The Year of the Fear of God (9AM) - 1.19.2024 (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

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It's. Cold time.

Let's get into it. I declare that my heart is good

soil. Those that's been here this

week, you understand that should get on your tongue because you

want to make sure you understand it's not a sowing issue, it's

not a seed issue. It's a what soil issue You're

not producing because the soil, what is the soil is your heart

not guarding it, protecting it. And the small foxes come in and

spoil the vine or the weeds. Darnell comes in and and steals

from you. Right, Right.

I know some of you don't know Darnell.

You should have been here yesterday.

Amen. I see.

See. What we have to understand is

when you walk with someone, there's a ongoing dialogue.

And some of us, because we don't walk with God, we skip chapters

and then we try to pick up on chapter 10 when we left off on

chapter 2. And you wonder why you can't

find God, detect God, or hear from God because you don't walk

with them. You just need answers when

you're in trouble. And he didn't create you to be a

411 or 911. He created you to walk with Him.

So then when we are people who are people who walk with God,

then when we throw out certain things because we all been on

this walk with God, then you can benefit from the conversation

instead of thinking the church is clicky.

Yes, I will tell you the church is clicky.

There is a separation. There's the rooted ones, and

there's the wandering ones. There is a separation.

I didn't make the separation, the Bible did.

Here's a separation. There's the remnant, the ones

who live desperate, the ones who live to build the church, the

ones who will give their lives to a life of reverence and awe

and fear and obedience of God. And there's the ones who will

play church and dip in and dip out and put their feet in the

pool and dip out. And they have things to do.

And you do God on your time and you think he ain't on time, but

he is on time. You just out of time, right?

You don't have the, the, the, the rhythm, the metronome of the

heart of God. And this is a very crucial hour

for the body of Christ. And I released some things this

week and we kind of touched on it and I prayed for your grace

and your mercy to give me some time to work out some details.

I got those details. I'm going to release some word

and then I'm going to give some instruction of what's next for

Love Quest. But what's next for Love Quest

is going to be 100% unpopular, unconventional.

Ain't nobody doing it, promise you nobody doing it.

What I'm about to tell you, nobody doing, not in the

Christian faith and not, you know, maybe people that have

prayer ministries. 24 You know what I'm saying?

But we have idolized Sunday and a lot of you in here that call

yourself believers, You are a Sunday believer.

You have fallen in the trap of a Northern American model of

church. And so you fell for the lie that

Christians or the church is a Sunday thing.

Hallelujah. So today's message before I get

ahead of myself is pull up the table is ready.

The Lord is my shepherd to feed and guide and shield me.

I shall not lack. Here it is.

I shall not lack because He's my shepherd.

But if He's only my Savior, once He saved me, His provision is

done. Because all you wanted is

saving. All you wanted to do is get out

of that situation. All you wanted to do was take

the guilt away. You didn't want to walk with God

as He what and dwell in pastures with Him and allow Him to feed

you and allow Him to lead you. So I can confidently say that I

shall not want. Why?

Because I've made Him my shepherd and here's what he says

you you want to hear you man. I can have trouble hearing from

got my sheep. She'll know the shepherd's

voice. See the challenge is you want to

hear God's voice and he's talking to you through shepherd.

So then you pick choose you pick churches.

Now I don't know everybody the same.

I don't so everybody the shepherd, but he sends shepherds

after his own heart. So I don't care what North

America is doing with the model of the church.

God sends a man and a woman to shepherd the people and

hopefully those people don't power trip and they activate

other gifts. 5 fold ministry gifts to govern the church, to

do what? Equip the church, mobilize the

church, grow the church up, challenge the church, sharpen

the church so the church, the church can do the work of the

ministry. Ephesians 4.

He makes me, he leads me, he guides me.

He is invested in me. He will move mountains to cause

me to lie down in fresh tender green pastures.

Not no old, busted in, disgusted, broke down yellow

pastures. When it says green, it means

lush, like we are feasting. These are when he leads us.

Let me tell you something, You, you, you, you.

You have more than enough. There's no starvation when God

is leading you. He leads me.

He guides me beside the Stillwater, not the chaotic

water. OK, OK.

Some of you anxious people needed to say Amen right there.

Why? Because Amen is a response to a

word that you're trying to receive in your heart.

And I know, I know for a fact some of y'all need some peace in

your life. I can tell by the look on your

face you need peace. Breathe, put your shoulders

down, fix your default face, smile for real right?

It's my response right? If my if my wife say I love you

babe. She she just tossed me some

action. She like she knocked and she

like I love you. What do you what do?

What do I normally say I love you too?

That's my Amen. Now I'm not going to say Amen

when she say I love you. And when she say I love you, I'm

not going to rock. No, see, here's the thing.

Here's the thing, You ready? You ready?

I'm going to say this and I'm going to go back.

The church has done a poor job at raising people in an alive

atmosphere. I get it.

You're used to dead atmosphere, so you don't know how to respond

when something's active. You think activity is, is crazy

or cultish? No, you, you it's a resurrected

church, right? The stone has rolled away from

this church. Am I talking to anybody that's

resurrected? So you don't you don't, you

know, you just that friend that you know, they like.

OK, I'll go to the club with you tonight.

I don't really like. I got social anxiety so that you

take them to the club and you and your other friends and

they're like and they just sit there just y'all going on dance.

They know how to respond. They allow the atmosphere to

grab a hold of their spirit, and they join what God's doing.

Yeah. So we can come in here and we

can dance because, hey, we're alive and we're active.

Hey, I I mean, I don't know how many churches you can go to in,

in this region. Then you can just walk up in

there like this. Hey, I don't even know if they

play any music that'll allow you to have some swag.

Hallelujah. Amen.

Where the musicians ain't in the green room.

And they ready to rock. They ready to rock.

Yeah. They ready to rock.

Yay. A church ready to rock.

Yay. A church ready to rock.

We we're turning to rock. Yay.

All right, stop. See, this is this is this is

called a volcanic church. See, what you don't know about a

volcano is you know it's alive, but you don't know when it's

going to pop off. Stop, OK, Leave me alone.

Leave me alone, OK y'all? It's been like y'all taking

advantage of me right now. See, musicians love a pastor.

That love that's anointing is linked to music.

Because they get they, they, they, they, they, you know what

I'm saying? They they they had longer

Mcquade when they had church. OK, OK, stop, stop it.

OK. I love it though, but stop,

please. I got it.

I got to get the word to the people.

So before they say they don't preach, they just have fun.

I mean, right there, it's right there.

He just put up one scripture and started dancing.

Somebody shout out. He leads me.

He refreshes and restores my life.

I want, I want you to understand.

This is the shepherd's desire for his sheep.

He leads me in the paths of righteousness, uprightness, and

right standing with him, not for my earning it, but for His men.

Let me tell you something, why God is trying to lead us to a

prosperous life is because his name is on the line, right?

I don't know about you, but when your name is on the line, right?

When your name is on the check, you want to make sure when it's

cashed, right? So when I'm out here declaring

and when you're out here opening your mouth that God is good,

guess what? He's like, He's like, let me

show him I'm good. I'm gonna prove to him I'm.

I'm gonna prove to the hearers that I'm good and I'm faithful.

And yeah, if something bad happens in the midst of that,

that's even a greater opportunity to prove how good he

is. Because what would have took you

out two years ago will not take you out today.

The ones that cannot that that that really don't understand the

goodness of God in your life is the people who don't walk with

you because they don't have full context.

See, you got to have context when you're fooling with God.

You can't just pop up on the scene and then just think you

know God and his people because God is flipping on you and

you'll come back and be like, what happened?

I thought you lost your mind. You can believe I I did.

I can't find it no more. I got a new one.

Say law on that. Somebody shout out.

Yes, Yeah, that was that was so cool.

Shout out. Yes, though, though I walked

through. I walked through.

I walked through. I walked through a keyword.

Through. And if you really want to bag it

up, walk. What you rushing for?

Why are you trying to hurry up out the valley?

What you rushing for? You get what I'm saying?

Like what you rushing for? What?

What are you rushing for? Are you from Sophie?

I'm not going to say that joke. I will fear it, Says the shadow.

The shadow. The shadow.

We got too many Christians afraid of shadows.

Come on. Somebody say it's a shadow.

Somebody say, say it's an it's it's, it's an illusion.

Somebody say it's a threat. Devil can't do nothing.

I will fear or dread no evil. None, None.

None. None.

None, none. Come on, come on.

Like that kind of church that's just like ready for you are with

me. Why shall I fear no evil?

Because what? But who is he?

Because listen, everybody's he is different.

I walked through the valley with a shepherd.

Do you walk through the valley with what God, The guy that's

out there? The universe.

Who you walk through the valley with Let me tell you something.

Sheep know their shepherd very well, so I fear no evil because

the one who I am with all the time, I know His voice.

He's consistent. He's never LED me wrong.

Here's the thing, stop blaming God's leading on your leading.

Take responsibility. You LED you there.

Hallelujah, here I'll release you God.

Doesn't mind you leading you, you got to learn the skill of

when you lead you and he corrects you, you correct it

because sometimes I, I, I didn't know it was God until I led me

because I thought it was God. But the moment he said good try

son, but go this way. Let me reroute you.

And then I say, yes, Lord quickly obey.

He doesn't mind you leaping out the boat because you thought you

heard come. How do I hear from God?

Put yourself in a position to need them.

I'm talking about you don't need them.

I'm not talking about rescue mission need them.

I'm talking about I am following you, God, and this is way beyond

me. I need you.

I'll have this baby. Mary.

Mary but how this going to happen?

Moses I'll I'll go, but not without your spirit.

David taking out your spirit from me.

I can't I can't be king without you.

Big stuff. They comfort me.

Wow. It's all the things the world is

looking for. Provision can't stay single

because you want some what comfort.

You'll take any kind of friend because you want what comfort

can't be alone. Hey, wake, wake her up.

Tell her I'm tired. She always got prophet.

She got prophetic words, all that kind of stuff.

Tell her wake up, don't fall asleep.

Then prophets die. Amen, Hallelujah.

Amen. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

Damn, it's a new season. It's a new day.

Fresh, anointing flow a long way.

Judah don't know this song, so we ain't.

Amen. Amen.

All right, all right. You're not going to help them.

Second keys. I know she know this song.

Y'all know this, y'all know this.

They didn't even try though. They was just like this.

They didn't even. Let the Holy Ghost use them.

They just like, hey, man, hey, man.

All right, All right, Caleb, we're done.

We're done, they're done. If y'all ever see Caleb drive If

you ever see a car in the streets.

And his gas break dipping is Caleb because he don't know how

to stop his feet. He don't.

He's so cute, Caleb. Come on, for all the people

that's like they laugh too much at church.

Well, the Bible says laughter is what medicine.

And if you can't laugh, guess what?

You need some medicine. Hallelujah.

And it ain't medicinal marijuana.

Hey man, Hallelujah. You prepare a table.

Come on, guys. You got to understand, we're

anointed and we're tired right now, OK?

Y'all, y'all coming in for a fresh word?

We got one, but we've been slanging them all week, OK?

So don't come here pressuring us right now, OK?

Everybody laughing is laughing because they've been here for a

long time, OK? So bear with us.

You prepare a table before me in the presence.

Of my enemies let's pause and not move past this because a lot

of people. Look at this picture as God

preparing a table with the enemy sitting at it.

The the way I see this picture because I think I got a little

revelation of my Father's love is the table is for me and him.

We are on a day he's sitting across the table and he's

prepared a table and the enemy who once was in his presence is

now watching us in his seat. And and God loves when his

children learn how to sit down at the table and focus on what

he's put on the table because they're sometimes every now and

then God likes to show off his peace and show you not rattled

and show you content in his presence because there is an

enemy that is watching you and it confuses you why you ain't

lost your mind. It confuses him why you ain't

lost your mind yet. It confuses the enemy.

Why you not going for his bag and you have contentment at the

table. He didn't say look at the enemy.

He said, man, I'm sitting at the table with you and we feasting

me and you just having a conversation.

The table ain't about the enemy. The table is about me and you.

But I decided to to set the table in the presence of your

enemy. You, you anoint.

My head with all your SO. So why are you going to anoint

my head? Because the mine is in the

battle is in the what mine. So.

So a Good Shepherd puts oil on the head of the sheep so it

keeps the flies from going in his ears.

Because if the flies get in his head, he'll bang his head to

death trying to get the flies out.

Now, how long are you going to bang your head against that

situation? They don't want you, let them

go. You lost the job, you didn't get

the acceptance letter. They won't call you back

sometime. Delay is divine, but God will

let the phone call come. But he gave you a delay so you

can choose to walk away sometime.

You got to make your mind up and say even if they do call at this

point, I'm not doing it, man. I'm talking about I'm in the,

I'm in the sea. I made some, I'm, I've been

making some decisions. I bought plane tickets for like

3-4 people is on our way to LA in about a week and a half to

shoot some music videos with some very, very like some

prominent artists in the in the body of Christ.

And it was just kind of like some delay with one of the

people in the response. And I've been pulling a feeling

a pool. God's like I need you at the

house. And there's there's things I

will show you, you got to go to I will grace you to go and do

certain things. But there's some things when I

tell you no, even I like, I get it.

Like I get it. That's a good idea, but I got to

wait for that good idea. And I was driving and I said,

you know what? I'm not him no more.

Excuse me. We got insurance on them

flights. Yes, we did cancel them.

This this was like a week ago. Cancel them.

I'm going to call the one artist that was responding and we're

going to fly him here. Taking care of one person

different than taking care of four people.

And we got everything we need. Here in the hand.

Right, we got a studio that's fire.

We got we got food, we got hospital.

We got hospital we got we got everything we need.

We got a hub, we got spots. And that's why next Sunday we're

going to shoot the music video. Next Saturday we're going to

shoot the music video at the hub.

I'm going to turn it into a club and we're going to rub a dub.

Dub. I'm tired, right?

We got. Tommy Zuko coming next week.

OK, let me let me let me let me tell you listen, the pro they're

ready. That was not AI wasn't I wasn't

marketing as a part of my sermon for all that's like and he'd be

marketing hip hop shows. That was just random and they

were ready. Let me tell you, I I didn't been

to some places and they want you to turn in your sermon slides

and I'm like, hey, I got some corrections on Saturday and

they're like, sorry, we. Can't make them.

Once we put everything in on Friday night, that's it.

And that's fine. You adjust, you adjust.

But man, any man of God or woman of God come to this house, man,

they could show up Sunday morning at 7:00 AM and be like,

hey, God changed my messages. We going like, let's go.

We didn't want that dry word anyway.

We want that. We want that fresh.

Fresh up in here, right? You going?

You going? Hopefully I'll never bring

somebody in here with dry bread, but if it does happen, you going

to know. And then as a signal in the

house, if anybody come with dry bread, everybody just start

drinking water at the same time. That'll be crazy, huh?

They'd be like, this is a cult, huh?

Everybody like drinking water at the same time.

Drink, just take one sip and everybody go.

Hey man. You anoint my head with oil and

here it is. You anoint my head with oil and

and my, my, my brimming cup runs over like like the anointing

calls you to overflow, overflow in my soul.

Overflow everybody say. In my soul.

Hallelujah. That's it.

That's over. Like over.

OK. Thank you.

Thank you. Shirley, somebody shout out,

Shirley, or only goodness, mercy and unfailing love shall follow

me. All, somebody say, all say, say

all the days of my life and through the length of my days.

Here it is the House of the Lord, the House of the Lord and

His presence. I love the differentiation, the

distinction between the two. For the people who think me and

God got a relationship, I don't need to go to church.

The House of the Lord and his presence shall be my dwelling

place. It don't sound like he's made

God his presence and his people like one of the options.

He says all the days of my life hear it.

I like this and then through the length of my days, meaning

through my life, throughout my life, every season throughout my

life, as long as I'm blessed to live throughout my life.

There is a lifestyle of dwelling in the House of the Lord.

Here we go, when my coming draws near, When my coming draws near.

Heaven's Kingdom realm can be compared to 10 maidens or 10

virgins who took their oil lamps and went outside to meet the

bridegroom and his bride. 10 virgins, 10 oil lamps walk

outside here. Here it is.

It is the key. He is telling you because

without revelation, he has to make the revelation practical.

So he gives parables and say the Kingdom is like, because if he

just talked to you in just straight up Kingdom language,

some of you wouldn't understand it.

So he has to give you a correlation or or or an example.

So he's telling you, when my coming gets near, this is what's

going to happen. Heaven's Kingdom realm can be

compared to Tim Burgess. They all have oil lamps.

Five of them were what? Foolish.

What's the other story? We hear Jesus say somebody was

foolish. Those that don't, they hear the

word and they don't obey it. And they built their house on

the stand. What does he call them?

Foolish, he said, for they took no extra oil.

You ready? He didn't.

He didn't say they didn't take no oil.

They didn't take no extra oil for their lamps.

See. See, here's the extra oil.

You had no expectation. You thought showing up was good

enough. You thought setting up chairs

was doing God a favor instead of you?

A favor? Yeah.

Yeah, Five of them were wise. Why did what's the other

scripture? He says those that that hear the

word obey the word. They built their house on the

word the rock. Those are wise men and women.

Why are they wise? Pay attention.

One is wise and one story because they built their house

on the word. So we don't just need the word.

If you got word no oil, you and the you're not experiencing

Kingdom for they it's a lot of churches with word no oil.

I'm talking to somebody here because you'd have been in you'd

have been in some places with no oil for they took flask.

They took that extra. You know, the people who sneak

the flask into the club after they drank and they going to get

drinks from the bar and they got a flask.

They like. I'm not running out of liquor.

The bar going to be crowded, but I'm going to be sipping.

Five of them were wise and they took a flash of olive oil with

their lamps. Somebody say take extra.

See you ever have somebody say you doing extra next time you

say you right and look at them say you about to run out, huh?

Right see your extra let's them know they close to empty.

Y'all remember Whoo, that's just, there's only a few y'all

man, that tell us how much our church has grown because I'm

like Bobby, y'all remember Amen. When the bridegroom did not

come. This is very important.

And I'm about to give the church some instructions and then I'm

going to go further. I got a few more passages and in

the next service we're going to look at Azai mishandling the

ark. He, he, they, they didn't fear

God. They didn't fear the presence of

God. There was no reverence there.

And then we going to look at how David said I'm about to leave

the presence, the ark at my boy's house, Obed Edom, until I

figure out what God wants to do next.

When when the bridegroom didn't come when they expected, they

all grew. When when the bridegroom didn't

come when they wanted him to, they all grew drowsy and fell

asleep. You see it?

Many Christians are falling asleep in this hour.

You ready? I love it.

He ain't going to wake you up. He going to invite you to a

church that's woke? And then the spirit that's in

that house, you, you, you, you could you, you could fight.

You could fight it if you want to.

But I will tell you 100%, this house is full of oil.

We had 12 oily people speak over the last 24 hours.

I'll take an anointed female preacher any day over some old

dried up male then suddenly say, then suddenly it was almost like

God waited till you fell asleep. The temptation was to stay stay

awake. The the the challenge was to

stay awake the the you. You're wondering why it seems

like a delay because God is allowing the drowsy to fall

asleep and the thirsty to stay awake.

That because there's going to take a deeper hunger within,

right? Right.

You get what I'm saying? Gerber's ain't going to work in

the last days. Chewing your bananas down ain't

going to work in the last days. OK, Breastfeeding, you ain't

going to work in the last days. OK Chopping up grapes for you

ain't going to work in the last days.

It's going to be meaty. Kristens, you need protein in

the last days. Then suddenly, in the middle of

the night, I love it in the middle of the night.

Oh, what it when God got in, the bridegroom is here, somebody

else invited him, He just showed up and then the awareness of

those that saw him wake. Up.

See, I don't know if you've been listening for the last few.

I don't know, maybe since we got here in Canada we've been

yelling wake up. Yeah, but you notice he didn't

say wake up, get up because a lot of y'all woke.

But you still laying in bed and your feet playing, you know, you

scratching a little dusty toes and in the in the in the bed

comforting. You're a procrastination.

You're just Hallelujah awakened. By the shout, get up, the

bridegroom is here, the bridegroom is here and it's it's

intensifying. So then as we get closer, then

the the, the, the the sacrifices of the bride is going to

intensify the sacrifices of the bride is going to intensify the

sacrifices of the bride is going to intensify the.

Sacrifices of the Bride is going to intensify.

You ready? Not because Jesus is making the

bride sacrifice. It's because the Revelation of

the bride for the bridegroom, for our husband, the revelation,

the intensity of the revelation, the awe and wonder is driving us

to an intense sacrifice. Says come out and have an

encounter with him. Have a what?

He didn't say. Come out and just sing.

Whenever Jesus shows up, He wants to have a what?

So all the girls got up and trimmed their lamps.

Does anybody know what trimming means?

Right? It's the Wick, right?

Right. But here it is.

If you don't have enough oil, they don't know it don't matter

how much you trimming, what you trimming, you ain't got nothing

to light. You don't have no fuel, you

don't have no anointing. It's a whole lot of believers

trying to trim no oil. How you trying to trim because

you think coming to church is the answer.

No, no presence is the answer. OK, but the but the here we here

we go. You're trying to so all the

girls got to trim their lamps, but the foolish ones were

running out of oil. The foolish ones.

I love how the Bible call the fool.

If I called y'all foolish you, you'll be like oh this pastor is

mean and church hurt, but Jesus called you foolish.

So what you going to say now? But the foolish ones were

running out of oil. So, so, so they said to the five

wise ones, hey, what's up? What you doing today?

Listen here, listen here. I get paid in a couple weeks

now. Now for those that don't get it,

like I know they didn't talk like this back then, but I'm

trying to bring it forward to you right now.

Can you, can I borrow some? See, we borrow sugar sometimes.

Anybody ever borrows something from every?

Can I, can I borrow some oil? Can you share your oil with us?

Because our lamps are going out. We can't keep up with y'all.

Y'all a little too excited for me?

Y'all, y'all do way too much at y'all church.

Well, we're able to because we got that oil, we brought extra

oil, we got that flask in the back.

How how you going to be here for 24 hours?

And if we told you all hours up to there's not one day this week

I got to bed before 1:00 AM and then we here for 24 hours and

then we come up in here and we like, ah, that's oil.

That ain't that ain't really me. Like I don't know what I'm

doing. That's oil.

OK. Maybe you guys, we come alive in

the river. We come alive in the river.

We come alive in the river. You know how to play this.

We come alive in the river, we come alive in the river, we come

alive in the river, we come alive in the river.

Same thing right, right. Same thing, same thing, right,

same thing right. So you understand you said So

what that song was about on the CCM side, right?

What what what that song was about is when you jump into.

The body of water that is living and active, then it doesn't

matter how tired you are, you go with the current of the river.

You allow the river to take you, and whatever's in the river, you

become it. OK.

Sure, Sure. You are sure.

OK, that's Bible. OK, That was the Scripture.

Where's that scripture, John? Seven.

OK, when you got the? Spirit in you, out of you shall

what flow? Reverse of living, what water,

And here, how's it work? If you pour, as Deborah so

eloquently taught us last night, as you pour, guess what?

You keep you. You never pour out for God and

end up with less. OK, OK, OK.

Our lamps are going on. We can't we I love this I I need

some people in here to get this in a spirit in 2025.

Andrew, I need you to get this in your spirit.

Jude, I need you to get this in your spirit.

When people come and they trying to Leech off your anointing and

take advantage of your gifts and talents that God gave you, they

don't want your anointing. They just want your talent.

They want you to make their church look they want here's

here's your answer. It's super silk.

We can't family members that just want to keep draining and

draining and draining and draining.

No, we can't. Getting in these biblical

arguments, We can't. Another translation is Nehemiah.

Why would I come down by us? We can't shout.

No, no, no, no, I'm not everybody.

Not everybody. Those that know they're called

to the those that know they're going to keep an extra flask

shout out. We can't.

Let me align this with a prophetic word that came in this

house. There will be a season where the

shoulder season is over and you can no longer carry, especially

those who've been getting carried.

Pacesetters are coming that want covenant and are willing to do

the work. Can't go to church for pastoral

benefits. Listen said we don't have enough

for all of us. I've been anointed for my

assignment. I can't share my oil with you

because you running from yours, you running out of oil because

you're pouring it in something that wasn't created to give you

more oil back. You're pouring oil into.

Bad ground, not good ground, right?

See here. Here, let me give you an

example. Every last one of these people

up here. And over here in some other

places, lot of y'all OK? I poured my oil into my wife has

poured her oil into you. So here it is.

If you was here, you've seen Annabeth, she was rapping last

night. She just something.

You can't, you can't. We can't Unsee that now.

We can't Unsee that now, right? But, but look, but but she was

in her oil though, right? And and when you get around the

prophets, you start prophesying when you she'd have been in the

studio when we've been working on some hip hop and now all of a

sudden she's like, ah, come on, say it's the oil.

Right. Listen, this is all good ground

and there's people who you try to hold accountable and all that

and then they walk away or they resist.

And then there's other people who are like, man, I, I see the

fruit. I want to be a part of that,

like pour into me and they receive it, right?

And So what happens is I can now and as we go, we can do it more

stand over there and then they're pouring out their oil

and then I can be over there receive it.

And guess what they're doing now?

They got they all up. Guess what they doing now?

They pouring into me, right? My son, he'll come in in the

back before I come out, lay his hands on me and prophesied.

What is he doing? I poured oil in him.

Guess what he's doing pouring it back.

Some of you wonder why you dry, because you ain't pouring.

And if you don't want to be poured into, listen.

Being taught is not merely being poured into.

He said why 5 out of five girls were out buying oil.

So they went, they went OK, let's go to the store.

Can you imagine the five just gossiping like Oh my God, they

stingy. They think they know everything.

They holler it and now they think they know God better than

us. Watch, watch God going to come

and save us. Bitch.

Guarantee you that churches don't make it.

I guarantee you I know he cheating.

I know he doing something wrong. Oh my God, he don't never.

Oh my God, Can you imagine that? Whole and God just waited while

the five girls went to the store, Jesus appeared.

Did he appear to them? No.

Guess who he appeared to? The ones that was ready.

Those who were ready and waiting, expectating, I'm sorry,

expecting were escorted. Escorted.

He leaves me Psalm 23. You see, I just want to go

together. They were asked those that were

ready and waiting. Look, look, we was here.

We, you know, in 24 hours. We've been here for a minute.

What was we doing? Waiting, escorted inside with

him. He didn't say the ones see.

Look. The ones that waited, Misty.

The ones that are waiting got it.

Waited means the wait is over. Waiting mean it's a posture of

waiting. OK, OK.

We're escorted inside with him in the wedding party to enjoy

the feast. Oh, you mean to tell me in these

last days? Remember the Kingdom in the last

days is coming. It's not no bad news.

It's to the waiters. This is he says you.

There's going to be a feast for you and a famine for them.

And what's crazy is now the other five versions got to

experience what the world is experiencing because they

weren't ready and then. The door was locked.

I want you to hear this. You not locked out of heaven, so

don't go out there. Who is this guy that because I

didn't have no oil, no the Kingdom, the benefits, the.

Empowerment. Heaven on earth, the king locked

out. Later, the five foolish girls

came. Hey, Lord, Lord, no, he didn't

let us come in. But but the Lord.

Called back, go away. PT didn't say go away.

The Lord said go away. He's like, who is that?

I think he opened the door a little bit.

What's up? What's your name?

Lord, stop playing, he said. Do I know you?

I can assure you I don't even know you.

I promise you I don't know you. I'm I'm not trying to had that,

Noel. I'm I'm not trying to had that.

I'm like. You know, you know me.

That is the reason you should always stay awake and be alert

that I'm I'm trying to help you. I'm about to release something.

I'm about to release something to you.

Well, shouldn't we hurry up and get out because the next service

we there ain't no next service. It's just we just going because

we still in our 24 hours, we ain't in 22 paused in three.

No, it's 24 hours. OK, so I'm preaching until 2:00,

OK? No, I'm just, well, we're going

to stop. We're going to stop, OK.

That is the reason you should always stay awake and be able

to. That's the reason somebody say

always and say always. You know that song Judah?

No, but hang me. I'm not Michael's like I do it,

Pastor. Come on.

Give me a chance, Pastor. Give me a chance, Pastor.

Always. Always stay awake and be alert

because you don't know the day or the hour of our King's

return. Listen.

That triggered a response from the one guest who was in the

house. It was like how fortunate the

one who gets to eat dinner in God's Kingdom.

There's a feast waiting for us, Jesus, Father, look, there's a

feast in the presence of darkness.

There's a light for this darkness.

Jesus followed up, yes, for there was once a man here it is,

he's still, he's giving them explanation.

There was once a man who threw a great dinner party and invited

many. Somebody, say many.

When it was time for dinner, When it was time for dinner,

There's a dinner time, there's a preparation for dinner time,

there's a shopping for dinner items, and then there's a

preparation for dinner time. And then there's the time to

eat. We're in the time to eat.

He says when it was time for dinner, he sent out his servant

to the invited guests, saying come on in, the food's on the

table. Look, look, look, look.

He sent his servant to the invited guests, the ones who

were invited. Who's the invited ones?

If you've heard his word, you're invited.

Then they all here it is. They all began to beg off.

Here it is. I need everybody to pay

attention. They all began to beg off 1

after another making shouted out excuses.

The first said I bought a piece of property and I need to look

over it, send my regrets, sorry I can't be there.

Another said I just bought five teams of boxing.

Here it is, the one inviting you is the one that got you the

property and he knew when he gave you the property he was

going to invite you to dinner. Another said I just bought five

teams of oxen and I really need to check them out, send my

regrets, excuse and. Another said I just got married

and need to get home to my wife and they probably don't even get

along. Oh no, I'm just saying, won't

you see this? How do I know that he's on his

way back? Because the church got a lot of

excuses. Follow.

The servant went back and told the master what had happened.

Lord, I'm trying to tell your people how important it is to

gather. I'm trying to tell your people

what you have for them in this hour.

I'm trying, Lord, to tell your people that weeping may endure

for a night, but joy is coming in the morning.

I'm trying to tell your people. That you have traded those

sorrows for joy. I'm trying to tell your people

that you have greater and higher and wider for them.

I'm trying to tell them enlarge their tent pegs because there's

something coming. There's a bumper crop coming.

I'm trying to tell your people. I'm trying to invite them.

God, I'm trying to invite them to the table.

He was outraged and he told the servant quickly get out into the

city streets, in the alleys, collect all who look like they

need a square meal. In other words, find the hungry

people. Go look for the people who don't

take my grace for granted. Go look for the people.

Here it is. Here's what he's saying.

And I don't want to read to see you, but here's look at my

fruit. Here's exactly what the world is

looking for. The world is looking for the

thing that can only be cultivated in the believer by

the holy. Spirit.

Here's what every person in the world is looking for love.

Peace, joy, patience, kindness, long-suffering.

People are losing their minds because they don't know how to

suffer long. This is what the the world.

'S not looking for riches, you're actually looking for

something that God wants to gift in you cultivate in you so then

you can you wasn't here last night break the.

Bread and share it the answer. To the world.

Is locked inside of you, but it cannot be released until it's

cultivated. The gut culture.

The gut culture, It has to be cultivated within you before it

can be released around you. I hope you're hearing me.

So he says, you know what, go find some people who don't know

me. Go find some people who were not

invited. Go find some people who never

even thought about having a church home.

Because the ones who I have given a church home to, they

take the home for granted. Here it is, he says, Go find the

misfits and the homeless and down and out and you can lay

your hands on them and bring them here.

In other words, compel them. The servant reported back.

Master, I did. You guys got to get this.

I did what you commanded. And they're still wrong.

Somebody say still wrong. Here's man, hear the Father's

heart right now, the master said.

Then go to the country roads. Whoever you find, drag them in.

Watch this. I want my house.

And then if we court, but we we bring that in with get as many

barrels as you can find God saying there's nothing wrong

with the mega church, especially if the motive is is you trying

to fill my house for me to get glory.

Here's the father's charm. I want my house full.

I want my sons and daughters home, he says.

Let me tell you, not one of those originally invited is

going to get so much as a bite at my dinner party.

You're going to be like how they serving and they was just

prostituting. Well, why you wasn't serving?

Oh, he was making excuses. Well, that's my church.

That's my parking spot, then my past.

What? How do you get hunger Thirst.

They prioritized God's Kingdom, not you.

A lot of people think they're prioritizing God's Kingdom, but

you're using God's Kingdom and prioritizing His Kingdom for

your glow, for his glory. I'm going to stop there so I can

release what I have to release. Love Quest is about to do

something it's never done, never been instructed to do until now.

I will tell you this, yes, it's thus says the Lord, but the

strategy is not fully thus says the Lord.

This is a teaching point. It's a son and a father coming

together, and the Lord says, what's on your heart?

What you think would be a good strategy?

I do think that the soil needs to be tilled.

I think the soil needs to rest. I think I need an opportunity to

turn over some tables and trump some idols.

The Sunday church is sick. We have idolized Sunday.

We give the world five days a week, many of us 6, and we try

to cramp God and presence and community in in one day.

And for a lot of y'all ain't even one day.

It's two hours and then you start getting antsy, but you'll

sit at a desk for 8 hours because you're getting paid

slave and you come to church and someone's feeding your soul

shepherd. You don't even want to get fed

because you don't know how to sit still.

The church does not know how to be still.

And if we don't know how to be still, we cannot hear from God.

We have turned the church into a business center and a place

where we can find community. And nothing wrong with

community. But what goes deeper than

community is family. We've made church a place where

we can find clients. We've made a the church a place

where we can find a spouse. We've made the church a place

where where all these different things and God is turning over

the tables. So me and God have been talking.

He's placed his burden on my heart and I, I'm carrying it and

I feel it. And the Bible says in Luke 18/8,

I haven't. I think in the last slide he

says when I return, will I find my church in faith In these last

days He will be swift with justice, recompense, so be ever

praying, revival of prayer, be ever expecting, in the same way

as the widow, Even so. When the Son of Man comes back,

will he find this kind of undying faith on earth?

So if Jesus returned over the last 24 hours, guess what he

would have found at least here? Faith at work the last 21 days.

If he returned, guess what? He would have found a bride

alive. In faith and he's looking for

people on the earth and bold men and bold women who don't care

nothing about the rhythm of the world and North American church

rhythm. Oh Sunday that yeah.

That you can pack the next service going to be packed

guarantee Sunday pack prayer where you at?

You don't want God. Sunday for some of y'all is a

break from all the stress you had to carry all week.

All of a sudden the church has become a break room.

Then you go out on Monday and guess what?

You do put stress right back on. And then there's other religions

who we say got it wrong. And they'll gather 39 to 40 days

in a row late night praying. They'll stop wherever they are

at 5:00 PM and face towards the direction they need to face

because they have faith in their God.

And so they'll fall on the street on the corner.

They'll run into a restaurant and ask, is there space?

I just need a few minutes to pray.

They're devoted. And here we are, the ones say we

found the way, the truth and the life.

Be quiet. Do your life look like you found

the only way, the only truth and the only life?

Where's your faith? He's the only way, the only

truth, and the only life, and we give him only one day.

The love quest. The Sunday church is sick, the

Sunday experience is fixed, and the alive bride has a

responsibility to move different than the dead bride.

We've idolized revival. Ready for this instead of

preparing for arrival? We've idolized revival instead

of preparing for arrival. We want to be a.

Prepared Bride, stop crying out if you're not willing to cut it

out. Sacrifice brings revival, not

songs. And we're like, God's moving

because we have songs. But look at the kind of songs

that's being birthed. Are they songs of the Kingdom?

Are they songs written by orphans?

Are there songs that's breaking down walls?

Are there songs that are anointed to take a people across

those Jericho walls? You asked me to write an anthem.

It's going to have some faith. It's going to have a March to

it. The enemy's going to hear our

footsteps. You're going to see dust coming

up off the ground because are we stomping?

So you have a people that will say the noisy church is

manipulating people's spirits. Well, what are you doing if?

You say that the noisy church has the power to manipulate.

Well, what does the power of a quiet church have the power to

do? Because sound is sound, whether

it's quiet or louder. What's your angle?

Why you keeping people sobbing at the cross and looking for

goosebumps? And let's just sit and let's

sit. And we know how to do that.

Well, we just did it for 24 hours.

We've been doing it all month. We know how to do that.

You see second. Samuel, you don't have to turn

there. Chapter 523 Jesus, God gives

David. He gives them a strategy.

He says this time go around the mountain.

Right. You see, God give me strategy

and he says, wait for my sound, then you're going to move.

Wait for this sound, you're going to move.

You see, God gives another strategy.

He puts the choir in front of the soldiers and he said we're

going to go to this battle, worship it, and it's going to

confuse the enemy. He feeds the people.

Through a strategy. He brings Lazarus out the tomb

with a strategy. Whenever God is ready to move,

he's going to do something unpopular.

He's going to do something that 'cause even the people around

him to question if he's doing the right thing.

Jesus, why didn't you show up sooner?

He was like, Nah, I wanted to make sure he was dead.

I wanted to make sure they were asleep.

I wanted to come when they went to the store, right?

Because if he's really God, you got to stop trying to find his

pulse, live in his presence. You got to stop trying to

control the church and pastors and clergy and trying to make

churches do what you think you they need to do and start being

the church yourself. I don't care if we're here for

four hours and if we're here for 10 hours on Sunday, does that

count up to how much work you put in out there in the world

and helping somebody else business thrive?

Does your boss and your business follow Jesus?

There's those Starbucks cups, Prado, where that money going?

He served the world all day, every day.

Your Netflix account, IG got your attention.

TikTok got your attention. And then us, we got to beg you

to come to church, beg you to serve, beg you to change, beg

you. And then we're controlling and

we tripping and you don't understand.

You got to find 50. Let me tell you something in the

Kingdom, it ain't no 5050. If it is, then tell me, are you

giving Jesus the same sacrifice he gave you?

You want 5050 when it conveniences you Ain't no 5050.

It's something called the rhythm of grace.

Recognize the season you're in. There's some seasons where you

got to. Go.

There's some seasons you got to let your spouse go and answer

the call of God. There's some season you got to

let your kids go. There's some seasons we can all

come together and cuddle, cuddle.

There's some season where we going to praise and bust down

doors and there's some season we going to lay at the altar, be

face down and we going to be somber and we just going to be

sitting at his at his feet that way.

But who said? Dancing is not sitting at his

feet. And I'm, I, I this one guy, this

is one family that will not show up to heaven with excuses.

I'm not going to miss it. I'm going to change it every

corner and I'm going to obey God and I'm going to walk with him

and I'm going. To let His Spirit in me do what

they want to do. And I'm going to let His Spirit

make suggestions to me like this.

So here you are, Love Quest. Next week is the first weekend

of February. Next Saturday we have a pop up

shop with 100% of the proceeds goes towards the Remnant

Project. People have donated really nice

clothes, fancy jewelry, purses, they have food truck music and

it's going to be in next door Saturday, 1:00 to 6:00 this

Saturday night. We're going to shoot a music

video and you'll see information throughout the week for the cool

people, OK, because we we got to you know what I'm saying?

It's. It's going to be like, it's

going to be like you going to be elevated.

Urban fashion is going to be fun.

We we shoot a music video. OK, OK.

Don't come in here, you yoga pants.

This is not a yoga pants video. Hallelujah.

Listen to me. I'm joking, but I ain't playing.

And then Sunday talk to my wife and I think this is the wisest

thing to do. We will have morning experience,

we will have our pop up shop and in the evening we're going to

have our renaissance, which is the revival of Kingdom art and

it's artists. There is a call for artists

because within your art is the prophetic, within your

creativity. It's something that God needs to

use. In this hour.

God is calling the worship team, and the worship team is not just

singers, it's baristas, it's carpenters, it's bakers, it's

seamstress, it's poets, it's producers.

So next Sunday night, we'll be right in here.

We're going to flip this place out.

We have a super fun, if you like, creative stuff, it's going

to be super fun. And Tommy Zuko will be the

headlining act. And then we have some really,

really cool creative stuff planned next Sunday night.

After that, listen closely. There will be no more Sunday

service for the rest of February.

We will not. Celebrate our anniversary until

the first weekend of March. No Sunday service in February.

After next weekend, nothing's happening on Saturday.

We will be here Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

You only give on Sundays. Awesome.

If we lose finances because you only give on Sundays, awesome.

That's only you. You don't you don't want to come

to church because you go to work on Sundays.

Awesome. I mean on throughout the week

awesome. That's on you.

Oh, I get off at 5 and it be traffic.

OK, cool. How many other things you drove

through traffic to get to excuse?

Oh, I live in excuse. Lord says we have made Sunday

and Idol and I'm looking for people who willing to disrupt

the pattern. Three Sundays 3.

Saturdays we will not be gathering and if we if we lose

members, we don't lose members. God purges them.

So if you find another church during that time, amazing,

that's good for you. I pray it works out for you.

That's not what we're here for. If you decide in that time you

want to use it to pray, to see if you want to go somewhere

else, man, good for you. Are you going to get your God's

going to deal with your heart? If you really press into this,

we give you some details. We will return March 1st with

our leadership, a worship experience here, pour into our

lovers, and then March 2nd we will celebrate our anniversary

every Sunday in February after next Sunday.

This is what we're going to do from 9:00 to 10:00 PM.

Carve that time out knowing that around this city, the rest of

Love Quest is meeting with. God. 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM We will

go in our office, we will go in our closet, we will go on a.

Walk or whatever. It may be we will pause and we

will pray. We will worship, we'll read the

Word, and we will sit in our own time, but knowing that between

9:00 and 10:00 our church is all doing the same thing that's

going to unite us through the Spirit.

We're coming back super strong. OK, now some of you are like,

that's the time I was going to go to my friend's church, but it

but it's not the same as if you're in your friend's church

and say, well, we prayed and we worship.

Does that count? No, no, no, no.

This is for a remnant of people who is trying to unite with

their church and who's going to use Sunday as a time to really

feel the weight of what God is saying about his bride.

Use your time how you want to. For our church after next

Sunday, there will be no social media, so don't look for a

flyer. I know Grace probably like

Hallelujah, right? We will work this week and try

to get as much stuff scheduled, Emma, so our team as much stuff

scheduled. That will automatically go up.

But we are not going to be on social media as a church.

We will return back to social media February 24th.

As we prepare to return, what I'm encouraging Love Quest teams

to do is to meet with your team at least once throughout that

time and just pray and as a team, check your hearts.

How are we going to come back? Where have we made serving an

idol right? Meet with your team at least

once and pray as a team and fast with your team.

And if you're a director, come to that meeting with some goals.

But keep it simple. In this hour, we're going to

fight to keep the sentence of the church, the movement of the

church, the vulnerability of the church, the urgency of the

church, and keep the agility of the church so that we could be

less fragile and more agile. We are serious about God's

bride. This was not planned till a week

ago. We're really pursuing God.

This ain't no sabbatical. This is just God saying man,

enough is enough. I want a serious bride and

whoever want to get sifted, get sifted.

Whoever want to get purged, get purged.

We're not looking to feel sees. We're believing for laborers.

We have a a a mission driven vision and I'm not a scared

leader. I'm not afraid to error on the

side of pursuing God's will. And that's risky sometime

because it's unpredictable. And I get it to the people who

need a certain type of knowing or structure or I get it man,

but this is the wrong guy. There is systems for all types

of people, but in a church situation that system needs to

be built around the grace gift. That's on that house.

And if we're an. Apostolic House.

That needs to be the system that supports the Apostolic House.

If it's a path, if the highest gift in the house is a it's just

a pastoral gift, then that administrative gift needs to.

If it's a teacher, it needs to and you come from the old

wineskin God's pouring out new wine and you're trying to put

the receive the new and the old and it's not going to work.

And I'm. Sorry, I didn't.

Move from America to come here to let you punk me into the type

of church you want. And I have proved my love for

you. My wife has proved her love to

you. Our children, our elders, our

leaders, our worship team, our hospitality.

We serve you guys relentlessly. But then we got to beg because

you are OK with the same people serving long as you get fed on

Sunday. How long are you going to Leech

off your church home? When are you going to find out

how you can serve the church? That's what we were saved for,

not to be spiritual leeches and let a few people carry.

No, every ministry should have more than enough help.

And serving goes beyond Sunday. We are a marketplace church and

we're about to get in to some creative stuff in the

marketplace. So we need you.

Maybe you can't serve on Sunday, but we need you.

And I'll share that vision at the Renaissance event.

I'm super excited. I'm excited to rest on Sunday.

I'm excited to pursue God, I'm excited to watch some football.

But guess what I'm going to be doing Monday, Tuesday,

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. I'm going to be right here with

His body. It's no better place but worship

with y'all. And then it's overflow because

God's moving and he's speaking and we don't have enough

parking, but whatever the hungry, we'll wait.

Oh man, we got to get out at this time because it causes

chaos. Yeah, your job caused chaos,

right? How many people been to a

restaurant they really want to go to?

And oh, it'll be about 45 minutes and you take that little

buzzer and you like, I want some of this food.

Get out of here. We going to be a North American

church, but with a Kingdom fiber and Kingdom fabric.

Hallelujah. Stand to your feet.

Monday through Friday, we will be here.

We will, we will. Doors will open that.

So we're not doors, tents, the we'll open that at 6:30.

We will zip the doors up at 6:30.

Now here's what I, here's what I don't like as well is all the

people who just take their time and come to church late.

It's disgusting to a king. And I'm not the king, but the

people who just like just walk in whenever and just like

whatever. No, no, no, no, no.

You walk into God's house. So I'm going to say 630, but we

won't start until a little later because it seems like 6:30.

We talking to a few people and then people trickle in.

And I get it, some people work, I totally get that.

But some people just don't have any urgency.

And you get here when you get here, and that's totally fine.

But when you're asking what time we're going to, we're going to

greet you at 6:30. We'll probably get worship

started around 6:45. But I am very eager to see how

many people show up throughout the week.

Do I expect everybody show up every day?

I do not. Do I expect those that say this

is your church home to show up a couple times a week?

Absolutely. Will it be a sacrifice?

It should. Are you going to come late

sometimes because of trafficking?

Absolutely. But is God going to bless your

sacrifice? Absolutely.

Are we doing it as the business tracks that transaction?

Like look, God, I didn't know we're doing it because his word

tells us we should gather more and that something happens when

a hungry people come together and pursue God.

The city rejoices when the rights is are in authority.

So you'll see this this information throughout the week.

And then after next Sunday, we're going to get the rest of

February Sundays and we're going to lay them at God's feet.

And I don't know what's going to happen after that.

I don't want to make no more announcements.

They should follow our Instagram.

I have not heard from the Lord that we know we going to come

back in in March. But I'll tell you this, if God

say the rest of the year, y'all ain't, you don't care if you say

month by month, no Sunday. Don't you dare come in there on

a Sunday, do something different.

I'm going to build this house with a different pattern.

Then I'm ready. I'm ready.

And I also know I got a few people that's ready with me.

Yeah. We will not close in prayer

because we keep. We just praying.

OK, so as you cross, you can stay, you can save your seat or

you can go. I'm asking you to head out, give

some parking to other people. Love you guys so much and look

forward to seeing you guys. There is no prayer this week.

Oh, sorry, stop this because people will be happy about this

in February. We're not going to continue to

fast, but we encourage you to fast.

But God says no. The people need to fast on their

own. Stop waiting for the church to

call a fast. Stop waiting for the church to

have communion. So we will not be fast.

I'll I'll fast. My wife will fast.

There'll be something we fast and that's on you today.

Corporately, the fastest ending It's it's it's over after 2:00

PM OK, No, no, no, no, y'all didn't listen to the rest.

Technically the 21st day is tomorrow.

So however you want to finish the 21st day, that's on you

corporately, We're not hopping on a phone call tomorrow or

gathering again tomorrow. So corporately it's over flow

with your convictions. OK, I already know there's

people in the years like I'm I'm done when the corporate is done.

OK, and I agree, me too. OK, But I will say God said love

quest. Well done.

No, no elders. Thank you.

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

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