God Is About To Finish The Process Luke Ch2

Every tongue that lifts itself up, God will allow you

to condemn it in judgment. Has God to bless the

fruit of their hands, the work of their hands. Has

God to granted in them grace, mercy and peace. Has

got to do for them only what He can do

for them. Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank

you for the hands that I hold now. I thank

you that you have given us everything that pertains to

life and to godlesness. I thank you that no weapon

that's formed against us will ever prosper.

I thank you that I'm holding hands with victory.

I'm holding hands with power, I'm holding hands with grace.

Thank you that everything that you have promised it shall

come to pass. Bless the hands that I hold right now.

Rebuke the ad for Sarah on every hand. Render the

plan of the enemy harmless and ineffected. We plead the

blood of Jesus over the hands that we hold now

in Jesus' name, I've turned. Those hands are loose.

Just go to clapping, Just go to praising. Just go

to praising. As you turn, those.

Hands are loose, as a sickment that God is answering

your prayers.

Before you take your seat and look at at least

two people. Tell God's going to do it.

You don't have to be specific in what He's going

to do, because He is able to do anything but fail.

You don't have to name what it is. All things

are possible if.

We only believe.

We certainly thank God for the leadership of this house.

We thank God for every mother, for every deacon.

Come on, come on, y'all clapta and celebrate, for every minister.

To all of our pastors, our pastor pastoral care, our

pastor of administration, our pastor executive pastor, our youth pastor,

come on, we celebrate all of you.

To all of our.

Evangelists, we celebrate you and are grateful to God for you.

Turn your bibles quickly to Luke's Gospel, chapter two. I'm

not going to be before you long.

And we certainly a salute and celebrate the lady of

this house, the finest lady in.

This whole world.

I appreciate what God is doing in our first lady,

and we celebrate God. Thank you to our Singles Ministry

for our invite this week.

To our marriage ministry, thank you.

We had wonderful time of fellowship and dialogue on yesterday.

And I'm appreciative to God because I think I know

some of you just a little bit better because we've

spent time together, and we certainly celebrate God for your willingness.

We certainly let's salute this fine chorum of musicians. I

think we have the best musicians in the whole wide world.

Come on, y'all will do better than that, and.

We salute you, and to our choir and music department

praise team, to all of those who make up our

music department, all of the different praise.

And I think it's very unique.

We have different praise and worship leaders, different choie directors,

different folk, and I think it is just the wonderful

uniqueness of the unique gift of God. And I am

great full to all of those who serve in our

music department. Please don't forget they've asked us. On next Sunday,

we're going to join together in a meal, and the

meal is being prepared for us and in order that

we might adequately serve you if you're going to partake

with us, I believe the meal is posta And I

don't know if I was supposed to mention that or not,

but it's fostera and we want to make sure we

have enough for everybody.

So if you're going to share.

With us, please let us have your name after service,

because we don't want to be insufficient and unprepared for

those of you that are going to.

Be sharing with us.

Please also note that the minister's a meeting immediately after

the service in the fellowship hall. I'm trying to remember

everything I'm supposed to remember, and please remember we have

some other correction to some announcements that we'll do later.

I feel lid of the Lord to look at this

particular scripture. The scripture comes from and you've heard me

a dialogue about it Luke's Gospel, chapter two. It is

a very familiar past of the scripture, but it's very

interesting in a season like this. And it says from

the first verse, and it came to pass that in

those days that they went out a decree from Caesar

Augustus that all the world should be taxed. Look at

somebody tell's tax time. In the middle of tax time,

they had to go back to their original city to

be registered. This was what we call the census. And

this census first took place where Caronius was governing.

Syria.

Thank you Syria, so that all went to their registered city,

everyone to his own country. And Joseph also went up

from Galilee. I think it is important that we see

the words.

It's is.

Joseph also went up from Galilee out of the city

of Nazareth into Juday, the city of David, which is

called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and the

lineage of David to be registered with Mary his betroth

wife or his expouse. It should say in your particular

Bible who was with child? So that it was that

while they were there, the days were complete for her

to be delivered, and she brought forth her first son

and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in

a manger, because there was no room for them in

the inn. You can close your Bible, but rehearse I

was subject to somebody. Just look at them, to iball

and say, neighbor, God is about to finish the process.

Look at somebody on the other side and tell him

God is about to finish of the process.

Finn.

One more neighbor, that you know, at least know some

of the stuff you've gone through in light because sometimes

we make the sad mistake of sitting beside somebody.

But you need somebody.

Who at least knows that you've had some toils and

some trials and some situations.

Tell them God's going to finish the process. It is

an interesting story.

But I think sometimes we do ourself a misnomer in

church because we miss the details of the scripture. I

am prone, and I love a good preaching. I love

preachers who statically break down the Word of God so

that its meaning has the great essence of the Word

of God. I like preachers who take the scripture and

pull it apart in some kind of way homolytically deliver

it so that I can understand what God is really saying.

But this particular scripture is fond to us because God

speaks of Jesus' birth in various books. But it is

here in Luke's Gospel that we find details to show us.

One only has to go one book over to Matthew.

To discover that Jesus has to be carried by Mary

and by Joseph out of the place where they are

comfortable into a place called Egypt.

Now we can spend.

A whole lot of time past the talking about Egypt,

but one has to understand that one third of the

whole world are people of color, and because one third

of the world is people of color, as we go

around the world, we have to submit to the fact

that the hue and the complexion of many people is

us like us, I believe God has to give to

us an understanding of who Jesus really is. By explaining

to us that there is a process that God uses

to bring our deliverance. We cannot negate or go past

back that Jesus now has chosen a.

Little bitty girl who is twelve years old and already

Joseph has paid the dowary, because in the Bible days,

if you want it to be married, what you would

have to do is go to the girl's parents and

you would have to sit down and negotiate with him

how many camel, how many cows, how many sheep you

were actually.

Going to give the family because the family was losing

a child but gaining the world. It is interesting because

we look at this from a flashback of twenty first century,

never realizing that sometimes when God has plans for us.

His plans are not our own plans. God for some.

Of us has messed us up because the plan of

God is not always easy. The plan of God is

not always comfortable, because you would think that if God

was going to use you up, he would use everything

around you up and everything that's attached to you. And

now I must deal with the misnormal because I was

listening the other day to a preacher who, in his

discourse wanted us to believe that what happened was God

comes and somehow arrests Mary and goes against her will.

But the devil is a lie. The Holy Ghosts is.

A gentleman, and he never goes against anything.

That's within our lives.

I see some of you getting nervous, and you should, because.

That's what's wrong with some of us. Such. Some of

us are so.

Strong willed and so caught up on ourselves that when

the plan of God is being unfolded, we think we

have a say, soul a, look at the text. Now

Mary has been chosen by God. Indeed, trigger Bonhoffer, who

is the great flosion of the day.

Absessed to be Soulsen.

Nothing is not always popular, to be chusen, nothing is

not always comfortable.

Some of you have found out that the moment God

tolds you you lost fore something. Some of you have

found out the moment that folks found out.

That God's hand was upon your life sucking. They didn't

want to go out and eat anymore, they didn't want

to hang out. And some folks have accused you of

faking more than what you are. But you got to

understand nothing. When God God is choosing nothing, he doesn't

choose any junk.

Or help me out, David, you have.

Been fearfully and wonderful maid. I might not look like

you think I need to look. You may not like

my style, my flair, you might not like my swag,

but don't get it twisted just because you don't like it.

You got to know sometimes God prefers what others reject.

I need you to help me appreciate. I'm going somewhere.

Look at a neighbor and say, neighbor.

Just because shut you have been rejected by the world,

it does not mean that God has forgotten about you.

So we have to come to the place because we

always want to fit in.

We want to be.

Like somebody else shutter, and there is a danger for

us to be like the Jones shutting. I've come to

tell somebody in this house.

No matter how much.

You try to fit in, it's not going to work,

no matter how much you try to please other folks

hutting and get folks on your side. God has a

whole group of people who have been enoughted and appointed

for this hour that you will not fit in. But

see now how God deals with fish shutting. Because he

calls Mary, he sasans the word that he's set by

sending an angel. And I've come to tell you that

the angel was only come from makes nothing of what

God had began. And I've come to tell somebody in

this house, shutter come from.

Mason is on the way.

You may not feel like much shucking, You may not

look like much shutter, You may.

Not think much of yourself.

Fucker, But can I say it like the season saint said,

God has a way hut and it's mighty sweet shutting.

You can lay your burn shutter. Count that his seetuck.

He knows the road here, carry your lord God that's away,

and it's mighty sweet.

Sit, Sit, sit, trying.

To do something different here this morning got to so

you got to understand.

It is in the Greek called karagami. You karragami to Karagami.

Here, Sutton, when the will of God has come in

your life to interrupt it, I need you to find

the neighbor and say, neighbor, don't get comfortable nothing, there's

about to be an interruption.

Nothing into your plane. Shut.

I've come to tell this search God say no more shirt,

it's useful. I won't let you be like in it.

Not here, Suting. I won't let you hang with everybody

else shutting just so you can pump up your ego.

God say shut. I'm after something and whatever I got to.

Do to get to it, I don't mind who I've

got to move.

Fucking oh what I've got to move?

Can you for the first time you use your sake

your hands up, shake an eigbel hanging like you're going

to sake it off.

Say name.

Up, Name Lord. I feel a preacher. Somebody's been a

play for this black man. God told me to tell

you he's getting ready to switch some stuff up. He's

getting ready to remove you from some folks. He's getting

ready to change your answers. He's getting ready to change

your disposition, and he's getting ready to change your countenance.

God told me to tell somebody in this house, sutt

he's getting ready to wreck your prayer for so the

neighbor tell your name and neighbor, no more happy. Will

he allow you happy, just to be normal happy. But

I've come to tell you that in this house shut.

There's about fifty folks that I've got to preach to.

God told me to tell you that what He's getting ready.

To do in these last few and de simble hockey

is to get you to a place that when you.

In into the new year.

Everything that you prayed for, everything that you ask for,

everything that you believe for, everything you've been looking for,

everything you've been desired, nothing will be denied.

And I've come to tell this house, our house of sion.

God say cut.

Understand now that when Karagani is loosing your life, the

will of God is unfair. I don't know who I

came to pursue her, but just in case.

It's your neighbor. Puts all the neighbor and say, neighbor,

you can get the house. Now shut them the jobs,

y'all sell him. The money is your sell them. What's

been held up, it's about to be released.

And I come to tell this house God always finishes

what he's started. He's not a man that he should lie,

he's not the son of man that he should repair.

But everything that God says, tell him out free folks

and tell him name.

He really means it.

So now maybe maybe has got to understand I'm in

a position of embarrassing. How do I tell Joseph that

something is growing.

Inside of me?

I need every woman in this house put your hand

on your belly, say I've got something grow.

Inside me.

You got a book that's got to come out. You've

gotta play here that you gotta write. You've got a

website that you gotta put on, You've gotta testimony that

you gotta release. H But whenever God gets involved with

what's going on in Alde, he has to somehow deal

with us from the basis of our understanding. And I've

come to tell somebody in this house you may not

always understand what God is doing, but.

Can you tell at least three folks and tell him name.

God told me to tell you there's a sign placet

it front of you. God, He and work, And I've

come to tail tell this house that what happens sometimes

God have to look at us and look at our ability.

So praise him, and I've come to tail. Somebody in

this house, lift your hands and praise. God has to

see whether you can praise him under the worst circumstances.

But then God walks away, and he wonders what You're

going to do when I walk away?

Can you steal.

Praze me like you praise while I was blessing you,

And I've come to tail somebody in this house.

You're just.

Like Mary.

God, say Mary, you praise me happy when things were rough.

Now I'm ready to bless him.

Say a neighbor by the hand, say name.

God says you pass. You pass the test.

I can blessing now because if you can praise.

Me with nothing, I know that the.

Section that's in the mail, it's not go stifle her

your praise. Grab a neighbor for the next to the last.

Say name, God saw you in your calamity.

God, so.

In your heart, God saw you in your pain.

Honey, steal gotta praise out of your life.

Let's deal with this.

Let's deal with this, and I'm totally finished. You give

me seven minutes. I promise you I'm out of here.

First thing, first thing, First thing. God will never hijack

your will.

Okay, I lost somebody. God will never hijack your will.

What are you saying, pastor, some of you are in

trouble now because you won't cooperate with God. Look at

the neighbors and neighbor. Cooperate with God and he'll cooperate

with you. Tell the neighbors and neighbor. Couldn't that be

the reason why you got hell.

All around you? Sell a neighbor.

God is trying to get some things to you, but

you've been busy trying to determine.

It's got to be a special way.

But I came to tell somebody in this place, your

will got to be God's will.

You're gonna have to let some stuff go. You're gonna

have to let some people go. You're gonna have to

let some attitudes go. You're gonna have to let some

habits go.

I think, I think, I think I lost half of

y'all because we want, we want God to come in

like a policeman and arrest us and throw us on

the front of the car and tell.

Us put your hands behind your back. No, God doesn't

require you to put your hands behind your back. He

requires you to put your hands in the air. Okay,

somebody missed me. He doesn't require you to be handcuffed.

He requires you to say yes to your will, yes

to what you want. I thought I knew what I wanted.

I thought I knew what I needed. I've been trying

to do it my own way. But Lord, forgive me

taking me back to the place. Why first receive you

take me back to the place.

Why verse believe David got in the place that some

of my son. Now we need to say to the

Lord creating me a clean horn.

I done got polluted by the world. I done got polluted.

By my job.

I didne got polluted by the fault son that I'm

hung around. Maybe we need he and Isaiah experience. For

I heard Isaiah say it was in the year the

king was Nye that I saw the law hurt. He

was high and lifted up, and.

His shade filled the temple.

Isaiah didn't see anybody else, but he declined her, woe's me,

I'm undone. No, it's me, I've hurt myself. Whoe it's

me I didn't pray enough. Wholl it's me I didn't spend.

Time with you.

I'm undone, I'm unclean.

But Lord, give me one more, give me one more.

Give me one.

More, give me one more, give me one more, give

me one more, one.

More chance, take me back, hold me, clean me, fix

me up.

Gim me.

You have number two. I only got one more, number two.

Don't get nervous. I only got one more.

Number two.

God will not hiject your will one number two. Mary

had to be a willing.

Participate. The Angel prepares to get ready.

This ain't normal, This ain't usual, This ain't how it

normally is. But God has chosen you. He has highly

favored children. I'm sure if we were to interview Mary

right here, said Mary, how you doing it? Now?

What past? I'm doing good? How does it feel to

be favored? Passor? I don't like how this feels.

Because to be favored, I had to be embarrassed, Oh y'all, miss.

To be favored, I had to be the talk of

the town.

To be favored, I had to have my name drug

through the muddy. What you're talking about, Mary, I am

the discussion of every six o'clock news, seeing in has

been here to interview me. They're trying to make God's

truth out of a liar.

What I thought you'd say?

You was favored, Please let me tell you. Sometimes being

favored don't feel good. Sometimes favorite means you can't hang

out with everybody else at Ihart.

You gotta go home, but everybody else.

Is sitting there over some pancakes and some syrup laughing.

Sometimes favorite means you.

Got to say no to the date because it's not

the will of God for your life and you don't

have time to waste. Sometimes favor say this ain't the

right one, so stop wasting your time.

Move on to the next. Favor says no, you can't

give up your.

Body because if you give up your body, Mary, nobody's

going to be able to prove an immaculate conceptions. You

can't give your body to Joseph, but you got to

give your body to me. Present your body as a

living seconds.

This ain't going over good Smith.

Holy.

And acceptable unto God. This is only your reasonable. This

is only reason no ball. I'm trying to save you

from getting AIDS. I'm trying to save you from getting syphilis.

I'm trying to save you for being sterilized from the

rest of your life.

Sometimes God has.

To rescue you when you don't even know you're being rescued.

I'm trying to deliver you.

Out of this lifestyle because I got plans for the

rest of your life.

You're not ordinary, You're not like everybody else. I'm not

gonna let you feel like faith like act like everybody else.

So sometimes God has to snatch.

You, pull you away from everybody else.

I know that this is not popular preaching number three

and is the last one. The will of God will

mess up your life.

Because he is married. The plans are for a white dress,

will a long trail. Her mama always intended for her

to wear a veil. How do you go down the

aisle when the baby is already inside of you?

When it invest?

It doesn't make sense because.

That is being done has been done by thought Holy Gost.

You're having a hard time explaining to folks that what's

happening to you is under the unction, under the direction,

under the opposite, under control of the Holigos.

Can I tell you something now in this with a testimony?

Too many of us.

Don't recognize there is more to the will of God

and our coming to church.

Than we understand it.

Because you are part of a Pentecostal.

Bible believing demon chasing church.

It puts you in the world at a disadvantage, but

it places you under the heaven with a far greater advantage.

And sometimes you got to let what happens outweigh what

you think ought to happen.

I'm sure Mary would have loved.

Planning a wedding in June, walk down.

An aisle with a long runner.

I'm sure she would have loved for her father to

walk her down the aisle. But what happens when God

changes your plans. Happens when God says, no, you're not

gonna have the fairy book wedding with the thirty bridesmaids,

the thirty grooms men, the miniature bride, the minister groomsman,

the six flower girls. Why in the world are you

spending two hundred thousand dollars that you don't have in

the first place to style and profile and show off

for everybody else.

And when you get finished spending.

Two hundred thousand dollars, you're gonna go home to an

apartment that has no furniture. You tried to impress everybody

else when the person that you really needed to impress.

Is standing right in front of him.

The will of God knows how to smack you in

the face.

And speak to you that you ought to at least

have some common sense. Will of God will tell you

I'm not in competition with you. The will of God

will tell you.

The anointing that I got, I paid for it.

Somebody just dismissing that was?

That was.

I need you to look at.

Somebody telling the annoying that I have h I paid for.

Look at somebody else to tell me you wouldn't want

you don't want to be me. That's why I tell folk,

be careful, be careful.

Because I want to beat Jakes. I want to I

want to be like water. What need a buyer? I

want to be like this preacher.

No, you don't. I don't know if you could take

what it takes.

The anointing is costly. Marry now, I'm closing. I promise.

I'm marry.

Now goes from popularity to seclusion. She goes from being

still to running. Text says, and I'm finished now marrying Joseph.

I have to go up from Galilee, out of the

city of Nazareth into Todail. They gotta find themselves in

the city of David, which is called Bethlehem. God has

a plan for your life.

And too many of us are fighting his plan because

we think.

If I could write my own script, there are some

people I would mark out, some folks I would add in,

some folks I would pull close.

Some folks I would push away.

But what happens when God has designed your life is.

He don't let you choose or decide. He pushes away

some he pulled close. Some sense the steps of a

good man or woman have been ordered by God. Jove said,

can get happy. I'm to get happy.

Joe says, he knows the way that I changed him, and.

After He's tested me, I shall come forth this pure gold.

In other words, I had to give up my wheel

for his wheel.

But somebody declared Card's way, He's the fast way. I

didn't see it in the beginning. I did not understand it.

I was too busy trying to have my own way.

I was too busy trying to be flashy. But I'm

too flawed to be flashy. I had to come to myself.

I st like that boy who asked his father father

give me my inhabitance. I think I know better. I

think I'm growing enough. I think I can handle it.

But one day after he had received every thing that

the father gave. He found himself hungry, desperate, depressed and distress.

But I thank God that he always such completes his task.

Last time, shake a name by the hay say name.

He always shuts, he gets his way, Hut. He always shut,

completes his task. He always comes out on top. He

always shuck stays it down. And I'm company that he

he who has to be done.

Help a good work, He will help bring it.

Hup to complete.

You're coming out hut better than now. You're coming out

as the head and not the take. You're coming out

as bless and not curse. You're coming out and all

you gotta do.

Hut is say shut yourself, say shopping yourself up, Say

happy yourself.

Hello, happen I you mos truck. Hello, you're gonna be miserable, honey. Hello,

you're gonna cry.

Sing?

I rejected? So I got a date with your name? Hello?

Are you gonna be crust straight? You just set the

help need to throw your hands up and say, loo.

Not my wheel, buddy, your wheel.

Mhm.

Kress smiths Smith. A lot of times what God is

trying to do is get us out frustration comes in.

Frustration comes in.

Put on the front of him, put his two hands.

Because God is trying to get you out, and you're

trying to stay in. There's resistance to go in any direction.

I don't want to go back, but I can't go forward.

Something's pulling me, and I don't understand what it is.

I come to church, I dance, but something still has

a hold of me. I'm trying to get loose. I'm

trying to break free. I need freedom right now. I'm

tired of dealing with the crazy stuff, tired of dealing

with the same folks, tired of being in distress.

Where I dance shutting I wanna.

Dance free, shutting up. I want to dance deliver. I

wanna dance with the bright.

Clu up sow.

God.

I need you so release me from the clutches of

what's holding me. I need you to set me free,

set my mind free, set my spirits free. I want

to be right.

I want to be saved. I want to be whole.

I want to be delivered. Finish. But one last question,

how long?

How long.

Will you fight over what has already been completed? The

Birth of Jesus six sick, Please the birth of Jesus

is the first of many miracles. Well make sure you

hear me. The birth of Jesus is the first.

Of many miracles.

Sometimes you gotta break through the first one in order

to make it easier for the second. Sometimes you can

be so close and yet so far. Don't let anybody

discount they used to They used to play this. This,

This will help you get it. The used to play

a game. Don't play games no more. Now they sitting

in the house, something in their hands. But when I

was a kid, they used to play a game called mother.

Oh y'all heard her? Okay, so y'all heard her. And

it seems like when they would come in, Eddie, come sir.

When they were dealing with everybody else, Pacis would say, Mother,

may I take three giant steps? And Mother would say, yes,

you may.

H Eddie would say stay there, stay there. Eddie would say, Mother, may.

I take.

Two morrella twelves? H two umreilla twelves. You would dancer,

you supposed to know how to take i'morrella turns.

And she say yes you, yes, you may, And.

Some of y'all.

I think he took three, but I ain't gonna say nothing.

I think he took three, y'all, And I would say, Mother,

may I take three giant steps? She said no, but

you can take three baby steps. Sometimes it looks like

everybody else is way ahead of you, But I want

to submit to you. To be going somewhere slow. It's

just as good as going somewhere fast. All I need

is a little bit of movement. And God told me

to tell y'all that you need to be happy about.

The little successes.

Be happy about the little things you conquered. Be happy

that I ain't like I was last year. Be happy

that God you took at least five of the cut

words out of my mouth.

God, you have changed my attitudes. God You've been fixing me.

God You've been working on me. God, I can go

around my enemies now and I don't have to get upset.

God.

I can come to church and they can shop right

in front of me, and it doesn't him and my craze.

God.

When I come to the House of God, I got

joy now.

Sometimes you need to thank God for the little stuff.

It's just because just because it looks like.

Somebody else is advancing it does not mean that God's

hand is not upon my life just because it looks

like somebody else. It's far in front of me. Last time,

I need you to look at your name. But this

is gonna be sort of like a testimony living the

neighbors and neighbor, you don't know the hell that I've

been through.

Come on test if I tell him, say neighbor, I

look good for the stuff that I've been through.

Tell them some stuff should have took my mind, some

stuff should have made me lose it, some stuff should

have taken me out. But say neighbor, because I'm still here.

I'm going out with a praise. I'm going out with

thank you. I oh help praise, cause you don't know,

like I know what the law has sun for me.

You don't know how many nights I have to cry.

You don't know how many lies I had to send

to hide. You don't know how much stuff I did

to myself.

But law, you didn't sit secrets to.

Let none of these things be.

I could have been her somewhere now, dogs, no food,

no clothes.

Left all alone without a frame, just of a number,

with the tragic here.

But you didn't see fit to let me suffer.

I'm in served it her.

But you're still solcery. I was the one, but you

still solcery. I was guilty, but your still soldery.

I was the one that told a lie.

The fakes be unto God because he always causes us

to try out the last time, say a neighbor by

the hand, say how.

Victorious more under a comp I'm a.

Winner here away shopping, finishing, shopping.

What he starts, finish?

I finished, and finish I finished. I stopped.

That's not I'm stopping. I'm stopping. But that's not my recommendation.

My recommendation, my recommendation. Help appraising my recommendation,