Spotless: From "Yes" to "I Do" a Bride That's Ready for You (9AM) - 2.2.2025 (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

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Come on. And you?

Heard me say this last week. The bride is sick.

Now here's what I'm about to do. I'm about to kind of rush

through some stuff, at least I think so.

And if God stopped me, He stopped me.

But I'm about to rush this because I need to get to some

other stuff. OK, so the bride is sick.

You heard me say that. And how do I know she's sick?

Because she's Luke warm. You got to beg people, you got

to find where people at, you got to beg people to serve.

You got people fainting, you got people looking to serve under

comfort situation. You get, I'm saying like there's

confusion in the body, there's Luke warmness, there's

backsliding, there's there's confusion, there's double

mindedness. We're just as divorced as the

world. We are just as depressed as the

world. Here's a big one, here's a big

one, here's a big one. We're just as anxious as the

world. I ain't never seen so many

anxious believers. Are we anxious?

And but, but we're not anxious about presence.

We're anxious about everything else.

But we supposed. To be the people that found the

way, the truth and the life we supposed to be the people that

have found peace. But you have the world's peace.

And why am I saying you? For whoever it fits.

You now you can bring it up. Now you can bring me up.

You have we. We've become more like the.

World than we know. This is why we're doing what

we're doing this this month, because the church is not meant

to be of the world. We're not supposed to be on the

world schedule, OK? And so our joy and our peace

doesn't come from every two weeks.

It doesn't come from raises and bonuses.

It don't, it don't come from marriage.

It don't come from having kids. It don't come from eating out at

top notch restaurants. It don't come at the expense of

affirmation from men. It don't come from finding the

perfect church. It don't come from none of that.

But that's everything we looking for, right?

We we are not walking. And he said, let us make man in

our what image and our what like our what image and our what like

one more time our image and our like.

So if that's how he made us, you tell me from the believers, you

know, just as a whole are we looking like him as they do, We

talk like, see, I'm not talking about how you are as Sunday on

Sunday. I'm telling you know how you

live, you know, OK, You know how you lay down.

On your pillow, how much you worry, you know, when you walk

in here and you worry about being seen or you worried about

being a hurt you, you, you know, and here it is in the body of

Christ. We have accepted like the world,

the diagnosis of the world, and we have embraced it as a part of

our identity and we have settled that.

That's just me. And that's not.

OK, so then God will raise up a Church in places that have a

real Apostolic call, and that Apostolic prophetic house is

always anointed to keep or activate or birth the scentness

of the Church, because the Church has lost its scentness.

We're trying to find church home.

Like where can I find community and friends and programs and

ministries, And then we park at home.

But the true essence of the Church is to equip you for when

we leave. Here, if the church doors get

closed again, you're not satisfied with streaming because

the whole time you had a problem coming to church in the first

place. Right, or you can go start, you

know, like if you're stuck with just you and your family and

your friends, you can start a church.

But what you're waiting for is, man, I hope pastor get a word.

But but during COVID, you could have started your own Zoom Bible

study. That's the real church.

But where there's pastoral churches, We're looking to the

pastor. He's hired.

She's hired. And they're hired to do a couple

things. Not everyone, but primarily

we're going to get a word. And these days a lot of pastors

only preach once a month. They have a teaching staff,

which carries the weight of the teaching and then counseling.

And then there's some business stuff involved.

So then we've learned how to find a home.

For the sake of being home, but kind of like when you come to

this church, there's this sense of like you found home, but it's

like keep your coat on. What you doing taking your

unpacking your bags, you home, but we getting ready to go.

Have you ever came home and your Mama was like, Nah, we got to

go, right? There's this sickness, there's

this move, and sometimes you got to go through.

See if God is planting a church like that that he can move

through for. Until Jesus comes back.

You got to understand a part of building the foundation of this

church is going to be a lot of spontaneity and movement.

It doesn't mean it's going to always be that way, but the

movement is going to be the norm.

It's the nature, it's the senteness.

This is why Jesus, we read it last week.

Jesus says, you ready to rough it out with me?

I don't have a home. He wasn't saying he's poor.

He's saying he's moving. And there's a lot of people

looking for a place to just settle and then you come to a

church that's like, no, it's the last days.

We're on the last leg fourth quarter and so it's cute you

have a church home, but what are you doing Monday, Tuesday,

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday? Is the church alive where you

are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday?

Or you don't have church till Sunday?

And that's why we take his Sunday away, so we can train you

how to have church Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,

Friday, if we look at how the church was when it started.

North America, like everything, we have made our own version of

it and we've allowed the world to have its input on.

Like, like, like I like Chick-fil-A, like how

Chick-fil-A is, is wealthy like it is and it's closed.

On one of the big. This is the day that parents,

I'm not cooking. I'm at the soccer field.

I'm playing, driving my kids around.

How are they they're? Closed on Sunday.

Is that are they are they believers?

Yeah. Where they get that idea from?

Maybe God gave them that strategy.

Who's prospering Chick-fil-A? God not everybody that like

chicken God's prospering Chick-fil-A.

So we about to be Chick-fil-A for February.

The bride is sick. God's coming is coming for a

bride that don't need makeup, No need for makeup.

That natural beauty. Now when you wake, when we wake

up, you want to look at us. Listen, I don't need to do all

of this. No need for plastic surgery.

A bride that can stand in his presence as sons and daughters,

knowing who they are. Plastic surgery.

Some of our prayers got plastic surgery in it.

The way you come to him. Some of you come to church with

plastic surgery. You acted like you got it all

together. But no, he's coming for a a

courageous bride, not disgruntled.

They're not coming for a bride that's insecure, not fearful.

He's not coming for an orphan spirited bride.

He's not coming for a double minded bride.

He's coming for a bride that got they mind made-up that Jesus is

period. But but but he's coming for a

bride full of confidence, full of zeal, full of fervor, full of

courage, full of peace and full of kindness and full of faith

and full of expectation, right. That's why I love what we're

building here. And This is why you have us on

your head about lift your head. Come on, respond because we are

preparing for his return, not for his promises.

Some of us come to church for promises and this is what you do

to get no, you don't go to church to get closer to God.

You actually go to church to share your intimacy with the

body. OK.

I mean, I'm like, when I come here, I I've got you should get

to a point that's where we got to get to, OK.

We got to get to a point where you're not the believer who's

always complaining. You're actually coming out

pouring out of your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,

Friday relationship. We got not coming out of and

serving or giving out of your fatigue and you come to church

so people can pour into you. When's the non believer going to

be able to come into church and the non believer and the

Christian is not on the same level of need?

Moving right along. So why, why, why does he want to

separate us in February? Why, Why?

And I want you. I want to make this very clear.

I want to make this very clear. What we're doing in February is

100% of God. But it is not 100% suggested by

God trying to teach. You how to walk with the Lord.

I'm his son and I have his heart.

So now we actually have a relationship and he says yes, a

change needs to happen. What you think?

Oh, oh, you when you walk with God, he's he's interested in

what you think. Actually, actually he's

interested in what you think because now you think like him.

So in him asking you what you think, it's for you to realize

you got his mind. OK, OK, OK, OK.

After you raise your kids, it come a time where you like.

What do you want to do today? But there is a while where you

don't ask them what they want to do today, because what they want

to do is not at all a part of any program for the family.

It's all about them. What do you?

Is it for a while you dress them and then after a while,

hopefully you can say you wear whatever you want to wear.

You see this, You see these levels to relationship and this.

The body of Christ has done nothing but wait on the Lord.

Wait on the Lord. Yeah, you wait on Him to renew

your strength, but you don't wait on Him to obey.

How are we sons and daughters and we have no say.

OK, here you go. Here you go all the way in the

beginning. Hey, Adam, I made all these

animals. You couldn't do that.

But guess what you can do? You can name them.

And here it is. You're going to name it.

As far as I know, a giraffe. Like you can't call a dog a

giraffe. So as far as I know, the way he

named them was according to their nature.

I don't know. But God made them.

He looked at them. I could have.

I'm just imagining. He looked at them.

And I don't know how he got to giraffe, but I would assume

because at that moment he had the purest form of image and

likeness. So as he was naming animals, he

had insight to what God thought about them and how God made them

and what they made them, what they were made for.

He didn't just out the giraffe. No, no, no, there is.

As a Son, you have image and likeness.

You have insight. God shares His mind.

Put on the mind of Christ. I have the mind of Christ.

Same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead lives in me.

When I don't know what to pray, Holy Spirit prays on my behalf.

There's this unit. Abide in me as I abide in you,

and then as you abide in me and I abide in you.

Then pray for whatever you want and I'll grant it.

It doesn't mean pray for whatever you want.

After the abiding together you take on His nature and you begin

to desire what He desires. So now pray whatever you will,

because you're praying My will. So he says, I said, Lord, I went

all the way left. He's like, Nah, you can't do

that. I was like, well, I think he's

like, that sounds like a good idea.

Let's do it. Talk to the team, talk to a few

people. And it's like, yeah, we gonna

do. And I felt a conviction.

Conviction went to him like Rebecca.

Lord, why are you showing me these things?

Why are you burdening my heart? He said.

All right, you gave me the burden.

Let me go up on the watchtower and let me sit there until you

tell me and give me a vision. And then what do you say?

All right, write the vision down.

Make it play. You get what I'm saying.

It starts with a burden. You go to your father.

And say, man, I'm not liking this.

What's going on? Why are you putting this on my

heart? Why are you allowing me to keep

seeing this? Why is this burdening me So I

put his burden back on his shoulders.

He put his burden on my shoulders.

And guess what we're doing? We're yoked together.

His yoke is easy. Why?

Because it's not my responsibility.

I don't take it personal, but I'm like, let's walk together.

He's here. It is the.

Blessing for him to share his burden.

Some of us see when God put a burden on you, you like, Oh, why

me? What?

You first of all, he. Didn't want to have nothing to

do with you. Now he's sharing his heart with

you and you like I don't have time.

Now he's chosen you and asked you to serve in an area and a

place that he cares about. No, no, no.

See, when He puts what He cares about on you, He puts His grace

on you to fulfill what He's called.

You to do. Hallelujah.

So he says he's going to set us apart and for useful, for

honorable and noble purposes. So we're fit and here it is.

Here it is. I said this this morning, you're

fit and you're ready for any, any work.

Here it is. Here it is anywhere.

Somebody say any good work? One more time Say any good work?

One more time say any good work, somebody tell me, what does any

mean? Come on, what does any mean?

Any right, any. So it's so, so, so who am I that

God will, will, will, will will transform my life?

He will save me. He will send his only begotten

Son. And then he asked me to do any

good work and I'm like, that's not what I want to do.

I love how God starts with what we don't.

Want to do? Here's the goal for it, because

he wants you to work and serve, not out of the thing.

He doesn't want you to make what you want to do an idol.

So he's cultivating covenant with you so that when you get to

what you want to do, you're not married to it.

And a lot of times we pray about only.

What we want to do and we wonder why is no breakthrough because

you only pray about what you want to do versus God.

Just make me fit and ready for whatever good work you have for

me. And I'm just, I just want to be

that guy and I want you guys to be the people God, wherever you

need me, I'm there. Clean hands this month, clean

hands, pure heart. That's that's what's happening.

He's, he's cleaning our hands. He's cleaning our hands.

We, we, we did a little prophetic shuffle with our

hands, like we was washing our hands and we had to stop this

folks about to set the place on fire because they, they was

ashy. You could hear the ash all

through the room. They, yeah, lotion hands don't

make no noise. But we had a whole lot of ashy

people in the 9:00 AM service. Hallelujah.

So clean hands, pure heart. Clean hands, pure heart.

Somebody say that Clean hands, pure heart.

We are creating capacity for his return, not his promises.

If you create capacity for his return, you'll always have room

for his promises. We have to stop being a

transactional believer. Ephesians 5.

OK, I got to give you this part. OK, husbands, go all out in your

love for your wives. This is this explanation Paul's

going through this, this this explanation in comparison of the

husband and wife in a earthly marriage and the resemblance it

should have of the relationship between Jesus and his bride, the

church, Somebody say the church. OK.

And so Paul says, man, I, I, I don't, I don't, I don't know

this mystery, this great mystery.

But what I do know and what is clear is the way he treats the

church right? I'll just say this quick thing.

Marriage was never meant to be in the hands of the world.

Marriage is a Kingdom institution that God uses to

mirror His relationship and His heart that He has for His bride.

Marriage is not a solution for loneliness or sex drive or kids

or a way out of poverty because you marry somebody with money.

Marriage is sacred. It is holy and it is for

purpose. Marriage, here it is.

Marriage is a ministry, not a recreational drug.

Marriage is a ministry, not a recreational drug.

We should not as a church, be as divorced as the world.

I'll say it again, we as the church should not be as divorced

as the world. No way that the numbers should

be anywhere close to comparison, but they are, sadly.

How do I know the bride is sick? Because you can look at our

marriages and speak to how sick we are.

Yeah. And so is Christ.

He never switches up on us. He never code switches.

He. He's always loving us at our

worst, at our best, His love remains the same.

Amen. Amen.

I received that. And so for a husband who truly

loves us the way he loves us, the response from the bride is

the responsibility from the bride is very high.

Like you have a very hot husband, but we're a very

lukewarm bride. I don't know, I've got to work

on it and overtime God has worked on this in my heart

because I found that it was a little bit out of my brokenness

that I was dependent on my wife's affirmation or big enough

brother up or you know, and I didn't take it well.

So like if I greet her with some excitement, I want that excite

give me that same energy. But but, but maturity says I'm

going to give that to you as an offering for for God so loved

the world that he gave his only begotten son.

He didn't ask for anything back. He said, I'm giving you this

offering. If you want it, pick it up.

If not, that's on you. But I know I'm giving you

something good. So when I go, Hey, babe, I don't

know how her day was and she, you know, she might be like,

hey, so now my that affects my response.

You, you know, when you give somebody a compliment, but deep

inside you want one back, right? And so so.

So we, we, we, we have a, a high responsibility to respond.

He gave with no strings attached, but as a, as a body,

our response to his love is super wack.

We, we, we serve grudgingly. We give grudgingly.

I'm not saying everybody, but, but if you really check the

vital signs of the bride now there's revival breaking out in

sprinkles throughout the the church is not unified unless

you're a part of that church's network.

But there's some on fire churches all across the world.

But as we'll see in a little bit, if one part of the body is

sick, the entire body is sick. I can't have a a torn Achilles

on my right leg and then be like but the rest of my body feel

good. So I'm playing.

No. In order for this to heal, the

rest of the body got a rest. You want to know what February's

about? Because there's some sick parts

of the body that that God has showed me and the only way is to

have some rest so the entire body can heal.

Now after February, if you want to stay sick and stay lame,

that's on you. But you will never be able to

say God has not tried multiple things.

To get your attention and then it says and how each he says

loving himself and loving his bride and how each wife is to

honor her husband. Right now, if I went into Peter

and he gave the gave gave gave the wife's role, right, The wife

is supposed to submit to her. Now mind you, in marriage that

man and woman, husband and wife submit ye to one another, that

we got that. But you can't change the

responsibility the husband has been given by God and what he's

being held accountable for, nor the wife.

But here's an attack. We want to make sure all women

feel like they got to prove to men that they can do the same

thing and get paid the same amount of money and we don't

need no man. This is an attack against the

body. This is an attack against

marriage. This is an attack against the

institution called family. So this movement over the last

couple of deck few decades of women trying to prove themselves

and now you got married because clearly you need a man, but then

you want to make sure you got equal say you're not going to

walk all over me. You ain't going, you ain't

going, you ain't going to do me like that.

I don't know who you talking to. You'll never have a whole

marriage trying to be God and stand up for yourself like that.

There's boundaries, but you need to learn how to first of all be

the wife who has a great relationship with God and let

your example of your relationship with God and your

pursuit for God be the thing that convicts your husband, not

this. And I'm doing this because

that's in the Bible. He says you're not going to win

them over that. Way it's in Peter, it's in first

Peter, second Peter chapter 3 one or something like that.

2 Peter 3 · chapter mention

And then there's this, right? But then the man says, the Bible

says to the man, you got to die for your wife.

So you can't be like, uh, uh, ain't some hitting.

Well be, well be, but the husband got a responsibility

too. And clearly God, based on how he

made us, knows what's going to work best to maximize our lives

together. But the world, we've let the

world in on our we let the world in on the marriage.

And now what has been made holy? You have stained it because you

want worldly principles and worldly input.

You want friends that don't don't got no Holy Ghost in them.

You going to them asking for counseling, telling on your

spouse and you wonder why you ain't getting no godly in

feedback. Hallelujah.

Yep, deliverance. I'm just I'm just playing not

being to eat that. Just drop the coffee right

there. OK, So for some of y'all,

yesterday's price is not today's price.

Stop playing games. I'm here to tell you, if you've

wasted your maturing years, that's on you.

But you're no longer a baby in God's eyes.

You know, you haven't done your homework, you haven't went to

class, but you're still a senior, you're still first year,

college, whatever. But you you, you see, see, God

does not deal with you, nor does the devil deal with you based on

where you are. Always deal deals with you based

on where you're called to. The devil don't want your stuff.

He he want where you're heading. So he.

Can get you. Tripped over on the stuff.

You protect this stuff on the devil.

Can't have this. Let him have it.

All right. God's too good.

Somebody say God's too good. All right, I got to speed along.

I'm skipping over a bunch of stuff, if you really care.

Didn't go read it this morning. I left off on Hebrews 10.

We can now, without hesitation, walk right up to God into the

holy place. On my worst day, I have access

to God. I don't need to call the pastor.

Hey, can you pray for me right there?

I don't need to wait for no wisdom session right there.

I can have access to God right now, right?

I don't need no confession booth.

I don't. I can do it at 9:00 AM, five AM,

10:00 AM, ten PMI could do it all day, whenever.

The curtain, the veil. I I I ain't.

People ever been to a wedding right?

The you just you know you ever been to a wedding?

As soon as the wife got to the down to the altar, they start

kissing. Why y'all staring at me like

that? Almost.

No, I'm not really going to say Buddha.

Some of y'all something to watch right in your face.

I'm telling you, it's coming. Have y'all ever been to a

wedding or seen a movie? Y'all never been to a wedding?

OK. All right.

You guys know what a veil is, right?

So normally this wife all rise and then the wife comes, the

bride comes down, and no matter what the anticipation is as the

officiant, they cannot do any of that because they not marry yet.

But you can see it in the eyes they like, hurry up, hurry up,

hurry up, right? Especially the ones that's been

waiting, right? And so you may now kiss the

bride, you may now get intimate, and the veil's removed, right?

What, what, what here you got here is what Jesus's blood

restored was intimacy with the Father, as Adam has it at it.

A bride that understands like, like my wife was, you know,

every now and then when she feel vulnerable, she'll say some

stuff to me. I'm like shocked about.

I'm like, oh, you feel that way about me.

OK, I'm doing my job. A little bit, OK.

Or she'll post something she won't tell me but she'll post

it. She she texting right and tell

her that's OK. I'm not going to go too far, but

but but she'll say something like one thing that really

blessed me that she said she was like never knew I could have a

heart of flesh till I met you right?

This, this, this, this found love because she was an adult

conversion. I sometime I'm jealous of that

JT because I'm like, I know. I don't know what it looks like

or feels like Deborah to never know God.

She never knew God, did she actually?

Have to let them in. I don't know.

I grew up in church. As far as I know he was always

in. I didn't even invite him in.

He just walked in the house. He like what's up right?

She actually had to hear the knock on her heart and

experience something she never was around.

So to be the man that that is, that is called to walk with her

through through through that conversion and see her

experience God at these different levels.

I'm like our marriage only gets more intimate and only gets more

vulnerable and only gets more precious and.

That's why you don't just fall in love.

Sorry. You grow in love.

Because me and my wife didn't. We didn't have five years.

No, no, no, no, no, no. We wasn't.

Nope, Nope. But now.

Glory to glory, glory to glory. And there's this level of

entity, like the veil has been torn between this, this barrier

that was between us when we did get married.

Has been removed and then she allows me to get in in deeper

parts of her heart. She unfolds more about her fears

or her like like God wants to walk with us in this intimacy,

but we're just happy being roommates with God like some

marriages we're just roommates. We planned dinner together

because we who go in this store, what we eating for dinner,

There's no like rush to bed. Now I'm rushing to bed.

I love to cuddle with my wife and watch TV with my wife and

and talk. And but then how our marriages

look. That's how the body looks.

And then for some of our marriages, we're like, we love

each other. Like I'll just FaceTime on, hey,

we just sit there. Hey.

Hi. What you doing?

All right, I'm about to go. I'll call you back.

Any texts are going to love you. Hey.

And if we go a day without talking?

What? What you why you didn't call me?

What are you talking about? What are you doing?

Miss you love you. Our relationship with God.

Like why is this so like some areas, like when I need

something from you, didn't we intimate I'll sleep with you

because I miss having something. I've reached the point of like

we got to have sex. There's no like pursue.

There's this pursuit like this is what real marriage, Tommy?

This is what real marriage should look like.

Is is this pursuit here it is. How do I know that?

Because it's a great mystery. Jesus pursues us.

What is this bride pursuing them?

What is some of y'all know? How does it feel like to have a

spouse that don't pursue you? You know, you know, some of you

know. Sometimes I pursue you not like

oh, we haven't in a while. None.

What do you mean we haven't in a while?

No, there's discussion pursuit that that is not even the.

Goal. The goal is intimacy.

The goal is the oneness. It's not the sex.

It's not kiss. It's not attention.

The goal is oneness. And oneness can happen in more

ways than sex. And we like man, I don't know

why our marriage is like but but.

So you can. Understand, then, that the bride

is sick if you've ever been in a marriage where there's a lack of

pursuit on one side or a lukewarm response on one side.

As excited as the bride and groom is when that veil is

removed and he says I do that, that's kind of the spark we

should keep in Arch. May we never lose our wonder.

Wide eyed and mystified, right? May we be just like a child

staring at the right. Where's that in the church?

Where's that in the bride's eyes?

When's the last time you had a sparkle in your eye for Jesus?

A burn in your heart for Jesus. What?

What would the church look? Like if every believer came in

here on a Sunday with a sparkle in the eye for Jesus not to hear

their favorite song. Not that I need a word.

What? What?

There's always a word in the Father's house, even if the

pastor don't deliver it. God's children never come home

without getting fed. It just depends on what you're

looking for. Are you looking for a good

sermon or are you looking to hear from God?

Because if you're coming in looking to hear from God, you

can hear God even through a bad message.

All right, all right, all right, all right, let me, let me in

absolute trust and confidence, come to Him having our hearts

sprinkled and purified from a guilty, evil conscience.

So he says come to me without a guilt conscience.

Come so your your the beginning of your prayer should not be

like I'm wretched. I'm Lord, I'm so sorry for being

away from you, but Jesus did not teach us to start our.

Prayer with repentance. Now let me help you.

The fact that you're praying is a fruit of repentance.

Prayer is a posture of repentance.

So how did he say? He said, our Father, which are

they? You start off with worship and

pray, which you can only do with intimacy.

Some of us can only start our prayer off with God, God, Lord,

Lord Jesus, Jesus. We don't know none is other

names. He says it's being from a guilty

conscience. Come to me boldly and our bodies

cleanse with pure water. You could say this or not, it's

up there. I've been sprinkled and purified

by the blood of Jesus, and I've been made clean and renewed by

the washing of the Holy Spirit through the Word of God.

I've been sprinkled and purified by the blood of Jesus and made

clean and renewed by the washing of the Holy Spirit through the

Word of God. I've.

Been sprinkled and purified by the blood of Jesus and made

clean and renewed by the the Holy Spirit through the word of

God. I've been sprinkled and purified

by the blood of Jesus and made clean.

And renewed by the washing of the Holy Spirit through.

The word of God capture, but this is like an aggressive thing

snatch that thing right take in the ownership and hold fast and

retain without what wavering I'm hot this month this month I'm

high now I'm high I'm. High.

Oh my God. God, has this been so good?

How you doing? You know right?

Same person that was excited about God three months ago,

three months later. Is now on the ropes like I don't

it doesn't mean you don't go through things.

We all go through things but a Christ like attitude can be had

in every season, so without. Wavering the hope we cherish and

confess in our acknowledgement of it for he who promised.

I believe this. I believe he who promises what

reliable. Here it is.

Here it is. If he who promises reliable, I'm

not worried about promise. All right.

Yeah. You ever Hallelujah.

Sure. Somebody shout out.

Sure. And he's faithful to his word.

Do your prayers sound like you believe he's reliable?

Right when you get in a pickle, when you get under pressure, do

you respond as though you believe He's reliable and let us

consider and give attentive, continuous care to watching over

one another. We've got to get some good stuff

studying. So you got consider.

See when God got a grip on your heart, you consider him more.

Am I talking to the left side or the right?

You consider him more and give attentive, continuous care.

Here it is. It's not all.

I can't hear from God. Have you considered him?

Why would God talk to someone that doesn't consider him all

the time? You didn't, you didn't call on

them on that relationship you got in or that business you did

or that job you did or that you get what I'm saying and now

you're in trouble. Now you're, you're concerned

about what he thinks. It's not how it works.

They say continuous consideration and give attentive

continuous. Care to watching over one

another, over who one another, over who one another, what

studying, how we may stir up Here it is.

For those people like don't tell me what to say during service,

don't tell me to lift my hand. Don't tell me to confess this

and confess this. OK, let's read the word.

I'm I'm sorry. I just obey the word.

I'm I'm trying to obey the word studying how we may stir up.

Studying how we may stimulate, get people excited to love and

helpful deeds and noble activities.

Not oh, here we go. Here we go, not forsaking or

neglecting the assemble. I.

Want y'all to see this as believers?

As is the habit of some people. What is the habit of some

people? They forsaken neglect gathering.

So I think the problem is the reason why some people don't

gather is because we only give them one day to do it.

So maybe if we give y'all 5, we'll see some of y'all more.

But admonishing, warming, urging, encouraging one another.

And all the more, he says, encourage people to gather.

And all the more you know what we need to do.

We don't need to gather less. We need to gather what more.

Just like you need to go to work more, you need to gather more

faithfully as you see the day approaching.

What day is he talking about? Huh?

The day of what? So as we get closer to the end,

guess what we should be doing? Gathering more?

I want you to see this. Although a bride thinks about

the ship, thinks about the ship, although a bride, we have

priestly DNA and duties. Because here's what I do think.

Sometimes we just want to be a boozy little bride and we want,

we want our man Jesus to just do everything for us, pick us up,

bless us, do all that stuff. I look, I'm with Jesus.

I'm with Jesus. But hey, hey.

As a bride, you have priestly responsibilities.

So as a man is the priest of his home, the bride is a part of a

what royal? What priest?

Come on, a royal what priesthood?

One more time, a royal what priesthood?

Why is the bride sick? I had somebody text this week

and it triggered this entire message.

I was already thinking, but I was listening and they text

something very simple. They said, you mentioned the

bride is sick. Well, how does the bride get

better? Without even thinking about it,

I said I'm going to talk about it on Sunday.

How did she get sick? Let's start there.

How did the bride get sick when she was made perfect?

Here's just a few reasons. Disobedience, fear, carnality,

pride, ignorance, ignorance being one of the biggest ones.

And sin. Why did I make sin so small?

Because out of all of these, here we go.

Out of all of these, sin is the smallest reason.

Why yourself? Why?

Why you? Why we are where we are.

How do I know that? He took care of that.

Your disobedience is yours, your fear is yours, your pride is

yours, your ignorance is yours, and your carnality is yours.

Sin is the smallest reason why we ain't moving how we should be

moving. He took care of it so we can

move why we was yet sinners. Christ died.

That's already been taken care of.

So that's the smallest reason. So you can't blame your sin.

Sin is why not? Why?

Yeah, fear. Acting out of fear is a sin.

Being prideful is a sin. But when I'm talking about the

guilt and the shame and and and and making mistakes in life,

that's not why you're head held back.

You you look, David made mistakes, but he pursued God.

This ignorance is a big one because we think because we've

allowed our sin to separate us and we've allowed some of our

worldly ways to separate us. And so the ignorance of

understanding that despite like he died for you because there

was sin nature in you before you was even born to sin.

Think about that. He didn't die after you sinned.

OK, follow me. Here's the sin or here's here's

the issue. A man invited many people to

join a great feast. Remember that last week.

All right, let's go to the next slide.

Look at what it says. But one by one they all made

excuses preparing the table when a present for our enemies in

these last days he's inviting you saying it's supper time.

But many excuses just bought property, just bought animals,

just got married, just got a new job, came OK, so cool church too

far. Whatever. 1 excuse after

another. The Lord is inviting us to the

table. Will you be moving forward?

An excuse Maker, lukewarm has made us sick, he says.

I spew lukewarm out. Lukewarm makes us sick because

lukewarm makes him sick. I've made a vow in my life.

I don't want trauma, catastrophe, loss, grief.

I don't want anything other than a natural pursuit for God to

make me run after him. How does the bride heal?

Number one? She turns, She turns, she turns,

she turns. How many times through the Bible

have we seen the Lord say turn, repent, for the Kingdom of

heaven is at hand #2 she responds, respond, respond,

respond, respond, respond, ready.

Unfortunately for some people, you think you can hear from God

without the people He sends to speak on His behalf.

Here's the job the enemy does. Church hurt can't trust

authority. So if you.

Can't trust authority. It impacts how you hear

authority. So then you hear the word and

you like, but I'm going to go take it to God and he's like

what I spoke. Show me in the Bible where he

did not use a man to speak. Talk to me.

I know you would just wanted to put on OK, I got a relationship

with God. You do, but your relationship

with God can never trump the order he's already set.

So you want to hear God accurately.

Guess what? You're going to have to actually

trust the authority he's placed in your life to be that voice in

your life. Sorry, find me any other way in

the Bible. Yes, be a Berea and go study the

word yourself. But the prophetic voices,

Apostolic voices that God puts in the land is for your good.

Believe the Prophet, so shall you prosper.

But we're in a day where the enemy has done a great number

and we got a lot of people gathering.

But when we scatter, we're so independent, all right #3 renew,

renew your mind, renew. You got to renew your license,

you got to renew them subscriptions on, on on them

apps, you got to renew passports, you got to renew all

kinds of stuff. Guess what?

You should renew your mind. How you going to renew an app

before you renew your mind? You got to renew leases, you got

to renew a whole lot of stuff, you got to get your oil changed.

We want to renew everything else except us. #4.

How does she heal? She.

Has to be willing to go through seasons of sifting.

I don't care how smart a Tesla is, eventually you're going to

have to get that thing checked up.

Everybody, everything got to get checked up.

You got to sift. You got to put it under the

radar and you got to sift. What are we doing in this?

This month? We're sifting.

We're saying, Lord, sift through US #5 you have to be willing to

let God purge. But what does that mean for some

of you? Letting God purge me?

Stop holding on the stuff that He is trying to cut out of your

life. Purge, purge #6 or #5 what

number is that? 6 rooted.

Can you just sat down in one place?

Can you get rooted? Get rooted.

You ready? You don't get rooted because you

attend church. That's not rooted right here.

Here it is. Seeds don't get rooted because

you just throw seeds on the ground.

You actually got to dig your heels into the church.

Guess what? And in order to get rooted, you

got to be a sower. Not just financially.

A part of you serving is a part of what keeps you rooted.

So when you say this is my church home, I'm I'm here to

tell you there's levels to benefiting from your church

home. And you can't think you're going

to benefit the same level of fruit as those that are rooted

when you just want to attend on Sunday.

OK, and I'm just flipping through these scriptures for you

so you can have them on your rooted.

Matthew 3 says repent. Somebody say repent.

That's what repenting is, not saying sorry.

It's thinking different, changing your mind, it's

actually regretting your sins. Not so God love me though he

understand my. Heart he working on me.

No, no, no. Regret your sins and change your

conduct. Don't regret them and don't

change. All right.

For the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.

OK, you see that Romans 12, what does it say?

Be transformed by the what renewal?

Transformed by the what renewal? Have you ever heard that

clicking when you need an oil changing that clicking, click,

click, click, you get that oil changing that click, click,

click, it goes away. You ever have a car that's out

of alignment and you get that wheel alignment and it start

going straight, What it transformed?

It's a whole different experience driving instead of

working that one hand trying to keep the car on the road.

Transformed. Here it is.

Here's what you got to understand.

It says by the renewal of your mind.

Please watch this. By the renewal of your mind, By

its new ideas and its new attitude.

Watch this. This is a cold part.

The next part is real cold. So that you may prove.

For yourselves, what is the good and acceptable?

So I can't even know God's will till I renew my mind.

So you want to hear God without a renew mind?

He can't even talk on your level because he don't talk that way.

So he said spend the time to renew your mind so that you can

know his perfect will and a lot of times what we want first.

Troy. Is we want to know his will.

He's like, I can't really do it that way.

Like you can have a big picture, but the the ordered steps, you

got to renew your mind. Luke 22 see this, He says, hey,

enemies tried. I'm about to let him.

I use the enemy to sift you. I use those valley seasons to

sift you. I use those.

So can you stay in there and be sifted?

A lot of times when pressure comes, we that is hey, hey,

bagging out is a way to relieve pressure, but bagging out is not

necessarily the way to growth. So are you after growth or

relieving? Pressure.

That's a. Very good question.

Because a lot of times we're like, that's what I needed.

No, no, no. And guess what, you about to

step back in and guess what's coming?

Guess what's coming? Pressure.

And did you take the opportunity?

And if you have taught yourself the way out of pressure is to

back out, you're going to keep the pattern and wonder why

you're stuck in cycles. That's connected to your

quitting. If you want to break cycles in

your life, you're going to have to stay in there in areas you

aren't used to staying in there. And then I like this, but I pray

for you, Peter. I'm gonna let the devil have

you. I'm gonna let him sit for you.

But I pray for you that your faith won't fail.

It's almost like Jesus gave him a kiss.

Was like, hang in there, buddy. I'm praying for you.

And then here it is. We do this twisted thing.

I know God ain't in this because it's too, it's too rough.

I know you cannot gauge God's purposes based on if something's

comfortable or uncomfortable. Oh, all hell breaking loose,

this must not be to God because the blessing of the Lord make it

rich and has no sorrow. And this is sorrow.

No. Is it sorrow because you or is

it sorrow because it is not what God did?

Sometimes it's sorrow because you are a sorrowful person, like

you're going to turn it into that versus like no weeping may

endure for a night. Understand when I beg out, I

don't have to endure. The blessing is on endurance.

Hallelujah. John 15.

Here's the scripture. He said he cuts away for those

that don't produce, and he prunes those that produce so

they can continue to bear fruit. And here it is so they can bear

more and richer and more excellent fruit.

So everybody getting purged. So don't think I've arrived.

No, no, everybody getting purged.

But the people who continue to bear fruit have learned how to

endure and stay in that thing you never see.

You never saw a farmer ain't never seen a seed come off the

ground. Be like, I'll be, it's hot down

there, bro. I ain't going down there.

No, you stay down there and you're going to grow roots and

you're going to have to, you're going to have to go through

seasons of not being seen. I'd much rather go through years

of not being seen to when I pop out the ground and become shade

and become fruit for people's lives.

Is that worth it? Jesus said, look, I know, I know

this is painful right now, but my eyes is on the glory in the

future. What I'm going through today,

it's worth what I see down there.

Martin Luther King, I seen the mountains.

What I'm going through today is worth seeing this dream I got.

Ephesians 3 says May you be rooted deep in love.

Rooted deep in love and found it securely on love.

He's coming for his church. He's coming for his church.

He's coming on the clouds. Kings and Queens will bow.

I love not giving y'all a king y'all can find, but you with it,

right? You with it?

All right. Y'all didn't know that song?

All right, let me sing it this way.

Our God is the lie, y'all. Not gonna help me out.

All right, all right, all right, all right, all right.

He's coming for his church, somebody shouted out.

He's coming for his church. All right, now I need you to

take your phones out and I need you to take we forgot the mic

down here. Hallelujah.

I need y'all to take some real good notes, OK?

Because I'm about to give y'all a little glimpse of crowns real

quick and then we going to go. Now, the cool thing is y'all

don't have to see me on Sundays for the rest of the month, but

you're going to see me Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,

Friday. Just kidding, just kidding.

It's going to be different. All right, I got to get this to

you. This is a month.

This is a month. I'm telling you, as much as we

meet during the week, man, it's going to hit different not

showing up on Sunday. It is.

You're going to find yourself missing Sunday.

You're going to find yourself missing a day, although you got

5. Lord help us.

I need y'all to really take some notes, OK?

Because we went from this sick bride.

And I just want to really give you something that really I

think can help you understand this church, understand this

church's purpose. I believe understanding what God

is doing in this hour through the remnant of his church and

there's just no way around it. I believe this is a God ordained

thing in February and I think we're going to see lavish fruit

from it. He is coming for His church.

Matthew 20. I want you to see this.

Here it is again, the great reversal.

Many of the first end up last and the last somebody say the

last. Will end up what?

1st and somebody say the first the first.

Will end up last. Say the first will end up last.

One more time. The first will end up last.

Ephesians 2. Here it is.

I need you guys to see this. Follow me.

You are built upon who is you? The church, The body.

You are built upon the foundation of the what.

Come on, say it with me. And the what?

And the what with Christ Jesus himself, the chief cornerstone.

OK, follow me. You are built up on the

foundation of the foundation. So a lot of people, a lot of

religious scholars or like I've had people already apostles or

for the back then and everything that we're just built on it.

There's no apostles in today. We're just apostle like.

So that's where we've added it to everything.

But the Bible didn't give Apostolic, He gave apostles.

You are built upon the foundation of the apostles and

prophets. The church is built upon the

foundation of the apostles and the prophets.

And we got a lot of pastors that have started churches with no

apostle connection or prophet connection.

So you wonder why you have thriving churches who are led by

really good businessmen who know how to do business, know how to

strategy, know how to system, have great budgets and, and,

and, but you got a lot of people sitting in the audience who are

not activated. So, so we'll go so.

Everybody going to watch this one on the screen and then

you're going to worship and then you have somebody facilitate

that. That pastor doesn't even have

the urge in him to activate the board and the pastor has the

urge to hire not activate. I've had, I'm listen, I've had

some. Really.

Prominent pastors come to me and say, how do you have so many

volunteers? You guys volunteer muscle is

very strong. This is the Apostolic house.

This is a house that God is. Equipping this church with and I

understand what he's. Equipped this church with OK, a

lot of pastors aren't spending the time to pour in outside of

Sunday to there's somebody hired to pour into OK, which is fine.

It's a model, but the way the church started it was started by

apostles and apostles activated and equipped in sent pastors.

We no longer we have more hired pastors than we do sent ones

Bible talks about it hire links. OK, so you got this is very

important. This is a part of what God is

doing in this house. OK, so it's built on the

foundation of apostles and prophets.

You got that? Remember, first shall be last,

last shall be first. This says in him the whole

structure is joined, bound, welded together harmoniously,

and it continues to rise. What continues to rise?

This. This body this.

This. That is built on what puzzle?

OK, continue to grow and increase into a holy temple in

the Lord, a sanctuary dedicated, consecrated and sacred to the

presence of the Lord in him and in the fellowship with one

another, with fellowship and one another yourselves also are

being built up into this structure, specific structure,

not the One North America made to form here.

It is a fixed, stable, abode dwelling place of God in and by

and through the Spirit. Here it is.

The church has lost its sentness and movement.

I'm here to tell y'all Africa ain't the only place that needs

missionaries. I'll help you so.

African children are not trophies what Toto is not a

fundraising machine or no African that's that's I know we

got our little and and just because you love Africans don't

mean you not racist or you just you love black people.

OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK OK. What about the aboriginal?

Where's the missionaries for the aboriginal community?

OK, Where's the where where are they there?

There's a lot of people We don't just need Missionaries are not

merely for poor people. You know who You know who need

missionaries? Some of these wealthy doctors

and businessmen that are in our community.

Coaches and trainers and and and and and make up artists.

And there's more people than poor people.

Let's send all this money over to Africa.

Let me, let me, let me put this on the camera for you.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Africa is a very wealthy place,

OK. OK.

All right, all right. OK.

All right, I'm sorry. It really is.

I know TV shows us a part of at this one little part of Africa.

No, no, no, no, no, we. Well, that that's the same

thing. Well, if you want to display

Vancouver, let's put the camera on international television and

show them what? What?

What what Hastings look like because look a lot of them kids

in Africa got some joy. But let Vancouver expose

Hastings to the world. Wally let let let's expose that

so we pride ourselves with our missionary money and we send in

people, but we not taking. Care of Jerusalem, get out of

here. So, so here's John 7 says out of

these folks, he says come drink and he says out of these folks

shall flow continue. Somebody say continuously.

Somebody say continuously rivers of living water, here it is here

it is, here it is. Do you know why they don't

baptize in lakes? Because hey, when you baptize in

lake you can you just bathe in I heard this gentleman say the

other you just bathe in your sin versus when you baptize in a

river it symbolizes the movement and washing away.

Of your sins. OK OK, OK, so so here you go

Here you go. You ready?

You ready? So God says this same movement

should be in the church. You want to know why the bride

is sick? Because we're, we're, we're,

we're lake, we're well, we're just, we're just satisfied with

our own cup of water. And there's no move.

There's no living water. There's no movement coming out.

You want to know why you frustrated, easily attacked,

easily offended? Because you're not living,

you're not poor like Deborah so eloquently taught us, like this

thing needs to be poured out, right?

It needs to be poured out of us into other people's life.

And there's this constant life cycle that is happening.

All right, can I give you 2 more scriptures?

Acts 8 and 1st Corinthians 12 and then you guys can go shop

next door That set off a terrific persecution of the

church in Jerusalem. I want y'all to see this.

The believers were all scattered.

They was what? The believers was what?

Come on, The believers, was what throughout your day in Samaria?

All that is, but the apostles, good and brave men buried.

So they have to stay behind because sniffing Deacon Stephen

just got stoned to death. So the apostles stayed behind to

give him a burial, as it says that he deserved.

But the persecution was so strong, all the believers were

scattered. You see the apostles, what they

do, they stood in the middle of the persecution.

They said here it is. The apostles was able to say

church, go look at this. And Saul just went wow,

devastating the church, entering house after house after house,

dragging men and women off to jail.

Who? Was doing this.

Saul who we about to read one of his letters to the church.

Why did God use someone who was killing the church to build up

the church? If anybody would understand the

love of God, it's got to be so forced to leave home base.

You ready? They were forced to leave home

base. The followers of Jesus.

Persecution drove them out and they became missionaries.

Wherever they were scattered. Wherever they were scattered,

they preached. You think the north?

You think y'all ready to be scattered?

Did you see how we acted as a church during COVID?

And we wasn't even scattered, we just went home.

No, I'm serious. They just watched Deacon gets

stoned to death. They're they're being

persecuted. Saul is dragging people out of

their homes. Families are being displaced and

they say, well, wherever we have we going to share the gospel.

Are you experienced in this kind of grief?

What are we going through in North America?

Please, somebody let me in on something like the level God is

asking you to serve him. Is it that bad?

Like these people didn't say, Oh my God, we better stop sharing

the gospel and serving the body of the body, serving the body of

Christ. Because remember when I to love

myself and to love Jesus, it's to serve the body.

Why I'm a part of the body. It's my body and it's my

Savior's body. It's not merely serving.

It's not merely oh, I got to get more time.

No, it's like being mad. You got to eat.

See what we've made serving the church is it's another job.

It's not bit not understanding. As I build a healthy church, I'm

making a healthy church for me and the future.

I'm contributing to the health of the body.

I want you to see this. They were scattered.

Under great persecution. I want you to see this.

And he preached the message of Jesus going down the Samaritan

city. Philip proclaimed the message of

the Messiah. When the people hurt, when the

people what he had to say, what do you have to say?

They saw the miracles, the clear signs of God's actions.

They hung on. Are we a people who hang on to

every word that the preachers give and the apostles give and

the prophets give? How many of y'all?

We preach up here with our. Hearts how many times?

Do you really hold? On to every word.

Or he's like God, That's just PT preaching.

Oh, that's just the elder John. That was a good word.

Are you holding on to the word? Are you taking it as like this

in my life? I better get my life together

because God's using that man to talk to me or or man.

I didn't even know I needed this word.

But let me go home this weekend. I'm going to evaluate this word.

Lord, search my heart. Are you holding on to every

word? Are you just like, oh, it's just

another inspirational day. No, my church home good.

We got good music. Always in Pete's.

Funny and just as Oh my God, I just the cafe man, I love my

church. We go hard.

We just different. Who was speaking here?

The church who was what? Equipped and activated by who?

Apostles. It says many who neither could

stand nor walk were healed that day.

Here it is, evil spirits protested.

They was mad because he had to go here.

It is what joy was in that city. It didn't say what joy was in

that church, what joy was in the city because the church was in

the city. The church should be disruptive

to darkness. I'm going to say it again will

close at First Corinthians 12. The church should be disruptive

to darkness. We was out there many times.

We was out there and the group was last night making a music

video that's going to go out to the world.

And we was just in there and we were just having fun and we was

rolling it back and we was having so much fun that the song

is fire. The song is fire.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we coming, we coming we going to disrupt some

stuff and and the body of Christ, our artists are

disrupted. Like the mainstream has to has

to pay attention, right. Tommy is a part of one of the

biggest hip hop. I would say say forget Christian

hip hop, hip hop movements in the in the world right now.

The glow, right, The glow. Him CJ and and and and miles

manic like they like they doing it and mainstream is paying

attention and I'm just like man, why in America what about here

when we going to get some sweat when we going to get some

courage when we going to get some boldness when we going to

step out and do all God created us to do when we going to stop

being passive. Y'all got me out here saying we.

Goodnight and now man, when we go do this, but I know that's

why he sent me here because we we about to do this thing.

We about to do it. We going to do it and whoever

going to be mad going to be mad. But man, we we we bought to just

kick you all in the I just love watching every day they got

something on every day they got content.

They just smacking the devil in the face.

It's a testimony every day. They're in radio stations,

they're in big concerts, they're being invited to a big, big

worldly festivals, right? Like like God's busting open the

door. Here it is.

God ain't just busting open the door.

He's busting on the door because he found some men that will bang

on the door. So like like in two weeks, I

don't know if you ever heard of 100 Huntley St.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So in in a couple weeks, I don't

know, I'm going on there to be interviewed.

And so y'all need to pray for me because in the contract they,

just like you can't say certain stuff.

I'm not going to say certain stuff, but I'm just saying

anyway, 100 Huntley is like, it's the it's the Christian show

in Canada. It's the it's the thing thing,

thing. And so I'm going to go on there.

But I'm just saying, but but some of the stuff that that

whole royal anthem, that thing is bringing me around for.

It's like, you can see people like like we need that, but how

do you how you handle that? Is he going to go off?

Is he can we trust them? It's like a lot of that.

And so God got to build new stuff because the gate, the

gatekeepers can keep their keys because God's giving out new

keys. All right, all right, all right,

all right, All right, All right. Stop, stop, stop.

OK. All right, You got your phones.

Out in your notes, OK. I'm about to.

This is going to be rough for a few people, but this is going to

be amazing. For a bunch.

OK, so God has appointed some in the church.

You ready? Remember we said first shall be

last. We're in the last days.

I want you to see something what God's restoring.

So God has appointed some in the church for his own use.

First apostles, second prophets. I'm sorry to tell some of you,

but what the the gifts that God is restoring in the last days is

these two right here, right When Billy Graham came on the scene,

he was restoring the evangelist. OK, the last, the Word of Faith

movement was all about restoring the teaching gifts.

OK, so you got a lot of people, we got teaching pastors.

Now we going to hire teachers, right?

When you heard somebody last say we hiring a prophet, Oh, you

need profits on staff. OK, I want you to see this.

First, apostles, second prophets.

Here it is. Third, teachers.

Because teachers going to clean up the mess their prophets and

apostles make. OK?

That's why we've activated seats.

OK, we got you ready. You ready?

You ready? You ready?

Then wonder workers, you want to know why we lack miracles?

Because we don't have first. We don't have second.

And it can't be it. No, you know, it's got to be we

identify the apostles in the land and the prophets in the

land, and we honor them as such because they have something that

we have to pull on and they have to have a place in the church.

Just like we accept pastors, we gonna have to accept You get

what I'm saying? So first, second, third, last

shall be first, first shall be last, last shall be first, first

shall be last, last shall be first, the first.

We're going back to the foundation.

Remember the foundation was built up on the exactly the

church was started by who and then if we if there is no usher

in Jesus in without these two gifts being in the land honored,

identified and activated. Do you want to see revival?

There is no true Kingdom revival without these two gifts

somewhere involved. We'll pick this up on Tuesday.

But he says, I mean, I wish you could have got to it.

But he says that we're all one body.

This is the part that was going to disturb some of y'all.

We're all one body. She's so sick.

He says earlier in that scripture it

says you can easily 1st Corinthians 12, you can easily

enough see how this kind of thing works by looking no

further than your own body. He's talking about these gifts.

This is right after the 9 gifts of the Spirit.

He says your body has many parts, limbs, organs, cells, but

no matter how many parts you can name, you're still what it's

exactly the same with Christ. Remember we started off with

this correlation between the marriage and the church in

Jesus. Now he's letting you know how

the body works by means of his one spirit.

We all said goodbye to our partial and piece meal lives.

We each used to we each used to please pay attention, used to be

independently call our own shots, but then we entered into

a large and integrated life which he has the final say in

everything. This is what we.

Proclaimed in Word and action when we were baptized.

Each of us. Is now a part of His

resurrection body refreshed and sustained at 1 fountain.

His spirit where we all come to drink.

The old ladies. Here you go just to bless

somebody. The old labels we once used to

identify ourselves, labels like Jew or Greek flavor free, are no

longer useful. We need something larger and

more comprehensive. I want you to think about how

all this makes your you more significant, not less.

A body isn't just a single part blown up into something huge.

It's all the different but similar parts arranged and

functioning together. If foot said I'm not elegant

like hand embellished with rings, I guess I don't belong to

this body you see this in. This is the body sick because

you get people falling out because they're comparing.

You get people coming in and they want titles and positions

and this is the scripture. This is not the enemy getting

us. If Ear said I'm not beautiful

like I transparent and expressive, I don't deserve a

place on the head. Would you want to remove it?

From the body, If the body was all eye, how could it hear?

If all ear, how could it smell as it is we see?

That God has carefully placed each part of the body right

where He wanted it. But I also want you to think

about how this keeps your significance from getting blown

up into self importance. Here it is, For no matter how

significant you are, it is only because of what you are a part

of. So you see why the enemy don't

want you a part of it. An enormous eye or gigantic hand

wouldn't be a body. You want to know why our

volunteer muscle is so strong even when people get purged?

Because we actually, I understand as the leader.

It's like when people like old Pastor Terence is still too

controlling. No, I, I'm responsible, but a

controlling pastor don't let tons of people preaching the

pulpit. That's the one thing he going to

control if he going to control anything, especially when he's

not here. But but that body, that enormous

eye, would be a monster. What we have is one body with

many parts, each its proper size and in its proper place.

No part is important on its own. Can you imagine I telling hand

get lost. I don't need you see, and this

is the challenge is what the enemy wants you not learning how

to delegate and trusting people and you do everything on your

own Look, or if the heads hell in the foot, you're fired.

Your job has been phased out. As a matter of fact, in

practice, it works the other way.

The lower the part, the more basic and therefore the more

necessary. You can live.

Without an eye, for instance, but not without a stomach.

When it's a part of your own body you are concerned with, it

makes no difference whether the part is visible or clothed,

higher or lower. You give it dignity and honor

just as it is without comparisons.

If anything, if you have more concern for the lower parts than

the higher. If you had to choose, wouldn't

you prefer good digestion to full bodied hair?

I don't know about you, but I would for sure.

Amen. Hallelujah.

The way God designed our bodies is a model for understanding.

Now here it is, bride, groom, body, body of Christ.

He says model for understanding our lives together as a church.

This is so important guys. As we go into this month, every

part is dependent on every other part and the parts we mentioned

and the parts we don't. The parts we see and the parts

we don't. If one part hurts, that's why

the enemy makes people feel like their ministry is insignificant.

Let me help. Let me help you.

The people up here, their ministry is no more important

than the people who ministry is out there back there or the

people who are one day going to be stuck in the broadcast room

and they just, it's no more important.

But but, but that's in work of the enemy to make you think

you're less significant. He says every part is involved

in the hurt and in the healing. So why would God say pause for a

month, let them hurt? We doing good.

No, Love Quest can't go forward without some of you healing, or

at least having a chance to heal.

What what if God is pausing this for some of y'all to get healed

because the, the, the spot you wish somebody take, it's yours.

What are you saying? No, no, no, no, no.

I'm about to pause. I'm about to stop this bus for a

month because my plans had you in it.

And here it is. My plans not only had you on the

bus, it had you in a specific seat.

If one part flourishes, every other part enters into

exuberance. This is why we're saying

everybody worship, because we all benefit by you opening your

mouth and lifting your hands. See, that's what I'm saying.

If you understood you are part of a whole, you wouldn't have

selfish praise. You wouldn't sit there just like

this. You would understand you're part

of a body. Do you ever see somebody walking

a dog and a dog is like and the person is walking they they

constantly trying to pull their dog along right, right.

How far could we get? If everybody came in ready to

walk is one. I'm going to tell you, I'm going

to tell you, I'm going to tell you.

I'm not blaming some of y'all, but I am blame.

I'm sharing the blame. Hey, look, our church services

could be a little shorter if some of y'all came in and

stepped in. Here it is.

I want you to think of how much I spend time on trying to

encourage people to worship. A lot of times when I come up

here, I pause and we're going to go longer because we got people

in here looking dead and because of the Apostolic nature that

does not want to leave anyone behind.

See, the pastor doesn't mind because he doesn't want to

bother you. He's like, no, I don't want to

bother the the sheep. I, I loved him.

I'm here to attend. But the Apostolic and the

prophet, they don't mind ruffling your feathers.

They don't mind interrupt. They don't mind if you don't

like them. So what if everybody came in

like, like ready, like, came in here on your own and you

understood you as a part of a bigger body and it doesn't

matter how you feel. That's the part of the reason

why love quests go a little longer than usual.

OK, for real. Because like, we care and we

Amen. You are Christ's body, that's

who you are. You must never forget this only

as you. Accept your part only as you

accept your part only as you accept your part of the body.

Does your part mean anything? Your part.

You're familiar with some of the parts that God has formed in his

church, which is His body. Apostles, prophets, teachers,

miracle workers, healers, helpers, organizers, our

administration and those who pray in tongues.

But it's obvious by now, isn't it, that Crisis Church is a

complete body and not a gigantic unidimensional part.

It's not all apostle, not all prophet, not all miracle worker,

not all healer, not all prayer in tongue, not all interpreter

of tongues. And yet some of you keep

competing for so-called important parts.

You want to know why the bride's sick?

This part we can't do your part. You're called.

You're called. Get well so you can do your

part. You probably wouldn't even think

this way that God would stop the movement of the regular hoping

He can get your attention to get in your seat on the bus.

You want to talk about love. God will slow things down after

a prophetic word that some will be left behind, but I do not

believe that's the love of a Father that will let this bus

pull off without you, not just on the bus but in your seat.

But now I want to lay out a far better way for you.

And then it goes into he appointed some, you know, that's

how we started some. And then we went back and it.

He appointed some first. First, first, then.

Yeah. This is a House of miracles.

Miracles supposed to be a part of every time we gather, but the

church got to be in order. You can't what that next slide

say. You can't.

You can't. Boom, you can't.

Just do your. Part so we can move.

What would happen if we go to our building with everybody

doing they part? Like you want to take a city?

Now, I'm not talking about if if the entire body in the city came

together and just was actually a body and maybe we did some

holidays together with people who aren't in our denominational

network. Let's start here.

What would happen if everybody did they part in here?

Let me bless you everybody part is not on Sunday.

So This is why you also asked and we'll get into it on on

Tuesday. But This is why it said

everybody brought their gifts, they came together and it said

they gathered daily. So when the church.

Was birthed. They gathered daily.

You know how they can gather daily?

Because everybody did their part.

You know why we can't do 24/7 prayer?

Because not every musician, not every servant is doing their

part. Everybody watching and thinking

and dreaming. But if everybody do their part,

we could actually stay open like the world stay open because they

hired some folks to be there and some of y'all like, well if the

church paid me, let me tell you something, you will be the worst

employee if you only got hired. In a church for a check, because

if you work for the church five days a week, that means you got

to be there six to seven days a week.

I've been, I've been on staff before and he used some time.

Now this is going to be a really fun, healthy work environment

here. We're going to have a bomb work

work environment. But at the same time, like

that's, this is not what he's building.

What would it look like if at the end of February, a few of

you said, you know what, I'm going to do my part, my

complaining days is over. It doesn't mean you don't need

help. It doesn't mean you don't need

discipleship. But I'm going to do my part.

And if you don't, he'll take that talent and he'll give it to

somebody else who's been faithful over it.

Like this is all biblical stuff. And he's going to grace them to

increase their capacity because he will fulfill his promise to

the church. He said he'll build his church.

You either want to be a part of that building the church, or you

just want to be some a beneficiary.

But it's right there in the word we're a body.

So we all lift our hands and we all open our mouths and we all

say, yes, we all, we all because it's a body.

And then as we become a strong body, then we become a model

body citizen that can then help strengthen the body of Christ

across the city. Don't take this month for

granted. This is not more time for Sunday

to go and do all kind of other stuff.

I want you to understand that these days have been set aside

for your church. So if you are a part of this

church, Sunday is not about being busier.

Sunday actually should look like just some rest.

So my prayer for you in this month guys, is that you grow and

that you hear God and that you turn your heart around and you

let Him search your heart and you let him.

Dig up the. Weeds in your soul and you just

come back and you take Monday through Friday as a time to

really press in and hear God and and get some roots in your

church home like that's powerful.

As a son. I'm like God, I want a house

where we just pursue you every day.

I'm here to tell you it might not be you, but one day we will.

This church will one day have a round the clock prayer and

worship one day. And I know that takes a lot of

bodies, but if everybody do their part, that's easy.

And his Bible. We have enough preachers in the

house, We're going to have enough worshippers in the house

to have a service every day. I don't know y'all, please pray

for me because because it sound like God to be like this church

for the next season. Y'all ain't having no church on

Sundays. Y'all just Monday through

Friday. Sound like he could do something

like that. I don't think he's going going

to ask that of me. I'm surely not going to suggest

it, but I'm at that place. God, do whatever you want to do,

and we will do it. So we're going into this month

with no agenda except to pursue God.

I believe that this is going to be such a trajectory shifter in

all of those lives who truly take this month and say God, we

are your people and you are God. Make us holy like you are.

You set us apart. Make us holy like you are.

Is that your if that's your prayer, just right where you

are, just if you do want something different, if you are

saying God is your son and your daughter, I'm coming home and

let me tell you may not know your way.

You may be looking at your schedule.

You're like, Oh my God, like my heart desires it, but I don't

know how God didn't say answer and figure out the how Mary, all

you got to say is Lord at your word, you have my I do here I

am. Come on, right where you are.

Just lift your hands slightly. As we enter into this month,

we're not doing such a drastic change just to play around, but

I pray that the spirit of the fear of God rests.

Ever. So richly as we decrease so that

you can increase the Lord God. What we really want to be a

people that build you a place pure holy, that your train may

fill this temple that week after week.

We're not inviting you, Lord. Come, Lord, come.

Come. No, don't you come.

You're here. It's your house.

May there be such an awareness of your presence that you live

in US. Why are we inviting you here

when you live in US? You're here.

Your Kingdom is within. Us.

We're not looking to the north, the South, the east or the West.

Father, you said look right within.

You are my temple. May we be a people who are ever

aware of your presence and your nearness.

May we care. Carry your glory.

That's the most precious possession that we have declare

your favor surrounds us like a shield.

I pray through this time, Lord, the the the body that you have

called to be here, the members that you have called to be here,

the people that you have called to be here.

May this be a? Time as that we grow together.

That you do. Something within our within our

community and our family that unifies us in ways we never

thought we could be unified. A bond that could never be

broken by offense, by Jezebel, by Ahab, by not one demon from

hell. Nothing can tear apart what you

have put together, Lord. I declared that in this time you

are healing spots and you are straightening out wrinkles and

you are clearing up blemishes. In this time, Lord, and we will

become whole. We will become healed.

We will become a vibrant bride, Lord God, shining for you in

this dark day. Thank you, Father, that gifts

will be activated. Artists will be activated,

Prophets will be revealed, Apostles will be revealed.

Pastors will be revealed. Evangelists will be revealed.

Teachers will be revealed. Father, the least thing we're

worried about is a budget for building Lord.

We want to see sons and daughters free in the name of

Jesus. You want to see sons and

daughters come home, Lord God. And if you give us the wisdom,

if you give us the strength, Lord, we will Co labor with you

all the days of our lives in Jesus name.

Come on church, pray with me. Pray for your part church.

Pray for your part, Church. Yeah, we're going to miss

gathering on Sunday, but he is going to bind us together.

He is going to knit us together like never before.

And when we walk back in here on a Sunday in March, Lord God, the

fire will burn. Come on.

Let it burn, Jesus. Let it burn.

Jesus, stir up a hunger. Come on, come on, stir up a

hunger. Lord God, come on, pray for your

part, pray for your part. Pray for your passion, pray for

your faithfulness, pray for your diligence, pray for your

expectation. Some of you have kingly

ministries where God has anointed you to bring in the

spoils into the body of Christ. May this be a month and a season

of increase. Great increase.

Great favor on your businesses. Great strategy on your

businesses. Great favor on your ministries

outside the four walls. Just remember, you're part of

something greater. You're part of something bigger.

You're part of something more vast.

You're part of a body. And because you're a part of a

body, there is strength when you are weak.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, there is. There is great faith when your

faith is small because you're a part of a body.

Come on. Stand to your feet.

Lord, thank you for our garage. Thank you for our tent.

Thank you for faithful laborers and faithful servants.

I want to say thank you to all you guys who plowed through the

snow and the weather. And please be safe out there.

You want to stick around and Uber, eat some food.

We got we got a truck. It's probably already here

because people are we have a really fun night tonight,

starting at 6. And come on, I got to wipe my

little tears from my eyes. Turn that light down.

All right, I got you. It's good.

So there's a food truck out there you can stick around a

fellowship. And tonight's going to be a

really powerful night. I'm encouraging everybody to

come back. I promise you there's something.

You're going to be activated and and you get a laugh and you're

going to have fun. But what?

What's the name of the food truck?

Yo Bones, huh? It's so comfortable.

It's like BBQ like like pool, pool, pool, pool, pool, all kind

of pool stuff. Hey man.

And so remember, people are still the Lord is still dealing

with people. So if you want a fellowship and

all that, try and go out there. If you are in here, just keep

your volume down, but stick around food truck at your own

expense. Have a wonderful evening, don't

forget you have an opportunity to give in the back and we love

you guys and triangle creep in a nap and I'll see you guys in a

little bit. God bless you and God keep you

in Jesus name. Get your love fixed man.

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

We pray you were challenged, equipped and encouraged.

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There is a river of light flowing down from the world.

Can you see it? There is a sound off the shore,

far from heaven.