LUSH - 8.17.2025 - 9am (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

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

What if I told you or ask you the question?

What if what you are blaming as being a season is really a

cycle? What if I told you that what you

have been blaming on a season is really a cycle?

We'll say it one more time and then I'll explain.

What if in our Christian talk, rather good or bad, we say it's

a what season? We write songs about it.

It's a new season, it's a new day, right?

Somebody say season, but what if you've been stuck in a cycle and

not a season? What's the difference?

The only way you get out of a season is time.

The only way you get out of a cycle is you change.

And here's what I do know is as a believer, one of the dangerous

things that we fall into, watch it very carefully.

Ever since the world has been given the language, mental

illness, or it's like a thing. And you notice we didn't really

push people to get healed as much as we push them to feel

safe enough to talk about it. And the dangerous?

Thing about a believer is as you grow in knowledge you increase

your ability to explain your way out of change because you put

everything on God or a season or the devil or this too shall

pass. But I'm here to tell some of

you, some stuff in your life will never pass until you

change. Because what I do know is

because your increased knowledge of the things of God has put

hell on alert that you're no longer ignorant.

Therefore, because of the heightened understanding that

you are no longer ignorant in an area, he now has to come a

different way. Same cycle, different posture,

different people. It once was crack.

It once was a drug, now it's money.

It once was money, now it's the gym.

It once was the gym, now it's a healthy diet, right?

Long as it's healthy, it's OK. But some of us even idolize our

devotional time over being devoted to God.

So you think you're close to God because you spend 2 hours a day

with Him. But the true fruits of your

nearness to God is your obedience to His Word, His

principles, and every proceeding word that comes out of.

And so you find that we are in. Cycle.

This is like somebody that knows how to dress well.

You won't be able to tell they wore that twice in a week

because they just dressed it different.

Same jacket, just black T-shirt. Tomorrow I could wear it with a

white collar shirt, different pair of shoes, throw a

handkerchief in, same jacket, dress different.

And some of you have been stuck in a cycle for a long time.

And what I do know about cycles, if I'm thinking about washing

clothes or something like that, is that one cycle can stop and

it can't, that you can't get to the next cycle sometimes till

you restart it. The devil is really good at

letting up off you, let you think you've defeated him.

It's in the Bible. He did Jesus that way because he

said he tried all that he could for that cycle, but he waited

around to wait for another opportune time.

What was he waiting? For to see if your knowledge

will turn into wisdom and your wisdom will turn into obedience.

He's like, oh, they're, they're moving different, but they,

they, they tweaked God's word a little bit.

They serve more, but they're still not doing what God told

them. Oh, they're abandoning

relationships. Now they have idolized the

blessing. Here it is.

God says supper time. In other words, God is gathering

people to his house. Then all of a sudden you get

busy with work, you get busy with a husband or wife.

You get busy with new property, you get busy with blessing.

And now you get pulled away from tribe.

You get pulled away from. And here's what you say.

But I'm still good with God. I'm still in my Word.

I'm still watching sermons now if we go to the Word.

Then what if I come back to you and tell you how important in

the last days, Paul warns us about the gathering of the

Saints. Not just hanging out with

Christians, but gathering with with Christians across the

board, but also gathering to the tribe, the tent, the house, the

people, the leaders, the voice that he is, the anointing that

he, the atmosphere that he has called you.

To walk in and one of the attacks of the enemy is to use

an overdose of variations of the word to get us drunk with

unnecessary knowledge, and unnecessary knowledge can choke

out the word that God gave us. You, you, you.

So busy taking the word from the house and then crowding your own

opinion. AI and all this other stuff

around it. Cat GPT Google instead of taking

the word, putting it under the lens of the Holy Ghost, getting

wise counsel if you got questions, and then allow God to

interpret it based on the soil it came out of.

Some of us will take a word out of this soil, take it to another

house, and ask another house who didn't get that word to

interpret it for you so we can appease your little.

Itch. We're in a day and time.

Man, man, man, man. Separation.

Here it is. It's harvest time, no doubt.

Woo, we talked about that for a long time, bumper crop, all

that. But you know what shows up in

harvest time, Darnell, the wheat.

I was talking to the team yesterday.

What's about to happen in this harvest time is some of y'all

while getting blessed, you going to be exposed to some things

that you didn't realize was sown in your soil because God says

no, no, no, leave Darnell there for when it's harvest time.

They both going to sprout up and then we'll cut it away.

And some of the stuff you have idolized in this season, you're

going to be mad because God is going to cut it away.

And the struggle is going to be you trying to hold on to it

because God, here it is. Over these last several years,

He has been trying to perfect you.

And for some of you in the perfecting, you've allowed a

seed of offense to get in your heart.

You've allowed the Leviathan spirit to bring confusion to you

because He chokes the word. You've allowed complacency in

you. You've allowed double mindedness

in. You've, you've, you've.

You've allowed gossip and messiness in, and every time we

sow mess, we also allow the enemy to sow something into our

hearts. I'm going to be courageous

enough to say this, and it's biblical, so go figure it out.

The Saints that don't have a shepherd in the last days will

have a hard time surviving in the Kingdom of God.

The Saints that don't have a shepherd, I didn't say the

Saints that don't go to church because there's a lot of you in

here that won't let us pastor you.

You just want a sermon. It is not the Good Shepherd's

will that you walk as sheep without a shepherd and is not

good enough to say that's just another man, Jesus my.

Shepherd, let me help you. He is, but He gave to us pastors

after his heart, prophets after His heart, apostles after his

heart, evangelists after he's the one.

Laying mantels so when you reject the gifts he put in your

life, you're in a form rejecting him while you go home and ask

him to speak to you and he going to turn back and say, well, what

it what did the pastor that I sent after the prophet say that

I sent the event the apostles? What did he say?

That's what I said. He said what I said, he did what

I did. Here it is.

Bible says that Jesus didn't do nothing that he didn't hear the

Father say do watch this. Holy Spirit says he didn't say

nothing that he didn't hear the Savior say say.

You see the order, and I know it's rare to find men and women

who walk a life where they're trying to be disciplined so that

they only. Say what they hear the Father

say. And we are in a generation

that's like this. Oh, and then when our ears

itching, somebody kind of saying something that like, make my

flesh unchallenged, I'll take one finger out.

We're in the days where the enemy is going to be so crafty.

Pride comes before the what? No, it doesn't.

Proverbs 168I believe it is. Let me help you with this and

I'm going to move on. You see how quick pride comes

before the fall, but if you don't read it carefully, you're

going to miss the whole thing. And this is what we're dealing

with today. You see how close?

To accurate, you can be and be so convicted that that's what

it's saying. And then go spread that to

somebody else and then build your life on it.

You build a. House on something.

You better hope it's accurate. It's right.

Proverbs 168I believe it is. Is that what it is?

Huh. Go, go.

Well, you got it. Put it up.

Watch this. Watch this.

Right, everybody? We were so in Unity and that's

what we is. Here it is, here it is.

We find Unity around error. What does that say?

See how the enemy wants you to read it wrong?

Because one, you'll miss God's grace in the Scripture and #2

you'll miss the red flags in the scripture.

Pride goes before destruction. The difference between

destruction and fall. Fall you can what?

Get back up. Destruction is over.

You got to start over. Pride goes before destruction.

So this scripture works backwards.

A haughty spirit before fall. Man, I don't need, I don't need

PTI, don't need hero. I don't need the church, the

local church. Now I could do what I want to

do. You just this hottie spirit,

like, OK, I receive it now I'm gonna go home and I'm gonna

twist it a little bit to my liking or I'm gonna have this

little side ministry over here where I get to speak my opinions

and I'm gonna I'm gonna do it the way I want it.

It's this hottie spirit. Like I got this.

I don't, I don't need your wisdom.

I don't. It's this hottie spirit.

Somebody say hottie spirit. Now watch this, the haughty

spirit. There's a grace to allow you to

fall, but there's a grace to allow you to what?

Get back up. Watch this.

Here's pride. God sends warning and pride says

I'll be fine. I'll ignore the warning or I'll

delay obedience to the warning. The Bible tells or, or or word

came. The prophet came a couple years

ago. Now God's grace on this house

has been magnificent. He has been warning us.

He says it's go time, get on the bus time.

He said some will make it. You'll be surprised who makes it

and you'll be surprised who don't make it and also warn the

folks that will get offended. You can't blame leadership or

whoever you want to blame. She said it's go time and she

said shoulder season is. Over because you've been

equipped. Or in other words, you've been

held. You, you've been cosigned for

you've been carried. And we can go back in history of

love quest. God has always sent a word to

this house because we've always been faithful over that word.

And then here we are 2025, the fear of God.

Remember that. And you just see people in 2025

moving dicey, not considering if God says the theme of the year

is the fear of God, He is saying you need to move through this

year with fear and trembling. And you see hasty decisions, you

see offense, you see people isolating themselves in a year,

not the serious center of the ring.

You, you, you see, you see the enemy being very crafty.

And let me help you. The enemy has to be craftier.

He has to send high level demons to a highly spiritual,

intelligent church. So we, this church, don't deal

with drop out demons, but we don't deal with the demons that,

that, that just you, you just. You already on on on the cycle

that I've set is running your life.

No, no, no, no. A house like this is going to

deal with very principalities, territorial.

The impact that this house has is regional, so you're going to

deal with regional darkness and influence.

So it's not going to be. In the obvious that we expose

the enemy. So as we go forward in this

series, the Perfecting of the Saints watch.

This Watch this Jesus is calling his bride higher, so the Spirit

is taking the. Church deeper watch this Lord

showed me this this morning. I was like, oh Jesus, from grace

to grown-ups, do you remember? No, no, no, no.

Go back please. If anybody's been around for a

minute, there was a huge grace movement.

The enemy tried to pervert it to come against those who who a

grace mantle, a grace teaching mantle fell upon them because

the church needed to understand the love of God, because we were

rooted in works. But after the movement of grace,

Ephesians 3 says, be rooted in love, Grace that you may know

the depths, the width, the height, and the length of his

love, that you might come into the fullness, completeness, the

perfection of God. So God told me to tell you today

that the grace movement was only a setup for an equipping

movement. Thank you Lord, for sending

words to the. House.

The movement of grace was preparing us for the movement of

growing up. Think of childhood development.

I was thinking about this earlier, Troy, the entitlement A

child has a child. The covenant is all about them.

Told the worship team yesterday That song does not have its

greatest measure of oil until you complete the other side of

what you're singing. He leaves the 99 for the one.

That's his part. What has he asked you to leave

for? The one it's a covenant.

Both sides have stuff to leave, but what we've made our

relationship with God all about is us not.

Realizing that there was joint custody of the God, God says

here's what the word says. The earth is mines.

I mean, the heavens is mines. Watch this.

The heavens is mines. So let us make man in our image

and let them rule earth so they can be a reflection on earth as

it is in heaven. So let them have dominion on

earth like I have dominion in heaven.

So Jesus comes, he dies, and he, he's risen, and it says that he

has authority over the heavens, the earth beneath and above, far

above. Why does he want to share his

authority with us? How can he share his authority

with you, which all of us want, but he's struggling sharing his

love with you. And when I think of the shoulder

season is over, it's like when kids, there's times where you

come to a place when raising your kids is like, no, no, no.

You going to clean that up today?

No, no, your turn to take out the trash.

I didn't take out the trash for years yo.

And I don't feel bad for you washing dishes.

You have a great you got the best contract in this house.

You got to go to school, but you get a ride, you get food, you

get clothes, you get to boss me around.

Sometimes I want to be mad at you, but I can't stay mad at you

because I got to do life with you.

You have a great deal. I do not feel bad that you have

to labor. God is not moved because it's

hard for you, but it's the little kid in you that want God

to take the weight off of you. When He sent His only Son to

wash all your dishes to clean your little stinky sinful self,

you should have been dead. But He kept you alive and you

got the nerves to pout because you're carrying a little bit of

weight in your life. And no matter how hard the cross

was getting, He did not move. And when life gets hard for some

of you, you start moving and you start making different plans and

going different ways, finding different friend groups and

leaving churches and moving all over.

The wavering. The wavering is why he said he

sent apostles and prophets and teachers and pastors and an

evangelist so that he can mature you.

So so you can stop wavering boy if you think you wavering now

what's coming you going to be done.

Watch this I hope y'all ready for this concerning this Jesus

in in Hebrews 5 Paul is talking about the high priest.

OK, he's talking about the high priest.

He's talking about Jesus human experience, how he was clothed

in weakness so that he can relate to us, but also talking

about Jesus's divine appointment.

OK. It talks about how Jesus is

suffering is what qualified him for the cross.

It it, it goes on. And and Paul, the urgency he's

preaching with here is because he has a concern about the

immaturity of the church and their potential to fall away.

Matthew warns us in the last days there will be a great

falling away from us Saints and probably Saints that would never

think they would fall away because you 2 saved see you

built on I love God, but it's church.

If you're one of them, it's only a matter of time for you to fall

away, because what keeps. You rooted is his church.

There's that there's I hear it in somebody's mind.

No, Jesus roots me. OK, well, you just walk around

like like you like, like, like like you in in in Italy or Rome

somewhere. Walk around with just a head of

Jesus. You think he he's just a head.

You just got to you probably got an altar at home with just a

Jesus head on it. You didn't cut off the body.

You just go home and and and you worship the Jesus head.

He's like. You need to cut all this off.

Watch, watch this today, he said.

Concerning this, he's like, I want to get into the high priest

and the work of the ministry and but watch this.

Concerning this we have much to say, but it's hard to explain to

you since you have become dull in your spiritual hearing and

sluggish, even slothful in achieving spiritual insight.

No, no, no, here we want to feel we we we know how to get sermon

series about love and relationships and all the things

our flesh want to be right. Money like I we, we can build a

church, but it's hard to build a church when you go to preach a

series on equipment and five fold ministry grips.

No, I ain't no apostles for today.

Spiritual food, right? We just want to know he loves

us. Oh, how he loves.

We just want to sit there, watch what he says.

He says you're still too. So I can't talk to you about 16

year old stuff. And here's what I understand,

EJ, about a baby eating the meat that they can't eat is less

about their ability to chew it, although it's part of it.

It's about their ability to digest it.

Your digestive system is immature, can't handle

accountability. We can't handle the strong stuff

because you can't talk about equipping without

accountability. You can't talk about maximizing

your your your your fullest potential without

accountability. Watch this.

That's what Paul says. For even though by this time

you, by this time you ought to be teaching others.

No, I am teaching others. I guarantee you if I went to

somebody, if I was a family on some of you guys's walls, what

you're teaching, in some instances it's variations of

your opinion and thought, right? We mix.

We mix. It.

How many times you have coffee meeting where you breaking down

what the five fold ministry gift is gifts are and you activating

gifts and mantels in people's lives and you from from you.

You caught it, you understand it.

The last time you talked about what a Kingdom citizen is

talking about being filled with the Holy Ghost.

The last time you had a coffee meeting where you are

regurgitating what God said in this house.

Some of you have completely different conversations outside

of here. Be like PT that sounds

controlling or that sounds OK. Whoa, we can look in.

Scripture where we're we're we're called.

To echo the preceding word of God, we're called to say follow

me as I follow Christ. There's no leadership without

followers. There's no following without

leaders. And what we've done a great job

as is. We have.

We will. Come and listen to a man or

woman. On their platform.

But we want to put them in our seat.

We want to lower the call. You just like me.

Yeah, sure I am. But how you are receiving it is

not Bible. What do you gather?

What? When you say I'm called to love

quest, what does that mean to you?

And don't be such a fool to be called to love quest.

Sow into love quest, but don't get the fruit.

That's for you. Or you take the fruit but try to

change the. Seeds and replant.

Something. Different.

Let me get back to boss. Paul, you actually need someone

to teach you over again the very first principle of God's Word.

Watch it. You have come to me.

Milk, not soul food. Solid food.

Sorry, solid food, not solid. Food.

He's talking to the church and he's saying we got to pause

because you are at a place where you've been churching, you've

been serving, you might even have been witnessing, but now

the apostle is coming in and and checking on the people.

It's why it's important to understand the difference

between the five gifts. You might be trying to get

wisdom from a pastoral gift, but you've been called to an

Apostolic gift and you trying to take the words from the apostle

and give them to a pastor, and the pastor can't even understand

the word that the apostle gave to you based on what God has

shown him about you. Digestive.

Systems and some people only have a digestive system to

receive what God's going to do for you so you can remember and

receive and be rooted in the words that God's going to break

you through. He's going to promote you, He's

going to heal you. Watch this.

Let's see what solid food is. For everyone who continues to

feed on milk, everyone who stays on that applesauce, the Gerber,

they've got Gerbers in in Canada.

Gerbers OK, damn everybody who stay on that queen of weed that,

that Malta meal that that did the grits, the the, the sauce

stuff. You don't need no teeth for

everybody who continues to feed on milk.

You allow yourself to remain an infant because you throw up

meat. It is obviously inexperienced

and unskilled. Here it is in the doctrine of

righteousness. Watch of conformity to the

divine will and purpose, thoughts and action.

For he or she is a mere infant. Watch it.

Not able to talk yet. What you digest comes out your

mouth. I Sometimes you hear me.

It's like when I go, OK, you ever go back home?

I don't know if you from a place like you ever leave for a while

and you go back home and you sit around the table and you like

y'all ain't change, y'all feel the same.

But that's what make home home, because you can go back home and

count on some people's ignorance, right?

You can count on their ghetto, you can count on their

stupidity. You go home, but you can only

take so long, so much of it. And you like, I can't wait to go

back home 'cause you have now found your new home.

But you go back and you like, man, y'all still talk the same.

You ain't read a book yet man, I've been gone for 20 years.

You ain't read a book. You still stay in the same but

what? Y'all still talking the same?

You still selling dope? You still talking about robbing

people? You still, what are you doing?

You still in dysfunction, your relationship's janky, like what

are you doing? You're not able to talk yet.

But solid food is for full grown men, full grown perfected men.

Here's what I understand. There is so much that God wants

to get to you, but you have to change your digestive system.

You have to mature. Here it is.

Some of us think we're mature because we got new language.

Hey, I love Micah. He 10 he not one no more, but

based on how he talked, based on how Malachi talked, based on how

Malia talks sometimes he like Yep, like Malachi for deep voice

mustache like he he like he you think you talk to him on the

phone. You like how you doing, Sir?

You full grown man. But then sometime he'll do some

stuff. You're like, yeah, you still,

you still a kid. You still, you still a kid.

And as a father, watch this. There are some things.

Yesterday I was laying down or whatever, I don't know.

Whoever saw that moment, I was laying down on the couch at my

friend's house. And then my son, my big old son,

came and laid his back on my legs.

Like I I almost it almost moved me to start rubbing his hair,

but I was like, that's too much. That's too much.

Let me Right. It's my son.

I can do that. But let me enjoy this because

he'll probably get up and be like, Dad, you doing too much.

Because I don't even think he realized he was laying on his

dad's lap yesterday. Yeah, my lap is right here.

My thighs. So your spine was on my thighs.

You too big. Like, if you were still a baby,

you, you would have been sitting on my lap.

But you're tall, buddy. You're tall.

You're tall, right? You're tall.

It's OK, right? It's OK, right?

You don't have to hide your relationship with the father,

right? Intimacy is great.

That's why you go to some countries.

They they still are intimate and it's not perverted.

You'll see. Oh man, kissing each other

cheek. No, no, no, no, by culture.

That's that's that's honor. That's that's you find that in

more like Kingdom cultures you say.

But solid food is for full grown men.

For those whose senses and mental faculties are trained by

practice to discriminate and distinguish between what is

morally good and noble and what is evil and contrary, either to

divine or. Human law.

It goes on to Hebrews 61. Watch this you guys, please.

Therefore, let us go on the bus is taking off and get past the

elementary stage in the teachings of the doctrine of

Christ. Can we move on or do every time

you come back or you go to God, you got to be reminded you're

loved. You got to be reminded He'll

never leave you nor forsake you. You got to be reminded you're

healed. By his stripes.

You got to Sunday's got to be a reminder that you are more than

a conqueror. When can we move on?

Watch this. But I want to go deeper because

I want you to see what he's saying.

Move on from that. Most of us probably thought was

food. It was, I mean meat.

Watch this, he says, advancing steadily toward Here it is.

The completeness and perfection that belong to spiritual

maturity. Some of us think we are mature

in Jesus because we've been saved.

For a long. Time we, we, we got the

Christian language, we can articulate things and, and, and,

and we think we're mature because we can articulate

Scripture, remember Scripture and we sound mature.

But look at my. Look at my fruit.

What does your fruit look like? What does your household look

like? What does your joy look like?

What does your, your, your, your, your, your faithfulness in

relationships look like? Watch this, watch this.

Let us not again. Here it is delaying the

foundation of repentance. And the abandonment of dead

works and the of the faith. By which you turned to God, he

said let us not again keep talking about that.

Watch this next verse with teachings about purifying.

We still got to talk about and warn y'all.

Y'all think I'm going to be talking about single and all

that, You know, you know God's calling us the holy perfect,

holy first. Not like, oh, I'm.

Strong. I could.

Oh, I want to. Oh, I want to.

Oh, but I'm not No, no, no. When you going to get to not

even being tempted, right? Watch this.

Watch this. The laying on of hands.

Do you know how many believers? Don't know about the land on

their hands or or if, if or if they see it.

It's, it's, it's, it's weird. Watch this.

The resurrection from the dead and eternal judgment and

punishment. These are all matters of which

you should have been fully aware long, long, long, long time ago.

And you see, when he sends an Apostolic move, he's trying to

move the church forward from this infancy, this immaturity.

If we ain't sick, we are for sure immature.

That's a body. That's a body.

We got some strong fingers, a couple strong toes and a strong

arm and we got some some strong earlobes.

But there's there's, there's some there.

There's still if the body if one.

Part of the body. Then we all got to take

ownership and lead with urgency until the whole body is in

unity. Oh, this is the day you're going

to see apostles rising up there. There was the move where

teachers, there was a movement of teachers and that got into

the Word of Faith. Every move is going to have a

perverted version or an incomplete version.

Oh, in the last days, watch out for the false prophet.

Well, guess what? Why?

Because God's about to restore and is restoring the real

prophet. And then we have to let the

church know in the world know that you're saved by grace.

And then we took it too far or we highlighted where people took

it too far and that movement was persecuted.

But sometimes God goes all the way to the left because it's a

movement. He's trying to restore

something. When you see a prevalent message

happening and and and and and a dose of gifts happening, the

teaching movement. We went all the way.

All we hire is teachers. We hire teachers, we hire

teachers, we hire teachers. We have theological seminaries,

we have church networks where we place, if a church fails, we

send another pastor and we turn in applications.

We, we, we, we rarely have seen God send a man and a woman to a

city, a region, and they start with nothing, with nobody's

approval. And then you got to deal with

what church you go to, who sent you, what school you went to.

And then we see when the apostles.

Was birthed. That's what the religious people

dealt with. They didn't go to the schools.

We went to. Who are they?

But we can tell they follow Jesus.

The distinguishing matter was we can tell they've been with

Jesus. Here's why.

Because they were not moved. There was no wavering, wavering

Peter all of a sudden is ready to be persecuted.

So I'm here to tell you we're in that day where the wavering

Saints allowed to waver too long.

You will be a falling away St. and falling away does not mean.

See. Don't compare.

That you going to walk away and never be a Christian again.

Let's say that you're falling away.

Is you just going to go lukewarm?

Say you're just going to go cold.

You go read your little Bible though, because you got respect

for Jesus. Some of y'all, and here's the

warning, some of y'all going to be serving and you're going to

find yourself far away in the spirit in the back row.

Some of y'all going to be singing, some of y'all going to

have chances to preach and you going to see God is not afraid

to call you to his platform and give you an opportunity.

So when you do. Fall away.

You can never say this church ain't seen your gifts.

You can never say God didn't use me because I was doing something

wrong or I sinned. No, no, no, no, no.

There's enough grace for you to be in your pit right now, and

God give your word. That's his grace.

Go from murdering Christians to right away sharing the gospel.

What but man in control and tradition and religion.

We want you to work for everything.

Go to that school four years. Get a piece of paper.

What network you a part of? Oh, you a part of pay arc you a

part of Foursquare you a part of the ark you a part of and then

they judge you. The reason why we're non

denomination because we do good at you.

Oh, you're you believe in what you believe in the feeling of

the Holy Ghost. You, you Baptist, you this you

Presbyterian. Oh, that means this?

Well, you ever heard of a church called St.

Sabina? In in in in Chicago, that's a

spirit filled, Holy Ghost filled tongue talking Catholic Church

and go look at how they how they impacting a church and go look

at how how how world leaders gravitate to that church.

A spirit filled Catholic Church, Caucasian priest is like like

Nah, Nah, Nah, we I'm filled with the Holy Ghost.

Y'all gonna be filled with the Holy Ghost.

We he understands the sitting in the middle of this hood.

Ain't no way the devil gonna bow down to a lukewarm church.

You seen that video? You seen all the homelessness

that was up this street just somewhere around here used to be

a graveyard, A burial ground where the indigenous like we're

we're moving in to where the enemy once set up shop to

destroy lies forever. And then God moves the church in

that can handle what it once was looked like.

Then he sends a pastor from the hood who ain't afraid of the

hood while most of us stayed away from this area.

Some of us did dirt in this area.

The devil was ready for generations to be destroyed on

these streets. You think God's not going to

finish this work? This is an Apostolic move of

God, so we're not. Trying to fill seats.

Filling seats is a byproduct of health or a good business plan.

This church will be built off obedience and those that really

want to be equipped if indeed God permits.

Scripture says we will now proceed to advance teaching.

That's what Paul said way back then.

Ain't that crazy? Years later, what happened

between the fire Paul had and the fire the church had?

Then why does the fire keep going out?

Generation to generation. We have a generation that is

taught on Instagram with messages that have no context.

92nd sermons. Our hope is built on the

ministries we follow on YouTube this generation.

Paul warns us there will be a day coming where people don't

have the stomach for sound doctrine.

I don't know one apostle that was fully understood.

I don't know one church that was carrying the Kingdom mantle that

was not attacked and was not persecuted.

That's inevitable. But in this season, God is

making a Clarion call to all believers.

How long will you procrastinate and use your your your desires,

your businesses, your families, your ideas?

As an excuse. To not sit at the supper table,

watch this. He's going to be challenging us

on holiness. And I was telling you the other

day, we got to be careful because we got to we got to we

got to make up, we got to define definitions based on how God

defines definitions. No, he didn't just say you holy

because I'm holy. He said be holy.

We call to Holiness. We're called to make sure that

our good is not evilly spoken of.

We're called to pass on good things that may become idols

that get in the way of God's will in our lives.

We're called to work out our salvation in what?

Fear and trembling. So it's time to go higher.

Come on, say it. It's time to go higher.

It's time to go deeper. Go deeper.

I close on Phil Philippians 3. I don't depend on my own

strength to do or to accomplish this.

However, I do have one compelling focus.

Somebody say compelling focus. Watch this, watch this.

Let's not overlook this one word.

And the one word is 1. The call is so serious it's only

room for one. And a lot of us are worried

about everything. Our talents, our bank accounts,

what people think about us. Status, proving our parents

wrong. And then if a church is not

going to deal with us with the lowlife stuff, like relationship

goals, that's lowlife teaching. I I don't mean to offend you,

but that's lowlife teaching. Because if you really pursue

God, it is meant following. Jesus is meant to teach you how

to walk in his love. And when I walk in his love,

that's the love that he is called.

That institutes marriage. Eros does not institute

marriage, Stark. He does not institute marriage

ero I mean, agape is the institution of marriage, the

person receiving it from God first and then enter the

institute and share the love of God.

Marriage is God's institute, so the one thing that I have to get

down in my life is being abased in Him.

I've learned when it's bad, I'm good.

When it's abundant, I'm good. And if you're honest with

yourself, a little bit of pressure applied to your life,

you ain't good, you not stable. You want to have elementary

conversations to be reminded God's with you.

What did he say? I do have one singular,

compelling focus that's fueling everything in my life.

I first forget all of the past as I fasten my heart to the

future. Instead, watch it.

Next verse I run straight. He's not break dancing.

He. Didn't know.

No wavering. No wavering.

He realized what God did for him.

God, you using me after I'd enslaved your people?

You want to use me? Watch this.

I run straight for the divine invitation of reaching the

heavenly call goal. And the another translation says

the high calling. So in a house like this, you're

going to major in high calling sermon series because if you get

the high calling stuff, you get rooted in high calling you, you

make your life singular on high calling.

Watch what happens, he says and in gain and gaining the Victoria

victory prize through the anointing of Jesus.

I cannot do this without the anointing.

I don't care you, you some of you guys, just because you're

saved don't mean you walk in the anointing.

Just because you you got a bunch of Christian friends don't mean

you walk in the anointing. And I'll take the anointing.

I've learned to. I've been, ain't gonna lie, I've

learned to. I've take, I'll take the

anointing and the favor of God over $5,000,000 in my bank

account now. I'll take all three.

OK. Right, That's not me confessing

like the Lord knows my heart, but the point you, some of you

are pursuing this achievement and you think, watch this,

here's a danger for some of you. You're going to find your fall

here. You're going to get everything

you're pursuing for to get there and find out it's not enough

because God has put a call in your life.

You put it on hold. You put proximity on hold.

You've put certain partnerships on hold.

You put certain things on hold to pursue this thing and you're

going to show up there and you're going to be devastated

because what it's going to take to keep it is what you didn't

count for. You didn't see once you get

there, how how much further it's going to take you away rather

than letting God have His time. And when you get in the thing,

even when you get the thing, it does not move you.

It does not change you. So let's keep focused on that

goal. Those of us who want watch this,

who want everything God is Troy. I've come to a place in my life

and I think it's a part of this competitive nature in me.

I want everything God has for me.

Some of us are settled with some things, but I want every fruit

of the Spirit He has for me. I want every gift He has for me.

I, I, I want everything He has for me and everything He has for

me. Also sparks the desire to

understand that what He has for my children is everything I

desire. So there's decisions that I make

based on everything He has for them.

And some of you are making decisions based on what you

think he has for you, not realizing He needs you to say no

because He has something planned for them.

Jesus had to deny himself because he had a plan for you.

We live this Christianity where it's just like ABBA, Father,

what do you have for me today? And how dare him say me?

If any of you have something else in mind, watch it.

Something less than total commitment.

God will clear your blurred vision.

You'll see it. Yet, he said.

If you have anything other than total commitment planned for

God, your vision is blurred. Now that we're on the right

track, stay on it. Stick with me friends.

Keep track of those, watch it. Keep track of those you see

running the same race. What does he tell you based on

the map? Not just those who say they love

Jesus. Get married to someone who is on

the same track God has you on. Get in relationships with those

that have that are on the same track.

The same track, not just I love Jesus, I'm a Christian, I was

raised Catholic. No, the same track.

Just because we both are runners don't mean we on the same track,

he said. Keep track of those he In other

words, be be mindful when you've gotten away from those who was

on the same track and now you find yourself around people who

love God, who go to church, who might even serve God in church,

but they're not on the same track.

The local church brings specificity to your track.

That's why we have all these different expressions of

churches, their tracks, their lanes.

What lane are you called to run in?

He said. Headed for this same goal,

headed for the same goal. I need to be around people in

this season that's serious about the call of God.

That's on fire for the call of God.

That's not playing for the call of God.

That's not that's not OK with living lukewarm.

I'm, I'm, I want to be around some people that when I have

trouble lands my life down, I can see them lay their life

down. I want to be around people that

don't mind making the hard decisions.

That's why the call is a lonely Rd.

That's why there's a narrow gate in a in a wide gate, The all the

Christians ain't going through the narrow gate.

The narrow gate ain't the Christian gate.

And the wide gate is the world. They're both tracks, they're

lanes, he said. There are many out there taking

other paths, choosing other goals, and trying to get you to

go along with them. What is God calling you to?

Is He calling you a season of consecration?

Holiness. Then you need to stay away from

all appearances of evil. It might be OK for them, but

might not be OK for you. They're trying to get you to

water down the gospel. They're trying to get you to

water down the way. They're trying to get you less

accountable. Then you're here.

They're they're called to do less services and you're called

to do more and they're trying, man, you don't need to do all

that. It don't take all that.

Keep track of those you see running the same race.

See, I I needed these elders because God knew this was going

to get tiring sometime, but I've seen how they hold their course.

I can't go to them and be like, oh, this.

Hard. They'd be like, OK, won't you

just take some time? No, no.

They're like man, press in, press in.

Now, I never went to them like that, with that kind of spirit,

but I'm just like, you need to be able to look at some people.

You need to be able to hear voices of confidence, not

confusion. When I'm trying to fight for my

family, my bloodline, I don't need people that's caught up in

the thickets. That's encouraging me.

It's OK. For you to I got to do all that

right now. It's OK.

Like God knows your heart. But, but maybe I know God knows

my heart, whether I'm running the race in the right lane or if

I'm sitting on the sideline. I know the man sitting on the

bench who ain't played a minute can hoop.

But on that team, he wasn't called to play a lot of minutes.

Many are called. He'll respond to the call the

chosen ones are the ones who say let's go God everybody in here

is called here's the truth. Only a few of you will hear God

today if some of you going to walk out here and you're.

Going to look at me and go, oh, that was.

Cool, I'll take this part. Some of you going to take the

sermon and you're going to send it to somebody, say, hey, listen

to this and tell me what you think.

And some of you going to come some of your leaders and say I'm

ready. Jesus had 12.

He equipped those 12 for the work in the ministry.

Who Who fed who who who? Fed the 15,000?

Who fed the 20,002 fish 5 loaves.

You think those disciples wasn't like well, jeez you crazy OK,

cool, I'll take the fish, I'll take the bread.

You can see a couple of them murmuring Jesus think I mean we

out here looking stupid who fed them.

Jesus prayed over it. He anointed it, he interceded,

he believed he said you are equipped now go.

And then it came to a point where he said.

How long do I have to be with you?

He also says there are some. Things that I can't tell you

right now because you not have the Spirit.

But when I go, I'm going to come back later and talk to you about

a few things. For when the Spirit comes upon

you, you'll be able to hear different.

You'll be able to stand different.

I've warned you. Of those people, many times,

sadly I'm having to do it again. All they want is easy street

they hate. Crisis cross, right?

I love Christ, but do you love His cross?

But Easy Street is a dead end street.

But those who live there, those who live there, make their

bellies their God, their gods. Belches are their praise.

All they can think of is their appetite.

But we are citizens of the state, Commonwealth, homeland,

which is in heaven. We're in this world, but not of

it, and from it also we earnestly and patiently await

the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah, our Savior,

who will transform and fashion anew the body of our humiliation

to conform to and be like the body of His glory and majesty.

Somebody say the body. Watch this by exerting that

power which enables Him even to subject everything to himself.

Watch this church body. Somebody say the body.

This is why we focus on heavenly realities.

Heavenly reality is not about what He can do for us.

It's but you appropriating what He has already done.

It is finished. A Kingdom that cannot be moved

done, finished Now Lord, can you do this for me and he said what

you talking about I've done everything for you.

What why is your prayers full of Kenya do In our next experience,

we're going to get into understanding.

What the body here really is. Ephesians tells us who we are.

Watch this. Why should we be equipped?

Ephesians one tells us that we are the full expression of Jesus

in the earth and if we are not functioning how we should, the

world will not perceive him. We can't afford how you act and

our immaturity and your denial of call and wavering.

It is not giving a full picture of who Jesus is.

And if you look on social media, people, the church is being

mocked. They're laughing at us.

And no, it's not our job to go on Instagram and defend

ourselves. It's our job to go in, out in

this world and be for real about this thing.

You got to be for real about this thing.

You can't go, oh, type and share a scripture and God said this

and you go on in this. It's not an argument with

someone who's already won. And we're spending more time

apologeticing and apologizing and and defending the faith in

ways that are ungodly. Paul's writing most of the time,

all the time to the church. The issue is us.

We want to just just look down on the world, but how many

things do we do casually, not understanding?

That's a doorway into being like, like a Hillsong, how the

Hillsong get there. Because there are certain things

in the beginning that did not get checked.

How dare you check somebody? Oh, certain people, certain

leaders can drink, but the students can't drink.

Oh, it's private parties after conferences over here.

We do our little side thing over here and we're in appearances of

evil, not understanding. Wow, that's keeping somebody

lukewarm. Maybe you got to be scorching

hot so somebody can go from cold to lukewarm and get hot.

We're not fearing trembling. We just loose.

We carnal. We just want to have fun.

We want to push the boundaries. And that's how and then we man

right? We'll we'll look at all

Hillsong. They fail and this pastor failed

and this pastor failed and this pastor failed.

But OK, let's start celebrating the pastors and the teachers and

the churches who, who who got some courage and a backbone to

say, I see it. It may not happen for 15 years,

but if we do this fun little good thing over here.

The message that sends to someone, we are not building for

legacy. So then you wonder how a pastor

can go 30 years and now all this stuff is coming.

Pride goes before destruction. Haughty spirit.

Oh, they won't find out. I got enough money.

Our church is big enough, we'll scoot it under the rug.

Ain't nobody going to say nothing.

And then it takes one person to get courage.

They send they testimony to A to a, to someone in media and

everything blows up. And what happens?

How many souls are impacted 'cause you want to have a little

sip, 'cause you want to have a little party, 'cause you want to

have a little fun, 'cause you want to have a little little, oh

little, you wanted to re. Oh, it ain't nothing wrong with

it. This ain't about you going to

heaven. It's about the loss, going to

heaven, finding Jesus. It ain't about you no more.

And if this is the route to my well done, I'm going to.

I'm going to run this route every time like Randy Moss.

But I will not lose sleep because I fail to carry my cross

and wear my mantle. It does not matter how many

people don't like us. It don't matter how many people

persecute. It don't matter how many friends

you lose. It don't matter.

That is the cost. And if you really want to be

like Christ, look at how He walked.

Tell my mom I ain't got time right now because I'm in here

giving a word to the people I'm called to right now.

She'll understand. She birthed me.

She actually prayed over me that I'll be in this temple doing

that. How dare she get offended

because I'm being faithful and God is bringing His Word to

pass. Jesus says I've come to cut in

between these domestic arrangements.

Take a good close look again at Jesus, take a good close look at

Paul and really ask the Holy Spirit to ask him what he's

saying. Go ask him what the blood is

for. Go ask him what carrying the

cross is all about. Go ask him what holy is.

Go ask him what consecration is. Go ask him what sanctification

is. Go ask him what counting the

cost is. Go ask him what last days is.

And go ask him what it looks like when you got friends and

family who was on your clock going to hell.

Go take a real close look. And if you're going to be

offended with anybody, be offended with the word of God.

But God is raising up a remnant of real.

Yeah, I just want to be 1. And I realize I am not exempt.

From falling away. So I want to run as far as I can

and I really desire when my day is up to make sure my tank is on

empty and make sure that all that God has asked me since the

day I got revelation of his love, I've done everything I can

to do it and I want to leave my children.

I don't want to leave my children with battles I was

supposed to fight because they're going to have enough of

their own. I want my wife to be able to

stand by me and know that her husband loves the Lord.

For real though, that she's safe.

I want my children to not see a contradiction.

Raise them in the way they should go.

The way they should go is holy. Not have a church home, merely

my prayer for you guys today is that the Spirit of God some way

somehow arrests you and that you wrestle every bit of every bit

of pride. Now today you be healed from

offense and bitterness and excuses and procrastination.

But it's no reason why people need to fly and drive to Atlanta

to go to a church that seems to be on fire because they can't

find one here. I don't want to be the church

you drive by because you could. You couldn't find a fire drive

by because our music too loud. But you won't say we're not

really. Yeah.

Lord, build your church. We repent today for lukewarm

living. Lord, give us eyes to.

See the wolves in sheep clothing.

Give us patience. Lord, we need you not we need

you for material things, and we need you to find this person for

us. We need you to bless our

business, Lord, if you called us to it, it's already blessed.

Or we just need you, period, full stop.

We need to know you because in you is us.

And when we get to know you, we'll get to fully know us.

Or we need you to heal our trauma and bring us out of Egypt

so that we can worship you fully.

May we be like Paul this one thing.

That I have a compelled focus. It's the high calling.

The high call is seek the Kingdom first.

High calling, all these things, low calling will be added.

It's nothing to God to bless you with stuff.

It's nothing but Lord. May we be a people that bear

your image. And I ask you Saints, for the

next two to three minutes to take a moment and open your own

mouth and worship him and lift your hands, and you could sit.

And you could. Stand, but for the next few

minutes I. Feel like the Lord, just the

Father. Wants to finish something in you

today? Just lift your voice to begin to

pray and we will close. You might be saying you don't

take all that. Look at the cross.

Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

May we become undone. You've been so good.

Thank you for your grace. Thank you for your mercy.

Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Jesus. Thank you Jesus.

Stir up the gifts. Set us on fire, Set us on fire.

Lord, the year of the fear of God is

upon us. I pray that you move with fear

and trembling, that you steal yourself, quiet yourself.

And if you've never taken God serious in the name of Jesus, if

there is no time you've ever taken God serious, this is the

time. Gross darkness is upon us.

The world is even setting itself up for the coming of the King.

Read your Bible. Look at what's going on in the

world. Amazing things like AI that will

talk to us, things that are happening in government, planes

crashing, wars and rumors of wars.

It's all right there. And any good Shepherd's greatest

grief evangelists pastor, but none could be more grieved than

Jesus himself is the great falling away of the Saints that

is promised to come. And my prayer, Father, as it was

with Abraham, Lord, because of the remnant, Lord, let the city

live. Let not one person in this room,

under the sound of my voice fall away, and you give them strength

to hold on. To repent, to return.

May we be a people move by great conviction.

We are standing on the backs, Abraham's and Elijah's and

Paul's and our grandparents. Lord, I want to be in that

number. So today we surrender this word

to you and we prepare our hearts for the next experience.

Bless us in our coming and in our going.

In Jesus name, Amen. Thank you so much for tuning in

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