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Delivered And Delusional // Forward (Part 3) // Pastor Michael Todd

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  1. Welcome to Transformation Church podcast, where we represent God to

  2. the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so

  3. glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe

  4. God will transform your life. Do today's message.

  5. All right, y'all, get y'all bibles out. It's time for

  6. the word today. I'm gonna do a quick work in

  7. this place today. But this is about to be strong

  8. because the Holy Spirit told me that the anniversary was

  9. a line of demarcation. I want to put this in

  10. your heart and your mind. After this Sunday, everything changes.

  11. Y'all.

  12. Didn't hear what I said because I just came out

  13. of a lighthearted, like movie moment. Hear what I'm saying.

  14. Welcome to Transformation Church Today. We're going forward. The message

  15. today changes everything because this year, as a church, we

  16. have decided we are going forward. Say it again, we

  17. are going I called my brother Travis before I announce

  18. the word of the year to y'all because the name

  19. of their church is Forward City, and I was like,

  20. I got to tell you before I tell anybody.

  21. Brother, we going forward this year.

  22. And it's there's something about making a decision before you

  23. get to a place that I'm not staying here.

  24. I'm gonna say it again.

  25. There's something about making a decision before you get to

  26. a place that this will not be where I camp out.

  27. So some of y'all like, I want to make six figures, great,

  28. but you need to make a decision that six figures

  29. will not be the stopping point. It will be a

  30. place of praise, it will will be a place of celebration,

  31. it will be a place of Some of y'all be like,

  32. I just want to be a better person. Okay, that's great.

  33. We want you to progress in that, but that cannot

  34. be your stopping point. You have to decide I'm going

  35. forward even when I reach my goal.

  36. And most people stop.

  37. Because they dream, they have a vision, they have four

  38. to a spot, and then they go blank. And I

  39. have seen the church be paralyzed because they get to

  40. a certain place and then they stop believing God the

  41. way they did before they got to the place that

  42. they're at right now. But today, I want you to

  43. know that as a church, we're going folk. This is

  44. not the pinnacle of ministry. Relationship Goes is not my

  45. best book. Oh God, I have not impacted the world.

  46. How I'm gonna impact the world. Me and my wife's

  47. marriage is not the best it's ever gonna be. It's

  48. better than it's ever been. Don't get it twisted. But

  49. this ain't it we are going Some of y'all can't

  50. even see it. You're just so happy to not be

  51. surviving anymore that you have stopped believing for more. You're

  52. so grateful, And I'm glad that you're grateful for being

  53. out of Egypt, that you haven't seen past the wilderness.

  54. Oh God, you.

  55. Have stopped believing that God can take you for Just

  56. because he did exceedingly abundantly above all you could ask

  57. a thing does not mean that's all he can do.

  58. Just because he saved you out of that doesn't mean

  59. that he wants you to stay in a lookewarm state

  60. of just being in this place. This is where you

  61. have to decide that I want the full plan of

  62. God for my life, not just the saved plan. There's

  63. a difference from him saving you and you learning to swim. Okay,

  64. if somebody gets in a boat that can't swim, gets

  65. thrown over, the boat is drowning. I'm about dae, I'm

  66. about to die, and somebody saves you. You are grateful

  67. for that bowie or that life raft.

  68. Thank you for saving me.

  69. That does not change your situation every time you get

  70. on a boat.

  71. The only way you are unafraid of water is that

  72. you learn.

  73. And too many believers are now taking the life raft

  74. that they got saved with and relaxing on it. You

  75. become so comfortable with it now you don't put your

  76. booty in it.

  77. And you laying back with.

  78. A mocktail, talking about this is the life. And God said,

  79. you still don't know how to swim.

  80. You still don't know how to get to shore. You

  81. still don't know how to get to the boat.

  82. And today I want all of us to decide in

  83. my life, in my marriage, in my spiritual walk.

  84. I'm moving shouted at me, Fau.

  85. And that's why Philippians three twelve said this is our

  86. verse of the year. I don't mean to say this

  87. like I'm all read. He achieved all these things. I

  88. haven't reached perfection. That's how I'm coming at you today.

  89. But I press on to possess the perfection for which

  90. Christ Jesus first possessed me. No, they're brothers and sisters.

  91. I'm not trying to act perfect. I'm not achieved all

  92. of this, but I focus on this one thing forgetting

  93. the past and looking shot it at me forward to

  94. what lies ahead. I press on to reach the end

  95. of the race and receive the heavenly prize for which

  96. God through Christ Jesus is calling us. Look at your

  97. neighbor and say God's calling you. Yeah, look at your

  98. neighbor you didn't like as much the first time, and

  99. now tell them God's calling you.

  100. That's awkward at it? Okay, here we go.

  101. I started to think about the children of Israel and

  102. how we get a picture of what God wants to

  103. do in all of our lives when we walk through them.

  104. I want you to go through Isaiah verse five forty

  105. three and read from fifteen all the.

  106. Way to nineteen. But this is your study at home. Okay.

  107. I want you to take this, but let me paraphrase

  108. it for you. What's happening is God is reminding the

  109. children of Israel.

  110. I'm a big God. I took you out of slavery.

  111. I literally parted the seas, had free Willy and everybody

  112. going on the sides of y'all. Way, y'all walked through

  113. on dry land. He said, I'm the God that took

  114. you out of wilderness. I'll make ways out of no ways,

  115. I move mountains. I remember who I am. And he's

  116. telling them that I'm the one that brought your enemy

  117. out and blew them out like a candlestick. I took

  118. care of all your back.

  119. That's who I am.

  120. And he's telling them this because they're in a moment

  121. of forgetting who God is right after he did a

  122. huge miracle. Have you ever forgot how God brought you

  123. through something right after He just brought you through something

  124. like literally, it's a part of the Christian walk. So

  125. God reminds us in his word like I'm a big

  126. God and I can take care of you.

  127. And now he tells them watch this.

  128. In verse eighteen, he said, I did all that, but

  129. forget all that I did all of that. I brought

  130. you through that situation. I changed your life, I brought

  131. you out of poverty.

  132. I transform your mind and your heart.

  133. Yeah, I did it, but forget all that. Now. Why

  134. would God tell us to forget all the great things

  135. He's done? Because we want everybody to remember all the

  136. great things we do.

  137. Just think about it.

  138. You right now, still reminding people that fifteen dollars you

  139. lit them in high school?

  140. You remember when I lent you that fifteen dollars? Like

  141. you still? Come on, It's human nature for.

  142. If I do something good, I don't want.

  143. You to forget that. But usually people like that.

  144. The only reason they don't want you to forget because

  145. their plan is never to do anything greater for you.

  146. Okay, y'all missed it.

  147. The reason I gotta keep telling you about that one

  148. gift I gave you that one Christmas in nineteen seventy two,

  149. it's because I don't plan to buy you nothing in

  150. twenty twenty six. Come on, let's be honest. The reason

  151. I tell you that, hey, you remember that time I

  152. invited you because I don't plan on going out with

  153. you again. But God's saying all the great things that

  154. I've done for you. I want you to focus on

  155. forgetting it, cause it will cloud your ability to see

  156. what I'm about to do forward.

  157. Oh God, I don't have the time to do it

  158. like I want to.

  159. But some of you are being held up watch this

  160. in your future because you are committed to nostalgia. I'm

  161. gonna have to do a whole message on it. But

  162. some of y'all right, now, get more excited when your

  163. Facebook memories come up. Everybody's talking about what happened in

  164. twenty sixteen, Like God's not. In twenty twenty six you

  165. reminisced I was smaller than that's because you just kept

  166. a eating. You've been eating since twenty sixteen. Oh, excuse me,

  167. what I'm saying. What I'm saying is what I'm saying

  168. is twenty sixteen or whatever day does not have to

  169. be the glory days.

  170. The glory days is wherever God is now. Y'all missing it.

  171. The glory days is wherever the cloud is now. And

  172. God's calling us forward. He's saying, come here, I got

  173. more for you. That's for all my super saints, my

  174. senior saints that are saying that maybe God's done with

  175. me your ladder, your later.

  176. Years shall be great. What if fifty to eighty was

  177. the pinnacle of your life. There's some senior saints.

  178. In here, there's some people that are going up in

  179. an aging great. What if everything you desire to do

  180. I still did, and he did it in the last

  181. thirty five years of your life.

  182. You would have squandered it.

  183. In the first forty you would have tricked it off

  184. in the first forty y'all, come.

  185. On, be honest.

  186. You would have shook something and wasted it. But God said,

  187. in my grace, I'm gonna give them enough bumps and

  188. bruises so that they know that this not last thirty five.

  189. Okay, somebody shot at me. Forward. Everything is ahead of you, Travis.

  190. Everything is ahead, Jared, everything is ahead. I've been saying

  191. it every day. I'm not even looking at what's going.

  192. On right now.

  193. Everything in my life, every good thing is ahead. Faith

  194. is forward. God is not looking at your past being

  195. like I wish you could get back there. Faith is forward.

  196. What building is he gonna give us next? Who are

  197. we gonna buy? What church? Are we gonna buy? A building?

  198. Forward?

  199. Y'all don't hear what I'm saying? Where is God? Where

  200. is God going to pour out next? Because faith is

  201. faul But that means you're gonna have to forget and

  202. stop idolizing what he did.

  203. You have made your last season and idol now.

  204. And if God doesn't do it like that, he's not

  205. moving anymore. Pastor Mike, why are you telling me this?

  206. Because I don't want you to be paralyzed? In this

  207. season where God wants to take you forward. What he's

  208. done is nothing compared to what He's about to do.

  209. That's all I wanted to tell you today what God

  210. has done in this church, in your life, in this ministry,

  211. and it is nothing to be compared to what He's

  212. gonna do. And now there's two sets of people in

  213. this room. When I say that, some people that landed

  214. on a heart full of faith. And people heard that

  215. and was like, that's what I've been saying, God, That's

  216. what I've been feeling.

  217. That's what I know. God, I'm doing that.

  218. I know, like something in you gotta expectation. And then

  219. there was other people.

  220. In here, but he ain't done it yet and I

  221. know that.

  222. I mean, he always say that all the crazy to

  223. have it as it is, it don't be having in

  224. And then what am I and the Bible says according

  225. to your faith? I just want to put the Bible

  226. back and for it.

  227. Let it be unto you according to Jah. If you,

  228. if you have.

  229. The ability to take the ingredients that God gives you

  230. and you know how to cook these ingredients turn into

  231. Gordon made meals in the right.

  232. And God saying some of.

  233. Y'all need to get y'all faith up, because I'm.

  234. Telling you this is gonna be the year.

  235. And you stop listening to people who have already become

  236. pessimistic about the promises of God. You better get around

  237. some people with faith that said this gonna be the year.

  238. Which month is it happening? This gonna be the year

  239. where your husband at? Is this gonna be the year?

  240. Where is the bright through coming from? Where are the

  241. people that believe that God can do it? Because everything

  242. is ahead of me, My faith is fall. Okay, let

  243. me stop. All right, You ain't seen nothing yet. You

  244. ain't seen nothing yet. Say it out loud. You ain't

  245. seen nothing yet. Put it on the screen.

  246. You ain't seen nothing yet. I've been saying it all week.

  247. When I've been walking these red carpets and movie premieres

  248. and Kelly Rowland asking me for a min God said,

  249. you thought this was gonna happen. You ain't seen nothing yet.

  250. When I'm meeting the Amazon executives and there's people over

  251. here and people asking me about other deals and other stuff.

  252. God said, you thought this was a game. You ain't

  253. seen nothing yet.

  254. When I'm walking through the mall in Atlanta, and a

  255. lady starts crying because of the deliverance she's experienced and

  256. never been here before.

  257. But she said, this is a sign from God.

  258. I needed God to speak to me today and I

  259. was going to buy some shoes, and God gave her

  260. a sign of confirmation. And God said, you thought that

  261. was something you ain't seen nothing yet, because everything is ahead.

  262. Say it with faith, everything is ahead. I can't wait

  263. for tomorrow, y'all. Oh, I can't wait for next week.

  264. I can't wait.

  265. For next month because you.

  266. Ain't seen you better keep watching. This is what God

  267. is telling the children of Israel.

  268. He said, I did all of that, ain't never been

  269. done before, will never be done again. But if you

  270. follow me forward, you ain't seen nothing yet. But they

  271. didn't have the faith to believe him. These these group

  272. of people were in wilderness for four hundred years. They

  273. were in slavery for four hundred years. This means generations.

  274. They grandmama's and grandfathers, and great grandfathers and great grandma

  275. They were all bound mentally. And I know some of

  276. you are first generation chain breakers. Yeah, I'm talking to

  277. a specific group of people in here.

  278. I know some of y'all are first generational.

  279. You're breaking curses and poverty, mindsets and bad.

  280. Habits, and it's hard.

  281. It's a hard fight because it's in your DNA.

  282. It's been in my bloodline to hustle.

  283. Oh, come on, y'all, y'all don't want to have real conversation.

  284. It's been in my bloodline to have a backup plan.

  285. It's in my blood to rely on some type of

  286. substance to my bloodline to almost tell the truth. Come on, you, y'all,

  287. it's in my bloodline. I have two or three on

  288. the side, just in case the main one messing up.

  289. And these people have seen.

  290. The hand of God delivered them out of slavery, but

  291. they stopped moving forward after deliverance. Hear what I just said.

  292. You can be delivered and not move forward. Some of

  293. y'all not in the clubs no more. But you not

  294. following Christ either, So you.

  295. You're good because you're not there no more.

  296. And God said six years ago you stopped following me though,

  297. and the children of Israel. I need y'all to hear me.

  298. I need you to get the picture. We talk about

  299. the deliverance. He's a great delivery. We make songs about it.

  300. But it is possible. Watch this, write this point down.

  301. You can be delivered and still delusional. Come here, camer

  302. did you hear what I said? You can be delivered

  303. and still delusional. You can literally be out of a

  304. situation and act like that was where you were supposed

  305. to end up. Do y'all know that the wilderness was

  306. not the destination.

  307. It was the.

  308. Process to change their minds.

  309. And some of y'all are mad.

  310. Because you're in a process that God's trying to use to.

  311. Change You'm I hate this job, but you're late. You're

  312. always late.

  313. So he's trying to get you to stop being late

  314. at the Pigley Wiggly.

  315. No, no, no, you're in a process.

  316. Of working at that grocery store or that post office

  317. because he's trying to get something out of you that's

  318. still in you before.

  319. He takes you to where he promised you.

  320. And you were delivered out of the drug game. You

  321. ain't selling dim bags, but you are bagging groceries, and

  322. you mad, and you think God has forgotten about y'all

  323. heard what I said, and you think God has forgotten

  324. about you, and he's trying to renew your and now

  325. you're mad and you stop moving forward because you thought, well, God,

  326. I'm not doing this no more.

  327. I'm not as bad as I used to be. God,

  328. you changed my life.

  329. But being delivered does not mean you not delusional. And

  330. there are too many people in the body of Christ

  331. right now that aren't what they used to be, but

  332. are not what God wants them to be. And now

  333. you're coming up against aggressive frustration. Your faith is frustrated

  334. because you think God has forgotten about you in a

  335. wilderness season, and the problem is you won't obey him

  336. in the wilderness.

  337. You stop moving forward. And today I just got to

  338. challenge you.

  339. That being delivered and being delusional turns into self sabotage.

  340. Okay, let's let's break it down.

  341. Some of y'all are working out now, and you still

  342. reward yourself for donuts after every.

  343. Workout session. That's delivered and delusional. Do y'all see what

  344. I'm saying.

  345. Some of y'all are excited about relationship goes, the movie

  346. coming out, Got the got the movie Gotta he said,

  347. and you're still answering late night calls from your ex

  348. and you know Valentine's Day is coming, and he just started,

  349. what's up a big head?

  350. Yep. On the first he.

  351. Gonna hit you with the hay hey, what you doing?

  352. He got a plan all the way to the fourteenth.

  353. There's no pressure, no pressure, no pressure, and you're still

  354. answering them.

  355. Call that is delivered.

  356. And Dalulu, you started saving money, yet you leave all

  357. of the notifications to your favorite stores.

  358. Up on your phone.

  359. God told you get your money in order pay off

  360. the credit cards, but you don't cut off the notifications.

  361. That is now you done started the savings account. I

  362. got four hundred and sixty two thousand dollars in there.

  363. You see, you couldn't even take the thousand on it.

  364. Some of y'all faith.

  365. Said, whoa, whoa, my God.

  366. For a hundred sixty two thousand, I'm trying to take

  367. you forward. You dog's gonna say for sixty two And

  368. then you that thousand came out.

  369. You said, no, not me, No, I mean no, I

  370. mean somebody shutting me forward.

  371. I declare that's somebody's real thing in the name of Jesus,

  372. that they're gonna.

  373. Have more than enough. Ah, get on my nerves.

  374. Stop doing hard drugs, the bad ones. But you can't

  375. go to sleep without that dark drink, delivered but still

  376. ain't broke no more made out the hood. We ain't

  377. going back there, but you still hide money under your mattress.

  378. There's somebody mac Look what what what?

  379. What ain't none now?

  380. I mean the twenties and fifties, Yeah, some of y'all.

  381. It's a shoebox. What I'm saying to you is there

  382. there is something.

  383. That followed you out of Egypt that is keeping you

  384. out of the Promised Land. I'm gonna say it one

  385. more time. There is something that followed you out of

  386. Egypt that is keeping you out of the Promised Land.

  387. And today I want you to know that being delivered

  388. from one thing is not the same as being delivered

  389. into the promise.

  390. I'm trying to move you forward today, Church.

  391. Like you've stopped lying, but you haven't started being transparent.

  392. So you're delivered from lying, but you haven't started offering

  393. up information to the people that you're accountable to, so they.

  394. Still got to ask you.

  395. They still gotta say, bro, how you doing with pornography?

  396. Oh well, last week instead of saying bro, I messed up.

  397. So you've been delusing y'all. Don't get me I'm not

  398. a liar no more.

  399. But ah don't.

  400. I don't willingly bring in accountability. It's time for all

  401. of us to move Say it with me for because

  402. you can come out of Egypt, but Egypt has to

  403. come out of you. Where are you still embracing Egypt

  404. in your life? Where in your life are you still

  405. embracing Egypt? God delivered you from something, but you have

  406. not let it go. And it's keeping you in the wilderness.

  407. It's keeping you in wandering, It's keeping you going in

  408. a cycle. When you look at the map of the

  409. actual place that they were supposed to go from and to,

  410. it was an eleven day journey.

  411. How do you get lost for forty years?

  412. But I could ask some of y'all, how have you

  413. been lost in relationship issues for forty years? How have

  414. you been a gossip since sixth grade? You're sixty five

  415. and every circle you've ever been in your mouth is open.

  416. No wonder God came to I'm not saying this is true,

  417. but what I heard, and I'm telling you this so

  418. you can be praying you're.

  419. You're a nasty soul. If y'all hear what I'm saying,

  420. how do you get lost for forty years.

  421. It's because you stop focusing on forgetting and you stop moving.

  422. And today I want to save our church from being delusional.

  423. I don't want to be delivered and delusional. I don't

  424. want to think that I don't have blind spots. I

  425. don't want to think that God can't still work on me.

  426. I don't want to think that God's not moving me

  427. to a place. And so this is how you move forward.

  428. The Bible tells us in Romans twelve two, this is

  429. the reason our church was formed, and it says, and

  430. do not be conformed to this world any longer with

  431. superficial values and customs. This is the amplified version. But

  432. be transformed and progressively change.

  433. I love that word. As you mature spiritually.

  434. By the renewing of your mind, focusing on godly values

  435. and ethical attitudes, so that you may prove for yourself,

  436. not for nobody else, what the will of God is,

  437. that which is good and acceptable and perfect in His

  438. plan and his purpose for you.

  439. This is how we move forward. Church, mature spiritually.

  440. Write it down because you hear it, but you're still

  441. not gonna pick up your Bible. You hear it, but

  442. you still not gonna ask for real accountability. Well, they

  443. didn't answer the phone that one time I called them,

  444. so I ain't calling them no more. What you gotta

  445. get desperate to protect what God placed on the inside

  446. of you.

  447. Focus on godly values. Check your attitude.

  448. This is what the spirit the Bible says right here,

  449. do it for you and don't compare yourself to anybody else.

  450. Pastor Mike, why are you saying this?

  451. Because I figured out the one thing the children of

  452. Israel did. They stopped listening to God's standards. So the

  453. reason that they wondered is because they stopped listening to

  454. His standards.

  455. Everybody says standard.

  456. It's hard to do anything without a standard, like without

  457. a speed limit on telling.

  458. Us how fast to go.

  459. Some of y'all would go three miles an hour and

  460. others of y'all would go one hundred miles an hour

  461. because without a standard, it's left up to how we feel.

  462. Did y'all hear what I'm saying? So God sets stant.

  463. The reason Moses went to the mountain was to spend

  464. time with God to get the ten commandments, which were

  465. could be called the ten standards of how to live,

  466. to give to the people so their minds could be

  467. renewed before they went into the promised land.

  468. Okay, I'm delivering you out of Egypt.

  469. I'm giving you standards to transform your mind so that

  470. then you'll be able to hold on to the promise

  471. when you get it. I'm delivering you out of a

  472. bad relationships.

  473. I'm gonna give you.

  474. A standard of celibacy, a standard of integrity, a standard

  475. of actual accountability so that when you walk into marriage

  476. you can actually sustain and have a healthy marriage. I'm

  477. delivering you from guttony. Nobody wants to talk about it.

  478. And I'm giving you a standard of eating healthy, of

  479. not always let me stop, because this is the only

  480. reason I can talk about this, because this was my

  481. real journey. I'm giving you a standard of being accountable.

  482. I'm giving you the standard of working out so that

  483. when I call you to be on twenty seven flights

  484. in thirty days to go spread the gospel and do

  485. what I called you to do, that you could stand

  486. up and still preach on Sunday. I want you to

  487. be able to hold the promise when I call you

  488. into it. This is a standard. Do you know what

  489. this is? It's one court. Any country you take it to,

  490. this will be one court. Any kitchen you go into,

  491. this will be one court. The reason it says one

  492. court is because it was made to a specific specification

  493. so that people who are using this never had to

  494. question what they were using if they measured it against

  495. the standard. So if somebody says I need two courts

  496. without this, it's a guess. No. I mean, I know

  497. a cub could potentially what three cubs minus a little

  498. bit could equal.

  499. I never have to guess because there.

  500. Is a This is a.

  501. What is it? No, it's a standard.

  502. I don't care what you call it, but this is

  503. a standard. I can measure and build something based on this.

  504. How many feet of rope do I need to buy

  505. a lot? Cain't nobody buy nothing with the standard of

  506. a lot. They need something that is consistent.

  507. To measure it up against. Okay, this.

  508. Is a you said, a tape measure, but it's a grab,

  509. Dad Travis.

  510. It's a standard.

  511. So if I need fifteen feet by looking at.

  512. The but if Charles come here, but I was like, Charles.

  513. I need you to go fifteen feet from here to

  514. there right.

  515. Now. I don't know what made him start doing that

  516. almost there? Fifteen feet? Huh? Hey man? And did you

  517. see how confident he started? Because without anything to.

  518. Measure it up against, it looks right.

  519. If you don't got to stand it around, it's like that.

  520. Look about fifteen feet, that's a good fifteen What that's what?

  521. I'm about six feet and if you lay me down twice,

  522. that would be about twelve minus my head to my neck.

  523. Yeah.

  524. And this is how people do relationships without a standard.

  525. This is how people do their money without a standard.

  526. This is how people try to raise their kids without

  527. a Let me show you one more.

  528. This what is it? You got it?

  529. This is a standard. This is something to be measured

  530. up against. How do I know what to do in

  531. my marriage?

  532. The standard? Oh god? How do I deal with people

  533. hating on me? How can you not clide back in?

  534. What am I measuring with?

  535. The standard?

  536. How are you dating? How are you handling your money? Them? Standards?

  537. Getting quiet? The standard? Y'all know what I'm saying. How

  538. do you forgive? How do you pray? How do you

  539. love your enemies?

  540. How are you ready to give on any occasion for

  541. any need? How do you produce finances that get you wealth?

  542. And so many people have chosen uncertified measurements.

  543. To base their life off of.

  544. And today, all I want you to know is that

  545. a good standard stays the same in every situation.

  546. Come on, you hear what I'm saying.

  547. The thing about that ruler is it don't change. Yeah,

  548. that ruler been the same since I've been in kindergarten.

  549. When I'm in kindergarten and they say one foot, I

  550. know one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,

  551. eleven twelve inches equals a foot?

  552. Why because it's a stamp.

  553. When he went fifteen feet, if I was to go

  554. fifteen feet, the difference would be we have different foot sizes.

  555. Do y'all hear what I'm saying. Charles got half my foot,

  556. Hey man, it's the truth. My foot can't get every

  557. shoe his foot, Every size is available for him.

  558. So if we start walking from.

  559. The same place, but we start measuring based off.

  560. Of what we think, come on, come on, let's go

  561. fifteen Charles one, two, three, four, Look how far I'm

  562. not ahead of him?

  563. Ay?

  564. Nine? Ten, I'm gonna be off the stage. Huh.

  565. Thirteen fourteen, fifteen. We stopped and we thought we did

  566. the same thing. We thought we served the same God,

  567. we thought we prayed the same way, We thought.

  568. We believed the same thing, But.

  569. Because there was not a standard, we ended up in

  570. two different places. Today, all I'm offering you is the

  571. chance to not live in delusion, actually be delivered from

  572. whatever has been holding you. But keep moving forward because

  573. you stay focused on the standards standing.

  574. All over this building.

  575. Oh my god, how some Mike, why are you saying

  576. this coincite with no standard.

  577. Leads to sabotage.

  578. If you can see the promised land, but you don't

  579. obey the standard, You're gonna self sabotage. And I'm seeing

  580. so many believers right now self sabotage because you don't

  581. have a standard to bridle your tongue.

  582. Somebody pops off on you.

  583. Guess what they about to get popped?

  584. Y'all know what I'm saying.

  585. Excuse me, but I'm gonna take off my Christian for

  586. a second. How this is the moment where your Christians

  587. should be showing.

  588. Before everybody starts moving. I need you to hear me

  589. say this.

  590. I believe we have an opportunity to dive in to

  591. the only thing that doesn't change the word of God.

  592. The Bible says it like this, put the scripture on

  593. the screen. The grass withers and the flower fades, but

  594. the word of.

  595. Our God.

  596. Will stand for that measurement stays the same forever. So

  597. I don't have a choice on what God says about relationship.

  598. There's a standard.

  599. I don't have a choice of what to do with

  600. my money if I'm actually going by the standard. The

  601. reason I give and I tie, and I do those

  602. things and knockus. Some preacher manipulated me to give him.

  603. No no, no, no no no no, he not the standard.

  604. It's the word of God.

  605. That's the reason that I pray for my enemies, is

  606. not even because I won't to.

  607. Y'all.

  608. Soo faith, you're like, I just love praying for my es.

  609. I want a bunch of them, can we be honest?

  610. But the reason I don't is because I live my

  611. life based on next week. I want you to come

  612. because I'm gonna give you the standards of this house.

  613. Moses came down to give those ten commandments or the

  614. ten standards, and it was to move them into the

  615. Promised land next week.

  616. I don't have ten. God didn't give me that much.

  617. But I have eight and I call them the Grade eight,

  618. and I've labored over this for eleven years. What I'm

  619. saying is we're about to change as a church because

  620. of these eight standards. And at the end of next

  621. week's service, you're gonna have an opportunity to be a

  622. part of what God is doing.

  623. Why.

  624. Because you can't build a house without you missed it.

  625. Let me just help them. Every construction site I've ever

  626. been on, every home build I've done, all the construction

  627. of this place, and everything anybody was walking around, they

  628. walked around with one of these. Because if you can

  629. have a great vision for something, but without one of

  630. these a standard, I don't know what to order. I

  631. don't know how much would we need. I don't know

  632. where to put all the nail nails. I don't know

  633. where to put the studs. I don't know where to

  634. And without the standard, you cannot build a house. I'm

  635. here to tell you, without a standard, you can't build

  636. God's house either. And so many churches want everybody to

  637. figure out what they do here, this church will be

  638. a church of standards. No, no, no, no, no, I'm just

  639. gonna tell you right now. And there's some churches who

  640. don't care, and I want you to go find them

  641. and show up and be everything God has called you

  642. to be.

  643. There.

  644. Matter of fact, I believe in this so much that

  645. we have little cards that are called not your cup

  646. of tea cards. I realize everybody, this is not your

  647. cup of tea, And that don't mean you ain't gotta

  648. drink tea because you don't like this type of tea.

  649. So I'm gonna help you find your tea.

  650. And I literally have tons of churches in the area

  651. and around the country on there that we know personally

  652. would be great places for you that have different dynamics.

  653. And we want you to just get plugged in somewhere

  654. where that you can actually get involved and be a

  655. part of what God's doing. But here, we're gonna have

  656. a standard.

  657. Generosity is a standard.

  658. We will never let you come here and you don't

  659. feel the hand of God extending to you is not.

  660. We're always gonna give.

  661. We're always gonna love people who don't believe. I always

  662. want atheists in the building.

  663. Oh God, there's a church people. I feel your spirit rising. Well,

  664. they're gay, they're transgender, They're God's children.

  665. Less claps don't matter who were you before God found you.

  666. There will always be a standard. And next week I'm

  667. gonna I'm gonna invite you into living in this with me.

  668. Because you ain't seen nothing yet. Put that big you

  669. ain't seen nothing yet on the screen. This is what

  670. I want you to remember. You ain't seen nothing yet.

  671. Did you hear the stats that they gave earlier of

  672. what God has done in this church. You ain't seen

  673. nothing yet. Put those stats, all of them back on

  674. the screen. I just want you to I just want

  675. you to think what God has done in the last

  676. eleven years.

  677. I just that's crazy.

  678. Thirty thousand, six hundred and eighty baptism, ninety four point

  679. three million hours viewed on YouTube, two hundred and thirty

  680. three million.

  681. I don't even know how to say that number. A

  682. lot of millions of views.

  683. Thirty six million, three hundred and sixty one thousand, five

  684. hundred and one daughters given away in total generosity that

  685. we can record, Yeah, and one hundred and ninety three,

  686. eight hundred and twenty salvation. On this eleventh anniversary, we

  687. celebrate that we have been representing God to the lost

  688. and found. For transfer You're a Mason in Christ. But

  689. now put my other screen up there.

  690. But you ain't seen nothing yet.

  691. You check back with me in ten years and as

  692. we get this army. We started this vision with three

  693. hundred people, and now there's almost three thousand in here

  694. and countless watching off.

  695. What could we do.

  696. If we started building based on the standards of God.

  697. God's gonna build this church, Amen, and He's gonna do

  698. it with you.

  699. Lift your hands all over this house.

  700. Father, I thank you for every person under the sound

  701. of my voice today. I thank you that their faith

  702. was encouraged and they're seeing your need for their full Yes. Father,

  703. I pray that right now that every person that is

  704. stuck in a wilderness, that right now today something's happening

  705. in their heart. God, I believe that you are not

  706. just delivering us, but you're taking us into the promised Land.

  707. And today, Father God, I pray that anybody who has

  708. been stuck, who has been circling, circling in the same foolishness,

  709. who's been stuck in delusion.

  710. Thank you Father.

  711. Today there is a change happening from the youngest to

  712. the oldest. Change us, renew us, transform us, and do

  713. it from the inside.

  714. Out.

  715. Let it start in our mind and let it affect

  716. our habits. Today, God, for all you've done and all

  717. you continue to do, we say yes, there's somebody under

  718. the sound of my voice right now with your eyes

  719. closed and you just meditating on God. You have not

  720. said yes to God yet. You're literally in this place

  721. right now, and you have never accepted Jesus or you

  722. did a long time ago, but you walked away from Him.

  723. Today God saying you want to move forward, move forward

  724. with me. I don't care where you came from, what

  725. happened to you, what you did. Today is the day

  726. of salvation. And in this moment, God saying to you,

  727. you ain't seen nothing yet. I want to heal you,

  728. I want to deliver you. I want to bring you

  729. into freedom, and I want to bring you into promiseling.

  730. Somebody lost their home, somebody stopped dreaming, somebody stopped believing God.

  731. And today God said, I'm resurrecting. I'm resurrecting.

  732. If you want to accept Jesus or rededicate your life

  733. to Him, whether you're watching in this room or online,

  734. today is the day on the counter of three. As

  735. the church begins to pray, because I need you to

  736. begin to believe there's eternity in the balance right now.

  737. Somebody's not promised another ten years, but today they're right here.

  738. And I'm telling you right now, your spirit is moving.

  739. Right now.

  740. That anxiousness you're feeling, that's the Holy Spirit coming to now.

  741. Calm you and say, this is the day.

  742. This is what I've been building everything towards you accepting me.

  743. Right now.

  744. If you're in this room or you're watching right now

  745. online today, I.

  746. Want you to receive Jesus on the counter. Three, just

  747. shoot your hand.

  748. Up saying pastor want to be included in that prayer.

  749. One you're making the greatest decision of your life. Two,

  750. your name is about to be written in the Lamb's

  751. Book of Life. Three lift your hand if you want

  752. to receive Jesus in this room. I see hands, I

  753. see hands. I see hands, I see hands, and more

  754. than that, God sees you come on transformation Church. Let

  755. us give God prays. You can put your hand down.

  756. I don't want to embarrass you. I'm not gonna make

  757. you say everything that you've ever done, But one day

  758. I'm believing you'll be in community to confess those things

  759. out loud, because that's.

  760. Where your healings coming from. But as a church, we

  761. all pray.

  762. Together for the benefit of those coming to Christ. What everybody,

  763. just lift your hands and say God, thank you for

  764. sending Jesus to deliver me. Today. I confess I need you.

  765. I have sinned, but I repent and I turn to you.

  766. I believe you lived, you died, and you rose again

  767. with all power us for me today. Here's my life.

  768. Change me, renew me, transform me. I'm yours forever in

  769. Jesus' name. Amen. Hey, can we.

  770. Celebrate all over that? Y'all gotta come on with me.

  771. Let's celebrate every person that made a decision for Jesus. Hey, listen,

  772. if you've just decided to accept Jesus, I want you

  773. to text saved to eight two eight two eight two,

  774. and our team wants to send you some information and

  775. celebrate with you and listen all over this place. There's

  776. thousands of you in here and thousands online. I'm about

  777. to come off stage and I want to pray for you.

  778. Start putting your prayer requests in the chat. I'm gonna

  779. pray specifically for you by name. But our altered team

  780. is coming up right now, and if you need prayer

  781. for anything, for finances, for your family, for your mind,

  782. for peace.

  783. I don't want you to.

  784. Leave this place without getting agreement. The Bible says that

  785. the prayers of the Righteous day work, and today you

  786. can get prayer. I love you, Church. This is our anniversary.

  787. This is us celebrating all that God has done through

  788. our faithfulness.

  789. And so thank you for honoring this moment.

  790. If you got any old throwback pictures of what God

  791. has done, put them up online and let us know

  792. some of your favorite moments. And don't forget to celebrate

  793. because God's Church is alive and we're.

  794. About to build this house. Amen. I said, We're about

  795. to build this house. Amen.

  796. Remember this Wednesday relationship goes us out everywhere, and I

  797. want you to watch it and celebrate with us. And

  798. I want you to go out and live a transform life.

  799. Hug three or four people and tell them you love them. Amen,