Don’t give in, Don’t give up

Welcome to the Cross Power Church podcast.

You're listening to a service from our church in Campbell, TX.

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I was praying the other day and looking up at the store tonight.

We all have the thought of understanding.

You know, the enemy steals a lot of souls because of the word

understanding. I just don't understand the

Bible. I've tried to read it, but I

don't understand it. I've heard it over and over and

over. And it's not that hard to

understand. But when the author of Confusion

gets in your mind, it can become very hard to understand.

But the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said you don't have to

understand. You don't have to understand the

trial you're going through this morning.

You don't have to understand the hurt that's in you.

You don't have to understand. You just got to know that you

serve a God that at any moment is able to deliver.

You don't get caught up on the understanding.

I wanted to preach that, but I'm going to preach this in

Galatians chapter 6 and verse 6. It said let him who has taught

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the Word sharing all good things with him who teaches verse 7

says do not be deceived who comes to deceive the enemy and

confuse and destroy, But he says do not be deceived.

If there's anything that's running rampant, not just in the

world, but I would say more so in the church, in the body of

Christ, people are being deceived because we're mocking

God. And and he says right here that

God is not mocked. We have people running around

that think whatsoever they sow, they will not reap.

But he says here that whatever man souls that he will also reap

for he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap

corruption. But I love this next verse.

But he who sows of the Spirit, will of the Spirit reap.

Everlasting life isn't that good.

And let us this is what I want to preach to you today.

Let us say us not grow weary while doing good.

For in due season, when it's God's time, we shall reap if we

do not lose heart. Therefore, as we have

opportunity, let us do good to all, but especially to those who

are the household of faith. Father, we come before you today

and I just pray for those that are growing weary myself

sometimes and doing good when we listen to the misdirection of

the enemy. And Father, I pray today that

you would just get in our hearts and our minds and in our flesh

and all over us, that we cannot grow weary while doing good

because if we do not give up, if we don't give in, if we don't

give up, we will reap a harvest. We thank you for your love.

We thank you for the anointing to preach the gospel again in

Jesus name, Amen. I want to share with you 3

points today. The first one he says don't grow

weary, do not give in. I'm going to camp out on this

one for a little while because today there's too many people

that give in. And Matthew chapter 6 and 13, it

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was part of Jesus prayer when he was teaching how to pray, he

said lead us not into temptation, but deliver us what

from evil didn't lead us not into temptation.

But yet Jesus knew what it was like to be LED into temptation.

So there was nothing. There's nothing wrong with

temptation. The wrong comes is when we yield

to it, when we what? Give in The first point I want

to share with you, Jesus tells his disciples in Matthew 26 and

41. He says to watch and pray so

that you will not fall into temptation.

Temptation is not a sin in itself, but when we yield to

that temptation and we give in, it becomes sin.

And as I begin to think about this, I thought, you know, 1

nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for

all, and proclaiming God as our Lord, as a sovereign nation.

It has brought us thus far. I believe there's only one

reason that we haven't received the famines and all the things a

lot of countries have is because we have declared that we are one

nation. But I recall under another

administration, I heard the president say that we are no

longer one nation under God, but many gods.

Hello, I heard a rodeo announcer on TV and I know he's a believer

and I love him. I know him personally and he

prays a great prayer and leads people to Christ.

But it kind of struck in my spirit the other day said let's

let's take our hats off and let's go to the God of our

choice. See that that speech can't enter

into me. Hey, man, it's not a God of

choice because if you, it's not another God at all.

There's one true God. But yet we give in.

We give in. How did one nation under God

fall as low, but yet we think we're high?

The Bible says take heed lest you fall, but we're messed up.

I was watching the news yesterday and I want to tell you

how messed up we are. And I know we have podcast.

I'm reminded very often of that, but I'm not changing.

I'm not giving in. Amen.

Podcast is a great thing. But if you elevate the podcast

and I start worrying about what I'm saying, if it's the truth,

hello. If it's the truth and I begin to

waver from what I really want to say that the Holy Spirit has put

down in my soul that I prayed and fasted and saw God about

that week. And I said, oh, because somebody

else is going to hear this that may not agree, Amen.

What am I doing? I'm giving in.

My ancestors, they did not care what you thought about how they

taught you and told you how you should live because it was in

the Bible. And if you didn't like it,

you're the one had to deal with it.

But Christians aren't that way today.

I don't know where we ever got this, that we can keep them

unoffended and we can pat them on the back and we can tell them

how good they are and not give in.

I want to give to you some statistics today.

How did we fall as low that I can turn Fox News on, and I know

it's on the podcast. I know there may be some

transgenders that I don't care, but they were showing a a Miss

Universe pageant and letting a man compete in it and he was a

pretty man, but he's still a man.

He looked like a woman. Hello.

I made some of y'all on the late night after a few drinks.

You would have probably went out with him, but I got news for it.

The truth is, he's still a man. I got news for the transgenders.

You will never be a woman. God placed the love and the

motherhood of a woman down deep in the soul of a woman.

And it doesn't matter how long long your hair gets, or what you

add to your body or what you take away from your body, you

will never be a woman. Amen.

In God's eyes, it will never change and I'm not giving it.

And I shouldn't have to explain to a four year old why a man can

compete in women's sports, why a man can, can, can get into Miss

Universe beauty pageant and may let him win it because it's

going to offend them if he don't.

I don't care. Amen.

I love them, I pray for them, but I'm not giving in.

Hello, I'm not giving in. I refuse to give in.

Well, Pastor, that's cost you. Oh, it's cost me some friends.

Hello. The story I give about Charlie

Sampson with a fake ear. And everywhere he walked up,

young people's looking at his ear that a bull stepped on a

ripped off because they'd heard about it.

Amen. Anybody ever felt like that as a

Christian, you go into a place, you're the only one not giving

in and you're the only one not participating in all the things

they're doing. And everybody's looking at you

like you. I don't care overcome that a

long time ago because I know that the price that Jesus paid

at the cross of Calvary is way more than what I feel and way

more than the offenses that I take to the I'm not giving it.

Yes, it's cost me friends I got I thought they were friends, but

you know what a few of them are coming back.

I get called sometime. Hey, you might have been right.

I said I wasn't right. I told you what the Bible said

and it's an unfallable word of God and it goes forth and it

will accomplish what it was set forth to do.

It's not about being right, it's about the truth.

The truth is always right. Y'all going to preach with me

this morning? You can always tell when you

ain't preaching to somebody in the house.

They're like, man you boy, I'll get on something in a minute.

Just give me a second. It's going to cost you some

family members. Didn't Jesus tell us that he

said I didn't come to bring peace on this earth.

I came to to turn a mother against a daughter, a father

against a son, a brother against a sister and, and and what he

was saying he wasn't doing. But he's the way the truth and

the life and it will happen. But I've come by to tell you

today, don't give in because someone's eternal destiny may

depend on it. When we look at the church, the

body of Christ, when we refer to the church, you know, we're not

talking about this building. We're not talking about the

eight or seven that's in Campbell that I could throw a

rock and hit around here that all believe different little old

glitch in the end glitches in their believing and can't come

together and build 1 big church because we want to believe what

makes us feel good. But the mainstream Protestant

denominations. What does that mean for you?

The ones that believe in Jesus and believe that he died on the

cross for the forgiveness of our sins and went to the tomb and

rose again on the third day and ascended into heaven and sets at

the right hand of the Father. Yes, churches that believe that

have also give in. They ordained openly LGBTQ plus

and now they got numbers on the end.

Every time they come up with another somebody that's that

wants to that develop their own lifestyle.

The enemy said Bible says in the last days we will invent ways to

sin because the old ways of sinning wasn't fulfilling

enough. Amen.

But we're inventing ways. Yes, they have ordained clergy

preachers and they say we're going to ordain them to serve.

My questions serve what? Serve what?

You're not serving God. You're not believing in the

cross that you profess to believe in because it's listed

in the sins that God hates his homosexuality much less trend.

You know, I don't I don't even know.

I don't know. Sometimes I wonder, as as

omnipresent and as omnipotent, if God is, could he really

phantom what his creation would do?

They wasn't doing near as much crazy stuff as we are today.

I don't believe in Sodom and Gomorrah.

I really don't believe they could have been.

But I'm going to name them the United Church of Christ.

Yes, they are ordaining. Gay, lesbian transgenders, I

suppose. I know it's gay and lesbian.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, yes, is ordaining

homosexuals. The Episcopal Church, yes, is

ordaining. I want you to hear this this

morning. The Presbyterian.

You know why I want you to hear it?

Because I know some folk going to this church that don't even

know the church is doing it. The Presbyterian Church.

Are you ready for this one? the United Methodist Church?

What would John and Charles Wesley do?

What would they think about it that founded that church?

The Christian Church call themselves disciples of Christ,

legalizing mind altering drugs. What happened?

I ask you what happened? What happened?

Somebody give in. I challenge you today, never

give in. Yes, clout.

That's OK. I know for many churches, hard

the kids don't want to go. I hear parents say if my kids

don't want to go, duh, my spouse don't want to go.

So what? Well, I can't take my dog.

You can bring him in here. If he does something, you're

going to clean it up. I'm not I've heard it all call

someone with us have been missing at church just checking

on you while I do laundry on Sunday only to found out they

didn't have a job. They had six days to do laundry.

What happened? We give in to a stupid enemy

that knows if he can cut your lifeline and you can't get fed

you're going to fall. But see you're a child of the

most high God. Hold the banner high.

Don't give in to the little worthless lies that are of the

enemy. I love you, I pray for you, but

I'm not giving in. I'm not accepting the lives of

the enemy. I'm not OK in things that are

blatantly in the Bible that says do not, don't give in.

Engage the enemy. Far too long believers have been

giving in in the church, and there's a way to do it in love.

I get it, but we can't give in. I'm preaching to the church

today. I'm not preaching to somebody

that needs love. I'm pretty to somebody that

knows, should know how to give love.

Do it in a lovingly way, but don't give in.

Don't give in to the world just accepting the things.

I've got news for the devil. I'm not giving in and I want to

give you a heavy Revi. There's not a church that you

can attend that will help you if you don't accept the truth.

I didn't say it wouldn't make you feel good, but how many know

The feeling might be up here today, but it's leaving

tomorrow. Serving God is not about a

feeling. Somebody to pull their ear and

say sorry. God's not about how I feel.

I'll never forget when I got that.

It's about the good news. There's not a church that can

help you if it's not preaching the truth.

What do we stand before a judge and say the whole truth?

Nothing but the truth. So help me God, why can't we do

that in our spiritual life? Why can't we do it?

Because the truth is not being preached in a lot of places, and

the truth is all that will set you free.

How many want to see results in your spiritual life?

A lot of people don't. They just want fire insurance,

will know that they pray to sinner's prayer, and somehow

they're going to escape the tribulation and they're going to

wake up in eternity in a heaven with streets of gold and plenty

to eat and all needs met. That's kind of the mentality of

a lot of people. That's true.

But he says you shall know the truth.

Jesus said you shall know the truth and the truth shall do

what it shall make you free. So what if what if you walked in

one day? And a lot of Christians, this is

just such a good, good what parable or whatever you call it.

But you join a gym and you hire a trainer.

I see none of you done that, but somehow but you decide to hire a

trainer and you walk into this gym and he's my wife's got these

little weights. She gets in there little in her

in her swimming pool thing and they're just rubber.

I mean, they're the foam. There's no way to us.

What are you going to do with these things?

She's a dummy. She calls me that something.

You got to stick them on the water.

When you stick them on the wall, they become a little heavy.

I get it. But suppose you walk in the gym

and the guy hand you this thing said and he's big and Buffy

says, oh, you want to look like this Here, pick up them little

foam dumbbells. I want you to give me 500 reps

every day. Boy, you're doing this.

You're doing that. You're doing.

What do you think would happen when you go look in the mirror

and go to flexing? What would happen?

You'll help me. What would happen?

What would you? What would happen?

But yet because he told you to do it, your mind would think

that you're going to see a result.

But yet you walk up there every day.

Well, I've been to church 1000 times.

I see no results. I ain't done nothing.

I mean, that's because you're lifting the fault, but you would

expect it because somebody told you that it would happen, right?

And then on the flip side of that, this big old buff guy

comes in there and he's been pumping out his arms are big and

he gives you some 100 LB dumbbells to give me 4050 curls

a day. And you begin to do it and you

know what? This arms going to get really

big. I promise, I promise.

You know, the older you got your rodeo crew, you don't worry

about anything that your right arm because you knew you could

hang on. So you just work your right on.

Forget the rest of it. I just want to work my right

arm, make sure I move my feet fast, forget about everything

else and pretty soon catch up to you.

But you lift this big old weight.

Come on, I'm going somewhere with this.

You lift this big old weight every day and you're tearing.

What? What happens when you lift

weight? You're really not pumping it up

that you're tearing it down. You're set.

You're tearing it down and it's heavy and you're tearing it

down, right? But you could leave that place.

And if all you ever do is it, and you go home and you stop by

the store on the way home and you go chicken fry, you eat some

French fries, some of them onion rings with a beer batter, They

call it on them. And you just eat that.

But I'm going back to gym tomorrow.

You getting it? Might even do some legs.

But you know what? There's a part of you that is

not going to. Change.

Men, women. It ain't going to change.

You can work it. You can.

You know. I'll go.

I'll go with my wife sometime before I get in trouble.

I didn't say nothing. I was feeling for my hankie.

It's up here. I thought it was back there.

There it is. It ain't going to change.

Why? Because you feeding it the same

junk. Come on, somebody that you was

feeding it. But I'm going to go over here

and I'm going to do this and I'm never going to change.

I'm going to keep feeding it the wrong thing.

The Spirit is no different. You can come to church, you can

clap, you can praise. And if it's not coming from here

and if you're not feeding it the word of God, you know, there's a

lot of people, boy, they can, they can praise and they can

clap. But when it comes to reading

that Bible, no, I can't understand it.

Boy. You can jump and praise, but you

can't read your Bible then expect the big biceps and expect

the big old sins to keep following you and the angry

attitude and no peace and no joy and no love because you have not

put anything in it to nourish the Spirit, Amen.

So if you can lift all you want, you can praise all you want, but

if you don't put the word of God in it.

But see, there's a lot of people telling church folk that just

come, just do this, you ain't got to do it.

And they got the big old biceps, so they got the big high in the

Amen, they got the big belly. They ain't nothing changed in

their life. And then and then you follow him

around. You hear him say, well, I know

God can, but because they got their big butt in the way, you

got to get your butt out of the way and say that I'm referring

to a spiritual, but you got to get your butt out of the way.

I know God, but you know, I know God did it for them.

But we're good at putting the butt in the way.

There's no but when the word of God.

Hey man, my God will supply all of my needs according.

Let's get back in the word John chapter 8, chapter 32 before I

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get in some more trouble. I'm glad I found that hanky John

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chapter 8 and verse 32. Jesus said if you abide in my

word and you're my disciples indeed.

And in verse 32, he says, you shall know the truth and the

truth shall make you free. They answered him, I like this

right here. They was holding on to some old

doctrine just like church folk. They answered him, said we're

Abraham's descendants and we have never been in bondage to

anyone. How can you say that you will be

made free? They didn't know what freedom

was. They were keeping the law and

Jesus answered them. He said most assuredly.

I say to you, whoever commits sin as a slave of sin, anybody

ever been there? Whoa, you didn't want that

drink, but the enemy made you take it.

He didn't want that drug, but the enemy convinced your mind

you had to have it. You know he can't go.

He just, we become a slave to it.

But most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits a sin is a

slave, and a slave does not abide in a house forever, but a

son abides forever. Therefore, if the son makes you

free, boy, I like that. How many remember the day the

son made you free? Hey man, it wasn't 12 steps, it

wasn't what somebody said, but the Son made you free, and you

shall be free indeed. Jesus told him that look.

And then he said, I know that you're Abraham's seed.

I know everything. Do you think I don't know who

where you come from? I created you, I know you're

Abraham's descendants, but yet you seek to kill me.

You believe in God, which I'm God in the flesh, but yet you're

trying to kill me. And he says it has no place in

you. But I speak what I have seen

with my father, and you do what you have seen with your father.

They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father.

And Jesus said to them, I love this right here.

He brings it home. I'm a Christian.

You could put that right there. If you were Abraham's seed, you

would do the works of Abraham. What did Abraham do?

He set the blood covenant up right by offered up his only son

on the mountain. But now you seek to kill me, a

man who has told you the truth which I heard from God.

Abraham did not do this, but you do the deeds of your father.

Let's read the rest of this. Then they said to him, we were

not born of fornication. We have one Father God.

Jesus said to them, If God were your father, you would love me.

We have people saying they love God but don't believe in Jesus.

We have denominations that are doing that trying to separate

the Trinity for I proceed forth and I came from God, nor have I

come of myself, but he sent me. Why do you not understand my

speech? Because you're not able to

listen to my word. You are not of your fault.

You, you are of your father the devil and the desires of your

father. You want to do a lot of problem

right there, right? He was a murderer from the

beginning and does not stand in truth.

Because I like this. There is no truth in him.

When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he

is a liar and the father of it. But because I tell you the

truth, you do not believe me. Which of you convicts me of sin?

And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe me?

He who is of God hears God's words.

Therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.

So you got to be of God to receive the truth, and to know

and let the truth set you free. But I challenge you, don't give

in #2 you ready for this? Don't give out.

Many give in because they give out.

Isaiah 40 and 29 and 31, it says trust in the Lord.

Those that trust in the Lord. One translation says wait upon

the Lord and you'll renew your what?

Strength? Those who wait upon the Lord

shall renew their strength, and they shall mount up with wings

like eagles. Why is it important to mount up

with wings like eagles? Because you fly above your

problems. I'm not denying I'm in the

problem, but have the attitude. I really can't believe it's with

this far because I know at any minute my God's about to speak

to my problem and he's about to fix my problem because he's

working all things out to my good.

Because I'm called according to his purpose.

Wait upon the Lord, renew your strength and mount up with

eagle's wings. It says they shall run and not

be weary. We're supposed to run this

Christian race, but we're never to give in.

We're never to give out. They shall walk and not faint,

but wait up on the Lord, hear from the Lord.

Well, God doesn't speak to me. It's true, the Holy Spirit does.

I say that God don't speak to me.

It's true, the Holy Spirit does. God's in heaven, The Holy

Spirit's run on this earth, right?

But they're three in one. Tell me when you figure that

out, do not grow weary and doing good. 2nd Corinthians 4 and 16

Let's read this. Second Corinthians 4 and 16.

It says, therefore we do not lose heart, don't give in, don't

give out. Even though outwardly we're

perishing, yet the inward man is what being renewed day by day.

Oh buddy, I used to drill with, We were so busy all the time we

were doing that, you know, not a minute to breathe sometime.

And he called me every day. He said, what are you doing

today? I said some church stuff and he

says it's Friday, ain't doing no church stuff.

I said, man, every day. I'm about to father's business.

Well, what are you doing? I said I'm going to see an older

man his wife died and I'm praying with him.

See outwardly we're perishing, yet inwardly we're being renewed

What day by day You got to figure this out Your your light

and momentary afflictions is working for us a more

exceedingly and eternal weight of glory.

You like that while we do not look at the things Christians

can't do this walk around this week something to quit looking

at things what you're seeing. Hey man, quit looking at my ball

head and imagine me with hair. We do not look at the things

which are seen, but at the things which are not seen, for

the things which are seen or what temporary, But the things

which are not seen are eternal. There was a guy going to church

here one time. He had been eating the right

things. He had lost some weight and he

had got really buff. And that's why I give Scott such

a hard time all the time. So you say he says anything to

people used to. And he walked in and he's like,

man, I've been working out. Look, hey, so I've lost 30 lbs

and buffed up Scots to turn around and he turned around.

So I'm pretty sure I found it. I think he that might be why he

left. I didn't do what you did.

I got the blame. What am I talking about?

Seeing the invisible. It'll work in your marriage.

She walks in. Oh, I got a #5 now.

Good. You've lost a lot of weight,

honey. Just look and see the things

what you can't see sometimes, right?

That's what they do with us seeing the invisible.

We have to learn this, See, as a child of God, it says weeping

may do what? Endure for a night, but joy

comes in the morning. Don't give in, don't give out.

I ask you, have you ever give in?

Have you ever give out on something?

Someone walked up and boom, anybody have been turning on a

boat, cranking on a boat for days And boy, you, you don't

have that sucker loose and somebody comes up and just gives

it a little quirky turn and you're like, man, why didn't I

just do it one more time? Your pride buffs up it.

It wasn't that they were strong. It's just that they didn't give

in. They didn't give out.

You did one more turn be cranking on that old jar and

then hand it to somebody not near strong.

You think, man, why didn't I just one more time?

But far too many times in our faith, we give in, we give out.

Which leads me to the third thing that we do that I see more

and more as we give up. When you give in, that's the

first step. And when you give out, you're

fixing to give up. You're fixing to give up.

Many talk about revival and how we're entering into that phase

of the church, Church age maybe. But when I look at statistics,

you can Google them, I don't see revival.

I don't see the great things that the prophet Joel talked

about. Not yet.

Because it also says before that happens, there's a great falling

away. 1 eschatology preacher will tell you that that means

the rapture. We have fell away.

We have went on to be with the Lord, but it doesn't say falling

away. It says catching away.

It says first there will be a great falling away.

And I believe we're in that now because the enemy has disguised

our nation is that we're doing really good.

We have a great leadership. And I'm not saying we don't.

But the Bible also says that there's a great falling away

that's coming. There's approximately 70 to 88%,

statistics say, of young people raised in an evangelical church

that believes in the cross, that believes in baptism, the

evangelicals that are leaving church after high school, 70 to

88%. This was the one I looked up was

2015, eleven years ago, leaving studies.

They, they, they're calling the nun the the NONES nuns, not like

a Catholic nun, but the nuns, they don't attend the church.

They don't even claim a denomination.

But in 23 and 24, it makes up 29% of our society.

In 2015, when I looked some of these studies up, it said for

every person that's coming into the church, every person that's

accepting Christ for we're leaving the faith.

Now it says that 59 to 64%, nearly 2/3 from the ages 18 to

29 who grew up in church have give up.

And I've done some other research about how many are

converting from Christianity to something else.

Well, what is it? It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter what it is. And I blame a lot of that on the

church because when you give in, young people can't find the

truth in something that they can hold to.

Because they look at us and they say they really don't know what

they believe. On Sunday they believe this and

Friday night they do this right because we give in.

We give in or they know somebody that used to serve God, but they

give in, they give out and ultimately they will give up.

That's astounding. I've come by to tell you never

give up. I have left my house many times.

In 31 years I have known a man. He was very instrumental in my

first ministry of bucking bulls and horses.

He supplied the bulls and was not a believer.

We were unequally yoked for many years and our relationship was

somewhat frayed at times because of I didn't give in.

But for 31 years, that's a long time older than some of you are

in here. I've called his name in prayer.

I've mentioned the Bible. I've mentioned the cross.

I mean, only to be just shut off and told another wild story.

Money was never issued in his life.

No dependence. But his wife passed away a few

weeks ago and I I kind of let all that pipe wasn't the time

for me to go the enemy come and say, oh, you didn't go see him

in the two weeks. So there's a time frame it don't

do no good. Now the enemy goes to flood.

But all that time I was praying. I said, God, get that ground

ready. Get that ground ready.

By the way, my friend that don't think you about the father's

business on Friday. This happened on Friday and

another guy that is a real prayer warrior and a believer

that knew him too. I told him I was going to be

praying. I said I need it.

I went in that house and set for hours and waited for it to come

up, waited for the opportunity somebody else would come in.

And I said I'm not leaving today.

Lord, 31 years before I left, I said I want to pray with you.

I look in the corner of my eye and I see no Bible over there.

Never seen it before. I see you've been reading that

Bible, he said, but I don't understand it.

I said you ain't got to understand it.

Well, the subject started changing.

I said we're not changing today we're praying.

I stood, I said I want to pray for you.

Lord given him chance. After 10 took he can't walk

anymore. He can get around but he had

paralyzation in the leg and thinking he was going to pass

first. His wife passed and it's just a

God thing. And I said I but I want to pray

with you. But I, you know, I'm always

said, I want you to want me to pray.

I don't want to just pray this prayer.

And I begin to pray about you don't understand what I've done.

See the enemy's telling somebody here that you don't understand

what I've done. I said, no, I don't.

But I understand that there's a man that was on a cross and I

said he bled and died for you. And the Holy Spirit just flooded

the place and I said he hung between two thieves.

I said, you know what they had done all their life?

They stole. They was being crucified for the

crimes that they had committed. They were being crucified for

that. And I said, you know what they

had done to be good? What you're telling me you don't

understand what I've done? And I knew a lot.

I said, I don't have to. I said God don't want to

understand it. Jesus don't even he don't even

care. But I said he was between two

thieves. I said, you know what?

They had done absolutely nothing.

He just looked over at him and he said, Remember Me when you

get to your Kingdom today. And Jesus, what did he do?

He said today you will be with me in paradise.

I said you want to go to heaven. I said you want to see me again

after this life? You want to see your wife again

after this life. You want to go to heaven and I

begin to pray the prayer with him.

And I, I said you want to you want to take you want to meet

the man that that you may be hurt, but he can give you peace

in this hurt. Do you want to meet him today?

Are you tired of giving in? Are you tired of giving out?

You know, I titled this don't give in, don't give out, but

that last word I said never give up because there's times you're

going to give in. I said don't do it, but there's

times you're going to do it. There's times that I would say

don't give out, but you're going to give out.

Tell me on 31 years there was times I wash my hands after

talking and not getting in. 31 years planting seed after seed.

Don't give up. Don't give up.

Well, did you fat every day and pray for this individual?

You ain't got to do all that. Just remember, every now and

then, just remember, pray the prayer of faith.

I said God, God's going to get him.

But you know, I'll always believe if there would have been

times and I had plenty chances to give in, I had plenty chances

to give up. But I never give in.

Though there were times in 31 years we didn't talk.

God will bring us back together. There's people like that in your

life, you know, you just, I'm done with them.

I ain't cat. I love that verse about casting

your pearls before swine, man, I use that a lot.

But God always takes me back there.

Not sure what that man casting no pearls before God.

I don't give them everything. But you know where we mess up?

We say I don't give and I ain't getting.

God don't work like that. You give out of the abundance as

you stand your feet of your heart.

You give. You give, you give.

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