So Rude (1130AM) - 4.06.2025 (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International

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

church, mobilize the equipped and serve all.

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

Give. God, some praise one time.

You can be seated in the presence.

Of the Lord. OK OK dot dot dot dot well if

you haven't. Already you should go download

the new single. Maybe you should go do that.

That's called My God is able. And yeah, real good.

Music. I would bet that it's for sure

better than for sure. 75% of the people that's in your playlist,

even you rockers or whatever genre it is, it doesn't matter.

It's just you. This could be at the top of your

playlist now. Now just a little secret.

Why did I do my God is able? And then dot dot, dot dot

because it's 5 dots. Dot dot dot dot dot stands for

grace and #2 God seems to connect all the dots in your

life. And so he's able so.

When I look at my life. He's connected the dots.

And so it's just. Dot dot dot dot dot dot and

it's. Catchy, it's fun, and who cares

what you think? Amen, right?

It really doesn't matter. So.

But if you need an explanation, I just gave you one.

But what I do know is this has nothing to do with the message

today. But Canada, you are primed for

something big but are afraid of it, so it's.

Kind of like let's. Go to the states because they do

it big already. So let me just join big instead

of pioneering it in a country that is waiting for courageous

leadership, courageous leadership and courageous vision

and courageous unity. And Canada, you have everything

you need to impact and change culture across the world.

But if we can get rid of the passivity, the insecurities, I

just feel like this country is preserved for God.

So it's almost like God is not allowing anything to gain

monumental momentum unless it's started by his church.

Like a people that don't need the world to pop.

I just feel like it's not just. Open for anybody.

I feel like it's the culture is is open for the church now in

the states you see it it's happening specifically in pop

culture in the church. God's paving some very cool

unique ways. I just feel like, you know, for

example, Lecrae came here a few years ago with Andy Mineo Grammy

Award winners and the church was not a part of it.

Not because of them. It's because the church is just

like, so they get some club promoters and then barely sell

it out because the church can't even pack out a club for a

Christian artist. But heck of Christians went and

saw what's that girl name Taylor Swift?

See. You know what I'm saying?

See, Taylor Swift sold out change the whole shape of

economy the city streets blocked off have you ever asked yourself

why a lot of. Christian artists or a specific

type of Christian artist only comes to Vancouver.

When, when the when, when this Vancouver looks like the globe,

but the globe is not represented in the sound, then you're in a

church who's trying to get the globe presented in the sound in

the creatives. Do you support it?

Do you really think you here just to be a bystander to

culture or to actually do something about it?

Maybe you're not on this stage, but what's on this stage?

You can partake, you can empower, you can buy, you can

stream, you can download, you can sell, you can partake.

I promise you, the people that are having 500 million streams,

it's not all evil people or worldly people streaming.

A lot of the church is helping the world blow up.

You're in here. We are helping the enemy and the

enemy ain't helping us at all. But we like man.

It just feels good though. It's just like whoa, it's just

what everybody else is doing and I can relate to what they doing.

We help darkness. Darkness never helps light.

So the excuse can't be man. I don't listen to Christian and

hip hop because it's cheesy true, some of it not mine, not

scribe music, not not no it's you don't got no more excuse.

The Christian market has is crushing it in every.

Genre. Production is no long is no

longer cheesy. The production, the engineering

top, top notch. Forget me.

I'm talking like like instrumentals, prayer.

Music. Pop Rock.

Hip hop worship, like pick any genre, there's no reason why we

should be stuck at a few thousand or and then we helping

all these people get rich. God has given us that we look,

if you support the art that's coming out the church, we

wouldn't even really have to have a remnant campaign.

Here's what the Bible says. Well, I'm in debt, he says.

Well, what do you have in your house?

I mean, I don't know what you stream, but you could take some

of these songs and maybe just listen to it maybe 10 times or

at work you can listen to it or at your party.

Listen, you know what I'm saying.

Why does that matter? Because we're created the impact

culture. And I heard something at the

sight of my ear when Elder John, he said for God, so love the

world. I didn't say for God, so love

the church. Do you love the world how God

loves the world? Or do you love the world how you

need the world? Oh.

For God so love the world he sacrificed.

If you really love the world, what you willing to give up for

it? Put my glasses on.

Put my stunning shades on. Knowing what's happening because

of God's hand versus the devil's hand is crucial to your prayer

life. I'm here to tell 100% of you,

You give the devil too much credit.

He's not the issue. He's not really the one messing

with your life. The devil's not why you're

divorced. The devil's not why you're on

alcohol. The devil's not why you smoke

weed. The devil's not why you're a

freak. The devil's not why you say

addicted to to sex. Did he say freak?

Yes, I did. The devil ain't the reason,

right? You like sex, You like porn, You

like marijuana, You like out. That ain't the devil.

The Devil. Cannot mess with an obedient

child of God. No, you doubt the word devil

cannot mess. Mess with a convinced believer.

As I said earlier, and I'm going to breeze through early.

I'm asking please go listen to the beginning because I got to

finish this today. OK?

When you actually obey God, like you really walk with the Lord,

you're not even concerned with the devil.

Like why are we so concerned with the devil?

It's always the devil, it's never us.

And then and then y'all giving credit to God for stuff he

didn't even do. You know that blessing you said

that God gave you? No, you just went to work and

you got paid and you saved up enough money.

You know the money you didn't give for the remnant so you can

get that thing. That was your hard work.

It wasn't God, you know that. We, we blame God for people

dying. You don't want to hear that,

huh? Oh, God needed him, so he took

them. No, God don't take nobody.

He gives life. That's all he does is give.

He didn't take them. He received them.

He didn't take them within our inability to understand his

sovereignty. We got to make make, we got we,

we got to do this perverted thing and we got to say God is a

well, if God is so much God, then why does he let this

happen? Well, if you love God so much,

why do you let that happen? You see.

So our prayer life, our perception of who God is, our

perception of what a blessing is, our perception of what

church is, what we see is all from trauma, It's all from

flesh. And if we don't correct it, it

bleeds into our prayer life. And then we don't thank God hear

us. So we don't pray right.

We we got all these. Things in the lens.

That you see through your perspective.

That's why he says that transformation comes from a

renewed mind, not just a person that reads right.

When is your devotion? I asked this question that

prayer the other day. When is what is the problem

between prayer and power? How do you get from a prayer

life to a life of power? Prayer is for power.

God gave us prayer to see answers, not to question if He's

there. So where's this big gap between

prayer life and a power life? Just assume everybody got a

prayer life. Why aren't you walking in power?

That you ready to walk in power is for 100% of you.

Now you ready. Walking in power is in Roche.

Get a Baba blind eyes open. No walking in power is when you

want to cuss somebody out and you actually don't.

OK, OK, here it is. And then it moves from don't to

not even being tempted to customize, right?

There's there's levels to God's power.

When is it going to be you? You got to fight temptation to

where now you ain't tempted by it no more.

See a life of power is not about about about cancer being healed.

Like you get to a place where you trying to believe God to

take away cancer but you couldn't believe him to even

reconcile in a relationship. So how you got faith for cancer

to leave but you don't got faith for a relationship to work?

How you got faith how you all of a sudden going to believe that

your child going to be raised from the dead or brought out the

hospital, but you couldn't use faith to get off alcohol?

By the time you reach Goliath, what did you do with the lion

and the bear? You cannot make every problem

you go through Goliath. It ain't Goliath.

Come on, man. They broke up with you.

That is not Goliath. They walked out.

That's not Goliath. You couldn't go out with your.

Friends tonight and, and, and because they can go eat at at,

at a lease or at A at a really nice restaurant and eat and pay

$100 for a steak and them being able to do it expose you not

being able to do it. That's not Goliath.

It's just not your time. Like, come on, you just can't

hang out tonight at the. The steak house.

But that's not Goliath. You're not poor.

You're not going to lose it. You're not going to.

I hate Vancouver. It's too expensive.

No, it's not too expensive. You just can't eat steak.

See to the. To the person living on the

streets, Vancouver is not too expensive.

It's a really nice place to live on the street.

Like what are you going through that's?

Just so bad and you ready. Some of you have your your

crutches, your vices, what just. Going to.

Bless somebody and then I'm going to get to it.

I'm going to get to my stuff. Stuff, OK?

Some of your vices, you use them because how you perceive a

problem, not the reality of your problem.

I'm going to say that one more time.

I I smoked. Weed because of how I.

Perceived life I I, I, I went out and drank because of how I

perceived being raised by a single mom.

My single Mama worked hard, she loved me and I was in a home

that was loving. Although it wasn't a dad or a

grandpa in there boy, the way them women loved me.

I was not absent of love. I was a dad.

Wasn't there, but love was. But how I?

Perceived it, it excused me from discipline some of you are

using. Your vices and your excuses is

because of how you perceive the problem, not the reality of the

problem. You ready?

Here it is. Fear has become your excuse.

It's really not your reality, it's your excuse.

I'm scared it's too hard. They might not like me.

I don't have the education. I don't have the voice.

I don't have the time. No, it's how you perceive it.

Please go listen to This Morning.

I don't have time to do that part right there, OK.

Genesis 7 we started off today's message is called so rude and

God's response is Anne, now what you going to do?

See when I say rude or when you think God is rude, whether you

say it or not, 100% of you at some point thought God was rude.

How your life was interrupted like something just happened

quick and you like, Oh my God, rather somebody left your life,

you left somebody's life, you got fired.

Rather there's a fire rather whatever it may have been in

your life, there was a there was an abruptness.

There was a door that closed. And.

Sometime there was a door that was opened.

It was the only door, but it was the God door, but it wasn't your

chosen door, but because God saw you at the place of desperation

where you will walk through this door.

Finally you, you ever worked that job because you was like, I

can't find no job. This is the only one that's

going to hire me. So I better take it.

I better take it that that kind of thing so rude.

And it's almost like it's like God, like like, like we get, let

me put it this way, when you get an attitude with the leadership

that calls you to what God's calling you to, you're getting

an attitude with God. Hey, we're not doing church on

Sundays. We're doing church every day.

But rude because Sunday was church day for me.

And then is the rest of the day slave slave day?

What's them? What's the other ones?

And you take that as all PT and love quest doing too much.

What if you finally came around some obedient leaders who

actually going to do what God say, not what your schedule

won't? Have you ever been around

obedient leaders? It look a little different than

the ones you can make. By throwing fits, conform to

what you need and want for your lifestyle.

No, we're not going to do 90 minutes.

We're not going to do a 75 minute.

Service for you. Because you got to go or you

don't have no attention span. We going to let the Holy Ghost

have his way and we going to do our best to tell him to chill.

So whenever that happens, right when that service go too long

and you like, guess what you're saying rude, you're

inconveniencing me. You've pushed past my limits.

No, I'm not coming to midweek service.

That's not for me. What is this your church home,

right. If your home only has a back

door, you're not going to call it you're not going to not call

it home because it's only a back door.

No front door. It's your home and you're going

to use the door that that you can get in the house.

So when you say a place is your church home, be careful because

I tell some of y'all, y'all come here all the time and all you're

doing is attending church. Because when you call somewhere

your church home and we your pastors.

Then what that means is when God uses us to call you to

something, to equip you to something, then it's no, it's,

it's, it's not a matter of what's convenient.

It's like if I go play college basketball, I wouldn't even make

it if I didn't. Listen to the coach.

And some of you find places that's convenient for you.

And if you read your Bible, that's not what He gave you

leaders for. He actually gave you leaders to

equip you to put an end to the wavering.

Not the wavering of I'll only come to church sometime.

No, the wavering in your soul. Some of you have been coming to

church. Let me put it this way.

Some of you have been Christians too long to still have a double

mind. So you ready?

Some of you have been Christian too long to still be debating

and double dutching between the world and God.

So why does he give you leaders and a church home is so you can

get rooted to take the wavering out of your soul, not the storms

out of your life. So so so rude.

So we're going to look at Rude Jesus today.

Wait, some of you right now, you would swear if Jesus came up

here with a thorn on his head and he came in here like really

like Jesus, if he walked up here right now, some of y'all would

swear you would follow him. I'm here to tell you, you

wouldn't. You know how I know you wouldn't

how you doing with his word? Because that's him.

How you doing with his? Scent.

Leaders that he put in your life because that's him.

He's showing up today in the gift of a pastor or or or

evangelist. How you doing with what he sent

and provided. But some of y'all think Jesus is

like is like he's only the one that sits in your mess with you

and just and you like Hey Jesus, I need some comfort.

And he just like, OK, we like, hey Jesus, I need a job.

He like OK, God, God, I need a man OK God I need healing OK,

OK, I got you. Everything is what God need, you

need and He. Going to bring it to you.

So I'm about to just show you that some of the stuff you think

Jesus care about, he actually don't in this old northern

American Jesus that we have sold right, because some are you read

Jesus doing stuff. But then when he sends leaders

that kind of challenge you like he did, you're like, I'm not

listening. What would you listen to Jesus?

Let's let's look at this. Let's watch how like how crazy

God he like he crazy. Look at this Noah.

I need you to build this ark, and the only people going to be

on the ark is you, your wife, your three sons, they wives.

Then you're going to get a male and a female of every creature,

every animal on the earth. Everything and everybody else is

going to die. Your neighbor, your uncle, your

cousins, they are going to die. But I'm calling you to be the

sacrifice of a future generation.

First of all, that sound crazy then.

You going to ask me to build this big old thing?

I ain't never built one of these.

You going to ask me to do it before a flood coming?

I ain't seen no rain. And then you going to give me

some specificities? And you want the lumber this

long, this wide? I ain't got no say in how it's

built. God don't care nothing about

your degree, don't care nothing about your experience.

When God asks you to do something, no excuses.

I don't know about you, but if God came to me right now and

said, Terence, I want you to take your family, your wife,

your three kids and this world is this city is sick.

I am about to allow a flood to come and drown everything out of

Vancouver. I need you to build a boat.

I'm giving you X amount of time. Wait a minute, God, what about

my Auntie Myrtle? What what what about my uncle?

Like he's super dope. What about Uncle Willie?

What about my Co worker? Like what about my best friend

though? Like they he was my best man in

my wedding. What about my boss?

I was just leading them to Jesus like they were like, I know they

took a long time, but they were here it is.

And you don't hear God like I said what I said.

But I don't see no conversation happening.

What I do see is I see God-given instructions and hum, no wonder

he picked Noah because he knew Noah wasn't going to give him no

talk back. He was just going to obey man

God to ask you to come to a night service and you want to

question why some of us don't even get in a.

Conversation with God. We just tell them no.

The audacity. So Can you imagine?

And then the Scripture goes on and says that Noah entered the

boat with his family, the animals.

And then it says God shut the door.

He shut him in and he closed the door round about him.

I want you to see something. Noah did not close the door, and

because Noah didn't close the door, it does not mean he didn't

finish the job. You ready?

Noah did not need closure. Some of you can't start healing

because you're waiting foreclosure.

You're trying to end the chapter.

And there's some chapters that don't need ending.

God shut the door. Say God shut the door.

Am I the only one in here that that, that, that God has done

something? You OK?

You may not have think saw it as God.

Have you ever been in a place in your life where something ended

abruptly? Have you ever been in a place in

your life where it ended abruptly?

And you was like, what the heck? Where'd that come from?

Have you ever been? And I ain't see that coming.

Here, you. You ready?

Have you ever saw it coming but you was denying it was coming?

Have you ever tried to turn a red flag green?

Right. Stop changing the color of the

flag. It's red, right?

Yep. No, no, no.

She crazy. But no, no, didn't like like I

know like she would meet, she would a different, but she you

know what I'm saying? We make excuse.

You ready? You can't change nobody.

Hey, hey, you ready here to hear this?

You can't change nobody. That's that won't let God change

them. The only way I can contribute to

someone's change is if they're going to allow God to change

them. Because all I can bring them is

God. You.

And you not going to make me your God.

I've learned that lesson. I'm not going to see you disobey

God, but you obey me. I'm not getting in God's way.

Come on, tell somebody. Throw them over.

Throw them over. Look, here it is now.

This boat was really. Big and it's he told no.

He said you go, you're going to make a window up top.

Now it was three stories. No, it wasn't three stories

tall. OK, So what you got to

understand is when God closes a door or a season, he makes it so

that the only person you can see or you need to focus on is him.

He said you shall make a window. See, This is why you don't want

God, like because it's expensive to disobey God.

It's his pride. Say, have anybody ever got the

receipt for disobedience? You.

You. You ever.

Got the receipt. I got the receipt, man.

I got the receipt. You get the receipt.

You ever get the receipt? You ever get the receipt?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sometime, sometime the receipt

is kids, Sometime the receipt is is STD's.

Sometime the receipt is is college tuition, Sometime the

receipt is is drug addiction. Like somebody say it costs and

you think following Jesus costs try.

Following. Not even the devil.

Try following yourself, he said. Put the window up top.

I'm only putting a window in there so you can get some

sunlight and some ventilation. Stop acting like you dying

because. Something is over.

Perspective. Perspective.

Come on, It's another job out there.

Amen, Amen. There's another city out there,

Amen. There's another man out there,

Amen. There's another woman out there,

Amen. And then he said we going to

make one door. Somebody say you are coming out

of this. I love it because when God shuts

the door, Annabeth, he it's only one door.

Ain't no front door and no back door, no side though, because

you didn't know how to choose the right door.

You you don't do you ready? You don't do well with options.

Somebody, somebody say options. Yeah, yeah.

You don't do well with options. So you you hit a season where

God chose for you and and you ready.

God will always choose him. Here's God intent.

I'm here to establish you and your family.

Is it really that bad? God's trying to make sure you

ready. Here's the crazy part.

God is trying to make sure of what happened to you.

God is trying to make sure of what you grew up in.

God is trying to make sure your experience is not replicated in

the future generation. So, so don't get offended when

God shut the door. Somebody say shut the door.

Somebody say shut the door. Every act of God is a rebuilding

and a revealing of his image and likeness in you.

God is trying to get you back to the garden.

God. God's trying to get you back in

the garden. That's what God's trying to do.

If he was here Wednesday, you would understand that no born

again being is still at the cross.

Every born again being is resurrected.

I'm a resurrected. Being that means I live from

victory, I pray from victory, I talk from victory.

I walk from victory. Somebody say victory.

Matthew 7. We read this in the previous

experience, but just the breeze through it.

These words I speak to you are not incidental additions to your

life. You do not just come to church

to get the Bible to say oh that's a nice cute verse or you

use a scripture for a post. You got more scripture.

Posted on your page than your heart?

How about that one? How's the How's the algorithm of

your heart? And you mad folks won't share

your stuff, Have you? Have you ever asked why you in a

season where God won't share you?

This is all Bible. Too.

He doesn't work in you, but he could share you to the world.

So the only people you stuck really witnessing to is that

stubborn family of yours who too familiar with you to even learn

from you posting scripture. You probably ordered stuff from

them Christian websites and got you a T-shirt.

Got that worship hat? You got stickers, You got screen

savers. Like, do you?

This ain't your heart. What saved in here?

Oh, we going to get somewhere. Come on.

You can call me Rude right now. Go ahead.

Rude. Thank you.

That's OK. That's OK.

Back home where I'm from, Emerson, somebody would be like

your Mama or No, My wife would have said it.

Amen. My wife.

Hey, man. Jew.

PJ. PJ.

Hey, man. We.

We've had that conversation. We're healed now.

We're healed now. Hey, man.

Hey, man. Hey, man.

I grew up tough, man. I grew up tough.

It was fun, though. It taught me how to battle back.

You know, it's so funny because some of these young youngsters

that try to try to clown me, I don't know what you call it out

here. When people cap or clown or when

they talk about me, they'll just come up on me like I'm just some

OG pastor or something. That's just they just going to

come up and say something crazy to me and then I clap back real

easy. And you should see them.

They like, whoa, yeah, don't try it, I'll go with you.

It's all good. Yeah.

I love Jesus, but we can go some rounds.

Hallelujah. Amen.

Don't mess with me. He said these words that I speak

are not incidental additions. Here it is, he says.

They're foundational, they're foundation.

Can I help you? Why does God interrupt?

Why did he? Why did he interrupt the world?

And destroy it because he had to redo the foundation.

So don't take it personal, take it as a blessing.

God is saying I have inspected something in your foundation and

I just need you to pause for a minute so we can redo a

foundation so we can build something that can never be

taken down. And some of y'all are too

comfortable always rebuilding. Rebuilding is not glory to glory

is glory. Oops, glory oops, glory oops,

right. You then took two out and put

oops in. No, it's glory to glory.

It's faith to faith. It's stronger and stronger,

wiser and wiser, he said. These words I give you are words

to build a life on. People were building their lives

before YouTube. They were building their lives

before inspirational seminars. They were building their lives

before the Bible was printed. They walked with God, he said.

If you work these words into your life, you are like a smart

Carpenter who built his or her house on a what?

Solid rock. Somebody shout out solid

Wednesday night's message. We're teaching you how to live a

solid life. I encourage you to come out.

Even if you're late, come through, we have small group

breakouts. You get to conversate with your

brothers and sisters in the Lord.

And then there's worship, and then there's the Word.

It's powerful. Dynasty Wednesdays.

Look look look, look, where's to build your life on?

I will keep growing if they take every book out of every store.

This book right here. This word right here is

unfailing. If you work these words into

your life, you are like a smart. Carpenter building on the side

of it. Look, look, look, look, look,

look. I'm just reading the Bible, OK?

I'm not calling you names. But here we go.

The river flooded. A tornado hit.

Whoa. But nothing moved that house.

Nothing moved that flood came. So the flood came and dealt with

the soil of the house. No landslides in my house, but

nothing moved that house. Tornado came, but nothing moved

that house. It was.

What it was no fixed. They thought they was right.

Solid. Nope.

Wrong. Come on somebody say fixed.

Look, look here it is here it is.

Don't take it personal is what the words say.

But if you just but if you just use my words in Bible studies,

you got notes. Some of y'all don't even take

notes. What?

Hey girl, let me get your phone. Let me get your phone number.

You go to school, you got to take notes to pass that history

class you ain't going to use for nothing.

And then God is giving you stuff to build your life home and you

just sitting here thinking you just so smart.

You just got this expansive brain and you just going to hold

everything that the devil is making sure he going to work

overtime to make sure that you do not get back to the word

release today. That by tomorrow, half the word,

if not more is stolen from you and then you running through

marital issues and life issues and business issues.

But you came to Sunday. If you ain't going to let Sunday

help you on Monday, what you're here for?

Help this tall black man. Jesus I'm black what you talking

about? It's an honest prayer.

Please, Lord. In words in Bible studies and if

you don't work them in your life, you are like a stupid.

What does the word say? You are like a.

Stupid Carpenter. You wouldn't even give your

money to a stupid Carpenter who built his stupid house.

On the sandy beach? Come on, say stupid carpenters

build stupid houses. Like, hey, here's here's the

thing. When you date and you don't look

at no word, when you you pick your boyfriend or girlfriend

based on their looks, based on their money, based on their

smile, their charisma, based on their sex.

And I ain't talking male or female.

You basing it on all this other stuff.

So you going to go for this, this little, this little model

home and never inspect the foundation.

And when you do get a glimpse at the foundation, you want to be

like you can change it. You can't change nobody's

foundation. That's they foundation.

If God couldn't change it, who you think you is?

Come on. Hey, say say win a win a stupid

Carpenter. Give you a quote, it's going to

be stupid. Believe the stupid Carpenter,

but don't call him stupid to his face.

Just know he's stupid. Look at your neighbors.

Say run. Here it is.

Here's what happened to stupid carpenters with stupid houses.

When a storm roll in and the waves came up, I heard man, I

heard a rapper. He he little Russell, he he he

he was talking about hip hop and all in his bar.

He said this line that. He said don't blame it on the

rain, blame it on the roof. You blaming the storm when God

gave you a chance to build a roof that can outlast the storm?

When the storm rolled in and the wave came up, it collapsed.

Collapsed. Nope, Nope, Nope.

We can't do this right now, OK? We can't do this.

I know I instigated it, but that's OK.

OK, It collapsed like a House of Cards.

Come on y'all, we trying to help y'all there?

There would be a lot of living pastors if the congregants

listened. There could probably be some

saved marriages if the people that certain couples are called

to to leave would listen. But I ain't going to.

You ain't going to mess my marriage up or my life.

I'm good. You don't want to listen.

Guess what? You could be a stupid Carpenter

all you want, but I ain't going to be stupid.

I'm not going to be a stupid pastor.

Hallelujah. Don't be mad.

Don't be mad. You're going to be mad at Jesus

in a minute. Watch.

I'm about to show you rude Jesus in a minute.

You think I'm being rude? Watch.

Watch Jesus. Now look, is, is that really

rude though? That's the question I got for

you. Is it really rude though that

God interrupted you from killing yourself?

Is it really rude? Is it really rude that God

interrupted your life so you didn't bring some kids in to

your stupid? House You want to raise kids in

a stupid house and then God interrupts you and you ain't got

no kids. Praise God, because you would

have raised stupid kids. Stupid Carpenter, Stupid house,

stupid kids. Everything's stupid.

Come on, somebody say you got some nerves, Jesus.

This one of the messages you thinking about somebody that

needs to be here and I'm going to tell you to share it with all

the stupid people you know but do not tell them I'm sending it

to you because you're stupid just.

Send it to them. Come on, one more time, you got

some nerves. Jesus, right then the dog up

here listening to Raise. You raising dogs in stupid

houses? And then you, and then you

inviting friends over to your stupid house.

We talking to Christians, though, we're not even talking

about the world. The world ain't stupid.

They obedient. They doing what the flesh

supposed to do. They doing what darkness

supposed to do. And they're doing what life

looks like without knowing God. What's yours?

Use the days of the lazy Christians should be over just

how you approach the word, how you come in this house, how you

listen. Stop listening lazy right,

because you're a you're a Carpenter.

You ready if you was if, if, if you was going to hire you in 10

years and you know what kind of student you are, would you hire

you knowing how you sat in class?

OK, moving right along. Say you got some nerves, Jesus.

Now real quick, knowing the correct password, saying master,

Master, for instance, isn't going to get you anywhere with

me. Oh, so knowing Christianese and

knowing the language of being saved is not going to get you

anywhere? What is required?

Somebody say required? What does required mean?

Required is serious obedience. Don't stop playing with your

life. Stop playing with obedience.

When God said change, he meant change now.

When God said put the bottle down, he meant put the bottle

down now. When God said be a husband, he

meant be a husband now. When God said be a wife, be

Mama, daddy, whatever what God said do do it now.

Stop playing with your life. Some stuff ain't going to never

get convenient till you make the first step towards obedience.

See, me coming to church every week is not a matter of

convenience. It's just now I'm so stern on it

and solid on it. Everything around my life, it's

built around obedience. It's not built around comfort.

So it might start off if you don't.

Want it? It's inconvenient to go to Bible

study. It's inconvenient to give to the

Remnant project, but watch how God builds around his word.

How is obeying the one that saved?

You inconvenient, he said, doing what the Father wills.

I I can see it now. I can see it now at the final

judgement. Thousands will be strutting up

to me and saying, master we preach the message, Master we

bash the demons, Master our super spiritual projects had

everyone boasting. He must be talking about a group

of people who think they saved and they deserve his clap.

Master, look at what I did. I went to.

Church every Sunday. Lord, remember the remnant I

helped build that church. Remember that person I prayed

for? I prayed for them.

Look at all that I did. I was there at 6:00 AM slaving

for your church. I set up chairs.

I carried buckets through the tent.

I mopped water on concrete. I Lord look I served in.

Children's Church. Oh my God, look what he says, he

said. You know what I'm going to tell

you? You missed the boat.

You miss what the whole purpose was about.

Look what he says. All you did was first of all

say. Rude.

What do you mean? I casted out demons and you're

going to be like, I missed the boat.

I prayed for the sick and I, I prayed for the sick and I missed

the boat. I gave into the remnant and

helped build your church and set up chairs every Sunday.

I missed the boat. Somebody say rude.

Yeah, right. That's rude.

He said here, here it is. You don't impress me one bit.

That's what God said. He said you don't impress me one

bit. He said you're out of here.

Get it. That's that's what Jesus said.

Now if a pastor came up here and was like, man, thank you for

setting up chairs, but I heard you sleeping around.

You missed the boat, buddy. This is why it's very important

that we care for your souls more than your talent.

So don't get offended when somebody say, Nah, you're not

stepping up here because you're not healthy.

No, you're missing the boat and health does not mean arrived.

Are you actively renewing your mind and making changes and

receiving accountability? If you don't like

accountability, you ain't healthy.

You don't impress me one bit. You're out of here.

Somebody say rude. Luke 9 Here it is.

Y'all ready? Jesus then turned to another and

said come be my disciple. He replied someday I will.

That wasn't Jesus reply it was a man.

He said come be my disciple. The man like somebody, some

people in here. He says someday I will Lord, but

allow me first to fulfill my duty as a good son and wait

until my father passes away. Lord, I want to follow you, but

in this season I'm busy. I want to follow you, follow

you. But in this season, I I'm busy

with work. I have, I have a new

relationship that you blessed me with.

I followed you to get them, but I got to stop following you

because I have them. Allow me first to fulfill my

duties. Wait a minute, when God calls,

he means now. And sometimes God will call you

just to show you you don't want to go.

Well you like. Well, I haven't heard the call

yet. Here it is today.

God's calling you. He sent me all the way from

Oakland, CA. He's calling you.

Well, God doesn't talk to me like that, OK, Well, you, Stu,

you stupid you. Stupid look, look, look, look,

look, look, look, look, look, look, look, he says he.

He says until my father passes away.

Jesus refused. Jesus said, uh, uh, but what you

would think, Jesus? My dad's about to die.

I. Actually need to go prepare his

funeral. You would expect OK, no problem

homie, Just like I'll be around the corner tomorrow.

I might be down there at her house.

She she missing the leg and then they they ran out of food down

the street. So they need me down there.

So I'm going to be around the corner.

And, and just just just go handle business.

And he said, look, your business is life, not death.

Your business is to tend. To.

Life, not death. Oh, you got 2 hours a day for

this death. You.

You got 30 minutes to watch, some for 5 minutes to watch some

porn. Death.

You, you, you, you, You, You, You, You, you, you.

You. Got some time to smoke the

Cathiba Death. You got time to let somebody

know they didn't ticked you off and see cuss them out.

You you got time to be codependent.

You got time to believe for a spouse.

You got time to please a lot of people.

He said life is urgent. Announce God's Kingdom, let the

dead bury the dead. One translation says wait a

minute you you just going to tell me let them bury my father

because he's pretty much already dead and follow you.

I don't see Jesus repeating himself but but was Jesus really

being rude or was Jesus calling him out?

Some of you don't mind hanging out with toxic family and

friends more than to come around.

Life and you wonder why you drained somebody say rude or was

it Matthew 9 says when Jesus came to the ruler's house, check

this out y'all and saw the flute players they they was already in

the music he was dead to them they were.

Right, right. Can you imagine this?

This is a young girl on her deathbed who were professional

hired mourners. You know some of y'all

professional grievers. You'll find anything to grieve

about some of y'all. Hey, my, my, my homie from from

elementary school who I haven't seen in 30 years.

He died. Man could I take off work.

Some of y'all got relationship with people that people don't

know they're in. Relationship with you.

You ain't seen them in 10 years. What kind of relationship you

got? Now all of a sudden you're going

to the funeral. See Jesus?

No, look, look, he said. Who?

The mourners? Look, look, look.

And and the grieving crowd making an uproar she's dead.

Here it is. He said go away.

Jesus came into the crowd. They're grieving aunties are

grieving their niece and father is grieving his daughter and

grandparents are grieving their grandchild.

And Jesus said get out. Then they laughed at him because

Jesus is like she not dead and some of y'all rather sit there

and cry. Then to follow someone who going

to lead you in faith so you get offended when somebody not

patting you on the back instead of realizing God sent somebody

to get you out of the pit. Show you what?

A faith life. Look like so you can walk in

victory. And they laughed and jeered at

him. But when the crowd had been sent

outside, Jesus went in and took her by the hand and the girl got

up. See, if God does not kick doubt

out, then faith can't come in and things can't be resurrected.

So sometimes God is getting you out of some of these

relationships. Those people that need you.

Some of you are in relationships because they really made you

feel like you're doing a good job in their life, but you've

been telling them the same thing for five years.

But somehow you serving them makes you feel worth something,

so you can't stop letting them drain you.

But you tell somebody else about how much they drain in you.

That cousin. Look, family don't mean you got

to get your peace away. No family ain't you.

My son or wife or husband ain't a license to steal my piece.

No, that ain't the devil. That's and that ain't your

husband. That's you.

They've been getting on your nerves the same way for five

years. Who fault is that?

That's you. Ain't the devil, ain't God,

That's you. And maybe your transformed

response will bring transformation in their lives

because familiar spirits the way you respond and is keeping them

right there. But if you maybe stop caring

about they little funky attitudes sometime they only got

to face God instead of trying to defend themselves from your

response. So y'all just trigger each

other? God's like get all the doubt out

and let me do what I came to do. I don't care how much y'all

crying, some of y'all let tears control you.

All it takes is some tears to manipulate you back into a

situation. Somebody say rude or was it?

Look, a Gentile woman who lived there came to him pleading.

A Gentile woman came. What pleading?

Come on, say what pleading. Have mercy on me, O Lord son of

David, for my daughter. She gave them all the knife.

The the, the the. Accolades and all the

credentials O son of David O Lord Jesus let us die for my

daughter is possessed by a demon that torments her severe You

ready for this Jesus Y'all just think Jesus love casting out

demons. So I'm just about to come to

Jesus because he in the casting demon business out and the devil

just tormented my family watch this watch this watch this watch

this she came Lord the David son of Jesus father Abraham got many

sons. My daughter's possessed right.

You would think that Jesus, that you, you think you know.

He's like, oh daughter. Where is she?

What's this? But Jesus gave her no reply.

Oh, I haven't heard from the Lord.

Oh, God didn't move fast enough. Look at this.

Not even a word. He didn't give her a word.

He didn't give her a he gave her no energy.

He's not moved by your urgency, your emergency or your feelings.

Somebody say rude. This is very rude.

Then his disciples here's here's here's how his disciples

responded. Hey, hey Jesus, send her away.

Tell her to go away. They said she is bothering us

with all her begging. Let me, let me make this

practical. I'm going to be, I'm going to be

somebody that's real with you. Some of y'all come to church

begging and weeping and crying all the time, but you don't want

to obey the word that grieves the Holy Spirit.

Yeah, yeah, keep needing prayer because you need to operate.

You need to learn how to operate from the glory too, not the

glory. Oof, right.

You just come to church and have the same old sad story all the

time and oh, God, and Oh no, no, no, that grieves the Spirit

because you're he's giving you the medicine.

You not taking it, but you complaining that you're getting

worse or nothing's changing, not even the word.

Then the disciples are just go. Away she's begging.

Are you ready? Prayer.

Obedient children do not beg, especially for stuff that God

already gave him. And Jesus said to the woman,

Look, I was sent only to help God's lost sheep, God said.

I didn't feel time to get help. It's Old Testament still, and

that's a story within itself. But here he is.

But she came and worshipped him, pleading again.

She kept on. She was resilient.

He said. Here it is.

You were. You thought he was rude.

Watch this, Annabelle, he says. Now he's talking to her.

It isn't right to take food from the children and throw it.

She's at her worst and he calls her a dog.

Rude. Thank you.

Right see some of y'all don't want to look at Jesus this way

and there's story after story after story after story.

You can look at it as rude or you can say what is he doing by

ignoring her because if you keep reading the story she doesn't

give up. And he says, man, I ain't seen

no faith like. This her faith, although it

wasn't her time, move God out of time and see see see like

there's this principle that God is not ignoring you.

He is trying to burst this hunger for Him.

And some of y'all don't want to keep praying because you want

God to just move. But God's not interested in what

you're interested in if what you're interested in is greater

than He. And some of y'all want a job

more than you want a relationship with God.

Some of y'all want your spouse to change more than you want to

change and be who God called you to be.

So you've made an idol out of your spouse's issues?

Super rude. Watch this.

I'm just about to watch this. Jesus ignored blind Bartimaeus.

Blind Bartimaeus here he is. Jesus son of David, have mercy

on me. And they were like quiet down

bro rude. And it said he cried out the

more Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me.

Jesus is ignoring him the whole time.

But here's another story. Right.

This thing in the green is kind of what's going on in your mind.

If this happened, maybe my healing is not for me today.

I don't know why healing is for them but not for me, but blind

Barty May is. He cried out the more loud and

what happened? Jesus say whoa there is

desperation in his frequency. He really wants me.

Some of y'all have no desperation in the frequencies

of your prayer. You just want God to get you out

of something. But does your life change show

how much you really want God. He ignored blind Bartimaeus.

Here it is you ready? Starving the flesh births

desperation for God and God alone.

Maybe The thing is not for me, but maybe God is for me.

Have you ever thought about the thing you're waiting for is not

the most important thing? Mark 8 Look at this blind man,

begged him to touch him. They brought him a blind man and

said, touch me. Watch this.

He caught the blind man by the hand, took him out of the city

again. Getting rid of doubt, getting

rid of all the attention. Do you want to be healed or you

want it how you want it, when you want it?

Man, I've had somebody. You want to believe this?

I had somebody who was possessed by some demons.

You going to come to me and tell me and my wife and the elders?

No, I want to do this privately. Or they was like deal with me

aggressively. You want deliverance or you want

to dictate if you can tell me how to deliver, you deliver

yourself because I'm not the one that delivers in the 1st place.

But look at what Jesus did. The Bible says what he blind

right? What did the Bible say Jesus

did? Read it.

He he what? Come on, talk to me.

Right blonde, you ain't seen since you ain't never seen

before. Jesus spit on your face.

Who going to get an attitude in here?

Right. He spit on your face.

You going to be too? Do you want to see?

But what if receiving your sight?

Jesus says you got to get a little mess.

It got to get a little messy. 1st.

What if he had to interrupt your life?

You're in a mess right now. He didn't spit in your

situation, but you're about to walk in the clarity that you've

been waiting for. Say that's rude.

Say that's rude, right? But if you see in the green that

sometime we say that, he's spit in your face.

He's like, I didn't ask for all that though.

God, no, you didn't ask for that.

You asked to be free. Now you want to tell him how you

want to get free, right? It's like asking for a husband.

You he bless you with one. And then now you want to change

your mouth. Somebody say rude.

Look at this. He told he told the rich ruler,

you want to follow me? What do you tell them?

Sell all your stuff. Oh, what if God's asking you to

lay some stuff down, right. Elder John, come up here.

Remnant project. You're like, oh, here it is

again. Rude.

Always they always want to rude. Wait a minute.

You just said follow God, so God saw it fit for you to sow a seed

to open the door you prayed for. We never heard of this guy

again. God said you want to follow me,

sell all your belongings, give it to the poor.

He didn't say you'll be broke all the days of your life.

Member Perspective How did you hear Jesus when he gave

instructions? Some of you say it shouldn't

take all that The disciples saw Jesus sleeping in the storm.

He said you don't care about us because you got all that peace

over there. We over here about the drown

with attitude. Oh, you don't.

Care. About us.

You know that person you call them with they frantic and they

think you don't care because you're not flashing?

You ever had them people in your life who think you don't care

because you're not freaking out like them?

Oh, you don't care about what I'm going through See in the

green, that's us. Jesus sleeping you like I don't

hear no answers. He must not care about me.

Oh, he turned over tables rude. You going to mess up our whole

little display? We got we just set these booths

up. We got banners everywhere.

We making money and you going to make a mess out here?

You really going to mess up my life, huh?

And disrupt and turn up. Yeah, Jesus turned up.

He called them foolish. Can Jesus call you foolish

without you getting offended? And I'm giving you scripture

references, so you go check it out yourself.

No, it's quiet in here in this little Pentecostal church.

He tells this woman you got 5 husbands.

Some of y'all be like, ah, stop right there, Sir.

But but wait a minute. It started off with him saying

can you give me some water? But then you turn around and say

it ain't my like we ain't even supposed to be together and

you're going to ask me to get you some water and then you're

going to be rude. And I told you I got I don't got

a hug. He like you right you got.

Five. I got 5 on it.

Nope. And then in the green, that's

how that's you're saying you see these statements.

It's funny because I'm sitting here studying.

I'm like writing these statements.

I'm hearing us. I'm hearing this all.

And Jesus going to tell you. Jesus is going to expose you

like the man of God or the woman of God.

You're going to act like that word wasn't for you today.

So you going to say how you just going to assume that?

Jesus, I know you're right, but how you going to assume that

here it is? OK, take Jesus out of it.

Let's see God do it through the this brother, this woman getting

ready to go die with her son. She got a little bit of bacon,

bacon powder left. She got a little bit of little

bit. Look.

See. Give me some water and break me

off that last slice. Somebody say rude.

How many of y'all would be prepared to die, have a little

one slice of cake left you about to you about to die, eating your

favorite chocolate cake and then God sends a man to God in your

life. You think it's about the cake

and God sent someone to save your life and some of y'all are

holding on the petty stuff? And you and you and you and you

willing to forfeit your. Life to have a slice.

Look, look, look, look, give me some water, he said.

Why you going? Give me some water and give me

that last slice. I hear, I said.

That's not at all going. To help my situation, Sir, just

let me die in peace. Some of y'all really talk to

God. He'll ask you to do something

ridiculous. He's like, that's not really

going to help me. God.

You think you know better than God what's going to help you

out? Yeah, he tells Peter.

I've allowed the devil. He came to me and he wants at

you. And I told the devil.

Sure. So I'm here.

I'm here to tell you, Peter, the devil's going to come.

I'm letting him through. He's coming to sift you like

wheat, buddy. Hold on.

I pray. I'm Nope.

Nope, Nope, Nope. I'm praying your faith does not

fail, right? Nope.

You've been going to church. You've been reading your words.

You got your divos. You go to your small.

Group. You got the faith, right?

So we're about to go through a proving season and let's see

your faith. So I've allowed the devil to

come to come prove you. Hey, you ready?

A part of God protecting you is allowing the enemy to prove you.

You ready. They do not let a car on the

street that they built. They know they built a safe car,

but you cannot certify it until it's proven.

Can you imagine Peter? Some of y'all go to a different

religion. Like this Jesus ain't real he

about to just let the devil do and just be at me like that.

He was like what you doing look at look at what some of y'all

say. How you going to say you love me

Jesus, but let the devil do that to me?

He go Peter again out all night fishing G say hey Pete I know

you just wrapped you just rolled up your net you ready to go

cabin nap you disappointed you didn't catch nothing tonight.

You going to go home wifey going to be like where the fishies He

like baby. It was a bad day today had no

fishies today. He said let me let me borrow

your boat. What that got to do with me?

Let me borrow your $10. Hey, give that. $100 to the

Remnant project. Hey, lay that relationship down

for a seat. Can I borrow him for for a

season? Can I borrow?

Can I get my son back for a seat?

Can I get my daughter back for a season?

And what did Peter do here? Sir, you can Peter be learning

some lessons. He's like, yes, Sir, you can

have a boat. OK.

And Jesus preaches a long sermon.

You know, I'm not the only one playing long sermon, OK?

I get it from I get it from my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Hallelujah. Don't be mad.

I'm I'm like Christ. I'm Christ like Hallelujah.

And he says thank you for allowing me to use your boat.

Take the boat out. For a minute.

He let Jesus. In his boat to use it for his

purpose. And then Jesus took his boat and

blessed his family. Something that started off

seemed rude, inconsiderate. You don't care how tired I am.

You don't care that it was a barren season out there on the

water. And then you going to ask me to

go back out in a discouraged sea?

You, you asked me to go back. Now see some of y'all think that

God is just trying to totally remove you from something and

God's saying no let me have it for a season so that when I take

you back. To it, it will be.

Fruitful how I planned. We're here like Peter, probably

some of y'all. Jesus said.

Sorry, but you don't know what you talking about, Jesus, You're

not a fisherman like me. There's nothing out there, Sir.

I gave it everything. I went to school, I tried that

relationship, I tried this, I tried that.

I really gave him my all Jesus and he said like drop it one

more time, try it one more time, apply one more time, repent one

more time. Go back to that relationship

that you ready. Some of y'all don't go back to

that relationship. OK, that's my word today.

I'm going back. That's my word.

I receive it. I receive it.

OK, couple more mysteries and parables.

Jesus never really told you straight up what was up and some

of y'all y'all talking about y'all want to hear God but you

well. You want him to say go left?

No. Jesus did not just go left, go

right. No.

You going to go to a city and there's going to be a woman

there. Jesus, there's heck of women

there. Hey, you're going to go to in

town, you're going to see this donkey tied up on the gate and

if somebody asks you what you doing with a donkey, tell them

Jesus needed y'all wouldn't. Follow Jesus, I promise.

Right? Some of y'all like Jesus.

Come on, I need a sign. I need a wonder.

Just shoot straight. Why I got to do all this

searching? And guessing and waiting and

believing and trusting and unraveling mysteries.

Wait a minute, here go Peter again.

He's trying to help Jesus from being utterly destroyed.

And Jesus looks at his friend and say get behind me Satan.

Somebody say rude. I am trying to help you and you

going to tell me? Get behind me, Satan.

Here it is. Here it is some of y'all you

would have told me you'd have lost your mind.

I'm trying to help you out Jesus.

I'm trying to look out for you and you going to call me Satan?

Here it is. You ready?

He didn't call Peter Satan. He was talking to the spirit

behind Peter that was causing Peter to see through his

carnality. And not see Jesus purpose.

He didn't understand that Jesus actually had to go through what

he was going through. So he was saying ah you ready

for this? Satan can even use my loved ones

if they don't understand what's on me, they aren't thinking

about where they're guiding me. And some of y'all love people

that can't see the anointing on your life guard the anointing.

Somebody say rude, rude. See his parents, his brother

left his parents. I don't know about you, but

where I'm from, if I left from where my parents was and they

had if my Mama had to walk several hours back to find me

and then when she found then when she found when she walked.

You know that look when you get lost or you do something or your

Mama walk around the corner and you like.

Look, we have been worried sick over not finding you.

Why would you do this to us? You should understand our

concern, Jesus said to them. Why would?

You need to search for me. You know, if I told my Mama what

you trip and fall, Can you imagine spanking?

Jesus. Didn't you know it was necessary

for me to be here? Oh man, look, Jesus mother and

his brother came where Jesus was teaching, but they couldn't get

through the crowd. It had gathered around him.

This is like if one day when Love quest is packed around the

corner, there's no room in here. It's overflow.

My mom show up to the church and Deacon Rodgers like.

Let me go. Let me go tell your son you out

here and then I say Deacon like yo-yo Mama and your brother here

pastor. OK, your mother here, she wants

to speak to you and I tell Deacon Roger to go tell Jesus,

told the crowd. These who come to listen to me

are like my mother and my brothers.

They're the ones who long to hear God's words and put them

into practice. He ignores his Mama is outside.

See some of y'all have given family license to just be be

stupid as a family. And Jesus says my real family is

the ones who actually do my father's will.

Some of y'all spend way more time with people who out of

God's will than the people who God has called you to to be in

his will with, Jesus said to his mom.

And she said, hey, hey, they ran out of wine, son.

Jesus said woman, what does your concern have to do with me?

He says my hour has not come yet.

He, he, he and then he goes on. He says leave it to me, his mom.

Came and said, can you bless these people?

He said. Why is that your concern?

Jesus preaches everyone's in all.

Of his words he like. Wow, he's anointed.

Who does he think he is? Isn't that Joseph's son?

You ready? He said to them, you will no

doubt quote this proverb to me position, heal yourself.

Whatever miracles that we heard were done by you and Kaepernick,

they're applauding him and he says you going to reject me so

you can go and be flattery to Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.

And then you wondering why he's still correcting you and you

like, but I worship you. Why you being so harsh?

Why you cut off that situation, why you didn't save it, why you

didn't preserve that relationship.

The woman at the well, there's so many situations where Jesus

is like constantly caught. He knows what's best for us.

I'm going to have to pick this up next Sunday, but man, we have

made Jesus to be out to be this just person we can run over.

It's like we. Can act however we want to act,

then go and make a request and then be mad when it ain't

answered. And what we call a answered

prayer is merely God's facilitating promise.

He's not doing anything new per SE.

He's given us everything that we need and and us N Americans have

made Christianity a joke. And one thing I love about this

church is because we have fun. We like shout and we, we, we

dance. We know how to do all of that.

But it's these sobering messages right here that really brings

transformation. It's when we got to sit here and

really be like, man, I like my. Christianity is really a joke.

I'm about to leave this rich word today and what am I about

to go get involved in until next Sunday?

Can't wait to get back to next Sunday.

One service and then live. Six days out there, when God

forgot to love the world, he gave his only son to die for me.

Then Easter comes, we dress up and celebrate, and then we go

back after Easter, we go back after Christmas and we live

these bland lives as believers and we want somehow.

God to reward us and let us play with the world, play with our

flesh. And you know what's at the

expense your witness, some of you in here bring a lot of.

Confusion to your friends. But you say you're a believer.

But when they hear your mouth, when they see your attitude,

when they see how you go through storms, when they see your

double life, you might just think you having fun.

But somebody that moment with you is life or death because

they're making a a decision, they're making a summation.

They're they're, they're drawing a conclusion of who Jesus is and

what he allows to follow him. And This is why.

Jesus didn't give you no soft answer when he put a he says

this is is he really saying don't care about your father

dying or is he trying to point to how much it cost to follow

him and some of y'all make following Jesus some of the

cheapest commitments ever. I don't got to be committed to

church nothing but one service a week and some of y'all hearing

like. Oh, you beat.

Me up. No, no, no, no, no.

Remember, we just read about Rude Jesus.

So this is the word I'm only. Speaking to you.

Don't forsake the gathering of the Saints, the gathering, the

gathering, the ongoing gathering from giving to serving to being

that giant out there in the world, in the culture so the

culture doesn't consume you, to forgiving, walking in love, to

not living the life of the flesh, to not living double

minded, lukewarm. It's what he tells you and and

all I could do is, is, is spend some time with you.

And even if. We're going 30 minutes longer,

an hour longer. Guess what you going to do?

You about to go Monday through Saturday and not come back till

next week and you about to sit at work for 8 hours to get some

money to pay some. Bills.

And you ain't going to say nothing about going to work so

somebody cares about you enough to push past your comfort zone

and your limitations to tell you man, in this hour being a

lukewarm. Christian is not cute.

This city is one of the most most toxic cities in the world.

No you America, no Vancouver. And guess what God's answer is

to the city. His local church.

I'm crying out to you, stop playing whoever this is for.

Lukewarm Christianity is not cute.

A storm is coming and how you last in the storm will expose

your foundation and your church attendance won't stand.

The excuses over and being on fire.

For Jesus is not because there's a whole lot of people we went

and jumping around and and lukewarm being on fire for

Jesus, not talking in tongues. There's a whole lot of.

Cussing tongues. It's about at the end of the

day, man, put all that religious stuff aside is like, are you the

real deal or what? That's the question I got for

you. What are you willing to pay?

I don't know about you but the real Jesus saved my life and

where I was from and what what what God has brought me from.

I owe him my life. And when you put it in

perspective that one thing you want to cling to ain't worth

what he let go of to be with you.

And I'm not here just to fill seeds.

Trust me these this church is going to be filled with people

who hungry for God. But I've never.

Been raised in a lukewarm church.

Ever always been raised around accountability and I praise God

for pastors who kept it straight and real with me.

But lukewarm. Thank you, double life, thank

you. I don't know why we skipped from

holy to go to so rude. We ain't picking this up past

next week at most, but I do believe this message was an

interruption. Because this, this message is

pretty practical. Like God, at the end of the day,

thank God he's interrupted our mess.

There's some stuff I know I would have kids with, some folks

that I would not be with right now if he didn't interrupt my

life. When are you going to celebrate

that he snatched you out of a pit instead of complaining about

you? What, you missed that thing or

you missed that thing? Do you know the joy if you can

see five years from now where you would have been if he didn't

interrupt your life? I don't know who this is for,

but there's a cry in my soul. Stop.

Playing his mercy, his grace, it's real.

And some of you in here are playing with your life and

you're playing with other people's life.

You have not been saved from that.

Car accident from that mental illness, from that drug

addiction, from that alcoholism, from that demon possession, from

that child abuse. You haven't been healed from

that molestation, so you can stay parked at lukewarm come

out. It's not worth it.

And as much as we say in the bus is left and shoulder season is

over, there's still a cry that I'm picking up from heaven.

And God does not want to leave you behind.

He's really trying to break these cycles in your bloodline

and the Father that you're mad about, you're just becoming.

Just like him, but in a different version of him.

You're still bringing the same abuse.

It's just emotional, not physical.

And the way the devil stays in generations and in bloodlines,

he changes his mask. And you think you not like your

Mama? You think you not like your

daddy. Oh, you go to church more than

them. But are you working the word in

your life? Not just working attendance.

Why do we have to squeeze attendance in?

Why do we have to? Why is?

This why is God just? Battling for your attention,

your time. Get it over with.

Gathering with the Saints is biblical.

Giving is biblical. You ready?

If you taste Jesus, you don't need to keep alcohol in your

life. Stop looking for scriptures that

tell you specifically. I don't care if you got a weed

license, I don't care if it's a plant.

You really taste Jesus. It's no greater joy.

Whatever you do. This week your church has

offered you another opportunity in 2-3 days to gather with the

Saints, worship, get some word in you.

Because if the truth sets you free, you're free indeed.

Forget a quick deliverance, drive your strongholds out with

the Word of God, and you'll be free indeed.

I am not free this way because I had a demon cast out of me and I

rolled around on the altar and I snotted on a mat.

I am free because the day I made my mind up, I stayed around His

Saints, I stayed in His Word, I stayed worshipping and I let the

Word do what it's supposed to do.

You ready? If you're not going to follow

Jesus, don't bring another kid in this world.

If you're not going to follow Jesus, don't ask to marry

nobody, and don't ask nobody to marry you.

These are clear instructions that I'm giving some of y'all.

Like it or not, rude or not, remember that I told you this.

This is a season, straight up. God wants you to himself.

And he tried to let you have what you wanted and work him in,

but it won't work. God wants you to himself.

You cannot undo what you're in, but you can do right as you move

forward. We're going to take a few

minutes. You can go home, whatever you

got to do. We're going to take a few

minutes and have a Say Law moment.

For those that don't understand what Say Law is, it's when they

allow the minstrels to play as the word is pondered and

meditated on. If you want to use this

opportunity to go home, please, But what I'm not going to do is

give you this quick ending and then go home.

And then we've socialized and the severity of this word is

overlooked. I'm here to tell you God is not

rude. Jesus is not rude.

Someone that makes these abrupt decisions in your life, someone

that is interrupting you, someone that will not leave you

alone nor forsake you so that you can live the life that He

created you for. That's not rude.

What is rude is those friends that let you get away with

rebellion and won't tell you. What is rude is to be a parent,

to be a friend, to be a child, to be a student, to be a peer,

to be a Co worker and allow disobedience to function around

you and don't say nothing. That's rude.

What's rude is you hang around lost friends and you won't

preach Jesus to them. That's rude.

What's rude is you won't make the decisions to change for your

children. That's rude because for God so

loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son.

God gave a life. You can give up a.

Cup God gave a life, you can give up a joint.

I just feel the Lord is saying He is trying to do something

right now in some people's hearts.

And you can be too familiar with my voice or you can hear God's

word and take a few moments and just listen and say, Lord,

search my heart that I might not sin against you.

I buried a word in my heart that I might not sin against you and

truly give the Holy Spirit of space to bring conviction.

And He's not asking you to do everything at once.

But man, this week you got to take some steps towards Him.

Sons and daughters are coming home.

Take a few moments, Lord, What are you saying to me?

Glory to glory. Lord, forgive us.

A few more moments. Some of you stop doubting

yourself. You can do it.

You can walk away, you can put it down.

I pray in this moment that the negotiating in your mind ceases.

Being stuck between two decisions?

Cease. Stuck between two lives?

Cease. Make a decisive dedication

today. I hear Jesus so clearly.

Simple, follow me. We've made it about finding a

church home. We've made it about so many

other things. And it's simple.

Follow me. I want to lead.

You follow me. Follow me.

Two more minutes. Follow me.

There's some of you in here that have laid down your call because

you're just busy with work. It doesn't mean that there's not

purpose in your work, and this is not for everybody, but there

is an higher call. And realistically, everybody's

busy with something, but we must be intentional with our time and

intentional with our call. I just hear, I just really hear

the Lord for a few of you, or the Lord's like, pick it back

up. I'll give you wisdom and how to

navigate both and how to navigate.

All of it. Pick the mantle back up, pick

the call back up. You can do it.

It will take you to prioritize some things.

And for whoever this is. For forgive yourself, forgive

yourself. We've all been stupid carpenters

building stupid old houses, and by the mercy and the grace of

God, He's allowed the house to crumble while He preserved us.

Why don't you? Celebrate you not being

destroyed, although the house was.

I promise you a year from now you're going to look back and

say I'm glad he didn't let that stand.

Those that are hungry and thirsty for righteousness shall

be filled. Whatever you're hungry for,

whatever you're thirsty for, it will fill you but not fulfill

you. Like Jesus.

Some of us are full off the wrong stuff.

I will say as the word says. The day you hear my voice.

Harden not your heart, Church. The Lord is calling us back to

Himself and I don't know how many people in here have ears to

hear. But I pray you heard through the

laughter, through the length, through the cries.

I pray you heard from the Lord somewhere in your heart and your

spirit. Storms are coming.

No one is exempt, but what really matters is what ear is

your foundation made of? I'm glad to say that not because

I'm so tough, but I know what's in my foundation.

And I'm glad that my wife and I did the work to rebuild our

foundation. And I'm glad my grandma and my

mom laid down a firm foundation for us.

And my prayer today to you is if you know that you've been

building on saying that you make the decision tonight to stop and

build right on the rock. Christ the solid rock.

I stand all other ground sinking sand up on this rock, he says.

I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail.

Hell prevails in houses that's built on sand.

I declare over you today no more.

Today is the final notice to all of hell.

No more you shall steal. No more you shall bind.

No more you shall lie, no more. And I will not believe you no

more. Today I declare over you that

you will take the word and it will become your fortress.

It will become your strength. It will become with you.

Stand on trust in. It will become what you find

your identity in. I declare that fear will not be

your medicine, that doubt and unbelief will not be your

fortress. I declare today that you will

not find your identity in your trauma, but you will find your

identity in the King of King and the Lord of Lords.

Today I declare for some of you that you will take your life

back. You will take your identity in

Christ back. Now I ask you Saints for 60

seconds to lean over to your neighbor and pray for them now,

with fervor and with authority. Come on, pray for them.

Let them hear you praying for them.

Come on, God, do it. Come on, I take my life back.

I take my courage back. I take my boldness back.

I take my strength back. I take my peace back.

I take my joy back. I take my love back.

Come on. Come on.

Come on, you are free from that noose around your neck.

You are free from that bondage. You are free.

From that curse you are free. From that lie you are free.

From that stronghold, you are free in the name of Jesus.

Pain will not stop you. The lies will not stop you.

We, the family, spirit of powerful, spirit of life, spirit

of God, we need the fear of the Lord.

We want to thank you so much for tuning into this week's sermon.

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