The Great Deception (9AM) - 12.1.2024 (Pastor Terrance Richmond)

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It's go time, let's get into it. A great deception.

Let's lock in. Let's focus.

It's the fourth quarter, Just a few minutes left.

What I'm about to read. You guys don't need to go to the

next slide because this is not on there.

I'm reading from Romans 7. As you listen, please take

notes. But as you're taking notes,

don't just merely write down everything I'm saying.

Like have your pen ready to hear what the Holy Spirit wants to

say on the back of what I'm saying.

Can't say you have my attention, but I'm not prepared to pin.

Can you imagine Moses going in the mountain like I ain't

writing nothing down? Imagine any of the apostles or I

ain't writing them down? This rich word that we get was

written by the Holy Spirit. Do you think that those notes

you got to take notes like you're writing for the next

generation? And if all you can leave them is

the binder and there's no more Bibles, but they inherit your

notes, what would you leave them?

You got to write with clarity like your little niece, like

your little your future children.

Like what would it look like for you to one day when your

children get of age? You don't even have kids.

But I'm trying to get you to think like the Hall of Faith

did. Think about your children that

are coming into this world that you're praying for, correct.

OK. And then think about one day you

going to sit on their lap, say 25 years from now, 30 years from

now, you're going to sit on your lap or y'all going to sit on the

couch and you're going to pull, you know, people have photo

albums from back in the day and you're going to pull out all

these notes. You're going to sit down and be

like, man, 30 years ago I remember that message, you know,

because the word transcends. So the word that's preached

today is for sure going to be relevant in another season.

Take take notes like 5 generations is dependent on you.

You shouldn't have any trouble understanding this, friends, for

you know all the ends and outs of the law.

How it works and how it's power touches only the living.

Check it out for for instance, a wife is legally tied to her

husband while he lives, but if he dies, she's free.

If she lives with another man while her husband is living,

she's obviously an adulteress, but if he dies, she is quite

free to marry another man in good.

Conscience don't get no ideas, ladies.

With no one's disapproval. So my friends, this is something

like what has taken place with us.

When Christ died, he took that entire rule dominated way of

life down with him and left it in the tomb, leaving his bride

free to marry. A resurrection life and bear

offsprings of faith for God. For for as long as we lived the

old way of life, doing whatever we felt we could get away with,

sin was calling most of the shots as the old law code hemmed

us in. Let's make this relevant to

today. Anybody in here that lives how

they want to, you need the 10 commandments.

You are a believer that is still living under the law and not

grace. So your life is dictated by do's

and don'ts, not by freedom. The freest life you can live is

the life in Christ following the Word of God, walking in his

love, living by faith and not by sight.

And I'm not worried about cheating.

I'm not worried about stealing, Right?

You see what I'm saying? The sin is your sin conscious.

So you're living like I'm always waking up trying not to sin.

I'm always waking up, try to fight temptation, but but that's

not freedom. You need the law because you

need something to tell you it's wrong in order not to do it.

So can you be saved and drink? Can you be saved and still

smoke? How can I have?

Well, I can have sex outside of marriage with the person I plan

on marrying. You're as a believer.

I'm constantly trying to figure out how I can be saved and get

away with carnal nature. Therefore, I'm not really living

out my salvation. I am living by the law that

Jesus did away with. So I could never get to know

Christ until I divorce law. Am I talking to anybody this

morning? And this is the this is one of

the main entry ways for deception because by by by your

choosing not to live in God's freedom, here it is.

You automatically are double minded.

So the Bible says if you're double minded, I don't care what

you pray for. You can't think it's going to be

answered or you're going to walk in the blessing because you're

double. Here it is.

You're double minded in all your ways.

Wake her up. You're double minded in all your

ways. And if you're double minded in

all your ways, your prime real estate for deception because

this why you came here from God. Is it me or is it the Spirit?

Is it my desires or is it God's desires?

Is this my will? And now we live in this life and

I'm here to tell you, like I said, if you want all got to be

all in goes on, no. This is so good.

So, so let me get this out the way because I I got to say this

for myself. We got two more experiences

after this. OK y'all don't got a double dip?

Triple dip? You ain't got a dip at all.

You can. After service you could dip

whatever you want to. Do OK, but what I am going to

ask this church is this week, this week.

Listen to all three experiences. Make sure we record tonight.

Because I have to. This is the last Sunday that I

could deal with this. Then we have the Christmas

production messages and then there's one more Sunday and I

can't promise we're going to have our last Sunday on

deception. I don't know what it's going to

be. So today I am trying to get

through all 90 slides. OK, I at least need to get

through 60 because the other 30 is where we started.

OK but pray for your boy. But I need but but but the flow.

Of this is going to be based on, yeah, Holy Spirit #1 but also at

the end of the day, what you got to understand what I'm

delivering to you are already got.

So I don't need to waste my time on you not wanting to receive

it, right? So the flow of this is based on

your, your, your posture, your engagement, right?

Let me tell you, if you fall asleep, I'm not preaching to

you, OK? You missing it.

The enemy don't even got to try hard to steal the word from you.

You just here you go. OK, And y'all don't sit on the

front row If you if you that sleepy, OK?

I don't care if you're 95, you 95 sleeping like you 95.

I get it. You got an excuse to fall

asleep, but but do it in the in the tent because I'm I'm waking

up all so all I'm I'm waking up everybody.

No Holy Spirit here. OK, Make up.

All right. Hallelujah for OK y'all with me

offspring faith of God, for as long as we live that old way of

life doing whatever we. Felt there we go for as long as

we live that old way of life, doing whatever we felt we could

get away with, whatever we felt we can get away with.

Sin was calling most of the shots as the old law code timmed

us in and this made us all more rebellious.

In the end, all we had to show for it was miscarriages and

stillbirths. Look at what the Lord blessed me

with you, oh the Lord blessed you in your no, no, no, no.

Let me. You worked hard for that.

You begged for it, you manipulated for it.

Yeah, yeah. You got some fruit out of that

relationship at the cost of compromising who you are.

So you took somebody talking to you a certain way that God don't

talk to you, right? So so and you giving birth to

stuff that eventually that it don't have no ability to stay.

Man, there's so much stuff that I obtained, so much stuff I did,

so many friends I had, and once I stepped into the new, new.

In the end all had to show for it was miscarriages and still

births, but now that we're no longer shackled to that

domineering mates. Of sin.

And out from under all those oppressive regulations and fine

print, we're free to live a new life in the freedom of God.

But I but I can. But I can.

But I can hear you say, well, if the law code was as bad as all

that, it's no better than sin itself, that that's certainly

not true. The law code had a perfectly

legitimate function. Without the law or without it's

clear guidelines for right and wrong moral behavior would be

mostly guesswork. You know as Christians how we

play dumb now. It's no excuse because it's

written. You know what it says, you just

trying to find the workaround. Apart from the succinct surgical

command, you shall not covet. I could have dressed

covetousness up to look like a virtue and ruin my life with it.

Don't you remember how it was? I do perfectly well.

The law code started out as an excellent piece of work.

What happened, though, was that sin found a way to pervert the

command into a temptation, making a piece of forbidden

fruit out of it. The law code, instead of being

used to guide me, was used to seduce me.

Hey, don't eat from that tree. Oh, why not?

What's God trying to keep from me?

My friends ate from it. What am I missing out on?

Well, what do you mean they got married?

You're. Well, here's what we say to our

parents children. Well, y'all did it?

Yeah, stupid. We did it so you don't have to.

Don't be calling me stupid. Well, there you go.

That's the part that's the point.

Without, with with all without, without all the paraphernalia of

the law code. Sin look pretty dull and

lifeless. Like like like if I'm not living

the life of sin, I don't got no marks of sin.

Sin looks not fun. Sin looks fun because it has

this little fruit. Dangling got all of it.

Looks pretty boring, but once Sin got his hands on the law

code and decked itself out in all that finery, I was fooled

and fell for it. The very command that was

supposed to guide me into life was cleverly used to trick me

up, throwing me head long. So Sin was plenty alive, and I

was stone dead. But the law code itself.

Is God's good and common sense, each command sane, and his holy

counsel Chee goodbye. We must learn to live.

This is going to be a real good day.

It's going to be a such a good day.

We must learn to live in the tension of the garden.

In the garden. You ready?

The tree was not bad. It had the knowledge of good and

evil. What was in the tree had to put

had the potential to awaken something in us.

So why stay a virgin so that nature in you is not what

awakened? Why not smoke?

Because the first time you do it now you've awakened something

and your old man is the one that desires it.

Your new man is trying to break free from it, but you found

people who indulge in it, so you now have comfort in the

community of sin. Therefore you have a reason to

justify your actions. Because you found a party,

instead of finding a party of prophets, you found a party of

sinners. But but right in the middle of

this garden, there's a million trees that's yours.

The one that he says don't touch is the one you desire the most.

And he says once the first human.

Woke that up in our nature. It's it's this is the tension

y'all. This is what I'm saying.

This is why it's worth it. Because if Adam's sin had the

power to wreck a whole race. Then what you turning around

your life could do for your bloodline?

We we are here because of a human being's decision, and here

is the generational power of a decision.

Adam's decision impacted every human until Jesus returned.

What could your decision impact with God's backing?

We must learn to live in the tension.

And today we're going to see these tensions.

And here we go, verse 13. I can already hear this is

picking up from what we just read.

I can already hear you next. Your next question.

Does that mean I can't even trust what is good?

That is, I can't trust the law. Is good just as dangerous as

evil? No again, Paul says.

Come on guys. No again.

Somebody say again. Sin simply did what sin is so

famous for doing. Here it is.

What is it famous for doing? Using the good as a cover to

tempt me to do what would finally destroy me.

I'm gonna read that again. I'm gonna read that again Using

If we hear a lot of sneezing and coughing, this service

understand Deliverance is taking place.

Hallelujah. If somebody you smell, you

smell. If you smell somebody fart, then

you don't know who it is. Just thank God if you smell a

fart because somebody is getting set free in Jesus name.

Hallelujah. Demons coming out one way or

another. The nose, the mouth, or the

backtrack. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah, sin. Simply.

Now look that look. If it's you that past gas, don't

act like you didn't turn to your neighbor because you smell

insane. My bad.

But I'm free now. Come on, I'm sorry, but I'm

free. You want to celebrate my freedom

or or or hey, you get what I'm saying?

Come on, I'm talking to somebody.

Most people, eh eero Egypt, they think we joking, huh?

Like deliverance for real comes out in these different ways.

If you ever been to a delivery service, it don't smell that

good with the altar care team. We need some some spray.

So if you see at the altar folks spraying, then you know, just

celebrate though. Say somebody shout out freedom.

Somebody say freedom stank. Hey man, that's going to be a

message. Hallelujah. 2025 is coming March

2025. Freedom stank.

You using the good as a cover to tempt me to do.

Here's the vision and the mission of sin using the good as

a cover tempt. Let me tell you, you're never

going to get off track without starting with a good thing.

Some of y'all may be, but I ain't never been tempted to date

a gorilla. Some of y'all do gorillas and

all that. I don't do gorillas, OK.

You're not tempted by something you're not desiring or attracted

to. So what's presented to you is

going to be presented in a way that has you considering.

It's why you out there in the dating world, you got to cut

Nah, Nope, Nah not interested. Especially if what attracted me

to you was was the. No, no, no, I will not receive

that as my first like I will not respond to that.

If if you are for me and from God, then then I'm going to

respond to the quickening of the Holy Ghost, not to the

quickening of my flesh. And so, just to starve my flesh,

I might have to say no to you. We go by hiding within God's

good commandments. Sin hides in God's good

commandment. By hiding with it within God's

good commandment, sin did far more mischief than it could ever

have accomplished on its own. Sin needs good to get you.

Hey, hey Jesus, I know you're here to get the keys to the

Kingdom. How about I turn the keys over

to you because Satan had them? I give you the keys back if you

just bow down to me. Let me give you what you want,

but on the other side of that, you're going to get what you

don't need. It says I I can anticipate the

response that is coming. I know, I know, I know that all

God's commands are spiritual, but I'm not.

Isn't this also your experience? Yes, I'm full of myself.

I'm full of me. After all, I've spent a long

time in sins prison being full of me.

I knew I shouldn't have put these three see, because what I

got is I got these set of scriptures on the back end in

the middle of some other context.

So I'm a I'm a flip it and reverse it later.

And something told me don't make this first because I was going

to get stuck here. OK, Just bear with me.

I'm trying to talk to myself right now.

What I don't understand about myself.

Can anybody in here admit that you don't know everything or

understand everything about yourself?

Man, we going to raise up because some folks lying in

here. Come on.

Raise your hand. Accountability.

Look around. Look around.

Right. Even me, Kate.

All right, Pastor ain't figured it all out.

I didn't figure some stuff out. Look at your neighbors.

Say I'm not lost as you, but I'm still struggling with some

stuff. Hallelujah.

Come on, bring it back, bring it back, bring it back, bring it

back. What I don't understand about

myself is that I decide one way I'm going to do this 22/20/25 is

my Yeah, right. You got the mark markers you can

write on the mirror. You got sticky notes on your

dashboard. You didn't bought all kind of

organizer apps. You didn't bought that journal.

I decide one way, but then I act.

Somebody say another. I think we love, I think.

Revelation is taking place. We love laughing at ourselves

because revelation is happening. Your eyes are opening in Jesus

name. But then I act another doing the

things I absolutely despise, right?

You do that thing you like. Oh my God, why?

Did I just drink that? Why did I just smoke that?

You just get out of some, some, some, some, some, some.

You just get out of some, some, some.

You spend days, man. I'm talking in this church this

morning. You spent days upon days upon

days upon hours fantasizing about this boy or girl and then

you'll finally do some something in 2 minutes hero.

You know how long you sit did convincing yourself and

imagining and you do the some something and in two minutes

some of you, I don't know too many, I mean five and whatever

52 it don't matter. Can I talk to the people this

morning? Oh my God, y'all smell anything

yet? Hallelujah.

OK, look, so, so listen, come on y'all if we, if we y'all got if,

if it's something funny, let's bounce back real quick, OK?

OK, laugh to yourself after you do this.

Don't start turning around and no just laugh to somebody and be

like that was funny and then laugh to yourself, OK?

Focus back. OK, but in that moment and you

look over and now they want to kiss and you like.

I'm going to bathroom. I'm going to bathroom.

Now I know this whole room ain't got no experience in nothing, so

I'm talking to a room full of mummies and virgins in here.

I'm trying to help a generation and ain't going to help you by

just talking about Bethlehem. Some of y'all think Bethlehem is

one of the one of the leaders. No, that's Jerusalem.

OK. How you doing, Jerusalem?

Good to see you, bro. Hey there.

Hey there. I'm flowing in the Holy Ghost

right now. OK?

Now listen, the point here is while you were dating and while

you were imagining yourself with this person, while you were

feeding your flesh, you number one had an opportunity.

Because here's what God says. I will always present you a way

out of sin. God's not mad at your struggle.

You're not sinning because you're struggling.

You're not sinning because you're pondering So, so so, so,

so you chose to go against the way out, and a lot of times it

leads to secrecy. So, so, so then you now, because

you share this part of yourself with someone, even if it's

emotional, you now have real estate invested.

So now you're together because deep within, hear me, that

person owes you something. You've opened up conversations,

you've touched one time, you've kissed one time.

Now I've why do you think people, when they're trying to

like you, see a lot of cults and things of that nature, They make

you do something. So they have collateral, right?

What you don't realize spiritually and emotionally when

you cross those lines, even emotionally.

There's a collateral expectation.

And so that person, if they left you, there's a how dare you when

I open myself up to you. So I make this decision and that

quick decision is not worth how long it takes to get out of it

emotionally, right? I can go to the club, party it

up and say, God, I'll never do this again.

But what I take home with me is the club.

So now I got to I got to renew my mind from the experience.

I expose my soul to so so so if I can't be trusted to figure out

what is best for myself. See why the enemy don't like

accountability. The whole room raised their hand

and said, I, I sometimes don't understand me, which means you

sometimes. Can't trust you either.

But I don't need no accountability.

Well, if you could see all of you, then you wouldn't need

nobody to help expose parts of you, right?

You should be glad God brought somebody in your life that ain't

afraid of you or timid and ain't fooled by your tricks no more if

you fooling everybody around you in the wrong circle.

So if I, if I, so, if I can't be trusted to figure out what it is

best for myself and then do it, it becomes obvious that command

is necessary. The, the, the power of

discipleship or what we love about discipleship is we no

longer have to hold your hand because now you're able to hold

somebody else's. Wait.

Like how this is Jesus? How long do I got to keep

telling you? How long do I got to keep

reminding you I can't leave you alone with a possessed man.

I can't leave you alone and a New Girl can't.

A new guy can't come to the church and we can't worry about

you being attractive. And so then the man of God and

woman of God come and help you, help try to help you so you can

hear God. You think that they're trying to

control you or or or or manipulate you or take your life

away. Do you?

No, what we're trying to do is help you to help you to do it

right once and not spend the first few years of your marriage

trying to get it right, but you at the altar with it right.

Do we got any marriages in here that spent a few years trying to

get it right? Come on.

Still under the hood a little bit, right?

Come on, but this is the work of the enemy.

He wants to accuse the brethren and be like, oh you don't go to

that church because they controlling or and they always

pastor T is always. Up and he's trying to stop me

from doing something no I actually love you and people

that's out there trying to tell you the test drive everything

let's see if they go to the hospital if you mess around and

get syphilis or some some STD I'm about to say rabies I'm.

All some of y'all food with dogs.

I don't I don't know what I'm what I'm saying.

Hallelujah. We going there this morning,

this weekend, in the year strong.

Hallelujah. But, but, but I I need, I need

he, he said God's command is necessary.

And then he says I need something more than the

commandments. I need some more than rules.

Hey, I need you to need some more than.

Rules. I'm tired of talking to you, but

boundaries are necessary. You can't have children and

don't have no boundaries. Hey, hey.

Stay away from the fire. That's the law.

Until you understand what fire do.

Am I right, Elder John, Please. Right.

There's certain things we like. Stay away from the pole.

You don't know how to swim, OK? Stay away from that tail.

You don't know how to take care of who you sleeping with, right?

Is that bad or am I like you? Don't you don't know how to

swim. You're going to get drowned up

in the thing and then you don't know how to swim, so stay out of

deep waters. All these little kids and my

kids watching. If your kids watching.

No, no, they didn't just be friends.

You can't take care of her. Mama.

Can I get some luck? Can I get some money so I can

buy her a gift? Can I?

I just want to, I'll spend my lunch money.

I want to buy a Christmas. I want to buy a criminal gift.

I you don't even got to give me my lunch next week.

And sin got us so foolish sleeping with the frogs too

long. No, not no woman.

Not no nothing in 2025. No, it ain't one more night.

You ain't going to marry the girl.

Bye. Like like, like, no, I came

there to sit with you. I'm like, we can't live like

this. So I came to a crossroad.

I'm either going to marry her or we got to break up.

It ain't you don't understand some stuff just need to be cut

off until you can grow. And so I was like well I don't

want to leave her. So I guess we getting married

like some of y'all got too many options.

Now I'm either going man up, take responsibility for this

girl I'm sleeping with, or I'm going to take care of

responsibilities if I have them with her.

But I'm not going to keep letting this thing play out.

So we got married first five years, hell, because the motive

to get married was not a godly motive, but it was a decision

that God honored. But we didn't see the fruit

until I gave my life fully to the one who honored my choice.

You know, let me get married because I don't want to go to

hell. No, let me tell you something.

Break up. Stop sleeping with her and you

ain't going to go to hell. You don't go to hell because you

sleeping with somebody. It's going to be.

Such a it's going to be such a good day.

I'm unloading the clip all day today.

OK, but I I need some more say I need some more and that's where

the world is they looking for but can't find it for if I know

the law. But still can't keep it.

And if the power of sin within me keeps sabotaging my best

intentions. Come on.

Flow with us, people. Did we pay the bill?

Hey, man, we got this big old stage and no Internet.

Come on, Holly. Come on, Deborah, Talk to the

people right here. Come on.

Come on. Same with, same within.

Me where we y'all, y'all we listen.

We we passed that slide. Now I don't even make sense.

Go back to the last slide so I can read it all together.

But I need something more. Say I need something more for if

I if I know the law but still can't keep it, and if the power

of sin within me keep sabotaging my best intention, I obviously

need help. Look at your neighbors.

Say I tried to told you last week.

Come on, you need help. You need help.

Now tell yourself I need help. Have you, have you ever, have

you ever gotten mad? Have you ever got mad at your

past church experience? Once you finally like hear a

word you like, where was this? Like where was this at when I

was Hallelujah. Us preachers and pastors, we, we

teachers and people of the gospel man, we pay a high price

for what we don't give people. Trends will never carry this

house. I obviously need help.

I realized that I don't have what it takes.

I can will it, sure, but I can't do it.

I decide to do good, but I don't really do it.

I decide not to do bad, but then I do it anyway.

You see how many bucks in the way my decisions, such as they

are, doesn't result in actions. Something has gone wrong deep

where within me. That's why you need to get your

butt here on Wednesday night as we talk about the inner man, as

we talk about the key of peace. Something has gone wrong deep

within the inner man and gets the better of me every time it

it happens so regularly that it's predictable.

Now, now get your mind out of sin, like like sex and all that.

What about the gym you like? I'm I'm I'm going to work about

this year. I'm going I'm about to treadmill

PT. I'm going to cold play.

You bought the cold plus tub. No water in it right.

So we are we often error and think sin is all about sex and

murder. No, sin is also you just not

doing what God told you to do. So not about what you do, what

you, what, what you don't do. It's, it's like you, you, you

have to. It's, it's not just about what

you do that's wrong. It's also about what you don't

do. That's right.

It gets the better of me every time.

Every time it happens so regularly that it's predictable.

The moment I decide to do good, sin is there to trip me up.

It says when I want to do good, evil is always present, like it

was in the garden. You see this garden tension?

So we can. That's my reality.

Yeah, that's my reality. Yeah.

I love you, girl. Right.

But. But but this is EJ.

This is why we have to worship and praise how we do because

there's two realities in us. So we have to stir up heavenly

realities to flood out our old man nature.

This is why we got to be here. Wednesday, because we got to

flood out. There's two realities in US,

Galatians 5 tells us, and they oppose one another not.

Truly delight. In God's commands.

But it's it's pretty obvious that not all of me joins in that

delight, parts of me covertly. Rebel.

And just when I least expected, here it is.

They take charge. I've I've tried everything and

nothing helps. I'm at the end of my rope.

Is there no one who can do anything for me?

Isn't that the real question? So.

Then we get impatient and be like.

I can't find a church, I can't find a mentor, I can't find

this, can't find that. I'm scrolling then I'll find

somebody on YouTube. But the real.

Question is you're really looking for help that no one can

fix. The answer, thank God, is that

Jesus Christ can and does help. He acted to.

Set things right in this life of contradictions where I want to

serve God with all my heart and mind but am pulled by the

influence of sin to do something totally different.

And that's why the the. Subtitle for For the the the The

Great Deception is the good fight of finishing sight.

Like like, like you you. Have to get things clear if

you're going to finish strong. Here.

Here's the reality. Is.

God could have easily dropped another.

Savior or shall I say another another son full grown.

He did it before. Why did God say this time around

you got to be a baby? I I just kind of was thinking

some revelation was shared. I didn't get a chance to share

it on Wednesday, but God was just like son, how life.

Began. I gave the world.

To man. Child born.

Son, giving the world started with me.

Giving a man the world and to. Get it right, I have to give.

The world a son. Because there's.

Things that Adam just didn't learn.

Some things have to be learned before you're given the world.

You. You.

You. You.

You're. This is why God's not about.

He did that before he gave. A man without.

Experience stuff that he clearly couldn't handle.

So while you trying to rush God, God.

Saying no, I don't want to keep doing this over and over again

with my children. Mature this.

Is why Jesus was content being Carpenter first.

He wasn't. Carpenter because he needed.

Money. He was Carpenter because

Carpenter prepared him for Savior.

And as I was talking to somebody, the other.

Day we got to learn how to shut up.

We got to learn how to nurture our pregnancy.

Joseph, the moment. He got pregnant, he start

telling people. This is why a Mama.

And a husband or a baby daddy will not tell or should not tell

or will not tell people that they're pregnant till after the

3rd trimester. And a.

Lot of times you get so. Excited about what you're

pregnant with? You start talking.

And what does that mean when you start talking?

You got 2 natures in here and you got 2 natures in the person

you sharing your excitement with and based on how they hear it

and based on how you hear feedback and based on how you

get wisdom, it's like birthing. It's like if a mother soon as

she find out she's pregnant she start pushing.

The moment God pregnant. You with something you just

start telling people a lot of time.

You see a pregnant Mama. What's she doing?

What is she doing? Nurturing.

The baby, the father's talking to the belly.

No, you need to stay in there. No, no, no, no, no.

You got to hear me, your carnal. Nature want to.

Give birth to stuff too soon. You want stuff too soon?

You just want it. In the Bible of Romans 8, we

learned. Last week is it's we're groaning

because we're pregnant. God's about to birth something

in this last hour that the world.

Needs. He needs you to be still.

We need you to nurture the dream, nurture the vision.

He needs you to come in here and labor and worship.

He needs you because all of this worship and all of this stuff

we're doing Christmas production, it's nurturing.

So when it's time to push, no, no it's not no C-section.

No, this is a natural birth. This is garden realities.

Right. We, we, we, we got to.

We got to practice discipline. But who the mother and father

does share with the nurse, doctor?

A few close relatives. Who's your medulla?

Who's the divine? People God put in your life.

Who's who's the family doctors? In your life.

That are there to walk you through this process because

what the enemy, what flesh and what sin loves to do, it prides

itself in abortions, miscarriages, still births

because you carried so much stress during the pregnancy.

Why you being attacked? Because.

You're pregnant. Why you feel like quitting?

Because you're pregnant. Why you coming to the end of

yourself? Because you're pregnant.

You're pregnant. This is a season where God is.

Like this I'm going to do the pushing.

I just need you to nurture. Put your hand over belly and

just say Lord thank you giving me something to carry.

Holy Spirit, help nurture my godly nature.

I want to rid my bloodline of spiritual.

Abortions. Spiritual.

Miscarriages. Spiritual still births.

I want for you to burst through me what you intend for my

bloodline. My children will not have to

push like I did. And just lift your hands right

where you are. That sinful nature in 2020.

Five will not have dominion over your life and that's why we are

distracted by him. That's why he has our attention.

We will be an immovable people. Thank you Jesus.

Thank you Jesus. Come on right there.

Just thank you Jesus. All that laughter is healing

balm. Don't take it for granted.

He's. Loosening things up so.

He can get into the depths of your soul.

Your flesh will not rule you. Any longer?

What God has convicted you? To do you will do.

I declare God will not. Only send you the help, but the

Holy Spirit will give you the eyes to see who your help really

is. Come on, just take a couple of

minutes. Those garden realities flood

out. No, we don't need the law.

We just need. We need that love.

That's what we need. We need that love, we need that

peace, that joy that He left us and He bequeathed.

This word will not be stolen. It will produce.

It will produce. It will produce.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

And Lord, we repent. We don't just say sorry, but we

make a decision today to make a 180, not a three. 60.

A180A turn away and we. Will walk.

We will walk in to this new year.

Today we're walking into the new year.

Today, we're walking into the new year.

Yeah, we will be a people, that's all.

In and have fun with. It because we.

We're not bound by the law. We're going to have fun being

all in. We're going to have fun being

holy. We're going to have fun being

righteous. Yeah.

Yeah, sons and daughters are coming home.

Son, sons and daughters are coming home.

Come on, give your neighbor a high five, say man.

That was a ride right there. That was a that was a ride right

there. Hallelujah.

If you got anything, give God a hand.

Give God a hand. Give God a hand.

Hallelujah. Hold these mints.

Actually, you can eat them because I don't want them.

Now you touch them. Thank you.

Hey man, Hallelujah you guys enjoy yourself.

All right, Hallelujah. The word is everything.

The word is. Everything the word changed.

My life. I just got a few announcements.

Did was it a video for Leap? OK, we.

Not announcing that. This Wednesday, now I'm, I need

you to invite friends. I feel Laura told me.

We've been talking about peace. I feel Laura was like this

Wednesday we are going to intentionally expect and we're

going to have a peace revival. Now what does that mean?

I need anybody and everybody that is struggling with anxiety,

generational depression, a frantic spirit, fear in some

like like, like in anything in the realm of like worry.

You got to get here Wednesday and I want to pray for you

specifically. We're going to worship.

We're going to preach the Word. It'll be the last.

Wednesday of the. Year.

So I got to I got to let out all the bullets on our Peace series

and we're going to end it by praying for coming against and

breaking the spirit of whatever you are ready to Ridge so you

you can't walk in to 2025 crippled with anxiety and worry.

See y'all. Got that?

Wednesday is our last one. And then guys, I am super

excited about our production. It's going to be crazy.

We already from from what I heard, we already had 200 and

like 50 or 240 tickets sold or not sold but claimed or whatever

you want to do it. But 250 and so and that we

haven't even started promoting it outside yet.

So tell your friends, tell your family and all finances that

come through the production. First of all, off top, they're

going to go towards every dime that was spent for the

production like this stage. And then it's going towards a

remnant project. They're already, they've done

the framing next door. They're now ready.

They're about to run the plumbing and.

Framing I I just have a. Feeling that God's going to give

birth to something that's going to absolutely wreck us, send us

running around this this block. I don't know, I'm just, I just

feel like God's going to do something before the year is

over because because we, I. Believe because we set our mind

to finish strong. God's going to put a

exclamation. On the year, he's going to do

something that sends. Us into the new.

Year with great momentum. I believe, I believe.

Can y'all believe with me? And then I think there's only

prayer for the rest of the year on Saturday morning in Vancouver

at 10:00 AM. Now there's a prophetic word

that was sent to us from the Bahamas that said there's going

to be a next wave of revival in our house.

And it's going to be a revival of prayer.

That means God is going to do something supernatural within us

that causes us to want to pray, and not just at home, but come

together and pray. OK.

And so I'm believing for that because what God's called us to

do can't happen without prayer. OK.

And then December 22nd is the last Vancouver experience.

And then we'll start that back up in the new year.

Vancouver's experience will stay into the new year, but tonight

is the last experience at the hub tonight.

Somebody say tonight. And then the last thing, OK, I'm

going to give you some homework. You're going to read Haggai

Haggai 1 · chapter mention

Chapter 1. OK, You're going to read that as

you prepare your seed for victory.

Seed Sunday. I don't know about.

You but have. Is there a few people in here

that's already been thinking and praying about their seed for

victory seed Sunday. That Sunday, 100% of every

single person that comes is going to worship with us through

our giving a last end of the year big old thank you to God

for. All.

That he has done in 2024, personally and corporately, and

that seed will go towards the. Remnant.

And Christmas Eve 10:30 AM and that assignment has been given

to Elder John and I can't wait to sit over there and get some

word in Jesus name. Stand to your feet.

Pull your phone. Out.

And write these quick notes down.

In my study time this morning, there's six or seven things.

Here it is. Close the four.

With our eyes open, close the four.

With our. Eyes open.

I like having fun with words for those.

People that are just a little older and don't don't like to

play on words. Four kind of reminds you of what

door. Amen.

Hallelujah. So close the four.

What does 4 represent? We got a few more smart.

People in here, so we going to close the four with our eyes

what open? How do we do that?

Number one, I'm speaking for the last four weeks of the year

fast. And.

Pray instead of stuff and lay. What I mean some of y'all

didn't. Forgot we've been fasting until

when? Why you eating them Twinkies?

Have we? Moved into the building.

Amen. The point of.

Finishing is keeping a sustained focus, right?

God's not. Mad at you, he just reminded.

You, he already knew when we was going to do this fast, that you

was going to fall off and act like you forgot.

Remember when I make a decision? Then I just so clearly I.

Need what help? That's what I'm giving you right

now. Hop back on Monday through

Friday. We fasting Saturday, Sunday,

Twinkies. OK, let's do it #1 fast and pray

#2 only this is for. The rest of the year only

reflect on His goodness and your progress.

What we doing closing? The four with our eyes open #1

fast and pray #2 only reflect on His goodness and your progress.

What are we trying to do? We're trying to give birth to

what the Word of God for next year for our lives.

So I want to go into the next year wanting to know what God

needs to purge, not what I need to purge because of culture.

Because some of y'all want to get skin.

T Because that's what culture tell you you should be, but you

ain't going to do well skin. T OK, you just got nice little

you thick. I'm just saying, you know what

I'm saying. Some.

Folks trying to get skin to you can't.

OK, what you need to do is get. Healthy.

Hallelujah, just say I'm thick. And healthy Hallelujah 1 fast.

And pray #2 only reflect. I love your laugh, Danny.

I really do only reflect on His goodness and your progress #3

choose and cultivate peace. No, for the rest of the year.

You going to choose peace? Somebody come.

At you sideways. Say we arguing January 2nd.

January 2nd we argue meet. Me outside at the.

Choose and cultivate peace. #4 for the rest of the year, be

thankful no be. Thankful.

Don't wait. For something to give thanks, be

thankful #5 be a blessing. Find out who you can bless.

She is it, She understands this. A word from the Lord.

OK, be a blessing. Number six, write a simplified

vision from God for your 2025. OK, you're going to.

Write a seat you're. Going to spend time in prayer

and fasting. You're going to keep your pen

ready. You're going to take notes.

You're going to write. Down What is a word?

That God's given for me personally.

What's my word? No more than two words when I

say a word. Not a prophetic.

Word like like a paragraph one word to two.

Words. That describe like for me this

this year my word was that God gave me was wisdom and

discipline OK. Whatever that word is.

In 2025, you got to dive into that word, not just put it on

the wall, OK? Write a simplified vision from

God. For 2025 and then you're going

to share it with one to two people for accountability and

submit it. It's done.

You can't change it and edit it. And ain't no oh, that's what you

meant. God, no, no no, no.

Spend some time and get that word and then #7 for the rest of

the year. Celebrate often.

Look for stuff to celebrate. Celebrate for no reason.

Celebrate for the. Smell of your.

Soap in the shop, just celebrate everywhere.

OK. Now I need you to.

Write this down and leave a blank.

You have to start get a clear. Note a clear.

Note not a clear. Space on the.

Notepad a clear note. I need you to start a note that

says at the top 2025, the year of blank.

OK, when you get. Your word for you, you're going

to fill in the blank. So at the top right, the 2025,

the year of blank for me. Now get another new take new

note, and you're going to write the same thing, and you're going

to wait until New Year's Eve and come get the word.

That I have gotten from the Lord for you in this house.

Why am I writing it down right now?

Because I am going to create an anticipation to fill in the

blank. And while you're fasting and

praying? God is preparing your womb to

receive that word on December 31st.

I'm telling you, it will be a word that you really have to

brace yourself for. And I'm going to release it.

And you're like, oh, I heard. About that before, but no, no,

no, no. When you get the full context,

trust me, if you was here last December 31st, it was something

it was, it was something, something, something on it and

it's going to be something even more on it this year.

OK, you good? Put your hands on your

neighbor's shoulder. Say I love my church.

But it's way better because you're here now.

Don't mess it up for me. Keep growing.

Keep going. Be powerful, be all that God's

created you to be. You are blessed, highly favored,

and the favor of the Lord surrounds you like a shield.

Now go out there and let it shine.

Until next time, get your love fixed man.

Thank you so much for tuning into this.

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