Redeeming The Home | Pastor Paul McGee

Amen. Greetings in Jesus name.

Today. Hallelujah.

Good to see. You, we see that you made it.

Your fingers are still there from lighting off fireworks and

stuff. So happy about that, Amen.

Coming in with all digits and all appendages.

That's always A+, Amen. After the festivities.

Amen. Good to see you in the House of

the Lord today. You'll stand with me.

We're going to be turning to the Book of Second Kings.

Second Kings chapter #4. Men.

Take advantage of these services.

It was good to be back at Wednesday Night Bible.

Study this past week. Amen.

Struck a little vein there, Felt a witness in the spirit as.

Was teaching Wednesday night. A different direction for Sunday

on Thursday actually was headed that way.

Read my Bible. On Independence Day and.

Felt a different direction for this morning.

Amen. I want the Lord to help us.

Going to read what to some. If you've been a part of church

for a good portion of your life, this story is not foreign to

you, but I'm perhaps going to come at it in just a little

different angle than what has typically been in in times.

Past. Second Kings chapter #4 And I

want to start reading with verse #1 The Bible says, Now there

cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the

prophets. And to Elisha saying, Thy

servant, my husband is dead, and thou knowest that thy servant

did feared the Lord. The creditor is come to take

unto him my two sons to be bondsman.

Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee?

Tell me, what hast thou in the house?

And she said. Thine handmaid hath not anything

in the house save a pot of oil. Then he said, Go borrow the

vessels abroad of all thy neighbors, even empty vessels

borrow not a few. And when thou are come in, thou

shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shall

pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that

which is full. So she went for from him.

And shut the door upon her, and upon her sons who brought.

The vessels to. Her and she poured out, and it

came to pass when the vessels were full.

And she said that she. Said unto her Son, Bring me yet

another vessel. And he said unto her, There is

not a vessel. More and the oil stayed.

Then she came and told the man of God, and he said, Go and sell

the oil, pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the

rest. Amen for a little.

While this morning. I want to minister this.

Redeeming the home. Redeeming the.

Home. Hallelujah.

Will you help me right now? Pray.

Amen. Father, we need you today.

God, we're thankful. Lord Jesus, for you, for your

spirit, God, your power, I pray. O Lord, let your word, God stand

up among us today. It doesn't need propped up.

It doesn't need help. Lord, it's powerful.

Lord Jesus, it's instructive. Lord, it's enlightening all by

itself. I pray.

O Lord, today, minister to someone in this building, Lord,

or even our viewing audience online, let your word go forth.

And do that which is. Sent to accomplish in our lives

and will not fail to thank you and praise you for it.

In the lovely name of Jesus Christ that I pray Hallelujah

and the church say Amen. Amen.

You may be seated. This morning, redeeming the

home. Now, like many of you.

Today and, and bear with me a little bit here as I get

started. Bear with me in my folly.

Here just a little bit. I live in a different or in a

different era than the present era.

Like many that are in this audience that are older.

I just had a birthday that's older than myself, all right?

And so even several of you even live even in a.

Different era than when I grew up, but nonetheless.

I lived during the time when there were still door to door

salesman that was. Still a thing we we didn't have

digital ads. We didn't even have the

Internet. You know, we didn't have

anything like that. New, new.

Items that were going to be highlighted as as new goods or

as some type of new product. Sometimes you might find it.

Highlighted in a certain section of a newspaper, I'll show.

You one. After church, a newspaper, or or

you might hear about an ad on the radio of something that new.

That was that that. Was out there and then we had

big old Sears catalog. I remember the Sears catalogs

that was so big they rivaled the size of a family Bible.

I mean, I couldn't remember. Whenever Christmas time was

coming, you could look through a Sears catalog until the next

Christmas and before you got through all the pages.

And so since the primary advertiser was just word of

mouth, it wasn't unusual to have a stranger knock on your door

during daylight hours, hoping to demonstrate what came by our

neighborhood a lot. They wanted to show us the new

and the greatest vacuum cleaner, Brother Reese of how it cleanse

the floor. And, and I remember this

explicit explicitly, brother short that there were times and

my mom would allow me in and and they would throw down D

batteries, D batteries on the floor and they would suck those

things up just to show how strong of a suction that that

was. And, and, or if you lived in a

more culture neighborhood that wasn't ours, but sometimes it

would come by with with with showing you the latest magazine.

Subscription that you could. Get so on and so forth.

And so since. We didn't live in the culture

neighborhood. We had the vacuum.

Salesman and I I'm. Telling you this morning, my mom

would invite them in to demonstrate.

Because when you got a family of seven people and someone's

willing to come in and vacuum one of your floors, you're

hoping that they're going to do a load of laundry and maybe fix

dinner before it's all said and done.

I guarantee. You that and so.

We, we had them come in. And so over the years, though,

as time has shifted, the home has shifted from what used to be

a very semi public space to a more private space, a more

protected sanctuary. Even even the best of salesman

today, and I don't think there is hardly any would think twice

before they showed up at our homes with our no solicitation

signs and our five cameras that point at the front door and the

beware of dog and I support the Second Amendment sign.

You understand what I'm saying. They're they're not coming by

any of those things. As a matter of fact, today a

friendly knock at the door. We meet with a a air of.

Suspicion. Sometimes annoyance.

That's me. A few weeks back we had such a

knock at our door. Someone knocked at our.

Door and I wasn't aware. That it was a.

Prearranged visit but. I did what only a proper

homeowner in today's world does when there comes a unexpected.

Knock at the door. I appeared.

Around the corner of the. Window.

Right, because I had to decide in this moment, am I going to

give my attention to this knock or am I going to go prostate on

the floor and stay there till they.

Lose heart and walk away. You think I'm kidding?

Today, but typically. I'm telling you the truth.

In my home, if there is a knock in our house, I'm going to the

bedroom and assuming the fetal position.

That's absolutely right. And I'm waiting.

And I'm deferring to to misses personality and misses off the

charts. Extrovert tends to answer the

door. Yeah, you know, some of you live

and you know exactly where what I'm talking about.

But I reckon I recognized it was a neighbor.

Of ours. And so I'm still.

Puzzled, and it's no doubt upon my face tag that I'm.

Puzzled and so. She opened, I opened the door

and I greeted her, and she began to explain to me that Dawn had

made the arrangement. It had to be on my face in

order. For her to say that that Dawn

had made the. Arrangement and and my face.

Was probably saying it all and so I soon changed though my my

my demeanor and everything because she handed me a half

half sphere of a freshly baked bread with a little linen around

it. I'm like.

Oh yeah. So Don arranged it.

I. Didn't know about.

It and I just recently. Got home but.

But in the past, unannounced visits were just part of

everyday life. You didn't call or text 'cause

you didn't have a phone on you all the time.

And if you were already in the area, it's not like you were

going to find a pay phone to deposit money in it and call

them and see if. Somebody was home.

You just drove by and you. Showed up, it might be dinner

time, they might be in the middle of the project.

I can tell you the number of times people came by our house

growing up. And Mom's like, well, let me fix

some sweet. Tea you want to stay for dinner

if someone came by my house today, I'm waiting to see if

they leave before I fix my dinner.

That's not how trace. That's not how I.

Operate today. A few years ago, I'm not shared

this with y'all with you, but my wife and I were out West and we

were ministering out West and there was a church that we were

preaching for out there and the pastor on that Saturday.

Spent a lot of time. Grill and I mean, he had steaks

out there and and and baked potatoes wrapped in tinfoil in

the grill and it was it was going like all day.

And it's like, man. He he just had all.

Kinds of food more than what we was going to be able to eat and

I I just thought he was pulling out.

All the stops of hospitality. You know, to make us welcome and

such and. Then we sat.

Down in their house to eat and folks, it was like a revolving

door. People didn't even knock on

their door. They would just walk in their

house from the church and they might get a steak and a potato.

They might sit there at the counter or eat at the counter,

make some conversation or said that I'm sitting here and

thinking what? In the world is going on.

I mean, they're entering and leaving, maybe staying 5 minutes

or 10 minutes, you know, look at me.

Pasta salad. You know I didn't.

Know they were coming I mean just.

In and out and all that, just as easily as they.

Came shooting the breeze, maybe not even eating at all, just

showing up. But that was their cultural

norm. That was their church cultural

norm. But the expectation of privacy

at home, it's evolved over time. It's evolved from from a

preference to Now it's almost a social norm for the privacy of

the. Home.

But not all the privacy a home provides has.

Been beneficial either. As much as people want their.

Homes to be sanctuaries. There's several experiences that

take place in the context of the home that is polar opposite.

To that, just walk with me for a little while.

Today, the World Health Organization Violence against

women. An article they published.

In 2021, reported that globally, one in three women experience

physical or sexual violence. Often at the.

Hands of someone in their home, thus turning their.

Home into a prison. Child help reports of the child

is abused every 10 seconds in the.

US, often by their caregivers. And so that place that was meant

to nurture them becomes a place of fear and a place of

brokenness, Bewildered even today to share this with you.

Victims of human trafficking are regularly uncovered as operating

out of suburban homes. And so when you have those type

of things that happen within the context of your privacy or

sanctuary, so to speak, that changes a person's view of home.

When kitchen tables become the place where kids see their

parents do a line of crack cocaine and rather than be in a

place where they share a meal, that changes the perspective of

home. It's in those moments that home

can feel broken and home can feel, if you will, incomplete.

Some even today, I believe even in this church this morning,

have come from places where home has been scene of some of your.

Deepest pain. And some of your deepest hurts.

And I suspect this morning, Bishop, that that's that's a

little bit of the tragedy of the event in the scripture that I

read to you this morning, because this woman and her sons

are facing a domestic problem. They're facing a home problem.

Her husband, their father, has died.

The Scripture tells us her sons are on the verge of being taken

away by the creditor to become enslaved, to work off the debt,

perhaps of their father and their own.

She feels, the Bible says, whenever she replies to Elijah,

she feels like in her home, there's nothing left.

This, this, this sanctuary, this place where conversation should

take place, love should happen, all these things.

She feels like there's nothing left to her, and also probably

to her. Sons as well it.

Seemed like her home had nothing to offer, nothing at all.

And you got to understand this morning what happened here,

happened at home. Just walk with me a little bit.

Typically in the Old Testament we read the scripture.

You can do. It you read through your Bible

every year and as you read, typically whenever somebody dies

away from home, the scripture is usually very good about

informing. Us about that.

It's usually very good. Telling us about.

That when you read that. Saul died it.

Tells us that he died in battle on Mount Gabola.

Hey man, it tells us that whenever Rachel died, the Bible

says she died on the journey she was.

At home. She was in route, and the Bible

gives us that information whenever we read in Scripture

that Abel was slain by his brother.

He was slain by him in a field. He tell the Bible tells us

specifically that it wasn't at his.

Home, we're told that yeah. In this scripture, we are simply

told by the widow that her husband is dead.

No causes mentioned, no location is mentioned, no context is

mentioned, and so since we don't have no additional additional

details given, it suggests that it likely happened at home.

Just just I, I remember as a young man, I.

Was in my senior. Year of high school and I

understand the imprint of a loss in a home.

What that can do. My mom cared for my Grandma

McGee in our home until she died.

Grandma was dying of cancer. I was the last child to live at

home. My senior year there.

Was my bedroom and a door and right across there was the room

where my grandma was laying. As a matter of fact, if the door

would be left open, Tracy, I could lay in my bed and peer

straight into that bedroom of the woman that's laying in her

bed dying. I remember as a young man

hearing the death rattles just across the way.

I could see into her room. Hey, man, that that affects you.

The restroom in that house was virtually in that room where

Grandma. Was.

There wasn't a time after that that if I allowed myself, I

could envision her deteriorating body in that space because we

had suffered the loss of her in that house.

And I was very young and impressionable.

I still remember, and even as I was putting this together, I

remember the the, the coroner, Amen.

With her on the bed, taking her out through those different

rooms of the house. There's just something that

stays with you. And that's what I experienced as

a 17 year old young boy, a man going to be graduating from high

school. So you got to understand she and

her sons had witnessed the death of a loved one in their home.

And not only have they experienced the loss in their

home, but the Bible tells us now they are experiencing the

accumulating debt of their home and they're experiencing, if you

will, the lack that they have in their home.

Where there was once maybe well furnished shelves, now those

shelves are being stripped with each passing day and they are

more and more bare. Amen.

Their children, her children, her sons are recognizing that

and experiencing that in their home.

There's a daily depletion of their goods that's happening in

their house. So matter of fact, the Bible.

Doesn't tell us I. I don't know how old these sons

were, but we might be able to infer today that they're old

enough to understand debt and to be taken by creditors for for,

but they're also young enough to be vulnerable from the trauma of

losing the father and feel the threat of enslavement upon

their. Lives, and this was in the.

Context of their home in that home.

They witnessed loss they had. Grieved there, they had seen the

tears. Fall off their mama's.

Face and their own. Face and hit the.

Floor there they had witnessed the lack of.

Things they felt the. Stress and the burden and the

pressure of not having enough in.

That home they witnessed the. Fear of a weeping.

Mom and approaching creditors and.

All of the dynamics. Was taking place within their.

Home. Domestically, life had been

difficult in their house. Someone say glory.

Because all the losses seem to pertain to the.

House death there, death there, depletion there soon detainment

of the sons from there. This is the reason why I feel my

help. Coming here just a little bit.

This is the reason. Why Amen, when everything had

been explained to Elijah about the death and the debt and the.

Creditor that Elijah asked this question.

What do you have in? Your house.

And when that mom, when that widow stared back at his?

Face and said nothing. He understood that the house

needed some healing, that the house needed some.

Sad that the house. Needed a characterization.

Change. It became the center.

It became the center focus. Can I tell you it's interesting

to denote? That when that widow stayed at

all those things, Elisha didn't say, Well, let's get up a mule.

And get your boys together and let's get to the temple that's

in Jerusalem. He wasn't taking her to a

temple. He wasn't taking her to a

Tabernacle, no. He says you go back.

Home. You.

He says, listen here, honey, you go back home not because the

temple is unimportant, the temple is important, he says,

but you go back home because what you need is a domestic

miracle, because. You got a domestic problem.

What you need is. Something that happened within

the. Confines of that house.

Amen to balance out. All of the dilemmas, all of the

laws, all of the grief. All of the heartache that you've

experienced in that home. I'm not undermining the temple.

We need the temple, we read. The day of Pentecost was fully

common. They received the baptism of the

Holy Ghost. And they continued the apostles

doctrine, and in. Fellowship and breaking the

bread and prayer. We read all that the Bible says

that they continued in the temple but also in house.

There's got to be a good. Measure of balance.

Of God's Spirit and power in the temple and at home.

Don't misunderstand me, but the church shouldn't be the place I

got to get to. To get my fix.

I should. Be able to get something.

At home, within the walls of my house.

This should not be the only place I pray.

There needs to be a prayer room in my home.

I don't need God just to answer here.

I got faith God can answer at the house.

Someone came in SO. He says you, you, you go home.

And. She along with her boys, what

they need to realize her statement is there's nothing.

Save a part of oil. And she has even a resignation

about that. But she needed to realize.

Woman, looking back, everything you've been through life is like

I need you to recognize something there are still some

redeemable qualities there's. Still some redeemable qualities

about your home. There's someone hearing today.

Yeah, I know. We show up on Sundays and we put

on our Sunday best and we tie our necktie and we.

Shine our. Shoes and we put the.

Smiles on our faces. And my thing is I.

Don't live in your home and you don't live in mine, but I don't

know what goes upon beyond closed.

Doors. I don't know what happens in

your place. I don't know if the same smile.

Follows you home as you have here.

I know some of you might have grieving homes.

You've suffered loss, you've suffered abuse.

There's been arguments that you can't think.

About, but I've come today. As a pastor of this church to

somehow peel back to. Layer and say there are.

Still some redeemable qualities even about your.

House and your family. He says, you know what he said?

Don't go to the temple, go home. You and your sons go home and

start pouring that oil in the vessels that you.

Get from your neighbors if I can say it like.

This, he said, go home. And shut the.

Door and be obedient. To the word God's given you

until your miracle happens. Until your miracle.

So much say man. You know what I believe Elijah

understood, He said If you grieved in that house, you need

to go back until you can. Rejoice in that house.

If you've been weighed down by stress in that house, you.

Need to go back home? Until you feel the comfort and

the peace of a turmoil. Free home instead of fear.

You need. Faith, the substance of things

hoped for. And the evidence of things not

seen. God's answer to them.

His message to them is that I'll redeem your home.

Historically, God has moved in more places.

Than tabernacles, temples and synagogues.

He's showing up in kitchens. Upper rooms, pantries, Sister

Adams. I know you're walking out.

But you have kids. That have received the Holy

Ghost at home. I grabbed A Weisenberger at a

time that old coal burning stove didn't have the money for the

code. To burn in the stove.

But in the process of a day or so, a pile of coal showed up on

his lot. Still to the time that he died.

As far as I know, never knows. Never knew where it came from or

who brought it. What's that?

That's a miracle. Happening at the house.

I know you have experienced some things in your.

Home but God. Wants to redeem it too.

I know it may seem like all this is negativity, but God wants to

bring some positive aspects. He wants to redeem.

It might be the home you grew up in.

That you were taken advantage. Of or that you were just almost

bludgeoned if you will, with abuse.

God wants to redeem your. Circumstance.

God wants to redeem your family, God.

See To redeem the house or redeem the home.

I thought I had a pocket there, but I don't.

Is to redeem something beyond the physical structure because

the word house. Or home.

In the Hebrew, denotes. More than the physical

structure, it denotes a household.

Or a family or a. Lineage.

God. Wasn't just on some bend of

redeeming the. Physical structure.

There were some. Sons there, Fatherless, yes,

but. Not fatherless in other.

Aspects no one say man, we need the homes redeemed.

Because listen. Whenever God spoke to Israel.

In the book of Deuteronomy, before Joshua started, Joshua

was the book of all the conquests.

Of the land of promise. Taking this this taking this

city going to battle. Taking that city.

But the Lord had already spoken to them.

He said this conquest. Is going to be a long conquest.

It's going to be. Little by little and you.

Know what he's basically conveying to them?

It's not going to happen just in one generation, but the conquest

I have for Israel, it's going to take you working at it and

passing off that same work ethic to your next generation.

It's going to happen over. Time of generations and the.

Only way that can happen. Is if we have a.

Redeemed tones, he says. What?

I'm going. To I'm going to redeem your.

House folks what I've. Learned in my life.

Is that? God doesn't just meet me where I

worship, He meets me where I live.

You'll meet me at the epicenters of some of my.

Deepest pains. You talk about home, stick with

me for a moment. Day of Pentecost, outpouring of

the Spirit, birth of the church, Glory Hallelujah.

Amen. 7 or 10 day prayer meeting.

Yes, but. That was occurring in a.

Borrowed room of a house. The reality, the birth of the

church is. Tied back to a borrowed.

Room that was in a. House.

We look at Saul, we look at David and we think man David,

one of the greatest kings of all 40 years and serving, and he was

a man after God's own heart. But listen, whenever David was

anointed, he wasn't anointed in the palace or in the Tabernacle.

He was anointed. At Bethlehem, he was anointed at

home. So God didn't tell the widow,

take those boys to the temple. He said no, go home.

Shut the door. Behind you and your sons and

begin to fill the jars of oil and set each jar that you feel.

Whenever it gets full, set it aside.

Why? Because.

For all the bad things. That you've seen in your home.

For all the bad. Things that you've.

Experienced in your home. You guys need to witness the

reality of God in your home. Your resounding nothing needs a.

Something that can be that. Can be sandwiched.

Up against them. You read, you read.

Leviticus 14 right in there. 13141516 even.

You read in the Old Testament Leviticus about leprosy.

It's an emblem. It's an emblem of sin.

It's a mark of sin. You could have leprosy on or in

a person. You'd have leprosy.

I know it bro in a. Garment and you could.

Have leprosy in the house and. When leprosy.

Began to get into the. House and the.

Stones that were mortared together with one another in

the. House.

The Bible describes it. It would get.

Greenish or reddish like straight lines in it and that

the owner. I believe it's a Leviticus 14.

That speaks out about this. And the owner would go see a

priest and he says I. Perceive that we got some.

Plague going on at home and the priest would come.

And he would investigate it. And he would set everyone and

everything outside of it for seven days, and they would keep

an eye on it and he'd go look at it at the end of seven days and

the things hadn't changed. You know what they did?

They took the affected. Stones and they.

Begin to chisel out that mortar I ran about the.

Affected stones that were greenish and reddish and they

would cast them aside and. Put.

New stones in their place. Why was this important?

Because whoever lived in the home, they saw the green and

they saw the red straight marks. They needed to be able to go

back in the same house and that no longer be there.

They needed to experience something in their house that

they that was different from the far.

He says. He says we're going to.

We're going to allow. You to go home.

Because you and your boys need a moment.

In your house, that will change the way that you walk through

your. House instead of.

Walking through your house and pausing with tears coming up in

your eyes and saying, well, that that right there this area is.

Where Dad took his last breath. Instead of walking through the

house and coming to some bare. Shelf and saying well that that

that right there that's the that's the shelf that went bare

first when the onset of the depletion came or or saying that

quarter over there is where mom cried and.

Cried for three hours straight. Hey man, even the invitation.

Of her beating. Fist is in the floor.

That right there. He said you need a new way that

you can walk through the house. You need a way that now you walk

through there and can say. That corner over there is where

we. Stacked.

The empty jars that we borrowed from our neighbors and that

shelf over there was the last shelf to be full with oil.

And that room over there is where God did what only God

could do their. Home.

Needed healed. It needed redeemed.

I've approached life. Perhaps just a little

differently than most. The psychologist and

psychiatrist would probably really not think good of me.

And if there's any out there, just send me a letter because I

got a special filing system for it.

I've been honest in the growing years of my children.

I've been honest with them. Brother Fred, they said.

Don't put any. Undue stress on your kids.

Well, I don't I. Just just kind of real.

I tell them. Sometimes when the money wasn't.

There for XY and ZI know that's all right.

Take Me Out to. The Woodshed, hi.

You're burning your kids. No, I'm just telling them about

the reality of life, that there's just.

Times like that, my sister Sheila, I've all set that then

that I've also. Pointed out to them.

When God has come through just in the nick of time.

This was the lack. I told you about it members so

many weeks ago. This was the supply.

Why? Because I want.

Them to be experienced something in the home.

You all. Have heard me tell us.

I'm going to tell it again, OK? Just buckle up and hear enough

years now that I can repeat myself.

And I'm getting old enough now. I'll do it even without.

Even recognizing you. Remember, I'm taking the

Trevor's room right now today and stained on top of his.

Heater and down the front. Of his heater is a stain of blue

and red where in his day when? He wore his Spidey outfit, which

he has one that fits him even still today he entertained

taking to Washington, DC. And getting pictures taken with

people making a little bit of money told me it probably pass

out because the heat was just very intrusive and we probably

got arrested. I can see Trevor now on steps of

the Capitol. But they're staying still on

that heater because one night on a Wednesday night after Bible

study during the winter time, we have baseboard heating.

We came home. His Spidey, his Spidey attire

have been right on that heater. It melted that fabric on the

heater. We had no fire.

But what I pointed out to those kids was it was during the time,

I tell. You that I change prayer places

all the time. It was during.

The time that I was play praying in a different.

Room of my home each day, you know where.

I had prayed that morning Criss cross applesauce on the.

Floor in Trevor's room. For anything that my kids may

have experienced. In our home and we don't have a

perfect home. It's things like that that

redeemed. I still have the picture.

I believe it's in my phone. I'd have to look through the,

you know, almost 6000 pictures on my phone that I got more

iCloud, you know, space for. I still.

Probably have the picture. This.

Is all. What is this?

I don't know, I guess we're just careless.

I was over cleaning out like Mariah's room one time.

I don't even remember how many years ago this was.

And you know me in the air around here of dumb dumb.

Suckers. My kids had some.

And inside the baseboard heater. Sitting on top of the.

Coils was a stick and paper that.

I mean, I'm what I'm. Saying, is it still the?

Perfect form of a sucker. The paper was very browned and

charred bag. When I unwrapped it, the inside

candy was totally gone. It had melted.

It was hot enough to melt the candy but not burn.

The paper still had perfect form.

Well, you said I don't care what grief you've met with.

I don't. Care what your.

Family or your home has suffered.

God wants some things to take place in your house.

That will bring a little. Courage a little with all.

About you know what, Yes. We fail, but I.

Think we can make it too? Yes, we are not perfect, but I

think we can come on the other side too.

Yes, He wants to redeem your house.

What is it? It's just the handiwork of God

telling us to go home, telling us that for all the.

Bad and confusing nothing moments.

That we've had at our house, that there are some God moments

in the same House of our grief, in the same House of our sorrow,

in the same House of our fear. There's some God moments,

everybody. Doing OK.

I am. I'm operating off 2 hours of

sleep right now. You know what made that picture?

Grandma being across that threshold to the other room,

dying, less intimidating to me. Something that happened all my

life, even after that in that same little bathroom.

I'm not trying to be TMI here where you could sit on the

stool, have a foot in the tub and one hand in the sink all at

the same time. Laurie Amen Hallelujah and my

dad 5 O clock in the morning would make that his prayer room

and after his mom. Had died in that space.

You know what he's still doing? He's going to that same location

and he's made of this prayer room.

And I could lay in my room though my grandma.

Died. Across there, you know what I'm

here and why I'm laying there early in the.

Morning God touched the church. God move upon Paul Junior.

God this, God that. Why?

Because although I suffered loss.

There God says I redeem it with this I'll.

Can I tell you that you can have a hand in the redemption of your

room? It's all about.

Whether you're going home, gathering them around and doing

the porn that is only an act of faith, waiting for the mirror,

listen. This is not the McGee.

Show but I'm telling you this, I got the text still on my thing.

I go get. Groceries for our family on.

Mondays, my Mondays, it's my day off from church work.

It's my heavy day for personal word.

My wife never asked. I just offered that on Mondays I

go to get stuff, you know, and I make a list.

I'm a list person. I make a list.

Got a digital one on my phone. It's.

Great, you know all. You know you you check it and it

goes to the bottom of the list. Uncheck it, it comes to the top

of the list. I love it.

I if I bought. Everything that was on that

list. We'd have groceries for months

because, you know, we change. I got recipes in there and the

ingredients I need below each. One check, check, check uncheck.

Right. Sometimes I miss not checking or

remembering what's in the cupboard There's.

One of the times in. Right.

This, this was probably within just the last year or so thing

like where I was in college. I pray at home, I pray at the

church, you know, I believe everywhere.

You just pray. I've told you.

I prayed in that little baptismal room up there, Chairs

up there in it, Fred. Small little space, but.

Mean Jesus can fit. I've prayed in my garage.

I've prayed in my backyard. Don't matter.

I've tried to. Live that before my boys.

Because listen to me, the creditor.

Is always looking for opportunity.

To wrap. Tap on your house door for your

children. So I texted.

Mariah, one day I'm like Mariah. Do we have?

Whatever it was occurred to, jeez, I don't know.

Do we have? Didn't hear from her, Didn't

hear from her. Didn't hear from her.

Didn't hear from her. I was like, fine, I'll just get

it. Only for her to text back I

think on my way home. She said sorry dad, I was

praying. I've I've been praying in the

morning. And start hearing her prey.

But I was never. So happy to buy curded.

Cheese for $4. Then to know there's some

redemption happening back. At the house keep.

Pouring that. Sis.

Keep pouring that, sis. Keep pouring that, sis.

Listen, I'm a stupid idiot. I get angry, mad.

My kids still give me a hard time about this to this day.

I was aggravated by something one day.

I was walking down our hallway and I was just kind of thumping

my wall. I was aggravated and my side of

my fist went into our drywall. I fixed it.

You probably couldn't find it. But they give me a hard time

like that. Trevor, it's once while if he

can tell I'm getting a little aggravated.

He said Dad, you need to go put a hole in the.

Wall, I said. Trevor I.

Didn't even mean to do that, I was just.

Stumping. I was going down.

And it just hit. What is that?

That's something that needs redeemed, but it can only be

redeemed with. Opposite things to that taking

place in the same space. Now somebody's going to.

Show up in my door and. Announce a knock because they

won't walk. Around numb it down my hallway.

Well, I'll be in the better mood, in the fetal position and

talk to my wife. Stand with me today.

The gist of what I'm trying to convey this morning is this is

that if? You're sitting or standing.

Here today, thinking my house is too far gone.

It's too broken, it's too heavy, it's too haunted by what's

happened inside its walls. I've come to.

Tell you that that house can be redeemed too.

Can I tell you he's still? Sending oil to.

Broken homes he didn't. Need a palace.

He he didn't need a platform. He just.

Needed someone to believe that there was still something left.

Redeemable I caught by you. In the house because for.

Every memory that. May hurt.

He could. Create a new one for you every.

Room where? Where there's been?

Shouting, or maybe sometimes deafening silence or sorrow.

He can fill it with laughter. He can fill it with prayer.

He can fill it with peace. Every child that seems.

That they should have never seen.

He can. Let them know of a miracle.

Right in. Their.

Living room. So pastors telling you today, go

home, shut your door, bring your family in and that's still the

instruction as it was in second Kings Ford, still the

instruction today. Go home and believe again.

Go home and pour again. Go home and pray in the hallway

if you. Need to worship in your?

Kitchen believe God for something new.

In the bedroom, whatever it is. Because if God can feel.

Empty vessels. In a widow's house.

Again, he can redeem, feel the holy.

Ghost. He can redeem ours being bow our

heads. All across.

This place. I don't have the time.

Today to. Pull out a 8 foot.

Folding table and set across from.

You and. Begin to get all of the.

Details and information about. Your home life growing up, or

maybe what your home life is right now.

Matter of fact, we probably don't.

Even have the hours in this day left in order for you to

describe and express things you've heard, seemed, felt, and.

I feel the Holy Ghost. And you might just look back

into my. Eyes this morning when I say,

well, what's in the house? And you might just so powerfully

say pastor nothing. With what my hopes.

Experienced nothing. But I'm just asking you today if

you can. Find the gumption, the

fortitude. Go back home.

Shut the door and begin to. Pour.

In obedience to God's Word. And.

Watch him do the miracle that you need to be a step forward.

In redeeming the traumatic. And troubling issues that you've

lived through in your house. These halters are open.

Today I feel the Holy Ghost. There's a reason today that God.

Directed me from Thursday to Friday to go this direction and

why I. Spent my birthday here.

A man just mulling this over and trying to fine tune what I.

Felt like the. Spirit was saying.

And I'm not. Saying that in a derogatory way,

man, I've been a lot of places on the Easter and Christmas and

other people's birthday is my anniversary.

Who cares but what I'm saying? Is today God cares about your

home? He cares about your house.

He cares about the generations, the men that flood out from your

loins in connection with you, and he's wanting to redeem some

things. Even in your home, He wants to

redeem some things. Will you make yourself?

Available Will you open yourself up to the possibility of what

God can redeem? Come on, Sir, will you make

yourself available? Will you open yourself up to the

possibility of what God? Old you are or.

How young you are, How wealthy you?

Are. Or how much of AI know you?

Walk through your home. And all you got.

Is all the happened in? That room or what happened?

Here and what happened there. But God wants to redeem.

Some. Of those things, he wants to

change your walkthrough. He wants to change your

walkthrough. In your own home.

Yeah. Because when I walk through

that. Hallway.

I'm not. Thinking about my fist in the

drywall, I'm thinking about the Spidey suit on the heater and

the sucker on the coils in Mariah's room.

I'm thinking about the prayer. That's issued for there.

God wants to redeem it. It's not too far gone, it's not

too far gone. It's not a washing of the hands

and a discarding to the refuse. Pile.

No, Sir, No. Ma'am, there are redeemable

things in your family. Redeemable things.

In your. Home for the Mason.

Let's go to the Lord. Right now, come on, church

family, I wish we could lift our voices just a little bit more

than where they are right now and begin to pray, begin to talk

to God. He's a Redeemer.

He's a Redeemer. He's.

Come on, this is the only service.

We're having today, ladies and gentlemen.

This is the only service. We're having today.

I wish. Someone would just grab it like

a. Sponge and twist it.

Till the very last drop. A man is squeezed from it.

Right. Now he wants to redeem our

hopes. Oh, my brother McGee, that was.

10. Years ago, 20 years ago.

How in the world God can do it? God can replace the.

Stones with something anew. In the fresh, he can heal it.