Leaning In Or Leaving - Bro Aaron Wood 3-9-2025

Previous God, y'all don't even know. Y'all don't even know how.

Don't love God?

Pastor not only lay the foundation, I think he hit

the person. Save the floor, sister.

Now of that last song, Nah, God and heaven moremation.

We're just God. God's good. I know better, Thank good.

God is wonderful, without a doubt, without a doubt, how

m Floyd. We'll go to uh John chapter thirteen, I

mean two verses, and hopefully with these two verses you

will understand.

Exactly why Chapter thirteen John at verse twenty three, now

there was.

Leaning on Jesus Bosom, one of his disciples. From Jesus loved.

And then we'll skipped down the verse thirty. He then,

having received the sow, went immediately.

Out and it was not I could just about tell

you we're done. God just preached basically.

What I had.

Last bread, goddy, lot of good less blessed are years

that God or the journey.

When your story takes a man. Professor told me i'd

be here this morning. I went back through. I I

got a little notebook, and.

Throughout the service you may see me writing stuff in

there every now and then, sometimes the one liners, sometimes.

To say it's a little bit more, a little bit less.

I had written something down. I believe it was during

the first week of the revivals, and I actually had

the thought I wanna say. It was that Thursday before

we went into revival fire Forest, me and sister.

Would and this came to me. And this is my title,

leaning in or leaving right?

Master already priest it I mean, are you gonna be

like John the Beloved.

Or Jesus?

There's no middle ground, none right, and we already know

God doesn't abandon his children. No greater friends you'll find that.

That was confirmation right there. You can search this whole

world over.

You can stay out in the world, you can love

the world Demus, you can run out.

To the world Jesus. You can do what you wanna do.

But no greater friends will find Jesus is the only

true friend. It doesn't matter circumstances.

That that was in my nose. We've seen Pastor, we've

seen our first lady.

They've went through things, affliction after affliction after affliction after affliction,

death of a grand baby, kidneys that are in trouble,

cancer on their son.

We've seen it, and we saw their example where they

got a tighter grip on God, closer, they said, Lord,

grabbed your arms around me, even tighter.

They will say, no, no, if I was true to

your son, if.

I was truly your daughter, if I was truly faulled,

Why are why these afflictions?

Why did the devil get me? Why did he do

this to because Joe? Why did you lose your children? Joe?

I don't know. But unless it be the name of

the wolf, you lost all your cattle, you lost all

your sheep, you lost all this. You lost your wife's favor.

I know I did. But God sure as good, ain't he?

God sure is great?

Isn't He's sure as wonderful, isn't he?

How can you say that job you're in the ashphile,

you're scraping boiled?

How can you say that? How can I not? How

can I not say that.

God sets on high No matter my circumstances, God sets

on high.

Does food in the pantry make God more God? I

don't see that it does. God is God.

We have the same opportunity to lean on Jesus, the

same opportunity.

Great, But it's me I could have resisted. I'm so

glad I didn't, but I could have. I hate to

say this, but I think some of us.

In here have.

That hand has been extended. You're too fault. Your house

right outside my hand reached. Wouldn't it feel better? Wouldn't

it feel better in my embrace? Wouldn't it feel better

being close? Wouldn't it feel better knowing that I really

am your father, That it's not just something you've read

in my word, knowing it as a relationship, as a.

An actuality, not just a thought, not just an idea,

but something that we know.

That we know, that we know.

I read so many, so many scriptures that it was.

It was amazing. It was just wonderful.

And the sob my Bible says, or on my ees says,

there was a morsel of food, bread, bread, alright, straight

from the bread of light.

Came to me yesterday. It was his last mouthful from

the last was Wednesday night. Your last mouthful was Wednesday night.

That final reach, friend, my servant.

Daughter, son. And it's not a statement, Unfortunately, there's a

question mark a friend.

Only we can make that determination. Only we can say yes, friend,

I do son, that's me right here.

Daughter loves to be never will will be a better thing.

To be in my life, to be a son or

a daughter of the Almighty call absolutely abs.

I can't leave.

Because it says and it was not.

If I leave, it's dark out there. If I leave,

what is out there in the dark? If I leave,

how do I get back? What if there is no

getting back? Judah never made it back. All he felt

was condemnation. The conviction had already passed. He already overwrote conviction.

He'd already said, that's not my Plan's Lord, I want

you to do this because I want this position. I

want this authority. I want Romans to be cast aside.

It's time for us, the Hebrews, the Jewish people to

be in control again. That's why you came. And she said, no,

that's not why I came this time.

You're confused. You're putting your words in my mouth and

they don't fit. My words will fit in your mouth,

but our words won't fit in his right God didn't

say that.

I better rip that report up, better put.

It a sign. That's not a God step back. You

better make sure make your call, and you're a le

sure walking the fringes of obedience won't be You can

walk around obedience all you want to till you get

in it. In it is, where it's at, walking around it,

looking at it, thinking about it, tapping it, smelling of it,

looking at it.

Oh wow, that that obedience looks like that could be

what I need? That could man? Who that could be it?

That could be it? And the whole time our heart knows,

our heart knows that is it. It's not might be,

not could be here, No, it should be.

And if we really love God, it shall be. When

we move past us, move past me, move into him.

From his dear side, I will never depart. I didn't

even realize at first what we were singing, and then

it came by again, and I was like, well, I did.

Ask Lord that one of the songs would confirm. I

shouldn't have had to, but this is you.

Can forgive us the first time, forgive me. Maybe next

time I won't be like please, but I may. You

know he understands its gracious to honor us, because it

was with my whole heart. I was honestly as Lord, please,

because I know if if you don't, I'll read this,

I'll read that, I'll say I'm sorry, Pastor, and I'll

go sit down I won't prolong it, try not to, but.

That's so confirmed again.

And then when Jesse gets up and talks about looking

for that friend in search of the world over, and

we found him in Jesus Christ. Yes we have. And

the pastor lays that beautiful, beautiful foundation, and then he

frames up the first and second.

Floor and all I gotta does is put a roof

on it, and we're done. We can go home, and

we can or we go Fells Tall and Eden. It's

amazing to me that God is. He is really so wonderful, and.

Just because he sends the pastor to paddle me sometimes

doesn't mean that he's any less wonderful. We honored the

Bible says, we honored our mom and dads whenever they

whooped us, because there was a loyal prophet.

It kept us from doing something stupid throwing down the road.

And he's the same with God. God paddles us so

we don't do something stupid far down road, so we

don't throw.

Out something careless, so we don't hinder that new growth,

so we don't lop off the branch that.

Was just about the bug. And here we come gap

the gap, the gap and cut it right off. And

now now we're in trouble. So we take that direction.

We say, thank you that you love me enough to

correct me.

Thank you that you're steering me back into your perfect will,

but to your perfect way.

Thank you. I will run to you. I will let

you comfort me now that you've done what you needed

to do. I'll let you comfort me.

Because he will if you'll turn to him with repentance,

with your whole heart, if you'll seek him with everything

you promise, he said, if you've drawn out, drawn out

of God, and he will draw nigh into you. Cleanse

your hands, sinners.

There's something for us to do.

We let go of this world so we can grab

a hold of God. We can't hold both. How many

times have we been told that you can't hold both?

You love God or you love the world. You love

the things of God, the people of God. You'll love

the things of the world, the people of the world

right already mentioned demons.

That's why he left you love this present world?

Why? Because he could still see the world because he

was too far from God. If you're right up on God,

guess what you see God? If you right up on him,

that's all you see. Is God. That's why you magnify him.

Him close, not that he needs to be bigger, because

he's big enough. He's almighty, he is everything. But we

need him bigger in our life. We do to magnify.

We bring him closer, We draw him in so that

we can see.

All his beauty, all his perfection, all of his holiness,

all of his righteousness.

And then we allow that closeness and that close inspection

be turned inward to us so that we look like him.

So when the world turns to us, I don't see

any brother Samuel there.

All I see is Oh. I see is Jesus. All

I see is Christ. I don't see any brother Jonathan there.

All I say is that that's just God. That's just

God right there. We God, we have that ability root

him to do that.

Actor has said this many times. I feel like that's

probably where this came from. If we leave, or we

don't decide that OUs plans are our plans, We're.

Not gonna get the thought.

Judas, go right ahead and hang yourself, Matthias right outside

the door. A month later, if I if I, if

my timeline is correct, within the month, Matthew said, I'm

number twelfth.

Where are we going, Peter, what.

We're gonna do?

Upper room? I'm game for it. Let's do it. He

didn't want his busy week. I'll take you that. He

didn't want the.

Cut me right here.

He didn't want his anyone you called him to do. Lord,

that's okay. Now, will we volunteer?

I'll do it because the benefits, my God in Heaven,

the benefits outweigh everything else. Outweigh the sting of the discipline,

outweigh the the correction, outweigh everything.

That life rose out is the afflictions the benefits. You

can't even put them in a balance together. You'll break

your balance lamp straight down with benefits every time.

So what this stuffing comes your way, guess what it'll

come your way, whether you're under God's arm or not

hurt yesterday. Matter of fact, that you know everybody probably

he knows him. I won't say his name, but he.

Owns a local business here in town. I heard he

had cancer see him here.

I know we're not the only holdness church in America, right,

but we're the best one in Florida that I know.

Challenge me if you want, but I firmly believe this

is where God moves. That's why we moved Ilujah. But

this man in the world, he's got answer. Being out

there under the devil's thumb didn't keep him from it.

More often than not, if you'll be honest with yourself,

being out there in the world, more apt to get

it to him, you're more apt to get scars.

You're more apt to get afflictions.

You're more apt to get the worst of the worst

out there in the night, in the inside, in the light,

in his arms than Gosh, afflictions have to flee. Disease

is conquered, cancer is cast out because we're in his arms,

and his arms is perfect.

Fullness of joy. Think thy presence is fullness of joy.

At thy right hand, there are pleasures Forevermore realize that

was a scripture that was in.

My nose here, and it's got.

To be.

All or nothing. We have to sell out or it

will be a sellout. Either or it.

It's either black or it's white. It's either light or

it's darkness. You can't stand in the middle. There is

no middle ground between.

Light and dark. It's either one or the other. As

Joshua said, choose you this day. Could we say, with

perfect clarity, why did you choose five.

Years ago, four and a half or whatever it may be,

however long you've been wavering wine?

Why the waiver? Why the wobble? Why the waiver? Take

an honest look at your life?

Right?

Are you not better here?

Yes?

Under our pastor's leadership? Are you not better? Is this

not the better life? Why?

Waiver?

Has he? Ever? I don't know a single time the

pastors just steered his wife. I don't know the.

Single directive he's told me to do that. It didn't

end the blessings? Why why back away?

Why why put distance? You ever tried to hug somebody

from across the room. But that's.

That's how people treat God. I'm gonna give you an

air hug. God, give you an air hand shake God?

Really really that.

That's Try that with your wife. Try telling her I'm

gonna give you an air kiss. Ye see how many

days that works out for you? Probably not many, even

if she is saftified. But but we want to say

that that's okay with God. We wanna says it's fine,

it's fine. I I just air hug you Lord from

me from my house. You'll air hug me from your house.

I I thought, this said come to my house, adoration.

I thought, I said, come to my place to give

me love, to get into my presence.

I thought, I know, believe me, I know, thank God. Right,

I have never had such a wonderful time on the

road Thursday and Friday.

I can tell you what.

It it was.

It was wonderful, glorious, right. And I know we can

have those wonderful times, yes, right, But the command is

go to my house and meet with me at this location. Yes,

and either we trust his word or we don't.

We lean into him at all times in all seasons,

or eventually we leave him. I never heard somebody during

that I think it's during the revival, was talking about

their experience with the baptism.

They got to the place where it was just them gone.

Everything else had faded away.

There could have been a hundred people in the room,

could have been two thousand in the room, could have.

Been BOMs going off outside of the room. It didn't matter.

That got to that place where they were fully embracing.

I think I didn't think that that would have been

to during this.

Because it's between two people and their hearts should be

as one if your heart is not with his heart,

eventually your feet we go in the wrong direction. They

say so many times that we prop up.

On our religion. Yes, that's what he's for, that's why

he came so we can lean on him, so we

could draw strict from him. Cause he's the Almighty. He's

the strong one, stronger than the strong man. That's him.

I know we've got several here that used Kames, Walkers

and whatnot. If you leave him in the car, they

don't have to cross the parking lote.

Do you lean on in the corner and.

Try to walk out that they don't help you any

If you leave your Bible up on the shelf, they

don't have pity. If you don't lean on the altar

and pray, the offer doesn't help you. An if you

don't come to a house God where the word is preached.

Pastor doesn't help you unless you let him speak into

your life. You get no help from me where the

road cap even helped me out this morning. So on

the Sunday school set to your bide in the mind.

Except it's only one way.

A preaching. The people that know.

That have felt his pastor so wondrously could it this

morning that have felt the brush of the annoyance?

They felt it?

Why would you not want to feel more? He's never

done me anything but good. Don't you wanna feel more

than just.

A brush right? Don't you wanna feel more than just

one brush stroke? Don't you wanna feel good? It went

all the way down and down. I gonna lose you

and down to be lifted up higher and higher? Don't

you want that? Doesn't your heart long for that?

When you see the saints lost in the presence of

Almighty God, doesn't your heart's in If only I remember

Brother Phillips testimony, I wanna shout, I wanna get lost?

God did it wondrously?

Did it?

Just because he's son of a pastor?

That puts in at no higher standard than any other

blood bought believer. We all have the same access.

Some of us just close the door in front of ourselves, right,

and then we cry and beat on the I wish

I could well open the door. You're the one that

shut it. You're the one that locked it. This is

the pathway.

It's been set before you, it's been preached to you.

It's been all but Halloweenah beatn to your thick skull Halloween.

I say that with above, I really do. My school

is pretty thick too. If you'll remember, oh, you know, mean,

how many times pain or ask me?

Is it not?

But his grace, I am where I am. And by

his grace you can open that door. You can holler

to the top.

Of your lungs, you can shout the voice and the

shout of triumph, and you can pass through that doorway

deeper and deeper.

And I'm gonna close with that. That all I know

to tell you. Just lean into it. Just lean into it.

The everlasting arms will not let you go. And if

you somehow collapse, you'll catch you when the play collapses.

It was all my hands always. Let's then raise your

hands towards Heaven. Thank God for the message from the messenger.