June 21 Wonder Wednesday: Above and Not Beneath Part 3

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I remember being young and, you know you, I don't know if you've

ever saw the played the game, where your drive by a walk by a

car, I walked a lot to school and in the streets and all that,

with my homies and you'll see a really cool car.

Your dreams, he be like, that's my car. and but then sometimes

you have your little girlfriend or boyfriend, and he would

always say, He's mine or She's Mine.

You're taking you're off the market.

I know that don't happen out here everybody's like, never

dated virgins, all through the room.

Just everybody. No, no kind of experience in

life, but the point of that, if you get the revelation of Jesus

said, your mind is. He took it upon himself to

protect you when you didn't protect yourself.

Right. As much as a lot of people in

here, may think they have their best interest.

When you didn't want to protect your thought life, he protected

it for you. Right?

When Pete, when you didn't love yourself, he loves you, right?

When he was ready to give up, he made sure you had a right on

time anybody ever have a right on time encouragement.

Absolutely. Just right on time

encouragement. And so whoever this is for in

its simplest form. ERM, I just meant to tell a few

people in here that you've turned the corner and whatever

that means for those that turned the corner.

Some people may stay on the same street but for some of you, I

was meant to tell you, I've turned the corner.

The Lord says you have turned the corner so do not go back

around the corner. You have turned the corner.

You have turned the corner in up sometime when you turn the

corner you still in the same neighborhood.

You just on a different block. You don't a different block is.

So you have different perspectives.

You go from Gas Town to you, go from Gas Town, to East Hastings,

like night and day, right? Sometimes every you, you

striving so hard to get off the neighborhood that you don't

recognize. When you've turned the corner

and got on a different street. I much rather be on a new Street

in the same Community, than on the same street, in the same

Community dealing with the old, the same problems, father I just

thank you for new streets. New Revelations, new ideas, new

friends, new neighbors. Thank you, Father for what

you're doing in our lives, Lord, I'm glad to be in your house one

more time again, I get the opportunity to sit at your feet,

again, we get an opportunity to worship you again.

And I thank you that the Breakthrough is in again.

Holy Spirit, give us the discipline to for repetition.

Bible says, if you be weary not weary in well-doing, meaning you

don't have to do good over and over and over and over and over

again and in due season, you will reap.

So I thank you, Father, for Spiritual stamina.

Supernatural stamina to be able to stand when even our friends

faint. Our families faint to be able to

stand in the midst of discouragement standing power.

Thank you that Praises are super power.

No matter how things are going. We still got to thank you.

We still got a lord. You're good.

Come on. Say that glorious.

You good. Come on.

Trying to help you shift your mind.

So you can receive this word, you don't have to be struggling

to receive the word. So soon as the word begins, you

can just take about 30, 30 to 60 seconds.

Is have a moment of just worship and exhortation and lift your

voice and just begin to say Thank You.

Lord, Holy Spirit. Help us get our hearts riding

our It's right in this moment. I thank you.

Lord, that you're tilling. The ground of our hearts.

That we may receive the word and produce.

Come on. I want to receive the word

tonight and produce. I don't want to be the same when

I leave here, so I thank you, Lord, that I have ears to hear

your good. Lord, you're good, you're good.

Holy Spirit. Have your way in this place.

Thank you, Lord, for attentiveness.

Thank you for the ability to receive and not reject your

word. Thank you.

Jesus. Come on.

Shout, I am good ground. Tell your neighbor.

You are good ground. All right.

Go ahead. Be seated.

So, we've been on this topic of above, say above.

Well C'Mon. Say it like you above above,

come on. Say I'm like you was beneath but

because of Christ, your now above say above, that's what I'm

talking about. Not beneath, say, not beneath

Come on. I'm not a low life.

I live on the high life. It's the high life and and I've

said it over and over since we started this, that the majority

of people successful, according to World standards aren't living

the high life, right? And that there are millions of

dollars, really nice cars, tons of resources, those those are

things God use, but they aren't things.

God need You are God's greatest treasure, not the things you

have. And when you start putting the

importance on, who you are to him versus what he can do for

you, like I thought I was the bomb when I was hanging out like

I was a popular. I hung around the popular guys

and gals. I was at the parties and I was a

deathly, a good house lie. And so I didn't I didn't have

trouble having friends. I had a personality and I was

such a likeable guy. I can float between Cruise.

So I never, I never had a problem.

With popularity or Comfort or relationships or friends or or

never ran short of that. Go to the club.

Had a good sense of fashion. I could drink with yucca smoke

with you. I could get lit with.

Y'all could turn up with your play pro sports, college sports

like successful, right? Doing it.

I'm not running the streets, I'm not on drugs, like my friends,

right? The worst thing you could do is

compare yourself. Your goodness to what somebody

isn't, right? I remember my wife used to say

certain things with my mommy. Mom uses.

Well, at least. I'm not like Where is smoke weed

all the time? Well, at least I don't smoke

crack. No crack wasn't for crack, could

have killed me. So we'd was my crack k and a lot

of times, we want our spouses, our friends, God the pastor to

settle for what, we're not opposed to who were supposed to

be, right? It's like Canada.

Where always Canada's not saying who they are.

Is just what they're not. We're not American.

We're not rushing, we're not, we're not.

But what are you, right? I'm a meaningful specific.

Not a Wandering generality. I'm not to be compared to anyone

for good or bad. And so what we do is we compare

ourselves and like, at least I'm not doing what they doing, but

you also not doing what you supposed to be doing.

So in God's eyes, it doesn't matter.

You're not doing what they're doing, you're not doing what

you're supposed to be doing, right?

It's so for me, I feel like this is a very important time Elder

John. I was sharing with somebody

today and I may preach on it on Sunday because I think it's very

good to speak to the time, the church is in, I believe the body

of Christ as much as God is calling us and restoring us to

our garden Garden of Eden. He's doing it in the middle of

the Garden of Gethsemane. I believe as much as God is

calling us higher and we're walking in blessing, I believe

we are in the Garden of Gethsemane, full of Temptation,

surrounding us, ready to give up and the Lord says, Nope.

I am about to give you peace, right in this garden.

And you and we keep begging God. Can this cup pass it on the

camp? Can we get this person in here?

And can I get this job and can I get this green goddesses?

I'm not answering to nothing except Thy will be done.

The higher calling is what God wants out your life.

Not what man, wants out your life.

Because every single person in here, you have a responsibility

to set up who's next. And you can hand off millions of

dollars to necks and that's not what they needed for their

start. So for me, it is very important

that I do my best to try and encourage people to live above

and not beneath. and tonight is going to be very cool for some I

think for all Because we're going to look and see what kind

of follower of Christ. We really are.

I will tell you right in right now that not everyone in this

room follows Christ for the same reason.

We're going to look at scripture and we're gonna see that when

Christ was living, there was several different types of

followers. And they exist in today's church

every single week. Now, what you get to do is you

get to identify what kind of follower you are.

So you can go to the next day if I'm going to the next level.

I need to know all your trainers in here.

You know, if someone you if someone wants you to take them

to a goal, you first start off with that that degrading picture

called before. Because I need to know where I'm

at in order to get to where I want to go. it's so every person

in here has to be honest, within their hearts, what kind of

follower you are So we'll start at Philippians 3 anyways, get

some Foundation. I'm not saying that I have this

all together. That's my statement.

I'm not saying I had this all together that I have it made but

what I am standing before you to say as Paul did to the Church of

Philippi foot Phillipi but I am well on my way, reaching out for

Christ who has so wondrously reached out for me.

Friends don't get me wrong by no means.

Do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I've got my eye

on the goal, in the midst of my UPS, my Downs, my

insufficiencies, my frailties, my wrongs smile, my hiccups my

moodiness, my attitude, my character flaws.

I'm not taking my eye. Off the goal.

A great shooter, although missing shots do not stop

shooting. And we have way too many people

who get weary in shooting. so you think you might be like,

well I'm not saying because I come to church, you know, how

many fainting fainted people come to church, Where God is

beckoning us? What?

Onward, not backwards on words, not sidewards onwards to Jesus.

I'm off. And I'm running, and I'm not

turning back, which means that once you make your mind up,

family friends, spouses children.

No one will cause me to turn back.

And this is where we get it twisted.

There is no one Jesus mama and daddy.

Couldn't turn him back. Once My Mind Is Made Up, no one

is going to turn me back to from my purpose.

Nobody say nobody. Can you all see me in here?

All right. Can we turn the lights up?

Just to Target me. If I'm shining, then that's

something. That's what matter if y'all can

see me. I'm good.

Okay. All right.

I'm not turning back. So let's keep Focus.

PT. Why are you always so passionate

and you always yelling and but what if you couldn't count on

passion, a lot of you come here every week because you can count

on a few things you can count on Worship.

You Can Count On passion you can count on a good word.

The world needs to count on the church before they join the

church. Your family needs to count on

you as a Believer before, they believe.

Like, you believe, they keep seeing you fainting in and out,

and in and out, and then, no, no, your family need to see how

you handle trouble because the world always in trouble.

They don't need to see how you act when everything's good.

How do you act under pressure? So let's keep focus on the goal.

Those of us who want everything God has for us.

If any of you have something else in mind, Something less

than total commitment total. What?

Come on the same keyword tonight.

Total what? Come on.

Musicians told her. What?

Total commitment. God, will clear your blurred

vision? You'll see it yet.

Now that we're on the right track.

Let's stay on it. Stick with me friends.

Keep track those. I want you to, I want you to say

this out loud, stick with me, say it a little louder because

this is a very key. This is going to be a theme in

here. Say stick with me, keep track of

those. You see running the same course,

how many other people we keep track of that ain't going the

same direction we supposed to be going.

We all up in people business that's going the wrong

direction, you losing sleep, over people going the other

direction, right? You got your feelings hurt over

people that's going to other direction, right?

You and you in a bad mood today because somebody going the other

direction, disappointed you Headed for the same goal.

Now, here's one thing you can do this week to lighten the load in

your life. Stop tripping on people that

don't got the same goal. You want to, you want to

eliminate Allah, Holy Ghost, bring me peace.

Eliminate some of the people who don't got the same goal, emanate

them just answer their phone, call a little less.

Yeah, we don't want the weight lifting.

How many friends would you have? You noticed what I said?

This is not say running this same race headed for the same

interest. We got a lot of friends that got

the same interests, but the goal gets customized.

Interest is the broadgate. Goal is the narrow gate.

And what we have to do. If we want peace in our lives,

we have to surround ourselves with people that have the same

goal. Not the same Hobbies, not the

same interest goals say Goals. King.

There are there are many out there taking other paths say

Amen. To that choosing other goals.

Say, Amen to that. And trying, see you can work

with the same people, but when you really have a conversation,

you got different goals. You got to do the Malik in the

mica, the mica, the mica philosophy.

Just every answer. I gave him one day.

He said, why why why? Why?

Why. Okay?

Why And you start trailing you're wise you'll see many

people do not have the same goals goals.

I'm Tom. All you guys want to end up in

the same place? All right, I've warned you of

them many times. Sadly, I'm having to do it

again. All they want is Easy Street.

They hate crisis. Cross-eyed forget more money.

If I get this, I'll get that. It's Gonna Get Easier.

No, no, anything anything on any level more of, it means more

responsibility. It does not mean easy.

It does not get easier. And they you get more capacity,

you change perspective. Like my family's needs have not

lessened. They've increased help me.

I can't wait to my daughter. Get out of diapers but then she

got to go to college. Put some diapers back on.

I'll take diapers all day and baby wipes over tuition and

furniture and weddings. And grandchildren it increases.

Says, they hate crisis cross. But easy street is a dead-end

street, those who live there make their bellies, their gods

belches are their praise satisfied with your flesh being

satisfied. All they can think of is their

appetites. But there's far more to life for

us. Hi life.

Where citizens of high heaven? High heaven.

We are citizens mostly, we're citizens of high heaven, the

highest heaven, I believe Heavens report and results for

me. Romans 4 says God himself, said

to him, you're going to have a big family, Abraham.

Abraham was Barren. Abraham's wife was Barren.

They was done. Abraham, didn't focus on his

own, impotence, And say it's hopeless.

Right higher than his ability, he focused this hundred-year-old

body could never father a child he didn't say that nor did he

serve a Sarah's Decades of inference?

So what he's saying is he didn't focus on the past

insufficiencies he didn't focus on all the, why would we be

getting a baby now when after all these years, she couldn't

produce After all these years, you didn't accomplish x, y and

Zed why. Now, are you serving When God,

says, go forth, why are you serving every time you tried to

go forth, you failed, He did not serve a he did not look at his

past mistakes, he did not look at his past baroness, he did not

look at his past frailties, he did not look at his bloodline,

he only counted God's ability. True.

Faith only counts. What God can do I'ma say it

again? True Faith only helps what God

can do, only surveys what God can do.

It only says what heaven has said about him.

Come on, say true faith. My life should be a reflection

of faith that carries detailed patterns of a redeem life.

I want him wandering. Now, replicable does not go with

this statement. It just leads me to my next

slide, which you will not turn to My life should be a

reflection of faith. When people see your life, they

should see faith. That carries detailed patterns

of a redeem life. Now detailed patterns are

important. If you're going to have a life

that can be replicable. And you're going to be, you're

about to see why replica bow is so important, because when he

says make disciples, he is saying replicate yourself but

replicate yourself after the pattern of me.

And what every person has to understand in here is somebody

is replicating you life or death, as much as you don't want

to see yourself as a leader. Someone is following you.

And if you are not paying attention to patterns,

understand what patterns do patterns lead into Cycles.

So for me to renew my mind, I have to renew the, the kind of

like the neural plasticity of my mind.

The patterns that have been developed over here, I have to

do the work to renew, my mind, literally, scientifically and

spiritually. I have to renew my mind, say,

renew my mind. Because my mind, it has sent me

into patterns a lifestyle and pattern set me into Cycles.

As Believers, we have been given a responsibility.

This is where the dividing line comes because everyone says,

they follow, Jesus up to the making disciples part.

And let me help you. If you're not making disciples,

you don't follow Jesus. Son, take the trash out.

He don't ever take the trash and I'm not saying he don't I'm

saying but he don't ever take the trash out.

Is he following me? He's my son but if he's not

doing what I'm asking him to do, he is not following my

instruction and when you don't follow my instruction, you don't

follow my life because Jesus only instructs out of his life.

Any instruction Jesus gives you is to lead you to him.

So when we don't do what Jesus say to, we walk in the opposite

direction of Jesus, plan for a life, there is no vein request

from God. Every request from God, has a

fulfilled plan in mind. All right, let me, let me, let

me turn this thing. Let me turn this thing.

This is this, this is not let, this is not one of those nights.

Now you If your submitted to the word you can you can find some

moments in here where you going to get excited and passionate

and say, man and stand up and take notes and all that.

But if you are about to be challenged right now, Because

what the northern American Church wants to do.

It's be affiliated with a religion that gives them the

best chance to have life after death in.

Jesus just has been the best option for you.

But what if I told you that Jesus did not come in your life

to merely be your savior? We didn't need a savior.

Oh y'all, when do we need a savior?

When we fail. so when we need a savior because we fail, So, we

needed. Saving if we didn't fall, we

didn't need no blood. so, for us to stop at savior, Citizens of a

kingdom. Don't need a savior.

They need a king. Bow.

This is why our worship is so shallow and this is why it's

easy to fall away because we're like we're saved.

I don't need you no more. You snatched me out the fire.

I'm not burning no more. So I don't I'll call you when

I'm burning again. And if you only see Jesus as

Savior, you only call on them when you need them.

Did you get that? Did you record that?

Okay you only call on the Savior when you need a savior?

I don't need a relationship with a savior when I'm not needing to

be saved. So if you don't see yourself as

daily needing to be saved, You don't call on them.

So, then the people following you, you teach them how to

depend on the world, not your king.

So if it's balls down to needing a savior, then no wonder, Other

religions religions are a great option.

Because all religions promise. Something after death.

So if I just need a savior from my fears, then I'm going to look

at a plan that allows me to be me while I live here.

Because there is a still, a selfishness within me and Simon

find a religion as serves My Flesh.

So we've stopped at savior. So, it's easy not to come to

church Faithfully because I don't need them this Sunday.

Yeah, but when I, when I get left and when I get divorced,

and when I get this, and when I get in the hospital, then I

called the church because I need somebody at the hospital to pray

for me, but the same people I'm calling.

I didn't want to do community with but I need a savior and

that's how we treat his church. Not only counseling right now.

No, I'm wait till I'm in Superbad trouble.

Then I get counseling as a means of saving.

Instead of understanding that the wisdom of God is to keep me

out of trouble, not for when I'm in trouble.

So, as we move right along First Corinthians, eleven pattern

yourselves, this is did, this is an Ax Murderer.

This Paul this him follow me. Pattern your sales after me.

Follow my example, as I imitate and follow Christ.

The Messiah. See, now the church what we have

done Elder John is anyone? That is a really good leader and

people follow that leader. Will you ain't God, you ain't

Jesus. Who said?

I'm Jesus is Paul Jesus. so what we do is we have this false

humility and says no, But Jesus put us in people's lives so that

they can see us. Even Jesus had to be a man to

save us. So when he said it is finished,

he didn't he wouldn't finish with man.

So he still uses man to help people follow him.

So as much as you want to church, you can't eliminate

yourself and just point to Jesus because you like, I'm the wrong

one to follow. He don't want.

No, no, let me tell you some. Jesus is too perfect for a

sinner to follow without someone who is imperfect that is

following him. Jesus is too perfect for a

sinner to follow without an imperfect man that does follow

the perfect man. So for you to sit here and point

to Jesus, who the world can't see, they don't see nor

acknowledge spiritual matters. Bible tells you that and to take

the attention off you and point to someone they can't see.

You are leaving people as orphans as loss.

Yeah. This Christian thing for like

real Christianity, like following Jesus is like, real

thing. It's like for real Pattern

yourself after me. Follow my example, this is where

this is where Annabeth, this is where we don't want the

responsibility of the Cross memory read that.

We don't want to set the example, that's the cross.

But everyone in here is setting a example and you will give

accountability for the example, you set Christians.

Look at the what the TPT say I want you to pattern your lives

after me, just as I pattern mind after Christ.

Well we say no no no. Follow me because you don't find

some You don't find some don't talk.

Don't follow me cause you might find out.

I'm really not. Matthew 4 says, Jesus called out

to them and said, come and follow me.

And I will transform you into men and women who catch people

for God. You ready?

So 8, here's the fruit of a true follower.

They catch people for God, not for themselves.

Here's the fruit of a follower. He says, if you follow me, I'll

transform you into men and women who catch people for me when you

follow me the bye. Product of truly following me.

Is you lead people to me? Immediately look at what they

did. They dropped their Nets.

They trapped what they identified with for so long.

This is their way of paint that they provided for their family

with these nets. They didn't just drop Nets.

They dropped a career. Is Jesus saying tonight?

Leave your career. No.

Believe the part that you identify allowing your career to

make you something. Drop the pride that comes with

your self effort. They left everything behind

this. Very important.

Everything behind to follow Jesus, everything.

Come on. Say everything.

Nope, God's not telling you so don't get no attitude and it

messed up, miss them holding that rest of the message, he not

telling you, leave your job. Not telling you, leave your job.

Boy how easily we let the things of the world.

Get us off track. There's seven types of

followers. We can find that follow Jesus.

How many now would you go have to do?

There is, you won't go to some scriptures.

K. So you go out and put them in

here then, but you will go to and they'll be at the bottom of

the note. So you can get those ready, K7,

how many seven seven or six one of those but we'll see.

Number one, number one, those that saw the signs.

It's okay, John 62 while they're turning to John 6 to just listen

to me. These are people that want it to

be around the power of God the move of God.

Are you ready? Look up.

Look up at me. They wanted to be around what

seemed to be a successful Church.

Okay, let's look back now, put that now.

Did you gotta just go back to the slide real quick?

This, what I'm reading you, I am reading to you the followers

that follow Jesus, but I'm also making a parallel to the same

type of followers in the church today.

Right? A lot of people make Church

decisions. Based on what's popular what

seems to be successful church, right?

People that wanted to be around the power, got the move of God

successful church. But without the willingness to

walk in calling and carry the burden of advancing the kingdom.

Oh, I want to go to church but I'm at this church because I see

signs and wonders. See so much joy here.

Now, I get it, the joy, the signs, and wonders, Are what we

catch the fish with. Because he's the fisherman.

So he moves in a place for his glory, but there's people who

only come because of signs and wonders so called Power

so-called movement and so-called successful Church.

John 62. Let's look at that.

And a great crowd was following him because because because

because they had seen the signs, which he continually performed,

upon those who were sick. What do we see?

These are people who followed him because they saw signs and

wonders. This is where you gotta check

your motives. These are people.

You find a lot of these people who who, who, who they go,

wherever revivals are. They go wherever the famous

evangelist is but they're not rooted know where they got an

opinion of the local church, all the time.

Let me tell you Jesus is the local church.

Right. But, wherever there's power or

signs and wonders. That's where you'll find them

there. Like, tornado, Chasers They're

all their thrill-seekers, they're chasing the gold.

They don't want to go through the Monday moments of the church

McMahon. I know they're gonna be a

certain point where our church getting you go.

See folks coming. They don't want to be a part of

the garage, right? The garage is not a sign in

wonder. It's not a sign in wonder.

But somehow we closer to God or God is moving, because somebody

got healed, not understanding that I can have no Integrity as

a leader and God will still move because he's responsible for his

word and that's where people miss it.

The popular check. How can heal song be so Global

and popular and we all thought everything was good.

Good. Because it was but what was

happening all underneath it. you see the signs and wonders the

popularity, the successful, the big, the magnitude is what

people made a decision to go to Hillsong school for These are

those followers. They follow popular.

They follow the power of God, which we all should.

We want to see God move? But God's responsible for his

word, that's what he confirms. How can these men walk in such

little Integrity. Right?

That I'm not talking about these.

This is, this is public information.

How can my brother, Carl? Lentz, preach.

Such an anointed message. And afterwards, go sleep with

someone that was not his wife. I'm praying for him.

I'm hope he's fully restored. And the church is wrapped around

the corner people lining up and this is the hour of the churches

in. We got to be careful because God

is moving and he's going to move.

And his church is going to grow and explode and expanding

multiply, but I as a leader and you as a people can't get so

caught up in the flattery that you abandon account.

Bility and making disciples not making people happy.

Happy people aren't always disciples.

Sometimes, I'm doing my great job.

When no one's happy with me. John 62.

They follow number two, you got that.

You got that. Number two, is those that ate

the food, these are people that got their physical needs met.

So follow Jesus as their provider, not their Savior and

they enjoy the care and concern he had for them and they wanted

to be blessed by him without paying the price of commitment.

God bless my business, bless my family.

Touch my body. See, I want to be around the

blessing but not carry the burden.

I'm talking to somebody John 626.

Jesus answered them, I assure you.

Most solemnly, I tell you, you have been searching for me, not

because you saw the Miracles and signs.

But because you were fed with the Loaves and were filled and

satisfy. You see this These are people

God does something for you. Follow him because of Jireh.

Not because a king. Not because the Lord but because

of what he can potentially do for you and testimonies keep you

at Bay. If he did it before, he can do

it again. So, we have this Pursuit for

what he could do for us, like he did for them.

He says, stop toiling and doing and producing for the food that

perishes. And decomposes Lord, Heal My

Body. He's like I could do it but it's

still decaying. So, after I heal it, will you

still follow me? Lord bless me with this job cool

but you probably ain't gonna want it after a few years.

So after I get you, the job. Are you going still?

Follow me at the next job. Are you going to follow me when

you ain't got no job? He says, but strive and work and

produce rather for the lasting food, which endures continually

unto life eternal, you put all your effort in, you going to

church and you tithing and you're doing all these things so

you can get a breakthrough. I'ma go to church, man.

I'm working on some. I'm believing for my family.

Gotta get the church me and I didn't gotta keep praying

because I gotta event. I believe, God, he going, you

believe him, do you know him? You're striving your effort.

You're declaring, is it? Merely to bust open a pinata.

You keep bombarding heaven, so candy can rain out.

And when the candy don't rain out, you like forget this Piñata

I'm about to go get my own candy.

It's those that ate the food, they followed him because he

fulfilled some physical needs. They have some Earthly needs

that they had and then those, that followed him because of the

power that was being demonstrated.

Number three. It's those that wanted a leader.

They wanted you. This is very important right

here. They wanted a strong leader that

could stand and fight against the oppression of the Romans.

They wanted someone that was lead in fighting for their own

personal agendas. They saw his drawing power and

Charisma. In hopes, to lead a rebellion

using his anointing and influence to take on a worldly

agenda. While he was sent to be a

responsible for a Heavenly Kingdom, in government agenda,

we see believers who use church for their political agendas of

the world. So hey was thinking, Jesus was

coming to lead a rebellion. When he came to insert a

government, they were trying to get him to rebel against a

government. Jesus was never tripping on the

Romans liked that. He was never tripping.

He was there. Thy kingdom come I'm here to

establish my kingdom. I am, why would I wrestle with

your kingdom? When my kingdom is the highest,

but you have people in church all the and you saw it during

the private. Pandemic.

And any church that would not get entangled in the politics of

the pandemic, and the church, you saw the church turn against

his self. But instead thank God.

We had Kingdom Focus. You have people that come to the

church. Hey, can you come down?

Can you vote for us? Can you come to this town hall

meeting? We need to church to you want to

use the church's influence and power and anointing and

sometimes even finances to push your political agenda.

And not that we should not stand by and do anything.

We should not just do it nothing, but we're not here to

fight against a falling government.

Bell. Tolling we're here to stand for

justice. Absolutely.

But who's the just got? Jesus.

The king, he's just and we fought and we fought and we

divided houses homes. Families divided over a

political spirit. So oftentimes, we will find

pastors and leaders and you will see pastors Under Pressure

having to vocalize something that's going on in culture,

because they're getting pressure from people within the church to

say something. Oh, you're not gonna say

nothing, pastor You said that don't mean, don't want to say

nothing. What if God's leading them not

to say nothing? Just like, he led Jesus to plead

the Fifth. Did Jesus A View without saying

a word? I'll say it again.

Did Jesus say view without saying a word.

Jesus saved you and didn't say nothing.

And all these people thought Jesus was coming is this like

David is like we don't want to really fight, we don't really

want to but Jesus can do it. That's why they would shout this

name and that's why the same people shouting.

His name is the same people that persecuted him because he didn't

do what they wanted him to do. So they thought he was a frog

because he didn't fulfill their political oh, agendas But

Heroes. He didn't say nothing but the

Tome open. He didn't say nothing.

But folks got out of the Grave. He didn't say nothing.

Which lets me know that when the kingdom is truly at hand.

There's minimal words, you gotta say.

John 6:15. Then Jesus knowing that they

John 6:15

meant to come and seize him that they might make him.

King Li you see? They came to get him to make him

their King withdrew again to the hillside by himself alone.

Why was he running from people who was trying to exalt him, or

put it? He knew their hearts weren't

pure, they didn't want him as king, they don't want him as

Savior. Don't want him as king of the

Kingdom of Heaven. They wanted him to be king of a

rebellion and he says, man, that's the low life.

He wanted a leader. Fourth is those that sought

fulfillment. And reality of Hope is very

important to pay close attention to.

Jesus was a fulfillment for people's spiritual quota or

need, but wasn't depended on How many people come to church?

Because it fulfills a spiritual thirst but don't depend on Jesus

after the hit. So they love the music, they

love the spirit of it, but Monday to Saturday day, don't

depend on Jesus. But when they come around the

body, they experienced hope. But they don't depend on him.

They relied on leaned on looks look to as their bread of life,

their strength and their hope. They attributed miracles.

So Moses. These are people who their jobs

and careers and family and the pleasures of this world has

taken place of Jesus. There, we're more yielded to

World System than the kingdom of God.

Well, I don't know if that's you but is Jesus.

Merely something that brings you hope versus someone.

One who you depend on? Do you come to church for

Community more than you come for Christ?

I'm not saying that because at the body of Christ is the body

of Christ. But when you leave your small

group, how is your relationship with Jesus?

Do you depend on when your brother or sister in Christ?

Don't got time for meeting or don't pick up the phone.

John, John 634. Then they said to him, Lord,

give us this bread. Always all the time, Jesus

replied, I am the bread of life. You see there was I give us this

bread, we want this bread when he said, no, no, no, the bread.

Now, what I can do for you, not until Sunday service experience,

not Wednesday night alone, on the bread of life, he who comes

This to me will never be hungry and he who believes in and

Cleaves to and Trust in and relies on me will never thirst

anymore at any time, so if it's community group, but with the

community group is ain't ain't happening.

Then you don't know what to do if you don't get that phone call

from elder or pastors. You don't know what to do

because you've made men and sir. Services and programs bread.

Not Jesus. See when Jesus is the source.

It ain't hard to get the church. But when church is a source of

bread, any other type of bread come along that day, you going

to eat that bread. Oh, I got this to do.

I ain't going to church on the huh, I don't want this is like

you know I don't always eat multigrain bread sometimes if I

come across a good sourdough I want sourdough today.

Some time ago, lettuce wrap it, we going.

You know I'm saying is if you get if Jesus ain't the source to

brag on, always switch up depending on the season you win.

Church Ain't Gon fix this. I need to go to the gym.

I need to go play in the game, right?

That's your bread today. So, it's easy to break away from

the loaf. And think you really satisfied

but them dumbbells ain't going to help you when you get that

doctor's report. See that you find out how

sustainable the bread you eating a diet.

You on is under pressure and in trouble and will God never meant

is for you to get in trouble. To get that doctor's report to

have their your marriage broken up to get to the bottom of your

life. and fall apart, never, he allows those moments to prove,

They sought fulfillment, and reality of Hope.

There's there's 2nd Timothy chapter 3 verse 2 through 4.

If you can get it to me in the TPT or the message is that one

of those that's Amplified classy.

Ours too, this is good. Oh yeah, go back.

Just go back. My mom why not don't be naive.

There are difficult times ahead. They said that thousand a couple

of thousand years ago. Okay.

As the end approaches people are going To be self-absorbed.

Money-hungry self-promoting stuck-up profane contemptuous of

parents. Crude course, Doggy Dogg

unbending stubborn slanderers. Impulsively.

Wow, Savage cynical treacherous ruthless bloated when bags

addicted to lusts and allergic to God.

They'll make a show of religion. But behind the scenes, they're

animals a show of religion Christian are going to church

but behind the scenes. Yeah.

Stay clear of these people. The next group of people are

followers is those that were hostile enemies of God.

Do you know people that are hostile towards God?

Is in the Church Troy and less identify him?

Constantly testing him. These we don't go back and then

we gonna go forth like Alia bag, Bank forth and forth, constantly

testing him, critiquing him. Live in doubt and sow Discord

and unbelief amongst the body of Christ provoking people to

question. Jesus, they challenged

leaderships visionnaire movements, they questioned every

move resist, the flow of God's kingdom, they always birth,

frustration murmuring and complaining.

All day. Today, these are the people that

any time you can try to make a decision.

Why you doing that? You need to give me ten answers.

Why you need to show me this? You need to show me that

constantly testing critiquing right here.

You don't show followers in here.

Let me understand. He said he's either with the

worst said, you know you mess with one of his you mess with

him. So when God puts leaders in your

life and you resist the flow that he's leading them into,

it's no different. What you mean by that?

Watch what he says, I'll see you said this last week and you said

this little a great teacher can hold tension between contrary

scriptures, because if you want to look at the contradictions

that are in the word, there's plenty contradictions, but if

you have Revelation and read the word with the highs of the Holy

Ghost, you will see what they mean and how they actually go

together and support one another.

Just like Jesus had people constantly trying to trip him

up, understand when you're attacking his ordained leaders

and his people. Even in his body period, they

don't have to be nobody up here. You're hostile.

He says, your flesh is enmity to me, hostile towards God.

We not tell my people putting nails, whenever you don't need

to be a bloody gory scene for you to be hostile.

But if you sit in church, you love God.

Pause, but you don't like to flow in the move.

I'm not saying the ignorant. But you got way too many

critical spirits in the body of Christ, that's always crying.

You can't even receive because you always got a critique of

judgment. If they did it before.

They don't do it again. Same fog right now.

Same Old Mac be okay. So hey John, John John 6:30.

John 6:30

It's very important because this you got to know where you are in

your heart. Therefore they said to him what

sign and Miracle Wonder work, will you performed in so that we

may see? See prove to us and there's way

too many Pastors in the world having to prove themselves to

religious spirits, in the people that got trust issues and fear

issues, and they put them on leadership and they, that's why

you gotta have some arm. You gotta have that backbone.

You gotta have that. I know what God is telling me to

do. But you don't performed in so

that we can believe you. And so we can follow you.

What Supernatural work. Have you show us your resume.

What school you went to, what Seminary?

You went to. 11:37, he lives. These are followers of Christ.

But some of them said could not could not.

He who opened the Blind Man's eyes have prevented this man

from, you see the doubt they following them the whole time.

They're like well if he's a savior, then why why he can't?

Can open Blind Man's eyes have prevented this man from dying.

Did he say anything? Nope.

He was chilling. He's like, y'all not gonna move

me. I'm going to pressure me but

without saying a word, guess what?

Somebody got up. Here's the true test to all

people that follow Christ. It's not in how well you can

call the scripture and how much you can prove to, man.

Some time is how much you can stand in the midst of people

misunderstanding, you Hostile. And then there were those, I

think this is number six. There were those who followed

with inner, fears and struggles. I felt in preparing it for this.

There's there's a lot of people who can relate to this.

They followed with inner fears and struggles.

Talk to me now and it really, really, really look at this one.

They follow. But are unsure of personal

destiny. Listen, listen closely though

burning their Bridges, but could not rest in his assurance.

I'm not turning back, I'm following you.

Jesus, but I'm constantly in fear and anxiety.

I'm following you, I don't Got options.

But while I'm following you, I'm not really in faith.

You're there their anxieties and fears.

Always rearing is head up, you ready?

They don't feel complete in Christ.

It's all come following you Jesus, but what's next?

I'm following you. Jesus, but am I gonna make it?

I'm following you Jesus, but did you hear me?

I'm following you Jesus, but why is I gotta go through this,

right? There's no contentment just in

Jesus. He says, I need more Wow.

Why I said why not? Wow, when I'm with you all I get

his wife thoughts. Why?

Why why? John 668 is very important

because this is a lot of us. It's like, I'm following you

Jesus, but I'm not content. Simon Peter answered him.

Lord to whom, shall we go? You have the words, the message

of eternal life and we have learned to believe and trust and

more. We can and we have come to know,

surely that you are the Holy One of God to Christ.

Not only one, son of the Living. God now go to Mark 10.

Right? Got you, you found him with the

disciples constantly having to reassure them.

Why was Jesus always they followed him every single day?

But he constantly had to reassure them.

Says and they were shocked and exceedingly, astonished and said

to him and to one another then who can be saved, Jesus glanced

Around Jesus, glanced around. This is Martin 2600.

Jesus glanced around at them and said with men, it is impossible.

But not with God, for all these things are possible God, Peter

started to say to him behold, we have yielded up in abandon

everything, you see, we abandon everything to be with you and

join you as your disciples siding with your party and

accompanied. You Walking the same road that

you walked. Jesus said, truly, I tell you,

there is no one. He's he constantly like Jesus.

Without you, we left everything and but, but what's going on?

Who you like the most Jesus? Mainly Jesus?

Jesus, come on, man. You know, I'm your boy.

Not satisfied, right? On following Jesus but I'm

jealous of somebody else who get promoted like Jesus is not

enough, like the position in Ministry is the is the goal.

Why do you get to do? Well, why do I take maybe a no

time? No, no spot for me at this

church because They don't see me like but Jesus does right

following Jesus, but he just still ain't enough.

Did Jesus seeing you ain't enough?

Jesus touching, you ain't enough.

Jesus affirming, you ain't enough Jesus provided for you,

ain't enough Jesus presence in your room at night, ain't

enough. It just, I'm following you, but

you just ain't enough Jesus. You ain't getting it for me.

But I'm following you. Then the last one.

There was those who followed him.

Love them with their life. And I'm here to let you guys

know, there is no true meaning to our faith.

If we do not have true relational knowledge of Jesus,

When you get to the point that there is no substitute.

Are you all in total dependency? There is no true Faith until

Jesus is the bomb. He's he's in, he's worth the

shout. Right?

Nobody in the room, he's worth the till he's worth the.

No, I can't do that. Right?

No, I don't know. No, I want.

I want it. I want it girl, I won't you girl

won't it but it ain't worse. My Covenants.

Write, I love you with my life. Not merely my words with their

lips. They serve me but they're hard

was far from me. John 669.

And we have learned to believe in trust and more.

We have come to know. Surely that you are the Holy One

of God. The Christ, the anointed one,

the son of the Living. God Jesus answered them.

Did I not Choose You? I did, I not Choose You.

Right? No one in this world chose you

you ready for this? Your mama didn't even Choose

You. They just they just don't oh,

okay, that's you. Hey, hey Judith.

How you do your name? Judah your name.

Do we got a name? You?

So your name Judah. Oh, I got it.

I didn't choose a buddy, you know, this how you didn't choose

a boy or girl. You just all right, go we go on

with Judah or a Judean, you know, whatever it is, we ready?

No one chose you. But he did.

Your boss didn't choose you. They hired you, it's a huge

difference between getting chose and hired.

They hired you because you could do a job for them, don't do the

job and see if they still won't you.

Don't show up to church is see, if Jesus still won't, you don't

tithe, don't don't you go send tonight and see if Jesus still

want you. Right.

You ready? Go.

Go cheat on your partner, don't do it.

But I'm just saying And see if they still want you and then go

as we do often cheat on our husband Jesus.

It see if he still wants you, you don't think he's worth

following wholeheartedly, you don't think he's worth some

sacrifices, you don't think he's worth all the nose necessary to

not go across the line. You don't think he's worth a few

late nights, helping the church pack up, or, or or move or

shutdown. You don't think it's worth

serving his church. You don't think it's worth

sowing into his church. So his church, Can expand beyond

your lifetime? You don't think it's worth it

before you was formed in your mama's womb.

He chose you, he needed you together.

He made you, you don't think he's worth it.

What kind of follower you? Would you follow you?

because I love Paul, he said, I'm so convinced.

That I'm in I'm daring you to follow my life and he didn't say

just follow me, he says if you pattern your life after mine I

guarantee you success. And how many people are out

here? Trying to make more money?

And so you find a book or our YouTube channel.

And they say, if you do this in 40 days, Guarantee.

Right? You brush your teeth with this

charcoal, your teeth will be as white as Hollywood right now.

That is, how many patterns do we follow in the world?

In Hope of a better life. How many have worked?

Let alone, how many have worked and was sustainable.

But Jesus. I would say, is worth.

The total surrender. I tried and I don't know what

I'd do without them. and you do not reap nowhere near the full

benefits of being in Christ with Christ for Christ, unless you

throw your whole life in You would not reap the full benefits

of a marriage, being part in. Without totally laying your life

down for your spouse, you will not reap the benefits.

And the blessing that is on any Covenant, without all in If you

have a business, what could you do if you was all in?

So you got a savior, what could you do?

He was all in. Tonight, was submitted to you to

identify. What kind of kind of follower

are you? Hopefully, all of us.

Get to the total abandonment. Like God hears my life.

What does that mean in my relationships?

Your word has the last say, in my business, Affairs, your word

has the last say there is no compromise worse, my Covenant

with God. Forget worried about

disappointing, man. What about your relationship

with God? Forgive worried about what man

thinks if I do this, what about your relationship with God?

What about your conscious? What about your mind?

What about your heart? What About Your Soul wealth?

When you make those decisions? Is not.

God, Worthy is not Jesus worth following wholeheartedly.

I didn't always follow him, wholeheartedly but that's Paul

said, I'm well on my way. I am I I am there.

I am completely turned. Both of my shoulders are

pointing One Direction. I'm not like this might all 10

toes is going straight. I'm not like this.

I'm not going. No, I'm not, you know I'm saying

some folks, following Jesus like this.

I'm ready. God I'll go this way on you.

If you don't. Some folks do a lot of work to

follow Jesus, like I can't do it.

I ain't, I'm like, you don't mean like how hard is that to

follow? Jesus like this.

Like I'm not double jointed like that.

Like I can't but some folks is spiritually double-jointed.

But it don't work. That's like hard.

You never own balance. A storm comes, you don't have no

balance. That's why.

He says choose hotter coal, which one So I'm I just

challenged you tonight, stop making excuses.

And make a commitment. I don't care how long you been

saved my question to you, is how long have you if some people ask

this question? Think about how long you been

saved versus how long you been following Jesus?

Some people can say I have been saved for 20 years, I've only

follow Jesus 45. See, we're so big on.

We're majoring in saved. Not following.

That's like how long you been married versus how long you been

committed? Let's lift our hands Lord.

I Thank you that we are followers of you.

Holy Spirit, lead us, guide us. Help us.

Come on, right? Where you are, even if it's in

your spirit, you need to repent. You need to say, Lord, man, I'm

ready, I'm turning. I'm gonna I'm turning both feet,

same direction, No more. Pigeon toe Krishna turned get

them toes straight like a like a like a soldier at attention

squared up. Lord, we want to be followers

like the world is looking for people to follow.

Lord, forgive us for not being a clear sign.

That pointed to a clear Direction.

Are we surrender to you tonight? Wholeheartedly.

Wholeheartedly wholeheartedly wholeheartedly Wholeheartedly.

Come on, say I leave my whole heart down.

I lay my whole life down. Holy Spirit, I need your help.

Come on. Say one day at a time.

One decision at a time. One Temptation, at a time.

One moment. At a time.

I will be strong. I will stand.

I will make the right decision. The god decision in Jesus name.

Hey man. Come on.

Kill your neighbor on the left and right of your high five and

say we can do this. Come on.

We could do this. Alright, really quick, really

quick, really quick, really quick?

I hope you got somebody. Anybody get anything out of this

tonight. Are really quickly.

I did let you know that August 13th that weekend, we will be

back in Toronto and that week there will be right on your

calendar. Will be no church here that

Sunday. And so we will be we are

encouraging people to come and be a part of it.

I'm telling you now. So you can plan that weekend,

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Saturday.

Please pray for us but I have a we have a meeting Friday.

I think but Nelly I think with the with what is it?

What is it? Done that Dundas Square, done

it, done that square, done that done Square.

All right, it's there. It's there Time Square in

Toronto and we put in a bid to, or to be to rent, renovate the

rent, the space on that Saturday.

To do what we did at the Toronto sign, if we get an opportunity

to do that, do what they want to meet about on the phone is They

want to find out, get a clear understanding of what we're

doing, so, pray that I can cast Vision in an Evangelistic way in

a way that is not churchy, or shall I say religious that I can

put, also not compromise what we're doing, right?

But we want to bring joy to a city and I think we have a not

just a blood ball, right? But a human right to, you know,

Share the gospel. And so please pray for that.

But make your own travel plans, Amy, and I was the last part.

All right, we have a new thing that we are going to do at least

throughout the summer. Okay, every first Sunday say,

every first Sunday we are going to have Unity Sunday.

We want to really get in a consistent pattern of having

communion. There's a lot of People have

been asking but also feel because we're in two different

spaces. I want to be a church that comes

together at times especially for communion, instead of trying to

do it twice on a Sunday. So on every first Sunday we will

do it really big and cool will have communion.

We'll have our choir will have a great word, will have treats

will have giveaways. And so, starting July yes, the

first Sunday in July, what is that?

It's not up there. Whatever it is, you figure it

out. July the first Sunday of July,

we will be having only an evening service, okay?

Also only an evening service, July 2nd and it will be at Mary

Patterson. Yes.

All right. So please do not forget that.

There will be no 10 a.m. service on our first Sundays throughout

the summer. Y'all got that.

All right? Yeah.

And now we're back to two services on Sunday.

Yeah. Yeah.

Thank you for the Father's Day and all that cool stuff and you

have something. All right.

Hurry up, please sir. All right, I sure will Ruth.

Worse. 15 please in the message, you can put that up.

It's want to make a brief opportunity.

Announcement. Regarding our pastor.

Pastor Julia birthday. I want to celebrate our

birthday, man. Y'all clap.

And sometimes you may ask, why do we do all?

This is different reasons. One of the reasons is, is

because you get different. People said, hey what you doing

for a? I like to, I like to I like to,

and together we can do something together.

That has even more effective. More power to even more impact,

a man, and I'm going to share a verse with you, right?

But we don't. So into our pastors, and

particularly pass the Julie, because of what she does for us,

Even though we appreciate that's not about a Works thing, it's

about understanding the people that are with you and is telling

me, I appreciate you. I appreciate how you live.

I appreciate how you go about your lattice appreciate you,

your fragrance, the fragrance of your life in mind, makes me

better. And it's recognizing that

fragrance that we are celebrating.

So, I want to share this with you very quickly and I will be

quick Pastor first verse 15, it says, this know, you only said

Look, your sister-in-law is going back home to live with our

own people and gods. You go with her.

Next. But Ruth said, Don't force me to

leave. You don't make me go home.

Most importantly, where you go, I go where you live.

I'll live. Your people are my people.

Your God is my God. Where you die.

I'll die. And that's why I'll be buried.

So help me God. Not even death itself was going

to come between us. That is the commitment.

Passage Julia has to her call into you.

Yeah, she's not doing this for pastor Terrence.

We're not honoring, her has passed.

It turns his wife? Yeah, we're honoring her because

she said that to God where you die, I'll die.

I'll pray through the night for where you die.

I'll die. I'll walk with you in the back

rub you and all those kind of things as we need.

As I need you, I'll be on the floor with you Minister and

deliveries you because where you go, I go.

My God is your god. I am with you and for you I will

never abandon you. I'll never leave you.

I will never forsake you. That's that's who she is and so

an opportunity to so Entre life from a birthday standpoint is

just to celebrate who she is girl.

I appreciate that. Dog in you but don't give up and

don't quit. I really do.

And so we have an opportunity for you to give should be up

there. And see different ways to give.

We encourage you to give generously and just giving love

you don't have to but it's an opportunity for you to, you

don't have to. But I would encourage you to

because it will bless your life and bless your soul.

Amen. So again, the opportunities to

give we be in the back and everything, thank you for the

opportunity. Let's celebrate press to Julia

and the woman of God, she is to us, in Jesus name, a man.

Thank you sir and also thank you all you guys who support us

beyond what you that? You just love on us.

I appreciate that. We can't apologize for our

birthdays, being around, Mama's Day and Father's Day.

We did not plan that, but it is what it is.

And so, so, so, you know, you do not have to give either it's an

opportunity, you do not have to give but those that do choose to

give And sacrifice and take bread from their own, their own

Loaf and be a blessing. I will always say this is that

you guys we don't do this for that, but it's always an

encouragement. Always.

And also understand that everybody that give do not have

pure motives right there, strings attached to some

people's giving and some people's given makes them feel

like they have certain rights to certain things.

And so we That as well but we are truly grateful and

understand that God is providing through his people and we're

forever grateful and hopefully through our service to you who

are studying through everything that we do.

Hopefully we show that we value you guys this time your life and

as we have the obligation to watch over your soul, I hope we

do a good job in that and we'll get better as we Well too, so

make sure you understand. You do not hate that I have to

do this and remind people that they don't have to do it.

But man, there's people get so ruffled up around giving.

I just hate one day, I'm gonna stop doing it, and it is what it

is. But I understand we're in a

climate in a culture that I think there's a lack of

teaching, as well as there's a lot of hurt and misconception

around certain things pertaining.

Meaning the word of God. So, thank you guys so much.

You can stand to your feets. Thank you, thank you.

Thank you. All right, father, we thank you.

We love you. And we honor you, we thank you

for your word tonight. I pray that it becomes fruitful.

I pray that it becomes fruitful or God.

I thank you that your word is alive in us.

I thank you that your word leads us, it guides us, holy spirit.

I think you that, you teach us. I thank you.

That we become stronger, we become more rooted, Lord.

Help us understand and experience your love.

Your love for us, may you just become the most important, the

most important thing in our lives.

The most important asset we have in our lives, bless each and

every person under the sound of my voice, Lord, may you keep

them sound of mine and I thank you that they shall see the

salvation of the Lord, in Jesus name.

Amen. You guys have a wonderful night

out of time, but we are not out of Jesus.

Until next time, you know what it is, get your love fix me.

Have a wonderful evening. Look in the room.

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We had a time but we ain't out of Jesus.

So till next time, get your love fixed man.

The church we out here but you know what it is you know, the

motto. We had a time but we ain't out

of Jesus. So till next time, get your love

fixed man.