1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,720 Hello and welcome back to the PHSA podcast. 2 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:11,720 My name is David Bigford. 3 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:13,580 I'm the pastor here at SalmonArm. 4 00:00:13,580 --> 00:00:17,760 This is a very special podcast series where I'm going to be sharing with you messages 5 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:23,280 from our most recent conference in Prescott, Arizona, the Beyond Limits Conference with 6 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:30,600 a theme of to preach the gospel in the regions beyond from 2 Corinthians 10-16. 7 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:37,000 I'm going to share all of the sermons from this conference series to include Greg Mitchell, 8 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:44,600 our head pastor, Joe Campbell, Richard Ruby, Tom Payne, and many, many others during this 9 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:45,600 series. 10 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:49,920 So I'll be sharing these with you over the next couple of weeks, and I hope you really 11 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:51,040 enjoy these messages. 12 00:00:51,040 --> 00:00:58,000 If you'd like to see these messages in a video format, you can go to PrescottPottersHouse.com 13 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:04,360 where all of these will be available for you to view in a video format. 14 00:01:04,360 --> 00:01:08,680 So without further ado, I'm going to pass, I'm going to go ahead and move on to the messages 15 00:01:08,680 --> 00:01:10,080 and I hope you enjoy them. 16 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:11,080 God bless. 17 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:14,920 I got the nine o'clock slot on Friday. 18 00:01:14,920 --> 00:01:16,240 Amen. 19 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:19,440 Praise God. 20 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:22,480 What an incredible conference. 21 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:23,480 Amen. 22 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:32,840 Everybody's been, I felt all week long, man, just Holy Ghost shotgun blasts, 50 cal, 44 23 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:37,080 mag, and here I am with my BB gun. 24 00:01:37,080 --> 00:01:39,440 Man. 25 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:40,440 God help us. 26 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:41,440 Hallelujah. 27 00:01:41,440 --> 00:01:47,320 I do want to minister out of 1 Samuel chapter number 10. 28 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:49,720 Somebody was joking with me. 29 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:52,400 I hope they were joking with me. 30 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:53,400 Yesterday they said, are you ready? 31 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:55,400 I said, I don't know. 32 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:58,120 And they said, well, you know, preach to us, but don't do what you do. 33 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:01,040 Don't do that crazy screaming. 34 00:02:01,040 --> 00:02:13,360 And they were joking, all right. 35 00:02:13,360 --> 00:02:19,600 I learned, I heard a preacher a long time ago say, if you can't be good, be loud. 36 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:23,360 So here goes. 37 00:02:23,360 --> 00:02:25,200 Amen. 38 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:33,600 Our story is, you know, the, the, the, the calling of Saul, amen, to the kingdom to become 39 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:35,680 king. 40 00:02:35,680 --> 00:02:47,160 And the, there's already been a private anointing, but now in our story here, amen, he's about 41 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:52,240 to be proclaimed, amen, and anointed publicly. 42 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:54,560 And this is where we're going to pick up the story. 43 00:02:54,560 --> 00:03:00,040 Verse number 10, first, I'm sorry, verse 21, for Samuel 10. 44 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:04,160 Then he lined up and I'm reading out of the message translation. 45 00:03:04,160 --> 00:03:12,600 He lined up the Benjamin tribe in family groups and the family of Matri was picked and the 46 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:19,860 family of Matri took its place in the lineup and Saul, son of Kish was picked. 47 00:03:19,860 --> 00:03:26,200 But when they went looking for him, he was nowhere to be found. 48 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:31,080 So Samuel went back to God and he asked, is he anywhere around? 49 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:33,960 And God said, yes, he's right over there. 50 00:03:33,960 --> 00:03:39,680 He's hiding in the pile of baggage. 51 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:43,560 Amen. 52 00:03:43,560 --> 00:03:52,520 I was reading about Joe Lewis, the Brown bomber, arguably one of the greatest heavyweight boxers 53 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:54,880 ever. 54 00:03:54,880 --> 00:03:57,040 And I, I, I'm not into sports. 55 00:03:57,040 --> 00:03:58,480 I don't do basketball. 56 00:03:58,480 --> 00:03:59,960 I don't do football. 57 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:03,760 I don't, I don't like that they pat them each themselves on the butt. 58 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:05,960 I'm not into that stuff. 59 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:07,760 I do however, like boxing. 60 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:17,120 I think that's a man's sport. 61 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:25,040 Joe Lewis was, became champion in 1937 when he beat James Braddock. 62 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:32,320 I believe he knocked him out and he reigned for the next 11 years. 63 00:04:32,320 --> 00:04:34,720 And set a record. 64 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:35,720 Amen. 65 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:38,280 Of 25 defenses. 66 00:04:38,280 --> 00:04:40,960 He defended his title 25 times. 67 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:46,640 At one point he actually was defending his title about four times a year. 68 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:50,180 He was a busy champion. 69 00:04:50,180 --> 00:04:56,080 The only time that he didn't defend his title was three years when he enlisted in the army 70 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:58,000 during the second world war. 71 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:03,800 And I was thinking about this, amen, because today there's champions. 72 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:04,800 Amen. 73 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:08,400 There's men like Errol Spence. 74 00:05:08,400 --> 00:05:11,760 There's a guy named Jamal Charlo. 75 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:13,800 Keith Thurman. 76 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:15,640 These guys have something in common. 77 00:05:15,640 --> 00:05:21,440 They're all either currently champions or once were champions. 78 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:26,720 But another thing they have in common is that these guys, amen, hardly ever defended their 79 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,440 title. 80 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:33,960 I think one of them went like three years without defending his title. 81 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:41,320 Jamal Charlo was recently finally stripped, amen, of the title. 82 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:48,840 These are champions in absentia. 83 00:05:48,840 --> 00:05:49,840 Absent champions. 84 00:05:49,840 --> 00:05:50,840 Can we talk? 85 00:05:50,840 --> 00:05:52,560 Is that all right? 86 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:54,680 I'm getting a little looser now. 87 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:58,040 I was a little nervous, still kind of am. 88 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:00,240 Loosen up. 89 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:03,880 Come on, somebody. 90 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:05,680 Champions in absentia. 91 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:10,320 I mean, the issue is not gifting. 92 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:12,600 The issue is not power. 93 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:13,840 They got it. 94 00:06:13,840 --> 00:06:17,040 The issue, amen, is not resources. 95 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:18,720 They got it going on. 96 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:21,720 The issue is they're nowhere to be found. 97 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:24,960 They're hiding in the baggage. 98 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:28,320 Oh, can I get a double? 99 00:06:28,320 --> 00:06:30,840 All right. 100 00:06:30,840 --> 00:06:36,120 I got to watch myself going up and down the stairs. 101 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:46,840 One of my disciples text me early in the morning, pastor, don't forget to stretch. 102 00:06:46,840 --> 00:06:50,660 This is the generation of the absentee. 103 00:06:50,660 --> 00:06:52,320 Come on, somebody. 104 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:53,320 Amen. 105 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:55,160 We got absentee dads. 106 00:06:55,160 --> 00:06:56,160 Dads in absentia. 107 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:57,160 Hello. 108 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:59,060 We got absent workers. 109 00:06:59,060 --> 00:07:04,240 We got absent church people in the kingdom of God. 110 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:07,040 I wonder where are the champions? 111 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:14,040 All right, I'm going to get comfortable. 112 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:16,880 Don't you get too comfortable, all right? 113 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:17,880 That's just me. 114 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:26,880 I got ice in my water because it's going to get hot in here in a minute. 115 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:27,880 Amen. 116 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:28,880 Hallelujah. 117 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:34,640 Listen, in our fellowship, what a wonderful fellowship we're a part of. 118 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:42,220 We just completed our conference two weeks ago, our second annual conference. 119 00:07:42,220 --> 00:07:43,220 We got a new building. 120 00:07:43,220 --> 00:07:46,220 Glory to God. 121 00:07:46,220 --> 00:07:50,280 We were able to hold our conference in our building. 122 00:07:50,280 --> 00:07:51,280 Amen. 123 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:53,280 We announced a bunch of people. 124 00:07:53,280 --> 00:07:54,280 Amen. 125 00:07:54,280 --> 00:07:55,280 I lost count. 126 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:57,760 Sent a number of workers overseas. 127 00:07:57,760 --> 00:07:58,760 Amen. 128 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:00,640 Well, they haven't been sent yet. 129 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:03,840 I was hoping to take an offering here this morning. 130 00:08:03,840 --> 00:08:11,480 We're an awesome, awesome fellowship. 131 00:08:11,480 --> 00:08:13,240 What an incredible thing last night. 132 00:08:13,240 --> 00:08:15,240 14, was that correct? 133 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:16,240 14, wow. 134 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:17,240 Record. 135 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:22,280 Come on, talk about defending our title. 136 00:08:22,280 --> 00:08:25,040 Glory to God. 137 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:26,040 But here's Saul. 138 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:31,400 Let's go back to brother Saul here. 139 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:34,240 He's hiding in the baggage. 140 00:08:34,240 --> 00:08:35,800 He's an absent champion. 141 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:37,980 Come on somebody. 142 00:08:37,980 --> 00:08:40,000 This is where we find him. 143 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:41,000 Hallelujah. 144 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:42,000 Disappeared. 145 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,000 Gone, boy. 146 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:44,000 Hiding. 147 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:45,400 Amen. 148 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:49,600 And the issue was not skill. 149 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:52,240 The issue was not talent. 150 00:08:52,240 --> 00:08:56,480 The issue was not gifting or power or resources. 151 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:59,240 Here we have a man full of the Holy Ghost. 152 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:01,520 We have a man with a gift of God. 153 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:03,520 We have a man who is a prophet. 154 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:04,520 Amen. 155 00:09:04,520 --> 00:09:08,000 But he's hiding in the baggage. 156 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,120 Amen. 157 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:17,160 We have some good, well-trained people in our fellowship. 158 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:18,160 Better than anywhere else. 159 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:20,160 Come on somebody. 160 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:21,480 Amen. 161 00:09:21,480 --> 00:09:26,120 There are those who have tremendous insight and revelation. 162 00:09:26,120 --> 00:09:31,160 They grasp the beauty of the gospel and discipleship and church planting. 163 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:32,160 Amen. 164 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:40,840 They're able to articulate the finer points of the fellowship way better than I can. 165 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:43,600 Amen. 166 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:53,080 But when it comes to the reality of it, the applicable, practical, and profitable reality 167 00:09:53,080 --> 00:09:58,080 of this, many are like a ghost. 168 00:09:58,080 --> 00:09:59,520 Invisible. 169 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:01,600 Absent. 170 00:10:01,600 --> 00:10:03,560 Nowhere to be found. 171 00:10:03,560 --> 00:10:09,280 You know, later we find Saul right where the rubber meets the road. 172 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:11,920 Word war against the Philistines. 173 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:14,200 And again, he's hiding. 174 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:15,280 He's nowhere to be found. 175 00:10:15,280 --> 00:10:19,400 He's in the safety of his tent. 176 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:24,240 And in 1 Samuel 17 verse 4, the scripture refers to Goliath, right? 177 00:10:24,240 --> 00:10:28,160 He's the one that's coming out and challenging the people of Israel. 178 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:34,200 Refers to him as a champion of the camp of the Philistines. 179 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:43,240 But not a single champion of the camp of the kingdom of God, amen, came forward. 180 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:47,760 And I wonder, where are the champions of God? 181 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:50,240 Thank God that it's Friday, right? 182 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:51,240 Amen. 183 00:10:51,240 --> 00:10:52,960 Tonight we're going to do it again. 184 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:54,560 Going to be exciting stuff. 185 00:10:54,560 --> 00:10:55,560 I want to preach. 186 00:10:55,560 --> 00:10:56,560 Can I preach? 187 00:10:56,560 --> 00:11:01,520 Man, some of you look like you don't want me to preach. 188 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:02,520 Come on now. 189 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:08,680 Let's talk about exposing the absent champion. 190 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:12,760 Because the enemy exposing is exactly his strategy. 191 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:17,280 The champion from the camp of the Philistines, amen, is clamoring. 192 00:11:17,280 --> 00:11:21,560 He's calling for a champion of the camp of Israel, amen. 193 00:11:21,560 --> 00:11:28,480 And in so doing, what he's doing is he is exposing a sad reality. 194 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:30,560 And that is that there is nobody. 195 00:11:30,560 --> 00:11:39,040 There is no champion to come forward, amen, and say, I'm going to defend the title. 196 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:42,040 Amen. 197 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:55,080 Some scholars believe that the name of Goliath derives amen from the Hebrew word gala, which 198 00:11:55,080 --> 00:12:02,640 actually means amen to expose, to discover, to reveal, to display someone. 199 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:12,600 More explicitly, it means amen to shame or humiliate by uncovering someone's nakedness. 200 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:20,680 The picture that I get here is in 2 Samuel chapter number 10, amen, and verse 4 and 5. 201 00:12:20,680 --> 00:12:28,520 When the Ammonite king has passed, he was a friend of David, and David sends a delegation 202 00:12:28,520 --> 00:12:31,200 to comfort the son of Hanan, amen. 203 00:12:31,200 --> 00:12:36,160 And as he goes there, Hanan's people say, no, they're not here to comfort you. 204 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:38,560 They're here to spy out the land. 205 00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:45,800 And so they shave off half their beard, cut off their garments, amen, up to the buttocks 206 00:12:45,800 --> 00:12:48,400 and send them off, the Bible says, greatly shaming them. 207 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:51,680 This is the picture of Goliath. 208 00:12:51,680 --> 00:13:08,080 It is that demon-possessed man in the book of Acts chapter 19, almost tripped, jumping 209 00:13:08,080 --> 00:13:16,120 on the seven sons of Sceva, beating the daylights out of them, bloody, ripping off their clothes, 210 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:17,320 send them off naked. 211 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:19,640 Can you imagine that? 212 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:20,640 Shaming them. 213 00:13:20,640 --> 00:13:24,360 You say, what's that got to do with anything, brother? 214 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:26,080 Glad you asked. 215 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:32,520 Because this is exactly what happens, amen, when the devil steps out and he challenges, 216 00:13:32,520 --> 00:13:35,640 come on somebody, and nobody's rising up. 217 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:41,880 There's neighborhoods, there's cities, there's nations of the world, and the champions are 218 00:13:41,880 --> 00:13:52,120 absent, and the devil is exposing and shaming the nakedness of the church. 219 00:13:52,120 --> 00:13:55,120 Slow down, Rick. 220 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:57,120 Whew. 221 00:13:57,120 --> 00:14:00,640 All right. 222 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:05,640 Let's go back. 223 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:11,840 Are we good? 224 00:14:11,840 --> 00:14:18,240 The enemy exposes by calling out and no one answering. 225 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:19,240 Amen. 226 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:25,200 All too often, our churches, Pastor Mitchell, I remember him saying this. 227 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:30,880 He said, our churches are filled with good people doing nothing. 228 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:33,720 Oh, come on somebody. 229 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:35,960 Man, is it hot in here? 230 00:14:35,960 --> 00:14:37,400 Is it just me, honey? 231 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:40,880 Is it me? 232 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:49,160 My wife is back there saying, is you, baby. 233 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:55,800 As my crying partner, hey, I got the stickers for reserved seating. 234 00:14:55,800 --> 00:15:01,280 I did this first time ever. 235 00:15:01,280 --> 00:15:02,600 My wife was waiting outside. 236 00:15:02,600 --> 00:15:07,360 I went out there, check it out, baby, we got reserved seating. 237 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:09,160 She said, I don't want reserved seating. 238 00:15:09,160 --> 00:15:13,240 I want to fight for my seat. 239 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:27,360 That's gangster right there, baby. 240 00:15:27,360 --> 00:15:35,840 The enemy exposes, amen, when he exposes, amen, it becomes a win for him. 241 00:15:35,840 --> 00:15:41,880 Every time that a neighborhood or a city or a nation is left untouched because of absent 242 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:50,280 champions, amen, a victory is done for the enemy and that ain't right. 243 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:53,280 I noticed last night, everybody's playing music. 244 00:15:53,280 --> 00:16:04,200 If I would have known that I could do that, I would have come in with James Brown. 245 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:09,680 James Brown used to have a song back in the 70s called The Big Payback. 246 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:17,840 One of the lines of the song said, you took my money, you stole my honey, and that ain't 247 00:16:17,840 --> 00:16:21,040 right. 248 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:24,040 I said, it ain't right. 249 00:16:24,040 --> 00:16:26,360 Come on, somebody. 250 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:31,520 Let's talk about exploring the absent champion. 251 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:39,280 I was preaching recently, well, a few months back overseas, and I was having a conversation 252 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:47,800 with a missionary, and he was excited about coming back, amen, on leave for their conference. 253 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:54,080 He said, I'm excited because I'm going to go visit one of my close friends and his family. 254 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:58,760 They're pastoring, and he told me the city they were pastoring in. 255 00:16:58,760 --> 00:17:03,360 They're both from the same mother church, which he really values that. 256 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:07,360 Of course, their co-disciples grew up together. 257 00:17:07,360 --> 00:17:14,480 But the reason he told me that he really values this brother and this relationship is because 258 00:17:14,480 --> 00:17:19,840 many of the other couples and men of that era that were growing up together, that were 259 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:29,920 getting sent out, are nowhere to be found today. 260 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:32,960 Come on now, they sold the farm. 261 00:17:32,960 --> 00:17:33,960 Hello. 262 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:38,720 Backslater, doing nothing, just absent, flaked out. 263 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:43,400 So let's take a closer look at the champion that's hiding in the baggage. 264 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:46,640 Maybe that's you. 265 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:47,640 That's all right. 266 00:17:47,640 --> 00:17:51,400 God's going to expose you, and you'll get out of the baggage, and you'll do a work for 267 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:53,240 God. 268 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:58,040 So let's consider, first of all, the marks of an absent champion. 269 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:00,640 Listen, champions have marks, man. 270 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:03,640 They're called scars. 271 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:11,640 I used to consider myself a champion on the streets, but I didn't get this good looking 272 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:14,360 overnight. 273 00:18:14,360 --> 00:18:19,560 Got my nose cracked a few times, got my teeth knocked, two of them knocked out, both together, 274 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:22,840 together, not one at a time, together. 275 00:18:22,840 --> 00:18:23,840 That's how you roll, baby. 276 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:24,840 You're going to do it. 277 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:31,560 Go big or go home. 278 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:36,560 I wonder about the marks of a champion. 279 00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:38,440 How about the marks of an absent champion? 280 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:41,400 First of all, the marks of an absent champion. 281 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:46,960 The absent champion is marked, but I know this is going to be very basic. 282 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:50,400 Some of you come, you want something deep. 283 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:51,400 Ask for Pastor Torrey. 284 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:52,400 He's next. 285 00:18:52,400 --> 00:19:00,120 I can't, listen, you want to get too deep. 286 00:19:00,120 --> 00:19:01,120 Jesus might come back. 287 00:19:01,120 --> 00:19:02,120 He won't be able to find you. 288 00:19:02,120 --> 00:19:03,120 You're so deep. 289 00:19:03,120 --> 00:19:04,120 Where to go? 290 00:19:04,120 --> 00:19:13,200 One of the marks, amen, is that of an unused life. 291 00:19:13,200 --> 00:19:15,680 Again, the issue is not gifting. 292 00:19:15,680 --> 00:19:17,400 The issue is not resources. 293 00:19:17,400 --> 00:19:22,120 Man, we are a blessed fellowship. 294 00:19:22,120 --> 00:19:27,120 Talent, you got it. 295 00:19:27,120 --> 00:19:28,800 Amen. 296 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:36,040 Whatever gift, amen, that Saul had, he allowed it to be unused. 297 00:19:36,040 --> 00:19:41,000 He buried it, squandered it, right? 298 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:48,280 Like the unfaithful steward, amen, in Matthew 25, verse 18, who received one talent, dug 299 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:52,440 the earth, and hid the Lord's money. 300 00:19:52,440 --> 00:20:01,000 Saul, as many men are, amen, is inactive, lethargic, wasting away. 301 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,720 A lot of men are doing that. 302 00:20:03,720 --> 00:20:08,680 In fact, I see it happening with guys that are getting older. 303 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:13,160 Oh, come on somebody. 304 00:20:13,160 --> 00:20:15,920 Well, you know, it used to be. 305 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:16,920 That's how it was. 306 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:17,920 Amen. 307 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:24,520 I had a, you know, I'm in my 60s, all right? 308 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:26,000 Recently I turned 60. 309 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:32,000 More recently I turned 63. 310 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,120 And in the very recent future, I'll be 64. 311 00:20:35,120 --> 00:20:38,080 I can collect social security. 312 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:39,520 I can. 313 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:40,520 But I ain't gonna. 314 00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:44,120 I got some old guys in my church, amen. 315 00:20:44,120 --> 00:20:49,120 They joined the senior citizens of, what do you call it? 316 00:20:49,120 --> 00:20:50,120 Bear, you joined it. 317 00:20:50,120 --> 00:20:51,120 What is it? 318 00:20:51,120 --> 00:20:58,480 And they're trying to talk me into it. 319 00:20:58,480 --> 00:20:59,480 Come on, pastor. 320 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:00,480 Join us. 321 00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:03,480 They got a free, they got real cheap lunch. 322 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:04,480 You can work out. 323 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:05,480 They got golf. 324 00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:06,480 I said, absolutely not. 325 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:07,480 I ain't gonna hang out with you old fuddy duddies. 326 00:21:07,480 --> 00:21:24,960 Sorry, Bear. 327 00:21:24,960 --> 00:21:28,720 I don't want my life to become inactive and lethargic. 328 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:30,480 I want to go down swinging. 329 00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:32,480 Oh, come on somebody. 330 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:37,080 Listen, sometimes you swing and you don't know what you're aiming at, but eventually 331 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:44,520 you're gonna connect. 332 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:48,880 The absent champion is marked by uninvolved living. 333 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:53,280 And this, at this point, Saul is simply uninvolved. 334 00:21:53,280 --> 00:21:56,800 It's not that he doesn't know what's going on. 335 00:21:56,800 --> 00:22:00,480 He's not like Joe Biden. 336 00:22:00,480 --> 00:22:03,320 He knows. 337 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:06,320 He knows what's up. 338 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:15,960 He knew the predicament they're in, but he's not stepping out. 339 00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:20,160 Listen, a lot of good people. 340 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:25,600 Can I tell you, listen, let me talk to you about revival for just a split second. 341 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:29,400 Because you know, people, oh man, we had a crowd Sunday morning. 342 00:22:29,400 --> 00:22:30,400 You know, I like crowds. 343 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:32,760 I like when my church is full. 344 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:33,760 Amen. 345 00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:34,760 I dig it. 346 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:39,160 I dig what we all do, but can I tell you, amen, revival is not churches filled with 347 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:40,160 people. 348 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:46,920 Revival is people filled with the Holy Ghost and a hunger and a desire to do something 349 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:50,360 for God. 350 00:22:50,360 --> 00:22:55,120 Just like these people last night on this stage. 351 00:22:55,120 --> 00:22:57,560 Come on somebody. 352 00:22:57,560 --> 00:22:59,560 Amen. 353 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:01,840 Listen. 354 00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:06,520 You can wave the fellowship flag all day long. 355 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:09,040 Amen. 356 00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:12,120 But you got to choose a side. 357 00:23:12,120 --> 00:23:17,560 You either spectator or participator. 358 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:21,960 Somebody said it last night, I think, Pastor Payne. 359 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:25,080 What did he say? 360 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,080 Having a Biden moment. 361 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:37,400 All right, got it. 362 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:44,320 You can't be, this is not the way I say it, what we be if you don't do what we do. 363 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:47,840 But I can tell you that you can't, you will not do what we do if you ain't be what we 364 00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:51,260 be. 365 00:23:51,260 --> 00:23:53,360 And I know what I be. 366 00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:55,400 Amen. 367 00:23:55,400 --> 00:24:01,680 I walked into a little church in Blythe, California, January of 1984. 368 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:05,280 Yes, it did exist. 369 00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:11,320 I was there and I walked into that little church broken, tore up from the floor up, 370 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,080 beat up from the feet up. 371 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:19,480 I needed a checkup from the neck up. 372 00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:25,720 The church at the time was pastored by Pastor Jose Urbina from Tucson, walked into that 373 00:24:25,720 --> 00:24:26,720 little church. 374 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:27,720 Amen. 375 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:32,360 They were showing a God-awful movie. 376 00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:35,880 Most boring movies I've ever seen in my life. 377 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,240 Felt like I wasted that day. 378 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:42,560 But after the movie, there was an altar call and there was preaching like I'd never heard 379 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:46,320 before and the spirit of the Lord convicted my heart. 380 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:53,480 This old thug, amen, drug addicted, filled with violence, alcoholic, broken marriage, 381 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:56,720 healed, delivered, and set free. 382 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:58,000 Why? 383 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:03,120 Because there was people there. 384 00:25:03,120 --> 00:25:05,620 Shout out to the Blythe, California church. 385 00:25:05,620 --> 00:25:10,440 There was people there that were not absent champions. 386 00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:16,240 Oh, come on somebody. 387 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:17,240 Hallelujah. 388 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:22,040 I remember calling one of my pioneer pastors years ago. 389 00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:23,040 We sent him out. 390 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:28,000 I had to call him one Saturday morning, discuss some issues. 391 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,360 And I said, okay brother, I'm going to let you go because I know you're on your way to 392 00:25:30,360 --> 00:25:32,160 outreach because that's what we do on Saturdays. 393 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,680 We have outreaches, especially when we're pioneering. 394 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:37,960 And he says, I ain't going to outreach. 395 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:38,960 I said, what? 396 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:40,600 I said, what are you doing? 397 00:25:40,600 --> 00:25:41,600 He says, I'm fishing. 398 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:42,600 That's what I said. 399 00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:48,080 I said, bro, we invested in your life. 400 00:25:48,080 --> 00:25:53,520 We sent you to this city thousands of dollars, not so you could fish. 401 00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:56,160 For men, yes. 402 00:25:56,160 --> 00:26:03,360 It's a life that is marked by an undisciplined lifestyle. 403 00:26:03,360 --> 00:26:05,920 The active word is discipline. 404 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:11,600 And discipline is a four letter word, at least how I spell it. 405 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:15,240 I'm not talking about spiritual discipline, you know, prayer and Bible reading, things 406 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:16,240 like that. 407 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,240 I'm talking about something a little different. 408 00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:22,640 We are folks that are not naturally, maybe you are, there are people that are naturally 409 00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:23,640 workers. 410 00:26:23,640 --> 00:26:24,640 They like to work. 411 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:25,640 They're hard workers. 412 00:26:25,640 --> 00:26:27,600 I wish I could say that's one of my traits. 413 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:32,240 It's not, I don't like work. 414 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,880 And neither do you. 415 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:37,700 So I have to make an effort. 416 00:26:37,700 --> 00:26:39,640 Come on somebody. 417 00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:42,360 We avoid discipline, the flesh hates it. 418 00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:43,360 Amen. 419 00:26:43,360 --> 00:26:48,720 I don't get all jumpy and bubbly. 420 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:53,700 You know, I've been trying to take, it's like working out. 421 00:26:53,700 --> 00:26:55,880 You can't just say I joined a club. 422 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:58,400 I joined a gym, right? 423 00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:02,400 I've been trying to take 20 pounds off, you know, that I somehow they magically appeared 424 00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:03,400 on me. 425 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:06,480 I've been trying to take them off for the last four or five years. 426 00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:08,040 I finally caved in, man. 427 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:10,360 I joined a gym. 428 00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:12,480 It's called Gold, what is it? 429 00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:13,480 What is it? 430 00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:14,480 What is it? 431 00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:15,480 Gold's gym. 432 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:16,480 What did you say? 433 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:17,480 Gold's gym. 434 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:18,480 No, Golden Corral. 435 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:23,480 That's the one I joined. 436 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:29,720 I got a card and everything. 437 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,640 It's so much easier to go to Golden Corral. 438 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:38,440 I can work out. 439 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:47,360 Listen, the business of the kingdom is hard work and it takes discipline to pull it off. 440 00:27:47,360 --> 00:27:49,960 Pastors, you got to work with men. 441 00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:51,680 You got to work with men. 442 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:52,680 You got to work with men. 443 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:55,520 That's my three points. 444 00:27:55,520 --> 00:28:01,680 Just like Pastor Gaiolas. 445 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:02,760 You know, I work with men. 446 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:03,760 This is what I do. 447 00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:05,360 This is what I dedicate my life to. 448 00:28:05,360 --> 00:28:06,360 Amen. 449 00:28:06,360 --> 00:28:07,360 In our church, that's what we do. 450 00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:08,360 We've set it up. 451 00:28:08,360 --> 00:28:09,360 Amen. 452 00:28:09,360 --> 00:28:11,720 We've got our, you know, serious men on Sunday morning. 453 00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:12,720 Amen. 454 00:28:12,720 --> 00:28:17,040 We've got on Saturday morning prayer and a men's discipleship class that I teach every 455 00:28:17,040 --> 00:28:18,040 Saturday. 456 00:28:18,040 --> 00:28:19,040 Amen. 457 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:20,320 We have a Monday night. 458 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:21,320 We pray and we fast. 459 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,640 We go to church and pray there and I preach to the crew. 460 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:25,640 Amen. 461 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,480 We have Tuesday night outreaches, Saturday outreaches. 462 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:32,000 We just, you know, we're working all the time. 463 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:36,000 You say that's kind of overkill, Pastor. 464 00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:43,200 Yeah, but that's why every six months you would hear an Adagdin going into. 465 00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:44,880 That's why you heard that. 466 00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:46,880 Because there was a lot of work going on. 467 00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:47,880 Amen. 468 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:49,560 In the backdrop. 469 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:50,560 It's true. 470 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:52,760 It's a lot of work. 471 00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:54,320 Amen. 472 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,120 Let me give a shout out also. 473 00:28:56,120 --> 00:29:01,960 Man, to those, the real champions of our fellowship, somebody mentioned it the other day. 474 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:05,880 Those men that are supporting, they don't get to go. 475 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:07,520 They're there giving. 476 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:11,560 You know, we just had Tony Huang preaching for us and I don't know why he did this, but 477 00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:12,560 he asked our congregation. 478 00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,240 It was packed and he asked our congregation. 479 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,680 He said, how many of you have been here? 480 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:18,680 Amen. 481 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:25,280 Since before Pastor Martinez took over the church, you know, 20 years or more and, and 482 00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:30,040 probably maybe only about 25 people raised their hand, which was kind of sad. 483 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:34,920 But at the same time, I'm thinking, glory to God, because it was those people that when 484 00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:40,920 everybody else was bailing out, they were right there fighting the fight, continuing 485 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:43,240 to outreach, witness and give. 486 00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:48,280 Oh, come on somebody. 487 00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:49,560 Let me, let me hurry up here. 488 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,080 Let's talk about extricating the absent champion. 489 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:56,080 Get them out of there. 490 00:29:56,080 --> 00:29:58,120 Let me talk to you about the problem. 491 00:29:58,120 --> 00:30:00,520 There's always a problem in there. 492 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:01,520 Dang. 493 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:09,400 Did I just slap your mama? 494 00:30:09,400 --> 00:30:12,560 There's a problem of a divided heart. 495 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:18,680 There's a headline I read some time back, Washington state Arlington pastor living a 496 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:25,040 double life arrested for drug trafficking and held on a $750,000 bond. 497 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,200 And then the headline said one person, two opposite lives. 498 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:33,440 It goes on a pastor in Washington state has been arrested after living a double life. 499 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:37,760 According to authorities to some people, he was a married spiritual leader and dedicated 500 00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:39,280 family man to others. 501 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,460 He was known to have a girlfriend and actively dealing drugs. 502 00:30:42,460 --> 00:30:47,320 Police say that Steve Parker 57 maintained the separate lives in two communities about 503 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:51,200 20 miles apart from each other. 504 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:56,840 Investigators were tipped off late last year after about Parker's alleged drug business, 505 00:30:56,840 --> 00:30:59,040 which spanned three counties. 506 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:06,280 When pulled over January 19th, they found 2.7 pounds of meth, fentanyl powder, cocaine 507 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:12,080 and over 2000 pills of some kind and a loaded handgun. 508 00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:17,520 We was receiving shipments of drugs three, four times a week. 509 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:21,680 We all have to address the issue of duality in our lives. 510 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:30,840 And you may not be going out to clubs on Saturday and then praising the Lord on Sunday. 511 00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:35,880 You may not be a man, a pastor preaching Holy Ghost fire. 512 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:42,960 And then you got your little side drug hustle. 513 00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:49,000 But many seem to be divided on their commitment to the cause. 514 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:55,720 The story of Saul and David is not so much a story of two men, but of two hearts. 515 00:31:55,720 --> 00:32:00,440 Saul's heart was focused on himself and how others viewed him. 516 00:32:00,440 --> 00:32:01,440 Amen. 517 00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:05,920 It was focused on comfort in the easy way, the uncommitted, the undecided, the unyielded 518 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:07,880 life. 519 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:12,960 This is a perfect picture of a divided heart, a divided loyalty. 520 00:32:12,960 --> 00:32:15,200 That ain't gonna work. 521 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:20,680 David's heart was focused on serving and honoring God and others around him. 522 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:21,680 Amen. 523 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,840 The heart of the matter is the matter of the heart. 524 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:28,160 How do we extricate the absent champion? 525 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:29,680 You don't. 526 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,040 You don't extricate the man. 527 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:36,920 You extricate the heart and you replace it with a new one. 528 00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:40,240 Some of y'all, that's why we come to conference. 529 00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:41,920 We need a new heart. 530 00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:48,200 I hope that you didn't just come here, amen, this week because you want to take some notes, 531 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:52,080 get the latest revelation from Joe Campbell. 532 00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:53,080 Come on somebody. 533 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:54,440 Well, I'm here. 534 00:32:54,440 --> 00:33:02,200 We know you're getting all the info, but what you need is some transport. 535 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:03,280 Come on somebody. 536 00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:05,040 We need our hearts to change. 537 00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:07,000 I need God to touch me. 538 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,160 I need God to shake me up. 539 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,840 I need God to transform my life. 540 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:18,600 I need a new heart, a heart that's more in love with Jesus, more excited and more passionate 541 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:21,800 about the things of God than ever before. 542 00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:27,640 I don't care how old we get, I'm more excited today than I've ever been in my life and that's 543 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:28,720 kind of hard to talk. 544 00:33:28,720 --> 00:33:34,800 I may not move as quick as I used to, but I'm still stoked for Jesus. 545 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:36,280 Hallelujah. 546 00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:44,320 Listen, Saul was replaced by David, but it wasn't so much David, but the heart that he 547 00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:50,960 had, the kingdom, 1 Samuel 3, verse 14, shall not continue. 548 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,960 The Lord has sought a man after his heart. 549 00:33:53,960 --> 00:33:56,280 Saul needed a new heart. 550 00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:57,280 You need a new heart. 551 00:33:57,280 --> 00:33:58,280 I need a new heart. 552 00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:06,600 Ezekiel 36, verse 26, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. 553 00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:11,960 I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh and I 554 00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:15,720 will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk. 555 00:34:15,720 --> 00:34:18,760 I like that, to walk. 556 00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:20,840 I walk like this. 557 00:34:20,840 --> 00:34:23,800 Don't tell me I still stride like a gangster. 558 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:28,000 You know some old habits are hard to break. 559 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:32,440 I'm going to stride for Jesus as a gangster for Jesus. 560 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:33,440 Come on somebody. 561 00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:39,720 See some of y'all, he's talking fleshly. 562 00:34:39,720 --> 00:34:42,720 Shut up. 563 00:34:42,720 --> 00:34:45,200 Come on. 564 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:49,080 Hebrews 8, verse 10, for this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. 565 00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:53,760 After those days saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their mind and write them in 566 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:58,320 their hearts and I will be to them a God and they shall be my people. 567 00:34:58,320 --> 00:34:59,320 Come on somebody. 568 00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:02,800 See repentance, here is the key. 569 00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:05,000 I'm closing. 570 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:11,760 See the problem with Saul is that he always made excuses for a spiritual absence. 571 00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:13,640 Amen. 572 00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:17,440 I know a lot of people, man, they're always making excuses. 573 00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:22,120 You know every Sunday, every Wednesday night I get text messages. 574 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:28,800 Pastor, I won't make it tonight because my cat died. 575 00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:36,720 Wife ran over the dog, probably should have. 576 00:35:36,720 --> 00:35:46,480 David on the other hand admitted when he was wrong, took responsibility for his mistakes 577 00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:54,520 which is always a sign of deep integrity, which is a sign that he is very much present. 578 00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:57,600 He's there, I'm ready. 579 00:35:57,600 --> 00:35:59,600 Ready to throw down. 580 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:02,800 You know, you always ready, bro? 581 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:06,120 In the world I was all ready for a good fight. 582 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:09,920 Didn't matter what it was, how big you were, how many there was, guns, knives, didn't 583 00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:10,920 matter. 584 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:14,400 It's on baby, the more the merrier. 585 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:15,800 Right? 586 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,000 I wanted to make my presence felt. 587 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:20,080 I'm here. 588 00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:24,680 You know, if I was at a party and the earth went in fires playing and nobody's dancing, 589 00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:25,680 I'm going to go out there. 590 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:27,760 I remember one time my wife, baby let's go dance. 591 00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:29,760 She said, I ain't going out there, nobody's out there. 592 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:33,240 I went out there by myself. 593 00:36:33,240 --> 00:36:34,240 Busting a move. 594 00:36:34,240 --> 00:36:37,840 I wasn't a Joe Cool Cholo like some of y'all were. 595 00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:40,240 Amen. 596 00:36:40,240 --> 00:36:44,240 I'm the Mexican that looks like a white boy but dances like a black man. 597 00:36:44,240 --> 00:36:51,840 That ain't changed. 598 00:36:51,840 --> 00:37:01,020 He wasn't hiding from his responsibility, from his accountability, and from his dependability. 599 00:37:01,020 --> 00:37:07,240 When men fail by being absent, amen, neighborhoods fall, cities fall, nations fall. 600 00:37:07,240 --> 00:37:12,240 Nineveh was right there, man. 601 00:37:12,240 --> 00:37:16,520 Because the champion went the other way. 602 00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:18,720 Amen. 603 00:37:18,720 --> 00:37:22,200 I like what Pastor Nate said the other night. 604 00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,720 Santa Fe's going to plant churches again. 605 00:37:24,720 --> 00:37:26,520 I'm with you brother. 606 00:37:26,520 --> 00:37:33,400 I'm down baby, like James Brown, all the way. 607 00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:39,720 Currently out of Ogden, listen, we have I think close to 40 after our last conference, 608 00:37:39,720 --> 00:37:44,120 40 churches under the Ogden banner. 609 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:45,760 It is an amazing thing. 610 00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:50,100 But I got to say to you that there was a time when I was kind of a little bit of an absent 611 00:37:50,100 --> 00:37:53,400 champion there. 612 00:37:53,400 --> 00:37:57,040 Everybody was telling me, Rick, you got 25 churches plus, you need to be a conference. 613 00:37:57,040 --> 00:38:01,720 I was, no I don't. 614 00:38:01,720 --> 00:38:03,720 Oh. 615 00:38:03,720 --> 00:38:08,240 I'm touching some holy ground. 616 00:38:08,240 --> 00:38:11,280 And I remember, I said, no, that ain't going to happen. 617 00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:12,280 I'm good. 618 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:13,280 I'm happy with what we're doing. 619 00:38:13,280 --> 00:38:16,240 I like going to Prescott and making the announcements there. 620 00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:22,760 A little cheaper. 621 00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:27,160 But one day I called Pastor Greg, not about this. 622 00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:28,840 I'm going to call him, I had some problems. 623 00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:29,840 You know, I got problems. 624 00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:30,840 I don't know if you can tell. 625 00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:31,840 I do. 626 00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:33,040 I called Pastor Greg. 627 00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,280 I called him and I said, yeah, this is going on. 628 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:40,720 And then he gave me a little advice and then he says, I said, okay, well thanks Pastor. 629 00:38:40,720 --> 00:38:44,440 He said, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold up, Rick. 630 00:38:44,440 --> 00:38:46,960 We ain't done with this conversation. 631 00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:48,440 And I said, yes, sir. 632 00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:52,600 And he said, how many churches are out of Ogden? 633 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:53,600 And I knew it, man. 634 00:38:53,600 --> 00:39:02,860 The moment he said that, I said, my stinking good friend, Rich Cox, has been talking to 635 00:39:02,860 --> 00:39:06,040 Pastor Greg. 636 00:39:06,040 --> 00:39:07,040 He's the one that snitched me. 637 00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:15,240 He's the one that outed me. 638 00:39:15,240 --> 00:39:16,840 But I made a decision right there and then. 639 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:18,280 I said, yes, sir, we'll do it. 640 00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:19,280 He goes, you think you can do it? 641 00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:25,520 I'm like, you know, in the back of my head that there was a voice that said, you can't, 642 00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:36,120 but somehow out of my mouth is a, yep, I'm an absent champion no more. 643 00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:37,120 Amen. 644 00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:42,240 We're going to fight this church and we're going to take it to the ends of the earth. 645 00:39:42,240 --> 00:39:43,240 Lord bless you. 646 00:39:43,240 --> 00:40:08,320 Thank you for listening to the PHA Potter's House Salmon Arm podcast. 647 00:40:08,320 --> 00:40:13,000 Be sure to follow us on Instagram at pottershouse underscore salmon arm to keep up to date on 648 00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:14,000 what we are doing. 649 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:43,920 Join the conversation and discover how Jesus Christ can revolutionize your life.