So Rude (9AM) - 4.06.2025 (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International

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

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Amen. Come on, make some noise for

your neighbor one time. I promise you that was not

planned. I'm a very shy person so I would

never ask them to do that. I promise, I promise.

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The graphics is fire done done in house.

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house and it's annoying so be a part of something great.

Look no further. I'm I saw it and I'm so happy

for what God is doing at 2819. It's the church in Atlanta.

But I think what made me sad is a family sold everything and

went to the church in Atlanta because they they wanted

revival. And as much as you say revivals

landed here at your church, how many people have you compelled

and let them know that fire has landed at your church so they

don't have to move. Now I believe that God ordained

that family to move, but how many people you would sell

everything just to be where God is right?

That level of desperation to where I got to find a house, not

just my favorite pastor, not just a word.

I will take my wife and my children.

We will sell everything and we will just trust God and we going

to drive from Canada to Atlanta because we have to be where God

is moving. What kind of what what kind of

urgency do you put on Because here, here's what I will tell

you. Revival has landed the fire.

God is in this house, right? And what I noticed in certain

parts of the world, it's not that God isn't moving or is

moving, it's the people that He's moving amongst.

How much importance do you put on it?

If 2819 call out their church to come to church every single day

for a month? I promise you, because I'm from

that soil, I would say 80% of the church would show up every

day because they know and believe that God is moving and

they know to live in that climate.

They it without God, it's impossible.

We're cozy out here, I get it. But if you want your city saved,

let's put it this way. Vancouver is one of the most

broken cities in the world. Your, your, your city with all

the Grizzlies and the mountains and the lakes and the rivers and

the, the dolphins and the whales that's floating through and all

the eateries and all of that. This city is one of the most

broken cities in the world. There's a revive.

There's, there's a price for revival.

So this isn't just some cute little thing you come to on

Sunday to get you fixed is really not about a lot of the

stuff that we we make it to be. I'll make an announcement your

church this church has Wednesday night Bible study every week.

What you going to do about it Immediately there's a passage

about some of you man, I just bought a house.

I got to man, I just got married.

I got to man. That's my gem time.

I got to man, I'm busy. I got to, that's my kids got to

when I, I got, there's a total team in the back.

Everybody's busy and everybody prioritized what's important to

them. This isn't a matter of if you

have time to come to Bible study, It's the level of price

you put on it, right? It's like we put a price on

being on Instagram, but look at your, your, your screen time and

it'll show you that Instagram is a priority, right?

Why are we here on Wednesdays? Not just to gather.

We're here to stay full. We get here to get sharpened.

We get here to get encouraged. We get here.

See, renewing your mind and transformation is, is a

lifestyle, right? You can't be transformed without

the renewing of your mind be transformed by the renewing.

Let me help you out. You can't be renewed once a week

ready. You can't be renewed once a week

gathering with the Saints and the rest of the week gathering

by yourself. The the church is God's pencil

sharpener. Like you got to be around the

body to be sharpened. You got to learn how to feed

yourself 100%. But the gathering of the Saints

in the last days will be a matter of life or death for some

people. The local church is the

bloodline that's keeping our society connected to heaven,

right today I have the strangest message to preach to you, and

I'm here for it. So pray for me, OK?

Because I've I've never presented Jesus this way.

I know I have. I warned you.

I think I've been warning you. I think I've been.

Yeah, I've been warning you. OK.

And so today, just brace yourself.

Pray for me. Receive.

We going to laugh. We may cry.

I don't know. I'm just getting ready to strap

up and we about to go on the ride.

I don't know where this is going to end.

I'm warning you. I don't know, OK?

I'm just in the passenger seat and I'm along for the ride.

And I'm the one in the car that got to talk the whole time, OK.

And so you can say a few things too.

So. But Father, we thank you today

for your word, the bread of life.

Lord, as we sit at your feet and we receive your Word, we thank

You that Your Word will be preached and received with

courage and boldness, without offense, but with love and with

a desire. And they made-up mind to respond

to the Word. May we move from just being

intellectual hearers to partakers in the life of the

Word. Holy Spirit, make us

uncomfortable. If that's what you need to do,

convict us. If that's what you need to do,

correct us if that's what you need to do.

I know whatever you need to do is is to make us better, is to

bring us back into the image and likeness of Jesus Christ.

So we here for it. I declare that we are good

ground. And lastly, we come against the

spirit of error, not only speaking it, but also hearing in

error. We rebuke the devourer, we

rebuke the enemy, we rebuke the flesh from being able to steal

the word, manipulate the word, tarnish the word.

We rebuke Darnell now in Jesus name, Hallelujah.

Darnell go in Jesus name, Hallelujah, Amen.

If you don't know who Darnell is, see some stuff just come in

context. It's just like when you hear

most of the time you get all inside jokes and stuff like

that. So ask somebody who who Darnell

is. OK, but not now.

Not now. Knowing what's happening because

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

prayer life. I'm going to say it again

knowing. What is happening in your life

because of God's hand or the devil's hand is very crucial to

your prayer life. How we pray is based on not just

our knowledge of God, but our perspective of God and what's

going on in our life. Right.

If someone knocks on your door but you think they busted it

down, you are going to respond based on a busted down door, not

somebody that just knocked. And we all have a tendency, some

way more than others, than to them blow.

We, we. We.

Blow things out of proportion and a lot of times we are

perceiving through trauma we're perceiving through lies you

ready we're perceiving through fatigue you're just tired the

kids aren't really loud you're tired right your wife didn't

just curse at. You, she just said.

I don't want to cook. I don't know what's worse.

Right. She's tired.

You're tired. But our perception of who?

And this is what a good director, film writer does.

You don't know who killed who. They present you all these

options. And you like wait a minute and

if you if you like me and my wife, we like watch movies as

buddies and sometimes I get on their nerves because I'm the

person that don't really like intellectually watch a movie.

So I'm always like, what happened?

What did what did that say? What they say?

Like I'm watching the movie. I know they just went in the

house, but what is that conversation about?

Right? I need you to summarize it every

like when there's a break in the movie, can you just tell me why

they right? This part don't seem that

important. So can you explain the last

part? Because based on the soundtrack,

something just happened and I think I need to know what just

happened, right. So I'm the person you we

watching a series together. When we get back to the series

before we start the next episode, I'm like, what just

happened? OK, There's where, where there's

there's two different. Eyes and two different sets of

ears. And that's how it is right now.

Everyone in here is going to hear based on your lens.

Some people you walk in here already offended because it's

cold or it's a tent. So you looking for a reason to

leave because you cold, not because the word bad, right?

You got male issues, trust issues, female issues, you, you,

you, you, even me some places I couldn't wear this hat up here

in the pulpit without you. You can't hear that the words

anointing you just like he wearing a hat.

And now you judge him based on how you was raised.

So you got lenses of religion in here, you got racial lenses, you

got all kinds of lenses. And let me tell you your prayer

life. Is is is a communication through

your life lens, not even through your word lens.

No matter how you how long you pray, you will always end up

back at how you see it. Why God say renew your mind?

That's where perspective is. That's where perception is.

OK. So this is very important today.

Here it is. Listen, God, Devil both uses

your obedience to fear or faith. A lot of us in here have blamed

the devil on a lot of stuff he didn't even know.

What's going on in your life? Both uses obedience to fear or

faith. So God uses your obedience to

His Word. The enemy uses your fear.

OK, here's what fear is. Fear is faith it won't happen.

Fear is faith. It won't.

Work fear is faith. It couldn't be me.

So both of you, both uses your obedience to your fear or faith,

both uses your determination or your doubt, your forgiveness or

your bitterness, your disbelief or your belief, your trust or

your suspicion, your unity or your division.

They move within the boundaries of God's Word or lack thereof.

The devil cannot mess with an obedient child of God.

There's boundaries. Those that stay in the shadow,

under the shadows of Almighty's wings, those that are, are under

that are in, those that are abiding, those are in the narrow

gate, those that are walking in the light.

He says your steps are ordered, understand?

So the devil is looking for people that's out of bounds.

This is why a person who is obedient never is threatened by

the devil. The devil is not even a part of

your vocabulary when you're obedient.

God's not talking about the devil.

As far as God knows is the devil's defeated.

The devil did not resurrect. He has no resurrection power.

He's done doomed over. But that sin conscious you

always think the devil has power.

And let me tell you something, you can't think that the devil

has power and see you as victorious here.

It is the life of the law of the Spirit or the law of the Spirit

of life. Romans 8/2 It refers to the

principles or the power of the Holy Spirit that sets believers

free from the law of sin and death, offering liberation and a

new life in Christ. There's.

Two laws. One is the law of spirit of

life. And the second.

Is the law of the flesh that refers to the natural

inclination towards sin and self centeredness that is in is

inherent in humanity contrasting with the guidance of the Holy

Spirit. This is why it's easy to find

sin in someone more than holiness.

This is why it's easy for you to look at yourself and see how bad

you are versus how redeemed you are.

Because we are naturally born into the law of the flesh.

But through Jesus Christ we transferred over.

We not double Dutch in. This isn't a split.

I don't got 1 foot into the life of death and 1 foot into the

life of death. I don't have one foot at the

cross and 1 foot at the right side in heaven.

I'm either still stuck at the cross because I'm a Sinner or I

got up when he got up like the Bible says, and I'm living a

victorious life at the right hand of my father.

This is what the word says, right?

So it's very important because a lot of times what we may see as.

Rude by God hint hint. When I mean rude, this is very

important to get before we move forward.

What I mean. Rude is inconvenient,

inconsiderate, loveless, insensitive, or attacked.

A lot of times when we think God's being rude.

Not like little kids throw tantrums because their parents

are trying to do something that's going to grow them, not

slow them down. You think you're my you ever had

your kids? Say that was rude.

No, clean your room. That's all I said.

And then I added now on it and that's rude.

Or you didn't do it. No, we're not getting ice cream

today. We get ice cream tomorrow.

Why are you yelling at? I'm not yelling at you.

I'm just I'm talking with certainty.

Right, somebody say rude, right? You got to understand rather you

have ever called God rude. If you really think about it,

you have considered God as rude for interrupting your life, for

closing that door. But opening 1, you didn't want

to walk through you like I didn't ask for that open door.

He's like, well, that open door you prayed for, you got to go

through this open door first. Somebody say rude, right?

But understand when you're saying God is rude, OK, you are

really saying he inconvenienced you.

He's inconsiderate, loveless, right?

That's how we see accountability.

See it it's insensitive and attack today's message is called

so rude, so rude somebody say so rude and then God's response is

and now what you going to do? Oh, this is a weird message

today, but it's so good. As I'm getting this ready, I'm

like, yeah, if nobody in this room has ever just I've I've

considered God rude when you brought me to Canada.

No, not that part was rude. When you brought me for one

reason and then a few months later that thing blew up in my

family's face after we said bye to everything, packed up

everything took our one year old, our 8 year old, and our 10

year old on the road and, and, and, and they left their friends

and we left our parents. Super rude.

You might have lost a loved one and you like really?

Someone might have mistreated you.

You like, really, you might have been in a relationship and God

shut the door abruptly. And you like, rude.

You didn't say it out loud. But today I'm about to present

to you rude Jesus because you you you think you would follow

Jesus if he was in his flesh today Like if he was up here you

think you would follow Jesus. I would say 98% of y'all by the

stuff you get offended by now you really would have been you

would have been left to church. You would have not followed

Jesus and therefore you see why certain people in the Bible

didn't follow him after a while. Jesus just I'm talking about the

human little Carpenter super rude if rude is defined of how

we see rude Now there's going to be two parts today.

We not going to get through all of this OK but today's message

is so rude and he's saying back and now what you're going to do

because he's never changed his rude nor has he apologized for

being rude. I've never heard God apologize

to me for disrupting my life. The day came when Yahweh said.

To Noah, let's just start real quick at Rude God come into the

ark. You and your entire household

prior to this, Noah's God told Noah, hey, buddy, look at here.

These people are nasty sick and yeah, there's no way you guys

are going to make it. If we don't do something quick

and I've chosen you and your family to build an ark, buddy,

no one's going to believe you. You're going to look at you like

you're crazy. And because they don't believe

you, they won't help you build it.

You're going to build This rain is coming, although there has

not been a sign of it. And guess what you're going to

do? You're going to take your

family. I didn't get to this part last

week, but there was 8 humans in the ark.

New beginnings. It was Noah's sons and their

wives, 6 and Noah and his wife. And then he said I need 2 by

two. I need I need a male and AI need

a male and a female if we going to reproduce this day.

I need what everybody said male and female.

OK, so it's going to be you and your family. 8 is enough and

then everybody else, your friends.

You notice what he said? Take your wife and your kids.

Your uncle Neil, your neighbor that you you y'all cut each

other lawn, your Co workers but God what about the little girl

down the street? Wait a minute God what about Bob

and his disabled children? God what about that man that's

sick down the road? Like what we you mean I'm

building an ark for me and my family?

Not even my whole family, just my immediate family.

I'm only grabbing 2 of each male.

And female of each animal. And this is your redemption plan

to restore humanity. You.

You mean that a day is about to come that I have to be separated

from all I know, and you don't want me to offer nobody else

this opportunity to escape hell? I don't necessarily see this

conversation that I'm having right now with God and Noah or

what I do. See Is God giving Noah

instructions? And Noah obeyed.

There was no conversation, God just gave instructions.

And what's crazy is what he left behind was very small to the

humans that were on the line. In the future, God's plan is

forward. God is always calling you out

of, away from. Here we go.

OK, OK, OK, he says come into the ark.

Here's an invitation. Anytime God asks you to do

something, even if it's difficult, disrespectful or

rude, he's inviting you into something.

You and your here it is your entire household for I found you

pause yeah those those say to be only be the only one righteous

in my eyes in this generation. Now I do understand this is a

shadow and type and this ark represents Christ and all that

come into the ark or all that come into Jesus Christ.

New Testament believers, we are all redeemed and saved judgment,

saved from hell, saved from death, saved from darkness,

saved from eternal death. This is an Old Testament

prophetic image really happened, but it's pointing to Jesus

Christ. So I could take this and, and,

and the implications of this is to tell you, man, how many

people are you leaving behind if you don't come into what God is

inviting you to? This is what I mean when God is

inviting you into something, what's more important, where you

want to stay or where God is trying to take you for them?

Right, it's very. Hard to be codependent and

follow Jesus. For I have found you to be the

only God found you. Like forget how hard it is.

Who are you that he found you to be qualified?

Who are you that he found you to be a vessel?

That he wants to invite you in on a transaction that he's about

to do in the world? Like you're worried about the

wrong stuff. So what is hard?

Who are you that you was once lost, disconnected from him, and

now he found you worthy through Christ to walk with him to

redeem some other people? Oh man, you think way too small.

The day and you're going to notice throughout the message

today, there's going to be little notes at the bottom,

little conversations I'm having. I'm little side pieces, little

AD libs. OK, It's the day he calls you

for them. And they went into the ark with

Noah, two and two of all flesh, in which there were the breath

and spirit of life, Verse 16 says.

And they that entered, those that entered, male and female of

all flesh, went in as God had, as God, as those that entered,

entered in as God has commanded Noah.

Wait a minute. So you mean Noah's obedience has

a trickle down effect? I would tell every man in here

you want to get your family in alignment with God's plan.

You lead the way of obedience and you stay anchored.

Some of the greatest attacks in family happens because the the

the priest of the the role of the priest of the house gets

shifted over to somebody who wasn't called to be the priest

of the house. And then that woman, that wife

got a carried of spiritual load of the house.

And sometimes the child has to parents don't want to go to

church with the children. Like mom, I want to go to

church. And a lot of times these days,

parents don't go to church. They'll drop their kids off at

youth ministry. Husbands don't.

Husbands don't want to worship. They don't want to do the extra.

They want to be men. Men, let me tell you, ain't no

man if you don't really follow the man, all of him, every word

he's spoken. My marriage did not turn around

one iota until I said yes to God and followed Him from that day

forward. Trust was rebuilt.

Strength was and This is why I don't matter what happens in my

children's life because I am not disconnected from the

cornerstone. My kid.

It's only, it's, it's like if your kids was on, you know, you

know, you ever see them? Kids in the mall and their

parents got them on a leash. That now I was that's that's,

that's not human right? That's not OK.

OK, it's like, but that's how it is when you're anchored in your

in in When you're anchored, you can't anchor your family to

income. You can't anchor your family to,

oh, I go to work so we can have this lifestyle.

So what when your kids go astray?

This is what I'm staying anchored for.

I'm depositing today's obedience for later on, for a later on

attack of the enemy. So when my kids go that way, I'm

staying right here and it's only a matter of time that they will

return. Are you ready to the place?

I don't even know my kids, they life, they emotions, they they,

they activities will never move you or me from where God has

called me to stand. It is no excuse.

There's public transportation. As the man of my family, I have

a responsibility to be the first one in the ark, and if you ain't

with me on that, you preach in another gospel.

Hence why your soul ain't prospering.

Rude. With truth.

And he goes in and says, And that that they that entered male

and female of all flesh man. No, no, I can't get off this one

last thing man. I watched women hold it down in

my family for men. That mean that men is better.

That's just how God ordained it. I watched my grandmama hold it

down for men. I watched my Mama hold it down.

I watched my auntie hold it down and when is the women going to

stop having to hold it down? That mean no, no, we going to

hold it down together. But the women often are carrying

the spiritual burden of the house and that's not God's

design, says when in as God had commanded Noah listen and God

knew how hard it was for Noah to leave.

So I'm not going to have Noah have to turn back to close the

door. And the season that you are in

and have come out of God is the one who shut the door abruptly

because you were too emotionally tied to do it.

You would have turned back to close the door, but you would

have walked back out of it. And that's the prophetic image

you have to see. It seems rude, but you were too

in Kate. You were too attached.

God, in His loving mercy, close the door for you, and He shut

it. He shut you in and He closed the

door around you. He's not just shutting you in.

He's also keeping that stuff out in your right mind.

You really want to. Do you know if Noah had to close

the door? See, when God closes the door,

it's like great sound insulation.

Noah couldn't hear the claws scratching at the door.

He couldn't hear the screams of his neighbor.

He couldn't hear the cries of parents.

We see it in today when people are trying to escape other parts

of the world and boats are leaving them and they're

carrying their children around. This is real stuff.

Noah had to leave knowing that everything he knew, everybody he

knew, and their families were not just about to experience an

earthquake, they were about to be wiped off the planet.

That's why God didn't warn you or God God's like, why would I

warn you when you didn't take none of the red flags?

See, God ain't like us. He don't waste his breath, nor

is he going to beg you like he he's like you wouldn't listen.

So I'm just going to have to shut the door.

I don't know if I'll get it to it to it today, but God talks in

multiple ways. First, he talks directly to you,

then you won't listen. He talks directly to you in a

few ways. First of all, his word.

The second way he talks talks to you is he sends a messenger who

ain't afraid of you. And do you know how many people

will disobey not only God but they also disobey the messenger

and got the nerve to tell the messenger me and God?

Good. No y'all ain't.

You're just using a using God as an excuse to not obey who God

sent. And you really think we up here

trying to just be your God? No, we're messenger sent by God

who just ain't afraid of you just going to tell you how it

is. And guess what?

You'll never be able to tell God.

What was all that? For I want to go back to Genesis

6. You shall make a window, right?

First of all, that's rude. The, the, the, what we just left

is God shut the door. When when God is moving, there's

no time to give goodbyes. Let me, let me help some of you.

Let me help some of you. You can't move on until you get

closure. And God is saying you don't need

closure. He's closed it.

Trying to get closure will cause you to walk back in because

you're dealing with a manipulator.

I've come to notice that when I've yearned foreclosure, God is

you don't need closure. But that was pretty rude that

like you just, you know, Noah's probably 1 to go back out.

Is everybody in? Noah walked in and heard boom.

I want you to understand this arc had only one window, so it

wasn't like Noah could just run up and try to you know when God

closes the door. All you, All you.

This is how you know this is how.

No, that's how you know God closed the door because only

thing that's left to see is him. Hey, look, look, look here it

is. You shall make a window for

light and ventilation, not a window to escape out of.

He said you only going to need two things on this walk.

You going to need light the Word, and you going to need

ventilation worship. That sounds like a simple life

right there. I based on what he he just shut

me out of because of what you had there was arguing, fighting,

rebellion, all kind of stuff kicked in wasted money.

God said, look, this is a hard. Season emotionally, but this is

going to get as simple as you've ever had it.

All I need from you is to get in his word and worship me, he

said. I need you to to make this

window light and ventilation for the ark and finish it or at

least a cubic 18 inches that's really not that big like a

window like you like you want maybe this big old arc and then

you just want 18 inch window. Here's the part, it said.

From the top. That window ain't for you.

That window is for the sun to come in because y'all going to

need some light. You see the little note at the

bottom what it say focus on me. We when God brings us in seasons

that he's like I mean I'm allowing all this to happen

because I'm trying to get your attention.

We find that is rude like God. But I wanted to do this and I

wanted to do that. We blame the devil, we blame our

Mama, we blame the pastor, we blame blame the weather, we

blame the city, we blame the government, we blame all these

things and God's like. He said and set the entry door

of the ark in its side, and you shall make it with lower second

and third decks. And I wrote a little note at the

bottom. If God put a door on it, it's

also a promise it will come out of this.

But how often when God is trying to shift your life, you think

it's over. You're right.

You never going to have them again, but I promise you the

next thing is going to be way better here's but listen, but I

will establish my covenant solemn promise, formal agreement

with you. Hey, hey, people, some folks

won't be saved in this city until you accept the covenant

God's trying to establish with you.

There's some family members that until you accept the, the, the

promise and the, the, the agreement that he wants to make

with you, the call that you're avoiding is not just hurting

you, it's hurting them. Let let OK, OK.

I have people say tell me and my wife all the time.

Thank you for saying yes. What do you mean by that?

They don't mean old PT. You, my God.

No, what they're saying is man, God put something in you for me.

I've been to. This church, I've been to that

church, I've heard this speak, there's some amazing speakers,

there's some amazing churches, but somehow it seemed like God

customized what's in you and what's in this church.

Just for me. That's you too though.

But there's people that one day are going to say thank you for

saying yes. Then you got to go from yes to I

do. And you shall come into the ark.

You and your three sons. There it is.

And your wife and your son's wives with you.

It's going to keep right. You see at the bottom, I'm.

So you're just going to be stuffed there.

So the promised way is the valley way.

We just promise, promise, promise, promise, promise.

Valley. Woo, no, just promise.

The promise way is the valley way.

The valley way is the promise way.

Please don't get offended. 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 where it started.

Don't be offended speaking on God's behalf.

I'm just trying to help. I'm just trying to help.

Yeah, it's hard. I'm just trying to help.

Yeah. I put leaders in your life that

will offend you. I put leaders in your life that

sometimes won't get it right. They going to get on your nerves

because you think you do it right and then you can know how

to do it and whatever. That's OK.

But they're my leaders and I've anointed them.

Touching out my anointed. I get it, but I'm just trying to

help. I moved a family all the way

from California, sunny old California, because I'm just

trying to help. I shut that door just because

I'm just trying to help. I yes, no, I know.

I get it. You're going to grieve for a

little while, buddy. But one day you're going to see

your name in a book. We're going to talk about you

thousands of years later because you were a part of of ushering

in the Savior of the world. You don't understand how your

piece is important to who God is trying to usher into this world

100 years from now. Somebody say he just trying to

help. These words I speak to you are

not incidental additions to your life, homeowner improvements to

your standard of living. They are foundational words.

Follow it. These aren't just words.

The Bible is not just full of words that just make you look

good and make you feel good and just kind of ornaments for your

life. They're foundational words to

build a life on. I will build my right.

We sing that right. What you going to build it on

though? Up on your It is up, man.

We be singing some songs and then on Monday we just be like

slipping all over the place. Quicksand.

Words to build a life on. Words to build a life on.

I'm talking about words to build a life on.

If you work these words into your, if you work these words,

if you work these words into your life, if you work them into

your life, not read them every day and think, oh, I did my

daily devotional today. God move.

If you work the word into your life, how you deal in

relationships, what the words say, what the words say about

your enemies, what the words say about sex, what the words say

about marriage, what the words say.

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

Carpenter who built his house on what solid rock.

By the way, that's the title of the message.

On Wednesday nights, it's been. Really, really good.

You should come. Solid rock.

Rain poured down. You built it on solid rock, you

obeyed God. You're working the Word in your

life, but it's still storming. So obeying God is not to do away

with the storm. Obeying God does not exempt you

from struggle. The river flooded.

A tornado hit the obedient, but here it is.

Nothing moved. Nothing moved the house.

I don't know who I was telling. Man, man, just just some things

that have been going on in our family.

Man, man, you would never know. It's not you will never know

because I'm just hard and I just, I'm just so I'm so strong.

No, I'm not just so strong. Me not being moved don't mean

I'm not weak. It didn't say you won't be weak,

It said you won't be moved. Am I talking to anybody?

You trying to change weakness? You're trying to change

vulnerability. It didn't say you won't be

vulnerable. It said you won't be moved.

It didn't say you won't be scared that time.

It just said you won't be moved. Scared won't move you.

Fear won't move you. Doubt won't move you, That's all

you're you're going to have all these human experiences.

But I shall not be moved. And an immovable believer is a a

witness that the world needs, he said.

Why? Because he was fixed on the

rock, he. Didn't just read about the rock.

It was fixed on the right, your life was fixed on the right root

it. But if you I love this

Scripture, anytime you want to talk to somebody a certain way,

man, the message, just read the message and just emphasize

certain parts like, but if you just use my words in Bible

studies, just come to church. Sleep.

You just come to church for what?

What? You just use my word in Bible

study and don't work them until your life?

Look what they say. You are like a stupid.

You stupid. You are like a stupid Carpenter

who built his house on the sandy beach.

What kind of Carpenter? Stupid.

Look at your neighbor and say here it is.

Why are you stupid? Why are you stupid?

When a storm rolled in and the waves came up it collapsed like

a House of Cards. So wait a minute you mean to

tell me the ones that do it right Storm The ones that don't

do what he say Storm only difference is 1 going to be

standing through the storm the other one is going to collapse

and have to. Start over from scratch.

Which one you want to be. You see why you stupid?

Because you keep starting over. You keep on trying to build on

top of a shaky foundation that's built those sands and it and you

like the devil. Was it the devil or was it how

you build it? So then when God brings

architects in your life, when, when God brings apostles in your

life, when God brings prophets in your life, when he brings

Apostolic ministry in your life. I know it's hard, but if you are

in this house, God is trying to deal with your foundation.

And if he if God is calling you to build your foundation, he has

plans for a building that will not be moved, right?

This is why these cathedrals in Italy are still here, because

someone built on a solid foundation.

Here it is you ready and when you build right, you will invest

to keep it right and that's why some of y'all don't mind moving

from relation to relationship because you know you built

cheap. That's why it's so easy to get a

divorce, because you know you it was cheap in the 1st place.

You you found out you're. Cheap, cheap, cheap.

That's why you don't mind sleeping around, because you

don't feel like you not building you on quicksand.

You build you just like God to forgive me, you're right, He

will cheap. Then you go.

Try to get married after sleeping around and you're going

to wonder why your marriage is struggling because you've been

playing in the sand all your life and God loves you too much

to let you build something solid on sand.

God does not have to. He does not have to blow it

down. He's not the rude 1 you are.

You're rude. How rude is it that he has

blessed you with all he's blessed you with and you still

avoiding it? How rude are you that he went

through? Do you know what God went

through to get the Bible in your hand?

Do you know how many people died and was persecuted and stoned to

get the word in your hand? And you're going to go to some

YouTube false prophet, You're going to go read some book

that's not rooted in the in the word of God just to build your

life up. You know how rude you are.

Who's rude? It's like Christmas.

Who's interrupting? Who keep trying to paint over

that termite infested wall instead of letting God tear it

down? You're just like, what you

doing? Put it back, put it back.

I like my walls. It got character.

No, it got mold. We just going to paint the wall

Gray because we got molds or we going to paint the wall

camouflage the mold in. And you see, let me tell you,

when you see people starting off strong and it looked like they

got their life together and you're like, what?

Happened to them. So you just looked at the the

rooms they was building and the decor and you just looked at

their charisma, their lights and their aesthetic but you didn't

look under. This is why it's very dangerous

to just jump in a relationship. You're not doing foundation

check. Most of y'all getting married

because of what you see above ground.

And then you get married and you start you, you have no choice

when you get married to look at the foundation and now you under

the house and you in the basement and you're like, you

got roaches and termites. What is this?

Oh Lord, and you, here it is. You thought you could fix the

house. Tell me any people that's in

construction that when they come and inspect the foundation and

they see it's a bad foundation, they going to rebuild your house

on a bad foundation. You won't even get signed off

for that and you get in somebody life and you just like.

OK, you got a little attitude, little mental health issues.

You got a little right. He don't like the she don't like

the work. Look, some little slight anger

issues, just slight, just slight anger issues like OK, but he but

he he treated he took me out to dinner.

Eat bubble tea, bubble tea, bubble tea.

All right, guys, we're going to pick up on the message next

service. OK, God bless.

Give God a hand. Give God a hand.

Oh my God, somebody say bubble tea.

Help us, Lord. Help us, Lord.

Help us, Lord. Wow.

Amen. I hope you got something out of

today. Amen.

Hey, we, we will pick up and the next experience man, we about to

go like like I feel like a law. I felt like a lawyer, like I

pulled together a whole lot of spots.

God with like Jesus was rude, like really rude.

I'm talking about how he he was rude to his Mama a few times.

What, Like Jesus was rude, but was he like, like, like Jesus

wouldn't talk to you straight? Jesus get you ask him something.

He's just like, you know. Well, he give you a parable.

Well, the Kingdom of Heaven is neither coming from the north,

the South or east, or the West, but the Kingdom is within you.

He was really rude. Or was he, what was he trying to

teach and ignoring? What was he trying to activate?

Because whenever I see him ignoring someone, they took it a

little further and then he responded.

Some of y'all stop at the Some of y'all stop at not hearing God

and you don't understand that He's trying to woo you into a

level of desperation that will change your life, right?

And what the enemy want. These are the enemy's words.

This is your. Flesh.

This is your flesh thrown a tantrum and once you stop seeing

them as rude or inconvenience in your life or insensitive, like

we're going to look at let the this probably just was like, can

can I go make arrangements because my father's dying.

He's going to be dead any day, he said.

Let the spiritually dead bury the dead.

Where do you you're trying to say I can't go plan my daddy?

'S and you calling me spiritually dead.

I can't like like to follow you. I can't go plan my father's

funeral. We ask y'all to come to church

for extra. I'm going to give up bubble tea.

I'm going to give up a date. I'm going.

You want me to? Come to church.

On Wednesday, right after work. Hey, I'd like to set an

appointment for a wisdom session.

My life is just. Yeah, just Can you?

Well, how urgent? It's real urgent.

Man, you got 2 services, Sunday wisdom sessions, You got

Wednesday night wisdom session and then I'm unavailable.

Pastor, elders, are we? We out here, just like for the

vultures, we just out here. So if you know what you want to

talk about and not get get get go, go go into this feel sorry

for me moment and came up here with some legit just like, hey,

I'm coming to you. I'm standing on this.

Word. Here's the scripture I'm

standing on. I'm going through this thing in

my life. I need to ask, can you give me

some wisdom on this one question?

I need to know how to deal with a household that man.

It seemed like I'm trying to live right, But in my house,

man, there's people on drugs, there's people with this, I'm in

a marriage with this, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah,

blah. Cool, here's some wisdom.

Boom boom boom boom boom boom. Let me pray for you cool on top

of the hour message because whether you know it or not, when

God is speaking in this house, He has prepared a message for

what you're going through. He considered you today when we

wrote so rude, but you want him to give you a direct you want to

hear the details of what you going through.

God will always talk to you above your circumstance and by

the time you latch on to what God says you going to look at

your. Circumstance and be like oh,

that's too small. I was worried about that Lord

shift my worry. May we worry about what you

want, what you're worried about, what you care about, what you're

burdened for. That's why you say your burden

is yo yoke is light. Your we thank you for your word.

We will work your word into our lives and we will live to see

the fruit of it. Lord, you, you, you.

You saved us that we might have fruit that remains, and the only

way fruit can remain is on a foundation that remains.

So, Lord, we thank you today. Forgive us for being offended

with your word and with your request, with your commandments,

your suggestions, your word, your guidance, your leading.

Forgive us. We're throwing tantrums.

But maybe you're just more interested in your way than you

are our way. So may we be more interested in

your will being done as Jesus said, not my will, that for

generation to generation to generation, every generation

after us shall see the salvation of the Lord and we thank you for

it in Jesus name, Amen. Give God a round of applause and

praise. Yeah, that's good.

That's good. Let me get my phone really

quickly. Just a couple of announcements.

We started round ball back up the Friday night.

We had a little battle, man. We got a couple guys on the team

that's new and you going to love them.

We got one guy on our team. I ain't going to even take you

come out on Friday nights. We're back in and we're going

after gold. All right, We play at 9:00 PM on

on Friday. Also told you about the new

single that's out. Listen up really quickly.

Good Friday, Good Friday, say Good Friday.

We are preparing to do a live recording called Home with him.

We are going to have a night where man, this stage will be

set like a living room. We'll be sitting around and we

are going to have a night where we are going to record some

selected hymns. Love Quest style.

It's going to be Power. How many people appreciate

hymns. It is going to be a live album.

We're Good Friday that we're recording and it's called home

with him. Bring some friends out and it's

going to be a a very powerful, powerful night.

And then Resurrection Sunday on on on April 20th, 9:00 and

11:30. Also May 9th, somebody say May

9th, there is our we're going to Victoria again.

Amen. We're going to Victoria again

and it's going to be an exciting time.

Last time we packed out the house.

It would be great to see more Love Quest people over there.

Make a day out of it. It's going to be beautiful.

Catch the ferry over there, have some food come the day before,

whatever. But let's go and see what God

has for Love Quest in Victoria. May 9th as well.

We have the the Mocktails album release concerts, La La La La,

la. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry,

sorry, sorry. I got so much going on in my

mind. Amen.

July 6th at Hollywood Theatre. It is a 19 plus event.

Tickets are on sale right now for $15.

Then they will go up to 25 and then they will go up to 35.

What is this concert for? It is for my first released

album after five years. It is my 12th album solo album,

but it is my first in five years and it's going to be a super

Dope Show. It will be Church in the Wild

and so make sure you get your tickets and then Pop Up Shop is

open. It is in the room.

What would we call it? Mom's room?

Don't nobody know Mom's room. It's in the building next door.

They will direct you over there. OK, go get some.

Go get some clothes. You might see some of my

clothes. You might see some of PJ

clothes. You might see some of Elder's

clothes. All kind of clothes over there.

And if you work, what are those one shoes?

Yeezys. Wasn't Yeezys.

It's some really nice shoes over there.

Y'all OK? Don't call them Yeezys though,

OK? Just call them Adidas.

Here you go. I think I'm missing something.

I say it Wednesday nights. You can stand to your feet.

I say it Wednesday nights. Correct.

Oh, there we go. Really quickly.

Where? My phone.

OK, really quickly. Listen up, Elder John.

You did a fabulous job on the compel today.

Here's what I need. Here's what I need.

God has been very clear that this first building love quest

is going to pay for is is this is not about getting money

outside of our church. This first building for what God

is planning is our responsibility.

All fifty of us hundred of us 65200 whatever that's on you.

Come on, say it's on us. We are very, very close to

inspection. Electrical for the like 9598%

ran, plumbing ran. We are very close to inspection

within the next couple weeks. OK, We cannot stop at the finish

line. OK, Elder John told you we need

a $185,000. OK, listen up very carefully.

I'm going to break it down because that sounds real big for

you. I need 20 people today. 20

people. How many people between this

service and next service to give a minimum of $1000?

How many people? I need 20 people to give $500.

How many people together? How many people is that 40 to

give $500? Then I need 25 people to commit

to give $100. How many people 25 How many

people is that all together? 65 Then I need 50 people to

commit to $50. How many people is that?

75 + 40 is what? Huh?

What? Huh?

How many people is that 115? I knew that I had it written

down right here, 115 people. We have more than that at this

church, I believe between $50.00 and $1000 and and 115 people,

100%. That brings us to $35,000.

OK. What can happen if we do that

for five weeks, Five weeks? Number one, what if 100 people

in 100% of the people in here made their minds up today?

I will tithe for the next two months.

What is that? That's 10% of your earnings.

I will tithe if I make $500 a week.

I'm going to bring. $50.00 to the church.

That's, that's my tithe. 100% of the people tithe first and

foremost, OK. And then we need that special

group of people that will commit, believe, have faith,

push it through, sacrifice. And what would happen if we can

get these numbers, 115 people giving this over 5 weeks, now we

need 185. That's going to be $210,000.

So I'm not going to believe for 185.

I'm going to believe above and beyond that.

But there's people in here right now that can absolutely give a

minimum of $1000. Absolutely.

Now you might give 5, but I'm asking for a minimum.

There's absolutely 20 people in here that can give $500 today.

Absolutely 25 people that can give $50 today or $100 and then

50. Some people here 185.

Be like whoa, hold it brother. First of all, number one I need.

You to take 60 seconds. With me, and I need you to

believe with me that God moves on our hearts, starting with me

and my family. He moves on our hearts.

OK #2 I need you to be the answer to your prayer.

We will get to this building and everything changes for us when

we get in this building. God doesn't.

But I will say this, there's only so much excellence you can

have with a tent, with a garage. There's only so much excellence

you can have with children's church, with boxes and couches

and desks everywhere. There is a large amount of

people that do not consistently come to our church just simply

the way to set up is. They know when it's cold or they

know when it's raining. It's going to be people carrying

buckets and mopping up. Water off the concrete.

So for most of you, amazing that you don't let that deter you.

But some people, they want a children.

'S church for their kids and look a certain way, have a

certain aesthetic and functions a certain way.

OK, giving our children's ministry a bigger space fixed up

with paint on the walls and toys and all the stuff they need and

being able to split up the ages is very important.

None of that stuff. Can really happen till we get

there. So it's not.

Just getting in the building for Sunday.

It's also getting in the building so we can begin our

after school program and we can serve this community that we can

feed this community that we can have a kitchen that's big enough

for certain. Parts of hospitality to do what

it needs to do so our youth can have the building, so we can now

start subleasing and bringing in other events and things of that

nature because we have three buildings functioning.

At its highest function, so it's more than just less gifts.

So we can have a Sunday service. It's let's give so we can start

serving this community. And how many people know the

harvest is plenty, Amen. But the laborer sometime is not

just setting up chairs. Sometime the laborer is giving.

Amen. Put your hand on your neighbor's

shoulders. Take 60 seconds.

Pray for the seed to come in. Over these next 5 weeks,

starting today, 2020, 2550 you at home?

Yes, I'm the one you talking to Lord.

20 seconds. 10 seconds. Come on shout out from

generation to generation in Jesus name.

Have a wonderful day. God bless you.

Until next time, get your love fixed.

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

We pray you were challenged, equipped and encouraged.

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