The Danger of Some Deliverance | Pastor Paul McGee

Give him some praise. Hallelujah.

I love you Jesus. Amen.

Rich lyrics Rich lyrics. The song just takes me back to

being a boy on a Pew. And I was a young boy at South

Gibson. Pastor Sizemore is my pastor.

Just a little, just a boy on the Pew.

They used to sing that song. So it takes me back to those

moments of just being a real young and now having a few more

years added on my life. And I can look over my shoulder,

understand what those elders were smiling about, what those

wrinkled hands up in the air was testifying to.

He's been so good to me, so good to me.

Hallelujah, thank you, Jesus, Hallelujah.

If you'll stand with me tonight and meet me in the book of

Second Chronicles. Second Chronicles, Amen.

Tonight we're branching out of the Book of Genesis.

We've gone to Second Chronicles chapter #12 we need the Lord to

help us tonight. Lord woke me up this morning at

3:00. I tried to go back to sleep, it

didn't work. He woke me up with this passage

on my mind, and so I got up and started working on it and worked

on it some more this afternoon, and I pray that it works on us.

Second Chronicles chapter #12 starting with verse #1 came to

pass when Rio Bone had established the Kingdom and had

strengthened himself. He forsook the law of the Lord,

and all Israel with him. Came to pass that in the fifth

year of King Rio, Bone Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against

Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the Lord

with 1200 Chariots and three score 1000 horsemen, and the

people were without number. That came with him out of Egypt,

the Lubin's and the Sukiens and The Ethiopians.

And he took the fence cities which pertained to Judah and

came to Jerusalem. Then came Shamaya, prophet to

Rehoboam to the Princess of Judah, that were gathered

together to Jerusalem. Because of Sheeshak said unto

them, Let's say, if the Lord ye have forsaken me, therefore have

I also left you in the hand, Sheeshak.

Whereupon the Princess of Israel, the king, humbled

themselves, and they said, the Lord is righteous.

And when the Lord saw that they humbled themselves, the word of

the Lord came to Jamaiah saying, They have humbled themselves.

Therefore I will not destroy them.

And Please note this next phrase.

But I will grant them everybody say some, some deliverance.

My wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand, the

Shishak, the help of the Holy Ghost.

Tonight I want to minister this the danger of some deliverance

of some deliverance. Let's pray together tonight.

Lord, I thank you, God, your spirit has been here with us

today. Lord, we have felt it.

We have experienced it. God, it's come alongside us.

The Lord, in each service, through song, through word, I'm

praying God it would meet us here again.

God to the ministry of your word, I'll take these lips of

clay, this mind. I pray, O Lord, God, open the

mark any air, Lord, for my words right now.

God help me, Lord, to speak with passion, conviction.

I pray Jesus in this house, God, and we'll give you the glory and

the praise God for what you accomplish in this place in the

lovely night name of Jesus Christ that we pray Hallelujah

and Amen. Everybody say Amen, Amen.

You may be seated tonight in Jesus name.

I want to start here this evening by reminding you what

total deliverance looks like. I know within my title was some

deliverance, but I want to remind you what total

deliverance looks like. It looks like whenever the

Israelites came through the Red Sea and that the waters didn't

just part halfway. They walked through on dry

ground from the beginning of their journey in until they

exited the Red Sea. They didn't have to swim part of

the way or the last part. Not a sandal of theirs was

muddy, so to speak. Not an enemy remained among them

that were following them. The Bible even says that they

turned and saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore.

Total deliverance. It's whenever the walls of

Jericho fell down that they didn't fall halfway as scripture

describes to us. But God brought them completely

down flat, just like the word had described.

It's total deliverance. Speaking of, whenever the

prodigal son even came back to his father's house and his

father seen him afar off, that his father didn't run out there

and meet him and say go to the servants quarters buddy.

No, but he ran out to meet him and put a robe around his neck

and shoes on his feet and restored him to a status of

sonship within his household. Total deliverance.

It's it's the Jesus that we witness and read about and our

eyes peruse the scriptures, the Jesus that that heals that that

didn't give people partial relief that, that the blind,

whenever he touched them, they saw clearly the leper whenever

he touched them, they were made clean and many of them were even

made whole, not just patched up. The dead didn't come out of the

grave just staggering, but they stood up walking with with

confidence in their step. Total deliverance.

Total deliverance is whenever God brings you out of something,

but he also brings you into something better.

And deep down, that's perhaps what every one of us long for in

this house tonight is total deliverance.

We, we don't want to be caught as the testimony that's just

surviving the storm, but we want to be able to walk in peace as

we journey along this road. We, we don't want to have the

testimony that we just escaped sin, but we want to be filled

with the purpose that the Lord has for life.

And we're for sure not in this mode of avoiding hell, but we

also want to taste a little bit of heaven on earth as we walk.

Amen here below. And if you've ever been there,

if you've ever felt that God had pulled you out sometime in your

past, then you know what I'm talking about when I talk about

total deliverance. But not every rescue feels like

a victory. You may remember the story years

ago of Apollo 13, NASA's third attempt to the the land men upon

the moon. And the mission launched with

hope, and they had expectation, and they launched with precision

and it was meant to be something very historic.

But about 56 hours or so into their voyage and oxygen tank

exploded and the state crap was very quickly crippled.

And dreams of walking up on the moon had just disintegrated in a

in a matter of minutes. And the crew and NASA engineers

were scrambling to survive. They they, they used duct tape,

they used ingenuity, they used prayer, if you will, all these

things holding it together. And after six days of tension,

they narrowly just escaped. And they made it back to Earth.

And it's what they called even among the news media as a

successful failure. A success because they survived,

but a failure because they never reached the destination.

They made it home, but they never fulfilled the mission.

They didn't walk on the moon in that mode.

And that's what deliverance, some deliverance looks like

sometime. You didn't crash.

You didn't die. You, you made it back, but you

never made it to where you were supposed to go either.

Rio bums, Rio bums life and trajectory that we read of in

Scripture. He had a very strong start.

As a matter of fact, what was given to him whenever he came to

the place of kingship, it was uncompared with anything else of

another king. He inherited quite a great deal

of wealth of resources from his family.

He had a very deep rooted spiritual heritage in his life.

He he inherited A unified Kingdom of the 12 tribes of

Israel and they were a great fortified nation of all things.

He could tell that David was his grandfather and that Solomon was

his father. He had a rich heritage that he

had inherited. And in all of this, it just

seems like he had it all. He's a man now, a position.

He's a man of power. He's a man of potential.

As a matter of fact, at his coronation and Shechem, the

people asked him to ease the heavy burden that his father

Solomon had placed upon them. You'll remember the story.

He went to get some advice from the elders, but he also got some

advice from his peers. And he wanted to know what he

should do in this matter. And the, the, the advice of the

elders was, well, you just need to serve the people.

And if you will serve them, they will reciprocate.

They will serve you. And then he went to his peers,

those that were younger, and asked him what he should do.

And they told him, you just go and tell them that your, your

little finger will be thicker than your father's loins.

And that's just a modern day of saying it's going to get bad.

All right. It's going to be worse than what

it was with Daddy. And as a result of that move,

Scripture tells us that cost him over 80 percent of the Kingdom.

He lost 10 tribes in that moment.

He was left now just with the tribes of Judah and the tribes

of Benjamin. And so after this nation has

been fractured through his leadership, the Bible seems to

describe that Rio Bone regrouped a little bit.

It it looked like he had some course correction that was

taking place in his life. The Bible describes that he

fortified cities in Judah and whatever the Levites and the

priests that were in the north were expelled from that vicinity

and area. He welcomed them down into Judah

and Benjamin. It seems as though he's getting

his footing again under his legs.

The Bible even tells us that he, Rio Bone, walked in the way of

David and Solomon, his father for three years, which appeared

to be a comeback. He he was getting things

positioned right where they needed to be.

But once Rio Bone felt very secure.

The Bible says that Riabom turned away from God.

The first verse that we read in my text today is that when he

had established the Kingdom that he strengthened himself and he

forsook the law of the Lord and God allowed some consequences to

come into the life of Riabom God.

Note this, God sent Shishak, king of Egypt, to take the

fortified cities of Judah away from Riobomb.

He allowed that Egyptian king to make inroads into Jerusalem.

For that matter, the Bible describes that God sent a

prophet by the name of Shamaya with this message, which is

basically this. Hear the words of the Lord

Riobomb. You have forsaken me, so I'll

forsake you. I'll just leave you to the hands

of your or adversary. It all appears to have been a

success. What God spoke, what God sent.

It seems like everything is well Ria bone the Bible describes he

and his leaders at the moment of hearing these things.

They humble themselves before the Lord.

They humble themselves before God and contrition that the

Bible says that God relents but not completely.

He says in verse 7, I, I will not destroy them.

God said I will grant them some deliverance.

But what we must understand and what I thought about a long time

ago when I read this was this. We must understand that one step

up from total destruction is some deliverance.

It's not restoration. Some deliverance isn't total

ruin, no, no. But it's a divine concession

that leaves people alive to reflect, not to relax.

Someone say man, those two words some deliverance should haunt

us, not because it lacks God's mercy, but because it stopped

short of the full measure of his purpose.

It's a mercy, if you will, with a warning label.

It's a door that's cracked open Amen.

But never walked through. Some deliverance spares us off

times from the sword but not from the chains.

It keeps us alive, but it doesn't keep us Amen where we

need to be in our trajectory for the Lord.

The real danger tonight of some deliverance is this.

Some deliverance feels good enough to settle into.

After all, we could just spout I'm not what I used to be and

the worst didn't happen to me and the destruction was averted

in my life and the crisis is now past and I've lived to tell the

story. But living isn't the same as

thriving, breathing isn't the same as walking and purpose.

Coming out of Egypt isn't the same as entering the promise

because some deliverance gives you enough relief to dull the

urgency for the genuine change that God wants.

We start to tell when we get some deliverance.

We start to tell ourself, well, at least I'm not where I was.

And you stop pressing as a result.

You stop seeking as a result. You stop growing as a result.

And here's the deception that our adversary, Amen, doesn't

always have to destroy us. Sometimes He wants us to be

satisfied with just survival, just with some deliverance.

That's what happened to Rehoboam.

When Shishak came and plundered Jerusalem, God eased up his

hand. Amen.

Because they humbled themselves, Amen.

He gave them some deliverance. They were not destroyed

according to the Scripture, but verse 8 says nevertheless, Amen.

They were made servants unto the King of Egypt.

He allowed them not to be destroyed, but they would become

servants of Egypt. Now look now I got some of the

verses here to read because I think it's important in verse 9.

Just read with me. So she Shack king of Egypt, came

up against Jerusalem, took away the treasures of the House of

the Lord, and the treasures of the King's house.

He took all. He carried away also the Shields

of gold which Solomon had made, instead of which King Riabom

made Shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of

the chief of the guard that kept the entrance of the King's

house. And when the king entered into

the House of the Lord, the game and fetched them, meaning the

brass Shields now, and brought them again into the guard

chamber. So we have a man that's living

in the moment of some deliverance.

And the tragedy of it is this. Ria Boma learned how to function

as a servant to Egypt. He built, the Bible says his

golden Shields are taken, but he builds in their stead brass

Shields instead of gold. Shy Shack has come in.

He stripped the land of the treasures of the House of God

and even the Lord's house and the King's house, including the

gold shield Solomon Amen had made.

These weren't just military ornaments, these golden Shields.

They were the symbols of strength.

They were the symbols of honor and divine blessing, that gold

represent the glory and the brilliance of that Kingdom which

they owed unto their God. Now they were substituted with

something brass that still glistened, but it didn't have

the same value that the gold had.

And so Riabon, what does he do? He's a servant unto Egypt.

He has now brazen Shields rather than golden Shields.

And the Bible boy basically tells us he just carries on with

business as usual whenever he goes out among the public.

And they would use to grabbed the golden Shields to go.

He just kept the ceremony as the ceremony was.

The guard still marched, they still carried Shields, although

they were not of the same worth as the golden Shields.

They still glisten. He still went through all the

motions and all these things, but really what he had was just

a imitation of the former glory. Imitation of the former glory

had brass instead of gold. What he was in was survival

mode. God had granted him just some

deliverance, and he was in survival mode rather than

victory mode. He had a form, but he had no

power. He was just there.

That's the danger that when you've been spared just enough,

you start even convincing yourself.

Sometimes that's complete restoration.

Sub deliverance causes me to talk like I'm free, to sing like

I'm free when deep down I know I'm not free.

Sub deliverance will cause us sometimes to to sit down on the

testimony that God has given us because we survived the storm.

But surviving the storm isn't the same as conquering the

storm. Hey man, sometimes we're

carrying brass Shields proudly, but we're forgetting that we

once carry gold in it. Shields.

Worst of all, sometimes some deliverance can make us immune

to conviction. Immune to conviction here,

Pastor right now. Because I wasn't destroyed this

time. Nothing bad happened this time.

I wasn't taken out this time. I didn't lose one of my children

this time. Just because it didn't happen

this time doesn't mean it won't still happen.

If you carry on the same way you're going.

Don't allow some deliverance to quell your conviction.

We'll count out that as bad as I used to be, I've come a long way

or God understands folks, you're flirting with the some division.

That's some that's some deliverance.

That's not the reason why God gave you some He didn't give you

for you to settle on your loyals.

He wants you to reflect. He wants you to consider he.

Hey, man, I believe it's in the book of Ecclesiastes.

The Bible speaks about how that there were people that had done

wrong and evil and there was not quick judgement.

And as a result of that, there are other people that thought

we'll all do the same thing because nothing has happened to

these people. You know what that's is?

That's a misinterpretation of some deliverance.

He had what what ribbon really had was a treasure.

It's called a second chance. Yeah.

And it's dangerous. It's glorious and dangerous at

the same time. And all that really is based

upon how we react to it. Glorious and dangerous at the

same time. Because sub deliverance

sometimes can soften us about whether or not we should be

urgent to change anything. It's the got a little reprieve

so and say man, like Apollo 13, it's it's getting back to Earth

but never reaching the moon. It's Rhea bones still being in

the palace, but he's losing some gold For us.

Sometimes it's it's it's that we come to church.

We've had some deliverance. We come to church, but we never

come to God. The story on Rio Bohm is this

the final verdict of his life, what he did or did not do with

some deliverance found in verse 14?

Speaking of Rio Bohm, he did evil because he prepared not his

heart to seek the Lord. That's the postscript on Rhea

Bohm's life. So much potential, so much

handed to him. Strong heritage, strong

spiritual family. And yet this is the most

sobering line in the story. When you viewed along everything

else that had been extended to him, he was spared.

But he didn't surrender. He was warned, but we see no

transformation. He received mercy, but it was

wasted. Nothing he did, nothing he did

with what was given to him. He did not seek after this

moment, he of of some deliverance.

He did not seek God intentionally, though God spared

a moment of total destruction. He did not.

He did not seek God intentionally.

And nothing more. Here's three of them.

He's just living in the shadows of what could have been, in the

shadow of wasted potential. Really.

Someone say Amen. He's a man that has a divided

heart. He's a man that has an

unfinished story. The Bible gives us the the the

the rest of his reign, as it often does with kings.

He says that Rio Bom reign for 17 years and his reign would end

in division. His reign would end in

vulnerability. His reign would end and he would

not have found really any true real peace because he did not

capitalize up on the little deliverance that God had given

him. As a matter of fact, his story

Amen is told even in his name. Rehoboam means he enlarges the

people, the very thing that identifies him.

Amen spoke of expansion and growth and increase, but it in

his reign he brought quite the opposite.

Instead of enlarging the Kingdom, he oversaw a Kingdom to

its fracturing point. Hey man, it was supposed to

grow. Hey man.

But instead it was divided. Hey man, it diminished.

And I'm thinking to myself, oh, Rehoboam, what you could have

done differently with some deliverance.

It didn't have to turn out like this.

There was a pause. There was mercy.

There was there was a sparing in that moment for you to take, if

you will, inventory and think maybe, perhaps I can go forward

differently than the way that I've come to this moment.

Because before he got to some deliverance, the Bible says he

was putting up, hey man, there were false idols and false

altars on high heels that he was giving and to God, God and God

gave him some deliverance, a little reprieve when he should

have got a heavy consequence. God wanted him to think.

God wanted him to consider not walk the same path and not I

gotta get real tonight. There's some of us that have

stepped on and trampled on over and over again the little

amounts of deliverance that God has given to our life.

He has been very kind. He's been very long-suffering.

He's allowed things not to happen and not take place.

That should have happened and should take place.

And it's up to us to have the right reaction to the little

deliverance, not to continue down that road, not to continue

with the things on the altar of Oscars.

It's up to us. Some deliverance for some it's

just the noose around your neck even becoming less tight, but

it's still there and you got to realize in a moment the floor

could just go out from under you and you'd be hanging there.

Don't allow the loosening of the noose around your neck to cause

you to think that this thing is over, that I don't need to try.

I just need a if you will get my brass shield instead of my Gold

1 and go through all the antics, go through all the ritual, go

through all the formalism of just being a church kid, a child

of God. No, no, no.

If he's giving you some deliverance, it's with purpose.

He wants you to succeed, not fail.

Hear me right now, it's the some deliverance that we get at camp

meeting conference when the right thing is preached in the

sermon just hits us just right and we have tears of contrition

that's falling down our face. And we're saying to ourself,

when I go home, it's going to be different, only for it not to be

different as we lived in from conference to conference and

camp meeting to camp meeting for all of our little episodes of

some. But we're still slaves to Egypt.

We're still living below the privilege of what God had in

mind. We say, well, Pastor McGinn, I'm

not going to hold you long. I'm preaching shorter all the

time, and I'm almost liking it. Some deliverance is better than

destruction, baby. But is it still far away from

what you were destined for? Here's what I know, Ria Bowman.

Those guards are always carrying these brass Shields when they

should have been gold. The longer you do that, the more

you'll forget what it felt like to carry gold.

I believe God is calling this back not to a survival mode, but

to significance. Not just I'll spare you, but

I'll restore you with the Apollo 13.

I'm not just I'll get you home, I'll get you to the moon type of

thing. We don't want this epitaph upon

our lives that they were a successful failure.

Don't settle for less than what he died to give you.

If you'll stand with me tonight. And we would gloat in a moment,

Buddies would jab each other in the ribs.

I got some deliverance. I know how it was.

You know how it was when you was a kid when you got by with

something you shouldn't have got by with, right?

We did it. And what that makes you want to

do, Raven? Do it again because you got by,

do it again. Some of us are in a cycle of

constantly getting by and we constantly do it again.

And we think there's always going to be some at the

beginning of the deliverance, but what happens when there's

none left? Folks, I'm telling you, when I

preach this morning, I reach for souls.

How can how we should reach for souls in the same degree that

that is absolute necessary. I'm telling this as a church.

It's time to quit playing games. This hokey pokey dab with the

Lord of putting the right foot and then taking it out and

dependent that some deliverance is going to catch you.

We're we're gambling with our souls.

We're gambling with the souls of our children.

It's all about how we react. Please understand that when God

gives that little, He's giving you mercy.

Pharaoh's heart. Every time that the hand was

lifted for the plague, his heart became harder.

Every time. That was some deliverance.

That was a reprieve. That was another chance.

Flies come, flies go, some deliverance.

Hell come, hell go some deliverance.

Frogs come, frogs go, some deliverance.

All until the first born is taken from the house.

Every time his heart's becoming harder.

He knew what happens with a hard heart.

It gets to the place. It can't even feel the impact of

the choice that it's making. Can't.

It can't. It can't decipher the impact of

the choice because it's too hard now.

It doesn't matter what's going on.

It doesn't impress the heart, it doesn't impact the heart, it

doesn't affect the heart. It doesn't matter because all

these times we've had the wrong response to some deliverance.

Pastor Pool years ago preached at the First Church.

I think it was misunderstanding the mercies of God.

What is that opportunity of opportunity, of some

deliverance, but not reacting any differently to what's been

handed to you? Bow our heads all across this,

folks. We can fool ourselves to be

carrying around Shields of brass, parading the same old

routine, same old parade. At the heart of the issue, you

know, you know what's in your hand isn't what ought to be in

your hand. And there's only one way to

change that. You got to do something with the

deliverance that God has given you.

You got to do something with the deliverance that God has given

you. This is a call tonight to the

members of the First Apostolic Church.

I'm asking you, what are you going to do with the little

deliverance that God has offered you time after time after time

after time? I implore you tonight to lay

down the brass, come back to an altar, come back to a purpose,

come back to total deliverance rather than just some

deliverance. It's about how we perceive and

how we react to what he's given to us.

This altar is open this evening. And Brother Mason, I know this

might be a hard one to find a song for.

Maybe we don't need one. But nonetheless, I'm asking

tonight. There's danger and just getting

a little reprieve. There's danger and nothing

happening when there should have been a hard, fast consequence.

It can if you will harden you and harden your sensitivity and

harden your heart and harden your spirit.

And when you would used to just whisper from God, you would be

so soft and crumble under the whisper of God with his voice of

guidance. Now he can be yelling at the top

of his lungs and it doesn't impact you.

That's what happens when we repetitively refuse and react

wrongly to the some deliverance that he gives to our life.

I don't want God have to yell. I don't want God have to turn,

if you will, the sun back in order to get my attention.

I I prayer that I oftentimes pray is God help me to always be

easily impressed by your spirit, easily impressed by your spirit.

Don't let the epitaph be up on you and your family someday.

A successful failure. Don't let the epitaph to be up

on you and your family someday. Wasted potential.

No, no, no, no. God, I realize what you've given

to me tonight is a gift, he said.

I won't destroy you right now. I'll just give you some

deliverance. We got to understand my feet

should be standing where I'm standing right now.

I should be a disservice experiencing what I'm

experiencing right now, but God has afforded me and my pitfalls

and my slip up some deliverance so I could reflect and respond

accordingly. Don't like like Ria Bone did.

Don't lack and prepare in your heart.

Don't lack of preparing your heart.

You know what you need. It's just like a callus on the

hand, you know, A little boy goes out at a young age with his

dad to swing an axe. And boy, it hurts his hands.

It causes blisters to come upon them and they're tender and

they're aching at night. But the more that little boy

does that, it comes in pervy. It becomes impervious to that

wooden handle and the sliding of it on his hands.

He builds up calluses of thick, thick skin where he doesn't have

the same impact on him as it did before.

And then the only way that little boy is going to be able

to change that if he gets some lotion or he gets some oil and

he rubs into those hands to make them pliable again and soften

them again. There may be some right here

tonight that need the oil. I've got spirit to touch some

calluses in your life and rough places in your life so that

you'll be sensitive to his touch and sensitive to his voice and

sensitive to his guide. It's again some some

deliverance. There's danger in it if we

respond, if we respond not with him and mine, not with the

Kingdom in mind, not with his projected destiny for us in

mind. Oh, Kababa Shy, let's talk to

the Lord, Let's talk to the Lord.

God woke this preacher up at 3:00 today because he wanted

someone to know the danger of mishandling that little

deliverance God has afforded us at times.

Child of God, you know what total deliverance is.

Child of God, you know what full restoration is.

Child of God, you know what walking confidently in the power

of His Spirit is. Don't settle for some.

Take that, Capitalize upon it. Use it to your advantage, but

don't set idly by as though, well, he understands and I got

by with it this time. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

I wish somebody. Let's look introspectively

tonight. Let's look introspectively

tonight. Is there anything in my life,

God, is there anything in my life that I need to lay before

you tonight? Is there any attitude?

God, is there any response? Is there any thought?

Is there any activity, Oh God, that I need to lay before you

tonight? Oh, Lord, Oh yeah.

God, am I skirting around some things that I've just pawned off

as being no major issues? But God, they're important to

you. But I have listen them.

I have cheapened them. Help me.

God have the right response coming.

God have the right response.