Stop It! // When the Holy Spirit Hijacks the Service // Michael Todd

Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to

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

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

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

Everybody that is a part of what God is doing here,

or you're visiting for the first time, Welcome, We love you.

We're regular people who jacked up, who have been saved

by grace, and all we want to do is offer

you the opportunity to walk in that level of freedom.

Doesn't mean that everything becomes perfect, no, but what it

does mean is your life will start taking a forward

momentum and you will begin to progress. At this church,

we believe in the model progression over perfection.

If you're looking for a perfect church, you.

Have not found one. If you think you have, when

you show up, it is.

No longer perfect.

So what I'm telling you is you might as well

get around a bunch of believers who are going towards

Jesus and.

Will admit when they are wrong and.

Need correction and have accountability, but are gonna enjoy the

journey and we're gonna see what God has to do.

Amen.

Hey man, I feel happy there's so many exciting things

that are happening right now, and so I got to

tell you about a few, and I want to thank

God for what he's doing in this church.

I don't know.

If you have recognized it, but this year we decided

to model here is fruit, that this was the year

that God prophetically told us that we would be not

just ones who need fruit from others, we would be

ones that bear fruit in our lives.

And somebody with faith say, this will be my year

of much fruit. Y'all know the year is not over yet.

It just felt like when I said that, like talking

about this year, it felt like people are like, yeah,

I can't wait till twenty twenty. Hold on, wait, it's November.

What ninth eighth, the ninth tenth, It don't even matter.

It's November tenth.

We still.

Got fifty something days left in this year.

When I read in my Bible he only needed three

to defeat death, Hell, and the grave. You should get

hopeful right now because somebody say it ain't over.

Yeah, yeah, y'all quit back there, because I don't need

much today.

Just one more time, somebody say it ain't over. God

can let the last quarter of this year. Rewrite the

whole narrative of the year.

Y'all ever seen a movie.

That was going bad until that last little bit?

All right, don't leave this, don't leave this year too early.

Some of y'all about to get the surprise of your life.

Somebody just received that. Somebody about to get the It's

about to flip so quick. It's about to change so fast.

You're gonna lie.

I was just planning. It's about to your ring. Gonna

have weight on it. Some of y'all don't it. I'm

gonna wear the faith.

Is some of this stuff about to flip so fast?

Yeah?

Heed that having hear to hear, let him hear.

There's some people judging y'all praise right now, but they're

gonna be asking the ball something in a minute.

Don't let nobody keep you from giving God praise in faith.

This thing about the flip so fast?

Day no.

Stop, all right, here we go the mom.

Alright, alright, alright, alright, all.

Right, all right, all right, m hm.

For you.

Row what's up?

Job this final? Don't word the final?

Why you know?

I will be.

Man that was.

You will completely today?

Say no word, say go words.

Fine, I go with this yp with me.

And they that was so.

Just okay, take no word, no word, I will.

And this emis will be you.

Stop. I got a phrase, I got away, and I

gotta get it out.

I gotta.

Everybody gonna say I got a pain.

I'm not away. There's not away.

I'll say I'm not a pain.

Only God can do it.

Only God can do it.

Oly God can do it.

Ohly God can do it.

Don't get do it.

Ohly God can do it.

Oh the God can do it. Oh the God, Oh God,

I can do it.

Only God can do it.

Only got to do it.

I'm not to do it.

This is.

Guys.

You can't start running on the second level.

You can.

Hold all right, Guys on my line, you have been there,

so that's you better say it.

Take old sack with every man, contact.

You, mack up.

A reason.

Averaged all right.

I made it fall. God made it.

Everything that the devil time. God made it them. Somebody

should thank God for that bad it.

Pal, God made the town.

Only made a tale the thing, not a double.

But I'm plaid.

I'm gone with y'all. H m hmm.

All right, there's a praise in this house. There's a

praise in this house. There's a praise in this house.

Whoa, this thing is shaking people's houses. You're gonna get

home and it's gonna be different. This this thing is

moving stuff. Yeah, all right, all right, here we go.

And it's like, this is very difficult as a public

speaker because everything I want to say feels like putting

lighter fluid.

On a fire.

I need a.

All right and okay and amen and enough, sit down album.

Sunday's next Sunday. We can do this all day next Sunday.

We don't have to sing no songs. Okay.

I'm looking for a new band currently because the one

I have is disobedient.

Job leave.

But when the praises go.

Up, oh, I'm said, when the crazy could ride.

Oh, I'm telling you the lasting yelp, the favor, the miracles,

the transformation.

It's coming down, coming down, He's coming down.

How you time?

All right?

I have thirty minutes. Now, sit down, Tony, give me

your drumsticks, thank you?

Hold on?

Does that mean when you think you lost something, God

can restart?

My God, I.

God, I get out of It's Russ the racing season.

Everything that the enemy's out, He's sole were getting it

all back. Yeah, oh love, but I want it all back.

I want it back.

Look at your neighbors. I want it all back. Yeah, family,

want it all back. Resources, I want it all back.

Yeah the time. I want it all back.

Now.

Now I heard you. You can't get time back. Well,

my Bible says, I don't.

Know a bible you're reading, but it says all of

the time that the canker worm had stolen, all of

the time that the palmer worm has stolen. It says,

My God will restore back to you some of y'all

lost decade.

Get ready here, get ready, I'm getting it.

All Okay, I need to be honest, Like ten minutes ago,

it was all good. I stepped over into my blackness

ten minutes ago.

Okay.

I just want to let y'all know the last ten

minutes is just how I was raised. This has nothing

to do with anything. This is my culture coming out,

and I like to praise God. I just want to

ignore man.

All right, All right, cool.

Sit down, Please hold your yell. Please start it back

up in the car.

Please bring it next Sunday, Please, beautiful segue next Sunday.

I think all of the the.

I don't just want to say energy. I feel like momentum.

I feel like all of the momentum that's in the

room right now. We're gonna bring it next week as

we're gonna celebrate God together.

And I'm just letting you know anything can happen next week.

We are releasing an album this Friday called Undefeated Champion. Yeah,

and I want to be very clear with you. This

whole album is a hip hop and R and B

l Okay. It is meant to go into culture and

cast the net that brings people that are far from God. Okay,

and this is gonna be a beautiful picture. But I'm

just telling everybody right now, and it's like, oh, this

for the young people.

No, it's not. Or this is just for the people

you know that like that style of music. No, it's not, y'all.

Me and Pastor Role in the band.

We're at rehearsal this week and I'm just telling you

we're strong deodorant next week.

If you're a five spray person, double up.

If you use light, get the this is the Sunday

you get full strength.

Okay, Okay. Health, the environment, save the old Zone.

We actually have a lot of friends and guests that

that are flying and coming in for this. I'm encouraging everybody.

You need to be here before it starts, because it

starts immediately and you're gonna be salty that you missed it.

Nine thirty. Be in the building because we're gonna see

God do something very special. And for all our Transformation

Nation people, I want to let you know we are

ready for you.

We've already seen in the chats, in the comments.

I'm coming.

Y'all didn't do conference this year, so I'm come. This

is gonna be my we hear you come on. And

for all my brothers and sisters that are watching on

the pando app right now that are currently incarcerated, y'all

need to cheer for them.

They're a part of this movement.

I want to let you know that we have intentionally

made a decision that all of these worship Sundays, we

are putting them on the Pandea app at standalone worship experiences.

They told me our.

Worship experiences have hundreds of thousands of views when we

did Overflow and Dominion and our Kingdom Come.

These people are watching them over and over in a day.

And let me just give you a stack because y'all

think this about, oh yeah, we're doing outreach to the prison.

Let me help you understand something that this year alone,

somebody say this year in the correctional facility department, who

has been a part of what Transformation Church is doing,

get ready for this. Eleven thousand people have said yes

to Jesus.

In prison.

If you go shout for something today, that's the one

thing you need.

To shout about. Hallelujah. I didn't say eleven.

And if it was eleven, all of Heaven would have

turned up eleven times, eleven parties. I said eleven, and

these weren't rededications. The way that this system is set

up is they only compress it one time. And these

are people who decided for Jesus potentially the worst season

by man's standard, of their life. I just want to

let you know transformation is really happening, and so we're

grateful for you, thankful for you, and you are a

part of this.

And I want to let you know that we have inmates.

I just needed everybody to know what type of church

we're in because some of y'all are like, oh no, inmates,

you just didn't get caught.

A nasty, but ill. I just had a lot of

things come to my mind. I got to stay focused.

But we invite you to come to this church. When

you get out, there's about a.

Thousand of us that will tell you, welcome home.

You're not what you used to do any man. That

being Christ, he is a new creation. The old has

passed away.

I just want everybody to I want everybody to realize. Man,

that's what we celebrated today with baptisms. Over fifty people

decided to make Jesus Christ their lord. And there's some

people in this room right now that still need to

do that. And this is how we're gonna do it.

I'm not gonna preach this today because I feel somebody said,

oh no, you'd be mad at me because if I

open this thing up, we're here another hour and a half. Okay, y'all,

No stop, because I won't see you for six weeks.

You were, you'd be like, WHOA, that was enough, Thank

you Lord, and I'll see you at Christmas. Stop. I

don't even be hyping me up like that.

But but please, please don't don't don't get it twisted.

God's already speaking.

Many times.

We want him in a form and a formula, but

he's already speaking. He was requiring praise from you today.

He was requiring thanksgiving from you today, and some of

us did not take the opportunity to give him. You

came looking for something, He came requiring something.

And what you do want to.

Understand is that anything you give to God, he don't

let you out give him.

So many times what we need is wrapped up in

what we give. And so I'm.

Encouraging you, but this is, this is what I feel

very strongly to do as we are in here. Number one,

I want to let you know that God, God's calling

this church to another level of another level of bearing

the fruits of the spirit. And I had a message

prepared on kindness today and I'm gonna give it to you.

Please don't get it twist. It ain't nothing wasted.

Around here, No, But I think that God is pleased

by the praises of his people. And I just want

you to know, like like this is the moment where

you where you where you realize that, oh God can

minister to me in several different ways.

I believe He's pleasing and.

So what I uh, what, I just want to let

everybody know is that we had an election this past Tuesday,

and there are too many Christians.

That are out of character. Right now.

I have it, I have it very well said in

the in the the message is very articulate and very

powerful in potent, and I got points, But I just

want I just want to let you know that you

will give an account for everything you post and everything

you say. I don't care that you're black, I can

say this. I don't care that you will raised Republican.

I don't care what you believe. The government can't save

us anyway.

You can't legislate love, you can't act. They can't save

us anyway. And some of y'all acting like Jesus died

and didn't rise again. Our future is secure. I just

I'm coming to beg the church to act like you know,

look at your neighbor and say, act like you.

Oh, you're losing.

Friendship and equity and loyalty and jobs and business over

getting some likes on a post and retweeting things. You're

looking less like Jesus. And today I'm coming to beg

the child. I'm not talking about people who don't know

God and politics can be a big deal for you.

I'm not saying don't take the thing seriously. I'm saying

don't let it change your character. And I know this

is hard for somebody to even hear right now, but

I just I want to let you know.

That it was a baby that was sent here and

it said, and the government shall be on his shows,

and we call him counselor Prince of peace. I feel

God on him, everlasting Father. He's the great.

I am the one who was, who is, and who

is to come. His name is Jesus, and so.

So i'm today.

My message is stop making geez this to look bad.

You need a title for a sermon. Stop.

It came right from the spirit. I felt that everybody

say my title with me, stop it.

Stop.

You ain't got nothing good to say. No, no, this

is another e S word. Shut up, stop it.

And for some of y'all to stop it, you got

to shut up, and some of y'all y'all ready to

stand up.

You need to sit. I feel the presidence of God

in this, but you need stop it. Shut up.

I think it was Prophet Kendrick said, be humble, huh,

sit down, be walking humility. We don't gotta agree. There

are real issues out here, but at the end of

the day, you don't look like what.

You claim to represent.

And I just, I just I just came to the

gathering place where you came knowing what this was. You

knew this was about the Bible, about Jesus, about worship.

So I just need to talk to us. If you

ain't with us yet, all good, love you. I'm so

glad you here.

We're about to have a salvation prayer at the moment

we want you to bite you into the family, But

I gotta talk you just in on a family conversation

right now. Y'all stop it, because what many of you

are doing is creating a chasm.

To the people God assigned for you to help.

Draw them in.

The reason you're at that job is because God sent

you there on assignment. The reason you're at that school

is because God sends you there on assignment.

And you hiding behind a screen.

And watching Fox Dues and c and then and you're

doing all of this stuff, trying to get your case

built up to go in and argue with somebody that

it ain't even about y'all winning.

It's about their soul.

At the end of the day, some of y'all need

to stop asking your first question when you're sitting there with.

Your nail tak so what you think about the elections?

Shut up.

Because you know your feelings are so strong about that

at the end of it, it's not going to show

the love of Jesus. I know I'm being strong right now,

but what I'm saying is two years from now, what

will be the carnage of our carelessness in this season.

Don't be careless right now. Don't think that somebody is

inherently bad because they believe something different. I told the

staff this week.

I said I was an idiot about parenting until I

had a kid.

When a parent be like, whooh, I'm so tired, I'll

be like, you had the kid, why are you so tired?

Until I need all my parents to back me up

right now, y'all, until one of them jokers don't eat

the meal you prepare for him, and then you try

to be a stern parent and be like, well, fine

if you don't eat it, but then right before bed.

You better start eating the air. But you know you're

not built like that, so you gonna make some mic

and cheese and you ain't built like that.

What I'm saying, is our understand many times has a

lot to do with our maturity in life. And many

times were cutting off places where it should be a

bridge to Jesus because there's disagreement. Stop it, shut up,

sit down, and be humble.

Because that.

Is what our example did.

I'll just prove it to you.

The people of the day when Jesus was here, they

wanted him to go up to the governmental structure.

And make the transformation from what they saw as the problem.

And he never went to the power structure. He went

to the vessel he wanted to put power into.

He went to the people.

Every time.

That Jesus would come across people that nobody wanted him

to be around, even his own disciples.

We have proof that the disciples were racist.

Oh god, y'all don't remember when he met with the

woman at the pool that day at noon and the

woman she had came and she was a woman of

the night. The Bible told us that Jesus prophesied to

her and said, yeah, you've been with a lot of brothers,

and the one you with right now he ain't even

your husband.

She said, oh my goodness. She felt exposed, and.

The disciples were in the city at the time getting

some food, and when they came back and saw Jesus

just talking with her, they were like, why would you

have anything to do with this woman. So people close

to Jesus still had issues they was working out. But

what God was requiring is he was one who would

watch stop. He would stop and at least conversate with people.

He would stop and find out what they were going

through and what was going on. And what he would

do many times is he would stop talking. Imagine God,

with all knowledge of past, present and future, listening to

you ramble about something he's gonna fix in five minutes.

Think about it. For many of us, if we was God,

we would just be like, let me just heal you.

But he saw value.

And not just teaching and talking. But it would be.

Quiet enough to listen here where the real pain is, here,

where the real offense is here, where the real cry

for help is. And what he would do many.

Times to let them know that he wasn't this big god.

They say you're the Messiah, they say.

He would sit with them. He would stop, he would

be quiet, and he would sit with them. And what

it takes for the God of the universe to sit humility.

He was humble enough to say that, kiss, I know

they all hate you, and you make everybody's taxes go up.

He was a y'all, don't be thinking.

Like all they hate you, but I'm coming to sit

at your table tonight.

I want to listen to you.

I'm humble enough, and that one act of our example

stopping shutting up and sitting down in humility.

Turned into a blessing for the entire community.

Zach Kias got his life transformed and said, I'm gonna

give back everything plus some.

Could your worst enemy actually be your ally if you stop.

Shut up.

And maybe sit in humility for a second. Church, I'm

not asking you to do something that I don't have

to actively do. I will never get up here and

act like I figured this out. There have been some

things said, some things posted, some stuff done that makes

me feel angered, makes me feel Can I go deeper in.

An emotion real quick?

Oh gosh, I want to show y'all vulnerability as a pastor.

It makes me feel vulnerable.

I don't I don't want to have to feel like

this in America. I don't want to I don't want

to have to feel with this with evangelical pastors or

this group of people.

I don't want to show up in a room and

be like.

But when I come to the Holy Spirit, I say, God,

here I am, could you please make me more like you?

And many times you know what he tells me.

What you're doing, stop it.

And before you say anything else, shut up. Well, I

gotta go do something. Sit down.

And let me teach you how to be humble. And

how do you find humility? You find it in the

Word of God when he puts scriptures in there.

That says love your enemy. It says literally, if your

enemy is hungry, cook for them.

Now, I don't know if y'all just walk around with

snack packs and meals. But if it says if they're hungry,

feed them, that means it's gonna take some of my resources,

some of my time.

At least some of my money. Where I'm gonna get Okay,

I'm gonna go to j Fila. I'm gonna get you

j fil A. I don't like you, but like eat

this number one belox like.

It says, if your enemy is thirsty, give them a drink.

I don't I don't know if you have a water

dispenser on you. But that means it will require something

of you to go get the water encouragement. You can

give it right there. But he's saying, I'm I want

it to cost you something, he said, and by doing so,

it will be like heaping hot coals on their head.

The kindness, the goodness, the faithfulness of God through God's

people may be the strongest reflection of who he is.

And I put it in my sermon, and I'm gonna

say it again in a week or two. When I

preached this, so act like it's brand new when I

say it the next time.

But who's the kindest person?

You know?

No? For real? Like, who's the kind now? God? I'm

talking about a.

Real person, y'all get so, the God, the Father, the

Holy One of Israel.

No real person. I love my church. Real person? Is

it granny?

Is it a coworker? Is it a child? Who's the

kindest person? You know?

Because one of the.

Fruits of the spirit.

That he says that need to be developed in us,

it's kindness.

And I don't know about you, but the people group

of Christians is not normally referred to.

I don't I don't know if I mean generous, maybe

loving at times.

But but we would think of an organization like Chick

fil A as kinder than the Church. Why when it's

supposed to be a fruit of our relationship with him.

Remember when I ask you who's the kindest person? You know,

my question really is would you be on anybody's list?

Would anybody not? Everybody? Would anybody.

Define you.

As kind?

If not, we may need to humble our stuff and

sit at the feet of Jesus a little more. We

might need to wash some feet. No, no, no, I

mean we may need to do y'all. Remember Jesus literally

putting his hands on the disciple's crusty toes. Now I

want you to in the land of pedicures and athletic

shoes and all of this other stuff. The feet would

have been the most defiled part of the body back then,

as their feet were exposed to all of the elements, So.

They would have had cuts on them.

They would have been bruised from the sandals, the leather

or the rope rubbing against their feet. They would have

had calluses, They might have had bites and bugs on them.

And first, another person who was supposed to be God

to humble himself.

Oh what do you have to do to wash somebody's feet?

Stop it?

Shut up.

I know we don't believe everything the same, but because

I'm a believer, I gotta put my hands on what

you think is disgusting, and I'm going to be kind

with you. I'm gonna show God's love to you. I'm

gonna remember that I still need God to wash me,

and I'm gonna relate to you on a level that

doesn't make me sing better than you do. You know what,

sitting My daughter Jia is taller than me.

In this position.

Sitting is a vulnerable position, and many of us want

to stay high when God's asking us to come lung today,

I'm asking the church to not feed into the narrative

that so many already believe. I'm asking us to represent,

to actually give God, show God, and promote God differently.

When they start talking about politics, you come in and

be like, I don't care who you voted for.

I love you anyway.

Some of you can't even say that because you are

so attached to your opinion that you have made your

opinion an idol, and your beliefs that are not based

on the word of God have now taken the throne

of your heart, and you worship them, you talk about them,

you give to them, you try to get other people

to believe in them. You're only an evangelist of the

thing that sits on the throne of your heart.

Hear what I just said to you.

You only evangelize and get other people to try to

believe in whatever sits on the throne of your heart.

And many, many of us are evangelists for our idols.

If Beyonce dropping the album, we will hear about it

from you.

If your team gets.

A new jersey, you got four of them Home and

Away and one from my little son Junior.

You promoted everywhere you go.

Some of y'all got socks that you got in high

school because they got your favorite thing that you love

on them. I'm not coming for anyone thing, because all

of us have things that we have to dethrone. Oh

my God, all of us have things in our life

that we need to dethrone. There shall be no other

God besides Him before Him. And I just think in

this room today as this is a completely holy spirit

led impartation of what I feel like God's trying to

say to his church.

Today.

We have to dethrone every idol.

And put Jesus back on the only place he deserves

to be in our life first place.

God, forgive me, forgive us for putting anything.

Other than You on the throne of our heart.

Today we're coming with contrite hearts, saying that we need

kingdom priorities, whether it's how we were taught, or a

defense mechanism, or just the things Father that we think

are better. Today, God, we humbly submit everything at your feet.

And God, would you please please make us more like you.

Not in a churchy Sunday type of way, but I'm

talking about Father, God, when we're cut off in traffic,

Make us more like you when we know they're trying

to take advantage of us. Make us more like You

when we see the transgression or the offense and we

got proof of it.

Father.

I'm not talking about let us be taken advantage in

living with no boundaries. God, I'm asking that you would

give us a godly christ Like response in the face

of very difficult times.

We know we cannot do this.

In our own power, So Holy Spirit, would you develop

in us.

The fruits of the spirit.

That allow us to walk in love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness,

and Lord, we all need self control.

It's the only proof that we have relationship with you.

God. So do something in our hearts, because just wanting

to do better doesn't change anything.

Need a transformation God, I wanna be altered here at

this alt I wanna be altered here at this alt.

Wherever you're at, it's an altar right now. It's where

you need to lay something down. I wanna be altered

here at the alt. Come on, you just say that.

Talk to God.

I wanna be alter here at the A.

Maybe over.

I don't wanna be altered.

Jesus, God, do something brand new in me. I don't

want to act like I have it all together. I

need you, wanna be.

Healthy.

I don't know who's in here that really needs a transformation,

But would you just lift your hands and say, God,

I want to be altered.

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