Exercising Your Rights

The Lord's good in it come on give him the best praise give him the best praise

Hallelujah so good to see you in the house of the Lord. We finally hit that and he did about right

He man to have your Bibles if you can find it turn to first Chronicles

May have to go to the index to get there but we're looking first Chronicles one verse chapter 12

verse 32

I get into the dilemma when I get to play I get caught up I just about soon play his preach until the preach hits me then I'm done playing I'm through playing now

so good to see you today

just from my moving about the room this morning

I think if you respond to what you about to hear I think the Lord's going to do something

verse 32 chapter 12 first Chronicles and of the children of Iskar which were men that had understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do

the heads of them were 200 and all their brethren were at their command

I want to speak to you just for a little while this morning exercising your rights

I'm about to exercise my right to get somebody open that door let me sling this toward the parking lot

see I'd be one of you I have my struggles to you anybody have struggles

there's there's a few things that I have zero tolerance for

and I'll grab another for tolerate much exercising your rights

Father we love you Lord I need your help this morning for your goodness and your mercy

what a wonderful atmosphere here your presence is with us

Father I pray that we have ears to hear what you're speaking to the church this morning Lord I need your help

I need your help preach what is expedient to the hearing of the body pleasing to you

edifying to the body may we be built up lifted today in Christ's name

the church said a man and a man just a little backstory I know just pulling that verse out doesn't tell you a whole lot

but David's been anointed king

mighty men are coming to him you read that 11th and 12th chapter you will see some of the character of the men that are serving

with and under David

and in the listing from the tribes of the people are the sons of Iscar

who had an understanding of the times and had wisdom in knowing what to do

for you and I understanding our rights and troubled times is important

understanding what's available to you as crisis arises in your life

will help you be the overcomer that God has called you to be

how many times have you come into contact with someone running to someone that you know maybe hadn't seen him for a while

and you pose the question hey how you doing how many of you said that this morning

hey how are you doing many times the reply that we get if we were honest with ourselves is really not what we were wanting to know

so what we may ought to do sometimes is find another salutation another greeting

because truth be known you really don't have the time for me to tell you how I'm doing

hello

and we'll throw that out there and then when somebody really wants to tell you how you doing you in a hurry and we brush them off

and we go well man I hate that for you and we gone

people begin to say things that aren't going well

they begin to tell you their backs against the wall they're hurting all over the egg well you know I got it and then here it just begins to spill out

man things are just turned negative and am I young and this or that young and that or this or that

and they begin to unload on you and try to really tell you how things are going but deep down we're really not interested

why because we got our own stuff going on

a lot of times someone begins to pour out and you ask that question and they begin to pour out and you're thinking if you'll catch your breath I'll tell you how I'm doing

because many times they'll say oh I'm good I'm good I'm fine man I'm great you know we're lying right behind our face

we got this facade hanging out here and say oh how you doing oh I'm good how you doing haven't seen you in a while oh I'm great

and we're thinking oh hell is blowing up at my place

devil is using my house for a welcome mat and we'll just put that grin on and go right on about our day

but that's not what you have to do you don't have to subject yourself to that you don't have to live under those circumstances

you don't have to feel like you've been thrown around like a dog

an old rag doll somewhere or wore out dish rag you just slung around no that's not who you are that's not what God has redeemed you for

you're not some play toy of the enemy are you with me this morning?

how many of you's ever had a little cat in the house and it caught a little mouse and you've seen it just toy with it and just play with it

the little mouse try to get it I've seen cats do that in barn yards and they'll catch one and they'll just turn it loose and they'll just keep catching it

ring it back like the mouse actually thinks he has an opportunity to get away it ain't gonna happen

no no when the cat gets tired of playing it's over

can I tell you that's what the devil tries to do in our lives he tries to mess around and toy and play around with your emotions and your feelings

and your family he tries to disrupt he tries to steal he tries to kill he tries to destroy

and if it would be his will he'd play with you till he's done with you and he will kill you and leave you laying right where he found you

but that's not God's plan for your life and you and I must understand our rights and times of trouble

there's something we have to get a grip on and that is you are a child of God we've sung it this morning

you're not a play toy of the enemy your emotions is not some place for him to toy around with but you are a blood-bought born again

I'm telling you blood-washed child of God and that gives you some authority that gives you some rights

and you and I have to learn to exercise those rights for many believers today many face challenges in life with life through life and of life

so many obstacles that they face day in and day out trials tribulations they are going to come into our lives

as the old cliche declares it a little rain must fall in every life at some point we know that the Bible tells us that

it's going to rain on the just and it's going to rain on the unjust but I'm here to tell you I'm not some lioness going around with a cloud

hanging over my head and it rain every day of my life I'm looking for the sun of the joy of the Lord to begin to rain down on me

I need a little ray of his glory I need a little ray of his sunshine I need a little ray of peace and I am refusing to walk under the cloud

of the downpour of a debit downer and a devil who doesn't want joy to be in my life I'm going to exercise the right I have

yes life is difficult yes life presents itself with problems and trouble but it does happen to us all but even though I'm in trouble

I am not in trouble alone you are not in trouble alone you have not been forsaken everybody in this world may forsake you

but he that is out of this world but yet is present in this world will never leave you and he will never forsake you

so take joy in knowing let others turn their back and walk away but Jesus will be walking towards you to let you know

you don't have to live a downtrodden life it is he who has come to give you joy and to give you peace

let the devil try to steal let the devil try to kill let the devil try to destroy Jesus's declaration is that I have come

that you might have life honey and that you might have it more abundantly

I'm ready for some abundant living how about you

right according to Webster's dictionary right is something to which one has a just claim the power or privilege

to which one is justly entitled you need to get this in now something that one may properly claim as due

can you not already hear good preaching coming out of a Daniel Webster dictionary

can you not already hear some things you have a just claim to something there is the power or the privilege to which one is justly

entitled something that one may properly claim as due well I'm here to tell you I'm entitled to some things as a child of God

you're entitled to some things as a child of God there's some things do your life according to the promises of the word

I'm not talking about getting outside the book I'm actually talking about getting in the book and staying inside the book

there are some things that rightly belong to you as a child of God

understanding basics of rights there's the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

which is recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family

it's the foundation of freedom justice and peace in the world it establishes that everyone has the right to life

are you hearing me liberty and security of person it states that no one shall be held in slavery or servitude

no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel inhumane and degrading treatment or punishment

everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law that's the right simply of just being a human being

that sounds like a pretty good deal and we live under those and we exercise daily under those

there's also civil rights there's political rights there's economic rights social and cultural rights there's women's rights

there's religious rights there is what is called the Miranda rights maybe some of you have been here have heard them

maybe some of you have heard those Miranda rights personally aren't you glad you have them

if it didn't work out good for you you're in here today amen

I mean it's whole card hard cold facts of reality look around the room we're not all perfect

we've not all been perfect but we are who we are today because of the mistakes that we made

and the grace of God that has redeemed us from our mistakes and for many of the rest of us

had it not been for a four wheel drive truck and an exit up a bank on the side of the highway

others of us would have been read our Miranda rights I just barely got away

that's the only difference between me and somebody that had theirs read they got caught I didn't

I didn't realize that until I was coming over Montaigle Mountain doing 88 in what was a 55

didn't know it was 55 the little thing on the dash said police ahead twice I said where can it be

sitting going down Montaigle Mountain well he found a spot about halfway down when we got pulled over

he come up to me he said sir do you know how fast you're going and I said yeah I was doing this

he said no that was after you touch the brakes yes sir it might have been because I didn't look down

until I touched him you know I'm saying he said do you realize I could take you to jail I said no sir

I did not and we got serious real quick

it's a longer story because I didn't have wallet I didn't have license I didn't have proof of insurance

and I didn't know that until he asked for it and it dawned on me it was in my truck sitting in the parking lot

of the Daisy Church of God where I'd met some other preacher you see we struggled together

he said well that's okay if you'll just write your social security number down right here I'll find out what you got

I said yes sir and I don't give my social security number out but I didn't want to hear those Miranda rights either

I may have bought some things I don't realize but that's okay I didn't go to jail

there's rights we have rights before you can be interrogated

I have to read you these rights you have the right to be silent

there's law enforcement in this room and there's you know what the rest of those are if you can't afford an attorney they'll get you one

you have rights if you're not informed of those rights

whether you were caught red-handed or not if your rights are violated you could be released

oh you see what we're about to go here the rights of a child of God

Elton Trueblood wrote this he said it used to be that Christianity was a revolutionary faith

that turned the world upside down but today Christians sit in Sunday morning church services looking at their watches

wondering what time dinner will be served or thinking about the kickoff that is up to come

and we hope that church will interfere with the things we would rather really be doing

those individuals in that situation and condition are not concerned about their right as a child of God

but you take someone when crisis comes in when crisis begins to overwhelm when the enemy as the scripture says comes in like a flood

and the flood is about to go over their head and the flood is about to rush through the home and the torrent of life is about to carry them away

then that person who is here not worrying about lunch or dinner or these other things they are listening for what can I take a hold of

what is my right as a child of God in this situation and that person is looking that when the flood begins to come

and the waters begin to rise they are looking for the standard that stands against it that thing that is not moved

that thing that is established that the waters and the flood of life have to go around and I'm telling you it is Jesus Christ the righteous

who is the standard of our hope and of our life and no matter what torrent no matter what flood begins to come into our life

I am a Christian today who is still looking for that invading power of Jesus Christ that would avail itself to my situation

and in my current circumstance that I understand the right that I have and the first right that you and I have as a child of God

is we have the right to call upon him at any point at any moment and at any time you have the right to call on the Lord

how so Jeremiah 33 3 calling to me this is the Lord speaking calling to me and I will answer you

he is not just going to answer he said I will show you great and mighty things which you have no clue about

that is the waters parallel paraphrase I will show you great and mighty things that you cannot think of I will show you

God said I will show up in your situation and I will reveal myself like you have never seen before

I am going to reveal but all you have to do is call upon me oh I am so glad that the Bible gives me an invitation

I am so glad that the Father of Glory offers unto me an invitation that I can call when crisis comes

when I don't know which way to go when I don't know what to do when I can't figure it out he says call unto me

and I will answer you and I am not just going to answer you but I am going to reveal I am going to show myself

and great and mighty things I will show you that you have no thought of call on the Lord

so many times when we get in crisis we call everybody but the Lord until all human effort is exhausted

then we turn to the Lord but I say we need to be like old King Hezekiah when the enemy surrounds the city

and sends that letter in well you might as well forfeit you might as well give up you might as well surrender

Hezekiah takes the letter and he goes directly to the house of the Lord and not only did he go into the house of the Lord

but he opened up the disregard of the enemy and read it to the Lord this is what they are saying

he came he took it to the Lord and he prayed my my my what a novel idea for the child of God

you can call upon the Lord in your time of need but you have to be mindful to know that that is the first place that you go

take it to the Lord oh take it to what the old songwriter said take it to the Lord in prayer and leave it there and leave it there and leave it there

the psalm said in four and one hear me when I call oh God of my righteousness you have enlarged me when I was in distress

have mercy upon me and hear my prayer that is how you do it hear my prayer that is how you do it the Lord says call and that is how you call

great example Lord I am in trouble down here you have helped me before you have made my way before you have got me out of a tight place before

you have enlarged my going you have opened up a way for me before but I am in need again how many I laid on that altar for about 45 minutes yesterday

and I said Lord here I am again in need of prayer I need you I need you I need you I need you Lord I need to hear you

I am calling on you today I am crying out to you today because I need you Lord and then I began to think about you upon your seat

imagining your faces so it is difficult for when you move around now I have got to put you in another spot when I pray for you

that is alright as long as I see you I will get where you are and so when I am laying before the Lord I said Lord they need you

they need you your people need you give me something for them Lord stir my heart for your people Lord and then hear it here it comes

understand your rights in trouble time exercise your right the Lord said if you will call unto me I will answer you

that invitation carries over into the New Testament Matthew 11 28 come unto me

all you that labor and are heavy laden I will give you rest well that is all I need

I just need somebody to help me understand my rights hello if you are going to Miranda and me let me know what my rights are

you have got a right to counsel you have got a right to keep your mouth shut for anything you say can and will

so be careful right oh hear me child of God that is what the enemy tries to do against you and I

he tries to keep our mouths closed in crisis he tries to get you to internalize crisis he tries to get circumstances

that are coming against you for you to turn it back in towards yourself but hear this preacher this morning you have got no business

dealing with the issues of life God said call unto me Jesus said come to me if you are over laden if the load is too heavy

just bring it to me because my load is he said take my yoke upon you oh take it on you yoke up with me for my burden is light

hallelujah oh there is peace there is peace in him there is peace that is the right that you have to call and to come unto him

some said in 18 and 3 I will call upon the Lord then he makes his declaration who is worthy to be praised here is a faith

declaration so shall I be saved for my enemy there is faith out of crisis I can hear him I will call upon the Lord he is the one

that is worthy to be praised and in the middle of my circumstances I call upon the one who is worthy so my God shall I be saved

from my enemy somebody needs to hear it this morning you feel like your enemy is breathing down your neck but I double dog dare you

to call upon the name of the Lord he who is worthy to be praised and watch the declaration of the salvation of the Lord

whoo hear what the Lord said in Psalm 50 verse 15 and call upon me in the day of trouble another invitation when you understand what your rights are

Psalms 50:15

I am choosing my right to invoke counsel I am choosing my right to invoke counsel we watch them cop shows and they get in that room

that interrogate room they don't be mirandized they start hammering them with questions and the smart one look at them and say lawyer

shut her down can I tell you you have a lawyer you have a propitiation for your situation can I tell you this morning if you will call upon him

he will deliver you out of the midst of your trouble God said call upon me in the day of trouble I might deliver you no that's not what the

word of the Lord says call on me in the day of trouble and I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorify me that's the reason I get so bent out

of shape he showed up in my day of trouble and he took me out he brought me he delivered

me he set me free some 55 16 y'all okay as for me the summer said I will call upon God

and I will say the Lord shall save me

86 15 the summer says for thou Lord are good

ready to forgive for now will answer me

our cries your cries your calls don't go in vain

they're not in vain your prayers are not in vain

last week we talked about positioning right getting into position you pray your way into the reality of the answer and you keep praying

until it shows up can I tell you I've got far more grace to get me through than I ever got grace to get me out

and it really doesn't matter whether I'm through or out either way it's behind me

somebody needs to think about that it doesn't matter if he has that grace to you when your weakest moment like he did old Paul

when he's declaring and testifying I prayed three different times and I know he prayed more than three times if he had a problem

I was bothering him as bad as this problem seemed to be but I think what Paul is saying he said I believe I prayed through three times

I believe I touched heaven and I still didn't get my healing I still didn't get my deliverance I still didn't get the remedy for what I needed

and on that third time then I hear this voice from heaven saying Paul Paul my grace is sufficient for you

that through your weakness I'm gonna add grace and strength to you I'm gonna get you through you may have to grab a plank and float to shore

but you're gonna come through my god you may be like oh Philip he may translate you the next 40 mile it doesn't matter where he picks you up

and carries you over or gives you grace to float through just so long as you come out on the other side my god you're coming out child of God

you're coming understand your rights when you call upon the Lord exercise

9115 the psalm says he called upon me this is the Lord speaking

he called upon me I will answer him I will be with him in trouble I will deliver him and honor him

you just gotta call on him you gotta call on him you gotta trust him you gotta have confidence that he is able

Romans 10 12 through 14 for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek for I will answer him

there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek for the same Lord over all is rich under all that call upon him

aren't you glad that you don't have to be in a certain socioeconomic class to be able to call upon the Lord

aren't you glad of that aren't you glad you don't have to be in a certain demographic of racial equity for the ability to call upon the Lord

aren't you glad you don't have to be all the same color race creed amen to call upon the Lord because whoever calls on him shall be saved

hey my god I'm so glad it doesn't matter what the world begins to condemn with you're not this but you're that you can't be here because you're there

but I'm glad that wherever I am there he is also if I can just get to the three degree and gather with me in his name his presence will come be and abide with us there

and I can exercise my right as a child of God

you know we have certain rights available to us in times of economic disparity

that's a fancy way to say when you broke

I figured we're a real power play that we did with my little real

it doesn't matter

but economic challenges

when you have rights as a child

as a child

the summer said my father owns

cattle

or files and he was

in what he said

I wish it would look a bit further than the spirit would inspire them

and declare that the heels are he is

as well

as the

that matter the hardship

that we face some

that's faithful to his word to his children

is faithful to his word to his children

if you if you just go be a runaway he will

be able to do much

you'll be seeing

hello

he doesn't play a scene

you'll bless your sense of your sin and you might hold off on that prayer

because only prayer he's listening for is I repeat

exercise your right to repeat

he will release

the blessing

back to our definition

something that you can lay a proper claim on

as a child of God you can lay proper claim

to the promises of God

which are

and a man

that's your right

as a child

we have rights for the pins for 19 but my God just a plow

according to his riches in glory by

Christ Jesus

that you read all through the text of God that bless laziness

slothfulness

bulls quiet

man will work take care of his own family according to the scripture

is worse than an infidel

according to the book

well you can't judge I'm not I'm reading the book

it's the book the word of God

Matthew 14 13 through 21 there's five thousand that are fed

they've been out all day

the disciples come to Jesus you need to let them go so they run into town and

use McDonald's or something

I love what the scripture says

they need not depart

is what Jesus said

they're about to exercise

the right

what do you have we just got some

sardines and some crackers basically

we're bringing here

he takes it

he blitzes it

he breaks it he distributes it

five thousand men plus the women children are fed

and when it's all over the set and done with there's twelve

baskets full

that are received after they ate

now get this get that those baskets are important

well why because one of the next miracles you see the baskets are mentioned

they're in a boat storms raging

and the scripture says and they remembered not the fragments

oh my lord the leftovers are just as important

you'll think about this about Thursday you'll say oh

first King 17 you know the story hide that self by the brook chair this story keeps coming up

this is about the first third time in the last two or three months that this keeps coming in

have I not commanded the ravens to feed you rise go to Zarephath I have commanded a widow woman there

chapter 17 verse 16 and the barrel of meal wasted not neither did the cruise of oil fail according to the word of the Lord which he spake by Elijah

second Kings four

there cried a certain woman what shall I do

what's in the house nothing

except a pot of oil

economic crisis cannot withstand the mighty power of God intervening into your life

and he has to speak to a neighbor down the road to drop you off a sack of groceries on your steps you're going to make it

why because you're one of his and your right is to be fed

he said I am the Lord and I am going to take care of you I am the Lord and I will provide for you

he is the Lord who is your provider you belong to him just like we will do any and everything in our power to take care of our children

to make sure they are fed to make sure they're clothed you ought to hear this preacher this morning if you're one of his and you're faithfully serving him

he will not forsake you in your dilemma they may want that threatened to put the wheels under your house and pull it down the road like they did ours one time

but it didn't go out that way it went out the road under wheels but it wasn't a repo my Lord sent a buyer and it was sold and I got out from under the trouble

I'm here to tell you the Lord is going to make a way for you in your economic crisis just cry out call out and trust him

you may be scraping the bottom of the barrel but when you go back tomorrow there will be more to scrape in the barrel

he didn't say the barrel would be full he just said it never would be empty oh my

we're looking for full barrels and we're eating the whole time

wondering why God isn't making a way and the whole time he's made your way

that's what I'm talking about either grace go through or power to take you out

either way God is faithful if you'll trust him

part of our problem we're ready to bail by the time the barrel gets half empty

either he's God or he isn't either his word is true or it isn't what's it going to be

but as a child of God if you get in this and the more of your rights that you commit to your heart

when you call on him all you got to do is quote it

all you got to do is find your promise lay it on an altar somewhere lay it on the foot of your bed on a coffee table

on the couch as you're turned around on your knees and you lay it open you spread it out say Lord here's where you said to call

and here's your promise for my calling I'm one of yours my sins are under the blood and I'm dependent upon you

and I'm going to stand stand stand no wonder the songwriter said standing on the promises of Christ my Savior

my Lord you got to get to the point where the promise is what's your own and understand the right of the promise

that avails itself to you through faith I am trying to hurt

understanding our rights and the diseases of our body for those to be healed some 103

bless the Lord oh my soul and all that's within me bless his holy name bless the Lord oh my soul and forget not all his benefits

who forgives all that iniquities and who healeth all your diseases

who redeems your life from destruction and crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies listen to this one who satisfies

your mouth with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagles

and exodus 1526 to the children of Israel when he tells them what not to do don't follow in the way the gypsies don't follow after their gods don't do this don't do that don't do that

he said because I am the Lord that healeth thee

I declare to you today there's more healing in Christ than simply the wounds of our bodies

how many of our minds have been wounded by life

live tormented day in and day out in our mind but our bodies physically are perfectly well our emotions are tormented he's the God that heals you

first Peter 2 24 who his own self bear our sins in his own body stand with them on clothes on the tree

that we being dead to sin should live under righteousness by whose stripes you were healed

James 5 13 14 is any afflicted and pray for 14 says he needs to come on you let him call for the elders of the church

and the prayer for 16 confession false one another pray one for another that you may be

that you 1414 will take our store for just a moment ago before he feeds that multitude he healed

and Jesus went forth and saw a great multitude was moved with compassion toward them

and he healed their sick acts 31 the lame man laid at the gate called beautiful side the temple

Peter John comes walking at the hour of prayer they see the lame man laying there

and declared him look on us and he looks the scripture says expecting to receive

I guarantee you that old boy wouldn't expect him what he was about to receive

he was looking for lunch money he was looking for supper money he's looking for money to pay rent car payment gas money

that's what he was looking on for but then silver and gold have I not but such as I have give I to the and then here it is

in the name of Jesus rise up he's our healer Luke 619 and their countless others and the whole multitude sought to touch him

the scripture says for their went virtue out of him that word virtue means power and he healed them all

I think before we can exercise our rights we have to understand our need as I read to you this just a touch just a brief touch

of the rights that we have is just simply being human beings but you know for never made aware of our rights

we don't know what we have the potential to receive works that way with the insurance and so many other things

those underlying small print clauses well this is all printed on the same font same size you don't have to strain to look to find

the fine print for what belongs to you in this world yes but not in this book

so when you understand how many of you you've went before you you've had that conversation and to find out what you know you have

this coverage one know I really did you've got some coverage that you may not be aware of today they're seeing coverage

just this morning walking around count I can remember them all prayer request for people in need sick troubles this problem that trial

this need that need and whole time I'm walking around I'm thinking Lord you've lined this up good today I'm thinking I got a word for that today

I hope I delivered it to you you've got rights as a child of God so many more you have rights but where we have to fall is with these

sons of Issa car we have to understand the times and know what to do you have to understand what's going on in your life and know

what to do what do I do first of all you come and you cry out you call out to the Lord if you need healing he's the healer

I just very briefly touch there's so many scripture to tell you your right that's made available where we get caught up as if

God didn't do it the way we tell him to do it huh see were saved yet to be saved explain that I have redemption here below but

this is not my salvation my salvation is when the Lord appears and he delivers me out of it all but my salvation is also current

with me every day because he delivers me through every single day I'm saved yet to be saved the Lord's hand has touched this body

and healed its elements but it become ill again right so I'm healed but there's a healing that is coming because see in our humanity

we think death is the end no not for the rights that belong to the child of God it's simply the beginning and so we get

conflicted when God doesn't do the way we want to but he does the way he wills sometimes the Lord longs for his saints to be with

him rather than me here with us and so he calls them home healed to be healed for one day we shall see him and we shall be

like him we shall see him as he is do you need something from the Lord this morning if you're sick you know somebody that's

sick you want to stand in proxy by faith brother Steve Ridge is in the hospital this morning has had two strokes we're going to

pray for him amen who needs help this morning who needs a test from the Lord come on brother Mickey needs a hand of God on his

life and he's the healing touch of the Lord today he's the healer he's the healer