John Ch 5 - "Don't Waste Another Moment"

To do dance ministry.

Let's celebrate all of it, all of them. Lendister Aaron

dance like this is his last time. So we salute

him and thank God for him. Thank you choir, praise team,

thank you Doctor Flake, thank.

You musicians and minstrels. We appreciate you. John's Gospel, chapter five.

My natural son is in the house, and I'm always honored.

I certainly thank God for Brando.

He's my oldest son.

I got a lot of spiritual sons, but it's something

when God allows your natural son.

He's been here all weekend, and when they come home,

they just take their mama.

And go by their business. Don't tell them I think

they loved him. I'm a boy than they love their daddy.

But I'm not gonna get caught up on that today.

I'm just gonna thank God that.

He has a wonderful He and Jeremy have a wonderful

relationship with their mother. And I think that's a wonderful thing,

and I certainly appreciate it.

John's Gospel, chapter five.

It is a familiar passion of Scripture to those of

us who have read it. Sometimes when the Lord gives

you something familiar to preach just color, you get real nervous.

But I begin to see things in this particular text

that I have not seen in a while.

It is in John's Gospel, chapter five that this particular

scripture is only written, and it says after this there

was a feast.

Of the Jews, and Jesus went into Jerusalem.

Now there is that Jerusalem, by the sheep market, a

pool which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, having

fine porches, and these lay a great multitude of impotent folk.

A blind hawk with it, waiting for the moving of

the water, waiting for the movement of the waiting.

For the movement of the water.

For an angel went down at a certain season into

the pool in trouble the water.

And whosoever then first after the troubling.

Of the water stepped in, was made whole of whatsoever

disease he had.

But a certain man was there, which had an infirmative

for thirty and eight years.

But when Jesus saw him lie and knew that he

had been now a long time in that case, he said,

unto him, wilt thou be made whole? The impudent man

answered him, Sir, I have no one When the water

is troubled to put me into the pool.

But while I am coming, another step down.

Before me, and Jesus said unto him, rise up, take

up your bed and walk.

That's all we need. Closed your bibles.

But look at his neighbors and take your seat and say, neighbor,

don't waste another moment. Come on, look at another neighbor, said, neighbor,

don't waste another moment. Lastly, I'm going to allow you

to indiject your feelings.

Look at the neighbor say I'm.

Tired of you said, don't waste another moment. We certainly

celebrate brother Greg Jones, who's visiting from Anti State University.

On this morning.

I had a house yesterday full of rams, and I

had to tell folk when we're not mad at the rams,

we thank God for the rams.

Amen, but we are Anti State University.

But I bless God for all Anti and the rams

in the house and everybody else that went to a HBCU.

This is an interesting particular scripture in all of us

that sometimes have heard it, Minister Robinson at sometimes on another.

God has caused us to go pass the scripture.

But I begin to look at it with a new

light because this particular scripture, why we know the whole story.

The Bible says that there is a pool by the

place that is called but that's done, and what would

happen is because wils it was the sheep gate. It

was the entrance into salvation. It was the entrance into

the place that God was trying to get somebody in.

But what is.

Interesting with this particular scripture is this particular day, God

chooses this place a full of folk that need deliverance.

But my problem with the text is only one person

got their deliverance. But I need you to look at

a neighbor and say, but that's not going to happen today.

To talk, you gotta talk.

You shouldn't have sat beside that person if you wasn't

gonna talk to them, because you know shouts by now

and say nay, but that's not what's going to happen today.

I am at the place that I am not just

satisfied a Terrell with being blessed myself. I want to

see the folk around me blessed. I thought I would

get a better response than that.

I don't just want to be healed.

I want to see everybody around me healed. I don't

just want to be blessed, but I want to see

everybody around me blessed because our God is able to

do exceeding and abundant. I'm trying not to get happy

too quick. Above all, we can never ask a think.

There's nothing that is impossible for our God. He can

do anything he walks to. He's sovereign. He can do

it in the morning if he wants to. He can

do it in the noonday if he wants to. He

is so much God that he has the ability to

do some great things.

Shot.

But as we look at this particular text, it is

an interesting text because only John records this. You don't

see this anywhere else. And so when John picks it up,

you've got to understand John's writing. It is John that

souls us the I am ness of God. He solds

us seven attributes of God.

It is John that souls us.

An intimate portrait of who God is. John introduces to

us that he is the bread of life. Jean tells

us that he is the resurrection and life. John tells

us he's water when you're first at John tells us

that God is a waymaker and a door opener. John

tells us in the beginning was the Word, and the

word was with God. So he writes to us this

intricate portrait because he wants us to understand we're not

just serving a God who is lifeless, but we're serving

the one and only, true and living God. I'm getting

too happy here. I'm trying to get here. I got

to read this little manuscript that I wrote. But I

want you to understand that John is trying to.

Sew us something about God.

So he puts this interesting story at a place where

he plucks it between chapters four and chapter six, because

he wants us to know that there is nothing our

God cannot do. Shows us this man who is taken

daylight and he is laid at the.

Freshhold of his blessing.

And he has to deal with the fact that not

only is he there by himself, but the text denotes

to us such that there are five portraes, folks who

are hot, folks that are withered, folks that are blind

waiting for something to happen. I come to submit to

the church this morning. Sometimes you can't wait for stuff

to happen, that you got to make something happen yourself.

So it is here now that John begins to unport

us the story. It's Shun that introduces to us shut

that while this man is taken daily and laid by

the pool luck, he has become helpless in his situation.

Because Shut, sometimes you can become so bargled in your

mind that you think there is no help. But I

am after that person this morning who has determined and.

Decided to settle.

Not.

I'm after that person.

Nothing, who no longer has ingenuity or creativity. I'm after

that person who has decided this.

Is the way things are going to be.

I'm after that person not whose mind has tricked you

into faking nothing else can happen.

Not.

The text then denotes to us shut that while this

man is here.

He goes through this shut, not twelve years shut, he

goes through this not twenty four years shut, but for

thirty eight.

Years he goes through the same thing.

But I've come this morning to tell somebody in this

house God is about to break your cycle.

Lot. I know you've been.

Used to certain stuff, and you've been used to certain

folks handling you happy. You've been used to certain things happening,

and you've conditioned yourself to believe that things are.

Not going to change. Shut.

But I've come to tell this house of Zion nothing.

That we live in a season where we become comfortable

lot with looking at the same stuff.

We've become callous now and our.

Expectancy has become limited by what we see yat. But

I heard the Lord declare rap. We don't walk by

save not, but we walk by faith. And I've come

this morning to tell this house shut in a world

full of disposable shut, where everything is comfortable luck in

a microwave world lock, and in a world what we

become customed to plate shuck that are paper plates and

paper cups, suck and plastic forkshu where it's easy to

throw things away yet and it's easy to eat out

of disposable shot. In a world where we're used to

just opening upper can happen and just pouring it into

the heat, there is still a significance shut in recognizing

that God is not into throwing things away. And I

need you to look at him, neighbor and say, neighbor,

I needs you to understand it.

I don't need you to throw me away. Yeah, I

don't need you to.

Fake that my situation is disposable lot.

I don't need you to give up on me. Now.

I may have made some strides shut and I've come

through some trials shucking, and I've overshopped some hurdle shuck,

and things may not be like that used to. But

tell a neighbor around you, say, neighbor, don't you dare

care upon me? I've come to submit to you that

you have not seen your best day. You have not

made the money that God's about to let you make. Shuppy,

you don't even live in the house that God has

designed for you. You're not have the shop that you're

going to finish it. I won't for such to not

get satisfied with what you see. Can you look at him,

neighbor and say, neighbor things about such shames for me?

That wasn't the right name. You need to find you

another neighbor, say name things our abounce sayings for me.

You still don't have the right neighbor might have to run.

To the other side, say neighbor things our about to

sayings for me. So now, jealousy, yep, must be a

thing that the church must deal with because there's a

lot of folks that are jealous about where you're on now.

But I've come to tell you that.

God's getting ready to make some folks made.

God's getting ready to disturb what folks thought about you.

God's getting ready to disturb what your mama say. What

so Daddy saying, I've come to tell somebody up in

this house, God has.

They finally souls in you. God hass get you out

of the crowd. God has place his hands on your

life up.

God hass anned you for your miss I've come to tell.

You you're just like Esther.

God has called you up to the kingdom, up for

such a time as this.

I needs you the whole hands with a neighbor. While

you're holding hands, say neighbor, I got to convince you.

Don't settle for less than what he says.

Don't dream help and not expect your dream to come

to pass. Don't have visions and not expect God to

do it. Don't pray up and think that God's not

going to answer.

Don't look for it and think you're not going to

receive it.

Don't expected her and then sit there in doubt. Don't doubted,

but have faith in what he says. Something I've come

to tell.

This house of sighing that Abama.

Something is a prom of something, and every favorite heppen.

That God chuls everything that God's sons, everything that God

spoke to your hunt, everything that God with spread up,

everything that God say it, everything.

That God's placed in your pants. He's getting ready to

use it for his Lord.

Can I give you a word? BA have not saved?

Is have not heard?

Need them?

Have it in the hands of me.

The things, the things, the things, the things, the things,

the things, the things, the things He hands it store.

Can you get out to sea? I'm almost things? What fine?

Three names? Tell the name.

Expected by the end of the.

Month, expected by the end of.

The week, expected by the end of the year, expected

by the end of the day.

Expect that before the day is home expected.

Ask the name, Say name, what are you looking for?

So tell him name.

Don't wait up until it does it rise, until it

does it.

Don't wakes up for him to fulfill it. He's full

life out topering of this stake.

He who have begune.

Workship in you, He will bring at us to completion.

Wave your hands.

Over, neighbors here, tell a name. He ain't finished with

you yet.

Come on.

Tell me you ain't seeing your best stage yet. Tell

them you ain't saying manifestation. But tell him it's in

the atmosphere. Mataphi station, Matafi station, Manifis station. Tell somebody's

in the atmosphere. Tell somebody he's about to do it,

and he's about to do it. Quickly, Tell somebody he's

going he's going to answer.

Quickly. Tell somebody I.

See it in the spiritod I fear and mynah.

I seens it in the spirit. Shop straight, folks. Tell

them God's about to do it. Somebody tell them do it?

No, do it, y'all are.

In the right house. Do it, do it? Do it

for my name, do it for my friend, do it

for my sister, do it for my do do it?

Do it? Do it?

We look soup to blast, we loop super to manifest,

we loose soup pot us.

Do it, do it?

Do it?

You don't have to likes do it doing. Tell a name,

he's about to do it.

While you're placing, he's don't do it. While you're seeking,

he's don't do it. Why you're looking, He's don't.

Good, said sir set I need I need five minutes

to teach I need five minutes to teach. Take your seat, man,

it said.

Take your seat. Say any time now, any minute now,

any moment now, let me deal with the things. I'm finished,

I promise you.

I feel him doing it. I hear him doing it.

I can sense it. He's out to something I've been

father days over. Before I leave the church house, before

I leave the church house.

Gos go do it, Gospel, betform me. God's gone to answer.

I've been waiting, but he's ready. I've been listening.

But I hear you. Take your seat, Take your seat,

Take your seat, Pull your neighbor down, take your seat.

He says. Flick. He says flick. He says, to give

you some scripture.

First scripture, he says, is Isaiah forty three at nineteen.

This is God's announcement. Don't look for me to do it.

I want to do things like I used to do things.

Don't be looking at the window and I decide to

come through the door, because this next thing.

I'm gonna do it's gonna be beyond your understanding.

So he says in Isaiah forty three nineteen, behold, I

will do.

A new thing.

Sam who say I no stip lot coxcuse me, pursy.

He said, don't expect the same old, same old. Don't

expect me.

To youse who are used to you.

But I'm blessing some folks that's in your vicinity, so

they'll be able to be a blessing.

In your life.

I gotta get out of here, and he sayss flake.

He said, give you Luke five, because he told me.

To tell you I refuse.

To put new wine into old wine skins. In other words,

there are some things you're going to have to do

to show God I'm ready to receive. You're gonna have

to change your way of thinking.

Y'all. We're not gonna like me now.

You gonna have to change your theology. You're gonna have

to change your identity because God says I got new wine,

but I can't put it in your old structure.

Oh, this ain't going over whell I thought it would

go over, wealthy God.

God is saying I got something new, but I can't

bless you with anything new until you get rid.

Of the old. This ain't Bible, this is Newton Robinson.

Newton says two things cannot possess the same space. So

before God does something new. You got to move the

old stuff out the way so he can do the new. Okay, okay,

I just got two most skips. He's saying, some stuff

got to go. Some folks you gotta disconnect from.

Some folks you're.

Gonna have to leave behind. Some folks you gonna have

to bid them bye bye. You were good for this season,

but in the next season that I'm going in, I

can't take you with me.

He saying.

Some some folks you're gonna have to disconnect from, and

you're gonna have to wipe them off your Facebook, and

you gonna have to take them off your Instagram, and

you're gonna have to take them off your Snapchat because

not everybody wants to see you bless. What can I

prophise that right there? Just as sure as I'm standing here,

you about to be blessed. So everybody who can't stand

it need to go heading. They need to lead. Now,

some folks got to leave. Some folks I haters. Some

folks don't want to see you bless, So go ahead,

get used to sub.

Folks, cause you can't handle the blessings of the Lord.

Now you're not gonna be able to handle what's coming next.

Can you shake hands with name? Shake that hand like

you're gonna shake it off, Say, oh yeah, I kinda nick.

Listen, let's listen. Listen.

I gotta get out of there. I want to be finished.

I want to be finished by by by by once.

I gotta be finished by one twenty. I gotta I

gotta be finished by one. So this is sit sit y'all.

Y'all back up, Sit, sit Sit y'are back up.

Sit sit. So God says, new strategies.

Yeah, greater visions, because I've spoken over your life, God says,

and greater works than these shall you do? I need

you to wave your hands over the neighbor's hands. Say

you about to do greater works. Tell that neighbor while

you're waving their hands. And God's upgrading you.

Folks have discounted you.

Folks have looked over you. Folk have not recognized your permisial.

The people around you don't even know who you are.

They don't understand your identity because God says I'd had

your head.

Some folks won't recognize you because that I don't understand

how God works.

Some folks don't know who you are.

But God said, that's getting ready to be revealing of

who you are.

On your job, in your house, in your community, in

your schirce, in your family, God said.

I'm getting ready to reveal to them.

This is the one that I'm annoyed denser for what's

coming next.

This is the one that I picked out.

This is the one that I've soul said, he this

is the one I've sanctified.

This is the one I've annoyed it. I'm finishing when

I'm come to make an announcement that there's a greater

calling over your life. And while you have chosen to settle,

while you have.

Become comfortable, God sends me, I got about.

Fifteen more pages I ain't gonna get to. God sends

me to tell you don't get comfortable where you are.

I hear the Holy Ago saying you're not even in

the right tax record. Somebody gonna catch it when they

get hold. I hear the Holy Ago saying they really

owe you back pay. But I hear the Lord saying,

don't you fight the battle, Let me fight it. I

hear the Lord saying, unexpected checks.

Now I don't know who you are. I hear the

Lord saying, for the next fourteen days.

Every day you go go to your mailbox, and before

you open it, don't expect fields, but just go to

dance and.

Right in front of it, and watch me what come

never come.

I hear the Lord saying, they offenchards you, and they

get Betty to find the mistake, and they don't call

you to say we all you.

I hear the Lord saying, watch.

Me prove to you.

So this man, as I close, this man was right

on the edge of this blessing. Nobody ever came along.

And pushed them.

Into his destiny. They watched him lay here.

In the same spot, close enough to get it, but

not close enough to believe God for it.

For thirty eight and the Texas Pacific long years. He

was that close but could not get it.

His friends loved him enough to place him close, but

they got caught up in.

What was supposed to happen. How do you know what

is in the text and closing.

Jesus Season, Julia Risel, I love, I love, I love.

The scripture because it says Jesus is afar off.

But just tap somebody quietly. You don't have to get

excited to say this. Just tap somebody on the shoulder.

Say, but he sees you.

Oh no you no, no, no, no, no no no no.

You didn't say you didn't You didn't say it like

I said that. You didn't you you say he sees you.

That's not what I said. I need you to tap

the lady. And saying he sees you make it personal.

I need you. I need you to.

Understand because because Isaac, I ain't got I ain't got

enough time to lay lay everybody out there are five porches. Yeah,

all of us need God mm hm.

But he sees you halted, whither hopeless. He could have

blessed anybody, but he sees.

You.

Comes to the man will.

Now.

And I told y'all when I when I when I

when I preached and teach this text, said Sabrina. My

text would have had a whole different spend because when

Jesus comes and asks me, wildt I be?

I was? I was?

I was?

I was, say Jesus, now, no, you ain't crazy. But

I've been like this.

For thirty eight how dare you ask me? But it

is called a rhetorical question because what he is saying

is your next possibility lies within you. What he was

saying to him is you have the answer to what's

going to happen next. He's saying to you, your decision

is going to determine how fast you get it.

Your response is going to determine how quick I do it.

Now, let me digress. This is not in my text,

but I just heard the Holy Gooes. He's downloaded.

I just heard the Holy gost say. Now, you can't

be arrogant, you can't be funny, you can't be crazy. Mmh.

You can't get caught up on what every I'm I'm

I'm I'm mister Robinson, I'm getting read miss him.

You can't be caught up on what everybody else thinks.

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