Equipped for the Middle - 9.28.2025 - 12PM (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International

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I believe every person in this place, a part of our humanity is

that we all know watch this, we all know we jacked up like deep

down inside. I don't know.

I don't believe I'm the only person that may have asked

yourself this one time and what's wrong with you, why you

keep like deep down inside we know that we are broken.

We know that we have fallen. We know deep down inside, we

know we need help. And I just feel the Father's

heart in here today. And I'm just like, we feel the

broken side of our Father's heart because we've made

following Jesus about everything.

But following Jesus, we, we've made the gospel about everything

but about his reckless love. And as we sing these songs, I'm

just like, I feel the Father. Like, yes, that's what it's

about. Tell the good news like, he

really wants us. What parent doesn't want their

children to know you're loved? He really wants you, you if

you're a parent. You said this a few times.

Do you know? How hard I work to You really

want your kids to like get it Like I'm not just out here

working like this for nothing. Do you do you really take it for

granted what it takes to keep these lights on when you're

talking to your kid to feed you 3456789 times a day?

Do you know what it takes to drive you back and forth to

school, feed your friends, give your kids like like as a parent

and the father is the same. Do you know what I went through

to save you the the price that was paid?

Shouldn't our mind be more on His love?

His love corrects, His kindness leads us to repentance.

And when we gather and as a church man, we got to get to the

point, like it has to be good news to us.

Like I, I honestly feel like for some people it ain't good news.

Like, like think about how you act when it's good, when you get

good news. Like some of you are are, are,

are are just crying for some good news.

You're crying for a change in your life.

You can't wait for a job or change some financial break.

Like is it anybody in here just let's just be practical or are

you just, are you kind of waiting for some good news?

How many people need some good news?

I'm not even talking about the, the blood of Jesus.

I'm talking about just life practical.

You need some good news. You need something good to

happen for you need some things to turn around.

A few of you don't. I would love to have your life.

Amen. I would love to have your life

absolutely, But I know for me, I need some stuff to turn around.

I'm I'm believing for some things for my family.

I'm believing for some things for and the only thing that

brings me hope is, is, is what the blood of Jesus has done for

me, right. There's a time with your kids

that you you got to you got to teach them.

You got to realign them. You got to correct some things.

But man, your home, watch this. Your home should consist mostly

of goodness. It should mostly consist of have

you ever lived in a home where correction was the spirit?

Like home should be a place where it's safe to make a mess

right now when we go to our friend's house, like don't make

a mess over there. But when you can, you can, you

can smash peas all over the place.

If you want, you can, you can spill juice all over the place.

Because we, we got this, our house man church.

I will say this and we don't get into the word.

I don't know about you, but I've been in the world.

Like meaning I'm still in the world, but meaning the world was

in me. The world beats us up like

nobody had to tell me I was a Sinner when when when the world

had a hold of me. Nobody.

The devil beats us up enough, beats the world up enough, and

if the church is supposed to be salt and light, we have to get

more of the good news to the world.

Extra extra. Read all about it.

The church should be extra. Extra like the church should be

extra Extra. We have to be careful in this

hour. Elder John, come up here.

I want you to read that word that you wanted me to read.

Y'all can sit down for a SEC. Y'all can sit down.

Y'all can go sit down. I encourage you to go watch this

Morning experience. Listen, lock in.

Lock in. Look at your neighbors.

Say lock in, come on, put your hand on your head and say lock

in self lock in. I, I be before whatever one is,

is it you feel, Sir, this word that he, he just reminded me in

the back that this word was released.

To you, to this house. Before the latest big news that

that that that happened with brother Charlie Kirk, there was

a word that went out to this house.

But also, you know, if we learn to share what, what word that

God gives in this house, then that word can be passed on to

the body. And he just reminded me, this is

for whoever, whoever has ears to hear and, and wants to receive

it. But man of God, can you go ahead

and read that word that you wanted me to read?

From August 20th, given in this house, the word of the Lord is

He. Is He meaning the Lord?

He is perfecting because the wind is about to blow.

He is equipping because the harvest is about to storm in.

He is cleaning His house because the wind is about to blow.

It is His grace and it is His mercy that He is giving His

children time to turn around. Before the Savior stepped out,

there was a warning in the wilderness, and that warning was

repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand.

God is gracious to warn, to compel, to send a Clarion call

before the wind blows. He is perfecting because the

wind is about to blow. The call cost.

He is perfecting because the wind is about to blow.

The power of God's Word is meant to bring about transformation.

He is perfecting because the wind is about to blow.

There's been warning about being too busy.

There's been warning about who you're getting in covenant with.

There's been warning about some of the tricks of the enemy in

2025. Why?

Because the wind is about to blow.

We get so focused on harvest time we don't focus on routine

time. The dangers about compelling you

about the promise is you begin to get hyper promised and think

anything that good. Then think anything good that

comes is because this is the year.

Not knowing this loud voice about promise on the flip side

is a warning to brace yourself because the wind is about to

blow. So in these convos, there's

going to be a stirring of the gifts.

God is shifting your seasons, He is disturbing your rhythms, He

is silencing your comforts, He is transplanting your desires

and He is releasing you to your pride.

He does not free you from your pride.

You do that, but He will, when it's time, release you to your

pride. This is about to be a dusty

season. God owes no one an explanation.

We're in a season where you have to be OK making decisions

without an explanation. We're in a season where the

wind's going to blow and you got to be ready to go.

When God speaks, be quick to obey.

If you misstep, be quick to repent.

He has prepared you for the day of the wind.

If the wind takes you out, it's because you didn't take the

quipping season seriously. This is a season to be very

careful, to be distracted by contentious conversations,

battles, unnecessary weights, unnecessary quarrels,

unnecessary arguments. In this season, there's an

anointing to make peace and be empowered.

Without closure. An explanation will not heal

you. An explanation will not get rid

of your insecurities. An explanation will not make you

trust somebody. This is a season where God's

going to do the healing and you need to take that passion and

that energy and that love and put it towards God, but also

show the same love that He showed you to people.

But I'm telling you, waiting for an explanation and closure is

going to rob you of necessary energy that you need for the

divine moment. We're stepping in.

You don't need closure for the winds about to blow.

The wind's about to blow. He is equipping you because the

wind is about to blow. Like fishing in this season, God

is throwing His net into the sea of Saints, and as the wind is

blowing, the net's going to come out of the water.

Is God's love bait enough? Is His word bait enough for you

to repent? You don't just come to get

taught the word. You don't just come for somebody

to read the Scriptures to you. If you say this is a house God's

called you to, then there's a part that is surrendered to to

that house. And I forget how many weeks

after or days after that word, the Charlie Kirk situation

happened. And.

The world and situations in this world and in life it gives us

opportunities to respond to God's word so when I take a word

like that it's not just for my just everyday life or some

promises unbelieving. I will take it to that Charlie

Kirk situation, right? And how we interpret the event

can cause divide amongst us. Here we are not paying attention

to the word. Be careful getting in these

conversations. So if I keep the word before me

when these situations come, God's already warned me.

So when I'm ending up in these conversations, I'm obeying the

right now Word of God. And it's going to keep me

fruitful under pressure. So then there's other people in

my life that may not be experiencing that same type of

fruit, but they also didn't get that word to respond.

See, God gives us a word. The wind blows, the wind is

blowing, something else don't come up.

And it don't got to be a world event.

It could be at your house event. It could be at your job event.

But you have a word of how to respond in these dark days.

Will you obey? Or will you take a word like

that and don't go back and chew on it?

See, the cool thing about a word like this too is it causes me to

have eyes to see who not to be around.

Oh, those that aren't those who want to argue, those who want to

have these unnecessary conversations, those who want to

gossip. Those who want to do these

things. Guess what?

In this season, if that's the word, then that ain't the

activity I should be around. Why?

Because I'm trying to go. It ain't watch this.

It ain't because I don't like you, Danny.

It's because I like the word that God gave me more so I'm not

trying. If it's friends over word, word

is going to always win. If his Mama over word, Word's

going to always win. If his wife over word, word is

going to always win. The reason God gives me a word

is because everything and everybody that I'm in alignment

with that word is to sync us together.

But that word also, that's that the word that syncs me with who

God's called me to be within the season always also purges people

that I'm not supposed to. Because what you've proven to me

is we not hearing the same in this season.

We own too. God has changed my my channels.

You still on the same channel. God has given me a new

frequency. You still on the same frequency.

God can give me a new energy. You still got that same energy.

You know how some people say keep that same energy?

No, sometime change that energy right?

He's doing a new thing. He's maturing us.

He's growing up growing us up. If the wind's about to blow,

it's examination time. Are you humble enough to say

man, now I can't keep walking this way.

I can't keep talking this way. I can't keep clicking up 40 deep

and rallying around familiar spirits that's going to agree

with me and that's going to no. What is God calling you to

today? These last few weeks have proven

that the Bride needs to go back to elementary school.

We need milk. Our bones are weak, our bones

are dry, our bones are frail. Our immune system has been

compromised by the lies of the enemy, the affairs of the world,

the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of

life. And we are severely divided, but

in areas that aren't essential to us being united.

It's amazing at the things the church will turn its head from

when it comes to our beliefs outside of Christianity.

Our beliefs, our philosophies, our ideologies, the things we

will ignore in the name of Jesus versus no, no, no, no Jesus

character. Is it love?

They will know you, they will know you.

They will know you like like the proof the world will know you

are mines by your love. No, I all right.

I know Elder John just simply I know Elder John because he come

to church and he say he a Christian and he knows some

scriptures. So I'm just like you, my brother

in Christ. You a Christian.

Hey, you ever? You ever?

Find that person at work or something and y'all look at each

other like are you? Christian, y'all been working

together all this time and y'all just like I knew you was one of

us. No, no, no, I, we don't, we, we

can know that we're Christian by just saying, hey, I'm a believer

in Jesus. What he's saying is the way the

world will know that you are mine, that there's something

different because the world knows love.

Although it's confused about love, the world knows love.

The most important thing that we can offer the world in these

last days is love, the Father's love.

And before you can offer the world the Father's love, you

have to receive it and you have to produce the love of God, the

fruit of His love to produce in you.

Because what the church know how to do is talk a big game.

But look at our fruit, not just Oh my disciples, because we

guess what we will do. We'll put human beings in a

fruit basket and be like this. Look at my.

Fruit. Let's put your joy in a fruit

basket. Let's put your peace in a fruit

basket. Let's, let's, let's, let's,

let's, let's, let's inspect your kindness and your

long-suffering. But let's inspect your kindness

to people who ain't right to you.

Let let's inspect your joy and your peace.

When all hell break loose, Let's inspect your long.

Suffering when somebody mean to you, lie to you, talk down to

you. Let's do that.

You can't expect no fruit with everything.

Good. Everybody nice to you.

How's your fruit when God's calling you to submit to

somebody you don't want to? Or how's your fruit when God's

calling you to be in a relationship with somebody you

don't want to? How?

How's your fruit when it don't go your way when they turn their

back on you? How's your fruit then, you

think? Jesus had to come and just

suffer just to suffer. Yeah, part of it was our

salvation, but part of it was him showing us how to walk our

salvation out. And he said, look, if you really

mind. They going to persecute you like

if you really about that frontline soldier life they

going to get you going to get the business.

I'm because because I'm going to assure I'm going to make Jesus.

I'm going to make sure I ask you to say some stuff that ain't

popular so these last few weeks. And many current events prove to

us that we need to go back to elementary school.

Milk is not mere suggestion in this hour, but it is a vital

necessity. We got Saints who claim to know

Jesus, but the spiritual fruit doesn't say the same the the

scripture says be rooted so you know the depth somebody say

depth depth means what deep right, right.

So so so when I'm what? Maybe this?

Is what I'm saying. Guys, I have no doubt that you

know Jesus in a certain dimension, but when he says that

you may know the depth he is saying there is, there is

dimensions to my love. There's depths of my love that

you don't have the capacity to understand, right?

And so for me, I'm at a place in my life where but but there's a

depth of love that you can never understand until you respond

like Jesus in the midst of persecution.

There is some depths of love you will never know if you never

embrace the valley. Watch this.

You can go through the valley but not embrace it, right?

You can have kids, but not parent.

You can have a spot. You can be married but not have

but but but not engage in marriage.

You can be a pastor and not pastor.

Yeah, So you can go through the valley.

So don't take pride because you're going through a hard

time. Where's your heart in the hard

time? How's your tongue in the hard

time? We have Saints that are

exhausted in a time we should be exuberant.

Saints are complaining when we should be compassionate.

Saints are retreating when we should be reviving.

Saints are confused when we should be clear.

Saints are political when we should be priestly.

Saints are subdued when we should be subduing.

Saints are running where we should be rooted.

We are fickle when we should be focused.

We are passive when we should be pursuing.

We are siding when we should be seizing, taking over still.

And yet Jesus is on the throne still, and yet my God is alive

still, and yet the Holy Spirit is still assigned.

Watch this last week. Let me, let me, let me, let me,

let me keep reading, Let me, let me, let me keep reading, let me,

let me keep reading. Stay right here.

If I wanted to divide the Father's house right now, all I

have to do is ask everyone to publicly share the true thoughts

they have about their world views.

Church would be divided. Why is it that simple to divide

us? I said share your world views.

But you know what's crazy? Even if I asked us to share our

theological views, when I do believe that every person in

this room believes our doctrine. He was born of a virgin named

Mary. Yeah, he lived.

He died. He rose.

What? Why, What?

What's all the other stuff about?

How is it so easy to divide us when what we're called to unite

around is so simple? What what pride and arrogance is

in this room, But who came to get delivered from it?

And who came to and who but who came to hold on to it?

Where's the day? Where the Spirit?

Can move on people's heart and before the message is over you

hear people crying out, Lord I repent.

How is it come? That was so easy to divide.

Us. And you wonder why we are where

we are. The crazy part is we should be

uniting and putting this energy together and this faith together

to go win the lost world. Because when you witness all

it's about is Jesus died, Jesus rose, he look for God, so love

the world that he gave. It ain't about none of the other

stuff. When you are out there

witnessing, saving the lost, the blind, they know what love.

They want love. Now the cool thing about here,

man, I didn't I didn't preach. I didn't preach some pretty

gangster churches. OK, nobody preach from gangster

messages because OK, nobody in here be like PT soft and PT

little warm and PTPT don't be preaching.

He don't be going after that, all of that, all of that.

I've been preaching for a long time.

All of that. Go go check up on it.

I don't ski skirt. I don't run from nothing.

No, no conversations I'm running from.

But at the end of the day, you can be so prideful in your

willingness to obey God and say the hard stuff that you rebel

and don't say the simple truth. And so you got so much

theological pride in the church today because we pride ourselves

in no, I'm going to tell you, I'm going.

You go, you know, No, you go. No, no, no, no, no.

And all through the Bible, it tells us and warns us this, this

is this. It warns us it's so much

theological pride going on, and it's just one simple truth, man,

that the world needs now. Now as we're discipling and

we're trying to carve and and mold and become more like

Christ. I can't become more like Christ

if I ain't received Christ. So the goal is not to make the

world become more like Christ, is to get them to receive

Christ, because the world can't become more like Christ, nor can

we without the Holy Ghost. Well, the world can't receive

Christ, they only can receive Jesus.

And once you have the gift of Jesus from the Father, then you

get the gift of the Holy Ghost, which is the gift from Jesus.

And then it is the Holy Spirit in us that works out our

salvation. But even the Holy Ghost can't

work out our salvation if we don't work it out with fear.

Trembling what we talking about You think we you think the world

got a capacity? You think we you think we can

afford with all? The information that's going on

in the world, all the news we see, all the bad news, all the

fear, all the stuff the world is feeding us and we feeding

ourselves. You think we it ain't time for a

simple message? It'd be very simple to divide

this room right now. Our opinions would divide us,

some of our convictions would divide us, and some people

wouldn't even mind that. Well, let me help you.

Division breaks the Father's heart.

It may not. Break yours.

But it breaks the father's heart.

The father hear me, Elder John. The father has worked too hard

and he has given too much to get his sons and daughters home for

me to take a service, to do something as stupid as split the

room over an opinion, oversiding or over weaponizing the word.

My ethnicity, weaponizing my culture and racial disposition.

Once again, I'm on Jesus side. I am a citizen of the Kingdom of

God. I am and you are sons and

daughters. We've been washed by the

precious blood of the Lamb. We will spend eternal life with

our Creator, with our Savior, with our Maker, and we are free

from condemnation and we are the righteousness of God and the

devil is under our feet. To those who have come from all

walks of life, you are a new Christian, new convert.

You left new age, you left Muslim.

You've you've come from some very complex background.

I am sorry that you have gotten in caught up in the crossfire of

Christians fighting one another and disagreeing.

And you are new to the faith. And in these times, all you can

do is see. How dysfunctional we are with

one another. I promise you that the Father is

not confused. The Father is not dysfunctional.

The Father cannot lie. Jesus saves, He loves, Jesus

heals, Jesus delivers, and Jesus sets free.

There's people here who are locked in on Jesus.

Locked in and focused. Focused on his way, His truth,

His life, His grace, His mercy. There's people in here where

Jesus is enough. Jesus is the focus.

You are unified around the essentials and you are you.

You give liberty around the non essentials and in all things you

love. Joshua 513 through 15.

He simply says this. He says, are you on our side or

the enemy side? Here's his response.

I'm on neither side. I'm on the Lord's side.

Watch this. I'm here to declare to you today

that I am not undecided where I stand.

I am not playing it safe. I am playing it grace and truth.

I have a stance. It is the firm foundation

preaching the loving gospel of the King and his Kingdom is the

mandate. Paul, a loving and loyal servant

of the anointed One Jesus, he called me to be his apostle.

Watch this. He called me to be his apostle

and set me apart with a mission to reveal God's wonderful

gospel. Wait, wait, wait, wait.

Brett, Apostle Paul says this. He says I have been set apart to

reveal God's wonderful gospel. I write to all His beloved

chosen ones in Rome, for you are also called to as holy ones.

May His joyous grace and total well-being flowing from our

Father and the Lord Jesus Christ rest upon you.

My Commission is to preach the good news.

Paul says My Commission is to preach the good news, yet it is

not entirely new. Watch this, but the fulfillment

of the hope promised to us through his prophets in the

sacred Scriptures. Watch this, the fulfillment of

the hope promised. Are we preaching?

Hope for the gospel, it continues, is all about God's

Son. I'm going to read that one more

time. For the Gospel is all about

God's Son. As a man, he descended from

David's royal lineage. But as the mighty Son of God, he

was raised from the dead and miraculously set apart with a

display. Watch this of triumph, power

supplied by the spirit of holiness.

And now Jesus is our Lord and our Messiah.

Through Him, grace cascaded into us, empowering us with the gift

of apostleship. Watch this so that we can win

people from every nation into the obedience that comes from

what faith to bring honor to His name.

And you are among the chosen ones who are called to belong to

Jesus, the Anointed 1. Every single believer in this

room is called to share the good news.

Focus on the good news. I shared something this morning

about my contacts and I think a lot of times when you are

sitting in your chairs, you're only thinking about your.

Contacts, right? It's your seat, your shoes, your

car, your house, your life. What you came to church for is

you, you, you, you. You don't think about what I'm

up here for. I have somebody back there tell

me, do texting just like man, you're kind of like like the

elementary teacher who got to talk to all the elementary

student parents and all the parents think they write, but

it's only about they kids. It's not.

About the teacher who has to. It's not about the principal

that has to all the kids, right? It's not, it's not about the

president that has to facilitate a country of of hundreds of

thousands of religions and and philosophies and people from all

over the world. It's not about that.

Normally we're just trying to push our agenda and anybody that

does not agree or say or affirm what we think or believe, what

happens? We get demonized.

You get demonized. What am I sharing this with you

for? Because we don't need coward,

weak believers in the last days, not who's courageous and bold

enough to just point out wrong. But ain't it crazy how

courageous, how hard it is to be courageous and bold?

It's almost like the gospel ain't simple enough.

We got to complicate it. This pastor have always had to

adapt just to survive. Or, and some of you have in here

as well, I've spent the last 23 years sharing food and bills and

life with a person who looks like a family member of some of

the people who oppress my family.

Can we can we talk real So I can help you with context.

So you don't just think we supposed to to preach for you,

right? We're in this this city alone

has 98% of the globe here. What church is going to be able

to speak to the world? My My family's greatest chance

of having success in this world is to love.

God has, as He did with Paul, used my context that He put me

in the community, the culture, the life, and all these things.

And He is molding the type of leader that he wants and He

loves the uniqueness in which I grew up in.

And He gives me his perspective, but use my context and watch

this, my contact. His context should consume my

context. And I should shut my mouth until

my context has been sifted through and and and and and and

be made to point to his context. Guess what his context is?

I just told you love. I'm, I'm going to show you in a

SEC. I'm going to show you you like

love, love, love, love, love, love.

You must be a hippie. No Love, love, love, love, love,

love. No.

I share it this morning. Today's message is called

Equipped for the middle hanging in the tension of love.

And this was birthed out of a week of wrestling because we're

in a climate where the temptation is to choose.

But God's called you to love is the only thing that can hold the

tension. And, and if you're really

serious about obeying God, you're going to always at times

feel the tension between the people that you really want to

please and the people that you love and the people you walk

with. You're going to deal with the

fear of losing people and having people walk out of your life.

And it's what you're saying I've come to cut and this week has

been very tough in the sense of, you know, this is what can I be

transparent and vulnerable with you guys?

Like I'm scrolling through things that I wrote under the

tension or this week, right? I wish every person in here will

run up to me and be like, oh, the message, bless me, right?

I'm a human like that. Then there's another.

Side where you get people that's going to always have something

to complain about and so as a vulnerable human being you

wrestle with I'm going and thank God I have a wife who.

Is a little. Stronger than me in some areas.

And I have had to submit to her wisdom and to the word that you

wrote. You wrote because the reason I

didn't read it is because I didn't want to hear it out of my

mouth. I needed to hear it.

And part of that was getting in unnecessary conversations.

And although you not hollering back at me, sometimes what I can

preach, it's a conversation happening.

And sometimes you you going to say stuff to try to to try and

bring people understanding that's already made-up.

They mind they walking away someday versus focusing on the

people here who know God has called them here and really need

a word for where they are in life.

And they hear. They hear.

You get what I'm saying? Like you, you.

And so sometime in that wrestle, you get so caught up trying to

save something that's already not you, you trying to change

people mind who have already made-up their mind about you.

This is why we like Paul, because he was vulnerable and

you can relate to him. Right.

What? What would the book be if we

didn't have that in prison Story?

But. It's it's late in the midnight

hour, but you was in jail bro. Like you had them shackles on

like you, you was in prison. I get I feel you right they

talking about you. I feel right.

These stories matter, and it is an Apostolic grace to be

vulnerable with your life. And so I'm being transparent

with you so you can learn. It's like you, you don't have

time in the season trying to preserve relationships that you

know, you called to you. You don't have time to be like,

hey, open your eyes. You call to me and I'm call to

you. Don't you see it?

You don't have time to do that. Because if they were walking in

the way that the Lord has called them to walk, they would have

eyes to see the fruit of your life, OK.

And so I really want some people in here because I got to move

on. I'm not going, I'm not going to

do that. I really want to help some

people in here that's really, really, really have ears to hear

right now. We spoke on the scripture in

Mark 15 today, starting at 25. It said that Jesus was crucified

at 9:00 AM and then and then the little homies on his left side

and his right side was talking crazy.

They, they were all on the cross and they had an audacity to be

persecuting him on the cross. They all three on the cross and,

and they're daring him. They're mocking him.

They're like if you, the Savior. Then go and get yourself off the

cross. You raise this and that, you

heal this and that. Now save yourself.

Crazy that they read about him, but when he was in front of

them, they couldn't see it. It just lets us know, man, we,

we, we need help to actually see the depths and the layers.

I know although I am up here, I can't see everything.

I need my wife, I need, I need people that God put around me so

I can, I can, I can say say, hey, can you, can you help me

see, watch this. Ain't nobody seeing the fullness

of what God is saying and doing by themselves.

He says you only know in part. Guess what?

But He only know in part. But He got a part I don't got.

She only know in part, but she got a part.

Now I'm trying to get to the whole part as much as I can.

So I got some people around me that got a part I don't have.

That's the power to five fold ministry gift because each part

got something the other one don't have.

And when you put that fist together, it makes a powerful

punch. And then it says 3:00 came

around and Jesus said, Lord, why have you forsaken me?

So he was crucified at 9. He cried out at 3.

How long he been on the cross? We got a few people know how to

do math. OK, 9:00 AM He was crucified 12

AM 12:00 PM came. He's still hanging. 3:00 PM

came. He cries out.

Darkness started to come. It's about to go down.

How many hours is that? Six hours?

Can you imagine being on that cross in the condition that he

was in? For six hours alive, watch this.

We going to see something here in a minute.

OK, watch this. The whole point here with this

passage is that when you are holding the tension in the

middle, what allows you to hold the tension is the work of the

ministry, the word. You don't even know how bad you

need to serve. You don't know how bad you need

to tell your testimony. You don't know how bad you need

to make disciples like. Like you actually need to.

The work of the ministry is a lifeline.

OK, See, See. Watch this.

In the tensions, in the valleys and in the pits, do the work.

I'm going to say it loud. I'm going to say it real loud.

I'm going to say it real loud. In your tensions and in the

valleys and in the pits, do the work.

Right, I, I'm, I'm scrolling through you, you know, even when

you write. That's the cool thing about

diary and stuff like that. Journaling.

There we go. That's a little easier to say

journaling and stuff like that, right?

You, you, when you sometime when you write stuff out, like when

persecution came this week and when, when insecurities came up

this week, I started to write. So what I'm sifting through is

certain things that I wrote in that moment and then I'm passing

over so I can get to the work, meaning the assignment, not God

can use this. Right, he can use this, but when

you're after the well done, your feelings don't matter.

It's cool, it's cool, it's cool. Your feelings don't matter.

Watch this. Your feelings can be valid, but

your feelings should never trump assignment, yo, your feelings

should never trump mandate. So you got to give your

feelings. This is why watch this.

This is why Jesus says, hey, Peter, the enemy want to come

sift you like wheat because you a real emotional dude.

You real insecure dude. You a real hasty dude.

So, Peter, I got to let you go through this season of tension,

and I pray your faith don't fail so when you come out, you can

get back to the work of the ministry.

What did he say when you come out of this season?

So might it be that the Lord's hand that in order for you to be

strength for someone else, you have to surrender to the

sifting, not fight the sifting season, But you're going to have

to allow the Lord to allow you to go through a season purging

and sifting and trying and testing and tension and valleys

and pits. But He's telling us what to do

to thrive in that season. See, we're not putting our

valleys, our tensions, our valleys in our pits.

We're not seeing that that is an ordained, designed and beautiful

cross. That we get to carry.

In order to carry the cross, He says this EJ, He says if you

want to live in my resurrection power or my glory, then you also

got to share my cross, my what you want to get out of He wants

to get in. I will promise you this.

It is much better Jesus getting in the furnace with you.

Then you getting out without him.

Because because watch this, if I let Jesus get in the furnace

with me, I can see how he handles fire.

Can I get, can I get if anybody just heard what I said, tap your

quiet neighbor next to you. If they give you an attitude,

just pray for him and say come out of you in the name of Jesus,

but say, did you hear what he said?

I need Jesus to get in it with me so I can observe.

He is walking with he's walking. He says my yoke is easy.

Walk with me. I'm about to, I'm about to get

in this furnace with you and I'm going to show you how to handle

the fire. I'm about to get in this den

with you and show you how to handle the lions.

I'm about to bring a bear and show you how to deal with bears,

right. And so often we just want to get

out or we shut off until we out. Watch this, watch this.

If you get out when you shut off in, you really didn't get out.

If you get out and you shut off while you was in tracking, I

will challenge to tell you, you really ain't out.

Get ready for something else to resurface.

This is that 7 times stronger thing.

You, you don't get out kicking and complaining, being mean and

no no you get out by love graduate.

The cap and gown only comes when love is rooted.

I'll say it again, the cap and gown is because you passed the

love test. Watch this.

Love is not toleration. So I applaud you for tolerating,

but Jesus didn't tolerate us. He died for us.

That ain't tolerating. Watch this, because when you

tolerate, in order to tolerate, you have to house resentment.

OK, all right, all right, all right.

So in the team, do the work, do the work, do the work, do the

work. The work of the ministry keeps

us sound, it keeps us strengthened, and it keeps us

surrendered. OK, listen, this morning I went

over that. What do you do when your only

way out is to work worship and wait?

Not work a principal, do the work of the ministry?

I don't. Am I the only one in here who

went through like an extended season?

It felt like God ain't saying nothing to me.

God ain't saying no left turn, no right turn.

He ain't saying stop. He ain't even saying you, you

tripping. He ain't saying nothing.

He ain't saying you bad. You, you missed it.

He ain't saying nothing. Am I the only one?

Can I? I'm the other one-on-one on one,

right? See the challenge with see, when

I walk with the word Jesus, I don't always need a word to make

it through a season because the word lives in me with the Holy

Ghost, right? Because there was people who

watch this. There was people.

There was a whole testament, old one bigger than the new one.

They didn't. They didn't.

They didn't have these. They didn't have 66 books.

All they had was a word. All they had was a visitation.

All they had was presents. All they had watch this.

All they had was generational faith.

The work of the ministry, the work of the Kingdom is simply

win souls, make disciples. Matthew 2818 through 20 right

there. Boom, go ye therefore make

disciples. All nations teaching them this

stuff. He I don't think Jesus tried to

be complicated. I think he was pretty simple and

then he said the complicated stuff I can't really share with

you until the Holy Spirit comes. He's very gracious.

He's very kind. The ministry of reconciliation.

We read about that in the first experience, 2nd Corinthians 5.

The work of the Kingdom is simply watch this.

Also the ministry of preaching and teaching the gospel is why

he says study to show thy selves approved just because.

You throw a scripture. At me real quick.

Don't don't mean you rightfully threw it at me.

No, no, no. You say rightfully what?

Divide. So we just can't go for whoever

quotes Scripture. They oh, they know they word.

Did they rightfully divide it or did they just quote a word?

Just because you say Terence Richmond don't mean you know me,

right? Watch this.

Demons know what's up. You get what I'm saying?

Demons know scripts. They know scripts.

They know. They know the anointing on your

life. Yeah, so preaching and teaching

the word of God, Romans 1014 through 15.

But how are people to call upon him whom they have not believed

in, whom they have no faith? Wait a minute, he said.

How are people going to be saved unless someone be sent?

Watch this EJ How will somebody be saved unless someone comes

and preaches the good news? Whom they have no faith, on whom

they have no reliance? And how are they to believe in

Him of whom they have never heard?

They haven't heard about Jesus. Hey, oh guys, they haven't heard

about Jesus. How long did it take you to get

saved? And how are they to hear without

a preacher? And how can men be expected to

preach unless they are sent and it is written?

How beautiful are the feet of those who bring glad tidings?

How welcome is the coming of those who preach the good news

of His good things? Is, are we reading the same

thing? You know what needs to be sent

into the harvest? It's preachers that know the

Word, rightfully divide the Word, and sharing the good news

of the what Kingdom. Watch this How welcome is the

arrival of those proclaiming the joyful news.

The joyful news of peace and of good things to come.

Wait a minute of good things to come.

When I was lost, the good thing that was coming was one day I'm

going to get, I'm going to get, I'm going to get found right?

Good things to come. I was blind.

One day I'm going to get my sight right.

I was poor. One day I'm going to get rich

right? That's the good news of what?

What does this say? What does the Scripture say?

How welcome is the arrival of those?

How welcome is the of those the arrival of those proclaiming the

joyful news of peace and of good things to come.

Who? Can God trust in the tension to

do the work of the ministry without striking the rock?

Are y'all with me? Some of y'all who can God trust?

Ask yourself, can he trust you without striking the rock?

Watch this. Who?

Can God trust in the tension to do the work of the ministry

without compromising the call? Who can he trust?

You. I could say there was times

where I was so there was a grace to learn.

I remember when I was a youth pastor, I did the I did the iPod

altar call. You you listen, you got secular

music in that iPod that's from the devil.

Bring your iPods up into the altar right now in the name of

Jesus and repent and after service all them parents that

pick their kids up where my baby iPod at get.

My baby's iPod. I don't care what you saying the

devil in there, but I'm going to take them out.

Give give me my my kids iPod right.

But I but God gave me a grace watch this.

I was on fire willing watch this my willingness to be bold and

courageous. I wasn't rightfully dividing the

word. And in the process, watch this,

there's some people I had to repent to because they got

grown. You know, them kids.

I was youth pastor. They grown now.

So we get to have mature conversations.

They like man you was Miles even said man PT had me crying before

and I he he every time I'm around him and he introduced me.

I was just in San Francisco and he introduced.

Me to the guy that that that that designs him he he's a Co

owners with Christ like and he was like hey is miles this the.

Dude, you was telling me that make you cry all the time and I

kid you not, this been years. It has been over 10 years.

I was the youth and and I I I I text, I text miles that night

and I was like, bro, I'm a repent because I keep hearing

your friends. Your friends keep telling you

like I'm a I'm sorry if I was like abusive in any way and I'm

serious if I was manipulative it in any way if I hurt you in any

way because at that age he just. Coming out the.

Street He got a baby at 16, shaking, smelling like weed.

Like, what did I say? What did I expect?

What kind of leader I expected him to be?

So can I deal with him listening to Lil Uzi and his iPod?

Can I deal with him cussing a little bit?

It's a lost kid, but watch this. I LED.

Who does this wreck my life? When I learned this lesson, I

LED with my convictions. And what God was doing to prune

me, I made doctrine. I needed to stop listening to

secular music based on the cleansing He was doing in me.

I needed to put down the weed. I needed to put down the drink.

I needed to. And So what I did is because I

was convicted, everybody. Got to stop doing this.

I'm listening to nothing but Jesus and you out here having

fun. Now give me that iPod.

I was hating a little bit. I'm just hating a little bit.

But you have to understand and there's that's that spirit of

where that that's a religious spirit of where some things that

you're convicted by is not for you to make.

Everybody's God is dealing with them as he's dealing with you.

And I had to take responsibility.

And that is watch this. That's maturity.

That's perfecting when you can look at yourself and be like,

man, God's dealing. With my heart about that, that's

what he said. Why take the plank out of your

eye? Can we look at your nastiness?

So can we say do the work, Say do the work, Watch this, say do

the work, preach the gospel, keep it simple.

Watch this, watch this, watch this, watch this.

This is so good. Why do you like Jesus?

He was watch what Jesus was doing up there at all.

Say focus on the work one more time.

Focus on the work, OK? OK.

Not the word, the work. OK, I just went and did the word

too, but they're just the work, OK, One of the criminals.

So this is Luke's account. I started off with Mark, same

account, but Luke got a little. He has another part, right?

You only know in part what it what if it was only Mark's part.

But Luke, Luke got a glimpse of something.

That's why we got Matthew, Mark, Luke and John because John.

But the based on John's gift sets, based on Luke's gift sets,

God can only deal with him one way.

Thank God we got 4 accounts because then we might miss some

stuff. So Luke come and say one of the

criminals who was suspended kept kept up railing at him saying

are you not the cry? If I was on the cross next to

Jesus, I would not be taunting Jesus right now.

How? How are you doing that?

He's watch this, rescue yourself and us.

He's smart though. He like, don't forget me though,

rescue yourself and us from death.

Watch this. But the other one reproved him

saying do you not even fear God seeing you yourself are under

the same sentence of condemnation and suffering?

You see, you see two parties here.

PDL mentioned this beautiful story about being in the middle.

The prodigal son's father was in the middle while one son was

complaining and being like he did this and he did that, he did

this and he did that. The father said I don't want to

talk about none of that son, let's celebrate your home.

How that father held attention. He said, do you not understand

the grace and the blessing that's on you that stayed home.

Why do you want us to turn this into a party where we just beat

them up? The we got to see the father

knew, but we got to see the prodigal son, how down he was

and how much he beat himself up. The world is a shame.

That's why we drink and that's why we smoke and that's why we

sex and that's why we do the stuff we do because it's pain.

They're trying to numb the pain. May we be a source of freedom

and pureness and, and healing and A and a healing balm in

their lives. So the Father said the last

thing we about to do when our son comes home is remind him of

a place he just ran from. You don't, you don't realize,

right? But the fact that you are even

listening to me speaks to the fact that God LED you to hear a

word. May I not take advantage of you

being led by the speech? My job is to help you understand

You are in a divine moment. How dare I take that

opportunity? Lord May, if we get a captive

audience, may we give them Your love.

What's this? What's this?

And we indeed suffer it in justly receiving the due reward

of our actions. But this man has done nothing

out of the way, nothing strange or eccentric or perverse or

unreasonable. Then he said to Jesus, Lord,

Remember Me when you come in your kingly glory.

Watch this Watch this. And Jesus answered, truly, I

tell you today you come in with me.

What is he doing? He's on the cross, witnessing,

doing the work of the ministry. Because you don't understand

that you may not want to go in your pit, but God put something

in you that somebody in the pit needs.

Joseph, we don't want to go through that.

But Joseph met a man in prison and he helped him interpret

dreams, use gift that when that man got out of prison and

somebody else needed an interpretation, he called on the

man that was stuck in prison wrongfully.

Then that man loved him so much he put him over some things.

What was Joseph doing in prison? The work of the ministry.

What was he doing when his brothers walked up to him that

left him for dead? The work of the ministry, He

said today you shall be with me. The other part of this guys is

you don't understand is though the devil nailed me to the cross

I snatched. One out of hell.

Do you want to repay hell for putting, for messing with you,

for messing with your family? Guess what you got to do to work

in the ministry? So while they watch this, while

they're mocking you and the devil think it's over, you look

over and you know you got all power.

You know what God is putting you.

I'm not about to watch this. I'm not about to say a word to

y'all who persecute me. I'm going to look to my left.

And say you going to come with me today?

I'm going to let you in. Because I got the keys.

What? Dude, we got the keys.

We got the keys, guys. We got the keys.

What are we doing with the keys? You can't lock people out with

the keys. You have keys to open doors.

You got keys to bind and loose. Preach the gospel, somebody.

Shout out. Preach the gospel.

But not everybody. Welcomes the good news.

That ain't just what I'm saying. That's what that's what Paul

said. As Isaiah said, Lord, is there

anyone? Who hears the belief and

believes our message? So faith comes by hearing, and

what is heard comes by preaching.

So if the devil already telling me I'm jacked up, then you come

with the key of life in your mouth and tell me I'm jacked up.

Guess what? I got faith to believe I'm

jacked up. But if I can can, if I can come

back the devil's voice in your life and tell you the good news

eventually what you hear over and over and over again you

build the faith for. So how about we got to preach

the gospel into the darkness until faith rise for them to

come out. Come on, come on, come on.

I know, come on, come on, come on.

So faith comes by hearing and hearing the word of God, the

mess. Watch this by preach by the

preaching watch this is very important.

Let's read this slow by the preaching of the message that

came from the lips of Christ, the Messiah himself.

The message we preach is the message he preached.

He tells us what he preached. He said I came to preach the the

the gospel of of the Kingdom. What is the gospel of the

Kingdom? Watch how simple this is guys.

Whoever calls on the name of Jesus shall be saved, period.

Whoever calls on the name of Jesus believes that shall be

saved and believes in their heart.

How do you believe in your heart?

How does faith come? It comes by hearing.

So if I'm in the world, I don't know about you in the world.

I heard bad news every day. I was the bad news.

I was a part of the bad news. I, I, I opened the door for

condemnation. The devil beat me up until I

partnered with him. So I know how to feel bad about

myself and my sin. I anybody been condemned before?

Anybody. I felt shame before.

I felt shame before. But what I had a grandmama I

went home to. I walk in drunk.

She smelled of liquor. Guess what she say you want

something to eat? My uncle slept on that back

porch for years. High on crack cocaine.

Watch this he walk in. He walked straight to the back

two in the morning. Never heard grandma say.

She let him sleep 2 in the afternoon, he'd go out smoke

again year after year. What did she do?

She went to church. Some people got probably go to

church all day because they got all day.

They got all like, like, like they got they they won't.

They family saved that bad. They did just.

It's just I watched the faithfulness and whoever came to

their house, it was the love of God.

Yeah. And y'all see Uncle Willy now?

You, you see, you see what the gospel does like you ain't

supposed to come out of crack cocaine.

You ain't supposed to come out of the alleys like that.

You ain't supposed to do that. You ain't supposed to be a

husband and married and and having a job and all of these

except preaching the gospel and coaching kids and all these

things. But the power of the gospel will

call somebody out of their grave and out of their pit and we'll

bring them into a marvelous life.

Shout out, Preach the gospel. So I'm about to go on a gospel

rant and I, I, you, you going to have to you going.

To have to. You going to have to, you going

to have to, you going to have to go real fast.

I'm about to, I'm about to text you something real quick.

OK, I'm about to go on a gospel rant real quick.

One time. One time.

No. One time, you know, I just want

one time, Elder John. One time.

You say 2 time. There's I think I can.

Can you? Can I?

I can't AirDrop you from here. You sure?

I just don't want to AirDrop somebody else and then they go

change stuff and AirDrop. Who am I AirDrop into, huh?

Pro P Can I just write pro P? No, that ain't that.

I'm this ain't I don't feel safe.

I don't feel safe. I don't feel safe.

All right, I'm about to just do it this way.

So, so here's just how to do. I'm going to just give you 3

scriptures at a time and then you just load up one and then

while you while I'm reading, you can you can do the do the other

the other. You get what I'm saying, huh?

All right, the Bible warns us. In these last days.

Holy Spirit distinctly and expressly declares that in

latter times some will turn away from the faith, giving attention

to deluding and seducing spirits and doctrines that demons teach

through the hypocrisy and pretensions of liars whose

consciences are seared. We really need to get to the

gospel guys. Watch this John 316.

You do you need to put that up. Do you have you do.

I'm just treat everybody just was born today.

We got to elementary. So I'm going to give you John

316, Romans 10/13, Ephesians 28. Yeah.

Let's go there. I'm about to.

I'm about to shoot them to you as soon as you put them up.

We going for God so greatly loved and dearly prized the

world. Did he say the church?

No, he said the world that he even gave up his only begotten

unique son. So that whoever somebody shout

out whoever. Come on, somebody shout out

whoever. Whoever it's for everybody

believes in trust in clings to, relies on.

He didn't say whoever changes, whoever put the bottle down,

whoever put the smoke down, whoever closed their legs,

whoever go from homosexual to heterosexual, he shall not No,

no, no, no. Don't get me wrong,

homosexuality, many other things are not in the character of God

based on the word. So I'm just choosing to believe

a word but no one can change that person except for Jesus.

This is my point. I am not saying that a behavior

or a lifestyle is OK. What I am saying is you don't

lead with that. Get more mad at the devil then

you are a people, man. Some look, some kids really do

you did. Did you know why you was Wilding

out? Like when you was Wilding out?

Did you like no, have you ever spazzed out on somebody and was

like, Dang, what happened? Who was that right?

I don't know who that person was.

You know who it was. Have there ever been behaviors

that you've dealt with, thoughts you've dealt with that you like?

Man, man, the depths of people's people's minds right now, guys,

the strongholds of the enemy are real.

And the only thing that has conquered the the death and the

grave and sin and the enemy is the gospel.

That's the only thing in the beginning was the Word, and the

Word was God and the Word with God.

And that light came and it shone up in men.

And this dark, darkness cannot hold out.

You need the gospel. Lead with the gospel.

It is the unshakeable. It's undefeated.

Don't lead with your opinion, lead with the gospel.

Watch it. John 3 Romans 10/13 Come on, for

everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord, who everyone

invoking him as Lord will be what saved Ephesians 2GO to six,

go to six, and he raised us up together.

Go to 5. Even when we were what?

Dead? Who was dead before I was dead,

slain by our own shortcomings and trespasses.

He made he You didn't make you alive.

He made us alive. You didn't make you right.

He made you right first. Made us alive together in

fellowship. Watch this Watch this Watch this

Watch this, Watch this in a bit. Jesus said take your little

dirty self and come sit with me. Watch this.

He didn't say pull up a chair, He said share my chair.

So before he even did the work on us, he made a seat for us

while you was in the club. Guess what?

Come sit with me. He no, no, this, this is the

crate. He reserved AC.

He didn't wait for you to show up and then be like, OK, make

some room for her. No, he said while you partying,

while you got your legs open, while you bad mouthing folks,

while you smoking, while you drinking, while you cussing,

while you doing all that. Guess what he's like whenever

they ready, I got a seat for him.

When like we got to show up to the door and be like, hey,

Jesus, I'm clean, I'm sanctified.

I don't even know what sanctified.

Is. Well, He made us alive, and

watch this in union with Christ. He gave us the very life of He

gave us the very life of Christ. He gave us the very life of

Christ, the same new life with which he quickened Him.

For it is by grace, his favor and mercy, which you did not

deserve. You did not deserve.

You did not deserve He telling you you didn't deserve it, that

you are saved, delivered from judgment and made partakers of

crisis salvation, made partakers of crisis salvation.

And He raised us up together with Him and made us sit down,

made us sit down together, giving us joint seating, not

another seat, Joint seating. My seat is your seat, right?

The good news is saying, man, I know where you at.

I've been there. My sin didn't manifest like it's

manifesting in your life. But sin is sin.

Sin he's sin. He shows no partiality.

So let me, let me 'cause that mind you, the seat that I have

to invite them to ain't mine in the 1st place.

It's his seat. That sound like somebody who who

really understand where they was lost the heavenly sphere by

virtue of our being in Christ Jesus the Messiah.

Watch this he he did this that he might clearly demonstrate

through that he did this that he might demonstrate through the

ages to come immeasurable, limitless, surpassing riches of

his free grace, free grace. How much free?

How many people like free stuff? But he don't sound like it when

you witness him. You and we like free when it's a

gift to us, right? You want them people.

And I'll be in there. You get something for free and

then you try to sell it. Yeah.

I mean, can I, can I get something?

Can I get some witness in here before, right.

We got some ghetto people in here before.

Right. It is way too many people.

Can that hit right there? I'm preaching good right now.

Amen. Right.

You get some for free, but you want to sell it, you want to

make a profit. And that's what we use the

gospel for these days, is to make a profit.

He gave it to us for free. Man, this life we have is for

free. Watch this kindness and goodness

of heart toward in US, in Christ Jesus.

For it is by free grace, unmerited, undeserved favor that

you are saved, delivered from judgment, and made partakers of

Christ's salvation through your faith, through your what faith,

Your faith and this salvation through this salvation is not of

yourselves, of your own doing. See if we win people that way,

they got to they got to keep up with that.

That's too much work. It came not through your own

striving. Is that what the IT came not

through your own stripe, But it is the gift.

Next, next next next next X1023X10201043X1043X No, You

know what? Come here, Come get my computer.

Come get my computer right now. Don't go through my stuff, OK?

Right here, 1043 X 1043 X 1043. You see that right there X 1043,

OK. And you just going bye, bye,

bye, bye bye bye. OK.

Huh? Yeah.

You could take a picture of your phone and give my stuff back.

Go watch them. Go watch them.

We've got nothing to hide in there.

But I'm just saying you never know somebody somebody might

AirDrop a crazy picture and y'all don't think his mind Then

I don't got nothing crazy in there.

Thank you. Watch this.

What's this? To him all the prophets testify.

To Him all, to him all the prophets testify.

That everyone who believes in him, all the prophets.

All the prophets testify that everyone who believes in Him,

who adheres to, trust in, and relies on Him, giving Himself up

to Him, receives forgiveness of sins through His name.

Come on, keep going. Keep going, keep going.

What's this select? Which one is this?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So let it, let it be clearly

known and understood by you brethren, that through this man

forgiveness and removal of sins is now proclaimed to you.

And that through him everyone who believes, who acknowledges

Jesus as his Savior and devotes himself to him, is absolved,

cleared and freed from every charge.

Every charge from which he could not be justified and freed by

the law of Moses and given right standing with God.

Come on, come on. I don't think that's enough.

I don't think that's enough. I don't think that's enough.

I don't think watch this who was betrayed and put to death

because of our misdeeds and was raised to secure our

justification, making our account balance and absolving us

from all guilt before he he paid the bill.

Watch this he said from all guilt from all he from all so in

him. This is the good news that in

him if I try to not sin every day, trying not to sin is a sin

that just came out of my mouth. I'm sorry guys, I don't.

I didn't even prepare to say that.

I feel like I got to explain something right, right, because

he just told me I'm saved by grace.

I don't try not to sin. I try to fall in love and his

love keeps me from sinning. I'm I'm not like every day

trying not to be wrong. No, no, no, no.

If I keep my eyes on him, No, I'm not going to cuss you out

because I'm in love with him. I made covenant with my eyes.

I'm not going to cheat on my wife.

OK, This ain't cause Oh there ain't no you need this little

lie that young. Marriages and young relationship

and you the most beautiful thing who ain't nobody in this world

cute. So you got the one cute person,

everybody ugly. No, no, no, no.

Can you be mature enough to be like, no, you cute.

There's I know I'm not the I'm handsome, but I know and I know

my wife think I'm handsome, but I know it's other handsome men.

But she's mature enough to be like, OK, that's just a handsome

man. That ain't right.

I make covenant with my eyes. I have made a covenant with God.

Joseph. It wasn't Joseph wasn't tempted.

He made a covenant with God so it is a sin for me to wake up

every day and deny the power of his love like our efforts is

what can I get away with? What can I know that his love is

just like that's not let me that's not freedom.

All of y'all that's trying to figure out the little things you

can do and be saved. You're not free.

Come on next, next one, next one.

They don't they don't know a lot of people.

I never read these scriptures, none of these.

They just know they saved. But God shows and clearly it's

so it's a lot of clearly Amen. He cleared it.

Amen. But God shows and clearly proves

his own love. Here's how he proves his own

love by the fact that while watch this, he proves his love

this way while we were yet still sinners.

I don't know if I'm the only one that's been in the club and had

to drag it by tongue guy right in Nah right, 48 that's

different. That hit different than 40.

Almost didn't get back up over there, Josh.

Watch this. Come on, come on, come on, come

on, come on. We were still sinners.

Watch, go back, watch this. We were still sinners.

Christ the Messiah. The the the now you can go

anointed one die for us. This is his love while we were

still right, while while you know, I will go to the club and

my mom, although she was not approving of did you take a

video of me and send it to my wife, He wrote.

See you be tripping. My wife always sit, shows me

stuff ero be sitting there. I got to watch No look what?

Was I saying, guys, come on, What was I saying?

Yeah. So, so my mom didn't approve of

certain things. But then I come home and it's

dinner. It's dinner.

I had AI, had AI, had a home to come home to.

What if my mom made the gospel all about what she said while

you still at the club? I still got cornbread.

You still got a hell. You still got a bed.

You still. You still.

Got you got shelter for your head while you still trying to

make your mind up. There's a home for you.

See, this is what the world needs.

Because they don't want to walk in here.

Because of how we beat them up out there and watch this

sometime, you beat them up just by the way you look at them.

Couple more, couple more guys. Come on, come on, come on, keep

going, keep going, keep going, keep going.

For the wages which sin pays his death.

For the wages sin pays his death.

Right. But the bountiful free gift of

God. Are we reading the same thing?

The wages sin pays the death, but the bountiful free gift,

It's the union with Jesus. It's eternal life.

Is there? Is there?

Christ our Lord. Hey man, next one.

What? Which one is this?

Hebrews 9. OK, we will do it like the old

school Pentecostal church. You're just going to read out

the scripture that I'm going to read it and we just going to

holler back at each other. Even so, it is that Christ

having been offered to take up on himself and bear as a burden

the sins of many once and for Can y'all help me understand

what's what's once and for all? Adams was the one where you had

to keep. You have to keep repaying the

law, right? You have to keep repaying all

the time. Every once a year you got.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, once and for all.

So if Jesus said he's it's settled, then it's what it's

settled. Man once and for all will appear

a second time, not to carry any burden of sin, nor to deal with

sin, but to bring the full self. He's going, He's going to

return, but not to take care of sin.

He's coming the second time to deal with death.

He's already conquered the bridges of sin.

When he returns, there will be no more death, no more sickness,

there will be nothing that. Causes it's eternal life.

Keep on verse down to one watch this, watch this, watch this my

little children. I write these so that you may

not violate God's law and sin. But if anyone should sin, we

have an advocate, one who will intercede for us with the

Father. It is Jesus Christ the All

righteous upright just who conforms to the Father's if

anybody do sin, just in case we got somebody to take your place.

Keep going, keep going. Keep going.

Keep. Going I know this is like this

is boring stuff right here and now.

Let me remind you, since it seems to have escaped you,

brethren. Let me just remind you, since it

has escaped you, my brethren and sister.

And watch this of the gospel, the glad tiding of salvation

which I proclaimed to you, which you welcomed and accepted, and

upon which you your faith rests. Watch this, and by which you are

saved, if you hold fast and keep firmly what I preach to you,

unless you believed at first without effect, and all for

nothing, if you hold on to what I preach to you.

Do you know how important the gospel being preached is?

You know how easy it is to let go of the gospel when you become

sin conscience. OK, next, next.

Next. Next.

Next. My little Pentecostal buddy over

there. What scripture is this?

Thank you, Sir, for our sake. He made Christ virtually to be

sin for our sake. He we love this scripture right

to be sin who knew no sin so that in and through him we might

become endued with we not we viewed as being in and examples

of the righteousness of God what we ought to be approved and

acceptable and in right what relationship with him by his

goodness. Come on, come on, come on the

next one. Go give me give.

Me, watch this, watch how good this is.

Give me Titus 214. Let's start there.

In 2, in 3-4. This is important.

This is important. Tell them all these things.

Urge, advise, encourage, warn and rebuke with full authority.

Let no one despise or disregard. What?

OK, who gave himself on our behalf, that He might redeem us,

purchase our freedom from all iniquity, and purify for himself

a people? He purified us for himself.

Eager. And enthusiastic about living a

life that is good and filled with beneficial deeds.

Good news What's the next one? Good news?

Titus 3 but when when the goodness and loving kindness of

God our Savior to man as what is this too?

This was what are you doing comes to somebody take his all

right, all right, all right, I'm just read it.

I'm trusting you right now. But when the goodness and loving

kindness of God our Savior to man as man appeared.

He saved us not because of any works of righteousness.

That we had done, but because of His own pity and mercy, by the

cleansing bath of the new birth, regeneration, and renewing of

the Holy Spirit. Oh, He's doing the work in US

which He poured out so richly upon us through Jesus Christ our

Savior. Keep going.

And He did it in order. He did it in order that we might

be justified by His grace, by His favor, holy or entirely

undeserved, that we might be acknowledged and counted as

conformed to the divine will and purpose thought in action, and

that we might become heirs. Keep going.

He personally bore our sins In what is it?

There we go. He personally bore our sins in

His own body. He bore our sins in his own

body. Why are you making people bear

it? Don't mean that I beat my sin.

I get to be like, who cares? No, I don't take.

His grace in vain. The Bible talks about that as on

the altar and offered himself on it, that we might die, cease to

exist to sin, and live to righteously.

See this. When you get a revelation of

what He did for you, that's what changes you.

And if you have not yet received Jesus, you don't have the

capacity to understand what He did for you.

Therefore, the only thing you can relate to is someone that

means something to you or you can relate to and they become a

witness in your life. And then they show you what?

God has done for them. Keep going, keep going.

Let me give you a couple more. Come on, come on.

I just, there's some good stuff in here.

There's some good stuff in here. First, either not because of us,

but he died. Yeah.

Romans 81-GO. Romans 81.

Let's start there. This is so good, and this is

love. And this is love.

Not that we love God, not that we love God, this is love, but

that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation, the

atoning boom. The atoning boom, there's still

a boom on there. Come on, sacrifice for our sins,

Amen. OK, next one.

Therefore, there is now no condemnation, no a judge in

guilty of wrong for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live

right, he says in Christ Jesus. This is the good news man, when

you step over here, even though you still jacked up and you are

beginning the regeneration process, you have the time to

work it out because the moment you receive Jesus you are

sharing seats with Him. You are cleansed that day.

You not cleansed. I don't still got sin stank on

me. The first day I received Jesus I

was considered clean. Watch this, which then gives me

the power to walk with serpents under my feet and giving me the

power to work out my salvation. So everybody in here still got

some. Stank on them.

But what's what The enemy watch this.

What the devil reads is the blood right in in in when

they're fighting in wars, they have people that cover them

while they gain ground. You are you anybody hearing me?

The blood covers you while you gain ground.

Can I, am I talking to anybody? Go Isaiah fit?

Was that Romans 81? So Isaiah 54, Romans 10/11 That

is so good. I'm going home loved.

Fear not. What's this one?

Fear not, or you shall not be ashamed, neither be confounded

and depressed, for you shall not be put to shame, for you shall

forget the shame of your youth, and you shall not seriously

remember the reproach of your your widowhood any more.

Which one is this? When you turn it, brother, just

shout it out, OK? Romans 1011 There we go, we

almost done. The scripture says no man who

believes in him, who adheres to, relies on and trust in him, will

ever be put to shame. That's the good news, like we

got the best deal to offer anybody in the world and we'd be

selling it. Like it's just like they look to

him. Oh, sorry, there we go.

They look to him and were they look to him and was radiant.

You see this? They focused on Jesus and they

were radiant. Their faces shall never blush

for shame or be confused. They fixed.

Their eyes on him, and they were radiant.

Behold, at that time I will deal with all those who afflict you.

I will save the limping ones and gather the outcast.

I will gather the outcast and I'm going to make them a praise

and a name in every. Have you ever looked at someone

who lives on the other side of yo-yo yo thought life don't look

like you and ever thought that that jacked up person today that

there's a praise God is trying to get out of their life.

This is what the heart of a true soul winner is is they look at

the outcasts and the downtrodden and they said or or let me the

bones, the dry bones. They look at the dry bones and

they say, and this is the watch Jesus question.

This is how you should approach every lost person.

Do you think that this person can live?

Your father may have abandoned you, Terrence.

But do you when you? Look at your father who

abandoned you. Do you see?

That he can live, that's the question.

If you think he can live, then change your approach.

If you think what what did he say to Ezekiel?

If you think he could live, then prophecy speak life.

No. If you think what's watch this,

what's coming out of your mouth speaks to what you believe.

Can come out of their life and you could just run those

less. Oh man, behold, I'm laying in

Zion a chosen, honored, precious chief cornerstone, and he who

believes in him, trust in and relies on him, shall never be

disappointed. That's the good news, that if

you try this life, you'll never be disappointed.

In this freedom, Christ has made us free and completely liberated

us. Stand fast then, and do not be

Hanford and held ensnared, and submit again to a yoke of

slavery, which you have one. You see this, You see?

He said. Now you've entered.

Don't go back. You're free, but you shall be

called priests of the Lord. People will speak of you as the

ministers of our God. You shall eat the wealth of the

nations, and the glory, once that of your captors shall be

yours instead of your former. Shame.

You shall have a 2 fold recompense Double for your

trouble. Instead of dishonor and

reproach. Your people shall rejoice in

their portion. Therefore in their land they

shall possess double. Somebody say double y'all see

that what they had forfeited everlasting joy shall be theirs.

Come on, somebody. Come on, somebody.

The Holy Spirit and the Bride, the Church, the true Christians

say, can y'all help me with this?

He said the Holy Spirit and the. Bride, the Church and the true

Christians, this is what comes out of your mouth.

Come. Watch it and let him who is

listening say, Come, and let everyone come who is thirsty,

who is painfully conscious of his need of those things by

which the soul is refreshed, supported, and strengthened.

And whoever earnestly desires to do it, let him what come.

Take appropriate and drink. Take appropriate and drink the

water of life. Watch it without cause.

Shout out. Come listen.

No, you, you listen to me. Listen, listen.

This is what should be coming out of our mouths.

Any platform God gives us, it is an invitation.

Sons and daughters, we got this basket.

Sons and daughters coming home, don't forget that you put people

watch this. Don't forget you put people in

that basket and how you talk to other people.

It impacts that harvest in that basket because guess what?

You talking to somebody's son, you talking to somebody's

daughter. Now, I don't know if you believe

in, I don't know if you got a soul winning list, but I got

family members and friends that I am believing to not just come

to church, but to come to know Jesus.

Come on, Luke 2332, you close there.

I am believing and how I treat you impacts the harvest I'm

believing for. We read that earlier.

It's good. It impacts.

It all works together, guys. I can't talk crazy to you out of

the same heart. I'm believing for something else

like this. I got one, I got one heart, I

got one inner man. So I I can't be believing or

loving or whatever the case may be.

But also, how's this nasty side, right?

James talks about this, this, this tongue, you wait one, one

part of your mouth, you praise me and another part of your

mouth. You just killing folks.

You speak at death, guys, we got the best deal on the planet,

right? Watch this.

When you know you won, there's nothing to argue.

I don't think Jesus just he, he was silent because he was a

punk. He was silent because it wasn't

nothing to argue. We won.

He believed the outcome. Do you?

He believed the word about himself.

He believed the prophets, he believed what his father said.

He was led by the Spirit of God. So we either got the greatest

offer in the world or we don't. You either believe that God can

turn that situation around or you don't.

If you believe your marriage can work, you can believe, but if

you believe it, then you align your mouth and watch it and your

actions. He said you were saved because

you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart.

It means you have to have a tongue and heart correlated.

They have to align. You can't.

I believe, I believe, I can believe, but in your heart.

So what's the work that you have to do to get your tongue and

your heart aligned? You believe God or you don't?

And I believe when we see people, man, who are God's

children, we got to be very careful of how we are

ambassadors and we speak on God's behalf.

And it's why it's very dangerous to mix the gospel with with

politics. You can't.

They're separate. The gospel is of a Kingdom

itself, so I can't blend worldly Kingdom and heavenly Kingdom

together. The outcome is not fruitful.

So church, our vision is love, equip and mobilize to serve all

this word right here is not for this.

This is I'm taking my time. We haven't, but this is serious

because I'm trying to give you the tools that when you go out

in this world, there's people you are going to reach that I

can't that your neighbor can you got family members that get on

your nerves. But the gospel, man, if you

focus on the gospel, then you will have a good enough spirit

to contend with that you will start seeing people that's

that's that's wearing on you as like man, they must be in so

much darkness. Let me be the light.

Let me be the light. Let me not put a lamp shade.

Let me just shine so bright. The darker there the darkness if

the darker they're in, or the darkness that they're in if it's

so. Bad.

Guess what can combat it? Making the light so good.

Yeah, it's hard, but he said what good is it that you love

somebody who love you? That's what Jesus said.

Say love your enemies, forgive them. 70 * 7 Are we the church

or what? US going to heaven don't make us

the church. What make us the Church is the

ekklesia that we govern here on earth as it is in heaven, that

we use our keys properly, and that we reflect His love.

And as you get tested this week, I.

Wonder if your response would be different.

Than last week. Watch this you don't got to pray

to love in the sense you don't got to pray about it to give

love like love people and once they're one guess.

What you could do it's like once you get a fish in the boat, you

can start purging and getting them ready to what be served.

But you got that fish all in the water trying to cut them and

they flapping. Win the soul.

Get them out their environment. Let them rest when you go into.

Rehab first day. They ain't talking about the

root issue. You detoxing?

Do you know how hard it is to detox?

Some people leave, like stay on the drugs.

So do you think someone who has lived that way and who has been

convinced that they are this way or that way, you can't?

Lead with that, got to lead with the grace of God.

And then as we get into discipleship now we can begin to

become more like Christ. The standard is higher,

accountability is higher, because the point is to get us

right so we can go back out there into places.

So in a couple weeks we go on the Gilton Co, they're going to

have a full bar. I ain't drinking because I'm

free. I'm not even tempted by the

drink. It actually stinketh to me.

Right? We're going.

Why do we go out here? You want to know what the

mission and the vision is? Ain't coming here.

Equip No. In school we used to go on field

trips right when if you're going to be a cop, you got to do some

ride alongs. So guess what, we going, we

going and we going. And I don't know if y'all saw

but they had a band in there singing Kirk Franklin and they

wasn't doing gospel before they they told us we couldn't come

back for a while because we was because I prayed up in there.

Now singing a Kirk Franklin song and praying and rebuking demons

in the club is a little different.

But the point is that they got us back.

They gave us Friday night for Thanksgiving weekend.

That's a prime night. And I believe we broke some

stuff in there that now when they hear gospels music like

people was dancing. What song was that dude?

What song was that they were singing?

Love theory they were talking about God's love in the club and

they were so blind watch spiritual.

They don't know. They don't know what they sing

it probably some drunk girl was looking at her husband just like

you. My love girl just thought it was

a RB song. And we got the late night hours.

So if you don't want to do late night with the church then don't

do it. But our our first set ain't till

10:00 PM we doing 345 minute sets.

They are paying us to come there and play music till 1:00 AM.

Who who been in the club to who been in the club don't get saved

and look at me crazy. I didn't been there 1:00 AM

drunk see see though the Spirit can't the Holy Spirit be asleep

at 1:00 AM now that's when we're real warfare is is is in the

midnight hour if you understand warfare hours.

You understand prayer, some of that, some of that stuff witch

hours. And so we going out there and we

bad, we bad, look, we bad. And we going to go and we going

to light up the world and that person that's serving us ginger

beer and water all night, we going to love on them and they

going to invite us back and they going to go tell somebody.

And guess what they going to do? They going they going to be

dancing and doing they doing drug sell and if somebody drunk

or hand me their phone and I'm going to go and then they going

to tag me and then their friends going to see and they're going

to be like and somebody they're going to say, if that's if

that's church folks, where where can I find them?

Right, I'm not going to take that phone to be like you better

get your life right, little Sinner.

I'm saying you Sinner, Sinner, Sinner, Sinner, Sinner.

Tag me No, we're going to go because what what I was lost and

just because I'm found don't mean I don't know how to like

even better that God can bring me out of something and I could

actually go on that stage and share and and relate and

understand. So hope to see y'all.

It's going to be packed. So you got to get there early or

you probably going to be standing in line in gas town.

It's going to be fun. And then if you have family in

Toronto, we'll be at El Macombo, one of the most historic live

music venues in Toronto. You got friends and family, let

them know. And before this year is over,

we're going to change some things around for people who

thought it was over. And we're going to bring hope to

cities across this nation. Because I don't know about you,

but the good news has absolutely radically changed my life.

If that's you, to give God some praise, please.

Come on, come on, Lord, you're good.

Lord, you're good. Come on, Lord, you're good.

Come on, Come on. Open your mouth and give him

some praise. Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Jesus. Come on, this is a good news.

This is a good news I want to see.

That way if you insurgent and nothing's working, I got a

little tea. I love you.

Come on, George, somebody needs to hear it.

This is This is the girl. No matter

your history. Come clap your hands.

There is freedom by the Spirit of the Lord Air, There is

freedom. There is the Spirit of the Lord.

There is freedom there. Come out of the tug just as you

are. You choose.

The phone is up. Come out.

Come out of the tug as you were to the ponies.

So come out, Come out of the dark just as you were to the

ponies of with love. Obscure it and heal it.

Shut it up, and there let heavy breeder.

Let heavy breeder. Change will fall, Princess.

Shake at the time. Jesus name.

Let me fall. I'm still awake.

Come on. If that's your testimony, let's

testify. See.

Change will fall, Princess. Shame.

Change will fall. Prince is shake at the sound

Jesus name. Come on move me home.

I'm to wait at the sound Jesus name.

Hey, I hear them. The chain of shame before the

nation fall. I hear them.

If you not hear your power. Yeah.

Yeah. I hear them change for me.

I hear them change for me. Come on, come.

On lest we brigade today we was lost, busted, dusted.

I remember very clearly nights throwing up and and somehow end

back up drinking and partying. And I remember nights full of

shame and waking up in a bed next to someone like, How did I?

Well, you know how I got there? It's like what my soul,

something living in this world without the Lord is very heavy.

That's why we got marijuana stores, almost more marijuana

stores than churches. Marijuana stores is the new

church where you can get the most high.

How did they know that this would be a boom because they

know people are in darkness church.

Did the did the marijuana store give them something that was

hey, they package it real pretty right?

They even make chocolates and gummies.

And however I got a church, as I mentioned last week, we're not

minimizing sin or giving permission to that.

But as we read like he paid for it all though he paid for it.

And so we I what I do believe is that we have to be louder about

his grace and his love. Then we are about this prideful

Christianity that we can point out other people's faults and

make it so loud and shame people that even those that are sitting

there watching you reign, people condemn people.

They're now afraid to take a risk with God.

So if you just get a chance to show the love of God, I promise

you, even if that person is incapable of loving you back, I

promise you God has a reward for you.

If you can be diligent about love, 9 times out of 10, the

person he's calling you to love is incapable to love you how you

desire to be loved, just like you were when he died for you.

But it's the kindness of God, the relentless kindness of God

that leads us so patiently to repentance.

Promise you the love of God is the most powerful weapon on

planet earth. So Father, we thank you for

loving us first. Lord, may we take time to just

think we all could be somewhere so jacked up.

There's people in here who thought about killing

themselves, but it was you kept them alive.

People in here, Lord, that have made it through some horrendous

things, and at the time they didn't think they would make it

through. But they're here.

Or lest we forget, undeserving favor.

Mercy, goodness and mercy, you follow us all the days of our

lives, and we say thank you for the gift.

Thank you for never giving up on us, thank you for always keeping

the door open, thank you for stretching wide, and we even

thank you for not saying a word on our behalf.

You could have called on a legion of angels on that cross,

but you chose not to flex and instead you did one of the

biggest flexes on Hell and that was to forgive your enemies

instead of trying to. Prove you was the Christ.

I hope y'all heard me. He could have flexed the power

he had legions it says. But instead he flexed by

shutting his mouth and saying I forgive you.

Now watch this. He didn't just say I forgive you

Danny, watch this. He said and you going to come

with me today. So he didn't say I forgive you,

but you got to stay over there. He said I forgive you, come with

me. And then he tells us to love as

I've loved you. Are you willing to walk with

those you are in covenant with even though?

I'm believing before this year is over.

That our father. Through you.

Trusting Him and sharing His love.

I believe God is going to do something supernatural if you

want it. And if you want it, you got to

act like you want it. Not just beg, not just cry, but

if you really want it, and if you don't want it, be honest.

But if you want it, I'm telling you the love of God will break

every chain in Jesus name, Amen. I'll give you the nearest

announcement that is Wednesday. We are back at Discipleship

Dynasty this Wednesday at 6:45. Man, I am challenging every

single person in here. Tell a friend, bring a friend.

Come out to midweek. Try your best to at least get to

two a month. Do what you got to do like you

do what you got to do for things you want to do.

Get out here, gather with the Saints, be encouraged.

Come out. We'll break out in our groups,

we'll get a word, we'll worship. It'll be a powerful, powerful

night. So I look forward to seeing you

guys this Wednesday, EJ or Brett, Elder Brett, can you come

up and close us in prayer? Yes.

There is no immerse tonight. There is no even immerse

tonight. Father, thank you for this

gospel which saved us, redeemed us.

Deliver us. Lord, thank you that we'll see

with eyes of love of a Father to those around us, to those who we

love. Father, may we radiate the love

of God in such a way that they see you.

We praise you for your goodness. We thank you for this week

ahead. Thank you for the opportunities

we have. To put to work.

That you've challenged with us with today.

We thank you for it. In Jesus name, Amen.

Until next time, get your love fixed man.

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