LUSH - 8.17.2025 - 12pm (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

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All right, Father, we just thank you for today.

Thank you for your word. We thank you for our House of

praise. Thank you for our House of

prayer. Thank you for our House of

miracles. Thank you for our House of

honor. Thank you for house where the

fear of God. Rest Before I dive into this I

want to pose some of your questions.

Be good for you to write it down.

What if I was to tell you that what you are calling just a

season, it is just a cycle and what you are calling a season is

merely a cycle? And if you blame it on seasons.

You will find that you will remain in a cycle year after

year because seasons change with time.

Cycles change when you do. The waiting that God is talking

about is for seasons. To wait on the Lord is to wait

for His timing in a season. But when you are stuck in

cycles, even God can't force you out.

And what I know about cycles is a lot of time.

Cycles have been planted long time ago.

Some cycles are generational, but because.

You. Increase in knowledge.

The enemy knows in some areas, although you are not free, you

are at least no longer ignorant. I'm going to say it this way,

you can actually be no longer ignorant in the area, but still

bound. I think the worst kind of bound

is when you know better. You got the word, you got a

village, you got worship, It's it's you got the armor.

But then you're still stuck in cycles.

And I know you don't have to raise your hand, but some of you

in here, and I've been there, when you're asking yourself why

am I still stuck or how did this happen again?

Right. Let me tell you, when you're

younger, it happens faster. When you get wiser, the enemy

can't expose himself for a while.

But I do know about the enemy. Although he is stupid, he's also

very strategic. And here's one thing, he does

have patience. See, enemy doesn't care if

things are all good for 20 years.

But in year 21, here's why you see churches lately.

Pastor of 35 years sits himself down, enemies waiting.

He's like go. Ahead, go ahead.

You know, if you if you like a real champion, you play against

the team that beats you and they over there celebrate like they

won the championship. They only beat a champion and

you over there, like I can't wait to see them again.

There's some things that you are calling a season and you're

waiting on the Lord and you now you're turning to get upset at

Him because it ain't changing because cycles only change when

you do. And just because you have more

knowledge, it does not equate. To transformation.

Because God is so true, He is so pure, He is so holy, and His

word does not change. That means that the things that

He has promised us only work through the worked word.

You cannot pull God into your carnal desires asking Him to

make divine moves. So we'll just work hard for the

rest of our lives because we put call on the back burner and we

pursued what talents and gifts can get us.

You don't need God to get a job. You don't need God to be

wealthy. The question in lies What are

you really after in your pursuit?

What do you really want that education for?

What do you really want to start the business for?

What do you really want to be married for?

What do you really want wealth for?

What do you really want a church home for?

What do you really want a small group for?

What do you really want a divorce for?

What do you really want to get out of this for?

What do you really want to get into that for?

What do you want to change your career for?

Why do you want to move for? What do you want kids for?

Why do you want people to see you?

Why? Why do you want to downsize?

Why do you want to upgrade? What's your why and all the

movements of your life? Why, Why, what?

What are you desiring that for? What do you think is going to

change in your life if Blank shows up?

What do you need it for? What do you want job security?

Financial security for? I get it.

It's practical. It takes care of a lot of

things. Bible tells you that money

solves a lot of problems. But when I get to the financial

freedom, when I get the husband, when I get the wife, when I get

the job, when I move to where it's it's only sunny and it

barely rains. When I move to the United

States, when I move overseas, when I go back home, when I get

accepted in that college. Now, what Have you found you

yet? Are you looking for you?

Here's what the Bible says. Believe it or not, where you

find where you will find you is in Him.

Here it is. He didn't say you will find you

at Him. Lot of people go to the altar

and fall at His feet, but never let Him move in, and they don't

move into Him. John 15, Abide in me.

Let my Word abide in you. Let My Word live in you.

Let My Word take His shoes off and have His way.

Let my Word not need a key for your life.

And here's where we are in trouble as the church Revival

starts at the church. Global change starts at the

church. Culture change and shift starts

at the church. God's going to say some really

clear things today. He that has ears, let him hear

Jesus. Is calling his bride higher?

Somebody say higher, higher. So the Spirit is taking the

church deeper, say deeper. Now how many people ever

remember? See, I'm like church, church

boy. Kind of, but I don't think you

need to be a church boy or girl to know or hear like the

movement of grace, right? The movement of grace or if

anybody heard of the Word of Faith movement or.

You see the movement and restoration of the gift of

evangelists with Billy Graham's time, right?

You see the teaching kind of moving around.

Say what you want, right? Because there will.

When there's a restoration of a gift in the earth, there will

always be perversion involved. But the teaching gift began to

be restored around. You see the Word of Faith

movement, a Kenneth Hagin, a Kenneth Copeland, a in certain

communities, you see Creflo Dollar Doctor Price and and so

on and so on and so on. Jensen Franklin like there's

real emphasis on slow down. It's time to teach, not just

preach. OK, so there's always in our

time going to be a restoration of gifts.

Bible says the last shall be 1st and the 1st shall be last in the

Bible. The Bible says he set these

gifts in the church. First apostle.

The last gift that will be restored is the most vital gift

because it is the only gift that can bring the church, the bride,

through the ribbon. The first gift will be last, but

the goal is that all gifts before that will be established

because the gift of the Apostle and the Apostolic Church can

function in all 5 gifts. So what you're going to see in

these last days is the rise, right?

You even look at where the Bible says these are the days of

Elijah. The spirit of Elijah will rise

up in the last day, starting with Jesus himself.

But when we look at who Elijah was in the Bible, what was he

prophet? When you look at Malachi, it

closes by letting you know that the latter day revival will be

sons and daughters coming home, spiritual fathers rising up, and

we are no longer prophesying to scare you or to curse you.

But the prophetic will always in the last days be a word that is

meant for restoration, that is bringing redemption, and that is

bringing order back to the Kingdom and it is getting the

bride back in its sent posture. The church started as a movement

and will forever be a movement. And the goal was not you find a

church home, the goal was you find your way back home.

The garden, Garden realities Kingdom, living citizens led by

the Holy Spirit, the governor of the Kingdom of God.

That's the goal. It was not.

You find a church home and you get comfortable and you find a

platform for your gifts and you ride until you die.

So we are going from the movement of grace, which a.

Lot of churches were grown off of that message and it's some

powerful ministries. Pastor Joseph Prince man so all

he talk about is grace. Creflo Dollar went from a

prosperity preacher, tons of persecution, anointed teacher,

anointed pastor to now flipping it and his whole ministry is

about the grace of God. His pivoting point was I found

out that you're not cursed for not tithing and the way I

preached tithing was not sound, although you should tithe, but

we tithe under grace. The man repented and everybody

that wanted their money back, he gave it back for all the

naysayers. God's doing something in the

earth, but He is not coming back for a bride that's laying down,

looking for Pats on the back and having a pity party and just

saturated in love. Because when you really get a

revelation of His love, it gives you marching.

Orders. Right when you really understand

his love, you don't mind carrying your cross daily.

That's Bible. What are, do we got some people

here because they believe in the Bible?

Do we have some people in here who want to know more about what

Jesus said? And lastly, do we have people

here who actually want to follow Jesus or you just want him to

help you? I heard a bunch right there.

Yeah. Oh, we're going from grace to

grown-ups, right? It is children in covenant

children only see themselves and they will get mad at a parent

for not doing like extra self. Like I tell my, oh God,

actually, I do have to feed you. I do have to provide you

shelter. I don't got to buy you school

clothes. I I do need to feed you, but I

don't need to have seconds. Now, now, there's enough in our

house. You get seconds, thirds,

fourths, fifths, but kids only think it's about them.

What we're going to see today is that's the same in the body of

Christ. You think, and let me put it

this way, how many of our prayer lives is all about God, help me

save me. Why is this happening?

What are we doing? Where are we going?

Why? Who?

Me? No breakthrough.

Listen, Lord, send me, I'll go. Lord, send me a husband, send me

a wife. Lord, give me eyes to see who my

next where my next is. It's all about you, your

desires, where you want to go, how you interpret your gifts and

dreams in God's timing. It's all about blessing you.

Show me the building, give me the keys, give me the car.

Give me all this. Give me the give me the give me

the give me the give me the give me.

That's a kid. And when the kid don't get it,

what do they do? House I grew up in.

You going? You going to stump?

Light and soft, right? There's this entitlement in the

church. There's this severe lukewarmness

in the church. And we are distracted by the

very blessings that we ask for, and the blessings of the Lord is

pulling us away from what He's called us to do.

And So what we do is we go where the blessing takes us and then

sprinkle call in it. Well, I, well, I, well at my

job, I minister to people. OK, but there's a house that God

has called you to. And I tell you this all the

time, if this ain't your hot man, find the tribe.

Wherever you go, I pray you still understand that Jesus is

calling you to be discipled and make disciples.

And you are to make disciples in the way he has taught disciples

to be made. You are too disciple in his

message, his structure, his strategy, his purpose, His will.

He's calling us to grow up. Somebody say grow up.

The movement of grace was preparing us for the movement of

growing up. Here's here's what I mean.

Ephesians 3 says. I pray that you be rooted in

what there's so many things that God wants to reveal to you on

your walk with Him that He can because your roots don't exist

or they're very shallow. Go to Mark.

We've read that. Scripture.

The different types of soil. Some receive the word, they're

excited, but they only hang around, they only get it for a

little while because they had no real roots in them in the first

place. So sometimes you just got to

wait overtime, you begin to see people waver.

You see people when they got time hungry for call, right?

The God's dealing with, they don't got a job, they don't got

the business off the ground. And so now they're curious in

like God's calling them. And you, you talk to people

about call and then things pop off and then what happens?

And then it's like, oh, I got less time for call.

And what I do see is there's, there's a there, there's a when

you walk with God, there's rhythm and what you need to

understand. It's not just all this whole

season and for the rest of my life, I got to learn how to

balance everything. No, you have to learn how to let

go of everything. That's not your job to really

balance it. It's for you to let it go.

And then he going to bring it to you and say, hey, we dancing

like this, right? We dancing like this and you

just got to get it. You might want to go like this.

And he like no, calm down. We dancing like this and we

going to go like this and we going to go like that and then

we going to pause and then we might go to the side and we

going to get some water. We ain't dancing right now.

You hear your favorite song and you like and he like.

Nah. That's not my favorite song.

Am I leading or you leading? And sometime you're on the dance

floor by yourself because you just want to dance because it's

your groove, it's your season, it's your time, it's your, it's

your thing. It's this door open for you.

Sometime you need to walk through a door and look back and

see if God walked through with you.

I told somebody today and yesterday that God's hate is not

like our hate. So when he says he hates, it's

not like he's bitter. His hate is jealous.

And so there's good things in your life that are happening,

but that good thing to you he hates because it's getting in

the way of you and him. He's not bitter.

He still loves you, but he's after you.

He's not after you. Constantly bringing him things

and Lord. Blow on it and.

Then we saw in, in, in Haggai, he said I blew on it when you,

you better be careful asking me to blow on it because there's

things I blow on. And you left with nothing but

what I need you to have. It's the movement of grace and

that's why sometimes you go into seasons where it seemed like, I

don't know, I've been here before, but so many doors.

It was like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom,

boom, boom, boom, and then it's almost like no doors opening it

see, it feels like no movement happening.

Am I can I get like two people that's been there before?

Where you right, it's like popping and then you build your

identity. You didn't know it, but you was

building your identity around the movement.

And then God just for a season was like and you have to wrestle

with yourself. And then in that season, if you

mature, your prayer language change and you start growing in

any sense people around you to match your thirst and your

hungry and give you a word. And you start realizing that for

some of you, here's a word for you and it's already start

popping. You starting to experience a

little bit of is he you like, Oh yeah, Oh yeah, it's coming.

It's about to start moving again, but you about to be a

whole different person. Them call back.

So what if they don't call back? Like Paul, I'm still good.

And then if you get that dream roll, I'm still good.

Now I can go on the scene and I'm not, I'm, I'm not, I'm not

going to be idolized in the famous person.

I'm going to realize the famous person actually need me.

God didn't have me here to get me rich.

He had me here to win a soul to somebody who was on their way to

hell in Hollywood. I'm bold and I'm that guy that's

bold enough. I can get in the trailer with

Denzel, get his autograph, but still be like, bro, you need my

autograph. Get get the selfie.

But God's been maturing some of you because where he's taking

you, you can't have your identity wrapped up in it.

Say it's time to grow up. Watch this, watch this.

Concerning this, we have much to say which is hard to explain.

First, first experience if you double dip, but I know you heard

some of this, but you need to hear it again.

It's real rich. It's real rich.

Concerning this, we have much to say which is hard to explain

since you have become dull in your spiritual hearing and

sluggish, even slothful in achieving spiritual insight.

He's saying, he's saying, look, man, church, you, you, you can't

really hear. You can't really see.

I've been talking. I've been warning for even

though by this time, here it is for all us churchgoers by this

time somebody shout out by this time, Nah, a little louder by

this time. By this time you ought to be

teaching others. You actually need someone to

teach you over again. Watch it.

The very first principles of God's word.

Here it is here it is God. No matter how long it takes for

you, God is not in a rush. He will wait 15 years for your

foundation to be established. So while you like God, I did

this, I did that he like but but but but you still got holes in

your foundation and I love you so much.

I am going to send elementary words that I know you've heard,

but you still got. I know you've heard, I know

you've studied, I know you you. You got a daily devotional, but

you not devoted. Being a living epistle means you

are the daily devotional for other people.

So what we do, we got our routine.

I got my app, I get my coffee, I sit by my window, I read for an

hour, I pray, I meditate. I remember that scripture.

Oh my God, Look what God did and God said, but let's look over a

span of time. Let's look over a span of time.

Do you follow Jesus? That's the real basis.

Of true Christian do you follow Jesus?

Do you look are you in the image and likeness of Jesus?

Do you bear your cross? When pressure comes, what comes

out of your mouth? Like, like, like, like if real

change is going to occur, you got to allow the Holy Spirit

right in this moment today to reveal you to you.

Not to by faith you. No, you got a nasty attitude

period that does not identify you, but you got it.

No, My, my baby toe got a hangnail on it and it hurt.

I don't care. My other nine toes.

Good. No, no, no, no, no.

I need to deal with the baby toe, the small fox.

I need to get the help. I need to come come forward and

stop saying well, if they do this I will change.

No, you won't because you've been in a cycle.

Well, if the church was this, then I'll be no, you won't.

What about you in marriage? I'm like for years, like I'm I'm

wanting PJ to be certain things and respond certain ways and I

overwhelmed. It was just like God's not going

to change them so you can change or so it can be easier for you

to change, meaning change them so they stop pushing my buttons.

No, he want to change you all by yourself.

By yourself, whether you together with somebody that he

won't he's all his plans never change just because you coupled

up. What about you?

Well, you talk to me like that, so I'm going to talk Where's

that in the Bible? I'm just talking to Christians

today. Well, you ain't just going to

run over me. Are we Bible or are we not

right. How you cussing people out and

you read your daily devotional? Not devoted?

Not devoted. Why we're we're our daily

devotionals are topical versus where we are today.

I need a word today. I don't need the word 10 million

people reading today. I need a word for me today.

So I'm going to get up and the first thing going to come out of

my mouth is some tongues. I'm going to pray in tongues.

I need the Holy Ghost to lead me and guide me.

I'm going to turn some worship music on.

I'm going to get out of me and I'm allowed the Holy Ghost to

lead me where He needs me because He knows what I need and

I'm not first thing going to do, go find my devote.

I'm going to scroll and get my inspiration.

That's this generation Bible prophecy, sound doctrine.

They will run from solid food. Watch this.

You ought to be teaching others. You actually need someone to

teach you over again the very first principles of God's word.

You have come to need milk, not solid food.

And as I mentioned, it's not just that the baby can't chew

steak, they can't digest it. So there's things that God want

to get you onto, but you don't have the digestive system to

handle. This is why some people want a

pat on the back, don't want accountability because you can't

digest accountability because you have not gotten a lack of

trust out your belly. And then we put language around

it. No, it is what it is like.

Following Jesus is a vulnerable life for everyone who continues

to feed on milk is obviously inexperienced and unskilled in

the doctrine of righteousness of conformity to the divine will

and purpose thought and action for he is a mere infant, not

able to talk yet, but we talking.

Hey, look, look, look, I I I've had kids before.

Anybody else had kids before? If you haven't used you was a

kid one day, man, kids JT you brought you know, like like

people, kids say some outrageous stuff and and here's the crazy

part about kids, though, is they'll say it like they studied

it, like they got facts on this, like how dare you challenge me,

mom, I know this can work. You're eight.

You don't know nothing can work. You have not experienced this

before. I've experienced I failed at it

and succeeded at it and you got the audacity to tell me that it

worked and you want me to back down from holding you

accountable to the thing and they're convicted by their truth

as kids. Kids live in so much error and

they're convinced that their rights.

And mom and dad is wrong. And what do they?

Do. They find friends that will

agree with them. That's what we do.

We find churches, we find friends, we gossip, we murmur.

That's not new, though. That's why they didn't make it

out of the wilderness, because they was gossiping and murmuring

and putting a mouth on Moses. And that seed was planted and it

got through the the, the, the, the, the, the village, the

tribe, the children of Israel. And they didn't make it through

because God said in order to get into the I can't take this

toxicity into the promised land. And that's the season we're in.

There's a cutting coming and it's not the separation of the

church in the world. It's the separation from the

wolves and the sheep. And this is not PT saying this

is Bible. God even said I spew out the

lukewarm. God's not going to tell your

secrets. Your fruit is, am I talking to

somebody? Am I talking to anybody humble

enough to hear God today, to hear the word today, your fruit

is going to tell your secrets. God's not a snitch.

He got this out here like, hey, such and such.

You know God will allow me to see enemies tactics in the body

and then he'll give me a word. I don't need to know your

business if I got a word for your business because the word

is higher than your business. So all I got to do is speak the

word into the atmosphere and it's on you to hear or not.

Jesus told his disciples hey hey, hey he's like hey can you

why you don't why you speaking parables?

Why you don't just tell us Jesus like one of y'all going to

betray me? They like can't be talking about

me. You know, they was like who you

talking about? You know, somebody went up to

like you could tell me that I'm not the one that you could tell

me who it's going to be had he had these little conversations

and Jesus is like I said what I said, you got ears to hear or

you don't. Because the point of it is not

to follow an instruction. The point is to pursue him and

this is where Hellfire and brimstone generation and all

that, where it's like we scare you into the faith and you only

doing stuff because you want to, you want you, you scared, but

God's like, I love you too much. I'm not going to scare you

straight. Like I'm going to give you a

word you like you're going to listen or not.

You're going to purge your life so you can hear clear.

You're going to obey. You're going you're going to

allow me to train you. You're going to allow the people

I send in your life to hold you accountable.

We going to work together and I am going to get you to the place

that I need you and we're going to walk together like the old

days in the garden. I want my children back.

Or are you going to surround yourself with foolishness and

lies and murmuring and complaining?

You're going to miss it, but you're going to go to heaven.

That's it. When Jesus said here's the goal,

heaven on earth, so too when I return, I am restoring and

there's going to be a brand new heaven and there's going to be a

brand new earth. We're not about to go float in

the sky, but we going to walk on this earth with restored bodies,

glorified bodies and we are going to live where there's no

more death, there's no more tears, there's no more

hopelessness but those that reject him.

You ever been sick and then it got better and was like, I don't

need fire. What about being sick and never

being able to be healed? Well, what about having a

migraine that never leaves? Well, what about somewhere like

walking down East Hastings and that's every block.

You don't need fire. I don't got to scare you with

fire. What about just being separated

from God forever? What about being in the earth

where there's nobody to pray for you?

Because God has prayed for decades and centuries.

He's cried out for his children. He's giving people a chance.

Nobody needs to scare you. I don't want to put fear in your

heart because there's No Fear in love.

But there's a cost of following. Jesus.

The solid food is for full grown men and women, for those whose

senses and mental faculties are trained by practice and

discriminate and distinguish between what is morally good and

noble and what is evil and contrary either to divine or

human law. Therefore, next verse, watch

what he calls elementary. Let us go on.

Somebody shout out, let's go on. Here's what I do know.

God has sent people here that are ready to eat meat, but we

got to drag on because there's people who've been here for a

while that you still got to kind of deal with the basics and you

got a tiptoe and you got to make sure you don't have any.

But, but God said, Terrence, after a while it's going to be

your fault and you're not leading my people the way I

called you to leave. There are people here who I have

prepared and equipped to eat meat and you're you're steadily

dragging your feet 'cause you, Terrence pastorally, are afraid

to leave anybody behind. I'm in this tug of war and I

can't be pastoral in that way to where there's people sitting

here like, hold me account, let's go, equip me, let's go.

Somebody brought this to my attention.

A day I never find Jesus apologizing for nothing.

He did nothing, he said. I never see him looking back

like, oh, did I? Did I offend the woman that I

ignored? Did I offend by martyr mayors?

When I like I, I oh that. Was unfair of me to tell the man

he can't go to his father's funeral.

Right. Are we reading Jesus?

Or have we just kind of made this Bible into this like all

about him loving us? No, But before we needed to,

before we needed grace, what was we given?

We was given a. Work.

We need grace because we fail. Grace is to restore us back to

something. It's not for us to park at

Grace, right? What's the song?

What's the song? Great, Great.

Great evangelism. Great, great song.

Great reminder in the oceans. I'm sinking.

Not the ocean song. No.

Sinking. Yeah.

No. You said something about the

ocean. A big, fat, wet kiss.

Yeah. Sloppy wet kiss.

Right we if you think right right now, now watch this.

Check out the vibe in a pastoral song versus an Apostolic song

that's like get up, we marching, let's go, right?

Like like we're less. You find people.

I don't know how to engage in that, but boy, you turn that

blue light on and then whoever comes.

And you know he. Loves you all.

Right. It don't matter.

It don't. It don't matter what you did

last night. It don't matter what you did on

the way to church. There's nothing you can do that

will change His love. This is the year that everything

will be restored. He loves you, He loves you.

He loves you. He loves you.

He loves you. He loves you.

He loves you, He loves you. We need that.

But then you do a song like I will run and.

Folks is like right? There, there's this no, now

sometime we're doing that. We're we're hyped because it's

just it's just fire. It's like I did when Jesus asked

you to run you like no right holds on I.

Will run. I will run and.

Then you go home and eat like let's go and you like not today.

Where we going, where we going, where we going, where we going?

Is it money? Is it money?

Is it money? Is it money?

Will you keep me? Will you keep me?

Will you keep me? Will you keep me?

I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know. I don't know.

I need to pray. I need to pray.

I need to pray. I need to pray. 40 days, 40

nights, 40. Stop, stop.

Hey, son. Sometimes, sometimes, JT we

don't need to fast. We just need to walk.

We need to go. It's time to go.

He said it's time to go on and get past the elementary stage in

the teachings and doctrine of Christ.

It that sounds so offensive, let's get past the teachings of

Christ. Can we get past the teachings of

Christ? No, he didn't say get past the

teachings of Christ. He said get past the elementary.

Teachings of Christ. He loves.

Like we can, we can do that all day.

We can make you cry. But but but sometime when you

see a warrior crying as they're spear in the head, right?

Like cry, be be mad at the devil, but don't blame the

devil. He says the elementary stage is

advancing. Somebody say advancing,

advancing steadily toward the completeness and perfection or

maturing that belong to spiritual maturity.

Let us get past right, kids. But when kids see you eating

like steak and stuff, no, ain't this gross?

Like my kids probably had never let me chew chew down a steak.

And then and then feed it to every Ain't this nasty?

Everybody in here has eaten some chewed up food from their

parents. What?

But why did they chew it up? So they can?

Huh. So they could digest?

They could not. It's not merely about their

ability to chew, but why they need to chew is so they can

digest it. So he's saying, how long do we

got to keep chewing the food for you?

How long do we got to worry about breaking it down and it go

over your head or, oh, that was the this version of the Bible.

Or like the stuff we're arguing over and the stuff, when are we

going to get past having to cater to you?

The thing, the thing about an Apostolic grace is that he

raises up men and women. That he breaks from the fear of

man. It's why a lot of times you

can't hire them, because what God needs to do in the earth,

sometimes he needs. To do it faster than a board can

decide, that's touchy territory right there.

That's touchy. Let me, let me, let me.

I told Laura last week. I said if you need me to bring

it up, I'll bring it up. Can you put it up?

Second Kings. What is it?

No. Second Kings, 22 what?

22, Four. Start there.

Can I show you something? Can I can I can I interrupt

something real quick? I just want to help some minds

out. Right.

This is the day we're in. Go up to Hilkiah the high priest

that he may count the money. Say count the money.

Somebody say count them up. Count them up.

Count them up. Count the money brought into the

House of The Who Lord? Is this the House of the Lord?

Amen. Yes, it is.

Which the keepers of the door have gathered from the OR in

other words, paint a picture with Deacon Rona has gathered or

Pastor Danielle or Elder Roseanne has gathered from the

people and let them deliver it into the hands of the workmen

who have oversight of the Lord's house.

That may be the the pastors that can be the elders, whoever it

may be, let them bring it to them to give to the laborers

engaged in the repairings of God's house.

That's the contractors. Watch it, that is, to

carpenters, builders and Masons, and to buy timber and hewn stone

to repair the house. To do what?

Watch this, Watch this. However, there was no accounting

required of them for the money delivered into their hands,

because they dealt faithfully. I had somebody watch this.

I had somebody read the scripture to me as they came to

repent because they were procrastinating and sowing this

humongous seed because they were going through.

Questions where the money going? Like some people right, where

the money going. But let let me help you.

We have accountability, we have accounting.

Right, and and and and. That would be pretty silly.

Something goes down. Guess what?

I not only the, the church not only get hurt, but I got to go

home and this is home there, there's people at the door,

there's elders, there's people that count there, there there's

waste and, and that is only going to increase in the

excellence and things of that nature.

We're getting a lot. But as far as the accountability

goes, but, but, but this is my point.

We have gotten so worried about, well I'm not going to build

God's house because I need to know the information so I can

trust the information I got right.

You see, you see the tension in here right now because we don't

want to take a responsibility for the lack of our trust.

We want to say no, you should do this like this, like this, like

that, like this, like this, like that.

OK, that's Old Testament. OK, well what did the Bible say

in the New Testament? That the people gathered and

they laid their finances and all that they sold at the apostles

feet. Talk to me.

That's Bible. So Needless to say, there is

systems and accountability and all those things, but at the

same time, when God is redoing something and restoring

something, his Apostolic ways is going to disrupt the norm.

It's a time where we get it with his program, not build around

for our program. All right, let's get back.

Let's get back. Let's get, did somebody say me

that was meat right there, OK, right.

But he was saying something like that that's too strong to talk

to you five years ago about. You don't have a digestive

system to deal with that kind of truth, right?

They're like kids need play pens.

They need safety. Structures.

They need barriers, they need things around them that secure

them because they don't even trust like, like there's,

there's, there's health, there's all these things that and I feel

like the church has done a good job where we need these systems,

we need these things. Hear me, man, I really hope you

are mature enough to do the work in your own head right now.

All the things that we have built are not bad things, but

when they have become the thing that leads us and drives us in

how we experience the move of God, there's going to come a

time where God tears it down. And He's so generous.

He's not going to tear that church down or tear that.

He's not doing away with things, but He will start something.

Listen, in the first service, the first experience, we read

and go through this and he says that these elementary things are

like the purifying, the laying on the hands, the resurrection

from the dead. Oh, the resurrection is like

milk. Like that's basic.

Eternal. Judgement and punishment, these

are all matters of which you should have been fully aware of

long time ago. If indeed God permits, we will

now proceed to advance in this season to advance teaching.

We're going higher, we're going deeper, Philippians says.

I forgot all about the past and I fastened my heart to the

future instead. Watch this.

I run straight, not wiggly not oh, it's popping over here.

It's dead over there now popping over here.

Nah, it's dead now popping over here.

Nah, it's oh, this failed. I'm going to go change this.

No, I'm going to run straight. Reaching into the high calling,

watch this and gaining the victory prize through the

anointing of Jesus, the anointing of Jesus, the

anointing of Jesus. I want to be where the anointing

is for my life, and I realize that I'm not anointed to do

everything. So let's keep focused on that

goal. Watch this, watch this.

Those of us who want everything God do.

I have a few people in here who want everything God has for us.

I know I do everything, not some stuff, everything God has for

us. If any of you have something

else in mind, something less than total commitment.

Total commitment, here it is. I want everything God has for

me. But God says if you have

anything less than total commitment.

Your part got to clear your blurred vision.

You'll see it yet. Now that we're on the right

track, let's stay on it. Watch this.

Stick with me, friends. This is very important for 100%

of you in here. Keep track.

What does keep track mean? Talk to pay attention.

Keep a count. Watch this.

Keep track of those you see running the same race you're

called to. Watch this very carefully headed

for this same goal. So I need to know what I'm

called to because that impacts who I choose to run with.

That's why it's very dangerous to start running with folks and

you don't even know where you're running.

Watch this. There are many, many out there

taking other paths, choosing other goals and trying to get

you to go along with them. Is that what he say in our minds

right now? We probably like that's, that's

the world. He no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, He's talking to us right

here in this house. There's different paths.

Not everybody is after the fullness of God in this room

right now. Not everybody want God's best.

Not everybody in. Here is going to make up their

mind today that I will follow Jesus this day forward and

anything that's in the way of that.

I have to let him purge sobering truth.

Not everybody in here is willing to make that kind of dedication

to Jesus today, but everybody in here wants Jesus to show up for

them tomorrow. Not everybody is willing to take

inventory and observe things around their lives and let the

Holy Ghost say, Yep, I want that.

Yep, I want that. Yep, lay that down.

Yep, you shouldn't be in that. That's a good thing for them,

but not for you. That's not the same course that

I called you to take. It's not the same.

And I'm sorry you didn't discover your course before you

enter the covenant. So now I got a hurt feelings

because I right is is when is when you tell your kids to clean

up or can't none of their friends come over and then they

call your friends and say hey come through.

They show up and you got a Mama like mines that say I don't care

who at the door because you thought if my friend showed up

my mom would be nice enough to let them in anyway.

But when you got that Mama that's trying to raise you up in

the way you should go. She going to let your friend

catch the bus back home until you clean up and do what she

say. She is a Mama that can't lie.

Headed for the same goal. There are many out there taking

other paths, choosing other goals.

Not everyone in this room has the same goal of reaching for

the high calling. There's people in here want to

do what they desire and sprinkle high calling in it.

You want God to use what you. Chose.

You don't want to choose what he.

Chose. He.

Said I've warned you of them many times.

Sadly I'm having to do it again. All they want is easy Street.

They hate crisis cross. Crisis cross is something we

call to carry to carry daily. So as a follower of Jesus, there

are things that God is going to allow you to obtain and then

request you to lay them down. Start looking at the blessings

as offering so when you get it, you don't marry it and idolize

it. So God is saying there are

people in their lives that work hard, that have amazing goals,

but they're amazing goals isn't necessarily your call and your

lane to get in to run with them before you get in the car, you

need to know where it's heading. Uber has accountability.

You can't just hop in a potato sack and get ready to play in a

game with somebody just to discover they only got 6 toes

just to discover their balance is terrible and now you in shape

trying to get to the end and they lean in.

And now you spending the next five years trying to create

balance in your life from an imbalance someone else brought

to your life. Sometimes the bad that happens

in your life is not because you're doing something wrong,

it's who you're adjacent to because we're going two

different ways. They hate Crisis cross, but Easy

Street is a dead end St. Those who live there make their

bellies their gods. Belches are their praise, and

all they can think of is their own appetite.

But we're citizens of the Kingdom.

You can hear that in the next maybe John 15.

And I'm probably going to go a little further because I've been

teaching on this for the last Sunday and Wednesday.

So he talks about he's the true Vine.

We're the branches. And he says any fruit in him

that does not bear fruit, any fruit in him, he's talking to

the church, any fruit in him, any branch in him, sorry, any

branch in him that does not bear fruit, he cuts away.

Any branch in him, but any branch in him that bears fruit,

he purges. So both people get purged, but

one gets cuts away. One stays connected but still

get cut so that you can produce more lavish fruit, lush fruit.

The fruit gets richer. OK.

You're cleansed, he says in verse 3.

Then in John 15, four he says dwell in me.

He says without abiding in him, you can't bear no.

Fruit. Without abiding in Him, you

can't bear any fruit. So let me ask you this, if you

are not abiding in Him and you're still fruitful, then what

kind of fruit are you bearing? See, definitions matter because

the fruit you talking about and the fruit he talking about is

two different things. He says I'm the vine, you are

the branches. Whoever lives in me and I in him

bears much fruit, abundant fruit.

However, apart from me cut off from vital union with me, you

can do nothing. He's saying you accomplished it

a lot, but to him it's nothing. When is what he?

Cares about going to matter to you.

If a person does not dwell in me, he is thrown out like a

broken off branch and Withers. The thing about withering I've

dealt with this Wednesday is it slow?

You don't even notice it until it's too late.

My words remain in you and you continue, and they continue to

live in your heart. My words remain in you and live

in your heart. When you bear much fruit, watch

it. When you bear much fruit, my

father is honored. Now, when you accumulate a bunch

of things, when you bear the fruit He's talking about, the

Father is not. So then the question is, do you

want to honor the Lord? Well, you got to bear much

fruit, and in order to bear the kind of fruit he's talking

about, you got to remain. Watch this.

And you show, and you prove yourselves to be true.

Followers, if you keep my. Commandments if you continue to

obey my. Instructions you will abide in

my love and live on in it. I've told you these things, that

my joy and delight may be in you.

Oh, so he just gave us the key to having joy and delight in US.

We all need to hear this. You have not chosen me, I chose

you and I've appointed you. I've planted you that you might

go and bear fruit. Here's the key and keep on

bearing lasting fruit. Fruit that remains, Jesus told

his Father in his last day. The ones you gave me, I kept.

Fruit that remains is the manifestation and expression of

a transformed life that results from abiding, resting,

communing, and surrendering in Christ.

It encompasses a range of positive characteristics and

actions including Lovejoy, peace, and abundant obedience,

all flowing from a deep connection with Jesus.

Watch this. Obedience is a fruit.

The fact that you struggle with obeying.

God speaks to your disconnection to the vine, but I love Jesus.

But what does your fruit show? This fruit that he's calling us

to is produced by #1 Write it down.

Abiding in Jesus, you desire to have all that God has for you #1

This fruit is produced by abiding.

I shall not be moved #2 Write it down.

Take a picture. This fruit is produced by the

power of the Holy Spirit at work in your life.

Look at what Galatians says. The fruit of the Holy Spirit,

the work which his. Presence within accomplishes

John 738 the fruit acts 18 the. Fruit.

Power, the fruit. I want you to see this the power

of God. It is not merely power to hang

on you. Either hang on her or overcomer.

The power of God is to overcome and to be more than a conqueror.

It is not to just hang in there. The power of God is, is not.

So you can be a super tolerator #3 #3 the fruit that he is

talking about is produced by the work of the Spirit through the

church, through the body of Christ.

You cannot walk into full maturity abandoning the body and

the work he's doing in the body. This is why we need expressions

of him throughout the city, because he has something.

He has a church specific for you.

And that church should dig. That church should get on your

nerves. But then you before you go, you

got to look at the fruit is equipping, is the word

happening? See, a lot of time we we look at

fruit at the elementary level. Are we making disciples?

Is there, is there Saints maturing?

Somebody say the body of Christ one more time.

Say the body of Christ. What I'm going to show you is

going to be a lot. It was a lot for me this

morning. He has put all things.

I want you to see who Jesus says the body of Christ is.

Everyone would say that's us. I want you to see who us is and

why it's growing up time. Watch this very carefully.

He has put all things under his feet.

And he has appointed God has appointed him the universe

Jesus, the universal and supreme head of the shouted out, no

shout out head of the what church?

He is head over a thing. He is the king of a Kingdom.

The Father has appointed Jesus as King.

He's not just a high priest, or he wouldn't be after the pattern

of Melchizedek, a king. He is king over a Kingdom, and

it's a Kingdom with citizens. Who are the citizens?

The Church. Watch it a headship exercise

throughout the church and authority exercise throughout

the body, not throughout pastors and elders, throughout the body,

which is his body. Watch it, watch it, watch it,

watch it throughout the church, which is his boom.

Black Body watch this. You and I and the universal

Church is the fullness of him who feels All in all.

For in that body, not in that head, in that body lives the

full measure of If the world's going to experience Jesus, there

needs to be a healthy body. That means every one of us have

to grow up and be a follower of Jesus.

The reason the church is being mocked right now is not Jesus

fault, it's ours. We are lukewarm, we are two

faced it. We are double minded.

We gossip, we talk about each other, we give the world

permission to mock us. We talk about each other, we

expose each other. When the Bible says cover each

other and some of us will share and expose.

Yes, there's healthy expressions of the church, but the Bible

says when one is down, all is down.

When 1 is up, we all celebrate. When one win, we all win.

When one lose, we all lose. If a nail goes through my foot,

my entire body is going to respond.

And that's the problem. We have got independent

missions, Paul burden, an Apostolic burden.

Is a church burden, not a local church burden, Not a my church.

I'm pastor. I'm gonna do my service.

I'm gonna go home. It is a burden for the the the

the church, the global church. So we are a church with a

territorial anointing. The worship is beyond pleasing

the Sunday audience. The worship is to tear walls

down so we can go in and restore all that has been stolen and

broken. The worship is to go out.

We go to gyms and we go to do concerts and we're moving

because wherever the double river goes, there shall be life.

So we will we will break out the norm and we will inconvenience

because God is saying take my ark and move it across the city

because there's something on this house to breakthrough

principalities and rulers. So now all of a sudden we're

going to see an influx of church planters because they got their

groove back. They got vision back.

We're going to see a flux of pastors being restored who are

weary and tired. We're going to see an activation

of evangelist because God is raising up an Apostolic people

that are territorial. It's a movement.

Where do you think pop up shops came from?

Jesus pop up, Holy Ghost like the wind.

Just pop. Up.

But we like, no, you can't pop up.

You going to pop up, pop in between 10:00 and 11:30.

If you if you don't move by 11:30, I'm disinterested.

And then that's when you find when he do pop up, that's my

time to go because they're distracted by him.

There's no revival without endurance.

Here's the church, he says, he says who makes everything

complete and who fills Everything Everywhere with

himself. Here's the church.

The church is the complete expression of Christ.

Y'all the pastor ain't the complete expression.

The elders ain't the complete expression.

And through the through the church, Christ's present and

power are manifested throughout creation.

Oh, all of creation is waiting. Did he say all of creation was

waiting on Jesus? They've seen him pop up.

They knew who he was. Question today, where you at?

Essentially, the Church as Christ's body is the means

through which crisis fullness is mained on and experienced by the

world. It is through the Church that

Christ is redemptive work. And divine attributes are made

visible. The perfecting work of the

Trinity through the body is a divine strategy.

To restore the full and complete inheritance of the name, image,

and likeness of Christ in and upon all sons and daughters of

the Kingdom of God. Hence to do this, he gave his

bride apostles. Prophets, evangelists, pastors

and teachers to do what? Equip the Saints for what?

The work of the ministry. For what?

So we can grow up. And my prayer today.

My prayer today is that every apostle, every prophet, every

evangelist, every pastor and every teacher has a last day

backbone to deal with the people, to deal with the falling

away, to deal with the offended, to deal.

With being misunderstood because there's people in here who God

is calling you. He's pulling you away and for

some of you, you're trying to fight tooth and nail, to hold on

to familiarity. And there's few of you in here

that will say Lord. For real Doll.

Here I am, I will tell you from experience when you truly,

truly. Simplify your life and make your

life all about Jesus. It feels lonely, but feeling

lonely and being by yourself is two different things.

I promise you. There's a school of prophets

somewhere, there's there's a school of evangelist there's

there's some folks to walk this out with you.

And in this season, it's simple. He's calling you higher, and the

Holy Spirit has been given to us to take us deeper.

In one hand, it's simple. For some of us, it's very hard

because we're looking at things and like, Dang, in order to do

this and be this, I got to lay this down.

Anybody ever try to go buy a Lamborghini?

Right? Not many people in here, right?

Why it costs? They don't even they don't they

don't make as many Tesla Lamborghinis as they make

Teslas. I don't know about you, but the

savior of the world died for you.

I don't know about you but I that that make me feel real

expensive. So if you want to be a cheap

Christian, following Jesus ain't going to be something you like

because it's a high price. It's a cost.

But I promise you, Jesus is there to help you.

The anointing is there to empower you.

So I encourage those that are courageous enough today to write

where you are just I've been convicted preparing the message.

I can go deeper. There's little things.

There's things in my life that he's like, lay it down.

There's disciplines. He's saying pick up.

So my prayer today is don't, don't delay.

You will never regret following Jesus.

Following Jesus. For real though, clean up your

tongue. Can I talk to you, clean up your

tongue, be healed from that attitude,

be healed from attracting drama, whatever it may be?

So Lord, we thank you. Lord, we bless you.

Thank you for giving us a word and those that have ears to

hear. Lord, I pray that the word

produces in their lives some 30s, some 60s, some hundredfold.

Do what only you could do. Lord, we come against any

backlash from the word going out from the worship going forth,

backlash over those that are making a decision in their

hearts today that are turning even now.

I pray they never turn back. No pillar assaults, but forward

is all we know. And I thank you, Father, that

there are courageous men and women in this house and across

this land, a remnant of people that will hear your voice in

this hour and will grab a hold of the mantle by any means

necessary and follow you wherever doors their talents and

gifts take them. May they understand the call

that they have in that in that space in Jesus name, Amen, Amen.

Give your neighbor a high 5 If you've received anything today.

All right, real quick, really quickly want to get out of here

and you want there's, there's things going on in the

community. Here's here's the thing.

How many people by a show of hands have heard the invitation

to be a part of the Christmas production?

Raise your hand all over the room, OK?

Most of the people real quick, you got a opportunity to be a

part of the Christmas production.

There are some auditions coming up.

Is that correct? OK, Talk to Sian over here with

that. She was up here yelling earlier.

There they there they go right there, Right.

That's it. OK, and the Lord will bring

those who here to call and so that's that.

I just need you guys to hear hear this.

What, what we No, no, no. Go to Instagram, go to the

website, go to yeah, next Sunday, very important.

Next Sunday we are having what we are calling.

Party of three, love Party of three.

Listen very carefully. It is a night for married

couples. Hold on couples who are dating

and plan on getting married, couples who's serious single

people who insist on getting married no matter what.

This is a night where if you want to be equipped, watch this

for the road to marriage. It is a night for married

couples. But what I don't want to do, the

moment you make it about married couples, you.

Cut a bunch of people out and truth of the matter is is that

folks that are heading to marriage need to be equipped for

it. Because maybe somebody when you

find out how much of A blessing it is, but how much work it is,

you might be discouraged to get be married.

But it's a beautiful thing. But here it is.

It's a calling. And so we going to have some

some small bites. We going to.

Have fun. It's going to be worship for

couples and we going to have a panel.

And did we put the e-mail up there?

So this week you can start emailing questions.

I'm talking about you can go you you any questions you want to

know about relationship, marriage, sex.

And but be ready to hear the truth, OK?

Be ready to hear the truth. We [email protected]

Send as many. Questions as you want throughout

the week and then we're going to have a panel and we're going to

have some juicy conversation We'll have a poor we'll pray

over the the the the marriages and there is no legacy without

healthy families Amen. So party for three next Sunday

night. Doors open at 6:00 PM and we

would like to see you and this is for anybody if you know

married couples that. Aren't a part of this community?

Invite them and someone at look, if you are divorced and kind of

interested in getting married again one day, come.

If you are married but your spouse cannot make it, come on

out. OK, But we are going to focus on

marriage next Sunday night, 6:00 PM.

We're going to have a good time. Stand to your feet.

Hey, what a great compel. Thank you for the testimony.

Hey man, EJ, you want to come up here and pray?

EJ Eero I know we always say stuff.

And I, and I can say this about Brett and Stacey as well.

Would I walk with you guys longer?

And I just want to man, thank you guys for being pillars in

our lives that when we feel, whatever we feel and going

through it, we can look at you and see stability.

We can see faithfulness, we can see.

Love. We can see two people who have

known God for a long time. You honor the church, you honor

your pastors, you make it easy to lead you, and you've allowed

us to lead your children without watching over how we lead them.

And from the day you guys said, I do not want to do ministry

with you because I actually need friends right now.

A lot of people don't know that we met at both of our crossroads

of being hurt by church. I just want to say thank you.

You guys mean the world to our family, and God is very, very

pleased with you. And if there's any remnant from

how you guys have been misunderstood or mistreated, I

just want you to know that you're healed from that.

God found it bring somebody in your life that understands

you're crazy, that understands your personality, that

understands what you need and what your children need.

And I'm forever grateful for you.

And I think PJS I mean, it says the same thing.

And it lastly, it blesses me to see that my, my wife, because we

do this thing full time, full time for real though, to be able

to have a friend so she can laugh with and be vulnerable

with, be afraid with. So thank you for loving my wife

ero the way you love her. It means a lot.

So thank you, Amen. Thank you.

Appreciate it. So so as we pray, Father was

just basic, we receive what you've what you've poured out

today. It's just that simple.

It's a prayer of just receiving. If that's you say God, I receive

what you poured out. God, I receive it.

I really do God. I receive it as much as I'm able

to and I'm we pray God that the Holy Spirit helps us receive it

even more fully than we may feel more capable right now.

We receive it without judging it.

We receive it without discrediting it.

We receive it without having to understand it.

We receive it without trying to prove it to somebody else.

We just receive it, God, whatever you've poured out,

whatever you've said, however you've released by your spirit

through your ministers today, God.

God, we receive it and we we receive it not to hold on to it,

but we receive it, Lord, to unto transformation.

We receive it transforming us fully, even beyond our

understanding of how it's transforming us.

We take the limits off from your word as he goes, and it's sent

God and we receive it fully, God, into the every part of our

being, to the rooms of our lives that we lock and keep close from

other people. We receive it into those rooms

as well. And so God, we say thank you.

Thank you, Lord, for the good work that you sent this word to

do. It will do it in US and it

transforms us and we will see it complete.

We will see it done fully in all of our lives.

Thank you Lord God for ministers of God that speak truth and

speak difficult things because they're wanting us to be mature.

Thank you Lord in Jesus name and until next time you know what it

is. Get your love fixed man.

Thank you so much for tuning into this week's sermon.

We pray you were challenged, equipped and encouraged.

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