We All Here: Arrested by Grace- (9AM) 11.9.25 (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

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Move it in that order. So when the jailer startled out

of his sleep, saw the prison doors were open, say the prison

doors were open, he drew his sword and was on the point of

killing himself. Somebody say pressure because he

supposed that the prison, the prisoners had escaped.

But Paul say but Paul but Paul shouted, do not harm your self,

for we are all here. Then the jailer called for

lights, lights and rushed in trembling and terrified.

He fell down before Paul and Silas, and he brought them out

of the dungeon and said, Men, what is it necessary for me to

do that I may be saved? And they answered, Shout it out,

shout it out, come on, they answered in the Lord Jesus

Christ. Somebody say, help my unbelief

no matter what. If you're asking Lord heal me,

guess what you need you asking for him.

Know what? Save you, Laura, Give me

strength. What are you asking him to do?

Save you. So what he has here is a moment

of unbelief. He's not a believer, but he

still has unbelief in its most, most critical state.

So before he can step into the Kingdom and the promises of God,

he has to do something we all still have to do.

Even though we believe in Jesus, we still have to what?

Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Give yourself up to Him. Even once you have received

Jesus, guess what you got to keep doing?

Give yourself up to Him. That's believing.

Take yourself out of your own keeping and entrust yourself

into His keeping. That's believing.

And when you do that, you will be what saved.

And this applies both. Watch this to you and your

household as well. Say my whole house going to get

saved. Come on, somebody say everybody

healed. Today's message title is we all

here arrested by grace. Somebody say we all here, we're

all in the same room, but some of us are in different prisons.

Say it again, we are all in the same room, but some of us are in

different prisons. Watch this.

Some of us are wearing different prison clothes.

But trust me, if we all go through the metal detectors of

heaven, we all got some metals that heaven don't need.

We all got some unnecessary weights.

We all got something nasty about us on us, and somebody is being

infected by us. Somebody say we all here.

Can I get a couple honest witnesses today that can say if

you really knew the truth about me, you probably could find some

dirt? Yeah, we got a few.

And then we got some people in here afraid to be honest.

But you under heaven's metal detectors, God sees you.

We are all here. Watch this.

We are all here today, gathered by grace.

Some prisons you can see and you can hear with bare eyes bars and

bad decisions and disease and sickness and cycles of conflict,

right? And some are quiet and

invisible. Watch this anxiety and

bitterness and shame and secret addictions and messiness and

gossip and and all those. You get what I'm saying?

They're silent prisons, the ones we can often just dress up and

come to church and nobody sees them.

But look around, we all here, let's not forgive what the text

said. We all here and I think often

when we come to church, we forget.

We all here gathered by grace. So when you look around, if you

can hear in the spirit, everybody got some clankety

clank on them. I know we come in.

How are you doing, brother? Praise God, Hallelujah.

We hide behind our degrees, our diplomas, we pull up in our

whips, we well groom, we smell good, we talk proper.

But the cool thing about God is he's like none of that matters

to me. None of y'all status matters to

me because you all one thing to me, my children, he used to be a

soap opera because I know my Mama used to watch it and still

watch it. All my children, if you watch

it, Mama, thank you for thank you for watching soap operas.

We all hear the broken Amen. The bruised, Amen.

The barely making it, Amen. I just need, I just need like 5

to 10 honest people today. Not not church folk.

I need honest people today. We all here with some

brokenness. We all here with some bruises.

We all here with some barely making it.

And Grace says that's exactly who I came for.

He he he he's like I came for the sick, the healed.

If you healed already, I don't need the food with you.

So he'll come spirit to come into service and be like, oh,

you think you oh, you don't want it.

OK, You think you got it all together.

Cool. Next year he's searching who

hungry, who in here is spirit and in truth and who in here or

or what worship leader, what pastor, what clergy what what

leader is is still, although we serve in Lord.

I need a touch today. Watch this.

This is the gospel of the Kingdom grace gathered us today.

We got different cultures, different chains, different

backgrounds, different baggage, but we all have the same need

for mercy. We've been taught how to hide

our chains and look holy, but Paul and Silas shows us watch

this Praise doesn't need perfection, it needs

participation. Talk to me, somebody.

Praise doesn't need perfection, it needs what?

Participation? This is more than a miracle

story. It's a model for the church when

the people of God prays under pressure, conquer in confusion,

dance in delay and carry over criticize and worship over

worry. Heaven doesn't just free

individuals, it redeems entire families and cities.

Watch when we can get over, when we can get the plank out our

eye. It realized from the windows to

the walls, everybody got issues. Everybody got it, got got some

stuff. Everybody's being the refined.

So it's not it's unsafe for you to define somebody while they're

being refined because you are about to.

You are about to get rooted on where a person is today and

totally miss the blessing of their evolution.

Somebody, somebody say you, you, your view of me is too small for

me to grow around you. Your view of me is too small for

me to grow around you, right? You want a fishy fishy to grow

and not be a fishy fishy but be a be.

Whoa. You got to put him where he can

grow. Watch this, watch, watch this.

When the uncompromisingly righteous are in authority, the

people rejoice. But when the wicked man rules,

the people groan and they sigh. Watch this.

The blessing that rests on the righteous releases strength and

favor to the entire city, but shouts of joy will be heard when

the wicked one dies. Watch this, the blessing of

favor resting upon the righteous.

The favor of the Lord is meant to rest upon you, Not visit you,

but rest upon your life. It says the blessing of favor

resting upon the righteous influences a city to lift it

higher, but wicked leaders tear it apart by their words.

So it don't matter if you are in a prison or not, if the favor

and blessing of the Lord rest upon you, put you in a

graveyard, put you in a valley with dry bones, put you in a

prison, the favor and blessing that rests upon you sets

captives free. Hallelujah, Hallelujah,

Hallelujah, Hallelujah. So follow me today.

Paul and Silas are not just two preachers in trouble, they are

instruments of a new move of God.

I'm going to say that one more time.

Paul and Silas are not just two preachers in trouble, they are

instruments of a new move of God.

The gospel has just crossed into Europe at this time at Philippi,

a Roman colony and a city in ancient Macedonia.

Which is modern day Greece, right?

A proud military style city where Roman law ruled in Jewish

faith was foreign. Paul is on his second missionary

journey, LED there by a vision of a Macedonian man pleading.

Please come and help us. Paul is resilient, Paul is

urgent. Paul is persistent.

And Paul is is is is the epitome of a man on a mission.

It's here that we begin to see the gospel First enter Europe, a

moment of significant historical reformation and spiritual

transformation. Watch this.

The West is about to meet the word and encounter a move of the

Spirit. Somebody say West side.

Paul is about to take the word into brand new territory in a

way that they ain't even heard it, let alone heard it at all.

See, when God is moving, he will always send not just a new

church, he is going to send new leaders.

He is going to send a new way, a new facet, a new way to present.

He is going to see spend, bring, bring a new anointing in the

land, right? And watch this.

And so and so we see in this one chapter somebody say 1 chapter,

Acts 16. God converts Lydia, a wealthy

woman. God converts Lydia, a wealthy

woman. She was a woman of influence who

opens both her heart and her home and she gets saved.

Watch this. And then delivers the slave

girl, the damsel, a young woman exploited for profit, set free

by Paul in the name of Jesus. Somebody say the name of Jesus.

Watch this. And then we see the men of God

save a battle worn jailer and his entire household.

But first they had to go through to get to the household

salvation. They had to go through the

experience of backlash of injustice inflicted upon them.

Paul and Silas as they are beaten and jailed for setting a

damsel free. They are imprisoned, they are

persecuted for setting someone free.

We wrestle not against flesh and blood.

So it's not it's not you it it's not you, it's not me.

If the wind is blowing, you can be used by.

But what the enemy wants you to do is be mad at the jailer who

locked you up. He wants you to be mad at the

persecutors. But say somebody say no.

The enemy is trying to slow down the momentum of freedom that is

being set by the anointing on our lives.

Watch this. They set this young girl free,

proving that obedience doesn't exempt us.

Watch this from opposition. Obedience does not exempt you

from opposition. Obedience does not exempt you.

That's that's a big time word right there.

Obedience does not exempt you from opposition.

Here we see every class of society is represented in Acts

16 because grace never stops at one group.

Grace covers all nations. Come on, Love Quest, that's a

word for you. Grace covers all nations.

It says there's a room for watch this, There's a room.

If there's room for all of our salvation, that means there's

room for all our mess. Now.

Now we find Paul in silence after being brutally and

unjustly beaten in the inner prison feed, fasting in in

shackles. But instead of despair, I love

this new word. I'm gonna put in my I'm gonna

put in my I'm gonna put in my vocabulary.

They deliver a doxology. Amen.

A word or praise of glory. A A sound of great faith

melodies from heaven. Filled the air with harmonious

hope, filled the air with harmonious hope.

While trembling in and out of consciousness, their change

became instruments. Their cell becomes a sanctuary.

Their relationship becomes crucial as they need harmonies

to abolish mental havoc, they need to be on one accord to

derail discord, and as they are both under attack, they need

love in order to help each other fight back and stand against the

true enemy of the Kingdom. Progress, offense and unbelief.

And while society sees two men in chains, the Kingdom of heaven

sees a church being born and a remnant rising up and preaching

to somebody today, somebody today a remnant is rising up.

This is not a mere story about prison with some praise that

tore down walls. This is about a sound of faith

that ushered in the hand of divine Kingdom orchestration.

Because as Paul watch this, as Paul later wrote to this same

church, where was he at? He was in Philippi.

This is the book of Acts. He enters Philippi.

This is the book of Acts. He enters Philippi.

Watch this. Paul fresh off of murdering some

Christians. He fresh off of persecuting

Christians. Watch this, as Paul later writes

to this same church, and I am convinced and sure of this very

thing, that he who began a good work in you will continue until

the day of Jesus right up to the time of his return.

Watch this. Developing that good work,

perfecting and bringing it to full completion.

Where is that in you say the work is in me.

Watch this. Paul understands this because

when the work began in his life, he understood that he could have

and should have good reason to be derailed, to to to to rebel,

and had reason to quit. Watch this like Sarah like like

the like the not the centenarian shoot a might woman.

Paul didn't ask for this call. Paul was interrupted on his way

to murder some Christians and the Lord stopped them in his

tracks and said repent. I'm going to fill you with the

Holy Ghost. Now go build my church.

Come on. So he understands.

He pinched his letter to this church where he was first

persecuted in their land, and he said, yeah, Remember Me?

I know God, the one that began the good work on the road to

Damascus. Damascus began a good work.

He's going to see it through and he's going to bring it to

completion. He's going to perfect me.

So if I got to go through some change, if I got to go through

some prison cells, if I got to go through some persecution,

what I can hinge my hope on is that he that began a good work

in me, he is committed to see it to the end.

Come on, somebody say God going to finish this work.

Watch this. God transforms pain into purpose

and what begins in a prison becomes a promise fulfilled in

his people. Am I talking to one side?

What side am I talking? West side, South side, North

side, West side? God transformed pain into

purpose, and what begins in what begin what be what begins in

prison becomes a promise fulfilled in his people.

Here's another way to say it. God turns confinement into

construction, and he builds destiny out of difficulty.

And what starts in chains ends in change.

Am I talking to you over here? Am I talking to somebody over

here? God turns confinement into

construction. He builds test destiny out of

difficulty. And what starts in change ends

in change. I promise you, if you hold on,

you will see the change of God in your life.

I promise you. I promise you He's not finished

yet. So, so, so, so, so let's, let's,

let's, let's see what happens when, when faith sings in the

dark. Let's see, let's see what

happens when faith sings in the dark, Acts 1625 says.

But about midnight, somebody say midnight one more time.

Say midnight, as Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns

of praise God and the other prisoners were listening to

them. Watch it and it say they were

trying to shut them up. Watch this.

Their melodies was bringing peace in other people's cells.

Watch it, they were listening to them.

Suddenly there was a great earthquake.

Who? So that the very foundations of

the prison were shaken. Somebody say the foundations.

Somebody say a great earthquake. Somebody say suddenly and at

once all the doors was open. Somebody say all the doors.

Come on, one more, one more, one more again.

Somebody say all the doors, All the doors were open.

See, I don't know if I'm the only one in here.

I, I appreciate one door being open.

Hallelujah. I, I thank God for the man of

seasons. I thank God for the 1.

You know, he praised God for the one door.

I thank him for the one window. I thank him for the one sunroof

that open. I, I, I thank, I thank God for

the dog door that open. I thank God for every size door.

I'll take one rather than none. But there comes a point in a

season I I just feel like this is this is this we're right on

the brinks of this. All the doors were open.

Can I just take can we just take 30 seconds to just thank God in

advance for all the doors being open?

Lord, we thank you for the doors of of financial freedom being

broken open. We thank you for mental health

being open. We thank you, Father, for divine

relationships, those doors being open.

Lord, we thank you for the door of healing to be open.

Lord, we thank you for the door of household salvation being

open. Lord, we thank you that this is

a season that all the doors are about to open.

Lord, we're not just experiencing trouble on every

side. We're not just experiencing

persecution. We're not just experiencing

lost. Lord God, you're about to break

open the doors that you've designed to be open.

Lord, we thank you. When you purge you, you produce

lavish fruit. All the doors are about to be

open. All the doors are about to be

open. All the doors are about to be

open. All the doors are about to be

open. See, Bible talks about a people,

when a person has received great love, they give great love.

So I'm only talking to the people who have experienced all

the doors closed, who've experienced opportunity shut in

your face, who's gotten promises and those promises, people pull

them back. That door you walked in because

you was excited and thought it was it.

That relationship, you thought it was it and it was snatched

out of your life. So I'm not going to be the

person who bask in my pain and grief but not celebrate the

other side of the coin. If I could be sad because the

door closed, I could be excited because the door about to open.

If I can have fear of loss and fear of rejection, I can also

have excitement and joy for gain.

I'm not about to be a one side of the coin, a believer.

No, no, no, no. Yeah.

Though I walk through the valley and shadow devil, I shall fear

no evil, for God is with me. I was blind.

Now I see I'm not just going to complain I was blind.

You best believe you're going to get that work.

When I open my eyes. I've gone too long without my

sight. You think I'ma shut up with my

eyes open. Watch this.

Your mistakes don't stop God's promises.

Your mistakes might hinder people from seeing God in your

life, but your mistakes will never stop God.

He meant what he said. Somebody say he meant what he

said. I want you to see this midnight.

I've always seen this but but never seen this.

Midnight is the time of transition.

Midnight is the overlap of two days.

I'm not talking Midnight is a time of tension.

It's shifts are crossing over. There's a new shift coming on.

I, I don't know if you worked in a hospital or any, any, any,

any, any place where people have shift meetings, you get the next

shift, come in early so they can meet with the shift that's been

on and get a report of what's happened all night and then the

new shift take over. You understand what I'm saying,

Doc? So there is a shift happening.

We're we're in a time where it seems dark, but it's not dark

because Hell's in charge. It's dark because there's a

shift. Somebody say shift.

Say it very carefully. All you cussers say shift.

Here we go. Hallelujah.

Midnight is the breaking point between the old and the new, the

old and the new. Their worship was not

situational. Their worship was revelational.

Somebody say revelation, They did not look at the prison

behind it. And mind you, they were in the

dungeon. They couldn't even stand up.

You messed up when you forced me into a prostrated position.

When you put me on my face, that's my posture.

That's my posture. So when you put me under the

house thinking you throwing me away, you better get ready

because this is my posture. Come on, face down is my

posture. This is where I see my greatest

breakthrough. This is where I see my greatest

oil. This is where I see my greatest

revelation. This is where I see God work the

most. This is where I see things turn

around. When you force me on my face,

that's a dangerous place for me and you.

Somebody say devil, thank you for pushing me on my face.

Whoa. Eyes to see, ears to hear.

Watch this. Anyone can praise in daylight.

It takes faith to praise in the dark.

Somebody say we got to turn it up.

And anyone can praise in the daylight.

It takes faith. Maybe.

Maybe I'm preaching in the wrong audience.

Maybe everybody in daylight now. Maybe, maybe y'all.

Maybe I'm getting my breakthrough later than all

y'all. OK but anyone can praise in

daylight. It it it takes faith to praise

in the dark. Watch this.

They didn't wait for daylight, they created it.

Do we got any praisers here? I got folks staring at me like

like, like like I'm a presenter. No, I'm trying to, I'm trying to

get to that spirit of yours and into that deep place of yours so

you can get excited about what God is doing in your life and

you can shift your perspective for when you walk out that door.

They did not wait for daylight. They did not wait for

breakthrough. They did not wait for the

blessing. They did not wait for the

harvest. They did not wait to come out of

their chains. They praised them right where

they were, and they created the daylights.

Watch this. They were the break of dawn.

They were that. That'd be a great band name.

Break of dawn, Break of dawn, the break of dawn.

They were the break of dawn. Let there be lights.

You're the light of the world. You're the break of dawn.

You're the one that God sends into the dark places.

This was the meeting place of the end and the beginning.

Midnight is where the end and the beginning have a little

meeting. Somebody say shift.

It's it's it's almost like it's midnight is saying it's, it's

over, let's get it started. Somebody said it, it's over.

Let's get it started. Faith doesn't wait until it's

over to start. Oh no, joy comes in the morning,

so I'm going into the morning celebrating.

I know what God promised us love quest.

So I'm not waiting until we crossover.

I'm I'm I'm praising it while we going over we see the great

shaking to freedom. Watch this verse 26, Seismos.

Somebody say this wasn't normal. Somebody say this is a great

shaking. Watch this.

Somebody say this one was different.

You know how they say this hit different?

Yeah, this one hit different. Watch this.

God disrupted the system to deliver his servants.

Everyone's chains fell, even those who hadn't prayed.

This ain't the season to worry about your family members and

all that. Just just give, give God the

praise that's due because every chain fell, even those that

hadn't prayed. You, you look, I, I can tell you

that I got out of some situations because of what my

grandma prayed. I didn't even know how to pray

and chains broke off of my life. Do we got any prayer warriors in

here that believe that what's in their mouth is the key to

somebody else's freedom? Just shout out come out now in

Jesus name. The praise their praise shook

foundations plural. You got to watch this.

Remember I had you say foundation Their praise shook

foundations. It's very important.

Their praise shook foundations. Every chain fell off, even those

who hadn't prayed. God doesn't deal with symptoms,

He shakes systems. Come on, somebody say, I don't

mind God shaking my systems. They need some of them need to

change in the 1st place, right? Sometimes God is.

Can you wait for the shaking? It's not about if you waited for

the shaking if it took too long, it's about when he shakes.

Do you let pride keep you? Still?

Can God shake you? Can God shift you?

Can God change you? God doesn't deal with symptoms,

He shakes systems. When worship is real, it doesn't

just open doors, it breaks up unneeded structures and discards

old wineskins. Have you ever thought that the

praise in this house was for this house first worship team?

You ever thought that the songs that we say it was to shake your

foundations first? See this what the church needs

to understand. So when shaking comes, when

disruption comes, we trust God and while we waiting on God, we

unite with each other, not divide because have you ever

thought there was a word that came in this house that God was

cleaning it? So have you ever thought that

the disruption or some of the confusion, oh I know God

confuses folks. Look at Babel.

When God is trying to break up something, He will allow

confusion, but it's him breaking it up.

Watch this. But it's not to divide us, it's

to unite us. Because with Babel, he said when

they put their mind together, look at what they can do.

The devil wants you to think the shaking is for separation, but

God's shaking always should lead to unity.

Watch this because guess what? Watch this, watch this, watch

this. Follow me, follow me.

It was some singing, it was some shaking and it was some shifting

in that order. How long we been singing that?

That's one thing Love quest do we get on people nerves.

We welcome you, right? You you got a song for that

right? We got our mission song.

If it can be sang, we going to sing it.

One thing we going to do is we going to sing but but you got to

be understand God put that in our spirit.

God gathered all these singers. Watch this, which means that

there's an anointing upon us to shake some stuff up.

So when stuff starts shaking, let's learn from these guys.

Shaking is a sign of shifting. Watch this.

Shaking is a sign of shifting, not departing.

OK, write it down. Watch this, Watch this.

Praise brought pressure and pressure.

Birth power. Praise brought pressure.

Can you can you stand through the squeezing?

OK, all you smart people squeezing.

Can you stand through the squeezing?

See. All squeezing does is it pushes

out of you. What's in you?

Have you ever thought God wanted to get it out of you?

Because there's a shifting happening.

New wine can't go on the old wine skins, so there's a squeeze

necessary to get out of you the unnecessary way.

But when watch this. But when what comes out of you,

you got to be careful because sometimes what comes out of you

is evidence for people to use against you for what the enemy

made them think about you. So you can't be surprised during

the squeezing when people run from you because something came

out of you that God brought out of you.

See, some of the truth is, is God want to know his brothers

and sisters. Can you handle your brother's

mess? Because your brother handled

yours. That's why you all save, right?

It's because somebody handled your sin.

Hallelujah. Watch this.

Their praise didn't just set them free.

It freed everyone close enough to hear them.

See you. You.

This is why you got to keep opening your mouth.

Because there's somebody around you with chains, but they don't

got to praise. There's somebody in your family

would change, but they don't got to praise you got to stop.

You got to start understanding that joke.

See, I see why my grandma used to walk through the house and

just sing. She's like, look, I ain't going

to argue with Uncle Willy. Let him sleep on the back porch,

but he going to hear these hymns.

Come on, somebody. Sometimes you need to stop

arguing and getting in conversation and put a hymn on

them. Put a hymn on them.

Put a hymn on them, something about the name Jesus.

Put a hymn on them, something about the name Jesus.

It's his love, Sweet. Whoa, whoa.

Somebody say Jesus. Oh hi Lord, the name Jesus.

I'm like Grandma, how you dealing with all this in the

hood, your son on dope, your daughter running around doing

her thing and you just you just the sweetest little piece of

pie. You not disturbed, you not

distracted, you faithful, you going to church all week, you

still tithing, you still giving, you will not be moved.

Your husband abused you, your husband left you and you still

something about the name Jesus. See, this is what you got to

understand. The pressure is not so you can

run. God is trying to say OK, this

season that mess came out of you, but next season when I

squeeze you, something mature going to come out of you.

You go bless your enemies, you go bless your family.

You go sing a hymn instead of cussing somebody out.

You go stand and not get weary instead of running out the back

door. Their praise didn't just set

them free, it freed everyone close enough to hear it.

So to this day, what keeps me standing is the memory of my mom

and my grandma standing. Despite being on welfare,

despite being abused, despite being single mothers, They stood

and they worshipped through the pressure.

We're in a generation that we need to know how to stand

through the pressure. I don't know all this running

around. When I grew up, it was

generations in one church. And guess what?

I've seen fights in the choir stand.

I've seen fights in the choir room.

Folks was messing around. I've seen people cheating.

But guess what? Everybody you go back to that

day, they celebrate in 70 something years.

We're in a time where when something don't fit for us

deuces. How will the church last if we

don't know how to fight through the prisons, fight through the

pressures? See, but my grandma and they,

they were just only one or two generations away from slavery.

So the only way they got through slavery.

Hymns and unity. Lord, may we, may we, may we get

the art of hymns and unity back. We're on a pilgrimage.

Understand that personal faith caused corporate breakthrough.

Grace was too big to stay in their cell.

Grace was too big to stay in that cell.

Praise from your prison, praise from your prison, praise from

your prison might just be the key to someone else breaking

from their bondage. Paul cries out.

Do thyself no harm, for we are all here.

Remember that. Say we all here.

Shout it out. We all here.

Come on one more time. Say we all here, They could have

watched this, They could have ran.

Paul and Silas could have ran. But they stayed.

Because freedom isn't just escaping chains, it's embracing

responsibility. See on the other side of your

breakthrough and your freedom and your deliverance.

Now you're handed responsibility.

Watch this. The greatest attack on your life

wasn't the change that was on you.

The greatest attack on your life begins when the chains come off.

You Watch this. Be careful of running from where

you got free. Before you fulfill

responsibility to help others get free.

Watch this. Nobody's judging in this moment.

Remember that the walls came down.

They're all standing around. The jailer wants to go kill

himself because if a prisoner escapes in that day, law says

that the jailer gets the same sentence as the ones that

escaped he was supposed to be keeping, so he was facing

capital punishment. But back then also, it was more

honorable to commit suicide than to be persecuted or killed

publicly for something you did wrong.

So his first response when he got up and thought the

prisoner's escape is he was going to die.

So he said, I'd rather kill myself, more honorable than to

be put in public in front of my family.

And if you go way back, this is the guy that Paul heard in a

vision. Paul's on his way to do ministry

and gets put in prison. Paul goes to set someone free

and get locked up himself. The prison ain't always because

you did something criminal. What's this?

No one was judging at this point.

Nobody's performing at this point because Grace is doing

what law could never do. It was bringing everybody

together in freedom. See.

Get this picture of we all here. These are apostles in prison

with prisoners, Jesus on the cross with real thieves.

Jesus say you coming with me, buddy?

Paul says. Why would I run from the real

bond bondage? I'm free.

I can handle prison. I was free so I can handle

prison, so I can handle pressure.

I'm free so I can show somebody how to stand under pressure.

I'm free so I can show somebody how to stand when offended.

I'm free so I can show you how to grieve like a free person.

I love his word, he said. I'm ready to die.

You ever been there? Maybe even figuratively.

I'm ready to throw in a towel and give up.

I'm ready to quit. I'm ready to start new.

I'm ready to run. I'm ready to go somewhere else.

I'm ready to die. I'm ready to faint.

I can't stand this no more. I ain't coming back there.

I don't want this. Am I the only person in here

that's been at the point where I'm like ready to throw in the

towel? Watch this.

Do you notice how God has always sent a free person around you

when you was ready to die? I, I I could look at a few.

I ain't going to even look at you because I I didn't, I didn't

I didn't been in that prison with some of y'all watch this.

Make make sure if you're going to go to prison is worth it.

Watch this. This is worth it.

Freedom is not watch this. Freedom is not running away,

It's staying when others need. What freed you?

I don't exercise my freedom by running.

I exercise my freedom by staying.

I don't exercise my freedom by running.

I exercise my freedom by staying.

Watch this. Somebody say we all here in that

moment, the man was ready to die.

But thank God there was apostles there who didn't run because

they they were actually charged in justly.

So this was their chance to go just like the Shunami woman when

her son died. She's could have been like, I

didn't ask for this. Let's have a funeral so I can

get my freedom back. Oh, the prison doors is open.

Since we free, let's hurry up and run before they put us in

another cell. Paul could have escaped, but he

stayed. Proof that true freedom isn't

running away is staying present in purpose through difficult

times. Paul could have escaped.

Watch this. But Grace makes you stay where

love still has work to do. Watch this, watch this.

See on if me and you were at art, it ain't time to go.

It's time to stay because love still got work to do.

When you was going through what you was going through, it wasn't

time. Now if once you come through it,

if once we good. If you go good, peace, love you,

but as long as we in a wrestle what what God is holding us

responsible to do is wrestle till the match is over.

You want to you want to talk about Jacob, You want to talk

about the man he was wrestling with.

When God assigns a wrestling match, you better wait until he

ring the bell, right? Watch this.

The blessings ain't all about my assignment.

Guess what? The wrestles is my assignment

too. I'm not just going to dance with

you, I got to wrestle with you. Galatians says bear one

another's burdens. Romans 10 say be devoted to one

another in brotherly love. John 1513 says greater love has

no man than this, that he laid down his life for his friends.

Grace doesn't just free you from sin, it teaches you how to stay

for souls. But we've made grace for us.

Grace doesn't abandoned people, it abides with them.

Watch this. Here's what the statement says.

We are all here. Paul easily can separate himself

from the prisoners. They're criminals, Paul says.

Watch this. We all here man, y'all got to

see that, Paul says In this moment I'm no different than

you. We both got chains on.

We all here because love blossoms even when it could

bail. We all here not perfect but

present. We all here not flawless but we

found. Grace says I'm not free, watch

this y'all y'all I hope this hit your spirit.

Grace says I'm not free till my brother free.

Watch this Jesus not still hanging on that cross for me,

but Jesus still hanging on that cross for the world.

I'm not free until my brother's free.

God's goal was not just man's salvation, but a family's

transformation. Next experience we're going to

get into the household salvation.

The same grace that freed the prisoners broke the generational

curse of the household. Because when grace moves, it

never moves for one person. Grace moves for all people.

Watch this close here. When God shakes a sail, he's

aiming for a city. And when God saves a man, he's

coming for the whole household. Lift your hands right where you

are. When God shakes a sail, he's

coming for the whole city. And when God saves a man, he's

coming for the whole household. I'm going to say that one more

time. When God shakes your sail, He's

coming for the whole city. The real testimony is how people

see you handle your prison, how people see you handle your

pressure, right. No greater time to stay when you

got legit reason to run. When grace comes for man, grace

coming for that whole family, lift your hands all over the

place. I want you right now, in this

moment to just whoever God brings up in your spirit.

I want you to just take the next two minutes, 2-3 minutes, and

pray for your brother or sister, your mom, your dad, whoever it

may be. You go ahead, open your mouth,

don't you? You don't think about them, you

open your mouth and release the word for them.

It could. It could be family members, it

could be teammates, it could be Co workers and God knows their

name so it's just when it's on their heart you can see.

If you don't want to say their name out loud, that's totally

fine, but set your mind on them and just go ahead and send a

word to them. It could be your spouse, it

could be your children. Send a word.

But this is not the time for you to faint.

He's coming for your household. He's coming for your friends.

He's coming for your family. He's coming for your coworkers.

The fact that he saved you as evidence that he could do it

again. He will do it again.

What? I stand in agreement for my

brother and sister, whoever they're praying for.

Lord, I stand in agreement that the chains are broken.

Lord, we declare today. We all here.

We all here, we all got some change, we all got some things

to change in our lives. We all here, we all here Lord,

and we all need mercy. We all need grace.

I speak an anointing over you that you have staying power.

You will not tap out in the wrestle, but you will wrestle

until He bless you. Come on, 90 more seconds, 90

more seconds, come on. And some of you, maybe you want

to stand on your feet for your friend, but take it serious.

You're standing in the gap for somebody.

Come on, take that time. Take that time.

You're praying for people that don't know how to pray.

You're praying for people that don't know Jesus.

Come on, send that word. Send that word.

Send that word. Come on.

Prophetic posture. Prophetic posture.

Well, maybe you got to stand and get on the ball of your feet.

Prophetic posture. Let the heavens know you really

mean business. Let the heavens know you really

mean business. Paul and Silas was put flat on

their face. Posture, me is everything.

Posture is everything. I'm not approaching my prison

lightly. I'm not approaching my

neighbor's prison lightly. I'm not just praying for my

shackles. Thank you so much for tuning

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