put it out there on the table, amen, and say this. Many are delaying God's Amen, plan for their life because they still want to be independent. They still want to be independent. And it's this crazy thing about it. We have an altar call, they come down, help me. I'm just down. I need you to pray for me because I know that I just I'm independent. And then they leave the altar and pick it right back up. Because what God does, God says, Okay, I'm hearing you, I'm hearing you on this altar. A lot of folk don't understand his ears down here. God's ears on the altar. He hears, amen, what we put out on the altar. I need prayer because I'm independent, okay? So God says, Okay, by Thursday, I'm going to manipulate a situation to see how far you come from Sunday, your confession, until Thursday. And a lot of times we flunk because we go right back into independency. And do you not know that all you are is a form of a children of Israel because you continue to go in circles? And you're never ever going to progress. And and and watch this. The sad thing about it is when you die in that state, God spent the last 10 years trying to change you, and you refuse. Here it is, that stubbornness. I refuse to change because I'd rather be right than look bad. All right. I guess I'm in the wrong house tonight. Amen. But teach Damon White, teach Damon White, teach Damon White. So David now opens up this writing with one of the most underestimated statements. This is probably where I'm going to end that tonight. Let me see what time it is. Amen. All right, so I got plenty of time. He opens up this writing with one of the most underestimated statements overlooked by all believers. And this is what he says. He writes, he says, and remember I told you when he writes this, he writes this as a reflection over his life. So he wasn't dead. Y'all didn't catch that. So where do we get off reading this at funerals? You see how tradition can ruin stuff? We get so used to doing everybody doing it. Amen. He was not dead. He writes this as a reflection. And this statement that he says, he says, the Lord is my shepherd, and I shall not want. So now watch this. He moves into the capacity of coming into the house, shifting, amen, the internal shift of coming from independency to now codependent. And he says, The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. Which means he instantly changes his view on God. That he's not this entity that's far away. Can I say this, Mother Toby? I know you want to get pushing to say it. Amen. And that is this. It's sad that folks can come to the house, but their hearts are still away from it. And what's sad, David, is that they try to tie themselves to the house. But God is not the house. It's just where his name is. So he instantly changes his view on God. He says, He's not this person who is uh far away. He's not this faraway entity that I need, you know, and and and and and here's the thing, I'm not this faraway entity. Now I want you to kind of do an internal investigation. He said, I'm not, he's not this faraway entity that I need a ritual to get to. Can I ask a question tonight? Do you think coming to church tonight that you got to God? He says he's not this far away entity that I need a ritual. See, a lot of folks are ritualistic worshipers. Because what is happening is they are tying their relationship to what they do. And that does and that explains why, amen, that when they worship, there's no power. And when they praise, there's no power. Because he says that your father which seeth in secret. Oh, I feel power tonight. I will reward you openly. He says, when you pray, don't be like the hypocrites are. When they speak out loud and they say long, fast and eloquent prayers. He says, But when you pray, go into your closet. Let not your left hand know what your right hand does. And when I see it, I am going to reward you openly. When you get up, people are gonna know you've been with me. You understand? This is what set David apart from all the other Amen people in Israel. Because he understood, amen, that this is not somebody that's far away, and I need a ritual to get to. I don't need, amen, a service formula to get to God. In other words, he alludes when he writes, The Lord is my shepherd. He says, The Lord is my overseer.

unknown 33:45

Wow.

SPEAKER_00 33:47

Oh, y'all done got quiet tonight. It must be conviction. Because the question becomes, have you made him your overseer? Or are you one of those individuals, Sister Pat, that walk alongside of God and not behind him? Are you one of those individuals that are constantly telling God how it should be and not let him do it the way he needs to do it? Because when he's the overseer, amen, you shift from the side of him and from the front of him to the back. Y'all done got quiet in here. He says, the Lord is my shepherd. Now I'm not gonna deal with the shall not want right now. You know, I might have to get is that in my notes? No, that's not in my notes, is it? Oh, yes, it is. All right now I gotta keep it moving. Yes, it is. So he says, the Lord is my shepherd. So now we have to do a comparison because when God allows any man of God who is inspired by the Holy Spirit to write in the Holy Writ, He inspires them, there's always symbolistic or a comparison of why he says what he says. So David tries to make it plain to those who read this Psalms, he wants to bring us face to face of why he says God is my shepherd. He compares God to a shepherd. Now, let's talk about this tonight. Somebody said, Let's talk about it. Number one, shepherds, he is saying they have sacrificial commitment. So when he says that the Lord is my shepherd, he's saying the Lord is he has sacrificial commitment. In other words, David knew that God is committed to his people. This you ought to take courage tonight. And he says he's committed to his people and he prioritizes our well-being over difficult situations.

unknown 35:53

Thank you. Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 35:56

Saying that when he's saying the Lord is my shepherd, he's saying that this man is concerned about my well-being, and he is concerned that I'm gonna be well no matter how difficult it is. Somebody gotta praise him for that. Lord, have mercy. Somebody gotta praise me for that and say, honey, I know you're quiet, but honey, he's committed to me. He is committed to me. Yes, he is, and so when you start to understand that we are a priority, now we have the responsibility, amen, to learn how to trust him. It got quiet right there because a lot of you got trust issues, but it's your own fault because you choose stuff that keeps burning you. Yeah, y'all ain't gonna talk back to me for the trust folk. I don't trust somebody. Yeah, you don't trust it because you got bad choices, you ain't got no discernment. You keep choosing stuff that burn you, and you want to blame everybody else for your bad decisions. You need to go to the altar and say, Lord, help me break the generational curse of generational decisions. I'm making the same decisions family members made. Y'all done got quiet tonight. Ain't nobody gonna talk back to me tonight, but it's too late. The anointing of God is on me. Yes, that's what he said. Amen. So he says, Amen, that we have to understand that when he is a shepherd, he has sacrificial commitment, he is he prioritizes us. Look in Exodus chapter 2. The Bible says that when the people of God was crying out, Lord have mercy. When they were crying out because they were in bondage, pharaohs had switched. The pharaoh that was working with Joseph had died, a new one took over. Come on, somebody. Oh, we miss Obama, and so he came on up in here. You understand what I'm saying? A new Pharaoh takes over and he started reaping havoc on the people. He said, Man, if we don't do something about them, they're gonna take over because they keep growing. And the scripture said they were crying out upon their God. You understand? And the scripture said he heard them and he had respect unto his people. In other words, he was committed to his people, and he was concerned about their well-being. That's why he had Moses on the backside being trained. God, I feel the Holy Ghost tonight. Amen. And so that's why he says this. He says that he has sacrificial commitment. Number two, he says, the Lord is my shepherd. He not only has sacrificial commitment, but he says the Lord has patience and gentleness. He says that he is a shepherd that is patient. Now, I'm gonna say this tonight for all you ones, amen, that's holding out on me. Amen. But I know that you can put your hands together if you don't, you of the devil, because the Lord had patience with you. There ain't a person sitting in this church right now who done did something that God should have killed you for, amen. Or you keep doing it and he's having patience. Ain't that a wonderful thing to have a God that has patience? That's right, because David knew about God's ability. Watch this. His ability. I be trying to be consistent, and I always drop the ball. He says, I am patient with your inconsistencies. And how amen, watch this, and he says, even in the midst of you being inconsistent, I should have killed you, Tierra. I should have taken you out because you vowed to be with me. And every now and then you go a month without praying, you go a month without fasting, you don't even get in your Bible no more like you used to. Come on, somebody, and then you got the nerve to miss church every so often and throw an excuse out there. I am going to put up with your inconsistencies, and in the process of being your shepherd, I'm still gonna step in and try to build you up in your vulnerability. Ain't that God knows how to come in the midst of your inconsistency and still try to build you up in your vulnerability? I wish I had somebody that can shout, I got a good shepherd. I got a good shepherd, because when you start to understand that God has concern, He is a He's concerned about His people, then you will learn how to yield to Him. I wish I can talk to somebody in here. Uh-huh, Lord, help me to trust your hand, help me to trust your hand, help me to trust your hand, help me to trust your hand, help me to trust your hand, help me to trust your hand. I wish I had five folk who could just come. Help me to just ask, I help me to trust your hand. I know I got trust issues, I've been burned, but help me to trust your hand. I believe if I can trust you, if I can learn how to trust you, you will lead me into the light.

unknown 41:22

Hallelujah, God, hallelujah.

SPEAKER_00 41:26

They have sacrificial glory, they have sacrificial commitment. He is patient and he's gentle. Oh God, and I'm not gonna even say this to you. Shepherds are intimate with their flock. Because they don't love the people. They want to preach to something they can't love. Why do you think he had David on the backside training, John? You my son. Why do you think he had David out there, man, in the field with them sheep? See, even though, hey man, it was the will of God for him to be out there, he said, I'm gonna teach you how to love these four-legged, so when I give you two-legged, you're gonna understand how to love them, how to deal with them. That's why he had him back there, developing them in them traits. You understand? Developing those traits. And so he says shepherds are intimate. David knew that God locks in to our health, that changes our behavior because watch this. He's concerned about your spiritual health. This is what a lot of folk don't understand. This is why I can't understand why they get mad when you get caught on the carpet. You understand how saints get mad, you know, and he preaching on me and foolishness. Like I'm just gonna be sitting there taking a sermon out on you. So God anoints the man of God and he begins to deal with things that's in the house. But people don't realize, amen, that when you're dealing with perfection, perfection can spot imperfection. And so when you start understanding God's traits that he's perfect, he locks into your spiritual health. This thing got quiet tonight. Uh-huh. He locks into your spiritual health and he says, I'm perfect. Y'all just raised your hand tonight and said, Y'all believe that God is righteous. I wonder if there's anybody in here, amen, besides Tierra, who says that God has made mistakes. Come on. Anybody else believe that way? That you believe that God made mistakes? Okay, then. So you can't get mad when he locks into your spiritual health because we raise our hands and said, God is righteous, and he's been tempted at all points and know no sin. The only repentance that he ever was recorded as making is that he made us. You understand? And it don't mean that he repented like we do. You understand? Because repentance means turn. Y'all didn't hear that. He never turned. He kept letting the process of man keep happening.

unknown 44:42

That's right.

SPEAKER_00 44:44

He was just irritated at the fact that what man had become. Did y'all catch that, Bible scholars? So you understand when they say, Well, God repented, because folk be messing the Bible up. That don't mean that he turned. He repented. He didn't have to repent. He ain't sorry for nothing. He was disappointed at the fact of how man, oh God, turned out. I made this. This thing got quiet tonight. He's intimate with the flock. Perfection can notice imperfection. Now, if you perfect, and don't, and don't, and don't, and hold on, because some of y'all act like y'all perfect. So don't don't don't don't get shy on me now. Don't get shy on me now. Don't get shy on me now. But if you perfect, this Bible class is not for you, and this church ain't for you. Because restoration is not for perfect people. Restoration is for used things. Things that's been bent up, scratching bent. Y'all done got quiet. Yeah. Some folk came here trying to change the ministry because they didn't believe in it. You understand? But this is restoration, honey. This is when perfection reaches into imperfection and trying to build you up in your vulnerability.

unknown 46:08

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 46:11

This thing got quiet in here. Can I say this tonight? Shepherds are vigilant and they're protective. Oh, God, yes, indeed. David said, The Lord is my shepherd, man. He's going down the list. He said, He is vigilant. Y'all know what that is. Amen. He is protective. David understood that God was watching over him. Watch this now. Hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it, hold it. This is what made him powerful. He was watching over him in his carelessness. When he got beside himself and decided he wanted to go after Lariah's wife. God was still watching over him and protecting him in his carelessness. He's a shepherd who is vigilant and he's protected. I wish I had some saints in here who can start appreciating their God, knowing that we have a God like this. Understood that God was watching over him in his carelessness and in his danger. Bible scholars, can I bring something to your attention? When David went from the field to the house and Samuel put the oil on him, he was not king right away. Do you not know that he had to run? It was 15 years before he took a man, the throne. 15 years, G, and you got people who get called to preach and want to preach right away. They want to go start a church. I ain't being used, I'm gonna start a church. 15 years because you know why? Because guess what? 15 years to get the field out of him.

unknown 47:58

Come on, bitch.

SPEAKER_00 48:00

You understand? I'm gonna put you in a hostile environment because you're hostile. Now I can understand why it was 15 years, because when you do the history, amen, you're going after other men's wives. Y'all done got quiet in here. You're doing all the wrong stuff. I gotta get the field out of you, man.

unknown 48:21

That's right.

SPEAKER_00 48:22

You wonder why I let him throw a javelin at you?

unknown 48:25

Come on, Dale.

SPEAKER_00 48:26

I got to teach you how to move out of yourself. Because, see, if I don't let him throw a javelin, you're gonna get caught up in your gift and don't realize there is a human side of you.

unknown 48:42

Amen.

SPEAKER_00 48:45

Yeah, that's right. Throw it, Saul. Throw it. He's got to learn how to shake himself. Oh, this thing got quiet. Yeah. He said he had it was 15 years. But in those 15 years, G, you never record David never got harmed. In 15 years, God was protecting him. Because why? He protects what got oil on it. That's why it's imperative, ladies and gentlemen, that you stay in the house. Because the house is where the oil is. You can't create your own oil watching YouTube. You can't create your own oil being on live stream. You got to be in the house. David was not online when he got anointed.

unknown 49:37

Right, right, right.

SPEAKER_00 49:39

Yeah, getting online anointing. Don't work. Don't work. You still got to come before the prophet and let the horn be poured on you. I ain't got many amans in here. I got senior saints don't want to clap their hands. That is, that's all right. I don't care. Keep your hands to yourself. Amen, somebody. Try to water me down. Watch this. Shepherds have a broader perspective. Oh, y'all don't know what I'm talking about, do you? Y'all gotta bring it up with a broader perspective. Look at this. David watched God take him from the field to the palace. And then watch this. Y'all didn't know this, but there was something hidden about David. He added a harp on top of a staff and a sling. You didn't catch that, did you? He takes him from the field to the palace, and on his way, amen, to the palace, on the way to the throne, I should say, he done learned how to deal with a staff in the field, a harp, y'all done got quiet, in the palace, and a sling with the giant. God knowing, amen, that there is a broader perspective. He says, watch this. The Lord is my shepherd, he's my overseer. He sees the overall picture when I'm just stuck in the frame. He understands where to position me on the wall. You understand? He knows the decor of my life and where I'm gonna fit in and where I'm gonna be blessed and productive. He has a broader perspective, but guess what? A lot of folk can't get there because they're independent.

SPEAKER_02 51:50

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 51:51

Yes, yes, yes, yes. But I wonder, man, if I just get somebody in here that can say I'm done with where I am. That's right. This is this is the thing we have to understand. When he calls us and put oil on us, when he oils us, amen. We don't stay how we started. Yeah. So let me ask you a question. How have you grown? I done seen folk over in this way for 40 years, man, and ain't grown. I'm serious. Have not grown. My wife dealt with somebody, man, who've been in the church for 15 years and don't know how to pray. But yet they keep missing prayer searches. So they're telling me that they know what they're doing. But then when you call us for prayer and we say, Well, you pray and you stumbling, oh my God. It's then got quiet. It's then got real quiet. Can I deal with the first knot? The first knot. David ties another piece to this statement, and he says, when he becomes a true shepherd, amen. He unties. Uh trying to see how I'm gonna put it this. I thought I might have put a I don't want to say a sentence fragment. Amen. But what he does, when he when you're a true, when he's a true shepherd, he unties lack. And even though you may not believe this, but you're really never wanting. Now I'm gonna say this. A lot of folk will say, well, I'm still wanting because you know I've been asking for this and ain't got it. But here's the key. The key is God don't want you to have it. And when you change your perspective on what blessings is, then you can understand what David is saying. Amen. The Lord is my shepherd and I shall not want. But the reason why people still think they're wanting because they have aspirations for stuff that they're not supposed to have. What did James say? God said, You ask amiss, you have not because you ask not, and when you do ask, you ask for stuff that's stupid. You ask for stuff that you ain't ready for. Lord, make me a millionaire. You can't pay tithes off ten dollars. You understand? I be seeing these folks been out here on YouTube and out here crazy on Instagram, a millionaire mindset. How you a millionaire mindset and you can't go to work? You understand? You can't go to work. You can't, you can't, you calling in every three days. But you got a millionaire mindset, that ain't a millionaire mindset. Where I come from, honey, we're gonna we're on the grind. Millionaire mindset. I ain't calling in if I'm making $31 an hour. I'm asking for a blank. Y'all need some more help. I'm tired, man. But you got some more work for me? But these folk millionaire mindset and laying up in the bed talking about, yeah, I can just call in because I'm just tired. But you got a millionaire mindset. God bless you with a free fall and He tests you. And you run out and you buy everything that you wanted and never considered doing anything for the church. Well, yeah. He said, Oh, yeah, I trusted you. I let you, I let your tax refund be big this time to see if you just gonna give me a 10% of that. And you took it all and you went and got what you wanted. That ain't bad. That's your prerogative. But what I'm dealing with is the mindset. You can't expect when I say earlier in the class, God expects sacrifice.

unknown 55:50

Yes, sir.

SPEAKER_00 55:51

You know he's serious when he goes to Abraham and says, Give me your son.

unknown 55:55

That's right.

SPEAKER_00 55:56

Give me what I gave you. I made it happen when you had a woman who was 99 and you was a hundred. You should have been shooting blanks, but I let you, amen, be so aroused that when you shot this time, you got her pregnant. Y'all done got quiet. Y'all done got real quiet. Why y'all sanctified now? Wanna get sanctified when he talked like that? But I'm talking about let's give God a praise. As soon as I say something nasty. Okay, I'm gonna stop messing with y'all. Y'all think I'm up here fussing. Look. Well, I can't finish. I was gonna get to the first night. But I I'll pick up on the next week. Amen. Amen.