Crushed and Cut

Nice to have you. One of our worship leaders is

Robbie vessels and I never knew where he got his material from

like Bucky's Bala. And then I realized he got it

from Deuteronomy. So I'm going to show you where

Robbie vessels gets his songs from.

And while you feel uncomfortable in your seats, we're going to

see if Jesus can actually save people today.

And actually, some of you people need to be baptized today.

And because you never did it before the meeting with nice

shirts on. And you get a free shirt going

to get baptized in your clothes, my knee and all We're going to

put our money under the water. We're going to put your True

Religion jeans under the water. Yes they might shrink but that

looks like so Frankie ready? Some of you hearing them. and

so, if I said to you, Steven, If you've been in this church for

any length of time, and I said to you, Stephen and I just asked

you immediately for a surname. If I said to you, Stephen, what

would you say? If I said to you Stephen, what

did you say? Don't your husband, forget your,

it's not all about him. She's let me also men.

Whose husbands not, Steven. What did you say if I just sit

Stevenson? I'm told him break.

Of course, your side on a break because in this church, you grow

up with Stephen dollar but he's one of the preachers.

But the Stephen and the Bible, when it says, now Steve did, you

can put X 6:8 up for me, please. It says now, Stephen And when

you see that in the Bible, it's everything against what we

believe in our mind, Steven dallenbach the preacher.

It's actually Steven who's not a preacher, it's Steven who's

actually not one of the inner circle of the church.

The church is not built by preachers.

The churches built by you. Every one of you is a priest

filled with the presence of God called into his workplace, some

as Farmers Summers, lawyers, Summers doctors, summer,

students a Housewives, but Empowered in God, to take this

gospel out. And so what happens in X chapter

6 is that the church gets built, this internal pressure, there's

external pressure, this internal pressure, this external

pressure, and then we start to see the church coming together

when Gods like Stephen and you hunt Henry.

It and Kareem who's a dentist and pizza and rindy and Henry

and Sharda when they all get together and they decide to host

a meal for the over 70s. And they have it next but not in

the church. I walked into that meal and I

saw some of these beautiful people.

This young, this lady, young lady, this young lady married by

my grandfather 54 years ago, sitting as a widow in a

seventy-year-old. In the church that we are

building being served by a group of very influential Afrikaans

businessman, with the most unbelievable plates of food, the

most unbelievable choice of puddings.

And I'm thinking now, we building the church, Church.

Now, we building the church. This is not about some guy

standing up and preaching. So when you see now Stephen,

it's actually talking to you. It's not talking to Steven Dolan

Berg the preacher. Amen.

Now, Stephen, so he does this menial tasks that look after the

widow's, look after the, what Taskmaster doing this is just

anything that you can do and God is going to use you, and the

church starts to get built and then he starts to send these

people out. Amen.

In the most amazing ways, then Stephen dies, he preaches,

unbelievable, sermon and actually doing, but we're going

through x x 7, and verse 54. He preaches incredibly and he

says, when they heard this, they were Furious, Yes.

And they gnashed their teeth at him, but Stephen Full of the

Holy Spirit, not Stephen the preacher, but Stephen Full of

the Holy Spirit looked up to heaven.

And he saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand

of God. I love that scripture.

I think I hope one day. I'll do something.

That's worthy of Jesus. Standing up for me.

I don't think I have yet. But one day, I want Jesus to

stand up for me when I'm in the face of unbelievable opposition.

And I decide not to back down and we decided to hold our stand

against a society that is infiltrating into the godliness

of the character of the king that called us that we'll be

able to stand and say, no, we're not going to let this go any

further. And he looked after him and he

saw the glory of God and the glory of God in Exodus, 34 says

he is patient and gracious and compassionate and slow to anger,

and abounding, in love with a bounding and faithfulness,

maintaining love to thousands, forgiving wickedness, rebellion,

and sin. And when he looked up into the

night sky and he saw Jesus, he looked at all these people who

are throwing stones at him and he said, father, forgive them.

Don't hold this against them. I want to be a guy that can

absorb a stone without having to react always on edge ready to

punch Oaks cutoff taxis, shocked at taxis, or just absorb the

stone. We want to build a church that

can absorb a stone and give back what God gave to us.

Forgiveness. Amen.

At this, they covered the ears and yelling at the top of their

voices. They all rushed at him, dragged

him out of the city and began to Stone him.

Meanwhile, the witnesses laid their clothes at the feet of a

young man named Saul while they were stoning him.

Stephen prayed Lord. Jesus receive my spirit.

Then he fell on his knees and he cried out.

Lord, do not hold this sin against them.

We need said this, he fell asleep.

And soul was there giving approval to his death.

My new got baptized today. One of them.

I won't tell you his name. He says, do not worry for 30

years. I had absolutely zero.

Feeling about God or church? Nothing zero.

And he said a few weeks ago, a lady started bringing me to

church and I came, as you know, it was the last building, nice

group of people but I felt nothing went to whom we felt

nothing and on Monday night, he said something happened in my

heart. Today, I got baptized.

You see you see when you you can just be witnessing, you can

actually be a for no reason then because you came on holiday and

you and your people, you staying with brought you to church and

you just sitting here thinking, what is this thing?

Big-screen loud, music entertainment.

What is this thing? If this thing is real, put a

seed inside of your heart. And one day we'll have to

respond to that seed. On that day, a great persecution

broke out against the church at Jerusalem and all except the

apostles say all except the apostles were scattered

throughout Judea and Samaria. Godly men, buried Stephen and

mourned deeply for him. But so began to destroy the

church going from house to house.

He dragged off men and women and put them in prison friends.

The people that were meant to go with the apostles. the people

that ended up staying with the apostles, and the problem with

the church is that we so interested in building our own

facility that we stopped going, where God wants us to go and the

church becomes an inward looking Self inclined.

Self-medicating group of people that will eventually implode on

itself because it wasn't meant to exist for itself.

It was meant to exist for the benefit of other people.

And actually what happens is that not through blessing that

people go out. That actually is to be

persecution because God thought I will never get these guys to

leave Jerusalem and less a riot breaks out and lesser

persecution breaks out. And while you're going through

difficulties, now, don't say God.

We are, you must ask God, where do you want me to be?

Because God will persecute the church.

God will bring up a position against the church and it's the

heroes that go out men like Stephen men, like, Philip God

says, to us students here, every single year.

We get a new batch of students are just want to have them for

four years. I want to teach them about

Jesus. I want to teach them about the

father. I want to teach them about the

holy spirit that when they get sent out wherever they go, they

will carry Christ with them. I meant and an exit.

He says through persecution that go to Judea and Samaria.

If you go back to the book of exercise, you will be my

Witnesses in Jerusalem, Judea Samaria uttermost parts of the

world. And we think that God is going

to give us a beautiful building, he's going to give us lots of

people and then we're going to have lots of money.

We get no, no, no, no, it's not tell you what this is going to

be opposition that hits the church when the opposition comes

my glory is going to go out to the Earth.

So phrase is not a pain free ride Christianity.

It's not a fancy building Christianity.

It's actually just being obedient when God speaks and

most of it comes from persecution.

Most of it comes. We're stays Baptist puts it.

Well, she case. Was it, you?

Why did you stand? So if, you know, case, but sir,

you think cause, but this is this is pizza.

He's grandfather played the Springbok rugby case and in

these yakub and Pete encased and then this case Baptist.

But sir I've got a message yesterday.

Lost Sunday off that preached. Hello Pastime in your church I

mean Hospital. I'm fighting cancer.

I've just had a major colon operation and in the spread into

my organs but I want to tell you his family, the pizza family are

on high alert. Now they preaching Christ,

they're trusting God they they want a miracle, I meant and

we're going to trust with him. So reach out your hands, the

case that the Spitzer and every time you drop off Sky spits at

Motors. Just remember, there's another

case Spitzer in the city, he's a young man, he's a member of our

church. And he's trusting God for

healing. Lord Jesus.

You can stop a whole service of thousands of people because

you're interested in one. And right now, Lord God, we

bring had Heist Baptist before you and also for almost a father

for hints in Canada and focus on Tate.

We ask you Lord. God.

The Bible says, we cannot malign your word.

We cannot bring malignancy against your word, Lord, God

malignancy can't stand in the face of your word.

Lord! God.

And so we declare your word. Over this young, man.

Lord God, we declare your power and your grace and your And your

healing Lord God we declare the name of Jesus as it is in

heaven, so shall it be on earth? Lord God and Lord God, I pray

for every sick person as it is in heaven, so shall it be on

earth? Lord God, I pray the name of

Jesus, the name that is more powerful than any other name.

Would touch his body, would heal him.

A bit for them here too. Actually, you must defy the

salya and say, say look, I'm come on.

Doc no you must a father egg fry.

I said belief, you must defy them.

So young first foot The Bible says Lord, the father is greater

than all and no one can snatch us on the fathers and your

muscle father. Sit your haunt room tour meeting

young man. We also healing.

We also power, we ask for Grace, we ask for Authority, we offer

an anointing Lord. God bless the pizza family.

Lord God, every one of them, Lord God, Pete and Yahoo.

And caseload God, and their wives and their children.

Father God. Bless the pizza family Lord, God

bless them. Touchless young, man.

In Jesus name. Amen.

And the next verse says, in verse, for those who had been

scattered preach the word wherever they went Phillips, A

Philip turned to the person next to you say, you Philip, You

Steven? You're not, Rory.

You're not darling Berg. I just say it guys, because it's

the mindset is, the mindset is will come to church, in will be

fed by somebody who stands in the Pulpit.

I can't do it. I am not the, my job.

This is half-time. You busting your guts.

Are you sweating? And you tackling big people and

you come on a Sunday to be refreshed to be encouraged to be

strengthened by the word of God so that you can go out and do

what God called you to do. He didn't call you to this.

There's a half-time. This is to get filled with the

spirit so you can go and sell. Amen, you go and heal and lay

hands on the sick, like Stephen and Philip just ordinary.

Men waiting on tables you hon and we ate pizza and I'm a rinda

Karina. You should have seen those

plates, the best, Cutlery, the brace Crockery.

And he 70, or just eating, I thought you don't even know

who's serving you. Amen.

So Philip goes to Samaria. Say Samaria.

You know, you know, a little bit earlier because Jesus goes into

Samaria and and he sends his disciples ahead and and he says,

go and prepare a place and this is the Samaritans won't accept

us. So the disciples say, well let's

call fire down on them in, obliterate them.

It's like no frequents, guys, don't lock me.

Well, let's call fire down on them and just obliterate the

booth or Rory, you can do what Jesus did in Luke chapter 4.

Luke 4 · chapter mention

All he walked into Samaria and he found a woman and he just

loved her and he tried to find a point of contact, and he says,

who's your husband says, I don't have a husband.

She's right? You've been married five times

and the man, you are living with now, is not your husband, but

I'm the seventh man. I'm the perfect man.

I will show you what wholeness looks like, and he actually

takes somebody who's completely different to make them whole and

then his disciples. A little call fire down on them

or we can learn about Jesus and make people that are different

to us. Whole And so, then God starts to

send people to us. And now we've got black people

and white people. And young people old people in

English people and Afrikaans people and we using our

resources to make each other whole, Yeah.

And then a survival breaks up. So, what I want to preach about

his 26. Now, an angel of the Lord said

to Philip go, say, go go, south to the road, the desert road

that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza, so he starts it out.

And on his way, he emitted, Ethiopian eunuch You know what

are you? Nick is Baba Keys Bala OG is

Bala. Bucky's.

Vietnamese ain't like your bologna office when a Bucky with

ebola. But let's have a look here in

itself. A look at you throwing me, 23,

if you can put it up to you for me, please, let's read it

together. No one.

Let's read it together. Who has been emasculated by say

crashing, feel it You ladies got no idea.

You have got no idea. You just have to ask a

cricketer. But to put a you got in the

Bible, so don't worry. No one who has been emasculated

by Crossing Sai crushing feel it or cutting say cutting.

Shop now bluntness hello. May enter the Assembly of the

Lord. You can't come in.

It's already. Why do you preach?

It's in the Bible. Because I want to tell you, they

many people in this room today we have been crushed or cut.

Buy something. Crushed by life.

Crushed by relationships crushed by your upbringing, cut off from

your family cut off from an inheritance.

So, what's in the scripture? So God takes Philip who's in the

middle of a Revival? This is like a Revival Happening

Here. It's like a Revival.

Wait, all these people come from, I don't know.

Survival happening, God takes it from this.

He says, are you still prepared Rory or anybody are you still

prepared to leave the big meeting and go to one person who

desperately needs help? That's the beauty of the Bible.

So he started out. And on his way, he met an

Ethiopian eunuch, and important Fishel in charge of all the

treasury of Candace, Financial Minister.

Queen of the Ethiopians. This man is gone to Jerusalem to

worship and on his way home, he was sitting in his Chariot

reading the book of Isaiah, the prophet, the spirit told Philip

go to that Sheraton State near it, in Philip ran to the Chariot

and heard the man reading as either profit.

Do you understand what you're reading?

Philip asked, how can I he said, Unless someone explains it to

me. So invited Philip to come up and

sit with them. The unique was reading the

passage of scripture, he was led like, a sheep to the slaughter,

and as a lamb before, the Shearer is silent.

So he did not open his mouth in his humiliation.

He was deprived of Justice, who can speak of his descendants for

his life was taken from the earth.

The unicast Phillip tell me please who is the prophet

talking about himself or someone else.

Then Philip began with that. Very passage of scripture say

that very passage of scripture. Philip began with that, very

passage of scripture and told him the good news about Jesus.

He's had his testicles cut off. He's a black man.

He's deeply longing for some form of meaning, he's got money.

So he's uses his money to get to Jerusalem, to see if he can

actually find out the purpose of life, because he can't have

children. He can't have a family, he's

unbelievably lonely. He doesn't know what the purpose

of life is man, is not made him happy.

Black people have been ostracized and is gone, and

there's is there anybody who can give me meaning and he's been

there and he obviously didn't get the mini because he's

leaving Jerusalem, he's going back to Ethiopia.

He's got the bomb. He says, can anybody please

explain to me what's going on here?

I'm black, I'm sterile, I've got money but I've got no purpose

and I desperately need somebody to explain to me.

What is my life about? Then Philip began with that.

Very passage of scripture. And told him the good news about

Jesus as they traveled along the road.

They came to some water and the eunuch said, look here is water

why shouldn't I be baptized? Say that with me.

Why shouldn't I be baptized? I want you to ask that question

today I'm going to preach for another 12 minutes and then I

want to ask you this question, rich people black people young

people old people. People stare all people.

Fruitful, people, I want to ask you this question.

Why shouldn't you be baptized today?

In your Imani. With your makeup and your

eyelashes. So, let's go to the scripture,

you must have had the whole book of Isaiah.

Let's go to Isaiah 53. He must have had the whole book

of Isaiah in front of him and any any sitting there and he's

trying to make sense of it and if it doesn't come up, it

doesn't matter. Just just go and read it when

you get home and he must have started in the beginning of us.

I have 53 who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm

of the Lord been revealed who grew up before him like a tender

shoot. He had no beauty or Majesty to

attract us to him. Nothing in his appearance that

we should desire him friends. We've just got pastors who are

getting more and more slick. They've got the best shoes.

The best clothes the best. Everything they put makeup on.

They stand on the stage representing a Jesus.

It had absolutely nothing. That is attractive to man, and

we put on a bigger and bigger size, they come to our show,

come to our music, come to our building, come to Echo, this

stuff is worth nothing. If we do not have the power of

God in the spirit of God, it doesn't matter how the past

addresses and we are putting on some form of religion.

If you look successful As You Wish as you close, then we're

going to build something that is eternal friends.

Jesus had nothing that attracted us to him, nothing.

And all of a sudden the eunuchs reading this and you think I've

got nothing. I can't have a family, nobody's

attracted to me. I've everything's been cut off.

And if you say, what does that mean?

Rory, it means your testicles were crushed and your sexual

organ was cut off. That's what it means.

And now, this unique is sitting thinking, where am I going to

find meaning? And it takes Philip a man.

Like, you a man in the marketplace, a man who's just

busy honoring God, wherever you might be to sit next to him.

And say, let me explain to you sir about Jesus.

Let me explain to you about him and then he would have kept

reading, friends, if you can put it up on the board, He was

despised and rejected. Surely, surely, he took up our

infirmities and carried our sorrows yet.

We considered him stricken by God Smitten by him and Afflicted

next verse. But he was pierced for our

transgressions and he was say it say it.

Can you imagine what the Ethiopian is feeling?

He was crushed for my iniquities.

And he's sitting there thinking I'm crushed, I'm not just in his

testicles, he's Christ. He's looking for meaning.

Say, where do I find it? He says, let me tell you about

my savior, he was crushed. So that anybody who comes to 3ci

on the 2nd of July, 20 23, Whoever has crushed you.

However, you were crushed sexually, emotionally,

relationally, financially. If you work rest, I want to tell

you about my savior who was crushed for you.

Said, he will take your crush and he will give you his

wholeness. And he must have just look up.

Can you keep reading please Kate.

Can you just can you just keep reading?

Look at verse 10 yet. It was the Lord's will to crush

him. And caused him to suffer.

It's not the Lord's will to cause any man to be barren.

So somebody said it was a person's world to crush somebody

so they could serve in the market.

This is my son. Come my son, come here.

This is my son. This is my this is my last

blind. Son.

This this boys smell intoxicates me, intoxicated me.

You know what? It says, it says it was the

Lord's will do you know what it says, in one of the Bible, it

says it pleased the Lord to crush him.

I cannot put any form of pressure on my son's head and

so, my father, heart starts protecting him.

There is no ways that I can ever cause my son pain.

There is no ways and as soon as I think God you did that on

purpose. Why?

Because there was a Ethiopian eunuch, he got crushed by human

beings. Beings.

And I had to crush my son so that I can pull him out of that

and make him whole and there are people in your church, Rory on

the 2nd of July that have been crushed and I want you to preach

the gospel So that actually, they can get saved and they can

get healed and they no longer have to be embarrassed about

their crushing. Hey man.

Isaiah 54. He's still with me, just follow.

It's okay, so it's okay. I'm so pleased, you had today.

The unit may not be Christian, Afrikaans means at least there.

Sing O barren woman. You never bought a child burst

into song. Shout for Joy.

You who are never in labor because more the children of the

desolate woman, that of who has a husband, just keep an eye on

the boat, don't show my face. What's more embarrassing in

society for a man to be sterile for a woman to be sterile.

Much more embarrassing for a woman to be sterile.

She has to walk away your children.

I don't have any children. Why don't you have any children?

I'm Barren men can get away with the we can just walk and carry

on and you can sleep around. And if you stare out, it's

awesome. You just never make anyone

pregnant. But for a woman to be Barren, is

is a societal. Stigma.

And then he starts hitting it, and it's in the first thing.

He says, after Jesus died, sing O barren, woman, you think.

But that's opposite. What we should do, Barren, women

don't think barren woman grieve and God says, no sing and, and

the Ethiopians thinking flap, if a battered woman, can sing then

surely I can sing This is just the womb.

This is a Barren womb or Barren room.

And, and we can do nothing. Not Rory, not it.

Not Stephen, not the elders, we can do nothing.

And then God, starts to impregnate the church, and it

says, more of the sons of the barren woman.

He bought his mate last week. You know why you here?

Because God impregnated, our church with your seed, he sent

you here. You are a son that we cannot

birth but God can birth. And then we met a guy at a

wedding and because the spirit of God is inside of us, we start

to share. He said I'll come once and so he

comes once. And every single person, here is

a miracle that is not borne by the cleverness of human beings.

But has been sent here by the one who's in heaven, that

impregnates, the barren womb. And all of a sudden this Unix

looking and thinking flip, I can actually have a family, it's

called the church, it's called the church.

And when I look around here, I don't say I'll caught boast of

bread because every one of you is a gift from God into a Barren

womb because God wants to show people that despite being

question, cut off, we can still be fruitful Are you with me

friends and applies to your business and applies to your

marriage and applies to your relationships?

Sing, O, barren woman, you never bought a child.

That's why the church sings because actually God came and

touched our hearts. You never were in labor because

more the children of the desolate woman of who has a

husband, says, the Lord. Enlarge the place of your tent.

Start building. Bigger God wants to bless you

for your maker. Is your husband This guy would

never be married, he would never understand Covenant, never,

you'll never know. Covenant and and and now there's

this broken marriage and some of you are sitting here.

You've broken marriages, your husband has deserted.

You says your husband of your youth.

Some of you got married, young, and your husband has deserted

you and God says, I will be your husband.

I will be your husband. I will look after you.

Some of you has been served a dance and all of a sudden, you

come into this place and you think I am not capable of

entering into a covenant relationship.

Because I am so maimed and I'm crushed and I'm cut.

And God says, I'll be your husband.

I will teach you about Covenant. I will come and be your maker.

I will be your hope. I will be your And all of you

ladies that are crying, you understand this because when

your husband left you became Barren, God says I will be your

husband. Philip is preaching this a Let's

look at chapter 8 chapter 55. We nearly done.

Sorry. I know it's a bit long.

Please just be with He's a financial Minister.

A he is the Minister of finances.

Of the nation and it says, come all you who are thirsty, come to

the waters and you have got no money, come buy and eat, come

buy wine and milk without money and without cost and the

financial director of the country is thinking it will

never work economically. Is going to be a process.

Otherwise we're going to go bankrupt and God says no I'm

going to throw a feast. It's going to cost you.

Nothing must come. and for all of you that are put in spirit,

And pull in relationships. And pour through experience.

I want to invite you today to come.

And to eat, and to drink water, and to drink wine.

And to drink milk water refreshes.

You one, makes you celebrate tree and milk, makes you

sustainable. And, and he says, come in this,

this Ethiopian eunuch must have thought flip.

I can sing I can be in Covenant. No marriages.

I can be invited to a meal where I'm only excluded from.

I can actually come close to the people of God.

Chapter 56. Please let no Foreigner.

Who's bound himself to the Lord. Say the Lord will surely exclude

me from his people and let not any eunuch complain.

I'm only a dry tree. Nobody is excluded from the

church. It doesn't matter how you've

been crushed. It doesn't matter how you've

been cut. Nobody is excluded from the

church. The next verse please verse 42,

the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths.

We choose what? Pleases me and hold fast to my

Covenant. Did them, I will give it in my

temple and its walls and Memorial and a name better than

sons and daughters. Stand up my son and my other

son. My daughter.

I gave you a name named James. I gave you a name.

Nausea. You took your sin and you gave

it to her. That there is no more powerful

thing than a dad names. You Nessie a miracle of God.

James, the one who was on his knees, crying out for the things

of God Joshua. He said, I tell you what, I'll

give you a name better than the names of sons and daughters.

And look at the next verse says and I'll give them an

everlasting name, that will not be say it.

Say, it will not be. Cut off human beings, can cut

you, but God will never cut you off.

No man who has been crushed. Or cut into the Assembly of God,

but Jesus was despised and rejected and crushed for our

iniquities. It pleased the Lord to crush

him. It pleased the Lord to crush

them. So sing O barren woman.

You never bought a child. Come Close.

Those who have been deserted by relationships, come close, come,

and eat of this meal. I want to tell you, you'll never

be crushed. You'll never be cut off.

You'll get a name that is better than the name of son and

daughter and his responses. Why shouldn't I be baptized?