1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,900 Isn't he good? 2 00:00:03,900 --> 00:00:04,900 He's good. 3 00:00:04,900 --> 00:00:08,140 Now, see, when you think of that and you think about it, 4 00:00:08,140 --> 00:00:11,140 he keeps on getting better. 5 00:00:11,140 --> 00:00:13,140 He keeps on getting better. 6 00:00:15,380 --> 00:00:20,240 And then you know that you'll never forget the day because 7 00:00:20,240 --> 00:00:24,940 he's so much better now than he was then. 8 00:00:24,940 --> 00:00:27,400 And he's always been good. 9 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:32,640 It wasn't that he wasn't good, he just mowed better. 10 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:36,100 He just mowed better. 11 00:00:36,100 --> 00:00:39,400 Gooder and gooder and gooder. 12 00:00:39,400 --> 00:00:44,000 You throw grammar out the window when you start edifying 13 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:45,600 the Lord. 14 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:48,400 Grammar has nothing to do with the heart of man when it comes 15 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:50,040 to glorifying God. 16 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:53,440 Lord, you're gooder and gooder and gooder. 17 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:56,900 Mow better and mow better. 18 00:00:56,900 --> 00:00:59,340 Whoo, think about where you've been. 19 00:00:59,340 --> 00:01:01,340 And while you're thinking about it, go ahead and turn with me to 20 00:01:01,340 --> 00:01:03,240 the book of Zephaniah. 21 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:07,240 Go to Haggai and hang a leaf. 22 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:08,340 Hallelujah. 23 00:01:08,340 --> 00:01:09,600 You say, well, where's he at? 24 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:12,800 Well, take a leaf from Malachi, you'll find him. 25 00:01:19,340 --> 00:01:23,440 Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi. 26 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:26,200 That's the last one. 27 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:31,340 You've been good to me. 28 00:01:31,340 --> 00:01:36,440 You are good, good. 29 00:01:36,440 --> 00:01:43,840 In the morning, you're good. 30 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:49,940 You are good, so good. 31 00:01:49,940 --> 00:01:57,840 You are good to me. 32 00:01:57,840 --> 00:01:59,940 Hallelujah. 33 00:01:59,940 --> 00:02:06,440 Have you found Zephaniah? 34 00:02:06,440 --> 00:02:09,440 Brother Tony, you might want to put it up on the screen real 35 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:10,740 quick, there you go. 36 00:02:10,740 --> 00:02:14,040 We're just going to read one portion, one verse of Scripture. 37 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:19,000 It's verse five found out of the book of Zephaniah. 38 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:24,240 The prophet of the Lord records, the just Lord is in the midst 39 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:26,940 thereof. 40 00:02:26,940 --> 00:02:30,940 He will not do iniquity. 41 00:02:30,940 --> 00:02:36,400 Every morning does he bring his judgment to light. 42 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:48,940 He faileth not, but the unjust knoweth no shame. 43 00:02:48,940 --> 00:02:51,640 I just want to exhort you for the next little bit on the 44 00:02:51,640 --> 00:02:57,500 simple thought, have no doubt. 45 00:02:57,500 --> 00:03:00,040 Have no doubt. 46 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:02,040 Amen. 47 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:04,000 We're all here this morning. 48 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:05,840 You may think it's an accident that you're here. 49 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:07,300 I don't believe in accidents. 50 00:03:07,300 --> 00:03:11,840 I believe in the sovereignty of God. 51 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:15,940 You may think, you know, by luck's way you're here. 52 00:03:15,940 --> 00:03:17,900 No, I don't believe in luck. 53 00:03:17,900 --> 00:03:21,140 I believe in the servanthood and the sovereignty and the 54 00:03:21,140 --> 00:03:22,740 glory of God. 55 00:03:22,740 --> 00:03:25,340 Right? 56 00:03:25,340 --> 00:03:32,140 No, I'm not lucky, I'm favored. 57 00:03:32,140 --> 00:03:34,740 Luck determines happenstance and accident. 58 00:03:34,740 --> 00:03:39,740 It just, no, no, the blessings that come my way are meant to be 59 00:03:39,740 --> 00:03:45,140 in my life because the steps of a good man are ordered of the 60 00:03:45,140 --> 00:03:46,140 Lord. 61 00:03:46,140 --> 00:03:48,140 The Lord is in your life, God meant for it to be there. 62 00:03:48,140 --> 00:03:50,140 You're just not lucky. 63 00:03:50,140 --> 00:03:53,440 He just meant for you to be there. 64 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:57,240 His favor will lead your way. 65 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:58,440 Father, I love you. 66 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:00,140 I thank you for your goodness and grace. 67 00:04:00,140 --> 00:04:03,440 I pray, Lord, you help me be expedient this morning. 68 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:07,040 Lord, if we get to the point of your word, the word of your 69 00:04:07,040 --> 00:04:11,340 point, touch our hearts, speak to our lives today. 70 00:04:11,340 --> 00:04:16,100 For, Lord, only truly you know what's behind the face of every 71 00:04:16,100 --> 00:04:18,340 person in this room. 72 00:04:18,340 --> 00:04:22,640 You alone know what's going on in their heart to the depths of 73 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:24,240 their soul. 74 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:30,140 And may this word encourage them, enrich them, empower them 75 00:04:30,140 --> 00:04:32,440 as we leave this place today. 76 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:36,640 We give you glory and honor forever and ever. 77 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:40,140 By Christ Jesus, amen. 78 00:04:40,140 --> 00:04:43,940 And amen, you can be seated. 79 00:04:43,940 --> 00:04:48,140 I'm going to read you a little bit of the Zephaniah, a little 80 00:04:48,140 --> 00:04:50,140 three-chapter book. 81 00:04:50,140 --> 00:04:55,940 But it's a powerful, it's a powerful message, not only to 82 00:04:55,940 --> 00:04:59,940 God's people, but to those around God's people. 83 00:04:59,940 --> 00:05:03,940 It's pronouncing judgment, it's pronouncing woe. 84 00:05:03,940 --> 00:05:06,940 Zephaniah reveals the heart of God that God has seen their 85 00:05:06,940 --> 00:05:10,440 iniquity, God has seen their sin, and he's been angered by 86 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:15,940 their resistance to repent, for his people to come back to him. 87 00:05:15,940 --> 00:05:20,440 He begins to pronounce judgment upon the nations, Moab and 88 00:05:20,440 --> 00:05:23,940 Ammon and the Philistines and all those that have risen up 89 00:05:23,940 --> 00:05:25,440 and come against God. 90 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:28,940 And he saves his choice judgment for his own people because 91 00:05:28,940 --> 00:05:33,940 God's desire is that he be with his people and his people be in 92 00:05:33,940 --> 00:05:34,940 his presence. 93 00:05:34,940 --> 00:05:37,940 And that's God's only desire for his people. 94 00:05:37,940 --> 00:05:39,440 He wants you to be blessed. 95 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:42,440 He wants to be gooder and gooder and gooder to you. 96 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:45,440 And so when you're going in the opposite direction from his 97 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:49,940 goodness, he will call you into account and get your attention 98 00:05:49,940 --> 00:05:52,440 and bring you back to himself. 99 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:55,440 How many has ever been out away from his goodness and he got 100 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:58,940 your attention and brought you back to himself? 101 00:05:58,940 --> 00:06:00,940 I'm going to be up front with you. 102 00:06:00,940 --> 00:06:05,940 I've been out and away and I am so grateful and thankful that he 103 00:06:05,940 --> 00:06:07,440 came and got me. 104 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:10,440 I told you when he found me and I'll never forget that day. 105 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:13,940 And there's some days in my life that I will also not forget. 106 00:06:13,940 --> 00:06:17,440 Those are the days that I chose and I walked away from his 107 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:18,440 goodness. 108 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:19,940 Oh, come on somebody. 109 00:06:19,940 --> 00:06:21,440 I walked away. 110 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:22,440 He didn't push me away. 111 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:23,940 He didn't shove me away. 112 00:06:23,940 --> 00:06:25,440 He didn't drive me away. 113 00:06:25,440 --> 00:06:28,940 But I turned and walked away from his goodness. 114 00:06:28,940 --> 00:06:31,940 But my, my, my, he didn't let me walk alone. 115 00:06:31,940 --> 00:06:34,440 He followed me as I walked away. 116 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:36,940 His grace was in pursuit of me. 117 00:06:36,940 --> 00:06:42,440 His spirit was after me in pursuit after my lostness and my 118 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:43,940 my going away. 119 00:06:43,940 --> 00:06:49,440 And one day again, he got a hold of me and brought me in return. 120 00:06:49,440 --> 00:06:52,940 And that's what Zephaniah is talking about to the people of 121 00:06:52,940 --> 00:06:53,440 God. 122 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:57,940 There's a day coming and God is mindful and God knows and you've 123 00:06:57,940 --> 00:06:59,940 got to turn around and get back to him. 124 00:06:59,940 --> 00:07:02,940 And in the middle of this judgment, in the middle of declaring 125 00:07:02,940 --> 00:07:06,940 God's justice, all of a sudden the prophet wants them to know 126 00:07:06,940 --> 00:07:11,440 that God is in the midst of you and God being in the midst of 127 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:13,440 you, he fails not. 128 00:07:13,440 --> 00:07:14,440 Hallelujah. 129 00:07:14,440 --> 00:07:15,440 What a reminder. 130 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:18,940 And when I was walking away, I needed to hear that, that God 131 00:07:18,940 --> 00:07:22,940 was in my presence, that God was always in my midst and God 132 00:07:22,940 --> 00:07:23,940 never left me. 133 00:07:23,940 --> 00:07:26,940 He never forsook me, but he pursued after me. 134 00:07:26,940 --> 00:07:30,440 I'm so grateful that the Bible declares that he's married to 135 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:31,440 the backslider. 136 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:32,440 Hallelujah. 137 00:07:32,440 --> 00:07:35,940 Because he come and found me where and I walked away from 138 00:07:35,940 --> 00:07:39,940 him and he drew me back into his love and his marvelous grace 139 00:07:39,940 --> 00:07:42,940 and that mercy that was extended toward me. 140 00:07:42,940 --> 00:07:44,440 And I am so thankful. 141 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:47,440 And in the midst of these judgments and the warnings and 142 00:07:47,440 --> 00:07:51,440 the woe, all of a sudden the prophet declares that God is in 143 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:53,940 the midst of you and he fails not. 144 00:07:53,940 --> 00:07:57,940 But look over into verse 15 in this third chapter, the Lord 145 00:07:57,940 --> 00:07:59,940 has taken away thy judgment. 146 00:07:59,940 --> 00:08:02,940 He has cast out thine enemy, the king of Israel. 147 00:08:02,940 --> 00:08:05,440 Even the Lord is in the midst of thee. 148 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:06,940 Here we are again. 149 00:08:06,940 --> 00:08:09,940 And thou shalt not see evil anymore. 150 00:08:09,940 --> 00:08:15,940 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, fear thou not and be 151 00:08:15,940 --> 00:08:18,940 and to Zion, let not thine hands be slack. 152 00:08:18,940 --> 00:08:22,940 The Lord thy God is in the midst of thee, is mighty and he 153 00:08:22,940 --> 00:08:23,940 will save. 154 00:08:23,940 --> 00:08:26,940 He will rejoice over thee with joy. 155 00:08:26,940 --> 00:08:28,940 He will rest in his love. 156 00:08:28,940 --> 00:08:29,940 Hallelujah. 157 00:08:29,940 --> 00:08:32,940 And he will joy over thee with singing. 158 00:08:32,940 --> 00:08:36,940 Oh, that gives me some good hope as I begin to read this little 159 00:08:36,940 --> 00:08:40,940 three-chapter book and see the anger of God stirred and the 160 00:08:40,940 --> 00:08:43,940 wrath of God stirred because of the sin of the people. 161 00:08:43,940 --> 00:08:47,940 Oh, God, just leave us holding on with our breath held because 162 00:08:47,940 --> 00:08:50,940 of his wrath and anger before he lets that go. 163 00:08:50,940 --> 00:08:54,940 He wants you to know of his wonderful grace and his marvelous 164 00:08:54,940 --> 00:08:57,940 love and that he wants to rejoice over you with joy. 165 00:08:57,940 --> 00:09:00,940 And he wants to rejoice over you with singing. 166 00:09:00,940 --> 00:09:01,940 Hallelujah. 167 00:09:01,940 --> 00:09:04,940 And he wants you to know over and over in just those three or 168 00:09:04,940 --> 00:09:06,940 four verses that I am in your midst. 169 00:09:06,940 --> 00:09:08,940 I am in your midst. 170 00:09:08,940 --> 00:09:11,940 And the judgments I'm going to take away because what I do, I 171 00:09:11,940 --> 00:09:12,940 fail not. 172 00:09:12,940 --> 00:09:15,940 And because I do not fail, I will rejoice over you. 173 00:09:15,940 --> 00:09:17,940 I will have joy over you. 174 00:09:17,940 --> 00:09:21,940 And not only will I have, but hallelujah, when his joy is over 175 00:09:21,940 --> 00:09:24,940 me, I'm residing in that joy. 176 00:09:24,940 --> 00:09:28,940 And so that means I'm rejoicing with singing in my heart. 177 00:09:28,940 --> 00:09:32,940 And I'm rejoicing because my iniquity has been removed. 178 00:09:32,940 --> 00:09:37,940 Hallelujah. 179 00:09:37,940 --> 00:09:43,940 Just a little summary of the book of Zephaniah. 180 00:09:43,940 --> 00:09:49,940 So when we think about that Cliff Note summary, circumstances 181 00:09:49,940 --> 00:09:51,940 arise in our lives. 182 00:09:51,940 --> 00:09:55,940 And as circumstances arise, have you ever wondered concerning 183 00:09:55,940 --> 00:09:58,940 the character of God? 184 00:09:58,940 --> 00:10:02,940 Have no doubt about God's character. 185 00:10:02,940 --> 00:10:05,940 Have no doubt about God's character. 186 00:10:05,940 --> 00:10:09,940 Because when you think about his character, the character of God 187 00:10:09,940 --> 00:10:12,940 is that he faileth not. 188 00:10:12,940 --> 00:10:13,940 Are you hearing me? 189 00:10:13,940 --> 00:10:15,940 God does not fail. 190 00:10:15,940 --> 00:10:17,940 He will not fail you. 191 00:10:17,940 --> 00:10:19,940 And if you'll take an examination of places when you 192 00:10:19,940 --> 00:10:22,940 think God has let you down, you'll probably be like myself 193 00:10:22,940 --> 00:10:26,940 and have a little self-reflection and realize that it was me 194 00:10:26,940 --> 00:10:28,940 that I let God down. 195 00:10:28,940 --> 00:10:30,940 He never failed me not. 196 00:10:30,940 --> 00:10:34,940 One time, if there's been low and woe in my life, I brought it 197 00:10:34,940 --> 00:10:38,940 on my own because he's not low and he's not woe. 198 00:10:38,940 --> 00:10:42,940 Once my iniquities, once my sins were washed away, once I 199 00:10:42,940 --> 00:10:46,940 repented, it's always been good from there on out. 200 00:10:46,940 --> 00:10:49,940 Even the reproof and the instruction toward my life, 201 00:10:49,940 --> 00:10:50,940 it is good. 202 00:10:50,940 --> 00:10:54,940 I can't look to God being evil because God tempts no man with 203 00:10:54,940 --> 00:10:57,940 evil because there is no evil in him. 204 00:10:57,940 --> 00:11:01,940 His character, in a character, is that he is good. 205 00:11:01,940 --> 00:11:06,940 And because he is good, he can do nothing but good to us, 206 00:11:06,940 --> 00:11:09,940 for us, and through us. 207 00:11:09,940 --> 00:11:13,940 So when I look back and maybe see low points and away places, 208 00:11:13,940 --> 00:11:15,940 it's always been on me. 209 00:11:15,940 --> 00:11:17,940 It's never been on God. 210 00:11:17,940 --> 00:11:20,940 So somebody, you need to quit having your doubts about God's 211 00:11:20,940 --> 00:11:22,940 goodness in your life. 212 00:11:22,940 --> 00:11:25,940 If you're not walking in that goodness, then you better take 213 00:11:25,940 --> 00:11:30,940 a good self-examination. 214 00:11:30,940 --> 00:11:32,940 Well, things aren't necessarily good. 215 00:11:32,940 --> 00:11:34,940 I didn't say things were good. 216 00:11:34,940 --> 00:11:39,940 I didn't say life necessarily was good. 217 00:11:39,940 --> 00:11:42,940 Sometimes life stinks. 218 00:11:42,940 --> 00:11:44,940 Hello? 219 00:11:44,940 --> 00:11:47,940 Sometimes there's circumstances that we have no control over 220 00:11:47,940 --> 00:11:54,940 that invade our life, and those circumstances are not good. 221 00:11:54,940 --> 00:11:58,940 Your flesh is subject to disease, and when you get a report from 222 00:11:58,940 --> 00:12:02,940 a doctor concerning a disease in your life, that disease in 223 00:12:02,940 --> 00:12:07,940 itself is not good because it brings destruction to the body. 224 00:12:07,940 --> 00:12:12,940 I'm not saying life is good, but I'm saying God is good in life. 225 00:12:12,940 --> 00:12:16,940 I'm saying God is good in spite of life and have no doubt about 226 00:12:16,940 --> 00:12:19,940 His goodness over your life. 227 00:12:19,940 --> 00:12:21,940 Oh, but I'm going through this, but He's not forsaking you 228 00:12:21,940 --> 00:12:23,940 in going through it. 229 00:12:23,940 --> 00:12:25,940 Oh, but I'm having to deal with this, but He's right there with 230 00:12:25,940 --> 00:12:29,940 you dealing it right alongside you, and if you don't forsake Him, 231 00:12:29,940 --> 00:12:32,940 He won't forsake you, and even if you do forsake Him, 232 00:12:32,940 --> 00:12:36,940 He's going to pursue after you until He over... 233 00:12:36,940 --> 00:12:51,940 The very nature of God is to be faithful. 234 00:12:51,940 --> 00:12:59,940 So therefore, the inability of God to have failure is substantial 235 00:12:59,940 --> 00:13:05,940 in the enhancement and the growth and the upbuilding of your faith. 236 00:13:05,940 --> 00:13:08,940 You cannot fail. 237 00:13:08,940 --> 00:13:10,940 Is there anything too hard for the Lord? 238 00:13:10,940 --> 00:13:12,940 No. 239 00:13:12,940 --> 00:13:13,940 Why? 240 00:13:13,940 --> 00:13:17,940 Because Jeremiah would say, nothing is too hard for thee. 241 00:13:17,940 --> 00:13:21,940 So when you look at things and the impossibility of your efforts 242 00:13:21,940 --> 00:13:28,940 and efforts of other humanity, don't lay that on God because He is able. 243 00:13:28,940 --> 00:13:30,940 Why is He able? 244 00:13:30,940 --> 00:13:33,940 Where we've been resting the last couple of weeks in Hebrews 245 00:13:33,940 --> 00:13:38,940 where he declares that He that is promised is faithful. 246 00:13:38,940 --> 00:13:39,940 Hallelujah. 247 00:13:39,940 --> 00:13:45,940 So those who have received the promise must themselves also be faithful 248 00:13:45,940 --> 00:13:50,940 and have faithfulness returning out of their life so that the faithful God, 249 00:13:50,940 --> 00:13:55,940 the good God of glory who fails not, is able to extend His mercy 250 00:13:55,940 --> 00:14:01,940 and His grace towards you and the goodness of His favor that it rests upon your life 251 00:14:01,940 --> 00:14:05,940 and the circumstances of life are counterintuitive to the goodness 252 00:14:05,940 --> 00:14:09,940 that you wish to experience and have go about in your life. 253 00:14:09,940 --> 00:14:14,940 So when my faith goes to Him, His faithfulness is responded to my faith in Him 254 00:14:14,940 --> 00:14:18,940 and the promises of God that are yea and amen in Christ Jesus 255 00:14:18,940 --> 00:14:24,940 become made available because of the faith that I have in Him. 256 00:14:24,940 --> 00:14:32,940 I guess I'm preaching to the preacher today. 257 00:14:32,940 --> 00:14:35,940 I sure am making myself feel good. 258 00:14:35,940 --> 00:14:41,940 I'm telling you, every now and then my faith needs built. 259 00:14:41,940 --> 00:14:46,940 I would probably get down there but my feet sore. 260 00:14:46,940 --> 00:14:49,940 Travis had me on the roof of the house three days this week. 261 00:14:49,940 --> 00:14:51,940 My feet sore. 262 00:14:51,940 --> 00:14:54,940 Hot. 263 00:14:54,940 --> 00:14:56,940 I told him two or three times, I said, 264 00:14:56,940 --> 00:15:08,940 Travis, I'm too fat, I'm too old to be up here. 265 00:15:08,940 --> 00:15:10,940 That's truth. 266 00:15:10,940 --> 00:15:12,940 You know what? 267 00:15:12,940 --> 00:15:19,940 Thursday, he sweated six and a half pounds off of me on Thursday. 268 00:15:19,940 --> 00:15:33,940 In one day, I told his cat, it was that third chin, it just disappeared. 269 00:15:33,940 --> 00:15:36,940 No, I'm not working up there with him more. 270 00:15:36,940 --> 00:15:39,940 Nope. 271 00:15:39,940 --> 00:15:45,940 You see, those circumstances of such nature reminds you of the goodness of God. 272 00:15:45,940 --> 00:15:51,940 It reminds me that this is my trade and my craft now, not that. 273 00:15:51,940 --> 00:15:58,940 He's been good, good to me, faithful to me. 274 00:15:58,940 --> 00:16:03,940 It enhances my faith substantially to know of His character, 275 00:16:03,940 --> 00:16:09,940 the innate of His being that He is always faithful and He never fails. 276 00:16:09,940 --> 00:16:11,940 He fails not. 277 00:16:11,940 --> 00:16:13,940 So I don't know what you're looking at. 278 00:16:13,940 --> 00:16:15,940 I don't know what you're dealing with. 279 00:16:15,940 --> 00:16:21,940 But if the enemy's been trying to cause you to doubt and that God is not able to do what you need, 280 00:16:21,940 --> 00:16:27,940 I'm here to reverse some stinking thinking this morning because He is faithful. 281 00:16:27,940 --> 00:16:31,940 And because He is faithful, you will overcome it. 282 00:16:31,940 --> 00:16:33,940 Don't lose your faith. 283 00:16:33,940 --> 00:16:39,940 Don't give up on your trust and have no doubt. 284 00:16:39,940 --> 00:16:47,940 You see what that revelation will do for you when you understand this faithfulness of God and that He fails not. 285 00:16:47,940 --> 00:16:52,940 It'll cause a revelation that will have a launching effect of your faith. 286 00:16:52,940 --> 00:16:58,940 And it'll cause you to be ever increasing in momentum toward trusting God. 287 00:16:58,940 --> 00:17:03,940 And it'll cause a fresh look at every situation that you begin to proclaim. 288 00:17:03,940 --> 00:17:11,940 Thus saith the Lord over your situation, not thus saith me, not just saith her, not just saith him, 289 00:17:11,940 --> 00:17:14,940 but what just saith the Lord. 290 00:17:14,940 --> 00:17:16,940 It'll cause a light to come on in your life. 291 00:17:16,940 --> 00:17:18,940 And it really doesn't matter what the devil says. 292 00:17:18,940 --> 00:17:22,940 It really does not matter what the world proclaims over your life 293 00:17:22,940 --> 00:17:27,940 because there is a proclamation that brings revelation into your life. 294 00:17:27,940 --> 00:17:43,940 And have no doubt, He faileth not. 295 00:17:43,940 --> 00:17:48,940 Trying to get to this first point. 296 00:17:48,940 --> 00:18:00,940 Search to understand this one verse, not even the whole verse, not even trying to bring into account His justice. 297 00:18:00,940 --> 00:18:02,940 Right? 298 00:18:02,940 --> 00:18:07,940 Not even to try to bring into account that He's in our midst. 299 00:18:07,940 --> 00:18:09,940 Just those three little words. 300 00:18:09,940 --> 00:18:13,940 He faileth not. 301 00:18:13,940 --> 00:18:20,940 Don't try to get a grasp of the whole, you know, I wish Brother Mills was here this morning. 302 00:18:20,940 --> 00:18:24,940 He's still in Africa coming back Tuesday. 303 00:18:24,940 --> 00:18:28,940 How does a pig eat an elephant? 304 00:18:28,940 --> 00:18:33,940 One little bite at a time. 305 00:18:33,940 --> 00:18:35,940 That's how it's accomplished. 306 00:18:35,940 --> 00:18:38,940 Don't try to take in the comforts of the whole word. 307 00:18:38,940 --> 00:18:42,940 If you could just get a hold of one, two, three little words, 308 00:18:42,940 --> 00:18:46,940 it will revolutionize your relationship with God. 309 00:18:46,940 --> 00:18:50,940 I don't have time to take a stroll and give you some of these two or three word phrases 310 00:18:50,940 --> 00:18:53,940 because if you could just get a hold of them, if we could just take a grip, 311 00:18:53,940 --> 00:18:58,940 if you could just get a good grasp on the Lord is my shepherd. 312 00:18:58,940 --> 00:19:05,940 And if you got a hold of that one, just take the next phrase, and I shall not want my God that overdo you for the next 10 years 313 00:19:05,940 --> 00:19:09,940 because circumstances that arise in your life, it's not your, 314 00:19:09,940 --> 00:19:12,940 it's not your prerogative to get you out of them. 315 00:19:12,940 --> 00:19:18,940 If the Lord is your shepherd, let him be the shepherd because a continuation of that 23rd Psalm 316 00:19:18,940 --> 00:19:23,940 lets you know what your shepherd will do for you that you don't have to do for yourself. 317 00:19:23,940 --> 00:19:26,940 And what that is going to be is get you beside some still waters. 318 00:19:26,940 --> 00:19:28,940 He's going to get you in the green pastures. 319 00:19:28,940 --> 00:19:30,940 He's going to notch your head. 320 00:19:30,940 --> 00:19:32,940 He's going to restore your soul. 321 00:19:32,940 --> 00:19:41,940 Hey, have no doubt. 322 00:19:41,940 --> 00:19:44,940 Never doubt him. 323 00:19:44,940 --> 00:19:54,940 But in faith, believe in trusting. 324 00:19:54,940 --> 00:20:01,940 So with that, we begin with that his word fails not. 325 00:20:01,940 --> 00:20:05,940 He faileth not. 326 00:20:05,940 --> 00:20:11,940 Have no doubt that his word does not fail. 327 00:20:11,940 --> 00:20:19,940 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word is going to stand forever. 328 00:20:19,940 --> 00:20:21,940 What does that mean? 329 00:20:21,940 --> 00:20:27,940 When the earth is covered with the firmament of smoke, and there's cloud, and there's fire, 330 00:20:27,940 --> 00:20:33,940 and it's raining fire, and this whole earth is being purified with fire, not by water, but by fire, 331 00:20:33,940 --> 00:20:38,940 my God, could we not back up and preach on the salvific power of water 332 00:20:38,940 --> 00:20:45,940 and then move our way through to the regenerating empowerment of the fire? 333 00:20:45,940 --> 00:20:48,940 Don't make me back up to a Red Sea. 334 00:20:48,940 --> 00:20:51,940 Don't make me back up to a Jordan that rolls back. 335 00:20:51,940 --> 00:20:56,940 Don't put me there because if we'll go there, we'll end up in Solomon's temple. 336 00:20:56,940 --> 00:21:00,940 And then he prays and the glory falls, and the priest can't minister, 337 00:21:00,940 --> 00:21:14,940 and we'll make our way to Acts when the glory of God moves and fire falls from heaven. 338 00:21:14,940 --> 00:21:18,940 His word fails not. 339 00:21:18,940 --> 00:21:22,940 The psalmist declares in 1.1989, forever. 340 00:21:22,940 --> 00:21:25,940 Somebody say that with me, forever. 341 00:21:25,940 --> 00:21:28,940 Oh, Lord, thy word. 342 00:21:28,940 --> 00:21:29,940 Listen to this. 343 00:21:29,940 --> 00:21:33,940 It's settled in heaven. 344 00:21:33,940 --> 00:21:41,940 So it doesn't matter how much us earthlings get unsettled by his word. 345 00:21:41,940 --> 00:21:45,940 The criteria of the establishment is not earth. 346 00:21:45,940 --> 00:21:47,940 It's heaven. 347 00:21:47,940 --> 00:21:49,940 Because we have a heavenly tabernacle. 348 00:21:49,940 --> 00:21:50,940 Come on, somebody. 349 00:21:50,940 --> 00:21:52,940 Don't. 350 00:21:52,940 --> 00:21:55,940 I need some Bible readers to wake up this morning. 351 00:21:55,940 --> 00:21:59,940 I need some help today. 352 00:21:59,940 --> 00:22:02,940 For I have not seen and ear has not heard, 353 00:22:02,940 --> 00:22:08,940 neither has it entered into the heart of man what God has in store for those who love him. 354 00:22:08,940 --> 00:22:11,940 You can't see it. You can't feel it. You can't touch it. 355 00:22:11,940 --> 00:22:16,940 But I can sure let my mind wrap around it, and I can let my imagination be carried away. 356 00:22:16,940 --> 00:22:21,940 And gates of pearl, not pearls, plural, but pearl. 357 00:22:21,940 --> 00:22:26,940 One pearl per gate. 358 00:22:26,940 --> 00:22:30,940 That's a big gate. 359 00:22:30,940 --> 00:22:36,940 And I let my mind grasp a hold of a crystal river. 360 00:22:36,940 --> 00:22:40,940 And on the banks of the crystal river is a tree of life 361 00:22:40,940 --> 00:22:44,940 that grows eternally for the healing of those who make their way 362 00:22:44,940 --> 00:22:49,940 and partake of the tree of life on the banks of the crystal river. 363 00:22:49,940 --> 00:22:52,940 You can see an earthly throne where a river might flow. 364 00:22:52,940 --> 00:22:54,940 But there's a heavenly throne. 365 00:22:54,940 --> 00:22:58,940 There is that tabernacle above that the river flows from. 366 00:22:58,940 --> 00:23:01,940 And I let my mind wrap around a sardonic stone. 367 00:23:01,940 --> 00:23:06,940 I let my mind wrap around a transparent street of gold. 368 00:23:06,940 --> 00:23:08,940 And I let my mind be encapsulated. 369 00:23:08,940 --> 00:23:13,940 Oh, he fails not, have no doubt. 370 00:23:13,940 --> 00:23:30,940 Hey, thank you, Lord. 371 00:23:30,940 --> 00:23:38,940 Hey, his word fails not. 372 00:23:38,940 --> 00:23:43,940 Forever it's settled. 373 00:23:43,940 --> 00:23:44,940 What does that mean? 374 00:23:44,940 --> 00:23:46,940 There's no more discussion. 375 00:23:46,940 --> 00:23:51,940 Well, can I just tell you there never was a discussion? 376 00:23:51,940 --> 00:23:54,940 There never was a discussion. 377 00:23:54,940 --> 00:23:57,940 So get that part out of your mind. 378 00:23:57,940 --> 00:24:00,940 He discussed it with who? 379 00:24:00,940 --> 00:24:03,940 Who's he going to discuss it with? 380 00:24:03,940 --> 00:24:08,940 He and I, being father, son, and Holy Ghost. 381 00:24:08,940 --> 00:24:11,940 And they agreed on everything. 382 00:24:11,940 --> 00:24:14,940 So there was no discussion. 383 00:24:14,940 --> 00:24:16,940 Forever. 384 00:24:16,940 --> 00:24:18,940 That's a long time. 385 00:24:18,940 --> 00:24:21,940 Thy word is settled in heaven. 386 00:24:21,940 --> 00:24:25,940 My God, I wish we could settle a little bit on earth, don't you? 387 00:24:25,940 --> 00:24:29,940 I wish we could just live by a good portion of it. 388 00:24:29,940 --> 00:24:32,940 I started to say all of it, but boy, that's a high task, isn't it? 389 00:24:32,940 --> 00:24:36,940 Because some of us still hadn't crucified that old flesh. 390 00:24:36,940 --> 00:24:38,940 Now, see, I almost messed up a good message. 391 00:24:38,940 --> 00:24:40,940 Let's get off the flesh. 392 00:24:40,940 --> 00:24:44,940 Let's don't dwell on sin, bad habits, right? 393 00:24:44,940 --> 00:24:47,940 No sense of messing up a good message. 394 00:24:47,940 --> 00:24:50,940 Meddling in your business, you're comfortable with your sin. 395 00:24:50,940 --> 00:24:52,940 I know. 396 00:24:52,940 --> 00:24:54,940 You enjoy your sins. 397 00:24:54,940 --> 00:24:55,940 Yeah. 398 00:24:55,940 --> 00:24:57,940 You can sit all week, come on in on Sunday. 399 00:24:57,940 --> 00:24:58,940 Whoo. 400 00:24:58,940 --> 00:24:59,940 Feel good about it. 401 00:24:59,940 --> 00:25:05,940 So I'm not going to mess in your sin. 402 00:25:05,940 --> 00:25:11,940 Why would I mess up a good sermon? 403 00:25:11,940 --> 00:25:17,940 For those of you who are just visiting today, that's my sarcasm. 404 00:25:17,940 --> 00:25:21,940 The last three minutes reverse that. 405 00:25:21,940 --> 00:25:23,940 I do care about your sin. 406 00:25:23,940 --> 00:25:28,940 Because my desire is to see you in heaven. 407 00:25:28,940 --> 00:25:31,940 And for you not to go to hell. 408 00:25:31,940 --> 00:25:35,940 So because his word is forever settled in heaven, it has to spill out on the earth. 409 00:25:35,940 --> 00:25:39,940 And if it spills out on the earth, we'll hear the author of the Hebrew letter declare, 410 00:25:39,940 --> 00:25:44,940 lay aside every weight. 411 00:25:44,940 --> 00:25:46,940 Are you ready for some book? 412 00:25:46,940 --> 00:25:52,940 Lay aside every weight and the, say it out loud, it don't hurt, say it. 413 00:25:52,940 --> 00:25:56,940 And the sin that does so easily. 414 00:25:56,940 --> 00:25:58,940 I'm going to throw you the King James. 415 00:25:58,940 --> 00:25:59,940 We're going back up. 416 00:25:59,940 --> 00:26:00,940 Beset you. 417 00:26:00,940 --> 00:26:01,940 Mess you up. 418 00:26:01,940 --> 00:26:02,940 Trip you up. 419 00:26:02,940 --> 00:26:05,940 Cause you to get back out there and not serve God. 420 00:26:05,940 --> 00:26:10,940 That's what the word beset means in the water's parallel dictionary. 421 00:26:10,940 --> 00:26:16,940 So that you can get rid of the sin that messes you up. 422 00:26:16,940 --> 00:26:18,940 Let it aside. 423 00:26:18,940 --> 00:26:21,940 So that being said, let's move on. 424 00:26:21,940 --> 00:26:23,940 Psalm 10720, his word. 425 00:26:23,940 --> 00:26:28,940 He sent his word and he healed them and he delivered them from their destruction. 426 00:26:28,940 --> 00:26:35,940 You see that word that settled in heaven spills out and the power of that word from heaven spills out onto the earth. 427 00:26:35,940 --> 00:26:40,940 And that word, this power that is on the earth, delivers you from your destruction. 428 00:26:40,940 --> 00:26:41,940 Right? 429 00:26:41,940 --> 00:26:44,940 So what word are we referencing to? 430 00:26:44,940 --> 00:26:51,940 It would be found in John chapter one, verse one, where there is the declaration in the beginning was the word. 431 00:26:51,940 --> 00:26:53,940 And the word was God. 432 00:26:53,940 --> 00:26:55,940 The words were with God and the same was in the beginning. 433 00:26:55,940 --> 00:27:02,940 And then you look down to verse 14 of chapter one and you'll see that that word was beheld in its flesh. 434 00:27:02,940 --> 00:27:09,940 And that flesh was in the form of the body of Jesus Christ, who is the word. 435 00:27:09,940 --> 00:27:10,940 He is the logos. 436 00:27:10,940 --> 00:27:11,940 Amen. 437 00:27:11,940 --> 00:27:13,940 He's the spoken, but he's even so more. 438 00:27:13,940 --> 00:27:18,940 He's also the fulfillment of the rhema, the living, the now, the fresh. 439 00:27:18,940 --> 00:27:28,940 He that will impart into you his word that is settled in heaven and empower you while you're making your way through the horribleness of the earth and living out the life here below. 440 00:27:28,940 --> 00:27:36,940 But it's his word that is settled and his word that fails not that establishes our going. 441 00:27:36,940 --> 00:27:38,940 Isaiah 55 and 11. 442 00:27:38,940 --> 00:27:42,940 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth. 443 00:27:42,940 --> 00:27:47,940 It shall not return unto me void, but it shall. 444 00:27:47,940 --> 00:27:52,940 Somebody say shall say that leaves no doubt. 445 00:27:52,940 --> 00:27:54,940 Have no doubt. 446 00:27:54,940 --> 00:27:56,940 Did you get that little? 447 00:27:56,940 --> 00:27:59,940 It shall. 448 00:27:59,940 --> 00:28:08,940 Reverses the idea and the thought of maybe. 449 00:28:08,940 --> 00:28:09,940 It's his word. 450 00:28:09,940 --> 00:28:11,940 Amen. 451 00:28:11,940 --> 00:28:14,940 It's his word that establishes the accomplishment of his word. 452 00:28:14,940 --> 00:28:21,940 It shall accomplish that which I please now, not you, not me, but what he what I the Lord. 453 00:28:21,940 --> 00:28:22,940 This is the Lord speaking. 454 00:28:22,940 --> 00:28:24,940 It will accomplish what I please. 455 00:28:24,940 --> 00:28:28,940 Now herein lies the conundrum with you and I here below. 456 00:28:28,940 --> 00:28:33,940 We want something other than what he desires for our life. 457 00:28:33,940 --> 00:28:41,940 And so we'll read the word and we'll take our own adaptation of it and what I want to receive from it. 458 00:28:41,940 --> 00:28:44,940 But that's not the promise. 459 00:28:44,940 --> 00:28:45,940 Hello. 460 00:28:45,940 --> 00:28:50,940 The promise is that which pleases him, it will not return void. 461 00:28:50,940 --> 00:28:51,940 So what are you saying, Pastor? 462 00:28:51,940 --> 00:29:02,940 I'm saying that we have to align our thought process with his thought process so that we're in line together so that what I want is what he wants and what he wants is what I want. 463 00:29:02,940 --> 00:29:04,940 And that word will not be void. 464 00:29:04,940 --> 00:29:08,940 It will not come back empty, but it will perform that which he pleases in your life. 465 00:29:08,940 --> 00:29:20,940 And that word, what pleases in your life is that you are blessed, that you are favored, you are instructed, you are corrected, you are delivered, you are healed. 466 00:29:20,940 --> 00:29:24,940 I know we don't like the instruction part, but that's still part of it. 467 00:29:24,940 --> 00:29:25,940 I mean, this goes with it. 468 00:29:25,940 --> 00:29:27,940 Just line up. 469 00:29:27,940 --> 00:29:29,940 His word fails not. 470 00:29:29,940 --> 00:29:39,940 First Kings 856 Solomon declares, praise be to the Lord who has given rest to his people Israel. 471 00:29:39,940 --> 00:29:45,940 Just as he promised, not one word has failed. 472 00:29:45,940 --> 00:29:54,940 Not one word has failed of all the good promises he gave through his servant. 473 00:29:54,940 --> 00:29:59,940 Not one, not one. 474 00:29:59,940 --> 00:30:04,940 Solomon said, I can't think of anything that God said he'd do that he didn't do. 475 00:30:04,940 --> 00:30:07,940 Not one, not one thing. 476 00:30:07,940 --> 00:30:13,940 He kept every single promise that he made Moses. 477 00:30:13,940 --> 00:30:14,940 So what does that mean? 478 00:30:14,940 --> 00:30:17,940 That means you can trust what he's promised you. 479 00:30:17,940 --> 00:30:19,940 Well, because he's not a man that he should lie. 480 00:30:19,940 --> 00:30:21,940 So he can't lie to you. 481 00:30:21,940 --> 00:30:22,940 There's no evil in him. 482 00:30:22,940 --> 00:30:24,940 So he's telling you the truth. 483 00:30:24,940 --> 00:30:29,940 If God has witnessed something in your spirit and he's witnessed it through his word 484 00:30:29,940 --> 00:30:35,940 and the promises of his scripture, then you can latch on to it. 485 00:30:35,940 --> 00:30:36,940 Well, I'm not saying it. 486 00:30:36,940 --> 00:30:37,940 You may not. 487 00:30:37,940 --> 00:30:40,940 It may be in your children or your grandchildren. 488 00:30:40,940 --> 00:30:44,940 But I tell you, because God is not bound in the circumference of time, 489 00:30:44,940 --> 00:30:53,940 which we try to tie him up, loop him up and bind him up in. 490 00:30:53,940 --> 00:30:57,940 Abraham, every place you put the sole of your foot is going to belong to you. 491 00:30:57,940 --> 00:31:07,940 Do you know before Abraham died, all of the promised land that he actually possessed was a burial tomb? 492 00:31:07,940 --> 00:31:12,940 He purchased a burial tomb to bury Sarah. 493 00:31:12,940 --> 00:31:14,940 That's all he got. 494 00:31:14,940 --> 00:31:21,940 Now, for some of us, we say, my God, all I got out of it was a grave. 495 00:31:21,940 --> 00:31:24,940 Sour grapes right there. 496 00:31:24,940 --> 00:31:27,940 That's all we can see is what we didn't get. 497 00:31:27,940 --> 00:31:34,940 Like somebody cheering, crying because they don't get what they want. 498 00:31:34,940 --> 00:31:40,940 He didn't even have that when he started walking. 499 00:31:40,940 --> 00:31:44,940 He didn't even have that. 500 00:31:44,940 --> 00:31:46,940 But it wasn't all about him. 501 00:31:46,940 --> 00:31:49,940 It was about those stars that were prophesied to him. 502 00:31:49,940 --> 00:31:51,940 Oh, are you hearing me now? 503 00:31:51,940 --> 00:31:56,940 It was about those grains of sand that was prophesied to him. 504 00:31:56,940 --> 00:31:59,940 It was about his posterity that was to come. 505 00:31:59,940 --> 00:32:00,940 It wasn't just about Abraham. 506 00:32:00,940 --> 00:32:02,940 I hate to bust your bubble. 507 00:32:02,940 --> 00:32:07,940 I know the world we live in is me, me, me more than it's ever been me, me, me. 508 00:32:07,940 --> 00:32:09,940 But it's not you, you, you. 509 00:32:09,940 --> 00:32:12,940 It's us, us, us, and everybody else. 510 00:32:12,940 --> 00:32:13,940 Amen. 511 00:32:13,940 --> 00:32:18,940 What God may be doing and establishing in your life, you may never see actually. 512 00:32:18,940 --> 00:32:20,940 And you may only possess just a small part of it. 513 00:32:20,940 --> 00:32:23,940 But do you know what that means to the next generation? 514 00:32:23,940 --> 00:32:24,940 God's going to be faithful. 515 00:32:24,940 --> 00:32:26,940 Do you know what it means to the next generation? 516 00:32:26,940 --> 00:32:28,940 God's going to be faithful. 517 00:32:28,940 --> 00:32:35,940 Oh, my Lord, by the time Jacob got down into Egypt, there's only 75 of them. 518 00:32:35,940 --> 00:32:38,940 But can I tell you right now, when Abraham started walking, 519 00:32:38,940 --> 00:32:40,940 it was him and Sarah. 520 00:32:40,940 --> 00:32:41,940 He didn't have another. 521 00:32:41,940 --> 00:32:42,940 There wasn't another one. 522 00:32:42,940 --> 00:32:45,940 A few hundred years later, here are 75. 523 00:32:45,940 --> 00:32:46,940 He's gone. 524 00:32:46,940 --> 00:32:47,940 Amen. 525 00:32:47,940 --> 00:32:48,940 Isaac's gone. 526 00:32:48,940 --> 00:32:50,940 And Jacob's now on to Gona. 527 00:32:50,940 --> 00:32:52,940 And his boys are full grown. 528 00:32:52,940 --> 00:32:57,940 And when they made their way down to Egypt, there was a 75 head count. 529 00:32:57,940 --> 00:33:03,940 But when they come out 433 years later, I don't know what the number is. 530 00:33:03,940 --> 00:33:05,940 It's estimated into the millions. 531 00:33:05,940 --> 00:33:08,940 And I'm telling you, Abraham only got a grave. 532 00:33:08,940 --> 00:33:10,940 But when they come out, Moses in front. 533 00:33:10,940 --> 00:33:15,940 And when he came out in the front, millions made their way. 534 00:33:15,940 --> 00:33:30,940 They went through the baptism of the reds. 535 00:33:30,940 --> 00:33:32,940 Have no doubt. 536 00:33:32,940 --> 00:33:34,940 That's all I'm trying to tell you. 537 00:33:34,940 --> 00:33:36,940 Have no doubt. 538 00:33:36,940 --> 00:33:39,940 Just because you don't have a good hold on all of it, 539 00:33:39,940 --> 00:33:47,940 it don't mean all of it's you, but it means all of it's yours. 540 00:33:47,940 --> 00:33:49,940 Oh. 541 00:33:49,940 --> 00:33:51,940 Whew. 542 00:33:51,940 --> 00:33:56,940 I got to settle where I can see. 543 00:33:56,940 --> 00:33:59,940 His word never fails. 544 00:33:59,940 --> 00:34:05,940 As I alluded to John's gospel, from the beginning was the word. 545 00:34:05,940 --> 00:34:10,940 As believers, we often require reassurance. 546 00:34:10,940 --> 00:34:17,940 We often require reassurance of and for our faith and the hope that we have. 547 00:34:17,940 --> 00:34:21,940 Don't you sometimes, you're going through that dry place and you think, 548 00:34:21,940 --> 00:34:23,940 God, are you still there? 549 00:34:23,940 --> 00:34:26,940 Right, and it's only been two days. 550 00:34:26,940 --> 00:34:29,940 Huh? 551 00:34:29,940 --> 00:34:31,940 It's only been two days. 552 00:34:31,940 --> 00:34:33,940 God, have you left me? 553 00:34:33,940 --> 00:34:35,940 Two days in. 554 00:34:35,940 --> 00:34:38,940 Oh, God, you've forsaken me. 555 00:34:38,940 --> 00:34:48,940 God, you haven't done what I told you to do with her or him or them. 556 00:34:48,940 --> 00:34:50,940 God, I told you. 557 00:34:50,940 --> 00:34:54,940 Two days in. 558 00:34:54,940 --> 00:34:56,940 No different than children Israel. 559 00:34:56,940 --> 00:34:59,940 There's only a couple days in, graphing already. 560 00:34:59,940 --> 00:35:01,940 You know, people are consistent. 561 00:35:01,940 --> 00:35:05,940 Humanity is consistent. 562 00:35:05,940 --> 00:35:07,940 Two days in. 563 00:35:07,940 --> 00:35:13,940 Oh, God, oh, we beg and we're, I mean, we're in that inner voice when the 564 00:35:13,940 --> 00:35:15,940 spirit's moaning and groaning through you. 565 00:35:15,940 --> 00:35:17,940 Two days in. 566 00:35:17,940 --> 00:35:19,940 Try 40 years in. 567 00:35:19,940 --> 00:35:21,940 You're walking. 568 00:35:21,940 --> 00:35:25,940 But while you're walking, are you ready? 569 00:35:25,940 --> 00:35:29,940 While you're walking, at least have the wherewithal to do a little 570 00:35:29,940 --> 00:35:31,940 self-reflection. 571 00:35:31,940 --> 00:35:35,940 Look at your feet and you'll see your shoes growing what you put. 572 00:35:35,940 --> 00:35:37,940 Huh? 573 00:35:37,940 --> 00:35:40,940 You know what bread does to you? 574 00:35:40,940 --> 00:35:42,940 Huh? 575 00:35:42,940 --> 00:35:45,940 Eat you a couple pots of manna a day. 576 00:35:45,940 --> 00:35:46,940 Huh? 577 00:35:46,940 --> 00:35:48,940 Bread, start packing up. 578 00:35:48,940 --> 00:35:49,940 But your clothes keep getting bigger. 579 00:35:49,940 --> 00:35:51,940 Mine don't. 580 00:35:51,940 --> 00:35:53,940 I got to go get some more. 581 00:35:53,940 --> 00:35:57,940 You walking around the wilderness 40 years. 582 00:35:57,940 --> 00:35:58,940 Manna, what is it? 583 00:35:58,940 --> 00:35:59,940 That's exactly it. 584 00:35:59,940 --> 00:36:00,940 What is it? 585 00:36:00,940 --> 00:36:02,940 What meaneth it? 586 00:36:02,940 --> 00:36:03,940 I don't know. 587 00:36:03,940 --> 00:36:04,940 I just wonder. 588 00:36:04,940 --> 00:36:10,940 If you could get your wafer and think of a good old ice cold watermelon. 589 00:36:10,940 --> 00:36:11,940 Eat that manna. 590 00:36:11,940 --> 00:36:12,940 Boy, it's good. 591 00:36:12,940 --> 00:36:14,940 And you want to go wiping your chin. 592 00:36:14,940 --> 00:36:15,940 Huh? 593 00:36:15,940 --> 00:36:16,940 Come on. 594 00:36:16,940 --> 00:36:17,940 I don't know. 595 00:36:17,940 --> 00:36:18,940 I didn't get none. 596 00:36:18,940 --> 00:36:23,940 I had some Sous Caricate yesterday. 597 00:36:23,940 --> 00:36:26,940 Yeah. 598 00:36:26,940 --> 00:36:29,940 So don't go to panicking. 599 00:36:29,940 --> 00:36:32,940 Because he just showed up the day you got in. 600 00:36:32,940 --> 00:36:36,940 It may get a little hot before he gets you out. 601 00:36:36,940 --> 00:36:38,940 May be a little furnace action for you. 602 00:36:38,940 --> 00:36:40,940 I don't know. 603 00:36:40,940 --> 00:36:41,940 But I do know this. 604 00:36:41,940 --> 00:36:42,940 There's times in my own faith. 605 00:36:42,940 --> 00:36:43,940 Let me just talk about me. 606 00:36:43,940 --> 00:36:47,940 There's times in my own faith that I need a little reassurance. 607 00:36:47,940 --> 00:36:54,940 I assure you, four and a half years ago, I asked him more than five times, are you sure? 608 00:36:54,940 --> 00:36:56,940 Hello? 609 00:36:56,940 --> 00:36:58,940 Are you sure? 610 00:36:58,940 --> 00:37:01,940 That's where you want us to go? 611 00:37:01,940 --> 00:37:03,940 Hello? 612 00:37:03,940 --> 00:37:08,940 So I need a little assurance of my faith. 613 00:37:08,940 --> 00:37:16,940 Don't you know that first year, I asked him again, are you sure that you were sure? 614 00:37:16,940 --> 00:37:23,940 I'm sure. 615 00:37:23,940 --> 00:37:30,940 When I get in there, knowing I get too transparent, so I'm going to be. 616 00:37:30,940 --> 00:37:36,940 Memorial Day, 2019, fast approaching. 617 00:37:36,940 --> 00:37:40,940 We've been here four and a half months. 618 00:37:40,940 --> 00:37:42,940 Memorial Day's coming. 619 00:37:42,940 --> 00:37:46,940 And a preacher worth his salt that likes Memorial Day. 620 00:37:46,940 --> 00:37:48,940 The church. 621 00:37:48,940 --> 00:37:50,940 It's the gateway to summer. 622 00:37:50,940 --> 00:37:54,940 You people go everywhere. 623 00:37:54,940 --> 00:37:57,940 School just got out the week before. 624 00:37:57,940 --> 00:37:58,940 Huh? 625 00:37:58,940 --> 00:37:59,940 Oh, yeah. 626 00:37:59,940 --> 00:38:02,940 I'm preaching right now. 627 00:38:02,940 --> 00:38:07,940 My number used to go down 150 on Memorial Day. 628 00:38:07,940 --> 00:38:10,940 School just got out. 629 00:38:10,940 --> 00:38:17,940 How many times would you please tell me, can you go to Dollywood in one summer? 630 00:38:17,940 --> 00:38:20,940 Would you? 631 00:38:20,940 --> 00:38:24,940 I was up there four or five years ago, and I still had my field. 632 00:38:24,940 --> 00:38:28,940 But my God, y'all can go five times a summer. 633 00:38:28,940 --> 00:38:30,940 Leave out! 634 00:38:30,940 --> 00:38:31,940 Forget church on Sunday. 635 00:38:31,940 --> 00:38:33,940 My God, we're doing our thing. 636 00:38:33,940 --> 00:38:39,940 Well, I'm just going to tell you, I couldn't bear the thought. 637 00:38:39,940 --> 00:38:41,940 It started weighing heavy on me on Monday. 638 00:38:41,940 --> 00:38:44,940 I said, God, I can't go in there Sunday. 639 00:38:44,940 --> 00:38:46,940 It's Memorial Day. 640 00:38:46,940 --> 00:38:52,940 We only had, I mean, about that time we were running about maybe 100, 400, 505. 641 00:38:52,940 --> 00:38:58,940 Then, I think, God, I can't look at 50 people Sunday. 642 00:38:58,940 --> 00:39:02,940 I can't do it. 643 00:39:02,940 --> 00:39:05,940 Matter of fact, I said, God, I'm not doing it. 644 00:39:05,940 --> 00:39:08,940 I'm not going. 645 00:39:08,940 --> 00:39:10,940 What I told him, I ain't doing it. 646 00:39:10,940 --> 00:39:13,940 I'm not doing it. 647 00:39:13,940 --> 00:39:15,940 And I didn't. 648 00:39:15,940 --> 00:39:23,940 I called Brother Terry, bowed on Saturday afternoon, late. 649 00:39:23,940 --> 00:39:26,940 I said, Brother Terry, you got tomorrow. 650 00:39:26,940 --> 00:39:30,940 I'm not coming. 651 00:39:30,940 --> 00:39:33,940 Sister Kathy says, well, what are we going to do? 652 00:39:33,940 --> 00:39:35,940 And I thought, well, what am I going to do? 653 00:39:35,940 --> 00:39:37,940 I'm not going here. 654 00:39:37,940 --> 00:39:39,940 God, you think what you won't think. 655 00:39:39,940 --> 00:39:41,940 I'm just telling you. 656 00:39:41,940 --> 00:39:45,940 Have no doubt. 657 00:39:45,940 --> 00:39:47,940 We got up Sunday morning. 658 00:39:47,940 --> 00:39:50,940 Pastor friend of mine in Troy, Tennessee, are you here with me? 659 00:39:50,940 --> 00:39:56,940 The furthest point up in the little hill of this state is where I went. 660 00:39:56,940 --> 00:40:04,940 It's far away in the state of Tennessee as I could get. 661 00:40:04,940 --> 00:40:08,940 I got up and left that Sunday morning, drove five and a half hours, 662 00:40:08,940 --> 00:40:12,940 and got there 15 minutes before church started. 663 00:40:12,940 --> 00:40:13,940 They had been in revival. 664 00:40:13,940 --> 00:40:15,940 The place had exploded. 665 00:40:15,940 --> 00:40:19,940 They went from about 150 to 450 in just several months. 666 00:40:19,940 --> 00:40:23,940 And I thought, I'm going to go get me a piece of that because I need it. 667 00:40:23,940 --> 00:40:26,940 Let me just tell you how God sent you human works. 668 00:40:26,940 --> 00:40:37,940 I got there and it was their graduation Sunday and I said. 669 00:40:37,940 --> 00:40:41,940 So there we sat going through graduation Sunday. 670 00:40:41,940 --> 00:40:44,940 I thought serves you right. 671 00:40:44,940 --> 00:40:47,940 So I called Pastor Terry. 672 00:40:47,940 --> 00:40:52,940 Whenever they got out, which is on slow time, how was it? 673 00:40:52,940 --> 00:40:53,940 Oh, we had 90 something. 674 00:40:53,940 --> 00:40:58,940 I said, Hallelujah, but I had doubts. 675 00:40:58,940 --> 00:41:02,940 I just couldn't bear myself to look at it. 676 00:41:02,940 --> 00:41:09,940 I couldn't bear myself to think you're on the lake and I'm here with half of you. 677 00:41:09,940 --> 00:41:12,940 So let that settle on you next Saturday and the Saturdays that follow 678 00:41:12,940 --> 00:41:13,940 when you think about it. 679 00:41:13,940 --> 00:41:15,940 I just don't think I'll go no more. 680 00:41:15,940 --> 00:41:20,940 I do miss you. 681 00:41:20,940 --> 00:41:22,940 And from time to time you're going to miss me 682 00:41:22,940 --> 00:41:25,940 because I ain't going to be here. 683 00:41:25,940 --> 00:41:28,940 Hello. 684 00:41:28,940 --> 00:41:31,940 You say, what's that got to do with the thing that you're talking about? 685 00:41:31,940 --> 00:41:41,940 Really? Nothing. It's just a beanie. 686 00:41:41,940 --> 00:41:45,940 I just talked about me needing some reassurance in my own faith. 687 00:41:45,940 --> 00:41:51,940 And I just gave you an example of where I didn't trust God to trust you. 688 00:41:51,940 --> 00:42:00,940 Now, a few of you did skip, but not all. 689 00:42:00,940 --> 00:42:04,940 So there's times that I need reassurance in my faith. 690 00:42:04,940 --> 00:42:07,940 To do what I do, yes, I have to be reassured. 691 00:42:07,940 --> 00:42:10,940 Believe it or not, you pinch me and I'll scream or slap. 692 00:42:10,940 --> 00:42:13,940 I'm flesh. 693 00:42:13,940 --> 00:42:17,940 So I deal with the same human emotions that you deal with. 694 00:42:17,940 --> 00:42:21,940 Now, granted, I know I should deal with them a little better. 695 00:42:21,940 --> 00:42:23,940 And some of them I do. 696 00:42:23,940 --> 00:42:25,940 Not all. 697 00:42:25,940 --> 00:42:28,940 So when I think about this reassurance 698 00:42:28,940 --> 00:42:31,940 and I think about that his word fails not 699 00:42:31,940 --> 00:42:34,940 and when I begin to try to encourage us to have faith in God, 700 00:42:34,940 --> 00:42:36,940 I'm not just preaching to you. 701 00:42:36,940 --> 00:42:39,940 I'm preaching to the man behind the counter. 702 00:42:39,940 --> 00:42:41,940 I am encouraging my own faith. 703 00:42:41,940 --> 00:42:45,940 I'm enriching my own life as the anointing pours in 704 00:42:45,940 --> 00:42:48,940 and it begins to lift up and God begins to enrich us all. 705 00:42:48,940 --> 00:42:51,940 It builds my faith because now I look across the crowd 706 00:42:51,940 --> 00:42:54,940 and we have 200 plus and it makes me feel good 707 00:42:54,940 --> 00:43:03,940 and I was here this memorial day. 708 00:43:03,940 --> 00:43:05,940 Because I figured it out. 709 00:43:05,940 --> 00:43:07,940 If I grill you hamburgers and a hot dog and homemade ice cream, 710 00:43:07,940 --> 00:43:10,940 you'll show up. 711 00:43:10,940 --> 00:43:15,940 Have no doubt. 712 00:43:15,940 --> 00:43:17,940 This assurance that we have, and I'm going to close 713 00:43:17,940 --> 00:43:20,940 because I just killed it, I know. 714 00:43:20,940 --> 00:43:26,940 This assurance in our life comes from various sources. 715 00:43:26,940 --> 00:43:30,940 It comes from the source of prayer. 716 00:43:30,940 --> 00:43:35,940 Do you pray and aren't you encouraged when you pray? 717 00:43:35,940 --> 00:43:37,940 When you worship? 718 00:43:37,940 --> 00:43:41,940 I'll be honest with you, I wasn't 100% this morning. 719 00:43:41,940 --> 00:43:46,940 I wasn't 100% this morning when we started. 720 00:43:46,940 --> 00:43:51,940 Total dependent upon God today and he failed not. 721 00:43:51,940 --> 00:43:54,940 Oh, he's failed not. 722 00:43:54,940 --> 00:43:56,940 Total dependent upon him this morning. 723 00:43:56,940 --> 00:43:58,940 I wasn't on my A game today. 724 00:43:58,940 --> 00:44:00,940 Didn't feel like it when I came in. 725 00:44:00,940 --> 00:44:02,940 Had to force myself to raise my hands. 726 00:44:02,940 --> 00:44:06,940 Had to force myself to get into his presence. 727 00:44:06,940 --> 00:44:09,940 But I'm so grateful that I did. 728 00:44:09,940 --> 00:44:12,940 I'm so grateful that I began to think and reminisce 729 00:44:12,940 --> 00:44:14,940 about his good, good, good. 730 00:44:14,940 --> 00:44:17,940 And he keeps on getting better. 731 00:44:17,940 --> 00:44:21,940 He keeps on getting better and more better and gooder and gooder. 732 00:44:21,940 --> 00:44:24,940 And then the word that he deposited in my soul 733 00:44:24,940 --> 00:44:26,940 began to come alive right there. 734 00:44:26,940 --> 00:44:29,940 And then I began to think about I'll never forget the day. 735 00:44:29,940 --> 00:44:31,940 How dare I forget the day? 736 00:44:31,940 --> 00:44:33,940 How dare I forget what he's done for me? 737 00:44:33,940 --> 00:44:36,940 Those many long years ago when he brought me out 738 00:44:36,940 --> 00:44:40,940 and he took me out and I think about his word has never failed me. 739 00:44:40,940 --> 00:44:43,940 When I think about how faithful he is and he has never failed me. 740 00:44:43,940 --> 00:44:46,940 And it's settled in heaven and therefore declared upon the earth 741 00:44:46,940 --> 00:44:49,940 and the goodness and the faithfulness of God. 742 00:44:49,940 --> 00:44:59,940 I need that reassurance day by day by day by day. 743 00:44:59,940 --> 00:45:09,940 So I come to tell you this morning whatever is going on have no doubts. 744 00:45:09,940 --> 00:45:14,940 No doubts. 745 00:45:14,940 --> 00:45:20,940 God doesn't make mistakes. 746 00:45:20,940 --> 00:45:27,940 None. 747 00:45:27,940 --> 00:45:30,940 He doesn't do something like oops I'm going to make this out of it. 748 00:45:30,940 --> 00:45:33,940 No. 749 00:45:33,940 --> 00:45:39,940 When he does it, it's done right. 750 00:45:39,940 --> 00:45:47,940 So if he's leading you have no doubt he knows where he's going with you. 751 00:45:47,940 --> 00:45:51,940 Oh my God. 752 00:45:51,940 --> 00:46:02,940 No doubt that he's mindful of where you are. 753 00:46:02,940 --> 00:46:06,940 And if you were following him to get to where you are, 754 00:46:06,940 --> 00:46:12,940 he's not going to leave you there. 755 00:46:12,940 --> 00:46:25,940 The old spiritual said he didn't bring me this far to leave me. 756 00:46:25,940 --> 00:46:30,940 He didn't bring you this far to leave you. 757 00:46:30,940 --> 00:46:35,940 He knows what he's doing in your life, child. 758 00:46:35,940 --> 00:46:39,940 The best we can do is try not to make a mess of it. 759 00:46:39,940 --> 00:46:44,940 The best I can do is try not to mess up what he's got going. 760 00:46:44,940 --> 00:46:50,940 And man, oh man, I tell you this, 761 00:46:50,940 --> 00:46:55,940 you can go as far as you want to go but it's not this. 762 00:46:55,940 --> 00:46:57,940 You can try to get away from it and you're going to get over there 763 00:46:57,940 --> 00:47:05,940 and you're going to be thinking man I wish I was there. 764 00:47:05,940 --> 00:47:12,940 Have no doubts. 765 00:47:12,940 --> 00:47:17,940 Stand with me, I'm quick. 766 00:47:17,940 --> 00:47:23,940 The source of worship, the assurance we've made over comers 767 00:47:23,940 --> 00:47:29,940 by the blood of the lamb and the word of our testimony. 768 00:47:29,940 --> 00:47:36,940 There is no greater assurance than his word. 769 00:47:36,940 --> 00:47:43,940 And his word reveals to us in many different types and figures 770 00:47:43,940 --> 00:47:50,940 a very significant picture of the word who is Christ. 771 00:47:50,940 --> 00:47:55,940 The Old Testament points to him, are you hearing me? 772 00:47:55,940 --> 00:48:03,940 He points to him and any of that other stuff but him doesn't qualify. 773 00:48:03,940 --> 00:48:10,940 He points to him and the New Testament reveals him. 774 00:48:10,940 --> 00:48:17,940 So we see these road signs, if you will, of the Old Testament. 775 00:48:17,940 --> 00:48:26,940 He points him out as the seed that will bruise the heel. 776 00:48:26,940 --> 00:48:34,940 The doorway of the tabernacle, the shepherd, 777 00:48:34,940 --> 00:48:38,940 the fountain that never runs dry. 778 00:48:38,940 --> 00:48:46,940 Isaiah points him out as the well of salvation. 779 00:48:46,940 --> 00:48:54,940 He declared him as wonderful, counselor, prince of peace, 780 00:48:54,940 --> 00:49:04,940 mighty God, and upon his shoulders the establishment of the government would stand. 781 00:49:04,940 --> 00:49:14,940 The sweet words of Solomon declare him to be the lily of the violet. 782 00:49:14,940 --> 00:49:24,940 He declared the bright morning star and the rose of Sharon that forever blooms. 783 00:49:24,940 --> 00:49:33,940 We see the road sign that points him as rising with healing in his wings. 784 00:49:33,940 --> 00:49:40,940 We see him revealed in the babe in the manger 785 00:49:40,940 --> 00:49:45,940 as the angels declare his glory on earth. 786 00:49:45,940 --> 00:49:53,940 We see him revealed as the lamb of God which takes away the sins of the world. 787 00:49:53,940 --> 00:50:09,940 We see him revealed as the door, the way, the truth, the life, the bread, the light, the vine. 788 00:50:09,940 --> 00:50:12,940 And need I go on? 789 00:50:12,940 --> 00:50:15,940 That's my assurance. 790 00:50:15,940 --> 00:50:17,940 That's your assurance. 791 00:50:17,940 --> 00:50:20,940 Have no doubt. 792 00:50:20,940 --> 00:50:21,940 Have no doubt. 793 00:50:21,940 --> 00:50:23,940 Father, I love you this morning. 794 00:50:23,940 --> 00:50:27,940 I thank you, Lord, for your help today, 795 00:50:27,940 --> 00:50:33,940 for I have truly felt the stirring of your anointing. 796 00:50:33,940 --> 00:50:36,940 For every person in this room 797 00:50:36,940 --> 00:50:41,940 who may be at some level or another having any kind of doubt, 798 00:50:41,940 --> 00:50:46,940 the voice of the evil one that may whisper, 799 00:50:46,940 --> 00:50:51,940 you can stop now, you can quit now, you can give up now. 800 00:50:51,940 --> 00:50:52,940 God doesn't love you. 801 00:50:52,940 --> 00:50:53,940 God doesn't care. 802 00:50:53,940 --> 00:50:58,940 If he cared, then he'll go listen a litany of reasons to why the devil would tell you 803 00:50:58,940 --> 00:51:03,940 if God cared that things wouldn't be happening the way they are. 804 00:51:03,940 --> 00:51:06,940 His word never fails. 805 00:51:06,940 --> 00:51:09,940 And he faileth not. 806 00:51:09,940 --> 00:51:11,940 And he wants to joy over you. 807 00:51:11,940 --> 00:51:12,940 He wants to sing over you. 808 00:51:12,940 --> 00:51:17,940 He wants to dance over you. 809 00:51:17,940 --> 00:51:18,940 Why, pastor? 810 00:51:18,940 --> 00:51:22,940 Because he is in your midst. 811 00:51:22,940 --> 00:51:23,940 What's that mean? 812 00:51:23,940 --> 00:51:33,940 He's in your midst.