1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,600 Oh, while we walk the pilgrim pathway, clouds will overspread the sky. 2 00:00:10,600 --> 00:00:17,800 But when traveling days are over, not a shadow, come on sing. 3 00:00:17,800 --> 00:00:25,000 Oh, when we all get to heaven, oh, what a day of rejoicing. 4 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:34,000 Oh, when we all see Jesus, we're gonna sing, we're gonna shout the victory. 5 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:43,000 Now it's onward to the prize before us, soon His beauty now will be whole. 6 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:51,000 Now soon, oh, I like this, gates will open and we shall tread on streets of gold. 7 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:58,000 Oh, when we all get to heaven, oh, what a day of rejoicing. 8 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:08,000 Oh, when we all see Jesus, we're gonna sing, we're gonna shout the victory. 9 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:13,000 Come on give Him praise. 10 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:20,000 I'm gonna tell you, you better praise Him in your flesh as much as you can 11 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:24,000 because we do not know the day and we do not know the hour 12 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:28,000 but I'm telling you the alarms about the sound 13 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:33,000 and then it's just gonna be all in spirit and truth of that new glorified body. 14 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:36,000 So you might as well get your practice in now. 15 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,000 They're gonna be folks very nervous in heaven. 16 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:46,000 They're gonna be nervous people in heaven, the quiet type. 17 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:50,000 Oh, Lord, when I see Jesus, get out to my way. 18 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:52,000 Hello? 19 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:57,000 And I'm like, oh, David, if you think I'm offending you down here right now, 20 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:04,000 you better hold on because when I see Him, it's on. 21 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:07,000 That's all I can say, it is on. 22 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,000 I long to see my Lord. 23 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,000 Did you long to see Him? 24 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:14,000 I want to see Jesus. 25 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:18,000 Hallelujah, I want to see Him. 26 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,000 Isn't that what the old songwriter said? 27 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:24,000 Oh, I want to see Him, look upon His face. 28 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:29,000 There to sing forever of His saving grace. 29 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:34,000 On the streets of glory let me lift my voice. 30 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:40,000 Listen, cares all past, home at last, ever to rejoice. 31 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:45,000 I can't wait to see Him. 32 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,000 I want to see Jesus. 33 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:51,000 The reality of my life, the reality of this life. 34 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,000 I want to see Him, look upon His face. 35 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:59,000 There to sing forever of His saving grace. 36 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:05,000 Now on the streets of glory, let me lift my voice. 37 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,380 I won't see Jesus. 38 00:03:07,380 --> 00:03:11,420 The reality of my life, the reality of this life, 39 00:03:11,420 --> 00:03:16,420 to pass us by, and every conflict that you've had in it 40 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:19,160 will matter no more. 41 00:03:20,920 --> 00:03:21,760 Hallelujah. 42 00:03:23,500 --> 00:03:28,100 Home at last ever to rejoice. 43 00:03:32,660 --> 00:03:33,500 Hallelujah. 44 00:03:33,500 --> 00:03:38,500 When in valleys low I look toward the mountains high 45 00:03:39,900 --> 00:03:44,900 and behold my Savior there leading in the fight 46 00:03:45,100 --> 00:03:50,100 with a tender hand outstretched toward the valley low. 47 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:55,880 Guiding me I can see as I onward go. 48 00:03:56,920 --> 00:04:01,920 Now oh I wanna see him look upon his face 49 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:06,940 and there to sing forever of his saving grace. 50 00:04:08,100 --> 00:04:13,100 Now on the streets of glory let me lift my voice. 51 00:04:13,900 --> 00:04:18,900 Care's all past, home at last ever to rejoice. 52 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:22,320 My Lord. 53 00:04:23,740 --> 00:04:26,460 If you have your Bibles turn with me to John's gospel. 54 00:04:26,460 --> 00:04:31,460 John's gospel. 55 00:04:35,260 --> 00:04:37,820 Of a late there's been a stirring of the anointing 56 00:04:37,820 --> 00:04:42,820 in our church, especially deeply over the last month or so. 57 00:04:44,180 --> 00:04:47,260 The Lord's been, there's been a shifting in the atmosphere 58 00:04:49,540 --> 00:04:50,660 in the house of the Lord. 59 00:04:50,660 --> 00:04:53,900 So much so that at a memorial service yesterday 60 00:04:53,900 --> 00:04:56,500 I just threw down and preached for a little while. 61 00:04:58,540 --> 00:05:00,180 I told him I said I would apologize 62 00:05:00,180 --> 00:05:01,880 but I ain't gonna apologize for. 63 00:05:03,020 --> 00:05:05,460 When you go to preaching about faith 64 00:05:05,460 --> 00:05:08,780 and the faith of a believer who kept the faith, 65 00:05:08,780 --> 00:05:13,500 fought the fight, finished the race, amen, 66 00:05:13,500 --> 00:05:17,380 it just, I told him I said we got it backwards. 67 00:05:17,380 --> 00:05:19,980 We always just get all giddy and we throw parties 68 00:05:19,980 --> 00:05:22,980 when babies are born and then we just mope and groan 69 00:05:22,980 --> 00:05:25,060 and mumble and bawl and squall 70 00:05:25,060 --> 00:05:28,780 and loved ones who are serving the Lord leave 71 00:05:28,780 --> 00:05:31,740 and the scripture says you would do it in reverse order. 72 00:05:31,740 --> 00:05:33,100 We're to mourn when they're born. 73 00:05:33,100 --> 00:05:35,380 Think about what these babies have got to face 74 00:05:35,380 --> 00:05:39,000 in their lifetime if the Lord doesn't come, right? 75 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:40,780 Man, that makes my heart heavy 76 00:05:40,780 --> 00:05:43,300 because I know what we've had to come through. 77 00:05:43,300 --> 00:05:46,060 And their own set of problems, their own set of troubles 78 00:05:46,060 --> 00:05:47,380 and the devil's gonna face them 79 00:05:47,380 --> 00:05:49,440 if the Lord don't come get us, right? 80 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:51,420 So that should make our hearts heavy. 81 00:05:51,420 --> 00:05:55,140 But when a believers fought the fight, amen, 82 00:05:55,140 --> 00:05:57,700 and left this world with a testimony of God's saving grace, 83 00:05:57,700 --> 00:06:00,100 we should rejoice, amen, 84 00:06:00,100 --> 00:06:02,720 because it won't be long it'll be us. 85 00:06:02,720 --> 00:06:06,380 John chapter five, beginning at verse one. 86 00:06:06,380 --> 00:06:09,060 After this, there was a feast of the Jews 87 00:06:09,060 --> 00:06:11,660 and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 88 00:06:11,660 --> 00:06:14,460 Now there is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool 89 00:06:14,460 --> 00:06:17,420 which is called in the Hebrew tongue Bethesda, 90 00:06:17,420 --> 00:06:19,980 having five porches. 91 00:06:19,980 --> 00:06:23,100 And these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, 92 00:06:23,100 --> 00:06:25,220 a blind, haught, withered, 93 00:06:25,220 --> 00:06:27,640 waiting for the moving of the water. 94 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,660 For as an angel went down at a certain season, 95 00:06:30,660 --> 00:06:32,320 you need to underline that, 96 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:34,700 into the pool and troubled the water, 97 00:06:34,700 --> 00:06:38,260 and whosoever then first after the troubling of the water 98 00:06:38,260 --> 00:06:43,260 stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had. 99 00:06:43,420 --> 00:06:47,020 And a certain man, there's another phrase to underline, 100 00:06:47,020 --> 00:06:51,020 was there which had an infirmity 30 and eight years. 101 00:06:51,020 --> 00:06:56,020 And when Jesus saw him lie and knew that he had been now 102 00:06:56,980 --> 00:06:59,660 a long time in that case, 103 00:06:59,660 --> 00:07:02,740 he said unto him, will thou be made whole? 104 00:07:02,740 --> 00:07:04,220 And the impotent man answered him, 105 00:07:04,220 --> 00:07:08,940 sir, I have no man when the water is troubled 106 00:07:08,940 --> 00:07:11,860 to put me in into the pool. 107 00:07:11,860 --> 00:07:15,200 But while I am coming, another steps down before me. 108 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:20,120 Jesus said unto him, rise, take up thy bed and walk. 109 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:25,120 And immediately the man was made whole. 110 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:27,800 And he took up his bed and he walked. 111 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:31,000 And on the same day was the Sabbath. 112 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,600 I wanna preach to you just a little bit. 113 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:35,260 I wanna thought, rise above it. 114 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:40,520 But as I was reading that, another title came to my mind. 115 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:45,520 I'm your man, huh? 116 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:49,720 I'm your man, you need a man, I'm your man today. 117 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:53,480 He said, I have no man, is that not what he said? 118 00:07:54,900 --> 00:07:56,580 He said, I have no, well, I'm your man. 119 00:07:56,580 --> 00:07:58,160 Father, I love you today. 120 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:00,720 My God in heaven, I feel you this morning. 121 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:04,360 Stirring deeply in our house of worship this morning. 122 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:06,880 And we do glory you, we do honor you, 123 00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:10,480 we do magnify you for you alone are God. 124 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:13,920 None other, there is no other God but you. 125 00:08:13,920 --> 00:08:16,720 And we praise you and we magnify you 126 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:19,760 in the name of your most glorious son 127 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:23,720 to be praised forever, amen and amen. 128 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:26,180 I'm your man, my Lord, that is hit me. 129 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:32,600 When we read this story, when we read this, 130 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:37,600 it's not a story, it's a record. 131 00:08:38,060 --> 00:08:40,260 When we read the recording of this lame man, 132 00:08:40,260 --> 00:08:44,120 it's not different, if you will, from where we are today 133 00:08:44,120 --> 00:08:46,360 and what we have in our midst this morning. 134 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:51,200 That Bethesda being translated in the Hebrew tongue 135 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:52,560 means house of mercy. 136 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:57,120 And you're at a house of mercy and grace today. 137 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:00,380 God's mercy and God's grace, amen. 138 00:09:00,380 --> 00:09:03,920 And that stop that we've just taken in scripture 139 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:06,920 and we're about to revisit this place called Bethesda 140 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:08,280 and this house of mercy. 141 00:09:08,280 --> 00:09:11,920 It would be at the pool that an angel of the Lord 142 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:14,080 would come down at a certain season. 143 00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:17,760 Now, that word certain means particular 144 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:21,080 but not necessarily clearly identified. 145 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:23,160 It just said certain season. 146 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:25,920 It could have been spring, summer, winter, fall. 147 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:27,500 I don't know, we don't understand. 148 00:09:27,500 --> 00:09:28,980 We haven't been told well. 149 00:09:28,980 --> 00:09:31,160 It was March the fourth. 150 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:34,800 All we get is a certain season, a particular time 151 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:37,360 at the moving of the Lord's wheel. 152 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:40,840 So we have a certain season and the water is to be moved, 153 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:42,800 to be troubled, to be stirred, 154 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:47,800 that someone may be healed of whatsoever disease 155 00:09:48,020 --> 00:09:49,460 that they had. 156 00:09:49,460 --> 00:09:51,860 And then for this first time, 157 00:09:51,860 --> 00:09:54,760 the one who would enter the pool would be made whole. 158 00:09:54,760 --> 00:09:59,080 But unknowing to the sinners around the pool that day, 159 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:03,480 he who created the waters was standing at the edge. 160 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:05,080 Hallelujah. 161 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:09,760 That day in that one moment in time, that certain season, 162 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:14,560 the creator of both the angelic messenger and the pool 163 00:10:14,560 --> 00:10:18,880 and the water that was to be troubled had now visited. 164 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:22,960 The great, the almighty, the son of the living God 165 00:10:22,960 --> 00:10:27,720 has passed by and has an appointment with this lame man 166 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:35,440 and this lame man's life was to be forever changed. 167 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:38,360 Terry, didn't even raise an eye. 168 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:39,360 You missed it. 169 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:43,440 Did you get it? 170 00:10:43,440 --> 00:10:44,640 I even warned him. 171 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:47,680 I said, boys, I got a nugget for y'all this morning. 172 00:10:47,680 --> 00:10:51,480 And he's reading the story that I just read to him. 173 00:10:51,480 --> 00:10:57,920 This lame man's life was to be forever changed. 174 00:10:57,920 --> 00:10:58,920 Amen. 175 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:01,760 And as a side note this morning, 176 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:05,880 the songwriter said there is a fountain filled with blood 177 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:09,680 drawn from Emmanuel's veins and sinners plunged 178 00:11:09,680 --> 00:11:14,400 beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains. 179 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:18,160 When we think about the fountain itself being by the pool, 180 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:20,520 when we think about Jesus Christ himself 181 00:11:20,520 --> 00:11:24,280 making his way to where all of these people who 182 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:28,240 are needing something in their life, a multitude had gathered. 183 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:30,080 And no telling how long they had been there 184 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:33,920 because they did not have the specific date and time 185 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:34,880 to show up. 186 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:37,200 It's not like getting there 30 minutes early 187 00:11:37,200 --> 00:11:42,040 for your doctor's appointment and set to be done. 188 00:11:42,040 --> 00:11:43,520 Y'all know what's going on right now. 189 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:46,520 I'm trying. 190 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:47,240 I'm trying. 191 00:11:50,240 --> 00:11:52,240 They didn't have the exact time. 192 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:54,600 So who knows how long many of them had been there. 193 00:11:54,600 --> 00:11:56,720 They had made their way to the Pool of Bethesda. 194 00:11:56,720 --> 00:12:00,080 They had been there waiting for the particular moment 195 00:12:00,080 --> 00:12:02,520 that the waves and the water would begin to ripple 196 00:12:02,520 --> 00:12:04,600 and the troubling would begin to start. 197 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:08,640 And I don't know if they had centuries waiting saying, 198 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:10,520 OK, I don't know if they had a line drawn. 199 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:11,440 You can't cross. 200 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:14,520 I don't know if they had a line drawn, you can't cross this line. 201 00:12:14,520 --> 00:12:16,160 So it's fair to everybody. 202 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:17,480 I don't know how it was. 203 00:12:17,480 --> 00:12:20,880 But the moment that someone recognized that there was more 204 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:23,840 than a ripple across the pool, but there was a troubling 205 00:12:23,840 --> 00:12:26,280 and a boiling and a turning up of the water. 206 00:12:26,280 --> 00:12:29,120 You know, if I'm there needing a healing, I'm not going to say, 207 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:30,440 hey, let's get in. 208 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:32,880 No, I'm going to get in and say, hey, it worked. 209 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:33,880 Hallelujah. 210 00:12:33,880 --> 00:12:35,400 I'm not going to give you a warning. 211 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:36,880 I'm not going to give you an alarm. 212 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:39,160 I'm not going to tell you when it begins to ripple. 213 00:12:39,160 --> 00:12:40,960 I'm just going to get myself in. 214 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:44,600 I wonder how many, this is coming to my mind as I'm preaching this one. 215 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:47,640 I wonder how many when the wind blew and a ripple got up, jumped in, 216 00:12:47,640 --> 00:12:49,880 and all they got was wet. 217 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:50,880 Huh? 218 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:54,240 I wonder how many had a sense of a false alarm. 219 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:55,240 Oh, that's it. 220 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:57,040 They jumped in and all they got was wet. 221 00:12:57,040 --> 00:12:59,880 But my Lord, on the day that the recognition was there, 222 00:12:59,880 --> 00:13:02,720 when the angel began to stir and the pool began to trouble, 223 00:13:02,720 --> 00:13:05,720 the first one that recognized it got in, got more than wet. 224 00:13:05,720 --> 00:13:07,320 They got made whole. 225 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:11,680 You understand wholeness is not just a thumb put back in place. 226 00:13:11,680 --> 00:13:12,680 Wholeness is complete. 227 00:13:12,680 --> 00:13:15,960 It's crowned on the head to the sole of the feet and in between the ears. 228 00:13:15,960 --> 00:13:17,960 There's a wholeness being taken place. 229 00:13:17,960 --> 00:13:21,160 There's a healing that took place on the first one that entered in 230 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:23,440 and whether they cared to admit it or not. 231 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:25,480 Even if you don't care to admit it this morning, 232 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:27,280 we are in a house of mercy. 233 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:30,080 And there's more than an angelic being coming to trouble. 234 00:13:30,080 --> 00:13:34,280 The power and the presence of the sweet Holy Ghost is making its way here. 235 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:35,640 I'm waiting for a stirring. 236 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:37,040 I'm waiting for a troubling. 237 00:13:37,040 --> 00:13:40,480 I'm waiting for the anointing to begin to cultivate in this house. 238 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:43,560 But what I want to know is, are you watching and are you ready? 239 00:13:43,560 --> 00:13:46,000 Are you anticipating that God's going to move 240 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:49,200 and God desires to touch in our hearts and in our lives? 241 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:52,920 And as we are too awaiting for the Spirit of God to move, 242 00:13:52,920 --> 00:13:55,960 and yes, Jesus is watching. 243 00:13:55,960 --> 00:14:01,160 There are those, yes, around us as He is watching here who are troubled 244 00:14:01,160 --> 00:14:03,400 and He needs to touch them. 245 00:14:03,400 --> 00:14:05,280 He desires to touch us. 246 00:14:05,280 --> 00:14:07,280 It is His will to touch you. 247 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:12,120 But what there's got to be within ourselves is a desire to be touched. 248 00:14:12,120 --> 00:14:15,760 As I said a couple of weeks ago, God's not going to force His hand on you. 249 00:14:15,760 --> 00:14:17,600 God's not going to push you over. 250 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:20,360 He's not going to make you take what He has to offer. 251 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:22,960 But He is going to walk up to the water's edge. 252 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:27,520 He is going to walk up and let you know there is a certain man who is there 253 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:29,040 at a certain season. 254 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:32,440 His name's not given, but his condition is made clear. 255 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:36,400 Can I tell you, everybody in the room don't have to know each other's name. 256 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:39,480 But when Jesus shows up at the house of mercy, 257 00:14:39,480 --> 00:14:44,720 He knows exactly what is going on in each of our lives. 258 00:14:44,720 --> 00:14:56,240 So as we have this lame man, he becomes our example. 259 00:14:56,240 --> 00:14:59,880 And this example positions himself. 260 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:04,600 38 years he's been coming and going and leaving in the same condition. 261 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:07,000 I posed to you a question this morning. 262 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:09,680 How many years have you been going to church with the same condition 263 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:14,520 and leaving with it Sunday after Sunday, week after week, month after month, 264 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:15,920 year after year? 265 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:17,720 It's 38 years for this man. 266 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:22,400 He's had this enabling impotence in his life that kept him from living 267 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:23,360 a normal life. 268 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:26,120 Impotent means sick and weak and helpless. 269 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:31,320 Halt means having to stop every few steps and take often breaks 270 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:33,640 in order to get to the destination. 271 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:36,080 And withered means to shrink or to draw. 272 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:37,600 All of these people are there. 273 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:42,200 Oh, you remember the man that had the drawed up hand that Jesus spoke to 274 00:15:42,200 --> 00:15:44,200 and he stretched forth his hand. 275 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:49,080 I mean, you remember these stories and these records of Jesus's healing power. 276 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:50,240 They are there. 277 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:53,360 And this morning, I don't know how many are halt. 278 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:55,320 You can't go as far as you want to. 279 00:15:55,320 --> 00:16:00,280 But I do know this in this room alone, there's knees bone to bone. 280 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:02,320 There's hips bone to bone. 281 00:16:02,320 --> 00:16:03,520 There's hypertension. 282 00:16:03,520 --> 00:16:05,520 There's sugar diabetes. 283 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:06,920 There's heart conditions. 284 00:16:06,920 --> 00:16:11,040 And there's cancer cells that have been making their way through bodies 285 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:12,600 in this very room. 286 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:15,360 So you don't have to go very far. 287 00:16:15,360 --> 00:16:17,280 There's anguish in this room. 288 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:19,720 There's the grief of death in this room. 289 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:24,880 There's the sting of its power over our lives in this very room this morning. 290 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:29,600 So you've made your way to the house of God, which is the house of mercy. 291 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:33,080 And I'm telling you, there's more than an angel that's here today. 292 00:16:33,080 --> 00:16:34,800 There is God himself. 293 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:40,640 Oh, Lord, the sweet Holy Ghost has come to this place this morning to meet you. 294 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:42,600 And I'm the man that's going to help you. 295 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:44,560 I'm the man that's going to introduce you. 296 00:16:44,560 --> 00:16:46,400 I'm the man that's going to invite you. 297 00:16:46,400 --> 00:16:55,040 I'm the man that's going to take you by the hand and lead you if necessary. 298 00:16:55,040 --> 00:16:57,560 This becomes very personal. 299 00:16:57,560 --> 00:17:02,760 It's a certain man, a certain man. 300 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:05,080 And here he is. 301 00:17:05,080 --> 00:17:09,480 Understand as Jesus makes his way around the pool, there are hundreds, 302 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:15,440 maybe thousands around the pool laying there, hoping to be the first one. 303 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:20,280 Let me tell you, if you're five rows deep in this line, you're not getting in. 304 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:23,200 Hello? 305 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:27,360 If you're more than five rows deep, you don't have a prayer getting in. 306 00:17:27,360 --> 00:17:31,160 Because a blind man is going to trip and roll in before you can get yourself up 307 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:32,040 and stagger in. 308 00:17:32,040 --> 00:17:34,520 Hello? 309 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:36,560 I'm just telling you like it is. 310 00:17:36,560 --> 00:17:39,560 If you were five rows deep, you didn't stand a prayer. 311 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:44,000 But how come for 38 years this man kept going? 312 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,280 Because that man didn't lose hope. 313 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:47,400 He never lost hope. 314 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:48,000 Why? 315 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:51,680 Because there was a season coming when healing was going to be made available. 316 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:57,240 My God in heaven, there's a season that is coming where healing is made available. 317 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:02,120 And that season is today, every day, any time we come together for where 318 00:18:02,120 --> 00:18:04,880 the Spirit of the Lord is, there is a liberty. 319 00:18:04,880 --> 00:18:09,080 And where there is a liberty, there is a healing virtue and the balm of Tiliad 320 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:12,960 and the stripes of Jesus Christ to apply to our life. 321 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:14,560 We don't wait on an angel. 322 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:26,480 Isaiah 43, fear not, for I have redeemed thee. 323 00:18:26,480 --> 00:18:28,160 I have called thee by name. 324 00:18:28,160 --> 00:18:30,520 It's personal with God. 325 00:18:30,520 --> 00:18:32,320 Aren't you glad? 326 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:34,080 It's personal. 327 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:37,200 How many blind did he walk by? 328 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:38,920 How many lepers did he might go by? 329 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:41,080 I don't know how many he walked by. 330 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:44,800 But he walked by every one of them until he come to this man. 331 00:18:44,800 --> 00:18:46,480 But here's the thing. 332 00:18:46,480 --> 00:18:49,560 He didn't walk by us anymore. 333 00:18:49,560 --> 00:18:51,000 Whoo. 334 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:57,120 He reacts and responds according to the faith of those who call out upon his name. 335 00:18:57,120 --> 00:18:57,960 He'll find you. 336 00:18:57,960 --> 00:19:00,840 Matter of fact, he knows exactly where you are. 337 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:02,360 He don't have to come and find you. 338 00:19:02,360 --> 00:19:05,440 He said, I have called you by your name and you are mine. 339 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:09,560 He would further say, when you pass through the waters, I'll be with you. 340 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:12,360 And when you go to the rivers, they'll not overflow you. 341 00:19:12,360 --> 00:19:17,000 When you walk through the fire, thou shalt not be burned. 342 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:17,800 Hallelujah. 343 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:21,560 Neither shall the flame tend to lit itself up against you. 344 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:24,760 He knows exactly what pool you're sitting by this morning. 345 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:29,360 He knows that you're in the sanctuary of the Hopewell Church of the living God. 346 00:19:29,360 --> 00:19:30,800 He knows that you are here. 347 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:32,840 He knows whether you've come in faith or not. 348 00:19:32,840 --> 00:19:34,840 He knows where you come expecting or not. 349 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:37,120 He knows exactly the role you're setting up. 350 00:19:37,120 --> 00:19:40,760 And it doesn't matter if you're six rows deep or seven rows deep. 351 00:19:40,760 --> 00:19:44,360 You've got the same opportunity as the one on the front row. 352 00:19:44,360 --> 00:19:48,920 It is determined by the faith and the expectation of the heart of the believer. 353 00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:55,320 Gotta have a little breathing room here. 354 00:19:55,320 --> 00:20:02,320 Get Lord enough praise by working with you. 355 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:17,720 Luke 1 and 5 says there was a certain priest whose name was Zechariah. 356 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:22,680 Mark 525 says there's a certain woman which had an issue of blood. 357 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:30,160 Mark 725 says for a certain woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit, made her way. 358 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:36,080 There's three different needs from three totally different people who made their way to Jesus, 359 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:40,440 who didn't sit by the pool. 360 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:42,080 They just made their way to Jesus. 361 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:44,840 My God, you're gonna make me preach all of this. 362 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:48,600 Some of you already had them and I wish you'd just praise him like you already there. 363 00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:49,600 Amen. 364 00:20:49,600 --> 00:20:51,220 It helped me get over to it. 365 00:20:51,220 --> 00:20:55,960 There were certain people with certain inclination with certain situations and crises in their 366 00:20:55,960 --> 00:21:01,360 life and every one of them that made their way to Jesus left different than they showed 367 00:21:01,360 --> 00:21:02,360 up. 368 00:21:02,360 --> 00:21:03,360 Hallelujah. 369 00:21:03,360 --> 00:21:04,360 There were certain lepers. 370 00:21:04,360 --> 00:21:05,360 Come on somebody. 371 00:21:05,360 --> 00:21:06,360 Amen. 372 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:09,440 I'm telling you there's certain people in the house of the Lord today. 373 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:10,560 There's young and old. 374 00:21:10,560 --> 00:21:12,060 There's male and female. 375 00:21:12,060 --> 00:21:16,540 We're all here and if we'll make our way to Jesus, there are no limits. 376 00:21:16,540 --> 00:21:19,720 If you'll take the limiter off, come on, let's back up a few weeks. 377 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:23,380 If you'll take the limits of doubt off your life and begin to proclaim your faith and 378 00:21:23,380 --> 00:21:28,000 hope in Jesus Christ, you don't have to wait for anything to trouble because it's already 379 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:29,000 troubled. 380 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:30,000 He's already stirring. 381 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:34,200 If two or three are gathered in my name, there I am in the midst of them. 382 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:37,400 I need two or three who'll stand up and glorify him. 383 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:46,000 If you gathered in his name, if you gathered in the power and the glory of his name, hallelujah. 384 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:49,000 Hey. 385 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:55,440 Hallelujah. 386 00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:57,900 It doesn't matter where we are. 387 00:21:57,900 --> 00:22:00,840 It does not matter what we are going through. 388 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:01,840 Are you hearing me? 389 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,320 It doesn't matter what you're going through. 390 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:12,440 Jesus always knows where to look for you and where to find you. 391 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:19,360 Even so, he knows when to approach. 392 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:24,320 You cannot be hid by anything. 393 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:25,320 Ask Adam. 394 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:28,800 He tried to fig leaf, it didn't work. 395 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:30,120 Hello. 396 00:22:30,120 --> 00:22:31,120 Ask Elijah. 397 00:22:31,120 --> 00:22:33,240 He was under a juniper tree. 398 00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:35,280 Didn't get him anywhere. 399 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:36,280 Ask Moses. 400 00:22:36,280 --> 00:22:39,360 He was on the backside of Midian's desert. 401 00:22:39,360 --> 00:22:41,000 It didn't get him anywhere. 402 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:42,000 Amen. 403 00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,000 Ask Gideon. 404 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:47,440 Gideon's threshing wheat at the wine press. 405 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:51,200 Not only did the enemy find him, but God found him. 406 00:22:51,200 --> 00:22:52,200 God found him first. 407 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:55,880 He said, Gideon, what are you doing here, son? 408 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:58,800 You're a mighty man of valor. 409 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:01,800 Here's Gideon, the weakest wimp in the whole family. 410 00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,400 Here he is hiding in fear. 411 00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:05,400 Amen. 412 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:06,400 For the enemy's sake. 413 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:09,520 He's at the wine press with his wheat harvest. 414 00:23:09,520 --> 00:23:13,400 Everybody knows you don't go to the wine press with a wheat harvest, but that's where Gideon 415 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:14,400 is. 416 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:15,760 He thought he was hid from the enemy. 417 00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:20,040 He thought he was hidden from everyone and he was going to get his wheat threshed and 418 00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:21,520 get everything going. 419 00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:26,080 But then God showed up and called him a mighty man of valor. 420 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:29,080 And I can see, oh, Gideon, who? 421 00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:30,080 Me? 422 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:34,040 Gideon had no confidence in his own ability or he'd have took his weapons and went to 423 00:23:34,040 --> 00:23:39,760 the threshing floor and double dog dared the enemy to show up and take his harvest. 424 00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:42,800 But no, he was hiding and he wasn't a man of confidence. 425 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:46,600 He wasn't a man of great stature, but God knew what was in him. 426 00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:51,920 Can I tell you, you may not think very much of yourself this morning, but God knows what 427 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:52,920 is in you. 428 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,200 And here's what is in you this morning. 429 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:59,520 Greater is he that is in you than he that is in this world. 430 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,320 I'm telling you, he knows what's in you. 431 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:03,760 He knows where you are. 432 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:05,440 He knows where to find you. 433 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:21,040 You can have a pity party under your own juniper tree, but then God's going to send refreshment. 434 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:23,160 He's going to refresh you. 435 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:28,080 And he's going to speak to you. 436 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:31,000 You can't hide. 437 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:32,160 Jesus saw him. 438 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:38,320 The Bible says lying there. 439 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:42,520 He saw Zacchaeus out on a limb for him. 440 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:46,120 I've been out on a limb for him. 441 00:24:46,120 --> 00:24:49,720 I stepped out on one about five years ago. 442 00:24:49,720 --> 00:24:53,640 It looked like a dried limb and look when you weigh what I weigh, you don't get on dried 443 00:24:53,640 --> 00:24:54,640 limbs. 444 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:55,640 Huh? 445 00:24:55,640 --> 00:25:03,800 As a kid, anybody ever rolled hickory saplings? 446 00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:04,800 Come on, where you at? 447 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:05,920 You know what I'm talking about? 448 00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:10,520 No more fun in this world than riding a young two and a half inch hickory sapling. 449 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:11,640 What are you talking about? 450 00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:13,720 You skinny up as high as you can get. 451 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:16,240 You get up in the top of that thing and you just go to doing this. 452 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:17,580 Hang on. 453 00:25:17,580 --> 00:25:23,720 Some of you would have a literal heart attack if you saw your seven year old up in a two 454 00:25:23,720 --> 00:25:30,920 and a half, three inch round hickory sapling in the top of it going, woo, just riding around. 455 00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:35,760 You would have a literal coronary. 456 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:39,360 Mama didn't care as long as it was woo and not a big cry. 457 00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:41,040 As long as we were entertained. 458 00:25:41,040 --> 00:25:44,680 When we went out in the morning, the screen door got latched to lunch. 459 00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:45,680 Hello? 460 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:49,680 Oh, some of you don't know, you wouldn't do your kid that way and it's a different day 461 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:51,020 and I don't blame you. 462 00:25:51,020 --> 00:25:53,560 But let them ride a hickory every once in a while. 463 00:25:53,560 --> 00:26:02,280 Not a limb, the sapling. 464 00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:05,280 Don't spare the limb either. 465 00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:06,440 How did we get into this mess? 466 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:07,800 How did I get to a hickory? 467 00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:13,800 They just, I just had a flashback. 468 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,760 Zacchaeus up a tree. 469 00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:18,400 The Lord was coming by. 470 00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:21,560 The scripture said for the Lord he wanted to see. 471 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:27,360 Zacchaeus, one of the most hated men of his day, tax collector and a crooked one at that. 472 00:26:27,360 --> 00:26:28,360 A cheat. 473 00:26:28,360 --> 00:26:29,360 Hello? 474 00:26:29,360 --> 00:26:33,400 R.S. of his day. 475 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:34,880 But he wanted to see Jesus. 476 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:38,880 He let me know something was going on in the little man's heart. 477 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:39,880 Hello? 478 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:41,880 Something was going on in the little man's heart. 479 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:46,640 And so the only way he could even get a glimpse was he had to get up on a tree and get out 480 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:47,640 on a limb. 481 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:52,240 And when the Lord passed by, he stopped, I'm here to tell you, you may feel like you're 482 00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:57,400 out on a limb somewhere, but God knows exactly when to stop where you are. 483 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:02,320 And he looked up and said, Zacchaeus, come down for I'm going to your house today, son. 484 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:07,120 My God, no better word than to know that Jesus is coming home with you. 485 00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:11,280 I take him home with me every time I leave this place and every morning I get up and 486 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:12,640 every morning I leave. 487 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:17,080 I make my way back to the house and I know the Lord's going with me because his promise 488 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:22,880 to me was I'll never leave you nor will I ever forsake you, but I'll go with you all 489 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,720 the way even to the end of the age. 490 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:28,600 He knows where you're at. 491 00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:30,560 He knows where you're at. 492 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:32,640 He saw the widow woman who gave her all, didn't he? 493 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:34,920 He was sitting over at offering time. 494 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:39,280 Maybe I ought to watch some of you like that. 495 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:40,280 I'm on the front row. 496 00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:43,560 I just can't see what you dropped in that big bucket. 497 00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:45,800 It doesn't matter to me. 498 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:50,240 It matters to God. 499 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:51,240 It's his church. 500 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:52,240 Amen. 501 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:53,240 It's his church. 502 00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:54,240 You're his people. 503 00:27:54,240 --> 00:28:00,400 But Jesus is setting aside with his disciples today at offering time and a little widow 504 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:04,760 woman come by and dropped her little might. 505 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,120 And Jesus said, stop the presses, stop the presses. 506 00:28:07,120 --> 00:28:09,280 Boys, did y'all see that? 507 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:13,960 And they'd probably seen the pious Jews of their day, the Pharisees coming in, oh, with 508 00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:18,080 the big ado about the change that they're dropping in and the silver and the gold that 509 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:25,800 they're putting in to go around the back door and take it back out. 510 00:28:25,800 --> 00:28:27,360 Everybody look and see what I gave. 511 00:28:27,360 --> 00:28:29,160 Everybody look and see what I've done. 512 00:28:29,160 --> 00:28:31,680 But Jesus said, it is recorded now. 513 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,560 Look, when he says something, it's forever. 514 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:39,600 Oh, look at the widow woman she has given from her all. 515 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:41,760 She's given everything that she had. 516 00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:43,920 My Lord, she's going to be blessed. 517 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,240 He didn't say he'd make us all millionaires. 518 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,840 He just said he would bless all of our faithfulness. 519 00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:52,200 If you have money to glory, just be faithful to God with it. 520 00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:56,140 If you got more than you'll ever need in your children's children will ever need, just be 521 00:28:56,140 --> 00:28:59,640 faithful with God and to God while you're here below. 522 00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,360 Just be faithful to him because he's recording. 523 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:03,360 He's watching it all. 524 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:05,160 And what he's seeing is faith. 525 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:11,760 He never knows the amount other than to say she has given of her all. 526 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:17,720 I told the church one time, I said, people think tithing is about amounts. 527 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:21,400 Well, you you you pay more than I do. 528 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,400 My return was this with the conversation. 529 00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,440 I said, what do you give a 10 percent as the scripture says? 530 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:32,000 Well, yeah, I said, well, then I don't pay more than you do. 531 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,000 A tithe is a tithe. 532 00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:36,000 Hello. 533 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:40,080 But as I've told you before, when you go to pray and they're telling people, well, if 534 00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:44,280 you want to give what I give, I can just ask the Lord to get you down here. 535 00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:46,400 And they changed their mind. 536 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,320 That's OK. 537 00:29:49,320 --> 00:29:53,960 You know, that was back when I was broke. 538 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:55,520 I'm not broke anymore. 539 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:56,520 Hallelujah. 540 00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:57,520 Why? 541 00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:02,960 Because he saw my mind when my mind was being put in, when I was giving them all that I 542 00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:06,120 had and all that I possessed. 543 00:30:06,120 --> 00:30:10,840 He saw the day that I gave my last two dollars and had no way to get back to church on Sunday 544 00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:14,240 night and no way to get to work on Monday morning. 545 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:21,600 Just enough gas to do one or the other. 546 00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:25,080 To pastor Sunday morning, I had to be the church clerk. 547 00:30:25,080 --> 00:30:28,800 I said, we need to count after church today. 548 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:30,120 I don't know that I can get back. 549 00:30:30,120 --> 00:30:34,400 I've got two dollars and that'll get me to work tomorrow. 550 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,520 And while I'm sitting there, the Lord spoke to me. 551 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:39,840 I know his voice. 552 00:30:39,840 --> 00:30:43,400 And the third or fourth time he said it, I obeyed. 553 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:44,400 Hello. 554 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:46,560 Come on now. 555 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,320 I know I'm not the only one, especially if it's your last two. 556 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:52,360 And he says, put it in. 557 00:30:52,360 --> 00:30:54,940 Do what? 558 00:30:54,940 --> 00:30:57,200 Put it where? 559 00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,360 I'll never forget that they had to lean back in that chair and reach down and get them 560 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:04,160 to and said, put me down for two, pastor. 561 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:05,160 He never batted. 562 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,400 I just wrote it down on our way home. 563 00:31:07,400 --> 00:31:13,080 We'd forgot to stop and get the mail on Saturday, opened up the mailbox. 564 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:18,480 There was one letter there and then it was a check for 200 bucks. 565 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:19,480 Now I don't know about you. 566 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:23,200 I don't know what you think or how you believe, but I don't think it would have been there 567 00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:26,960 if I'd have took and scrounged my two dollars home. 568 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,480 That's just the way I have to look at it. 569 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:34,440 It probably wouldn't have been in there if I hadn't obeyed God, but I did and it was 570 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:38,280 and hallelujah is smooth sailing from that time on. 571 00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:39,880 I'll tell you that story again. 572 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,160 Probably three or four years when it hits my mind. 573 00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:43,660 He saw the widow woman, give her all. 574 00:31:43,660 --> 00:31:46,480 He sees everything that concerns you and I. 575 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:50,760 Second Chronicles 16 and nine, the eyes of the Lord run to and fro. 576 00:31:50,760 --> 00:31:54,960 First Peter three and twelve, the eyes of the Lord are ever over the righteous and his 577 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:59,000 ears are open under their prayers. 578 00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:00,960 This man positioned himself correctly. 579 00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:01,960 Then he stated his case. 580 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:08,440 I have no man to put me in to the pool, but yet he distributed great perseverance for 581 00:32:08,440 --> 00:32:12,800 38 years showing up wonderful faith. 582 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:18,460 Many of us would have quit after the second time we didn't get in, but I don't know. 583 00:32:18,460 --> 00:32:21,300 He may have developed friendships and camaraderie. 584 00:32:21,300 --> 00:32:28,160 You know, misery loves to hang together. 585 00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:29,160 It's like a magnet. 586 00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,600 It'll find somebody else as miserable or worse. 587 00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:34,800 Oh, that's the way it works. 588 00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:36,760 That's the way that shadow works. 589 00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:40,960 We'll draw because the enemy is going to see fit that you don't have anything connected 590 00:32:40,960 --> 00:32:41,960 to your life. 591 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:43,440 It's going to build hope and faith. 592 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:45,280 Well, I know we can't get in. 593 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:46,800 We're in row nine this year. 594 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:50,920 So hey, how you been doing? 595 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,760 They couldn't even see the water. 596 00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:58,640 You ought to look up pool of Bethesda and see where it's at. 597 00:32:58,640 --> 00:33:00,920 So he states his case. 598 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:05,880 It becomes every man for himself. 599 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:09,400 Faith and perseverance will always pay off, church. 600 00:33:09,400 --> 00:33:11,280 You hear me? 601 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:14,720 Faith and perseverance will always pay for you. 602 00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:19,240 Isaiah 40, 31 says, they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. 603 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:26,040 The next step after your patience and your perseverance, the next step is a response 604 00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:28,280 that is required on my and your behalf. 605 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:31,160 I've been trying to get to this point all morning. 606 00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:38,960 Jesus commands him in verse eight to rise, to rise above it. 607 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:40,500 Listen to me this morning. 608 00:33:40,500 --> 00:33:44,240 When you receive a command, he didn't, he didn't stretch out his hands and pray for 609 00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:45,240 him. 610 00:33:45,240 --> 00:33:48,000 He didn't spit and make a mud ball like he did in other situations. 611 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,040 He simply looked down at the man when he made up his excuse. 612 00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:52,040 It wasn't an excuse. 613 00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:54,800 It was a reason. 614 00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:55,800 He's a lame man. 615 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:59,480 He didn't have anyone to help him into the pool. 616 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:02,200 Somebody took and dropped him off and left him laying there. 617 00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,880 Come on. 618 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:09,480 And he tells the Lord when he asked him, will you be made whole? 619 00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:12,560 Do you want to be whole? 620 00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:14,720 Remember wholeness is not just simply healing. 621 00:34:14,720 --> 00:34:17,000 It's completeness. 622 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:18,480 He said, do you want to be made whole? 623 00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:21,040 And he began to say, it's not that he didn't want to be. 624 00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:26,960 He just said, I do not have the resources that I need and I require to get whole. 625 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:30,160 But I'm here to tell you this morning, if that's your thought, erase it out of your 626 00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:34,120 mind because I'm the man to point you to your resource this morning. 627 00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,360 And it is God and God alone. 628 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,680 Christ is here to accommodate your need. 629 00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:42,840 The question to us is like to him, will thou be made whole? 630 00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:44,400 Do you have an excuse? 631 00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:45,400 You've got to rise above. 632 00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:48,320 Well, let me offer a few to you this morning. 633 00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,600 We got to arise above some things. 634 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:52,280 You got to rise above fear. 635 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:56,000 You've not been given a spirit of fear, but you've been given the spirit of love and of 636 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,960 power and in the soundness of your mind. 637 00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:03,920 You got to rise above being afraid to ask God and to believe God and to trust God. 638 00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:05,880 You just simply have to do it. 639 00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:10,880 You got to hear the command and let the command resonate in your soul and in your spirit and 640 00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:15,140 let it come past and come through you and simply begin to obey. 641 00:35:15,140 --> 00:35:17,900 You got to rise above affliction. 642 00:35:17,900 --> 00:35:23,800 We cannot afford to allow our afflictions to overcome us, but rather we must overcome 643 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:27,300 them by the power in Jesus Christ. 644 00:35:27,300 --> 00:35:31,200 We have afflictions as I've stated earlier, it's bone to bone. 645 00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:37,120 It could be cancer, but folks, until the Lord takes us out, please don't allow that affliction 646 00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:43,040 to have its authority over your faith, but let your faith have authority over your affliction. 647 00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:44,800 Yes, we need resources. 648 00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:46,320 Yes, we need help. 649 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:51,640 Just like that man, we needed aid from time to time, but his aid was standing before him. 650 00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:57,160 The resource of all resources was standing in his presence and was about to do a miracle 651 00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:58,640 in his life. 652 00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:01,520 Got to rise above our affliction. 653 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:04,720 34 and 19 says, many are the afflictions of the righteous. 654 00:36:04,720 --> 00:36:10,320 Hear this, but the Lord delivers them out of most of them. 655 00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:11,600 Huh? 656 00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:17,320 Delivers them out of them all. 657 00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:19,120 Hallelujah. 658 00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:23,980 Sometimes our healing is eternal. 659 00:36:23,980 --> 00:36:29,480 Sometimes the Lord calls us to himself so that this old flesh could be ratified of the 660 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:33,000 diseases that attack it daily. 661 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:45,240 You realize we are dying daily, but the inner man can be renewed day by day. 662 00:36:45,240 --> 00:36:49,880 When I'm down in the floor trying to paint baseboard, the inner man is praying for the 663 00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:55,840 outer man so that it all comes together that I can get back up out of the floor. 664 00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:58,520 It's not as easy as it was 20 years ago. 665 00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:04,240 I'd have something to get a hold of to help get that knee past that one spot. 666 00:37:04,240 --> 00:37:06,000 You know what I'm saying? 667 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:11,240 That one spot, once you get it past that one spot, you're good to go. 668 00:37:11,240 --> 00:37:12,240 Right? 669 00:37:12,240 --> 00:37:14,120 It's like my back sometimes. 670 00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:19,080 My back's got this one spot that sometimes I'll have to get all the way down on my knee 671 00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:22,480 to get my back straight to get back up. 672 00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:26,440 It don't make no sense to me, but it's the spot that it works. 673 00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:30,280 And if you have to discover the spot that it works, honey, just work it until it don't 674 00:37:30,280 --> 00:37:31,760 work no more. 675 00:37:31,760 --> 00:37:33,440 Then figure something else out. 676 00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:38,280 But that affliction one day, if the Lord doesn't heal me here, one day there's going to be 677 00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:41,400 a divine healing that takes place over this old body. 678 00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:45,760 When I take my last breath, honey, this old body's going to be new. 679 00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:49,720 You can put me in the ground, you can scatter me in the air, you can put me in the river. 680 00:37:49,720 --> 00:37:50,720 It don't matter. 681 00:37:50,720 --> 00:37:52,120 It's all going to come back together. 682 00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:58,200 And when I receive this new incorruptible body, I'll paint baseboard in heaven and God knows 683 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:01,440 I hate to paint. 684 00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:06,960 But I'll be glad to be the baseboard painter in glory. 685 00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:09,000 Hallelujah. 686 00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:17,440 And only the Lord knows how I've humbled myself to say that because I hate it. 687 00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:19,280 But I'd do it for him. 688 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:22,080 I've rolled around this place. 689 00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:26,160 Oh, Lord, scooting down side and elbow raw. 690 00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:30,520 Let's move on. 691 00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:37,040 These afflictions are conditions of distress, distress and great pain and suffering. 692 00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:44,280 See, sometimes our afflictions are not always physical. 693 00:38:44,280 --> 00:38:52,640 Sometimes they're familial or family, which calls great distress. 694 00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:54,640 Hello. 695 00:38:54,640 --> 00:39:02,280 You do realize that God and Satan are in this conflict for the same resources. 696 00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:04,600 Well, what resources? 697 00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:08,120 You and me. 698 00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:13,280 The devil's trying to use you just as much as God desires to use you. 699 00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:30,400 So the next time someone is causing you great distress, tell them, don't be a vessel. 700 00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:31,480 Don't be a vessel. 701 00:39:31,480 --> 00:39:35,880 Don't yield your members, your body. 702 00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:41,160 Oh, Lord, the hens are cackling in the house. 703 00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:44,240 I got to move on. 704 00:39:44,240 --> 00:39:47,960 You got to rise above somewhere. 705 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:51,520 You got to rise above the hindrances. 706 00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:56,660 You know, a majority of the things that keep us out of the house of God are hindrances 707 00:39:56,660 --> 00:40:01,360 dispatched by the forces of darkness, the enemy. 708 00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:02,360 I didn't say all. 709 00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:04,200 I said most. 710 00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:06,000 Are you with me? 711 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:09,640 Hurt feelings, misunderstandings. 712 00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:11,920 Real shortcomings, sicknesses. 713 00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:13,300 The big one is pet sin. 714 00:40:13,300 --> 00:40:18,640 We allow pet sin to hinder us from receiving everything. 715 00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:26,600 And you got to rise above some sin. 716 00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:30,160 Whereby we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, Paul writing to the 717 00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:33,240 church at Rome in the twelfth chapter. 718 00:40:33,240 --> 00:40:42,240 Let us lay aside every weight and the sin that does so easily beset us. 719 00:40:42,240 --> 00:40:45,720 Now I'm about to give a revelation to somebody. 720 00:40:45,720 --> 00:40:52,560 God didn't make you do it and he's not going to make you stop doing it. 721 00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:53,800 Let us. 722 00:40:53,800 --> 00:40:55,520 You started it. 723 00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:57,360 You stop it. 724 00:40:57,360 --> 00:41:01,480 He'll forgive you, but you got to stop it. 725 00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:06,160 Oh, really pastor, I was waiting on the Lord to deliver me from this. 726 00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:07,240 He cleansed you. 727 00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:09,240 You stop it. 728 00:41:09,240 --> 00:41:13,040 Y'all okay? 729 00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:23,000 It's not God's fault that this fledge is subject to addiction. 730 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:32,680 Sin did that in the garden and sin still tries to take control of it. 731 00:41:32,680 --> 00:41:39,880 Adam and Eve, they took they ate and we are all paying the consequences. 732 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:44,280 You think about the sins that are so easily besetting you and keeping you from doing the 733 00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,240 will of God. 734 00:41:46,240 --> 00:41:49,600 God didn't force any one of them on you. 735 00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:54,520 Matter of fact, he said, don't do it. 736 00:41:54,520 --> 00:42:03,240 Don't seek the treasure. 737 00:42:03,240 --> 00:42:10,760 What does our flesh do? 738 00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:15,600 Overcome the hindrances of sin. 739 00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:19,040 See the further this go, it's shouts good in the front, but when you get down to here, 740 00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:22,680 it really gets quiet. 741 00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:31,600 Here's another, you have to rise above the crowd. 742 00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:37,480 This thought come to my mind last night as I was just going over in my head. 743 00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:41,040 Got to get over the crowd. 744 00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:47,040 Got to get above what other people think about what you need in the house of God. 745 00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:51,880 You got to get beyond what your neighbor thinks about what might be going on in your life. 746 00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:56,300 When you're sitting on your seat in here on any typical Sunday morning and the preacher 747 00:42:56,300 --> 00:43:01,480 hopefully is really preaching the gospel straight and true, hot and firm and fast. 748 00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:02,480 Pastors doing his job. 749 00:43:02,480 --> 00:43:06,320 And you're sitting back here and you're looking around and I know you do it. 750 00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:08,800 I used to sit back here with you. 751 00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:12,240 I didn't always have to get on the platform. 752 00:43:12,240 --> 00:43:16,120 I was a mid-sixties Catholic about six rows back on the left edge. 753 00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:17,960 That's our spot. 754 00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:20,720 And from that, if you'll notice that's the way I sit on Wednesday night. 755 00:43:20,720 --> 00:43:23,160 I sit over here and I can see everybody. 756 00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:27,040 Isn't that the way we do? 757 00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:32,480 And then we start thinking, well, my God, I wish they'd stop. 758 00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,240 I'm trying to listen to the preacher. 759 00:43:35,240 --> 00:43:38,800 Man, I wish they would just quit fiddling around. 760 00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:42,240 They can't, they don't know, my Lord, they're getting set still and I couldn't even get 761 00:43:42,240 --> 00:43:45,240 nothing out of church this morning. 762 00:43:45,240 --> 00:43:49,720 I just got, just hindered me. 763 00:43:49,720 --> 00:43:52,840 Huh? 764 00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:53,840 Move up. 765 00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:57,520 Look, it's vacant down here. 766 00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:05,520 Ain't nobody gonna hinder you down here. 767 00:44:05,520 --> 00:44:11,640 That's what I said. 768 00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:19,760 Sister Jackie fell back three rows, but that's what we do. 769 00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:22,280 Isn't it? 770 00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:23,280 But you know what? 771 00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:28,440 If you focus, we're people. 772 00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:32,840 People are people and we've got to rise above the crowd. 773 00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:39,600 Look, it was all Sister Kathy could do to him up three toddlers on a row. 774 00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:41,120 Toddlers don't bother me. 775 00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:49,160 What do you do? 776 00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:56,920 It took Cheez-Its, it took Froot Loops, it took Honey Nut Cheerios and Cork Baggies. 777 00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:00,000 And if she would, she told me one time, she said, I don't even know why I go to church 778 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:01,000 for. 779 00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:02,760 And she's on the second row trying to do all this. 780 00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,440 Hey, I have been preaching my guts out. 781 00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:10,680 Grab one, wear a high-end out, set it down and keep on preaching. 782 00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:14,040 Kids are kids. 783 00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:15,040 Don't be hindered. 784 00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:20,480 Come on, we got to get above some of these things and let our focus because I can close 785 00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:22,120 my eyes and hear the word. 786 00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:23,680 I've seen them clip fingernails. 787 00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:25,560 I've seen them balance checkbooks. 788 00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:29,080 I've seen everything that can be done in the church. 789 00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:34,640 I've seen them eat hearty gravy and biscuits and leave their box behind in my sanctuary 790 00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:37,240 and it infuriates me to no end. 791 00:45:37,240 --> 00:45:40,360 I've seen it all, but I can't let a biscuit hinder me. 792 00:45:40,360 --> 00:45:42,360 I can't let other things hinder me. 793 00:45:42,360 --> 00:45:44,120 You can't let the crowd hinder you. 794 00:45:44,120 --> 00:45:47,800 And when you've heard the word of the Lord and it's penetrated your heart and God's got 795 00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:58,200 your attention and when an invitation is given, my Lord, get up and move. 796 00:45:58,200 --> 00:45:59,200 So know what we'll do. 797 00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:01,240 We'll say, my God, I didn't get nothing. 798 00:46:01,240 --> 00:46:04,560 And no, you're right, you didn't. 799 00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:06,040 The crowd is the crowd. 800 00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:07,040 People are the people. 801 00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:14,640 The larger hours grow, the more things are going to be going on. 802 00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:17,760 Hallelujah. 803 00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:27,240 Now get above the crowd, rise above so that you can hear and receive. 804 00:46:27,240 --> 00:46:29,720 Well, preacher, you don't know how hard it is. 805 00:46:29,720 --> 00:46:30,720 Yes, I do. 806 00:46:30,720 --> 00:46:33,960 I told you. 807 00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:37,200 Police throws back right hand corner from the podium. 808 00:46:37,200 --> 00:46:41,200 That was our spot. 809 00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:47,440 But somehow in all the distractions, here I am today. 810 00:46:47,440 --> 00:46:51,280 Somehow through it all, here you are today. 811 00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:56,120 You've got to get above the crowd, folks. 812 00:46:56,120 --> 00:47:00,760 And when you hear what you need for your life, when an invitation is given, it really doesn't 813 00:47:00,760 --> 00:47:01,760 matter what's happening. 814 00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:03,200 It doesn't matter about the Cheerios. 815 00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:04,920 It doesn't matter about the cheeses. 816 00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:06,400 It doesn't matter about the checkbook. 817 00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:08,560 It doesn't matter about their fingernails. 818 00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:13,840 My Lord, what matters is that you do like this man and you have a response to the word 819 00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:16,560 that is commanded over your life. 820 00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:17,800 And he had a response. 821 00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:20,760 He said, rise, get up and go. 822 00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:22,640 Jesus didn't adorn him with oil. 823 00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:23,640 He didn't lay hands on him. 824 00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:24,920 He didn't put the clay on him. 825 00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:27,240 He just looked at him and give him a command. 826 00:47:27,240 --> 00:47:32,360 And the Bible says immediately, immediately when you get past the hindertes, when you 827 00:47:32,360 --> 00:47:36,920 arise above the crowd, when you get beyond the afflictions, when you get beyond everything, 828 00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:41,880 when you get beyond your feelings, hurt or whatever the situations may be, when we rise 829 00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:45,200 above the thought, I just don't feel like it today. 830 00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:51,760 That could be the day that the stirring of your soul takes place and God delivers you 831 00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:58,480 of your affliction. 832 00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:04,360 Pick up your problem and take it away. 833 00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:16,200 That man felt the virtuous power of Christ when he received that command to rise. 834 00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:21,320 Is that what we're hearing? 835 00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:26,440 Remember that forever, oh Lord, thy word is settled in heaven. 836 00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:34,680 Isaiah 40 and 8 says, the grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God shall 837 00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:37,680 stand forever. 838 00:48:37,680 --> 00:48:40,640 I'm your man this morning. 839 00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:44,520 If you need one, I'm here to help you. 840 00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:49,640 You say, well, you sounded like it. 841 00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:53,160 It'll help you if you listen to it. 842 00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:59,840 It'll help you if you apply it to your life. 843 00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:10,520 If we can just rise above, get above some of the stuff that's trying to keep us down, 844 00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:17,680 it's going to be even more distracting when there's over 300 in here. 845 00:49:17,680 --> 00:49:25,120 But it is amazing how Christ can make his way through every distraction to where we 846 00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:31,920 are and his word penetrate our heart. 847 00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:40,760 And if we react and respond to his command, we too can be made whole. 848 00:49:40,760 --> 00:49:41,760 To be made whole. 849 00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:42,760 Father, I love you. 850 00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:48,880 I love you this morning. 851 00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:51,200 Lord I thank you for your faithfulness today. 852 00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:55,640 Oh Lord, and again, I repent for foolishness. 853 00:49:55,640 --> 00:50:00,720 According to your word, it pleased you that through the foolishness of the preaching of 854 00:50:00,720 --> 00:50:08,520 the gospel, man's hearts are touched, man's saved. 855 00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:14,280 I pray God that you move in the house today. 856 00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:19,000 Every need, every need. 857 00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:26,160 As we are gathered at the house of mercy, there's grace to be shared with us. 858 00:50:26,160 --> 00:50:29,720 There's your grace to be made abundant for us. 859 00:50:29,720 --> 00:50:39,760 If you're here in the house of mercy and you need mercy, I invite you to come. 860 00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:42,960 Others are already making their way. 861 00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:48,180 If you need a healing, he's our healer. 862 00:50:48,180 --> 00:50:53,880 If you need deliverance, he's our deliverer. 863 00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:59,880 You got to rise above and in everything.