Luke 7 - "Life To Your Dead Situations"

Slap your hands as you take your seats.

This is the day that the Lord has made. We

will retarice and be glad.

This is the day that the Lord has made. We

will retarde.

We certainly blessed the Lord for another day that the

Lord has kept us.

He has kept us from long evil, with.

Our minds stayed on him.

Certainly we honor the leadership of this house.

To all of our mothers, to all of our deacons,

to all of our trustees, to all of our elders,

our pastors, our overseers, our menace, we.

Honor you on this morning.

To the elate lady of this house, Lady Sheryl Shause,

we honor you.

And to all of God's children.

We certainly bless the Lord, and we're thankful this morning

for another day of life and for living.

Is there anybody just glad to be alive?

He didn't have to let us live, but he's allowed

us to live one more time.

That's enough to be grateful.

I don't have to remind you somebody didn't wake up this.

Morning, but he woke you up all time, gave you life,

health and stress, and for that we are grateful.

Get your bibles with your biables. Some of us have

already been in service. Thank you for allowing us to

complete our assignment. On this morning at the nine o'clock hour,

we were involved in the blessing, the consecration, the elevation

of Pastor Jericha Wise on this morning at nine o'clock.

Normally we would be in this sanctuary. Thank you for

being so understanding. Sometimes your pastor has a tendency to

get in the midst of stuff and mess it up,

and I did that today.

I double book myself.

So on this morning at nine o'clock we were at

christ Alive at the pastoral elevation of Jericha Wise. This

afternoon we're praying that you meet us and Ashparrow. I'm

on assignment this afternoon, going to encourage a young man

of God and a young ministry, and hopefully you will

meet us in ash Barrow is not that far and

you will meet us there at.

The four o'clock hour.

I am always grateful for all of the people of God.

Thank you for your prayers, for your support on this week,

for those of you who drop things off at the house.

My son is watching the last I saw he was watching,

and we are certainly grateful for all that you do

for us as a family. Please continue to keep him

in your prayers. He's progressing. We had a doctor's appointment

on Friday, and he needs your prayers. Let's look at

the Word of God from Luke's Gospel, chapter seven. There

is a very familiar pastive scripture that the Lord would

have us to focus on this morning. We're certainly grateful

for those who are watching online.

Thank you for joining us. Thank you for those of.

You who are watching and you are part of this ministry,

and those of you who are not physically a part

of this ministry, but you are supporting to us. We've

got good news. Just just tap somebody, tell him better

days to come in. That's all I can say.

I can't say too much.

Lap somebody on the other side and tell him better

days are coming. You ought to get excited up the

fact that God will do just what he's saying.

David said it best. I once was young, but now

I'm old.

But yet I've not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his

seed begging break.

I wish you grabbed somebody that got in the hole

it goes and tell him he'll do just what he's said.

That's all I can say right now.

But about about I promise you in a few days

you're gonna be real happy about what the Lord has done.

And so Fishop McNeil is working this morning, and we're

certainly praying the students are moving back in like North

Carolina Anti State University, and so he's working this morning.

Castor and his family are out because he's working on

this morning, so we certainly thank God that they are online.

As far as I know.

Let's look at the Word of God that comes from

Luke's Gospel, chapter seven, and we're going to begin reading

at verse eleven.

We'll actually to stand when you have it. If you

don't have it, just slide over close to the person

who does have it.

Let's read the scripture together.

It says, now it happened the day after that he,

meaning Jesus, went into a city called Nane name, and

many of his disciples went with him, and a large crowd.

And when he came near the gate of the city,

behold a dead man was being carried out, the only

son of his mother. And she was a widow, and

a large crowd from the city was with her.

When the Lord saw.

Her, he had compassion on her and said to her,

do not weep. Then he came and touched the open coffin,

and those who carried him stood still, and he said,

young man, I say to you arise. So he who

was dead set up and began to speak, and he

presented him.

To his mother.

Then fear came upon all of them, and they glorified God, saying,

a great prophet has risen among us, and God has

visited his people, and his report about him went throughout

Jadeah and all of the surrounding regions. You can close

your bible, just look at a neighbor and repeat our suddenly, say, neighbor,

God's about to give life to your dead situations.

Come on, look at one a person.

Tell him, neighbor, God is about to give life.

To your dead situations. Come on, last time, I should

take your seat. Tell somebody he's speaking life.

It is interesting, and any person who is in Christendom

will have to go through times of discouragement and frustration.

The nimy likes.

To get attached to us because he understands that we

are spiritual beings who have been created to live in

a physical world. So what he likes to do is

to get us caught up in our emotions. He likes

for us to point in on those things that are

emotional to us. You know, you've been taught them the

sight of small hearing those things that are emotional.

He likes to deal with us.

Whenever the enemy wants to try to destroy you, he

will deal with matters.

Of your heart. He waits and he attacks.

He attacks family, He attacks mothers and daughters and sons,

because he knows that we are emotionally attached to those things.

He knows if it's going to hurt, it's got to

hurt you in a place that almost devastates you.

He has an assignment. He's just like the thief.

For John declares, it is the thief that comes but

for to kill, to steal, and to destroy it. So

if the enemy wants to get next to you, he's

always got to mess with something that is dear to you.

He's on an assignment because he recognizes he cannot stop you.

He cannot kill you. And though sometimes you feel like

what he's doing is killing you, I come to submit

to you.

He does not have the power to kill you up.

So what he wants to do is get so emotionally attached.

He gets in our feelings because he understands that when

God created.

Us, he created us with feelings. Shut.

Oh, y'all looking at me, real spiritual this morning. So

let me remind you.

Can you remember at the age of twelve, thirteen, fourteen,

for some of you.

Where you thought you were in love. Oh, you stayed

up all night long on the phone. We didn't have

all of the nuances that we have now, Ah, but

you would stay on the phone all night long saying nothing,

and I do mean saying nothing. Got simply just laying

there with the receiver on your pillar, both of you,

just breathing, because you said you were in love.

Can you remember we used to be.

An elder smith that we were afred to court, a

fred to date, afred to show any emotions in front

of our parents.

But this is a new generation.

Now folks will look at you right in your face, shut,

and you would almost have to suggest that they get

a hotel room.

But when I was growing up, Ah, you didn't kiss

in front of your mama.

You didn't hold hands in front of your mama. You

didn't act a certain way in front of your mama.

You were afraid that you were going to get the

Swiss to strap, the brick, the wood, whatever she could find,

because you thought you were in love. Some of you

have been so in love at twelve and thirteen, at

fourteen that when the person would go away for the summer,

you would get depressed, not eat, You would get so

in your feelings that you would wonder if that person.

Was going to live.

The enemy understands this thing called feeling. He wants us

to understand that most of us are creatures according.

To our emotions.

What he likes to do is get you in an

emotional high and then to drop you down. How some

of you have never written a roller coaster, utter, but

you know what it is to be on and up

and downward swing because the innimal likes.

To play with your emotions. Shutter.

That's why when you're in the store and they're playing

a certain song, it takes you from that day all

way back to the day that you met Johnny Ah.

One smell of the.

Perfume will automatically remind you of that person that you

thought was special.

But most of us, if you would be honest, shut,

you would.

Have to admit that there were many times that you

thought that you were in love, that you were really

in luss Oh Lord, did I say that.

I didn't mean to say that happened. Ah.

We got so emotionally charged because we thought.

He had to be tall, dark and handsome.

We thought she had to be like a Coca Cola oliveh.

A brick house.

Some of you up and so we got so caught

up in looking and feeling that we did not realize

that love is more than.

A feeling that you have to have.

A Tina Turner evangelist Tina Turner wrote a song one

day and she asked the question, what does love have

to do with it? Well, I've come to tell your baby,

love has to have a whole lot to do with it.

Because two people will walk.

Down the aisle, ah, They'll spend thousands of dollars shutting.

They would invite two to three to four to five

hundred friends. They would pay over two thousand dollars for

address suing just to impress folk, cutting base off of the.

Fact that they have never gotten to know each other.

Sometimes we enter into things shut ah, because we can

become detached from them so quick. Such is our text shuting.

Our text here lands.

Us shutting, Jesus now has a situation. But I'm glad

that we serve a situational God. You must know, every

character of the Bible teaches us something about God talking,

something about them happy, and something about ourselves shucking.

So see here our dilemma.

In the text sucking, there is a widow happy who

is born in the city of name.

The husband has died.

Thus the text begins to indicate to us, sucking, that

she's already lost her husband. But you must understand the

customs of the time in Bible days.

Shut. When your husband died, it became the responsibility.

Of your son to take care of his mother.

Shut. Because the mother had no trade. She was not

in a count, She was not a school teacher. The

mother was not a cook in the cafeteria.

She simply did nothing but.

Stayed at home and took care of her husband.

She didn't know how to do a whole lot of things. Shut.

So now with the death of her husband nothing The

responsibility has been laid on her son.

But what do you do when it looks like all

hope is gone?

I watched sometimes, and probably Minister Isaac in his will

fall chuck.

But I watched seeing in and sometimes shut.

I've got to learn how to pull away from it,

cut the TV off, shut, and put up something better.

Because shut, We're living in.

A world where folks don't want you to have any hope.

They want us to be desperate.

If you listen to certain candidates, they would tell you

that America is.

Going to hell in a head basket.

They will tell you that we're in the worst situation

we've ever been in before.

They were remind you of all.

Of the gory details shut that come with life.

Shut.

But can I tell every Saint of God, I just

got happy right there, Smith, I don't care what's going

on outside in the world. We serve a God who's

able to shield you from what might hurt you. Or

I thought y'all would get excited right there. I'm halfway

through my message shutting. We serve a God that in

a place where there does not look like hope, Cot,

there is hope.

That's why, Sister Tina.

When I hear Sister come on, she's talking about hope, copy,

she's talking about prosperity, she's talking about survival. Let something

down inside of me gets happy and the Holy.

Ghost begins to stir or can you do this?

I know I haven't tuned up yet, but I feel

the Holy ghost right here. Can you shake a neighbor

to buy the hand and tell that neighbor, neighbor, I've

got news for you.

You got to have home. You got the hold down

to those.

Things which are eternal, Locky, somebody wrote it and pinned it.

My hope is bild, Oh nothing less that Jesus blood

and his righteous ness.

I dare not trust the speediest.

Fray, but holyly on Jesus' name. So the enemy wants

to care that's your hope. He wants to get you frustrated.

He wants to get you made. He wants you to

think there things.

Are not going to turn around. There go. He wants

to get you to a place where you.

Become frustrated, busted, and disgusted. He wants to make you

look at the last person that walked out of your life,

how bad.

They treated you.

But I've come this morning, Hecky, to preach hope happen

to a generation that's hopeless.

Shut.

I've come to tell you the last person help me

walked out of your life.

Shut. But that's all right. Help. Can you tap a neighbor,

tell another's coming. Hut. Some of y'all didn't tap.

I saw some of my sixty year olds shut, my

fifty year olds, and my seventy year olds shut, beginning

to wonder, you still have hope, baby, you can still

get a husband up, you can still get a wife shut.

Oh lord, I see some of y'all singing your hair, saying,

I don't think I want no more now. But I've

come to tell the church shut that the text this

morning dictates to us shut, that there is hope in

the midst of what you're going through. See now in

our story, because the Bible unfold it help the window

of name hap is outside of the city. She's on

her way, hap to bury her hope. She's on her

way happy to put her hope in the ground.

I got to preach now.

Jada just went to cleft and hollering like she was

saying amen. So I know I got to preach now.

The bauble says shot that when this widow has lost

her husband, but now she lost her son, what is

she going to do? Where where she work? How will

she make a living for herself? She doesn't know how

to do anything, So all her hope is gone. But

I'm so glad that the text gets us excited because

the text says something that makes me want to day something.

It makes me want to holler. It makes me want

to throw a boat my hands shut and give God

the praise. Shut. The text says something Jesus is in

the city, cooks here.

Excuse me, I didn't mean to say that right there,

But just tap a neighbor, Say neighbor.

Jesus is in the city.

And because he's here, you can get what you want happen.

Because he's in the room.

You can get so healing.

Because he's in the room. God's gonna make away for you.

Because he's in the room.

Memorical signs and wonder, son, I'm getting ready to happen.

So our text now shows of Jesus. She Jesus now

coming up on the situation. Can you just snap a

neighbor snaper one more time, say, neighbor, God is concerned

about your situation. The devil offs too take your frustration

and turn it into desperation. But I've come to tell

you God told me to know you. It won't get

that far. Just like the Disciples shot you heard it

before they were on the ship.

And a storm came up. When they were on the ship.

They lost their cool. It looked like they were about

to die. They started pelling the water out of the ship.

Touch three fours. Tell them, neighbor, some stuff you gotta

get rid of. Some people you gotta get rid of,

some lopses.

You gotta get rid.

Of some instagrams. There's some friends you got to deleite

because they.

Ain't going in the same direction as you're going.

Help somebody more.

On the ship, they started getting rid of the stuff

that was signed away. Them down, and I come to

tell her, Tell the church there's a way to fight depression.

Start getting off everything that's been bothering her, fogging you down.

You got some folks shop. You gotta give me vix

and notice to let them know her. Then where I'm going.

You can't go with me?

Help. I feel the holly gooes there.

I don't know if I told you the last time

it was your last time, but I hear the holly

goo sup saying, shake shut a neighbor by the hay

shake that head.

He don't shake it off. Tell your neighbor where I'm going.

Everybody can't go with me this is where some folks

got to get off. This is where I cancel some friends.

This is where I let you pack your bags. This

is where I moved to the other side of what

God has promised me. She now, this widow, she's in

the same situation as the men on the ship. While

they're pelling, they start to figure out that Jesus, it

is just a stone stroll stone, stowaway. And I'm going

to tell her, tell this house shut. Don't you now,

don't you, Penny, don't you dare.

Don't get nervous.

Jesus shut is right over her, over there. Help he

will he, he will help.

He'll help you help.

That's why the song right of Road ask to save you,

He save you, to help you, help, he.

Will bless him keep you. Help Now from a bactress

folk shot.

So I'm come to tell you how in the middle

of what you're going through, see now what God does.

Shut. He's going through the city.

But I love the text because I read in the

text She's.

Got her possing all with her help.

But when when?

When?

When?

When? When? When? When? When? Help?

When?

When?

When?

When? When? When? When? Y'all?

What he's going to do next? Look at somebody help

tell them all eyes.

I'm going to see it. He ain't doing it in private.

They saw you with your tears. It was in private.

They didn't see your hurt her.

It was in private.

They didn't see her what you had to give up.

It was imprivate. They didn't support you. It was emprivate.

But I'm so blad that.

God's getting ready to reward him what's been done in

secret in publition. God's getting ready to bless you right

in front of the folks that's saying you wouldn't make it.

God's gonna bless your right in front of the folks

that laughter your face. God's getting ready to bless your

ride in front of the folk's hut. That's so I

cu that middle finger of her. God's getting a ready

to bless you her, right in front her. On the critics,

the skeptics.

The liars, the cheaters, the mistreat the folks up that

set you an't gonna be doing, the folks up.

That laughs at your calamity her, the folks that watch

you go through her. God's getting a ready here to

bless you her. And every eye, every eye say somebody.

Help say ebry.

Eyes go see God's skinny already to bless super.

God's skinning a ready to bless super. God's getting ready

to bless super God's getting ready to bless you her.

God's getting your ready to bless super.

And we we God.

Bless us ship.

He's gonna left you her right and tried up on

the cl.

Esus seizes the window her going through the city here,

but all of a sudden, Jesus shut is moved with compassion.

Jesus Shut says to the woman, wipe the tears from.

Your eyes, past us around her, pass the box around her.

Get you some tissir. You cried all the crazy stuff

long enough. You've cried almost crank long enough. You cried

almost soothing long enough. How long are you gonna cry?

Almost still?

Milk CRUs seeing.

God cast logs while act, but he's on with her.

Another God has sired her fired so but he's a

last left day.

Hello, Hello, Hello, are you gonna cry?

Look at Jesus. He touches the comfort.

The boil rising said, can you fall something the last time?

Shake a neighbors, You really got to do this one,

shake their hands like a goot, singing off her.

Tell your neighbors the same.

God is gimming lifeship to your dance situation, life to

your dreams, life shut to your.

Aspiration, life to your goals. And I will restored. But

that woulds set the cake of worm.

The cattle kettle has even it up like.

Like light life, life, Lazarus.

Come fork for Lazarus, Come falk for Lazarus.

Come farking.

Wave your handlever, neighbors hands life. Shall I speak life?

Come I spreak life, I spreak life, God, God, Who

did I say?

God is about to give life to your dead situation?

When he raises the boy, he returns hope to a

mother who has lost everything. He heals the family, He

restores her joy. He puts her back in a place

where she thought she had lost everything. But now God

gives her.

Back everything.

That she needs.

Drink of God's about to give you back everything that

you need.

I've learned.

This has become.

A reoccurring thing because you can imagine there were some

days that my son sits there and the enemy tries

to speaking his spirit, but I constantly remind him.

We read it. It's Romans eight and twenty eight. It says,

we read it. It says, and we know all things

work together for good to those who love God, those

who will called according to His purpose.

But the original transliteration says, in all things God works.

Let me say that again.

The original translation says, in all things God works, and

he works for it to come to our good.

So even when you don't understand it, I've gone miles

down the road.

And had to repent because what I thought was the

devil was really God. I've come to submit to you

that nothing happens.

On God's watch.

Unless he allows it. So everything that happens to you,

God is allowing it. But the Bible says there is

no temptation, there is no trial that he allows, but

such is coming to man. In other words, somebody else

has been through what killed you, or y'all just missed me.

Somebody else has gone through what killed somebody else didn't

kill you. And when you begin to look at that,

you come to the conclusion of recognizing that the God

they don't talk about this anymore, smith, the God that

we serve as sovereign. He can do what he wants to,

when he wants to, how he wants to the seasoned

saints in the church, I go say. He's God off

by himself. He doesn't need anybody else. So since he's

sovereign everything that he allows, he allows it brother down

for a purpose. I don't always see the purpose at

the time. Can I be real, real, real candidate? Because

you know, at the time it hurts like hell. You

can't see how God is going to use that thing

to bring you to a better place. But I promise

you years down the line. It's why the Season Saints

wrote a song say soul, look back in wonder.

How I made it over.

I close with this. You've been in some things, You've

gone through some things. Well, you've told the devil if

one more thing happens, I'm gonna lose my mind. But

you still have your mind. It's because we serve a

God who can take every situation.

And bring it to our benefit.

I've come to tell you this is the season of

your life where you're going to have to trust God

in everything if he allows.

It to happen. Like it, and it's okay for you

not to like it, Dick, It's okay.

I don't. I don't agree with it. This ain't how

I would have read the script. This ain't what I

want to deal with.

But God, if you are allowing it, there's a purpose

for my situation.

I've come to remind you trouble does not last.

Always.

So the trouble that you see now, it's going to

usher in the joy that's coming tomorrow. Let's let's worth

the word weeping. May It doesn't have it doesn't have

to It doesn't have to last all night. It can

be an hour, it can be two hours. But if

you can just go to sleep.

Long enough, joy it's gonna come in the morning. Clap

your hands. I'm through. I'm through.

I'm through.

I'm through.

I'm trying to have good.

Since these days Jesus Day.

What you need and everything you need, God has it

by chance. I don't want to take it for granted

that every person this places