From Rivalry To Revelation | Evangelist Tyler Smith

Come on, can we give that hand clap unto the Lord this morning?

Oh come on, can we? Be thankful into his name today.

He's doing wonderful. Things, Hallelujah, Hallelujah,

Hallelujah. What an awesome God we serve.

He's truly doing great things around here and I believe this

is an atmosphere. There's an atmosphere of praise,

there's an atmosphere of worship and there's an atmosphere of

expectation in this house and. And I believe in that kind of.

Atmosphere the impossible becomes possible and the

miraculous can happen right here in our midst and love what I

feel in this house today and my God, he's doing great things and

doing great things. It's great honor to be here this

morning and to be here this week.

We give honor to Pastor and Sister McGee.

We do love them and appreciate their leadership and their labor

in the Kingdom of God. And I believe they're deserving

of a hand this morning. We appreciate them very, very,

very much. And take a look around and you

can tell they're making a great impact in the Kingdom of God,

not, not just here this morning, but look around yesterday.

And those things don't happen by accident.

It's a, it's a labor of love. And, and I, I believe your

pastor and his wife and family are evident of individuals that

are laboring for the Kingdom of God so that souls will not be

left behind and not honor you today and appreciate you very,

very, very much. And if you've got your Bibles,

I'd like to take our attention to the book of Genesis.

Genesis chapter #30 I don't know what I've done, but it's.

Just the first service. We just in the will of God, I

guess We're just in the will. Of God I was.

Told a great evangelist. Just picks up where the pastor

left off and so I'm just trying to fulfill the will of God, my

Mama. I don't know what trouble I'm in

already, but come back tonight and maybe we'll see what the

Lord has in store. Genesis chapter 30.

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I'm all while you're turning there, also give honor to my

wife. I love her, appreciate her,

honor her. We just celebrated 8 years of

marriage this week and so I'm so very grateful for her.

God knows she's the only one that can put up with me and and

I honor her and looking forward, I think she told me sometimes

I'm not a good listener and God's helping me.

But I think she told me she's 19 weeks today.

And so we're where am I right? Am I right?

Yeah. So we're so we're about halfway

through. I think she got some some app or

something said that I think he's 6 inches long and I can't

remember. I think he's an ounce now or

something. I'm really not for sure.

But a half a pound, a half a pound I think is what it is.

And she said, I guess that's what I gained this week.

I don't know, but but I love my wife.

I honor her and certainly looking forward to to what God's

going to do with our Son and we're we're excited about that.

And I just believe the Lord has great things in store for us

this week and Genesis. Chapter 30 verse number.

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One, when you're there, shout Amen.

I'm going to do a little bit of reading this morning, but one

man said, if you read plenty of scripture and preach bad, at

least you still go home with the Word.

And so and so this morning I'm just hoping you go home with the

word. Genesis chapter 30, verse #1 The

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Bible says when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob, no children.

Rachel envied her sister and said unto Jacob, give me

children or else I die. Drop with me to verse #8 Rachel

said, with great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister and I

have prevailed. And she called his name Neptula.

Fast. Forward with me two chapters

later genesis 32 and verse #24 the Bible says that Jacob was

left alone and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking

of the day, and when he saw. That he prevailed not.

Against him he touched the hollow of his thigh and.

The Hollow of Jacob. 'S thigh was out of joint as he

wrestled with him. And he said let me go.

For the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee

go, except thou bless me. And he said unto him, What is

thy name? And he said, Jacob.

And he said That name shall. Be called no more.

Jacob but Israel, for as a Prince has thou power with God

and with men, and has prevailed. And Jacob asked him and said,

Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it

that thou doest ask after my name?

And he blessed him there. And Jacob called the name of the

place penal. For I have seen God face to

face, and my life is preserved. We live in a culture that

consistently celebrates competition, but there's got to

be a church that's willing to contend, Jude wrote in his

epistle. He said It was needful me for me

to write unto you, and exhort you, that you should earnestly

contend for the faith that was once delivered unto the Saints.

I want to preach. To us this morning, with the

help of the Lord, from this subject, from rivalry to

revelation, from rivalry to revelations, would you lift your

hands? Would you lift your hearts?

One more time. And would you talk to the Lord

this morning? God, we love you.

We. Thank you

God. Let wisdom and knowledge be

released in this house today. God, God, let's drink.

Come to the great Saints of this congregation.

Lord God. If there's someone here that's

never repented of their sins, never been baptized in your name

and filled with your spirit God, I pray that today would be the

day. God and Lord, we give you glory,

we give you honor, we give you praise today in Jesus.

Name in Jesus name. Come on, would you clap your

hands unto the Lord? Come on, would you give him a

shout of praise? God, we love you.

Lord God, we bless your great name.

In Jesus name, In Jesus name you can be seated this morning.

God bless you. Thank you for so much for being

in the House of the Lord today. Many will tell you that it's

simply a natural. Part of life, the constant

competition in the conflict. Between family members is not a

new thing, it's considered a natural.

Part of life. And that's why I thank God that

I only have one child and hopefully only one.

And if there's a second, it'll be, you'll be just as surprised

as I am. And.

But sibling rivalries, if they're not kept in check, they

can have a very negative impact and a very negative impact on.

Families and we. Find in the pages of the

scripture this morning the story of a rivalry, A sibling war that

leads to a wrestling match. It's the story.

In the story, we find that there's one man and there's two

sisters. This one man goes by the name of

Jacob, and he's found fleeing to his uncle Laban's house.

And it's there that he falls in love with Rachel.

And Rachel is described as being beautiful and well favored.

You can find that in Genesis 29. And because of the beauty and

favor that rests upon Rachel's life, Jacob agrees to work for

seven years to marry her. And it's after years of Labor,

many working days, that the wedding eventually comes in.

A very unfortunate turn of events begins to unfold as Laban

deceives Jacob and instead of Rachel, the beautiful and

favored one that he had worked so tirelessly for, Laban gives.

Him, Leah. Leah is described as being

tender eyed, and some scholars will tell you that this means

that she is emotionally unstable.

And so given this information that we have from the Word of

God concerning Rachel, who is beautiful and favored and Leah

who is tender eyed, it is one of the most terrifying scriptures

that we find in Genesis 29. When Scripture declares that in

the morning, behold, it was Leah.

This this wild weekend wedding gave birth to the roots of this

rivalry that we know today. This is 2 Sisters who now share

a husband, one with his love and the other with his children.

It is the family rivalry. And I believe we'll see today

that this family rivalry has more juice than the Hatfield and

Mccoy's. I believe this family rivalry

has a little more spice than the Kardashians even, but we must

understand that one wild family feud weekend gave birth to a

wrestling match. And I'll just go ahead and say

it this morning. I believe today that there's

some of us that have walked into this house feeling like our

lives have given birth to a wrestling match that we can't

explain. We can't under completely

comprehend what we're feeling on the inside.

We're asking questions like am I ready for this relation with

Jesus? Am I really ready to repent of

my sins, be baptized in Jesus name, filled with the Holy Ghost

and I just believe today that God is going to give us

revelation and revelation is going to be released in this

house. I've been praying God, may you

give unto us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the

knowledge of you. I'm going to tell you this

morning church, you are ready. God is going to finish the work

in your life. The Spirit Word of God is going

to help you to conquer the internal battles that you are

facing. I believe He's going to help you

conquer what you are. Facing in Jesus.

Name. I believe confusion will be

conquered. Chaos will have.

To cease deliverance. Will have to happen in the name

of. Jesus.

In Genesis 30, we find that Rachel said with great

wrestlings. Have I wrestled with my sister?

To the best of my knowledge, Brother McGee might know better

than I do, but Rachel wasn't fighting with her fist.

Rachel wasn't fighting with her hands, if you will, but she was

wrestling emotionally, spiritually, and even mentally.

She was wrestling. And the Bible said with great

wrestlings, have I prevailed with my.

Sister and I have. Prevailed and she called his

name Neptali. Rachel is saying.

I have been in an all out fight. I've been praying unto my God,

but I've been struggling to stay the course.

I've been struggling to stay in the right direction, but

nonetheless, I have prevailed. I have won this wrestling match.

And she called his name. Neptulia.

Understand with me this morning, in the moment, Rachel begins to

feel like she has won, like she has won this match.

But notice with me, the child was not born from her.

It was born from the maid letting us know this is not a

complete victory, that she has one, but this is something that

was born out of a place of desperation.

There's a little bit of triumph in the moment, but can I tell

the church today, sometimes what looks like a win to everybody

else is really a wrestling match on the inside that we haven't

completely surrender to God. Sometimes what looks like a win

isn't really a win. It's a wrestling match on the

inside. Sometimes.

That new relationship, that new job, it looks like a win.

But it's really a. Wrestling match on the inside.

I just believe today. Some folks are wrestling.

With God's plan, with God's purpose, with God's future and

what looks like a win. Is really just a wrestling match

on the inside. Rachel.

Rachel wrestled, and so do we. Rachel wrestled with God's plan,

with God's purpose, and so do we.

So often it's truly evident that Rachel is wrestling.

She's wrestling with her sister Leah.

While she's also wrestling with God's plan.

This is not a. Physical.

Fight. But it's it's an internal and

emotional battle. It's a raging rivalry.

The envy is there, the longing inside is there, the confusion

is there. It's all present.

The arguments are happening as Rachel is wrestling, as Rachel

is thinking that she is prevailing.

Can I tell the church today every wrestling match is not

physical. Some of our greatest struggles

happen in unseen places it's right here in the mind, it's in

the heart I believe it was the right wise writer who would

instruct us that we are to guard our heart with all diligence,

for out of it are the issues of life some of the.

Greatest struggles? Sitting in the sanctuary or in

the unseen places of our mind, in our heart, in our prayers.

And I feel this morning in the Holy Ghost that there's a

wrestling that's happening in our.

Midst that is not. Physical.

Because we're not wrestling against flesh and blood, but

against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of

darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high

places. But I've come to remind you that

in spite of the wrestlings, there is this truth that you are

in the right house, that you are in the right place on a Sunday

morning. In spite of what you're feeling,

in spite of what you're telling yourself, you're in the right

house. You're in the right place.

To receive revelation in spite. Of what you're wrestling.

With. In spite of what you're

struggling with, in spite of what you're telling yourself, I

don't know if I should be in the House of God today.

I'm hurting. I don't feel good.

I'm telling you this morning, you're in the right place.

In spite of how you feel, in spite of what you think people

are thinking about you, you are in the right house.

You are in the right place for somebody to love you, for

somebody to wrap their arms around you.

You. Are in the right house for

somebody. To tell you.

You're going to make it. Your family's going to make it.

The church is going to make it. You are in the right.

Place to receive revelation. In the midst of your wrestling,

Rachel. Thought, thought Leah was her.

Rival. She thought Leah was the

competition the 1:00 to. Compare herself among.

She's the one I need to measure. Myself against she's the.

One that I need. To compare myself with.

I once heard it said that comparison is the thief of joy

and the assassin of identity. Can I tell you, Church, the

truth is when we're wrestling the wrong opponent, it will not

only drain our joy, but there will come a point that we begin

to lose who we really are, who we were really designed to be.

It will calls you to forget who you were created to be in Jesus

Christ. And can I tell you today,

church, we do not obtain what God has for us by constantly

competing with one another. Come on, I cannot just say it

like I want to. If we spend all of our time

wrestling the wrong opponents, it will prevent us from.

Winning in the areas that matter the most?

Come on, God told us to win. In the prayer closet, God told

us to win. In worship, God told us to win.

In the church, God never designed for us to fight one

another. I still believe that rivalries

is the in the church. Is a.

Cancer to church wide revival I still.

Believe if we're constantly competing against one another,

we will not have church wide revival.

And I believe what God has for First Apostolic Church in Mount

Carmel is a church wide revival. It's not just for one, it's not

just for two, but it's a church wide revival.

It's it's not just for pastors family, it's for your family,

it's for your city, it's for your street, it's for your

community. It's a church.

Wide revival in Acts chapter #10 Peter opened his mouth.

And said I perceive. That God is not a.

Respecter of persons. I perceive that God is no.

Respecter of persons. In other words, God don't play.

Favorites. It makes no.

Difference who you are. Whether you're short like me or

you're tall like some of these other people, it makes no

difference who you are or. Where you are from?

If you want God and you're ready to do as He says, the door is

open to you. God does not show partiality to

people, but He fulfills what He has promised to His people.

The promise is unto you, to your children, to all that are afar

off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

And so here, Rachel. Has been wrestling wrestling the

wrong opponent as a result. Neptali is alive.

Nebulae is the. Result of a rivalry, the result

of an internal struggle that has been taking place.

But I need you to understand this morning, while she has been

wrestling against her sister, 2 chapters later, we find in

Genesis 32 that Jacob is wrestling with God.

It's true that one wrestling match produced a rivalry while

the other is giving birth to Revelation and eventually the

renaming of Jacob. And I'm preaching to some folks

this morning that you are in the middle of a wrestling match that

you always thought would be a bitter rivalry.

That internal struggle, the struggle that nobody sees that,

that insecurity that you'll feel, the constant wars in your

mind, the constant struggle that you don't and always have to

come to church with. I believe God is getting ready

to use it to bring revelation. I believe God's getting ready to

take some folks in this house from rivalry to revelation.

I believe more truth is getting ready to become known.

More love is getting ready to be experienced.

More Holy Ghost is getting ready to be poured out.

There is a greater anointing for First Apostolic Church as God

takes you. From rivalry to revelation, from

constant fighting to receiving, I believe God is taking you from

rivalry to revelation. I wish somebody take just a

moment and bless his name. I wish somebody take a.

Moment and say God. I believe it, God, I believe.

You're taking us somewhere. From fighting in the wrong.

Direction to somewhere where I know I'm going in the right

direction. Some of you been fighting, been

fighting, wrestling in the wrong direction, always trying to

prove something. Always trying to earn something,

always trying to force something, always trying to make

it happen. But when you make a transition

from fighting against people to fighting with God, there's a

shift that begins to happen in the Spirit.

You no longer have to prove something.

You no longer have to earn something.

You no longer have to force something to happen.

Because I understand where I'm fighting at now.

I understand where I'm wrestling at now.

And I've come to preach to you this morning that if we're going

to get to the revelation, we must be willing to wrestle with

him in prayer, to wrestle with him in faith in this revival.

I believe as we wrestle. With God this week.

We're going to walk away. With more than a.

Blessing. We're going to walk away with

more than just a good shout, but I believe there's going to be a

change that happens in this revival that'll leave us.

Saying God. You've left your mark on me.

My life will never. Be the same.

You're taking me from rivalry to revelation.

You're. Taking me.

Where I've never been before. You're willing to go there this

week? I.

Said you willing to go there this week, you willing to go

there in your mind and your spirit in your body this week

saying God, I don't know what you're going to do this week,

but I just know when we get done God, I'm not going to be the

same that I used to be God, I have the same struggles.

Ain't going to be there no more. I know that you're going to

leave your mark on me for the. Rest of my life I believe that

God. 'S getting ready to mark this

moment as a. Turning point in a family's

life. Where you can look back and say.

When I walked in the 1st. Start like church.

On a Sunday in October. That God changed my life.

That God changed my family. That God left a mark on me.

God's taking us. There, God's taking us.

Won't you just look around with me for just a moment?

Look around. You ain't wrestling.

None of them people, I said. You ain't.

Wrestling. None of them.

People that ain't. Who we're wrestling.

With that ain't who we're wrestling with.

From this day forward, we're going on I, I, I'm not trying to

measure myself with church people, with church comparison,

but I'm measuring myself to the word of God, to what God would

say, what God would desire. From rivalry to Revelation,

where God is taking us, taking us.

They make their way back to the keyboard.

I'm not done. But I wonder if you could just

lift your hands for just a moment all over this house.

If you could just lift your hands.

Oh yes, God, I know what I feel in this house right now.

The internal struggles, the internal battles that are

sitting on the seats in the sanctuary.

Yes, you're. Coming to church, yes, you're

progressing in your relationship with God, but when you get home

on Monday and Tuesday, there's an internal battle that you're

facing that is causing you to weep uncontrollably.

It's causing you to cry tears beyond your understanding.

And God has sent me here to tell you this morning that it's all

right that you're wrestling, but you're going to have to let him

bring some revelation out of the wrestling.

You're going to have to let him bring some revelation that you

can hold on to in the middle of your uncontrollable tears and

your uncontrollable pain that you're feeling because there's

something happening at First Apostolic Church that you do not

want to miss. You don't want to get away from

it just because you start to feel uncomfortable and you're

starting to feel like God. I don't know what you're doing.

And I'm wrestling. You may have never been in AWWE.

Arena. It's the World Wrestling

Entertainment, but yet you still understand that there's some

revelations that only come a way of wrestling.

Genesis 32 tells us that Jacob was left alone and it was there

that he wrestled a man. Till the breaking of day.

Some of our greatest wrestling still happen when we're by

ourself. I ain't got time to break down.

All the calculations. But there's a lot of hours in a

week, and not all that time is spent with the body.

There's a lot of time when we're by ourselves and we're we're.

Wrestling and. We're in lonely places, but I

believe this morning we've got to understand that it's in those

lonely places that we got to learn how to hold on to God and

let go of everything else that everybody else is saying every

Listen, at the end of the day, at the end of the day, you're

going to have to learn how to hold on when you are alone.

Come on. That's the revelations that's

coming after the rivalry. I got to hold on when I'm alone

because God's still doing a work even when I'm in a dark day,

even when I'm lonely, even when I feel like nobody cares.

God is still doing a work when I am alone when I'm by.

Myself, he still loves me when pastor and sister.

McGee are nowhere to be. Found he still loves me, the

Bible says as he as Jacob wrestled the.

Angel touched the. Hollow of his thigh and Jacob's

hip was dislocated as he wrestled with him.

Stay with me for a moment. So now Jacob, here he is.

He's wrestling, wrestling alone. And now he's in pain.

Now he's limping and he's broken.

And Jacob says I will not. Let you.

Go, except you blessed me. But the blessing didn't.

Come before he got hurt. It came in the middle of it.

It came as he was going through it.

Now I know some. Of you been in?

Church a long time and you've seen what I've seen.

Some people quit when they get hurt.

Some people quit when their feelings get upset and

everything's not going just right.

But Jacob had reached a point that even if I'm broken, I'm

going to keep holding on because, because I understand

that there's some revelation that's coming.

I got to hold on even when I'm wounded.

I I can't just hold on when I'm alone, but I got to hold on when

I'm wounded and everything's not going just right.

Some of you might have walked into this service today feeling

like my hips out of socket, like everything ain't just right.

But you still. Got to stay locked in with God

even in the middle of the wrestling because there's.

More revelation that's coming. There's more revival that's

coming. God is taking us from rivalry

to. Revelation from wrestling

against people to wrestling with God.

The Angel said let. Let me go.

Can you imagine Jacob's alone? He's wounded.

Be pretty easy to say no problem and just turn away.

Be very easy, just throw in the. Towel and and I'm hurting.

It's painful. I don't know this.

For certain, so don't. Take this as Bible, I imagine.

Since it was just two chapters prior.

Jacob knows Rachel and. Leo are fighting and struggling

and here he is struggling and fighting but something inside

says I will not let you go except thou bless me.

I will not let you go except you bless.

Me. This is not somebody.

Being stubborn, this is somebody that's desperate for more than

just a carnal fight. Desperate for revelation that's

being released. I understand that he held on

when he was alone and when he was wounded.

But now he has to be willing to hold on when it would be easier

to let go, when it would be easier just to throw in the

towel. And I've come to tell you,

Church, we have got to receive this revelation to hold on even

when we're alone. Hold on when we're wounded.

Hold on when it would be easier to let go.

Hold on to the promised that my children will be born again, My

mind will be healed, my body will be made whole, my calling

will become clear. It will happen.

So here Jacob leaves this wrestling match with this truth.

I got to hold on. But he also left with

Revelation. Because when you hold on to God,

you're not going to be the same. You're not going to be the same.

You're going to be changed. And that's what.

Happens in the middle of this match.

Jacob, you're no longer. Jacob.

But you're Israel, Jacob. Your name is no longer going to

be Jacob, but it's going to be. Israel, you're going to go from

the deceiver to now God's wrestler because there's a

change that happens in the middle of this fight.

There's a change that happens in the middle of all the internal.

Struggles that we're facing. And all the mind battles that

we're enduring that nobody knows about.

Can I just tell somebody this morning that if Jacob can hold

on until God, until he got his blessing from God, I am more

convinced than ever before that you and I can hold on to God

until we go free. You can cling to the church.

You can plant your family in this place.

In the midst of your pain, in the midst of your problems, this

is the place for you. If Jacob can hold on until he

got a blessing, you can hold on until you go free.

You can hold on. Until the addiction breaks,

until the fear lives, until the joy returns, you can hold on

until the night breaks and the. Sun shines, you can hold on.

Come on, stand to your feet all over this house.

God is not turned off by the fact that you're fighting.

He's not offended by it. As a matter of fact, he's.

Drawn to it, he's. Drawn to the fact that you're

hungry for. More.

He's drawn to the fact that you desire.

More revelation that. You desire to know.

Him more and more. Come on, lift your hands all

over this house. I'm closing.

I'm closing. In the name of.

Jesus. In the name of.

Jesus. Come on, it's all right to be

honest and say God, I've been struggling.

God, I've been facing some internal.

I've still been coming to. Church I've still.

Been doing the church things. I'm in love with the church, but

I've been battling internally and mentally and spiritually.

I'm in a fight. I'm wrestling.

It's not the church. It's just me.

It's just me. Oh.

Come on, I feel there's a few honest people.

In this House that. Need to step out of their seat

and. And just be honest and make your

way around this altar. Come on, You're not admitting

I'm a terrible no, no, no, no. You're just admitting God.

I'm wrestling. I'm fighting some things

internally. I'm fighting some things

spiritually. I'm fighting some things

mentally. Come on.

Would you let God on this first service of revival take you from

rivalry to revelation? Let take Him to the place that

you're going to hold on even when alone.

I'm going to hold on even when I'm.

Wounded. I'm going to.

Hold on. Even when it's easier to let go.

Oh. Yes, God.

Yes, God. Come on, make your way out of

your seats. Make your way around this altar.

You may not have it all together, but you're still

holding on to Him and there's a blessing that's going to come.

From this. Battle the battle that you're.

In in the name. Of Jesus in the name.

Of Jesus. God take us from wrestling to

the point where we feel like we're winning again.

God. God take us to the point where

we feel like we're prevailing. Oh God, in the name of Jesus, in

the name. Of Jesus.

Oh. Yes, yes, God, come on.

There's victory to be won right now in this altar.

Right now in this altar, there's victory to be won.

Oh, God, I'm not letting go, God.

I'm not giving up, God, till there's a change in me, God,

there's a change in how I think, God, there's a change in how I

view you. God, there's a change in how I

view your church. Oh God, God, let Revelation come

right now in the name of Jesus. Oh God, oh God, you are with the

so. God, you're a Come on.

The devil is a liar. You will not always be alone.

I'm not going to wrestle with the thoughts of whether or not

this revival is for me or not for me.

It's for me this week. It's for me this week.

It's for my family this week. It's for my coworkers this week.

It's for my children this week. God, I want to be involved in

revival this week. God, God, I want to be involved.

I don't want to spend all week wrestling with my thoughts.