GROW UP, QUICK! - 9.21.2025 - 12PM (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International

Church Podcast where we seek to love all nations, equip the

church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all.

We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever

you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get

your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe

some tea, and get ready to receive.

It's go time. Let's get into it.

I pray that You flood our hearts with Your light today and that

we choose to put on the Spirit revelation and the Spirit of

wisdom. We need You today.

We need You to reveal to us the deeper things we need.

Lord, we need some clarity on the chaos that is happening in

today's world. You did not call us to turn our

head from chaos. You did not call us to say,

well, that's not us, or that's not me, or that's not my

country, or that's not my family.

That does not affect me. For God, so love the world.

There's no separate love for Canada, no separate love for the

United States, no separate love for any other place, For God.

So love the world. So may we not cowardly turn our

heads, but may we, like sons and daughters, open our eyes wide

open, ready to receive a word from the Lord today.

Clarity today. Marching orders today.

May we not be a bride that stands by the wayside, busy and

occupied with the things of this world.

While people are dying from darkness, While you have put the

light in us to do one thing and that's shine.

May just a few more people today choose to shine over complain,

choose to live over die, choose to be students of the Word

versus following people who know the Word or who we think know

the Word. Lord, may we share the gospel

more than we share a clip. May we follow you more than we

follow those that inspire us. May this be our prayer today.

Lord, give me eyes to see and ears to hear, and a heart that

is willing to go from yes to I do, or at least from no to yes.

I thank you in advance Lord for a shift within all of our hearts

today in Jesus name, Amen. Luke 1 verse 12 says.

Luke 1:12

And when Zechariah saw him, he was troubled, and fear took

possession of him. Angel, the Lord appeared.

Zechariah was afraid, as probably all of us would be.

But the Angel said to him, Do not be afraid, Zechariah,

because your petition was heard, and your wife Elizabeth will

bear you a son, and you must call his name John.

God is favorable, and you shall have joy.

An exultant delight, and many will rejoice over John's birth,

for he will be great. He will be distinguished in the

insight or in the sight of the Lord.

He will be great and distinguished in the sight of

the Lord. And he must drink no wine nor

strong drink, and He will be filled with and controlled by

the Holy Ghost even in and from his mother's womb.

Just real quick pause real quick for us believers that try to

figure out as much as we can get away with and follow Jesus.

I like to look at where Jesus said or the word said, don't

drink, don't do this, don't do that.

And why here he says stay away from drink because the call on

his life is immense. So he can't do what everybody

else do because there's a people he's called and the message on

his life has to be free from any contradiction.

The days we're in very dark. If you a believer, what's coming

out of your mouth needs to be free from contradiction, OK.

He said he going to be controlled by the Holy Spirit

even in and from his mother's won't, and he will turn back and

cause to return many of the sons of Israel to the Lord their God.

He will cause, He will turn back, He will compel people to

repent, and he will himself go before him.

Jesus in the Spirit, watch this empower of Elijah to turn back

the hearts of the fathers to the children and the disobedient and

incredulous and unpersuable. Nope, that don't say that what

they say unpersuadable. There we go, there we go, there

we go. All right and put on my glasses.

Unpersuadable. He's going to turn them back to

the wisdom of the upright, which is the knowledge and holy love

of the will of God, in order to make ready.

Somebody say make ready, make ready for the Lord.

A people perfectly prepared in spirit, adjusted and disposed

and placed in the right moral state, the spirit of Elijah.

These are the days of Elijah. The Church has the

responsibility to prepare the way for the coming of the Lord.

That is our job, period. It's not to have a T-shirt, it's

not to have a bumper sticker, it's not to have a small group.

It's that if it don't lead to you leading people back to the

ways of Jesus and prepare the bride to for the coming of

Jesus, then we're not doing what we're supposed to do this

morning. We begin right.

I said two weeks ago, I'm going to try my my my best to give

quick little recap and I want to get in to some more of what we

but it's no way I can come back after what took place two weeks

ago. Now I know in Canada we think

that was in America. So that ain't got nothing to do

with us. That's America, America going

crazy, Canada going crazy. Canada is wild.

It's wild. In the Kingdom of God, there's

no borders. And in God's plan for his

coming, it's for the world. He's not coming to get countries

one at a time. So whatever happened in any part

of the world, that's a part of who he's talking about.

So I'm glad I didn't have to come back to the pulpit next

week because the way the church attacked itself, the audacity to

tell people to find another church if they pastor didn't say

nothing. What you're supposed to say?

You got pastors saying stuff that don't really mean what they

saying. You got pastors saying stuff

that don't know what they saying and you got pastors saying what

they saying, not considering the context they're in.

No, there there's racial stuff. There's some good stuff

sprinkled in there. There's but but what we have

failed to do church is try the Spirit.

Anybody that throws us a Christian carrot, we will take

it. All you got to do is put Jesus

on it and put Christian on it and boom, sign me up.

You going to pass a law for us Christians?

I'll vote for you. You.

You can't be a Christian and take a worldly side.

Now today we going to go through the word because we need

clarity, we need marching orders and we have to expose a spirit,

right Pop. Watch this.

Watch this in Ephesians 4 it tells us he gave these gifts to

men. Apostle, prophet, pastor,

teacher, evangelist. I miss one.

Maybe I said all 5. For the perfecting of the Saint,

it's been our key scripture for the full equipping of the Saints

that they should do the work. Who is they?

It's not, it's not me, right? It's the Saints.

And if you are a follower of Jesus or call yourself a

Christian, guess what you are. You are a St.

And guess what God did for the Saints?

He gave gifts to men, 5 gifts to the church to equip his church

and somebody say grow us up to grow us up.

Why? For the work right.

You know, if you got kids right, you like, I can't wait till you

grow up and get your own job. You want them to grow up for

what? The work you got to contribute

to this body. You can't just stay at the

cross. Jesus got up, He defeated the

grave. You can't.

You no longer a victim, you're no longer a slave.

You have been redeemed, called to the ministry of

reconciliation. You got to grow up.

You got to get away, push away from the table, put your bottles

away and start getting your knife in the fork and start

chewing into some meat and live a life that gives you a healthy

gut culture so that you can digest meat properly and not

needing to be coddled all the time and and reassured all the

time or having the same message preached all the time.

The reason I have 30,000 scriptures I got to read.

I ain't going to get to all them day.

But today I was like, we don't even know what's going on in the

world. All we see is some mess.

We see someone get killed. Now we highlight one killing.

We're not highlighting the, the school that got shot up.

We're not highlighting the person that got hung.

We're not highlight and we're not going crazy over other

leaders that have been killed. And you know what I'm saying?

It was like, it's like out here, when, when, when, when we did

the Black Lives Matter thing. We, we, we, we, we blacked out

our Instagram page and then we lit it back up and, and we

marched and then we went right back.

But there was no kind of multi ethnic, multiracial consistency

of building relationships amongst the church so that when

these things come, you don't got to hire somebody to speak to

yourself, to your, your staff about, about color folk issues

and racial issues. You already build a church that

that pushes people towards the uniting of the body where you

where you don't get you need to just throw oh, we're a multi

multi church. No, you got different colored

people church. When I look at your website,

your church is not influenced by people of color, so you're not

multi. A multicultural church has

multiple cultures influencing the church.

You might have a multiracial church, but multiculture is

different than multiracial, different than multiethnic.

But when these big events happen in the world, now all of a

sudden we want to rally around something and then we go our

separate ways. And when political stuff

happens, we rally around politics and then we go our

separate ways. But why we don't rally around

the good news and rally around the Kingdom and rally around

love and contend for love. So then thousands of pastors

across felt the pressure to come up and say, man, this is sucks.

What happened to this family, which he did, sucks.

What happened to Charlie Kirk, which it did that should never

happened. Never ever, ever, ever on no

part of this earth, ever, ever, ever, ever.

And he was a Christian. OK, Now it's crazy because we

say all these facts and we don't know him except from clips on

Instagram. Nothing.

And then when you see the responses in the clips and man,

there's good stuff and there's some real stuff that that ain't

cool. But depending on your background

and depending on what side party you want, you know that certain

parties excuse certain things, right?

If, if, if I'm, if I'm, if I'm anti abortion, then I'll dismiss

your ungodly character, right? If I'm anti this, I'll dismiss

your racism, right? Although this is good, but I

cannot dismiss this, especially if you want my vote, especially

if you want me backing you. Now, now, in some people mind

you think I'm talking about one person.

No, I'm talking about across the board.

So what we going to be aware of today is the political spirit.

And a religious. Spirit OK, I am nowhere near

political. I'm Kingdom and the Kingdom of

God and the government of the ekklesia is not like the world's

government. The world trying to win the

Kingdom of God's foundation is built on a victory that's

already won. It's built on an outcome.

It's done, it's finished right. So so.

But what we can't do, church is in these last days, take sides

and walk around here actually pushing people away from the

table with Jesus because we have ignorant and violent witnessing.

I'm not going to give you nothing but the Word today.

And if you got a prop, I will. No, I'm not taking any

questions. You go to the Bible, I'm going

to read this. Why?

I'm going to read it today. I'm going to read it.

Because it's a part of the equipment and then it says so

we're not tossed to and fro. Oh this popping over here.

Let me share this oh this opinion over here.

Let me let me oh they vote for this and let me oh this man did

nothing What where are we Christians?

Why can't we just stay firm on the firm foundation?

Christ is my firm foundation really well that that doesn't

move you. If this this just this, this

darkness causes my roots to be activated there.

There's something comes up inside of me that want to share

and I'm going to get to it in the IT.

He says as sin abounds. Here's our response.

Grace abounds more. The darker it get, the more

grace the world needs. Duh, I know I'm an alcoholic.

Duh, I know I'm addicted. Duh, I know I'm struggling with

this thing, but what do I do? And Jesus answered that.

Jesus made a way. And we go stand in the doorway

and be the greeters of heaven and say ho, let me get this

checklist. Nope, Nope.

You go and fix that first and then you can come in here.

Their change is on the other side of the door.

Let them in. There's way too much of checking

this and checking it. The way we minister to the loss

is different than how we minister to the church.

My goal is to introduce you to Jesus as a lost person.

My goal as A to get you as a believer to look like Jesus.

This first step should be way simpler than we make it.

And what we're looking to do is we're looking to vote people

into a world system where the system, I want you to understand

there's a difference between the world and the earth.

The world is the system that's ran by the devil.

So it's like you're how they say a good cop or a good person

becomes a cop and the system. So when we're praying for

Christians to be in politics, we have to pray that the system

does not take them out. We got to pray that they

navigate through wisdom. But to think we're going to get

a leader to make the world Christian, it won't happen.

That's not their job. The world is worlding.

If the goal was to change the world to be Christian, then we

wouldn't need a new heaven and a new earth.

Shikaba, the Bible says that until we all unite, watch this.

So if Jesus is not returning until we unite around the faith,

then the devil's greatest tactic is to keep us divided, arguing

over stupid stuff. You know what the Bible talks

about partying, right? Some.

In some ways, it's not just talking about like clubbing.

It's talking about parties. And that's why we got so many

religions and so many networks. And so we have different parties

and we can look in the box. Jesus didn't even take a side.

He stood between the religious and that political spirit and

this woman who should have watched this legally been

stoned. He came to fulfill the law.

So why didn't he be like, Yep you're right, go for it buddy,

Sorry. Oh was he protecting what?

And then he turns around after they all dropped a stones.

And he said, daughter, is anyone left?

She said no Sir. He said now go sin no more.

Oh, we present people Jesus, they encounter Jesus.

We have to be careful in these last days that our witness is

not striking a rock. The only thing that will win in

these last days is the love of God.

And I know a lot of us in here do not know the love of God.

We say it, but the love of God. If we understood the love of

God, we have way more winning marriages in the church.

The love of God is not what we think it is and this is not

going to be a message about the different types of love, but

there's different types of love. And he says those that really

get the love and that receive the love they'll love much.

So a lot of times when we're witnessing from a place of

beating people is because we beat ourselves up and we have

not encountered the love of God. But also, as I said this

morning, JTIII believe this truly that Charlie Kirk was out

of the fivefold ministry gifts, if you understood the gifts.

He wasn't evangelist, but I wonder if there was some

anointed Apostolic leadership in his life that taught him about

the gift on his life and how to carry it with Jesus because he

had a heart for souls. And if we're not careful and we

avoid the biblical Kingdom training for the gifts on our

life, and we don't understand why we wired that way, You allow

your pastoral heart to be codependent.

More than any time we need to explain because the church needs

to be put in order in this last day of chaos.

There's no way to have peace and chaos without order.

As long as you have order, it doesn't matter the chaos that

goes on around you. You will be the lights in the

storm. So you just can't have gifts and

be saved and just in these last days just Ladi dadi dadi down

the road and just think you just gone be a Christian with your

little Bible app and then when Jesus comes, no no, no, no, no,

no, no, no there are people going to hell on your clock.

Now if you OK with that and you just happy you saved, awesome

for you. But that ain't what he saved you

for. And to win the soul of the lost

is different than equipping the same.

Watch this. You don't catch a fish with a

knife. You don't get them by cutting

them. A lot of times just in normal,

you get them in the boat and you let them flap.

You don't you ever see a prison stop flapping or before you get

in this boat, you're going to have to stop being a fish.

No, you got to be careful telling people before God loves

you. You got to get this right.

We see we we saw this morning in Matthew 22 where he had this

wedding. He invited folk.

He, he, he gave everybody the wedding garments And then one

person came in one guest and he looked at and was like, Hey,

what's that you wearing? Because that ain't what I gave

you. And the guy was shocked and

Jesus told him, get him out of here, tie him up.

How you going to come to the to the wedding without the garments

God gave you? And what he's saying is in his

last day, he's coming back for his bride and excellence.

He's not just coming back for oh, broke down, beat up Medusa

like he not coming for that. He coming for a bride with a

spine, with a backbone, with boldness and courage and faith

and hope. He's not coming for a bride

that's looking just like the world and just no, no, no, no,

no. He's coming for a bride.

I haven't been to one wedding and I've done a few over this

year where the bride come down. No, no, no.

When that when that door opens, the first thing people do is

they look at the groom, at his response to what he see.

And most of the time it's either a grin or tears or both from

this strong man. He's just standing there.

But it's just something about like we've been dating some of

y'all you've been, you've been sleeping before the wedding, but

still something new just happened.

You like I ain't never seen you like this ever.

This is what I'm talking about. And she opened that, she stands

there and she's ready to go meet.

And who she walked down with father.

Who gives this woman away the exchange I do.

Hence Jesus says, well if you love me, tend to my bride.

No, he didn't say if you love me, go to church and take notes.

Say if you love me, feed my sheep, help my bride get

beautiful. Because when I come back, I just

want to it's kind of like if a husband you take his wife, drop

her off at the hairdresser and then and then he go to the front

counter and be like here, whatever kind of hairdo, she

won't charge it on the car. Just make sure it ain't past

$200. Good luck with that one right.

Jesus telling you what he care about.

He don't he don't care about most of the stuff that we he

liked into my sheep. You just I'm not coming just for

any old bride because when I put you in the garden, you wasn't

like that. I didn't put you in the garden

beat up. So I'm not coming back for beat

up. Matthew 24 says this because of

the lawlessness of the world, that many believers hearts will

wax cold. The lawlessness, what's going on

around what you watch on this? This is why it's dangerous to

just stay on this, because you don't got to be in the United

States, but the adjacent experience will eat away at your

faith. Wow.

Then we got the nerve to share it.

Do you do you understand why that made the phone, made it to

the phone? And do you know why it was

people watched it over and over and over and over.

Do you know, I remember my son saw it for the first time and I

can see what it it impacted how he played that night.

And he didn't even know it based on the gift on his life.

His heart went out to a man he didn't know, a family he didn't

know. And I saw how it impacted the

way he played. So I had to explain it to him

because I didn't have a dad to help me understand my emotional

response to lawlessness around me.

So I have to say, son, the way you a party, you didn't even

think about this, son. But the part of why your spirit

wasn't even in the game. You played hard, but you didn't

have a spirit in the game because I watched you earlier

when you showed me your phone, seeing that man get shot.

I saw what it did to your affect.

And then you kept watching it over and over and over again.

Look, Dad. Oh, oh, oh.

Do you know what that's meant to do?

It's meant to bring fear in the world.

It's meant to divide us. And what did it do?

Divided us. And his sparks start flying,

opinions start rolling, and the body fought against the body.

Can't have no church called Love Quest and not be a leader.

That's going to fight for love and unity.

What what, what if this church was going to be a catalyst in

this nation for what love really was?

What what if the conference was about how to how to show people

how to love despite diversity? What, what if we had breakout

sessions about how do you conflict resolution?

How do you how do you fight in a Kingdom way in the body and stay

intact, not just go to another church?

If I'm called somewhere, trust me somebody else know that and

he going to try to make sure I flee away from that place.

Where are you called to? Ain't a easy place to stay, OK?

All right, all right, all right. The Bible talks about in the

last days, many will be offended, many will be repelled

and will begin to distrust and desert him whom they ought to

trust and obey and will stumble. Peter didn't think he was going

to deny Jesus three times to that pressure came right you, my

friend, until that pressure come, you whip me to that

pressure, come now, I'm not going to deny you Jesus.

How I would say that, yeah. No, I know.

I see your root system. We just need the right blow of

wind to blow down your street and you gone.

Please read or go back and and listen to this morning's message

sometime this week. Bible says in Second Timothy 3

don't be naive, difficult times are ahead.

It describes the wildness of the last days.

I'm here to tell you that we are on the back end of the last

days. One of the only things that need

to come to pass is the great deception.

Antichrist been in the earth. Rumors of war has been

happening. Famine has been happening.

Jesus is. Is Odyssey ready to come?

And will he find you in faith or will he find you bitter?

Will he find you pointing the finger?

Will he find you with your gifts on the shelf making a bunch of

excuses? Will he find you offended?

Will he find you delaying your call?

Because I know when he comes, you're going to be like, let's

go, right, But I pray you're not one of the ones that's like,

Lord, I did this in your name and Lord, I did that in your

name. Mind you keep the backdrop of

the current events. I did this in your name.

What Jesus say, but I ain't never knew you because that

character you display wasn't me. Because if you knew me, you

wouldn't have acted that way. You wouldn't have represented me

that way. That that that that's what Jesus

says. There's going to be a lot of

folks coming. I served you.

I did this, I did that. I ran conferences, I cast out

demons and he's going to be like, thank you.

You thought it was you, but it was my word.

It was my word. It wasn't you, but it was my

word. But you want to come to me and

get credit for my word? No, my word never fails.

You failed. So you all caught up in your

little ministry? And how many people cry when you

sing? And how many people?

No, no, it's my word that I am responsible for.

He said they will have a form of godliness, watch it, watch it.

They will have a form of godliness but deny the true

power. So then what He's saying a part

of something you need to look for is people, are they, are

they religious? Are they saying Jesus name?

Cool. Where do you see the power

working in their lives? Not only the power, but where do

you see the character fruit in their lives?

I'm not just talking about here. It is one of the fruits of the

spirit. Fruit of the spirit wasn't about

how you manage money. Sure, it was discipline,

self-discipline, but a lot of times we think great stewardship

and and good fruit is all about material things.

Look at what I got, look at my fruit.

But then you cussing people out in Jesus name, you're talking

down to people instead of calling them who God calls them

in Jesus name. But then you come to church and

you do all the work of the ministry and then you're going

to see Jesus like, but I never knew you though, because the

ones I called you to the family in your house, the people I

called you to, how did you represent me?

Did you strike the rock or were you there that fruit?

Go patient, watch this, watch this, watch this fruit fruit

long-suffering. Oh, you got millions in your

bank account, but you but you ain't got no patience.

So in the last days, what's going to be your evidence?

Because you got to be careful who you follow and just because

it's a prophet just because it's a apostle just because they got

a million billion followers and that's the game we in today.

Y'all you look at how many followers and in your mind right

away you like they. Must be doing something right.

No, there's a lot of deceived people that are looking to be

LED. A lot of these millions of

followers are people looking to be LED.

When Jesus looked around and he said these people have no

shepherd, He didn't say they didn't have no leaders, they had

no shepherds. He didn't say they didn't have

no influencers and we so hyped about influencers, but we don't

want apostles right? How many how quick your your

your follower influencer, but then somebody God send you an

apostle you like OK prove me application please.

Who said you call? Who said you go?

Who said you going to speak in my life?

Who said you ain't going to hurt me?

Who said you go? How many people you following?

You see, you see. The wires are so crossed.

Said these last days, you got to be very careful.

Romans 5. I want you to see this.

This is how we witness. This is how we witness.

I want you to see this, people. I want you to see this.

You know the story of how Adam landed us in the dilemma we're

in. First sin, then death, and no

one exempt from either sin or death.

That sin disturbed relations with God in everything and

everyone. But the extent of the

disturbance was not clear until God spelled it out in detail to

Moses. Watch this.

Here's what the law was for. Here's what the law was for.

Let me say to you, here's what the law was for.

Because we was Wilding out right, Watch this.

Anybody ever have a kid they be Wilding out and then you as a

parent part of it is stop and they look at you like for what

I'm having fun. They about to climb up on the

roof, get down for what this is hacker fun.

You have to let them know what a thing is.

The law was to let us know, hey, that that's sin.

Them orgies. Ah, stop it, it's sin.

But then he says, but you are incapable without me to stop.

But I have to start by telling you this is not OK knowing, but

watch what it says, the notification and telling people

they're wrong, what it's doing. Watch this, watch this, watch

this, watch this, watch this. God spelled it out in detail.

So death, this huge abyss separating us from God dominated

the landscape from Adam to Moses.

Adam to Moses, it dominated. They didn't know what was going.

They just thought they was having fun.

Moses came right Moses up here like man guys, if you all just

pray for me I'm about to bring back some some tablets that's

going to help us out and they Wilding out and they making

idols and golden calves and he like he come down.

It's like, hey, this what we've been doing this ain't OK.

You can't be sleeping with your neighbor's wife and you can't be

stealing like that ain't cool. You can't, and there's more than

10 but. Says watch this.

Even those who didn't sin precisely as Adam did by

disobeying a specific command of God, still had to experience

this termination of life, this separation from God.

But Adam, who got us into this, also points ahead to the one who

will get us out of it. Yet the rescuing gift is not is

not exactly parallel to the death dealing sin.

If one man sin put crowds of people at the dead end abyss of

separation from God, just think what God's gift poured through

one man, Jesus Christ will do. There's no comparison between

that death dealing sin and this generous life giving gift.

The verdict on the on that one sin was that the death sentence.

The verdict on the many sins that followed was this do you we

fail from from one sin that turned into hecka sin and then

Jesus handled hecka sin. So one man caused us all to fall

and this other man caused us all to what live Watch this.

The verdict on the one sin was the death sentence.

The verdict on the many sins that followed was this wonderful

life sentence. If death got the upper hand

through one man's wrongdoing, Can you imagine the breathtaking

recovery life makes absolute life in those who grasp with

both hands this wildly? Watch this, he said.

Do you imagine what can happen in a life that grasp the love of

God? What I want you to grasp is you

are a Sinner. I want you to grasp that God is

not pleased with you and your homosexual living or this

abortion thing or you are a Sinner.

You're disgusting and it's not always what you say.

It's also the spirit in which you delivered the Bible says a

on time season word is always good and we could think we're

doing good because we're pointing the wrong.

But what is this scripture doing?

Watch what this scripture does. It says if, if the sin did that,

it says in those who grasp with both hands this wildly

extravagant life gift, this grand setting everything right

that the one man Jesus Christ provokes provides.

Here it is in a nutshell. Just as one person did it wrong

and got us in all this trouble with sin and death, another

person did it right and got us out of it.

But more than just getting us out of trouble, He got us into

life. One man said no to God and put

many people in the wrong. One man said yes to God and put

many in the right. All that passing laws against

sin. Watch this, watch this.

You ready? Watch this.

This is in the Bible. All that passing laws against

sin did was produce more law Breakers.

It's in our nature that when you tell me I can't do some or I

can't be something, I'm just going.

I just, I'm I'm going to do it and be it.

And guess who knows that God grace just wasn't about

forgiveness. Great, great.

Grace was also trying to take the focus off of our sin and put

it on his love because focusing on sin is not going to liberate

us because we're free from condemnation.

Watch this and he says our, our, our sin conscience has been

seared. And when somebody masters and

talks about grace, then we want to be like, oh, you need to be

preaching harder than that and letting people know they going

to hell. Grace is not denying hell.

Grace is highlighting the love of God.

So how you going to persecute somebody that has an anointing

to deliver a message of grace? Ain't that the good news?

All that passing laws against sin did was produce more law

Breakers. I don't know if you see, like

the political spirit in the church and in the world.

Whenever we go around the world telling people that they look

like the political spirit is so divisive and nasty.

It's nasty, it's judgmental. It's also hypocritical.

And it's like, as Christians, if God puts us in the space of

politics, we have to lead with grace, not take on the political

spirit. Well, that's him.

But no, it's not. Jesus did it.

Where did you see Jesus? Arguing with people?

Please show me, Jesus. Like I'm not about to go to

these 10 laws. One love.

I'm not. You're right.

You can you. She deserved to be killed,

Stoner. But before you stone her, let me

ask you just one simple question.

Any of y'all ever said throw the stone.

I'm waiting, I'm waiting. That's what I thought.

Where was he? How did he deal with people's

sin and iniquities like Jesus was only he saw he walked

through sin, he walked through crowds.

He and he just walked and then he said and he gave a parable

and then he warned him about the latter days.

Who was the ones condemning Pharisees?

Are we following Jesus? But is he but but that's not

saying Jesus didn't have he turned over tables, but what

tables he turned over. He was he went in the temple.

You see how he dealt with us? You see how he dealt with

religion. Did you see how he dealt with

those that don't have the eyes to even see to start change?

He says. But sin didn't and doesn't have

a chance. Sin didn't and doesn't have a

chance in competition with the aggressive forgiveness, the

aggressive grace. When it's sin versus grace,

grace wins hands down. Love is undefeated.

All sin can do is threaten us. Watch this.

All sin can do can threaten us with watch this.

All sin can do is threaten us with death.

Wait, so if I come to you and I see you got a sin issue and I'm

like, I'm threatening you with the death of it, who is sin

though? But I'm being courageous with

Jesus, Emma. How about I be skillful for

Jesus? How I be patient for Jesus?

How about we don't mix? How how about there's no

inconsistency? How about you?

When, when, when people play back your clips.

It ain't this and it ain't that. It's just you can't go to Jesus

and be like, it's this and that. You're trying to wrap your mind

around how Jesus just stood in the middle and held attention.

He didn't take a side, He held attention.

Because God is putting everything together again

through the Messiah. Whoa, the good, The tone of the

good news. Sound different invites us into

life. Wait, what did you say?

It invites us into life a a a life that goes on and on and on.

We send abound. Grace abounds the more, and This

is why the tactic is to get us in fear, because in first John,

it tells us that there's No Fear in love.

So if I can get you in fear, I can get you not to be able to

love. And in the last days, guess

what? I'm going to need love to

counteract fear. And because of the lawlessness

that got me into fear, it's so heavy.

If I live in fear, I might be one of them.

A let that get Luke warm cold because I'm in fear, not love.

So you got to be careful when you get when you pledge

allegiance and when you follow people and when you at these

rallies and when you just getting behind a political

spirit blow winding to the cell of the Kingdom of God.

Look, look, look, the Bible is telling us it's going to look

like it's going to smell like it's going to be signs and

wonders. It's going to be thousands of

people singing the same song and you're not going to be LED away

at a worship thing or at a service where they sing in devil

songs. Lucifer, it's got to sound like

don't forget he was Son of the morning.

Don't forget he knows how to worship.

He, he's beautiful. He knows.

So don't think he cannot woo us. You're going to need eyes to see

he left off it. The enemy's plan is to overwhelm

us. He's going to overwhelm the

unrooted more than any other time.

Man, get rooted in a church. It don't got to be this one, but

find 1 and I pray whichever 1 you find it challenges you and

it equips you and immobilizes you.

Rootedness is a strategy for last day fruitfulness, not mere

survival. We heard about Darnell, right?

And we focus on the harvest time.

But you got to deal with Darnell before you get the harvest,

right? That's the first thing you got

to deal with. You got to get the the fake

weeds up out of there. And so Darnell, here it is.

Here it is. We've been talking about

Darnell, but Darnell represents deception.

So God told me to tell you this. Darnell is coming to #1 'cause

you believers to overreact, number one, last day, Darnell

will cause you to overreact. They said what we, what should

we do? What if they didn't have an

accountability to go to and say, hey, I see something wrong in

the, in the, in the, in the garden out there.

What should we do? And he said, what?

Don't do nothing yet, They said. Yes, Sir.

Whoa. Was that accountability?

Was that servants going to their leader, asking for wisdom?

Because there's something in there that you might have not

planted. And although I am out here as a

farmer, there's things that you know, because this is your

garden that you've been called to tend to.

So #1 Darnell, who represents deception #1 in the latter days,

he is going to cause you or the enemy or the lawlessness is

going to cause some to overreact #2 is going to cause people to

hurry up, hurry. There's going to be a false

watch. This a false urgency.

False urgency. So you got to be careful of how

far advertisement takes you because there's a such thing as

false advertisement #3 watch this.

So #1 he in the latter days, he's trying to get you to

overreact #2 hurry up #3 abort the process, Start over because

it's taking too long. Hurry up and get one of them

because I'm tired of being by myself.

Hurry, another hurry. No, no, no, no.

He's saying abort the process. No, Do you understand?

You're not just saying no or yes to something?

You are starting a new season. If I get a new job, I'm starting

a new season. If I get a new woman, I'm

starting a new season. If I get new friends, I'm

starting a new season. Everything that you bring into

your life, you, it is starting a cycle.

Now I need to be careful. If I'm in a season where God is

breaking some things off my life before I start a new cycle, that

might contradict my season of breaking, right?

It's like if you, hey, if you ain't there after I get out this

season, you just wasn't the one. But I'm going to get through

this season without this distraction.

Protect your breaking. Seasons so #1 overreact #2 hurry

up #3 aboard process #4 partnering with the deceived.

This is a This is a crucial 1 you guys.

You got a lot, lot of woke people partnering with sleep

people. So you think the devil can get,

can't he? He can't get you because you

woke. OK.

All I need to do is fall in love with somebody asleep and now I'm

at their pace. And now if I'm trying to keep my

pace, now we're in argument. So partnering with the deceived.

Darnell, watch this. Partnering with the deceived,

appearing to be delicious. Yeah, the wheat, right.

Darnell just pulled yourself up next to the good stuff.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The deceived, Darnell, the

delicious, the wheat and the last 1, he is going to get us

causing us to choose sides. You can't pick the Kingdom.

The left and the right. It's the Kingdom.

No, it's not Christian nationalist.

It's it's Christian period, point blank.

It's child of God, son of the Most High.

That's what I am. Yes and Amen, that's what I am.

I'm a believer. I don't need to add, I don't

need to add nothing else on it. I am sufficient in his

sufficiency. God, He is enough.

I don't need extra titles on it. He he is enough.

But all this propaganda, all this political, all this

religious stuff is true. Sides choose, choose, choose a

denomination. Go Kingdom is why our church, if

you didn't know, we're non denominational church, not

because we confused. We know exactly what we stand

on, but we understand the world we're in.

You're going to go to the website.

Are you going? What's your denomination?

Oh, I'm Pentecostal and then automatically you got a picture

of what Pentecostal is to where I know a spirit filled

charismatic Catholic Church in Chicago.

So we don't want to trip you up at the gate, right?

Love Quest International Church, long name.

When I was debating that God was given to me, he was like, Nope,

you going to call it Love Quest International?

I was trying to run away from long names, especially in the

movement of short names, river church and and pond church and

great fish church and all that. He just real quick.

We got real contemporary real quick because I grew up in Saint

John Missionary Baptist Church in Ecclesiastes around the

corner, Black Baptist. So I'm trying to run from all

these Pentecostal innocent that that that's expensive too.

On the building. If you going to put all them

names up, that's a long name. Yeah, but but God said no, no,

no, no. When people look at it, right,

you see, I'm not just telling you what not to do.

Like, oh, we're not going to be not.

But when people do see what you call international, you're in

Canada, international, global country, global city.

So when people see international, there may be a

place for them. I've had people ask us where we

some little funny church because our church was called love.

That's crazy, like we have given love to the world so people

think we like hippies or we just super liberal or we're this no,

what? Because our church it was I had

a church tell me some religious folks tell me like, oh, I was I

didn't know what kind of church y'all was.

It's love. They thought we was a cult.

They all these things. But so so now, because it's

love, you see what the enemy has done to love.

It is the most vulnerable name you can call yourself because

that's what it's all about. So I OK you be rock church, you

be sunshine church you be that church.

I'm just going to be what it is. God is what love love quest in

and that's every human being is on a love quest at the end of

the day. That's what you were trying to

find. Be careful taking sides.

Praying for our political leaders is not to hopefully get

political leaders to make the world Christian.

My allegiance is to King Jesus and his Kingdom, his government,

which isn't ran like any government in the world.

Praying for our political leaders is a prayer of Kingdom,

authority and dominion. You never thought about praying

for our political leaders or our government or people in power?

We're praying from power. We're praying from from a

government. We're praying from having

dominion. It's an authority speaking to

authority. I'm, I'm not, I'm not praying

for authority to make authority like our authority.

No, that's the enemy's camp. But there are sons and daughters

in that system that God is trying to redeem.

So we pray for those in power for and from the one in power.

Not a prayer of choosing sides. I pray for every leader in

power. Watch this.

My vote is love, not law. No Christian president, no Prime

Minister or the such can change the world.

None send messes up any change. If the blood of Jesus can't save

the world, then what make you think Trump or Trudeau or Barack

or Biden or male or female or whoever can change the world if

the blood of Jesus have not done it?

The blood changes lives, not world systems.

The Kingdom of His dear Son paid the bill of sin.

The world, the system is ran by a doom foe.

We should be praying for Christian politicians that the

systems they're in does not wax their hearts cold.

That they can stand and shine without compromise, like Daniel

did, like Joseph did, like Jesus did, like David did.

In the world, there's lawlessness.

Watch it. And in the Christians attempt to

patrol lawlessness, we often do it with gracelessness.

I don't care if it ain't a word, it's a word in my mouth.

Gracelessness. Watch this.

We're trying to patrol SIN. He said let your light shine.

He didn't say pull out your flashlight.

Hey, wrong. That's wrong.

Totally wrong. Totally wrong.

Totally wrong. You suck.

Yep, Jesus does not. Nope.

No, no, no, no, no, no. He said let your light shine.

OK, if I'm supposed to be a heterosexual, show me what a

prospering heterosexual looks like that's in love with God and

the fruitfulness of that life. Show me if I'm supposed to be

married to a man or if I'm a woman or a woman.

If I'm a man, show me what a real, loving, godly marriage

looks like. Let your light shine.

You're trying to pass laws for something you don't even got the

work ethic to make happen. You know it's a sin.

You're not fighting for what God put together.

You're not fighting for your family, you're not fighting for

righteousness. You're not fighting for that

thing. What you're trying to do, you

fight more to make sure people know they're in sin.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Watch this, watch this, watch

this, and I'm talking in general.

If the, if the shoe fits, awesome, Jesus paid it.

Watch this. Jesus paid it so you don't have

to patrol it. You want to write it down, You

want to write it down. You want to write it down.

Jesus paid it so you don't have to patrol it.

I know there's all kind of hearing.

Some people need to. Hearing aid right we need we

need Holy Spirit help us can we just pause for a second and say

Holy Spirit help me right now help me right now help me right

now because we bring in clarity right we like rawness we like

straight to it this right we're about to get straight to it and

I'm. Like watch this.

Jesus paid it so you don't have to patrol it.

Watch this. I want you to watch this.

The Old Testament was a patrolling system.

You have to pay up to be forgiven.

Watch this. The New Testament is a grace

system. You got to drink up to right.

You got They didn't get that one.

They didn't get that for Old Testament was pay up.

New Testament is what? Drink up.

It come unto me. Drink this cup.

It's already done. Salvation's in the cup.

You don't got to pay up. All you got to do is what?

Drink up. Watch this.

I want you to watch this with all the So as we move forward,

it's very clear. Watch this, watch this.

The way of love. If I speak with human eloquence

and angelic ecstasy, but don't love, I'm nothing but the

creaking of a rusty gate. Watch it.

If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his

mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have

faith that says to a mountain jump and it jumps but I don't

love, I am nothing. If I give everything I own to

the poor and even go to the state to be burned as a martyr,

but I don't love, I gotten nowhere.

So no matter what I say, what I believe or what I do, I am

bankrupt without love. And then we argue, well, God

corrects who he loves. Be angry.

Sin not how do you sin? You're angry about certain

things, but your presentation divides.

I mean, preaching the gospel itself is going to divide.

You see, you see where you where you got to find that line

because you can, you can argue this and you can argue.

That but but but. That's why you got to try the

Spirit. Is there a manipulation in your

argument? I have somebody come up to me

and was like, Hey, I'm in school to do this and, and training and

arguing and all that. And he's like, what would you

do? Is it like I was like for me

personally, that just where I'm at my life, I'm I'm not going

to, I'm not going to be skillful to live a life to try to prove a

point, to be right. I'm not going to try to try to

in an argument or a debate. I am not going to bully you or I

am not going to play on your ignorance because I'm here to

actually teach you. And then there's a biblical way

that I teach you and disciple you.

And I don't do that to shame you.

I'm I'm just talking to you how moving forward, how we are

called to witness. He said if you speak in

eloquence, you see all these things are what we say Jesus

like, right? It looks eloquent, it sounds

powerful, it sounds courageous, it sounds like martyrdom.

But he says look at the whole fruit basket.

Don't grab a apple and be like the basket is good.

Hello. I see some people just

protecting a little political hearts and I ain't saying

nothing political. I'm just reading a word right

here, right? He said I'm nothing, right?

And this what sucks is because when people feed you something,

you eat and be like, yeah, that's what that was.

That's what he was. That's what she was, yeah.

It's messed up right now. The world is messed up and the

world's more messed up when a divided church is in it.

It's like being in a household where the parents are divided,

right? The world don't have to hear us

arguing, although they do see it, Watch it.

Love never gives up. Here we go, Here we go.

Love cares more for others than for self.

Watch it. Love doesn't want what it

doesn't have. Watch it.

Love doesn't strut. Love doesn't have a swelled

head, so there's no pride. I'm not, I'm not, I don't.

I don't have to get prideful to witness my, my, my, my.

Witness isn't about defending. The faith is not about me being

right. It's about me standing on truth.

Love doesn't force itself on others.

Wait a minute, Is that what love?

Love doesn't force itself on others.

Love doesn't force its way on others.

Now, now, sometimes. Have you ever read the Bible

where you're like trying to like you play scrap like you're

trying to mix the words up? You're like, well, that it can't

mean that or twist it. I mean, go to any translation.

Love doesn't force itself. What does that mean?

Right. He He says that you might be

saved. There's a choice you have to

make to follow Jesus. Here it is.

Watch this. He says that in order to make a

choice, you need an option to not choose me.

It's not a choice if I only make me the possibility.

Love doesn't strut. Love doesn't have a swelled

head. Love doesn't force itself on

others. Love isn't always me first.

Love doesn't fly off the handle. Love doesn't keep score.

Watch it of the sins of others. Love doesn't revel when others

grovel. Love doesn't take pleasure.

Watch this. Love does not take pleasure in

the flowering of truth. There's no ego behind presenting

the gospel. No, I'm right, you're wrong.

See, we can't just be satisfied that the end result is heaven.

Our desire is heaven on earth. That's why he, Jesus said how do

we pray? He said we should pray and

desire that heaven be on earth that people, the lost experience

heaven on earth, not make it this far fetched thing that if

you just get all this stuff right, you maybe taste Jesus

right. You know how a little kid feel

when you like, OK, you can't have no ice cream until you

clean the house. Well, well, maybe I I just got

to, I got to clean the room with you if you had kids.

Before or something like as you raising them, you clean, you

clean the room with them. Right, you pick up the toy even

if you yelling at them like see, this is where the toys go stupid

little this is a little I'm ain't buying you no more teddy

bears. This they're there and go every

time I'm right. So even if you do it with

attitude, you still showing them take pleasure in the flowering

of truth. Watch this love puts up with

anything. Watch this.

Love. Trust God always.

Even when I can't trust you, I trust God always.

Watch this. Love always looks for the best.

Love always looks for the best. Love never looks back.

But love keeps going to the end. Love never dies.

Watch this. This is so important.

Inspired speech will be over someday.

Praying in tongues will end. Understanding will reach its

limits, its limit. We know only a portion of the

truth. Even more so.

So put the devil aside. I already only know in part, so

I need you. You know what?

But if I know in part, but then you know a part, I need to know

your part. You know why you need

accountability? Because you got a part that I

may not have. Last thing you need to be is

stuck with just your part. That's why.

That's why. That's why Harmonies is so

beautiful, because there's different parts and then when

those different parts come together, they make this

beautiful 1 sound and you like oh the textures, Our life is

meant to have textures, but when you got an independent spirit,

you miss them because you just got your part.

Understanding will reach its limit.

We know only a. Portion of truth.

And what we say about God is always incomplete.

Wow. But when the complete arrives,

our incompletes will be canceled.

Wow. You see what he say, you see

what he say. What we say about God is always

incomplete. Might might we not approach

things with with so much pride because we know a?

Scripture did. Did you think that that absolute

truth? But what God's doing with the

person you might not be able to see or know.

It's like hey Abraham, Abraham go kill your son all right cool

go kill his son. God said Nah in the beginning

man was only supposed to eat a plant based diet.

Then Noah came and then the firmaments busted and then the

sun start kicking our butt and we start aging.

Watch this. So y'all need some protein so

them animals now you can eat them animals.

Oh so you mean God set order? But as he as as as things

happen, God has the ability to use what he created to do a new

thing. And a lot of times you so stuck

on your logos you don't realize God is giving somebody a

preceding word, a new way to do something, a different way to do

something. Because what happened?

The sin, the lawlessness, he's like, no, you can't you, you

can't, you can't have same sex attraction and love God.

It's on YouTube. I talked about that long time

ago. Go, go.

You can't, you can't be gay and say I talked about that.

Go watch it. It's on YouTube.

Touchy. It's real touchy.

It's real touchy. It's crazy, right?

You can give a law no abortion or you going to be whatever,

right? Somebody's break the law, get an

abortion, right? And then and then they end up in

heaven. What you going to do?

You went through all that to get a law and God, God was like,

awesome. She broke the law, but then she

repented and she came home. What what work did God have to

do in that child's heart because of the trauma of rejection, the

trauma of being alienated? Watch this.

This is not dismissing sin. You see how sin constant.

We want to make people know you are sinning and if you're not

telling people they sinning then you're a false.

Teacher all right. Well, when Jesus and his little

hippie self. Was like, you know what, 10

commandments? Cool.

Love. Love your neighbor, love

yourself. Love.

Just love. The greatest of these are love,

Faith, hope, love, love. And now you got pastors.

And teachers that can't. Talk about love without letting

you know they don't agree with sin.

It's hard these days to be a teacher of the gospel because

people want you to do the work for their mindset.

But then we look at this religious these religious

scholars, they let the woman who had been caught in the act of

adultery, she had to do it with somebody else.

Where he at? They stood her in plain sight of

everyone and said, teacher, this woman right, this public, this

public shaming this woman was called red handed.

We got one for you. We got one for you.

Watch this. It ain't just about her.

They're also attacking the word. This woman was called Red

Handed. Moses in the law gives orders.

You see, there's Moses in the law gives orders to stone such

persons. What do you say?

They were trying to trap him into saying something

incriminating so they could bring charges against him,

right? This is.

Still in the church today. What do you think about this BT

now you left. You're right.

You're Demi. You're Reppler.

What are you, huh? Did you vote who you vote for?

You get the shot, huh? Tell me what's going on, huh?

Jesus bent down and wrote what they they ask him a legit

question and they have a right. He bends down and just doodles.

He's like, I'm not responding to you doodles, right?

Or let's just say he's doodling so he can hear the spirit, so he

can give a answer that's higher than the law.

Oh, we don't know Jesus. We read about him, but we don't

know him. Look at my boy right here.

He straightened up. He said, finger in the dirt.

They kept Adam badgering him, and he straightened up and said,

the sinless one among you, what did he call her?

Go first. If any of you are sinless, go

first. If any of you are sinless, go

first. Throw the stone.

Go for it, go for it. Bending down again, he wrote

some more in the dirt. Hearing that, they walked away

one after another, beginning with the oldest.

The woman was left. Wait a minute, wait a minute.

Now, I might be missing something.

I'm human. But he didn't address her till

she was alone. He covered her, dealt with the

persecutors, then when they were gone, he turned to her and says

woman. Where are they?

Does no one condemn you? No one, master, he said.

Neither do I. Look what he says.

Go on your way from now on don't sin what's going to help her not

sin encountering love. We can go look at Saul.

He murdered Christians, he goes blind.

Jesus says hey, hey, when you was killing him, you was killing

me buddy. Who was he with?

It's by self, him and. Jesus.

Murdering Christians? Grace possibly.

Can't these all these letters we are reading from somebody who

murdered Christians? Let's look at how Jesus dealt

with a murderer. Hey, hey, man.

Come on. Why are you doing this to me?

Wait, I ain't doing this to you. Yeah, when you do it to them,

you're doing it to me. Watch this Now.

Here's what I need from you. I need you to go preach the

gospel. Watch this, Jesus tells the

murderer who was on his way. I actually need you.

I have need of you. So let me untie you, you donkey,

because I need. Here's what Jesus.

Here's the good news. The good news wasn't you're a

murderer. The good news was I need you.

What? What if you went and told?

What if the message on the campus was God needs you?

No, I need this merit to work good because God needs us.

I need to get right because God needs.

But look what's in you. I can't help you, but what I can

help you with is to let you know God needs you.

He's not done with you. Matter of fact, he ain't even

started with you. You.

No, no, no. Don't lose the passion.

You know that. You know how you was Wilding out

against us, Man, I can't find nobody that's crazy like you

saw. I need Christians to turn up

like this and everybody kind of like, why didn't Jesus use his

desire to do to write all this? So what is he trying to point

to? What is he trying to show us

about the power of his blood? But then we sitting here

rallying around people that's courageous enough to say the

stuff we don't want to say. But maybe you ain't got the

courage to say it because you ain't supposed to say it the way

you would say it. It's not grace, it's ignorance.

It's mean. It's divisive.

He says, yes, you have a legal right to stone her, but I have a

legal right to let you burn in hell, too.

We forget that part. He's not dismissing sin, but

he's elevating his love. He's not dismissing the

dysfunction, but he's elevating his peace.

And he's not dismissing the statistics, but he's elevating

his victory. More than the Kirk family, more

than the church, more than the left wing, the right wing, more

than the Democrat, more than the Republican, more than the

American, more than the Canadian, more than any of our

hearts. God's heart is broken more than

anybody in this room, not at the loss of one person, but all of

his children. He is broken hearted.

And what would happen if we had his heart towards his lost

children? Second Chronicles 16-9 says that

he's looking to and fro. And who can I find not just to

be gifted, but to be gracious? Who, who can I find not just to

come to church, but to be equipped, be mobilized and say,

send me, I'll go. Who can I find that will contend

for love? Who can I find that will not run

from, from, from, from challenging situations?

We have to hold the line without holding a grudge.

We have to see sons and daughters, not labels.

Watch this. Homosexuality is the spirit, OK,

not a person. Let's talk about our Father and

how he sees them, right? We can go on and on and stuff,

stuff that is spirits, foul spirit, spirit of perversion.

These are spirits that are impacting and oppressing.

That's why he said I came to break you free from oppression.

So we'll take the labels and then that's how we will relate

to someone. Why do you tell his Discern the

spirit. No, sin is sin.

Ungodly character is ungodly character.

Sexual immorality is sexual immorality.

I'm with you. Jesus was too.

Let's rally but in prayer. Let's rally but in in worship.

Let's rally. But in equipping, when you rally

around raising the awareness of law and labels more than grace

and godly identity, we give both the political and religious

spirit legal right and ammo to kill, steal and destroy as what

the enemy does. John 1010.

There's no life in labels. There's no life in subgroup

titles. There's no life in divisive

speech. Sowing discord is an abomination

across the world, across history.

We're not dealing with what happened 2 weeks ago.

We're dealing with a disease that's in the world.

It's in the body of Christ, man, that brother Mr. Kirk and his

family have done some amazing work.

There's many. Martin Luther King did amazing

work. But you can't just Martin.

You just can't be black and just be like Martin Luther King.

Yeah, he did a lot of amazing things for us, and not just for

black people, for the world. But then there's also, he was a

pastor. He was a doctor, but there was

some ungodly stuff he did. This is not shaming him.

What I'm telling you is before you just eat all the sugar and

don't realize in the sugar or the wheat, there's Darnell.

Jesus saw Darnell and good wheat and he gave wisdom.

Be patient. Wait, how about we flood the

earth with what God has called His children, Pierce the heavens

with life, penetrate the womb of the heavens with words of life

and love by the Spirit of the Almighty.

Jesus came to preach the gospel of the Kingdom.

Moses came to deliver the children and to deliver a law

that exposed sin. Jesus came in grace and truth to

eradicate the dead of sin and the power of death.

He corrects who he loves. Yes, but in Jesus correction

he's also covering. Jesus never corrects without

covering. Jesus didn't take sides.

Jesus showed no partiality. Your anger and my anger should

be soaked in prayer. Your anger and my anger it

should be soaked in prayer. Our anger should be cast at the

feet of Jesus, sifted by love, and turned into passion for

Christ, not passion for right. Can you put up Ephesians 429 as

that's being put up? Jesus came to open the eyes of

the blind, not have his name used to bring confusion to the

saved and even more confusion to the world.

Jesus came to bring love, not hate.

Jesus came to bring peace, not stir up anger that leads to sin.

A political spirit has no place in the Kingdom of God.

In the Kingdom, there's no left, there's no right, there's no

it's one king, it's one Kingdom. The Bible says this.

It's one spirit. It's one church.

It's it's victory. It's it's a, it's a, it's a

defined outcome. There's, it's not the same as

you see politics and how we politicking in the world.

We can't do that in the church. Our King has all authority.

We call demons and spirit out, spirits out.

We call his people up. The urgency for the.

Equipping of the church and activation and mobilization of

the fivefold ministry gifts is higher than it's ever been.

The tragedies that take place when Christians aren't rooted

and grounded but have power. I believe we lost an evangelist

with a prophetic voice. The urgency is not about hell or

revenge. It's about the Father's love.

And it's good news. The urgency is to tell the world

that his house, the house, has been opened again.

The urgency is to guide people back home.

We can't be guided by anger and rigidness of law because that's

attacking grace and mercy. Those that recognize the

magnitude of their sins and the depth of God's forgiveness will

respond with immerse immense love and gratitude.

Conversely, those who perceive their need for forgiveness as

minor will express a much smaller degree of love.

God corrects who he loves. Witnessing is not arguing.

The apologetics movement, although there's some great

things about it, has given us intellectual license and the

arrogant excuse to argue but not defend in some cases.

To defend is to stand, not take a side.

Whose side are you on, Joshua, 5/14, He says.

I'm not on neither side. I'm on God's side.

Some of us are on Christian's side more than we are on

Christ's side, and some of us are on knowledge side more than

we are on the side of knowing him.

Greatest snare, one of the greatest snares is to take a

side. And it's not just purely God's

side. Love holds the tension like

spine holds the back. A house divided cannot stand.

Jesus is king, Jesus is Lord. Jesus is enough.

Jesus came to preach the Kingdom.

Watch this. Jesus did not die and resurrect

for non sinners. But that's how we present the

gospel sometime. Don't sin, you'll be accepted.

Can't accept you like that. The world needs Jesus.

Yeah, we need them. The world needs Jesus.

That's all the world can get. The world cannot get Kingdom

before they get king. It's hard enough to walk in the

Kingdom. Don't make it so hard to get

king read your word and just feel the heartbeat of Jesus and

don't take his scriptures and sift them through your hurt or

whatever spirit that may be working through your life.

Feel Jesus heart, understand his compassion, all you see First

Corinthians. 13. Through 14 One Love the greatest

Galatians 514 Matthew 2240 Romans 13/8 Through 10 Again,

when I talk about love, I'm not talking about.

Dismissing sin, Dismissing K. I'm not.

I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about elevating his

love. Let love lead, Christians.

We know his laws more than we know His love.

The Old Testament was about the law.

He came to fulfill it, seal it and reconcile us back to grace

and truth. That's in John New New Testament

is about that love like sometimes we act like his blood.

We going to be surprised who in heaven we act like his blood is

like didn't really like what does the Bible say about what

his love did? It wasn't his blood and all

people got to do is accept Jesus and then when they get in the

body, apostle, prophet, pastor, teacher, evangelist, then we

equip them. That's why they need a house

with the Father's heart, because love has to be the encounter.

And then as they move towards it and you see God that that man,

you'd be surprised how many people you don't have to ask to

be equipped. Once God's love get a hold of

their heart and then you equip them.

I'm still being equipped. I'm still being mobilized, I'm

still being transformed. I still got weaknesses.

I still got insufficiencies. Work out your salvation with

fear and trembling. The regeneration process lets

you know that that person that's living outside the law or in

ungodly behavior, even when they receive Jesus, they may still be

struggling with that for 10 years.

So don't let them feel like the first day is eternity.

It's like prodigal son came home and what happened?

I don't want to care. I don't really care about where

you've been. Get this boy.

That fat that that rib eye get get him the big the fat meat get

get in the road. Get him the ring.

Get him the sandals. I don't want to know where you

be. I don't really care.

That don't even matter to me. My first step to you, son, is

come home. Let me clean you up.

Let me love you. Let me let you know how much we.

Love will say, choose ye this day.

I'm voting love every time. You know what?

And let me help you out. I'm not even going to vote for

somebody just because they going to make the black life better.

Oh, can. Oh, did he say that?

Yeah, I said that. Not going to be tricked into all

these little no, no, no. Oh, you going to pass that law

that's going to help me out as a black man because you know the

world hard. Yeah, some of this this is not

this is not denying. But I'm not going to say this

law is going to make my life better When I see a king who

says that all all of this is mines, when I see a king say,

seek me for all these things will be a delight in me and I'll

give you the desires of your heart.

Greater is he that's in me. You're more than a all he is he

your source or not Make your mind up.

But then if I go talk to some of my colored folks, they'll be

like, Oh, you just sell out. You just not.

No, you can't win nowhere, Nowhere.

But I can win in Jesus. I'm voting love because God says

go ahead. For right now, choose gay, I

love you. Choose trans I love you choose

lies. I love you choose addiction.

I love you choose against my will.

I I still love you. And see, the sad part is I got

to deal with that mindset in here or somebody else see this

later. If they'll they'll, they'll just

like, well, you know, you can't tell people to live like I

didn't tell people to live like that.

What I'm telling you is God sees someone it wait a minute.

Let's go back to before the cross.

What was you doing to us? Like, OK, let's bring it down to

yellow. Keep sleeping around.

I still love you. Keep drinking.

I still love you, keep saying keep stealing, I still love you,

keep lying, I still keep watching porn, I still love you.

The man is lame all his life and then Jesus comes and says you've

been forgiven. Maybe your lame issue is you

just ain't grabbed a hold of your of Grace.

So you living lame. I stand here to say that this is

not liberalism. This is not being conservative,

not Republican, This is not this is this.

This is, this is king, the Kingdom of God.

Now, as we're in this world, as you go to the polls and as you

vote and as you navigate through social media, as you go through

this lens, all I'm doing is trying to help you change your

lens. As you deal with people in sin,

go through this lens. As you deal with politics, go

through this lens, right? This will never be a church if

Kobe come around again and we going to be divided.

I wish you would come in here trying to tell me to take a

side. Crazy.

What if I told you Jesus understands both sides because

he understood sin? What did he handle sin?

Don't you think he understands sin because he died for it?

So if anybody understands sin, it's the one who saw the need.

If if I know the price that will take care of it.

I must understand the depth of it.

I think it's because we don't understand God's love.

We don't see how he can forgive a person that commits evil.

So we have to campaign perfection instead of a Kingdom

of perfecting that is rooted in love.

Choose Jesus first. Not modified behavior.

The renewal of the mind is what we're after, not the

modification of behavior, regeneration, not merely

renegotiation. Love has to be the encounter.

Love is not soft, but it is gentle.

Love is not a punk, but it is meek.

Love is not timid, but it is patient and kind.

Love is undefeated. Only Jesus can change a man

through the power of the Holy Ghost, not by might, nor by

power, but by His Spirit. It is our job to make disciples

by His Spirit, not by our spiritual stick UPS.

Sons and daughters coming home, so we need long-suffering.

Love creates space for conversations that have a bridge

that's available to cross into the land of compassion, not a

world of condemnation. The Bible is a weapon of love

against the weapons of fear. The Bible is the Father's

victory letter to his children and an eviction notice to all of

hell. The Bible is a vivid picture of

the Father's reckless and endless love.

The Bible is not a weapon to belittle the center, talk down

to the oppressed, shame the ignorant, manipulate the loss,

and find fault in our brothers or our neighbors.

The Bible reveals the love of our Father more than it reveals

the sin of man. The Bible.

In the end is saying, despite all of you guys mess, I have

conquered the wages of that mess.

Romans 623. The end of the book reveals my

victory, not your loss. So the urgent cry is choose

life, not choose law. We can sort things out after you

choose life, you choose me. Try me.

Come home. The message is come home.

The message is there's a place for you.

The message is your sin hasn't taken your seat.

Jesus has the invitation is come all you who labor.

The result of rejecting my love is chaos.

Chaos is not the result of rejecting my law.

The law is the result of your blindness, and your sight is the

result of my love, not your obedience.

You can't obey without new sight, so new sight precedes new

behavior. A new sight comes with the

receiving of my love by grace through faith, the light of the

world. Jesus is not the law of the

world. He is the light of the world.

He's the expression of the love of the Father in pursuit of the

heart of the Father, which is you.

If you want to reject this love, go ahead.

But you are rejecting the greatest love.

You are rejecting God's love, not God's law.

The Old Testament is the law of Moses from God.

The New Testament is the love of Jesus from the Father.

There's nothing to argue when you know you have the best hand

to play. There's nothing to argue when

you know you have the best offer to make.

There's nothing to argue when the most sure thing to stand on

is in your heart. There is no argument when the

scoreboard says we win. It is written.

Just cry out, not argue out. Arguing is the lowlife of.

Crying out argue not debate not it's sin and the Bible

discourages from from this. If you want go Proverbs 20 verse

three, you don't have to turn there.

Arguing is a sign of foolishness.

Proverbs 1719. Arguing can be sinful,

quarreling. It's unproductive.

And Philippians 214 through 15 urges believers to do everything

without grumbling and arguing so they can be blameless children

of God. It's ungodly behavior.

The Bible encourage us to be peacemakers.

He tells us to be gentle, patient, good communication,

avoiding pointless arguments. Titus 39.

What to do when faced with conflict?

Be slow to anger. Listen more than you speak.

Speak truth in love. Take a time out.

Ephesians 29. You have that up

and then First Timothy 1 you can take this out.

Let no foul watch it. Or polluting language, nor evil

word, nor unwholesome or worthless talk ever come out of

your mouth. But.

Only such speech as is good and beneficial to the spiritual.

Progress of others Do we see this?

We actually have a call. To build up.

Building up is a little different than equipping.

Building up is prophecy. It's prophesying.

You're building a person's. Spirit up.

You're building a person's confidence up.

You're building a person's self esteem up.

So we have an obligation to use this tongue, which we will be

judged by every word, that idle word that comes out our mouth,

to build people up as is fitting to the need and the occasion.

That it may be a blessing. Watch it and give grace to those

who hear it. Don't greet the Spirit.

First Timothy 1. I think it's in the message.

And there's a rise up across the world.

You're going to start hearing it more and more of the church

having to grow up. You're going to start seeing

churches that are convicted to to spread their services out so

they can give God time and give people time they really are

hungry and thirsty to really get what they need to get and

respond to the Lord. Watch this the.

Pews. It's coming a day where the pews

will not run the church. The pews will not run the pulpit

because God's after a remnant. OK, I believe it is the message,

but we could try this. Go to verse 2.

Now you get this is the message. Only want to read it once.

So I don't want to take a risk. I think I read the amplified.

Now we're going to trade off scriptures.

Let's try this Paul an apostle special messenger.

Let me tell you in these last days, we're going to need

special messages. We're going to need special

perspective. We need to hear from God

somebody say special special of Christ Jesus by so I'm going to

read a scripture, read a verse. You read a verse.

What is this Amplify Classic? All right.

Point by guardian of Jesus Christ, verse 2 y'all turn.

Wait a minute, Did he just? We probably don't do we do that

anymore, right? Paul said.

My son in the faith, spiritual son in the faith.

We didn't throw that out. Here's a murderer bringing order

to the church. Wow.

Go ahead, Grace, Grace. As I, as I urge you when I was

on my way to Macedonia, stay on where you are at Ephesus, in

order that you may warn and admonish and charge certain

individuals not to teach any different doctrine, or must give

the importance to or occupy themselves with legends, fables,

myths and endless genealogies which Foster and more useless

speculations and questionings rather than acceptance to faith.

God's administration and the divine training that is invaded

the happily of the entire human personality on God.

Whereas the object and purpose of our instruction and charge is

what love, which springs from a pure heart and a good clear

conscience and sincere unfeigned faith.

Wow. We can't get off track what it's

about. But certain individuals, he

warns them. Hey, be careful getting into

these other doctrines. Be careful preaching what you

think my intention is, but it's not.

Look at how I dealt with the laws.

Look at how I dealt with sinners.

Look at how I dealt with the church.

Be careful because there has been some folks go back.

They are. Not back.

Is that back? Is that back Is that back?

Back? There we go.

But certain individuals have missed the mark on this very

matter and have wandered away into vain.

What? Arguments and what?

Discussions and what purposeless talk.

Like I told a person, I'm not just arguing and debating with

you just so I can. Yeah, I'm not here to prove

you're wrong. This isn't right and wrong.

This is truth. Truth stands all by itself.

OK, next verse. The thing is my turn.

They are ambitious to be doctors of the law, teachers of the

Mosaic ritual, but they have no understanding either of the

words and terms they use, or of the subjects about which they

make such dogmatic assertions. Knowing and understanding this,

that the law is not enacted for the righteous, the upright and

just who are in right standing with God, but for the lawless

and unruly, for the ungodly and sinful, for the irreverent and

profane, for the for those who strike and beat and even murder

fathers and strike and beat and murder mothers, for manslayers.

Watch this. The Bible says the Holy Spirit

comes to convict the world. Who comes to convict the world?

The Holy Spirit so people know how many people been in the

world before without even going to church?

Did you know you was doing something wrong?

OK, nobody has to tell you next. As laid down by the glorious

gospel of the blessed God with which I have been entrusted, I

give thanks to Him who has granted me the needed strength

and made me able for this Christ Jesus our Lord.

Because He has judged and counted me Faith.

Wait a minute. Murderer.

He has judged and counted me faith.

He wait a minute. Murderer of Christians, He has

judged and counted me faithful and trustworthy.

Wait a minute, I murder Christians now I'm trustworthy

appointing me to this stewardship of the ministry,

though I formerly blasphemed and persecuted and was shamefully

and outrageously and aggressively insulting to.

Him, nevertheless, I obtain mercy because I had acted out of

ignorance and unbelief, and the grace of merit, favor and

blessing of our Lord actually flowed out super abundantly and

beyond measure for me, accompanied by faith and love

that are to be realized in Christ Jesus.

The saying is sure and true, and worthy of full and universal

acceptance that Christ Jesus the Messiah came into the world to

save sinners, of whom I am foremost.

But I obtain mercy for the reason that in me, as the

foremost of sinners, Jesus Christ might show forth and

display all His perfect long-suffering and patience for

an example, to encourage those who would thereafter believe on

Him for the gaining of eternal life.

He said the reason why he took a murderer is to show I am the

least of these. I have done the worst thing you

can do. I have blasphemed, I have

murdered Jesus body and he took me and poured his mercy out.

Church, you know what else we need?

Not just grace, mercy. And he said, the reason he saved

me y'all is so that those thereafter can look at their

condition and say, man, if he did it for Paul.

He could do it for. Me lift your hands right where

you are. And I pray in this moment it's

not about nobody else, but that you asked the Holy Spirit for a

revelation of of of what? What love did for you?

Man, this world needs Jesus. People, your family members need

Jesus. The lost needs Jesus.

The confused needs Jesus. The oppressor needs Jesus and

the blood and the Word and the anointing.

I promise you it works. Now, starting with you.

Can you just let the love of God flood your hearts and heal you?

Take the plank out of our eyes. Get ready, church.

Whatever platform, whatever sphere God is calling you into,

there will be pressure. There will be the temp

temptation of compromise. There will be shiny little

objects pulling you to the left and the right.

Man, you need eyes to see, but those eyes need to come straight

from a rooted heart in love. Lord, we cry out.

It is dark out here. Lord, we lift up the Kirk

family. Lord in that that legacy go on,

and it evolves. I.

Pray, Lord, we learn from everyone who was on the front

line. As your word says, Lord, we

don't, none of us get it all right.

This isn't about the right, the wrong, Lord.

But right now we want to elevate your grace and elevate your

mercy. And as Paul said, if it had not

been for your love, Lord God, the opportunities we have, the

gifts we have, the platforms you're sharing with us, the

fruits you're sharing with us, the souls You're allowing us to

witness to, the broken families that you're allowing us to

breathe into through Your word and Your Spirit to bring back to

life. Lord, thank you for the bones to

speak to. Well, good is the breath of life

if we won't blow it into the dead.

May we be bold and courageous while being rooted in your love

in these times, Lord. May we see what's going on and

what you're trying to say through it all for you.

Work everything together for our good.

We don't know Father, even while that assassinator is sitting in

prison, or wherever that person may be.

We pray that you send a wind his way, Lord God.

Yeah, Yeah. Pray for him.

Because guess what? He needs Jesus and God's after

him. Remember, Paul killed what?

Yeah. And then Paul did what?

Told the church how to be the church.

Lord, what the enemy meant for evil, you turn in it.

And Lord, there's so much we don't understand, but sometimes

in US trying to understand or having to understand, we move

into error. Lord, maybe we just stand and as

your words say, keep our eyes on You fixed and firm.

May we build our house on You. I don't know what you're doing

in people's hearts, Lord, but I do believe that you're raising

up a remnant of people that will be serious about their part in

these last days. I believe You're going to send

sons and daughters not just to find church homes, but to also

be pastored and LED. That will run asking the

questions and run asking for help.

May there be a rise in hunger and thirst for righteousness.

Just for two minutes. The those that don't mind

praying, lifting your voice and it's taking a moment and just

whatever, whatever, whatever the the Holy Spirit is put in your

spirit, just just take a moment. If it's crying out, if it's

repenting, whatever it may be, if it's praying for the world,

if it's praying for the city, whatever is put on your heart,

if it's praying for your own mind, whatever it may be, just

open your mouth. One more minute.

10 seconds. Thank you Jesus, I just lift

your hands right where you are. When we say we want revival,

what do you mean? What do you really mean?

Do you want it? What?

What if revival hits you? What you going to do?

Because whenever I've heard of revival, it is come to disrupt

the normal flow. Revivals inconvenience.

Revivals place a demand on transformation.

Revivals impact culture. Revivals birth new movements and

new things. The wind is blowing because it's

harvest time. You got to deal with Darnell.

You got to get rooted. You got to grow up.

I got to grow up. We got to grow up and just make

the decision. You don't need another touch

from God to grow up. Just make the decision to grow

up. Let certain things go, walk out

of certain spaces. Say yes today to whatever you

need to say. Say no today to whatever you

need to say no to. My prayer today is that there is

a bride rising, strong, vibrant, anointed, beautiful, and the

glory of the Lord is up on her and nations will gather.

This is a time of gross darkness and it will continue.

The enemy is trying to delay his demise.

He knows it's too late, it's been over, He's been defeated,

He's under our feet. But in this hour, you must know

that there are people. If Jesus came back today, their

final destination would be hell. Separation from.

God separation from his love, not because he's mean, but

because some reject. It.

And then the. Other part that we have to take

responsibility for is some. Didn't even know.

And we have the obligation to share compel.

No one fishes on accident. Fishing is intentional.

Fishing takes strategy. It takes skill.

It takes patience. Some folks are on the water.

We see it in the Bible all night or all day, catch nothing.

So we have to be patient with people.

We have to understand. But more than anything, we have

to understand the heart of God. I pray that you can receive the

love of God today, that you can realize that you have been

forgiven. And I pray you strap these boots

up and you get on the line with the rest of the Saints and let's

have fun in this Latter Day harvest.

I pray that there will be a wind.

Of. Prayer that hits this house.

I'm calling the fast in October, I believe it is, so I'm giving

you plenty of time. We'll have more information, but

it'll be October 22nd through November 30th.

That's 40 days exactly. The church needs to fast and

pray. Amen.

We'll, we'll equip you. We'll guide you.

We'll do it together. And thank you, Jesus.

I pray that your conversations this week be one that bring

God's God glory. I pray that your love walk

strengthened. I pray that you be weary, not

weary and well doing. I pray that you trust God in all

your ways. Acknowledge Him.

Pray that you have eyes to see the traps, the craftiness of the

enemy, not by focusing on the enemy, but as you hide in the

light of Jesus, His light will expose.

I pray that you realize that the battle's not yours, it's the

Lord's. And so I pray that you

experienced the victory that comes from the hands of God.

But have a mighty week, powerful week, a victorious week, an

overcoming week. Not be moved by the threats of

the enemy, the shadows of death. Do not be moved by the

temptations of riches. Remember earlier what Darnell

comes to do. There's no hurries, there's no

over responding. Lord, give us eyes to see and

ears to hear in Jesus name, Amen.

Amen. So that's going to be a one

time. That's it.

That's all. I had to give you what I got.

There's more, but I'm done with that.

It's time to equip the church. And so as we proceed in the

coming days of the perfecting of the Saints, we're going to start

jumping in to understanding what is called, what is anointing,

what is gifts, what is talents, what is God calling us to.

We're going to stir up the gifts over these next few weeks.

We're going to bring clarity, and hopefully the Lord can

reveal to you what He's asking of you in this time.

And then when we get to January, we are going to probably jump

into Crown. We're going to figure out some

things. But one thing that is very clear

is when we move over to this building, the equipping will

ramp up. I don't know if that's school.

I don't know what it's going to look like, but it's going to be

beyond Sunday. The church needs to be equipped

with urgency. Amen.

Stand to your feet. Thank you for your patience

today. I promise you, you step into my

world for a second when that situation happened.

There is so much that went through my mind, so much stuff I

was watching, hearing so much confusion.

And I think, like many leaders approaching this platform with

fear and trembling. That's why I was glad it didn't

happen. A few days later, I had to

address, but as I told Elder Brett, anytime an event like

that or any level and we're not here, let's hop on the phone

first. We're never going to be in a

rush to address something, especially when it's politically

charged. We need to hear from God, we

need to be accurate and we need to not apologize for where God

is telling us to stand. And so those that like to love,

to pray for us and love to pray, please keep praying for us

because in these last days, those that are real real serious

about the call, it's it's not going to get easier.

It's going to be a hefty job. Leaders hearts are going to be

broken by not the world and not the devil, just by.

People they've poured into and they walk away or for whatever

reason Bible says this Bible. So I just believe the Bible

offense, the very elect and we talked about the very elect.

There's pastors that walk with people for 2030101550 years and

then the elect pressure comes boom.

So you pray that those that decide to really walk this walk

do not faint because as big as it is, it's only a handful.

And so pray for your leaders today and make sure you pray for

God to kind of push those over that's been walking in a little

bit of timidity, hesitation. But there's some people in here

that I know. There's a few people in here

that I believe that God's dealing with people's hearts.

And within the next year, we're going to see some significant

advancement in their call for those that are afraid saying

going from yes to I do, I can, I can say from experience, fully

diving into the call of God on your life is the most scariest

but the most rewarding ever. And it's serious.

It's worth talking to someone about that prophetic word that

was prophesied over your life 15 years ago when you was a kid,

then you was at a revival. Somebody laid hands on you.

This is the time. This is the time.

This is the time to start the business.

This is the time to walk in the gift walked in anointing.

This is the time. So Father, thank you, this is

the time we have ears to hear and we have 0 tolerance for

distractions that have come to delay, kill, steal, destroy,

distract. 0 So we say fresh wind, fresh fire, fresh rain,

please. Now in Jesus name Amen, give

three people a high 5 and say it's your time, it is your time,

it is your time. Have a wonderful day, till next

time, get your love fixed man. Thank you so much for tuning

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