1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,800 the 2 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:13,120 the man in that wonderful 3 00:00:13,120 --> 00:00:20,320 you can be seated in the house or today, 4 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:20,860 they're leading us in worship that they're not appear just as is the token youth group 5 00:00:20,860 --> 00:00:27,460 , 6 00:00:27,460 --> 00:00:35,900 out where they are 7 00:00:35,900 --> 00:00:45,100 , they mean business with a more stove and 8 00:00:38,180 --> 00:00:42,700 Is he blessed you this week? 9 00:00:42,700 --> 00:00:43,700 He's good. 10 00:00:43,700 --> 00:00:50,940 Enjoy getting the testimonies, the checks in the mail right on time when they get there. 11 00:00:45,100 --> 00:00:45,920 lovers good to lose faith for a man is a blistery this week 12 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:49,880 easiest 13 00:00:50,940 --> 00:00:52,260 Amen. 14 00:00:52,260 --> 00:01:01,900 Just how faithful our holy God really is and how mindful of our current status and situation. 15 00:01:01,900 --> 00:01:08,660 When we think we may be a million miles off of his mind and then he does something so amazing, 16 00:01:08,660 --> 00:01:13,780 so simple to remind us, I got you. 17 00:01:13,780 --> 00:01:15,500 I've not forgot you. 18 00:01:15,500 --> 00:01:17,180 I'm with you. 19 00:01:17,180 --> 00:01:18,180 Amen. 20 00:01:18,180 --> 00:01:21,260 That's how loving and faithful the Lord is. 21 00:01:21,260 --> 00:01:28,260 Father, I love you this morning as we've come prepared to receive and to worship you with 22 00:01:28,260 --> 00:01:33,100 our morning tithe and offerings. 23 00:01:33,100 --> 00:01:39,740 Lord I thank you for the faithfulness of your people as they give from their heart out of 24 00:01:39,740 --> 00:01:46,220 worship, not out of necessity, not out of obligation, but in true sincere worship they 25 00:01:46,220 --> 00:01:48,340 give. 26 00:01:48,340 --> 00:01:53,460 And in so, Father, I ask you continue to bless the household of faith as they do worship 27 00:01:53,460 --> 00:02:02,820 and giving with jobs and better jobs, increases, checks in the mail, refunds, rebates, blessings 28 00:02:02,820 --> 00:02:10,940 in any and every way Father, as your word declares that our souls prosper, supply all 29 00:02:10,940 --> 00:02:16,260 of their need according to your riches and glory by Christ Jesus. 30 00:02:16,260 --> 00:02:17,260 Amen and amen. 31 00:02:17,260 --> 00:02:29,180 Let's stand together and come and worship in your giving today. 32 00:02:29,180 --> 00:02:31,500 Everyone just stretch your hands this way. 33 00:02:31,500 --> 00:02:36,380 Heavenly Father, we love you and we thank you today for your goodness, your mercy and 34 00:02:36,380 --> 00:02:38,900 your grace. 35 00:02:38,900 --> 00:02:43,660 Over everyone standing in this altar, that is the prayer that we proclaim over them, that 36 00:02:43,660 --> 00:02:45,220 your face smile upon them. 37 00:02:45,220 --> 00:02:53,260 I know this is a hard day for many, a tough day for many, but I ask God, I ask Lord today 38 00:02:53,260 --> 00:03:02,660 that you bless them and you keep them and you honor them, body, soul, mind, spirit, 39 00:03:02,660 --> 00:03:10,820 as we glorify you today Father, as only you can minister, minister, minister. 40 00:03:10,820 --> 00:03:12,540 I see you working Lord. 41 00:03:12,540 --> 00:03:14,520 I see you working this morning. 42 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:17,060 I see you working in this altar today. 43 00:03:17,060 --> 00:03:20,740 I see you working in this altar this morning. 44 00:03:20,740 --> 00:03:23,540 Touch today in a mighty way, mighty God. 45 00:03:23,540 --> 00:03:26,820 Move this morning, mighty God. 46 00:03:26,820 --> 00:03:28,820 Hallelujah. 47 00:03:28,820 --> 00:03:30,820 Hallelujah. 48 00:03:30,820 --> 00:03:32,820 Hallelujah. 49 00:03:32,820 --> 00:03:34,820 Hallelujah. 50 00:03:34,820 --> 00:03:36,820 Hallelujah. 51 00:03:36,820 --> 00:03:40,980 Lord, we thank you for being for us today. 52 00:03:40,980 --> 00:03:47,380 I thank you for each one, Lord, standing here today. 53 00:03:47,380 --> 00:03:52,220 Hallelujah. 54 00:03:52,220 --> 00:04:04,860 Could you give the Lord a hand clap for motherhood? 55 00:04:04,860 --> 00:04:09,180 Thank the Lord for all these kids that have ministered to us this morning, minister to 56 00:04:09,180 --> 00:04:10,180 you. 57 00:04:10,180 --> 00:04:20,220 Thank you for all the people that have needed. 58 00:04:20,220 --> 00:04:22,220 Hallelujah. 59 00:04:22,220 --> 00:04:24,220 Hallelujah. 60 00:04:24,220 --> 00:04:30,340 The Lord is so merciful. 61 00:04:30,340 --> 00:04:37,340 Thank you for your sweet touch today, Lord. 62 00:04:37,340 --> 00:04:39,140 Hallelujah. 63 00:04:39,140 --> 00:05:04,300 A thousand generations, let your face smile upon them. 64 00:05:04,300 --> 00:05:12,900 Sister Kim said this is just a different day, so you're just going to have to go with the 65 00:05:12,900 --> 00:05:15,900 flow this morning. 66 00:05:15,900 --> 00:05:20,140 Amen. 67 00:05:20,140 --> 00:05:25,660 Please be in prayer for our church body. 68 00:05:25,660 --> 00:05:28,100 We've had a lot going on this week. 69 00:05:28,100 --> 00:05:36,260 And we have some who would normally be here today, but they're grieving and they're mourning 70 00:05:36,260 --> 00:05:39,980 lost loved ones today. 71 00:05:39,980 --> 00:05:50,100 So please remember the McPherson family, the Yates family, the Johns and the Long family, 72 00:05:50,100 --> 00:05:51,260 remember them. 73 00:05:51,260 --> 00:05:56,460 Remember the Westmoreland family, Sister Twinkle, Robin, remember them. 74 00:05:56,460 --> 00:06:03,540 Josh and Nikki, Haley, remember them today. 75 00:06:03,540 --> 00:06:11,180 This has been one of those weeks that they do not prepare you for in your ministerial 76 00:06:11,180 --> 00:06:13,700 internship program. 77 00:06:13,700 --> 00:06:22,660 There is no preparation for losing four family members out of your church in a week, in less 78 00:06:22,660 --> 00:06:24,100 than six days. 79 00:06:24,100 --> 00:06:27,140 There's no prep for that. 80 00:06:27,140 --> 00:06:29,460 You can't train for that. 81 00:06:29,460 --> 00:06:31,900 You just trust God during that. 82 00:06:31,900 --> 00:06:32,900 Amen. 83 00:06:32,900 --> 00:06:37,500 And thank you, our church family. 84 00:06:37,500 --> 00:06:45,040 You're doing a marvelous job loving and caring and praying for each of our families who are 85 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:47,340 suffering from loss this week. 86 00:06:47,340 --> 00:06:48,420 It's not a good week. 87 00:06:48,420 --> 00:06:52,340 There's no good week. 88 00:06:52,340 --> 00:06:55,260 But just remember them in your prayers. 89 00:06:55,260 --> 00:06:56,260 Amen. 90 00:06:56,260 --> 00:07:07,580 Could you just give the Lord one more hand clap of praise? 91 00:07:07,580 --> 00:07:13,860 It is a custom of mine over the years throughout almost 30 years of ministry, at least 15 of 92 00:07:13,860 --> 00:07:17,780 those. 93 00:07:17,780 --> 00:07:26,820 Mother's Day is probably one of the most difficult days, Sundays of the year. 94 00:07:26,820 --> 00:07:28,740 Many of you are here today. 95 00:07:28,740 --> 00:07:35,500 You had to force yourself up and ready to come to the house of the Lord. 96 00:07:35,500 --> 00:07:41,100 Because you know the emphasis of the day and you don't have your mother and it's a hard 97 00:07:41,100 --> 00:07:42,380 day. 98 00:07:42,380 --> 00:07:47,460 It's a hard day for you to get happy and to be joy-filled and I know that. 99 00:07:47,460 --> 00:07:52,900 And so let me just thank you for pushing through and being here today. 100 00:07:52,900 --> 00:07:57,380 Customarily, I have you stand if your mother's not with you. 101 00:07:57,380 --> 00:08:01,100 But could you just raise your hand if your mother's no longer living? 102 00:08:01,100 --> 00:08:04,100 Could you just hold it up for a minute? 103 00:08:04,100 --> 00:08:05,100 We're going to pray for you. 104 00:08:05,100 --> 00:08:07,100 We're going to have just a moment of silence. 105 00:08:07,100 --> 00:08:11,820 We're just going to be very reverent to each of you this morning. 106 00:08:11,820 --> 00:08:12,820 Would you do that with me? 107 00:08:12,820 --> 00:08:13,820 And then I'm going to pray over you. 108 00:08:13,820 --> 00:08:34,340 Our kind and gracious heavenly Father, hands all over this house were raised and I know 109 00:08:34,340 --> 00:08:37,140 hearts are heavy. 110 00:08:37,140 --> 00:08:43,700 And Lord, it is my customary prayer to pray for each of them that as warm tears flow, 111 00:08:43,700 --> 00:08:49,540 Lord, could you not remind them of the greatest joy of their memory or a fond memory that 112 00:08:49,540 --> 00:08:54,900 they may have so that this day may not just be filled with heaviness? 113 00:08:54,900 --> 00:09:03,060 But could you just allow the joy of your spirit to bring about a fond and happy time so that 114 00:09:03,060 --> 00:09:08,460 the enemy just doesn't have his way and bring a heavy weight on them? 115 00:09:08,460 --> 00:09:16,300 But with those warm tears, could you bring joy to their heart and may they remember fondly? 116 00:09:16,300 --> 00:09:20,180 Fondly today, Lord. 117 00:09:20,180 --> 00:09:24,780 Grant me this request, Father, in Jesus' name. 118 00:09:24,780 --> 00:09:26,260 Amen and amen. 119 00:09:26,260 --> 00:09:29,060 And that is my prayer for you today. 120 00:09:29,060 --> 00:09:36,580 And before you leave, on the podium here there are some white roses for you. 121 00:09:36,580 --> 00:09:42,700 If your mother's no longer with you, would you please take one of those today on behalf 122 00:09:42,700 --> 00:09:43,700 of your church? 123 00:09:43,700 --> 00:09:50,100 We love you and we thank you for pushing forward and being in the house of the Lord today. 124 00:09:50,100 --> 00:09:51,100 Amen? 125 00:09:51,100 --> 00:09:52,100 Amen. 126 00:09:52,100 --> 00:09:53,540 It is good to see you this morning. 127 00:09:53,540 --> 00:09:54,540 God is good. 128 00:09:54,540 --> 00:09:55,540 God is faithful. 129 00:09:55,540 --> 00:09:57,180 Amen? 130 00:09:57,180 --> 00:10:01,180 And I promise I'm not going to keep you too long. 131 00:10:01,180 --> 00:10:07,980 I saw one of my pastor friends sent me a message or text this morning in our little group and 132 00:10:07,980 --> 00:10:15,300 he said, my gift to mothers today not to be long. 133 00:10:15,300 --> 00:10:18,660 So I'm going to try that this morning if the Lord will help me. 134 00:10:18,660 --> 00:10:24,820 And y'all know he's going to have to help me if that's the case. 135 00:10:24,820 --> 00:10:26,720 Amen? 136 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:31,720 The thought that I'm going to share with you today, the Lord moved on my heart earlier 137 00:10:31,720 --> 00:10:37,700 this week when I read it from Pastor Andre Wright's Facebook page. 138 00:10:37,700 --> 00:10:41,660 And I whispered in his ear this morning when I shook his hand, welcome to the church, I 139 00:10:41,660 --> 00:10:46,460 said you may be familiar with some of what you're about to hear today. 140 00:10:46,460 --> 00:10:50,700 It just, it stirred my heart with what I read. 141 00:10:50,700 --> 00:10:56,060 And then the further as the week went and it's been a week. 142 00:10:56,060 --> 00:11:02,060 And early this morning in the office looking in several various different places and seeking 143 00:11:02,060 --> 00:11:06,020 the mind and the will of the Lord, I just couldn't get away from it. 144 00:11:06,020 --> 00:11:08,260 So I just went back to it. 145 00:11:08,260 --> 00:11:11,380 Time will help you do that preachers. 146 00:11:11,380 --> 00:11:14,660 If the Lord won't let you get away from it, the sooner you get back to it, the more peace 147 00:11:14,660 --> 00:11:16,100 you're going to find. 148 00:11:16,100 --> 00:11:17,100 Amen? 149 00:11:17,100 --> 00:11:21,220 Especially if you're one of those who really want to hear from the Lord and try to share 150 00:11:21,220 --> 00:11:25,740 with his people something from heaven that'll minister to their heart. 151 00:11:25,740 --> 00:11:27,300 And I'm one of those. 152 00:11:27,300 --> 00:11:31,020 You can grab a sermon anywhere, but I need a word from the Lord. 153 00:11:31,020 --> 00:11:32,020 Amen? 154 00:11:32,020 --> 00:11:33,540 And we're going to just lighten it up a little bit. 155 00:11:33,540 --> 00:11:38,380 If you've got your Bibles with me, with you, turn to Proverbs 1 and let's look at verse 156 00:11:38,380 --> 00:11:43,740 8 and 9 very quickly and then we'll begin to, there's going to be a roller coaster this 157 00:11:43,740 --> 00:11:44,740 morning. 158 00:11:44,740 --> 00:11:47,860 Hopefully I'm going to lift you up and then hopefully it doesn't get you too low, but 159 00:11:47,860 --> 00:11:49,460 I'm going to try to pick you up today. 160 00:11:49,460 --> 00:11:52,580 Do you know laughter doeth good as a medicine? 161 00:11:52,580 --> 00:11:53,580 Amen? 162 00:11:53,580 --> 00:11:58,980 So we're going to try to, man, there's a wonderful atmosphere here today. 163 00:11:58,980 --> 00:12:04,500 Proverbs 1 verse 8 reads, my son, hear the instruction of thy father and forsake not 164 00:12:04,500 --> 00:12:07,420 the law of thy mother. 165 00:12:07,420 --> 00:12:12,340 Everybody knows mama lays down the law, right? 166 00:12:12,340 --> 00:12:21,540 Verse 9 says, for they shall be an ornament of grace under thy head and chains about thy 167 00:12:21,540 --> 00:12:22,540 neck. 168 00:12:22,540 --> 00:12:26,100 It's not a weighted chain, but it's an ornamental chain. 169 00:12:26,100 --> 00:12:32,660 It's going to be grace if you'll obey father's instruction and then live according to mama's 170 00:12:32,660 --> 00:12:33,660 law. 171 00:12:33,660 --> 00:12:40,940 Uh, I don't know if your mother was like mine, but mine said, I brought you in and I can 172 00:12:40,940 --> 00:12:43,260 take you out. 173 00:12:43,260 --> 00:12:49,860 And I believe that I, in my teen years, I'm telling you, I knew the power of God, knew 174 00:12:49,860 --> 00:12:55,500 all about the authority of God, knew about the wrath of God, but I also knew the judgment 175 00:12:55,500 --> 00:13:03,980 of mama and I was more afraid of mama finding out things I was doing than God got already 176 00:13:03,980 --> 00:13:09,140 knew, but if he didn't tell her, she wasn't likely to find out. 177 00:13:09,140 --> 00:13:11,740 But that was the problem in my life. 178 00:13:11,740 --> 00:13:17,780 My mother was a prayer warrior, so I didn't get by with anything. 179 00:13:17,780 --> 00:13:24,660 She already knew it, but I want to talk to you for just a minute on this simple thought. 180 00:13:24,660 --> 00:13:27,940 What's a mother supposed to do? 181 00:13:27,940 --> 00:13:29,380 What's a mother supposed to do? 182 00:13:29,380 --> 00:13:35,940 And we've already defined motherhood this morning is not just necessarily, uh, the biological 183 00:13:35,940 --> 00:13:40,500 act of bringing a child into this world, but it is the act of motherhood. 184 00:13:40,500 --> 00:13:41,940 Amen. 185 00:13:41,940 --> 00:13:42,940 The act of motherhood. 186 00:13:42,940 --> 00:13:45,020 And many of you feel that role. 187 00:13:45,020 --> 00:13:47,620 So what are you supposed to do? 188 00:13:47,620 --> 00:13:48,620 Father I love you. 189 00:13:48,620 --> 00:13:50,620 I thank you again today as I approach your throne. 190 00:13:50,620 --> 00:13:53,460 I need your help today, Lord. 191 00:13:53,460 --> 00:13:54,460 Truly I do. 192 00:13:54,460 --> 00:13:55,460 I need your help this morning. 193 00:13:55,460 --> 00:14:00,300 Lord, you know the week that we as a church family have been through, you know the weight 194 00:14:00,300 --> 00:14:03,260 and the heaviness that sits over all of us. 195 00:14:03,260 --> 00:14:07,580 But Lord, we're here in your presence and we're hoping in your word and trusting in 196 00:14:07,580 --> 00:14:09,580 your divine anointing. 197 00:14:09,580 --> 00:14:17,420 So have your way in our hearts and lives today as we encourage, we uplift, and we live by 198 00:14:17,420 --> 00:14:20,060 your word to you be praise in Christ's name. 199 00:14:20,060 --> 00:14:22,540 The church said, amen, amen. 200 00:14:22,540 --> 00:14:25,340 What's a mother supposed to do? 201 00:14:25,340 --> 00:14:29,740 I read a little, I read a little, a little funny that really struck me. 202 00:14:29,740 --> 00:14:35,540 Mom was putting little Kevin to bed on the night of his fifth birthday. 203 00:14:35,540 --> 00:14:38,940 You know how it is with little children, it takes you six months for them to get the right 204 00:14:38,940 --> 00:14:40,820 fingers up, right? 205 00:14:40,820 --> 00:14:43,540 You know, so Kevin finally got four. 206 00:14:43,540 --> 00:14:44,740 He was doing good with the four. 207 00:14:44,740 --> 00:14:49,020 He finally got the thumb tucked in and he, he had four down. 208 00:14:49,020 --> 00:14:53,380 So mom was tucking him in, putting him to bed and said, now Kevin, you know, tonight 209 00:14:53,380 --> 00:14:55,900 you're going to sleep your four. 210 00:14:55,900 --> 00:15:00,740 But when you wake up in the morning, do you know what you will be? 211 00:15:00,740 --> 00:15:06,620 Little Kevin thought about it a minute and he said, a handful. 212 00:15:06,620 --> 00:15:12,420 I thought there's, there's, there's some prophetic utterance in that. 213 00:15:12,420 --> 00:15:15,780 He said, I'm going to be a handful and I thought of you. 214 00:15:15,780 --> 00:15:16,780 I thought of you, Courtney. 215 00:15:16,780 --> 00:15:19,980 I thought, my Lord, I can see little Leo. 216 00:15:19,980 --> 00:15:22,780 That would be something to say, mom, I'm going to be a handful. 217 00:15:22,780 --> 00:15:24,740 Oh Lord, I thought of him. 218 00:15:24,740 --> 00:15:26,420 He come right straight to my mind. 219 00:15:26,420 --> 00:15:33,940 That boy, isn't that the way it works though? 220 00:15:33,940 --> 00:15:36,980 They go from just where's Easton at it. 221 00:15:36,980 --> 00:15:38,860 He's back here somewhere. 222 00:15:38,860 --> 00:15:40,100 We got Briar right there. 223 00:15:40,100 --> 00:15:42,220 These little fellows, little bitty ones. 224 00:15:42,220 --> 00:15:44,380 You know, you just squeeze the life out of them. 225 00:15:44,380 --> 00:15:47,820 Then at about four and five, you can almost beat the life out of them. 226 00:15:47,820 --> 00:15:53,340 I don't, I don't know how it works that way, but that's the way it rolls. 227 00:15:53,340 --> 00:15:55,140 They may just like, Oh, they're so precious. 228 00:15:55,140 --> 00:15:58,580 Then you say, you little heathen get over here. 229 00:15:58,580 --> 00:16:04,860 So and what you're doing in those developmental ages is instructing the law. 230 00:16:04,860 --> 00:16:10,220 And so that when they get old enough to know the law mama, don't let them transgress it. 231 00:16:10,220 --> 00:16:14,060 They'll, they'll come to it and they'll, they always gonna love you. 232 00:16:14,060 --> 00:16:17,100 They always gonna love you. 233 00:16:17,100 --> 00:16:21,820 So with that, sometimes we feel, and many of you may feel like that, that that's the 234 00:16:21,820 --> 00:16:23,380 way life is today. 235 00:16:23,380 --> 00:16:25,820 Life is just simply handful. 236 00:16:25,820 --> 00:16:30,500 It seems though you, you, you, you went to bed in one condition and you've, you've just 237 00:16:30,500 --> 00:16:33,860 woken up and you think, well, where did all this come from? 238 00:16:33,860 --> 00:16:36,580 And you begin to think, what is it that I'm supposed to do? 239 00:16:36,580 --> 00:16:38,860 How am I wandering through life? 240 00:16:38,860 --> 00:16:40,300 What am I supposed to do now? 241 00:16:40,300 --> 00:16:42,220 How am I supposed to deal with these situations? 242 00:16:42,220 --> 00:16:47,700 How we're going to make it when you begin to think about raising children, you know, 243 00:16:47,700 --> 00:16:52,860 fathers, we don't, I mean, we don't get too tore up until we see bone broke, you know 244 00:16:52,860 --> 00:16:53,860 what I'm saying? 245 00:16:53,860 --> 00:16:57,460 Or a lot of blood, a little blood doesn't even get a dad to tore up. 246 00:16:57,460 --> 00:16:58,820 Just wipe it off and send them on. 247 00:16:58,820 --> 00:17:04,740 But mothers get been out of shape with scrapes and skins and little boo-boos, right? 248 00:17:04,740 --> 00:17:07,940 That's I told mine, you're not bleeding to death. 249 00:17:07,940 --> 00:17:08,940 Go on, get up and go on. 250 00:17:08,940 --> 00:17:09,940 You're going to be all right. 251 00:17:09,940 --> 00:17:10,940 You'll survive it. 252 00:17:10,940 --> 00:17:11,940 Make it. 253 00:17:11,940 --> 00:17:16,900 The whole time, Sister Kathy's doting over them, trying to make it all better. 254 00:17:16,900 --> 00:17:20,020 And I'm just trying to toughen them up and send them on out because I know what the world 255 00:17:20,020 --> 00:17:22,420 has in store for them. 256 00:17:22,420 --> 00:17:27,420 So what are we supposed to do when dilemmas of life change and things turn upside down 257 00:17:27,420 --> 00:17:32,140 and the heaviness of life begins to set in and the weightiness of, of life, not, it's 258 00:17:32,140 --> 00:17:33,140 more than a handful. 259 00:17:33,140 --> 00:17:34,140 It's a double handful. 260 00:17:34,140 --> 00:17:37,140 And then you run out of handfuls and you don't know how to deal and you don't know how to 261 00:17:37,140 --> 00:17:38,140 cope. 262 00:17:38,140 --> 00:17:41,060 And, and you're just trying to make your way through it. 263 00:17:41,060 --> 00:17:45,900 It's applicable to all of us, not just mothers, but mothers seem to deal with more. 264 00:17:45,900 --> 00:17:51,780 I know I kindly left most of the child rearing to Sister Kathy. 265 00:17:51,780 --> 00:17:56,140 I've done the disciplinary end of it and, and I just kind of let her tend the rest of 266 00:17:56,140 --> 00:17:57,140 it. 267 00:17:57,140 --> 00:18:00,780 I don't know that that was always fair to her, but that's kind of the way it turned 268 00:18:00,780 --> 00:18:01,780 out. 269 00:18:01,780 --> 00:18:04,340 That's kind of the way we balance life. 270 00:18:04,340 --> 00:18:07,460 And I know brethren, if you'd be honest, how many of you were with me County in that 271 00:18:07,460 --> 00:18:08,460 boat? 272 00:18:08,460 --> 00:18:09,460 Yeah. 273 00:18:09,460 --> 00:18:10,460 Let mom attend to children. 274 00:18:10,460 --> 00:18:12,060 We can only take care of the rest of it. 275 00:18:12,060 --> 00:18:15,540 But when life begins to turn upside down and we don't know how to handle it, we don't know 276 00:18:15,540 --> 00:18:20,460 how to deal and cope because of the crisis and situation and chaos that begins to enter, 277 00:18:20,460 --> 00:18:24,260 we need to know like some mamas, they ask herself, what am I going to do? 278 00:18:24,260 --> 00:18:27,940 You know, when, when the handful is blown up all over the house, they may, what am I 279 00:18:27,940 --> 00:18:29,620 going, what am I supposed to do? 280 00:18:29,620 --> 00:18:31,180 You know, how am I supposed to deal? 281 00:18:31,180 --> 00:18:35,380 We all begin to ask that question in life when things begin to turn around and it's 282 00:18:35,380 --> 00:18:39,060 not going in exactly the way we want it to go. 283 00:18:39,060 --> 00:18:43,180 There's some mothers throughout scripture, some women that I think give some good instruction 284 00:18:43,180 --> 00:18:44,180 in it. 285 00:18:44,180 --> 00:18:47,980 And it came from that, that post that the pastor Andre put out the other day. 286 00:18:47,980 --> 00:18:50,480 And it just, it's not left my heart all week. 287 00:18:50,480 --> 00:18:52,180 And I began to think about it little. 288 00:18:52,180 --> 00:18:56,780 The first thing that I think we could take note from is little as much when God is in 289 00:18:56,780 --> 00:19:00,860 it, mama, little as much when God is in it. 290 00:19:00,860 --> 00:19:03,580 Little as much when God is in it. 291 00:19:03,580 --> 00:19:06,500 Grandma, grandpa, little as much when God is in it. 292 00:19:06,500 --> 00:19:11,540 And there's a story of a widow woman in second Kings four who comes to the prophet, Elisha, 293 00:19:11,540 --> 00:19:16,580 her husband has died and they have a debt that they have to pay. 294 00:19:16,580 --> 00:19:21,660 And she comes to him because they are about to come and take her to sons to be indebted 295 00:19:21,660 --> 00:19:24,680 servants until that debt is paid. 296 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:29,100 And as she begins to make her way to the prophet distraught, not knowing what to do, that's 297 00:19:29,100 --> 00:19:31,220 the same as us going to the Lord. 298 00:19:31,220 --> 00:19:35,440 That was God's man and authority, the anointing of their day. 299 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:37,420 That's where they went to hear from God. 300 00:19:37,420 --> 00:19:42,340 So she makes her way to Elisha, the prophet, wondering, what am I supposed to do now? 301 00:19:42,340 --> 00:19:44,140 So she tells him her story. 302 00:19:44,140 --> 00:19:46,240 She lets him know her dilemma. 303 00:19:46,240 --> 00:19:48,060 And then he begins to question her. 304 00:19:48,060 --> 00:19:50,500 What do you have in your house? 305 00:19:50,500 --> 00:19:58,900 My Lord, I'm going to, she said, all I have, there's nothing in the house saving a little 306 00:19:58,900 --> 00:20:00,420 pot of oil. 307 00:20:00,420 --> 00:20:04,780 And this is where little is much when God is in it, because we are in a new Testament 308 00:20:04,780 --> 00:20:11,860 world and we understand the symbolism of what the oil means to the life of a child of God. 309 00:20:11,860 --> 00:20:15,560 The oil is the anointing of God's sweet Holy ghost. 310 00:20:15,560 --> 00:20:17,460 It's that anointing of his power. 311 00:20:17,460 --> 00:20:21,720 It represents the anointing of his grace and the anointing of his glory that's available 312 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:22,720 to our life. 313 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:26,700 Elisha says to her, what do you have in your house? 314 00:20:26,700 --> 00:20:28,660 All I have is a little anointing. 315 00:20:28,660 --> 00:20:29,660 Come on somebody. 316 00:20:29,660 --> 00:20:32,260 All I have is a little of God's presence. 317 00:20:32,260 --> 00:20:36,540 All I have is a little bit of God's power and it's going thin. 318 00:20:36,540 --> 00:20:37,820 It's draining low. 319 00:20:37,820 --> 00:20:40,980 It's going down, but all I've got is a little bit left. 320 00:20:40,980 --> 00:20:43,660 Well, here's my instruction to you. 321 00:20:43,660 --> 00:20:46,340 Gather you vessels, not a few. 322 00:20:46,340 --> 00:20:52,060 Go in the house and shut the door and begin to pour out the oil. 323 00:20:52,060 --> 00:20:53,060 Hallelujah. 324 00:20:53,060 --> 00:20:57,100 Can I tell some mama, some daddy, some family this morning? 325 00:20:57,100 --> 00:20:58,540 It may be looking bleak. 326 00:20:58,540 --> 00:21:03,380 It may be looking like things are about to get carried away and you're about to go down. 327 00:21:03,380 --> 00:21:08,060 No, not as long as there a little bit of oil in your house. 328 00:21:08,060 --> 00:21:11,140 Not as long as there's a little bit of oil. 329 00:21:11,140 --> 00:21:16,580 Can I tell somebody this morning that you are the vessels of the living God, that we 330 00:21:16,580 --> 00:21:21,860 are earthen vessels containing a little bit of oil and you're not over. 331 00:21:21,860 --> 00:21:22,860 It's not over. 332 00:21:22,860 --> 00:21:23,900 You're not done. 333 00:21:23,900 --> 00:21:28,860 It's not finished as long as you've got a little oil in your pot. 334 00:21:28,860 --> 00:21:30,100 You can get in the door. 335 00:21:30,100 --> 00:21:31,580 You can shut the door. 336 00:21:31,580 --> 00:21:36,820 I think Jesus would say when you're going to pray, get in your closet and shut the door 337 00:21:36,820 --> 00:21:38,780 and get down to business. 338 00:21:38,780 --> 00:21:43,060 When you need a little more, little is much when God is in it. 339 00:21:43,060 --> 00:21:45,500 You don't have to have a whole lot of anointing. 340 00:21:45,500 --> 00:21:48,140 You just have to have some anointing on you. 341 00:21:48,140 --> 00:21:51,760 You don't have to have your house glowing as a beacon in the night. 342 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:54,260 You just got to have God's presence in there. 343 00:21:54,260 --> 00:21:55,980 You just got to have him with you. 344 00:21:55,980 --> 00:22:03,260 And when chaos strikes, I want to tell somebody little is much when God is in it. 345 00:22:03,260 --> 00:22:04,760 She began to pour. 346 00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:08,220 She began to pour and the anointing began to flow. 347 00:22:08,220 --> 00:22:09,220 She began to pour. 348 00:22:09,220 --> 00:22:13,100 She began to pour and the oil began to pour. 349 00:22:13,100 --> 00:22:16,060 She said, son, give me another jar. 350 00:22:16,060 --> 00:22:18,420 She poured until it was full. 351 00:22:18,420 --> 00:22:20,940 Boys, give me another jar. 352 00:22:20,940 --> 00:22:31,660 Until they said, mama, there is no more jars, but she still had oil. 353 00:22:31,660 --> 00:22:33,980 What do you mean, pastor? 354 00:22:33,980 --> 00:22:40,980 When you don't know what to do next, shut the door and start pouring on the oil. 355 00:22:40,980 --> 00:22:43,140 Start stirring up the oil. 356 00:22:43,140 --> 00:22:44,220 What do you mean? 357 00:22:44,220 --> 00:22:48,420 Start praying and let the spirit of God begin to fill you up. 358 00:22:48,420 --> 00:22:53,220 And before you know it, you'll be like the psalmist David who declared, my cup runneth 359 00:22:53,220 --> 00:22:54,220 over. 360 00:22:54,220 --> 00:22:55,220 Hallelujah. 361 00:22:55,220 --> 00:22:57,060 My cup runneth over. 362 00:22:57,060 --> 00:23:01,660 I think what we need today is a little overflow blessing. 363 00:23:01,660 --> 00:23:05,380 Little is much when God is in it. 364 00:23:05,380 --> 00:23:06,380 Hallelujah. 365 00:23:06,380 --> 00:23:07,380 Thank you, Lord. 366 00:23:07,380 --> 00:23:10,380 I needed some help today. 367 00:23:10,380 --> 00:23:11,380 Hallelujah. 368 00:23:11,380 --> 00:23:20,140 Sometimes when you don't know what you're supposed to do, shut the door. 369 00:23:20,140 --> 00:23:25,820 Sometimes when you don't know what the next movie is, shut the door and start stirring 370 00:23:25,820 --> 00:23:28,140 up the pot right here. 371 00:23:28,140 --> 00:23:33,380 Start stirring up your vessel and begin to turn it over and let some stuff begin to pour 372 00:23:33,380 --> 00:23:34,980 out of you. 373 00:23:34,980 --> 00:23:38,100 Let some praise begin to pour out of you. 374 00:23:38,100 --> 00:23:43,380 Let some anointing begin to pour out of you because when you begin to pour out, he will 375 00:23:43,380 --> 00:23:44,380 pour in. 376 00:23:44,380 --> 00:23:47,500 I'm telling you, he'll not let you go empty. 377 00:23:47,500 --> 00:23:48,500 He'll restore. 378 00:23:48,500 --> 00:23:49,500 He'll refresh. 379 00:23:49,500 --> 00:23:50,500 He'll renew. 380 00:23:50,500 --> 00:23:56,500 He'll fill your cup and keep filling your cup and keep filling your cup until it overflows 381 00:23:56,500 --> 00:23:59,900 and it runs over. 382 00:23:59,900 --> 00:24:01,900 Hallelujah. 383 00:24:01,900 --> 00:24:06,100 Secondly, what are we supposed to do? 384 00:24:06,100 --> 00:24:12,700 I only got two points to this one, so we're halfway there. 385 00:24:12,700 --> 00:24:13,700 What are we supposed to do? 386 00:24:13,700 --> 00:24:18,980 Live as much when God's in it. 387 00:24:18,980 --> 00:24:26,820 Second thing is trust God and just see what he's going to do. 388 00:24:26,820 --> 00:24:33,900 Just trust God and see what he's going to do. 389 00:24:33,900 --> 00:24:40,220 There are many women of faith in scripture who just simply trusted God just to see what 390 00:24:40,220 --> 00:24:42,260 he would do. 391 00:24:42,260 --> 00:24:48,620 Sarah trusted God just to see what he would do. 392 00:24:48,620 --> 00:25:16,420 If you were to ask her, this is what she'd tell you that God will do. 393 00:25:16,420 --> 00:25:21,380 She's 75 and about this time she gets this word and she laughs, but time has to go on 394 00:25:21,380 --> 00:25:22,380 by. 395 00:25:22,380 --> 00:25:26,500 It would be many years later and then God will fulfill that promise in her life and 396 00:25:26,500 --> 00:25:31,060 she brings the promise of Isaac into this world. 397 00:25:31,060 --> 00:25:35,460 Somebody needs to know today, it doesn't matter how long you've been waiting, nothing is too 398 00:25:35,460 --> 00:25:37,660 hard for the Lord. 399 00:25:37,660 --> 00:25:41,300 If you need somebody to tell you that, then Sarah would tell you that. 400 00:25:41,300 --> 00:25:42,740 There's nothing too hard for the Lord. 401 00:25:42,740 --> 00:25:47,940 If I could bring a son in at this late in life, then there's no dilemma in your life 402 00:25:47,940 --> 00:25:50,020 that God cannot take care of. 403 00:25:50,020 --> 00:25:52,740 When you need a little oil, begin to pour. 404 00:25:52,740 --> 00:25:57,260 When you need a little hope, begin to trust in the Lord your God because there is nothing 405 00:25:57,260 --> 00:25:59,020 too hard for him. 406 00:25:59,020 --> 00:26:02,260 Nothing shall be impossible to those who believe. 407 00:26:02,260 --> 00:26:05,060 All God is looking for is some believing people. 408 00:26:05,060 --> 00:26:08,900 He's looking for some folks who will just let a little faith out and trust him. 409 00:26:08,900 --> 00:26:10,980 Let a little faith out and trust him. 410 00:26:10,980 --> 00:26:13,140 Let a little faith loose and trust him. 411 00:26:13,140 --> 00:26:17,020 And I know when we begin to look at these dilemmas and we're thinking, what are we supposed 412 00:26:17,020 --> 00:26:18,380 to do now? 413 00:26:18,380 --> 00:26:19,860 And we don't know what we can do. 414 00:26:19,860 --> 00:26:21,100 We can't control it. 415 00:26:21,100 --> 00:26:22,420 We can't get them in line. 416 00:26:22,420 --> 00:26:23,940 We can't put them in order. 417 00:26:23,940 --> 00:26:25,860 We can't put them in God's will. 418 00:26:25,860 --> 00:26:27,940 But all we can do is trust God. 419 00:26:27,940 --> 00:26:28,940 Why? 420 00:26:28,940 --> 00:26:32,940 Because our mind goes back and we remember the day that we stood in an altar and we let 421 00:26:32,940 --> 00:26:38,900 a pastor anoint them with oil and we faithfully rededicated their life to the one who gave 422 00:26:38,900 --> 00:26:42,420 them to them and we have trust in him. 423 00:26:42,420 --> 00:26:44,700 Don't worry about controlling the situation. 424 00:26:44,700 --> 00:26:46,660 Don't you worry about getting them to heaven. 425 00:26:46,660 --> 00:26:47,900 That's God's job. 426 00:26:47,900 --> 00:26:49,740 Mama, you just pray. 427 00:26:49,740 --> 00:26:51,700 Daddy, you just pray. 428 00:26:51,700 --> 00:26:54,660 You just trust God and let God take care of it. 429 00:26:54,660 --> 00:26:59,060 If you've been living on a long promise and still waiting for it to come to pass, don't 430 00:26:59,060 --> 00:27:05,060 doubt the authority and the strength and the power of God because nothing is too hard for 431 00:27:05,060 --> 00:27:06,060 him. 432 00:27:06,060 --> 00:27:09,100 It may not have come to pass yet, but don't quit on it. 433 00:27:09,100 --> 00:27:10,260 Don't quit on God. 434 00:27:10,260 --> 00:27:11,420 Don't give up on God. 435 00:27:11,420 --> 00:27:13,060 You just keep trusting him. 436 00:27:13,060 --> 00:27:21,540 You keep holding on to him because nothing is too hard for him. 437 00:27:21,540 --> 00:27:25,780 One of my favorite mama stories in scripture is Hagar. 438 00:27:25,780 --> 00:27:31,020 I don't know why I'm just drawn and over the years I've probably preached more about her 439 00:27:31,020 --> 00:27:39,860 than any of the other biblical mothers that we read about in the text is Hagar. 440 00:27:39,860 --> 00:27:44,660 How that Hagar didn't sign up for this. 441 00:27:44,660 --> 00:27:45,660 Hello? 442 00:27:45,660 --> 00:27:48,780 Hagar didn't sign up for it. 443 00:27:48,780 --> 00:27:49,780 She wasn't. 444 00:27:49,780 --> 00:27:51,900 Hagar wasn't like Sarah. 445 00:27:51,900 --> 00:27:55,940 She wasn't praying and hoping. 446 00:27:55,940 --> 00:27:59,780 She got caught up in the middle of it. 447 00:27:59,780 --> 00:28:07,020 And how God blessed Hagar in spite of all of it. 448 00:28:07,020 --> 00:28:11,820 You may be here and you're just caught up in the middle of it and I want you to know 449 00:28:11,820 --> 00:28:18,100 today that God is going to bless you in spite of all of it. 450 00:28:18,100 --> 00:28:23,760 The chaos may be surrounding you is not made by you. 451 00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:25,340 It was nothing you done. 452 00:28:25,340 --> 00:28:31,100 Hagar didn't do anything to deserve the chaos that entered in her life after Ishmael was 453 00:28:31,100 --> 00:28:34,100 born. 454 00:28:34,100 --> 00:28:38,700 But something to know about this if you were to ask her, Hagar would tell you that God 455 00:28:38,700 --> 00:28:43,700 sees you in your most desperate moment. 456 00:28:43,700 --> 00:28:46,780 God has not taken his eye off of you. 457 00:28:46,780 --> 00:28:52,860 Whether you are the cause of your chaos or not, God still sees you in the middle of your 458 00:28:52,860 --> 00:28:53,860 chaos. 459 00:28:53,860 --> 00:28:56,900 And so Hagar finally gets driven out of home. 460 00:28:56,900 --> 00:29:01,700 She gets sent into the desert with a little bit of groceries and some water to drink. 461 00:29:01,700 --> 00:29:05,540 She's been sent out on her own, left out on her own. 462 00:29:05,540 --> 00:29:10,920 She has been abandoned by the one who put her in the situation that she was in and she's 463 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:15,580 found herself out there wandering in a desert to the point of death. 464 00:29:15,580 --> 00:29:17,740 She puts her son under one tree. 465 00:29:17,740 --> 00:29:20,620 She goes a distance away to another tree. 466 00:29:20,620 --> 00:29:26,780 So she could not hear his cries knowing that he's about to die, but yet she calls upon 467 00:29:26,780 --> 00:29:28,740 the God of Abraham. 468 00:29:28,740 --> 00:29:32,480 There it, my, my, my, my, my. 469 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,100 You got to know that she was a handmaiden. 470 00:29:35,100 --> 00:29:39,940 She wasn't a worshiper of Jehovah, but yet she's seeing God do something now. 471 00:29:39,940 --> 00:29:45,700 And she turns to him and begins to worship him because God sees her in her dilemma. 472 00:29:45,700 --> 00:29:51,180 Not only did he see her, but he spoke to her right in the middle of her situation. 473 00:29:51,180 --> 00:29:57,820 And he made an identical promise to her that Sarah got fulfilled in her son Isaac. 474 00:29:57,820 --> 00:29:59,540 Look at it any way you want to. 475 00:29:59,540 --> 00:30:04,260 I know there's friction and always will be friction between the house of Ishmael and 476 00:30:04,260 --> 00:30:05,620 the house of Israel. 477 00:30:05,620 --> 00:30:11,620 But the fact is it was a promise that God fulfilled to a mama in chaos who didn't know 478 00:30:11,620 --> 00:30:14,260 what she was supposed to do next. 479 00:30:14,260 --> 00:30:24,900 And she said, God saw me in my dilemma. 480 00:30:24,900 --> 00:30:31,740 So much for that little homily we've done blown that. 481 00:30:31,740 --> 00:30:35,620 God sees us. 482 00:30:35,620 --> 00:30:36,620 I know the history. 483 00:30:36,620 --> 00:30:37,620 I know how it's unfolded. 484 00:30:37,620 --> 00:30:41,740 And I know what's going on today in the Middle East. 485 00:30:41,740 --> 00:30:47,740 But it wasn't Hagar's fault. 486 00:30:47,740 --> 00:30:50,060 And God knew it. 487 00:30:50,060 --> 00:30:51,980 God saw her. 488 00:30:51,980 --> 00:30:57,420 God spared not only her, he spared her son and said, here's what I'm going to do for 489 00:30:57,420 --> 00:30:59,060 Ishmael. 490 00:30:59,060 --> 00:31:04,500 You got to remember he was the eldest son. 491 00:31:04,500 --> 00:31:08,860 The eldest son. 492 00:31:08,860 --> 00:31:12,140 He was the older brother to Isaac. 493 00:31:12,140 --> 00:31:14,220 Hello. 494 00:31:14,220 --> 00:31:15,860 Here's what I'm going to do for him, Hagar. 495 00:31:15,860 --> 00:31:20,660 I'm going to make him a mighty nation as well. 496 00:31:20,660 --> 00:31:22,060 He ends up with 12 sons. 497 00:31:22,060 --> 00:31:25,300 He ends up with a multitude of people. 498 00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:29,020 I'm here to tell you today, God sees you. 499 00:31:29,020 --> 00:31:34,500 God sees you when things are not of your choosing, things are not of your choice and things are 500 00:31:34,500 --> 00:31:39,940 out of your power and you get caught up in it and you can't get out of it of your own. 501 00:31:39,940 --> 00:31:41,620 God sees you. 502 00:31:41,620 --> 00:31:46,100 My Lord, I feel the Holy Ghost right about here. 503 00:31:46,100 --> 00:31:48,740 I'm going to try to get on. 504 00:31:48,740 --> 00:31:53,020 The next one on that list was Rahab. 505 00:31:53,020 --> 00:31:57,820 If you were to question her about what she should do next, what am I supposed to do? 506 00:31:57,820 --> 00:32:03,100 Here's what she would tell you after her testimony comes to pass. 507 00:32:03,100 --> 00:32:09,260 Rahab would tell you your past doesn't define your future. 508 00:32:09,260 --> 00:32:16,580 God can and will use you in spite of it. 509 00:32:16,580 --> 00:32:21,140 I for one am standing here grateful for that testimony. 510 00:32:21,140 --> 00:32:22,140 Amen. 511 00:32:22,140 --> 00:32:26,700 How many of you know who Rahab is? 512 00:32:26,700 --> 00:32:32,500 You remember Rahab the harlot who hid the spies when they come in to spy out Jericho, 513 00:32:32,500 --> 00:32:39,900 a woman of ill repute, but do you know she's mentioned in the lineage of Jesus himself? 514 00:32:39,900 --> 00:32:41,940 Huh? 515 00:32:41,940 --> 00:32:45,020 Hallelujah. 516 00:32:45,020 --> 00:32:49,100 God can use you in spite of your past. 517 00:32:49,100 --> 00:32:53,020 God can use whatever he desires because here's the key. 518 00:32:53,020 --> 00:32:58,620 When God touches you, he sanctifies you and when that sanctifying touch rests upon your 519 00:32:58,620 --> 00:33:02,620 life, he separates you for use of himself. 520 00:33:02,620 --> 00:33:05,460 So it doesn't matter what your past is trying to hold over you. 521 00:33:05,460 --> 00:33:09,140 It doesn't matter what the devil's trying to tell you and trying to say you can't and 522 00:33:09,140 --> 00:33:10,140 God won't. 523 00:33:10,140 --> 00:33:14,140 I'm here to tell you the devil's a lie and the father of every lie that proceeds off 524 00:33:14,140 --> 00:33:15,500 the face of this earth. 525 00:33:15,500 --> 00:33:18,780 He is not the determining factor of the will of God. 526 00:33:18,780 --> 00:33:22,180 God is and if God so desires, he'll pick anything. 527 00:33:22,180 --> 00:33:23,180 He used a donkey. 528 00:33:23,180 --> 00:33:24,180 He used a whale. 529 00:33:24,180 --> 00:33:25,180 He used a rooster. 530 00:33:25,180 --> 00:33:26,180 My God, he uses me. 531 00:33:26,180 --> 00:33:28,180 We can and we can't. 532 00:33:28,180 --> 00:33:29,180 Hallelujah. 533 00:33:29,180 --> 00:33:33,260 So if he can use me, the donkey, the rooster and the whale, I'm guaranteeing you he will 534 00:33:33,260 --> 00:33:34,260 use you. 535 00:33:34,260 --> 00:33:35,980 It doesn't matter what's behind you. 536 00:33:35,980 --> 00:33:39,780 We got to get with the old apostle Paul, forgetting those things which are behind. 537 00:33:39,780 --> 00:33:46,100 Let's press forward toward the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ 538 00:33:46,100 --> 00:33:47,100 Jesus. 539 00:33:47,100 --> 00:33:57,500 Well, I thought I'd be done with the whale but I'm not. 540 00:33:57,500 --> 00:33:58,500 Who's next? 541 00:33:58,500 --> 00:33:59,500 Hannah was on that list. 542 00:33:59,500 --> 00:34:04,980 What would Hannah tell you when you don't know what you're supposed to do? 543 00:34:04,980 --> 00:34:11,940 She would be the first to stand up and tell you that God answers prayer. 544 00:34:11,940 --> 00:34:18,580 You notice we're using these mothers of the faith, right? 545 00:34:18,580 --> 00:34:25,740 She would be the first to tell you that God will answer your prayer even though the preacher 546 00:34:25,740 --> 00:34:30,340 might make fun of you for praying it. 547 00:34:30,340 --> 00:34:33,620 Come on. 548 00:34:33,620 --> 00:34:36,180 That's what she did. 549 00:34:36,180 --> 00:34:40,020 She was praying in the presence of Eli, the priest. 550 00:34:40,020 --> 00:34:45,180 She had been in the presence of God so deeply and so richly, pouring herself out. 551 00:34:45,180 --> 00:34:46,620 She couldn't speak. 552 00:34:46,620 --> 00:34:51,620 She was mumbling words, probably swaying under that anointing we talked about and poured out 553 00:34:51,620 --> 00:34:53,020 a little oil. 554 00:34:53,020 --> 00:34:54,940 And he says, woman, you're drunk. 555 00:34:54,940 --> 00:34:55,940 Go home. 556 00:34:55,940 --> 00:35:01,380 Boy, she got the last word to the preacher, I'm telling you. 557 00:35:01,380 --> 00:35:05,220 God spoke to her, opens up her womb. 558 00:35:05,220 --> 00:35:10,340 She brings a prominent voice of God into the world. 559 00:35:10,340 --> 00:35:12,060 God's going to use that boy. 560 00:35:12,060 --> 00:35:14,660 I said God's going to use that boy. 561 00:35:14,660 --> 00:35:16,940 That prophet's name would be Samuel. 562 00:35:16,940 --> 00:35:22,300 She gets ready to go to church the next year to go back to worship and bring her offering. 563 00:35:22,300 --> 00:35:26,780 She told, Hill Kines said, I'm not going to church this year. 564 00:35:26,780 --> 00:35:28,460 It was a long time before they got to go. 565 00:35:28,460 --> 00:35:31,660 Don't y'all get no ideas? 566 00:35:31,660 --> 00:35:33,140 I'm not going to worship. 567 00:35:33,140 --> 00:35:36,860 You're not on a donkey and you're not walking 500 mile. 568 00:35:36,860 --> 00:35:41,580 You got AC and heat, I expect to see you next week. 569 00:35:41,580 --> 00:35:43,380 I'm not going this year. 570 00:35:43,380 --> 00:35:48,460 I'm going to wean this boy and when he's strong enough, I'm taking him to the house of the 571 00:35:48,460 --> 00:35:53,100 Lord and I'm going to give him back to God because God gave him to me. 572 00:35:53,100 --> 00:35:58,580 He opened up my womb, he heard me and he answered my prayer and I'm taking him back and I'm 573 00:35:58,580 --> 00:36:00,300 lending him back to the Lord. 574 00:36:00,300 --> 00:36:04,620 I'm turning him over to him and that's exactly what she did when the time come. 575 00:36:04,620 --> 00:36:08,100 Now notice, I read it again this morning and something stuck out. 576 00:36:08,100 --> 00:36:12,820 When she got ready to go back, she wasn't only taking her son to surrender to the priest 577 00:36:12,820 --> 00:36:16,940 that he would work around the tabernacle, but she took a three-year-old boy. 578 00:36:16,940 --> 00:36:18,780 She took a drink offering. 579 00:36:18,780 --> 00:36:20,420 She took a flower offering. 580 00:36:20,420 --> 00:36:22,500 She went to worship God. 581 00:36:22,500 --> 00:36:23,500 Hallelujah. 582 00:36:23,500 --> 00:36:24,500 Why? 583 00:36:24,500 --> 00:36:29,980 Because God had heard and answered her prayer and so she made her way to church and to bring 584 00:36:29,980 --> 00:36:32,740 that boy and to lend him back to the Lord. 585 00:36:32,740 --> 00:36:39,580 And my Lord, I'd love to see no Eli's face when she come walking up and see I told you 586 00:36:39,580 --> 00:36:40,940 God was speaking to me. 587 00:36:40,940 --> 00:36:45,180 I told you man of God, he had heard my prayer. 588 00:36:45,180 --> 00:36:49,180 And here this boy is, let him do whatever you need. 589 00:36:49,180 --> 00:36:53,860 And it would be that answered prayer. 590 00:36:53,860 --> 00:37:04,340 We get to hear the voice of God through the prophet Samuel who was laying, sleeping, and 591 00:37:04,340 --> 00:37:07,340 he heard the voice speak. 592 00:37:07,340 --> 00:37:11,900 He stirs from his slumber and runs to Eli and says, you call? 593 00:37:11,900 --> 00:37:16,820 Boy, he said nothing back, you could see a grumpy, fat old preacher. 594 00:37:16,820 --> 00:37:19,540 Eli was a fat guy. 595 00:37:19,540 --> 00:37:24,060 Man of kind in nature. 596 00:37:24,060 --> 00:37:29,060 Probably ill when the lad woke him up in the middle of the night. 597 00:37:29,060 --> 00:37:30,060 Go back and lay down. 598 00:37:30,060 --> 00:37:31,060 I didn't call you. 599 00:37:31,060 --> 00:37:34,060 He hears that voice again. 600 00:37:34,060 --> 00:37:37,180 Because he didn't want to miss. 601 00:37:37,180 --> 00:37:41,620 He didn't want to miss what the priest would ask him to do. 602 00:37:41,620 --> 00:37:51,180 And so finally, after repetition, an old hard hearted priest who had let his own sons adulterate 603 00:37:51,180 --> 00:37:58,060 Israel in worship, Huff 9 Phineas, he said that's God son, just go back and tell him 604 00:37:58,060 --> 00:38:00,580 you're here to speak. 605 00:38:00,580 --> 00:38:01,900 Why? 606 00:38:01,900 --> 00:38:06,580 Because mama didn't know what she was supposed to do and the only thing she knew to do was 607 00:38:06,580 --> 00:38:07,580 to keep on praying. 608 00:38:07,580 --> 00:38:12,140 And so she kept on praying in spite of the ridicule, in spite of the doubt of everybody 609 00:38:12,140 --> 00:38:13,140 around her. 610 00:38:13,140 --> 00:38:14,140 She kept on praying. 611 00:38:14,140 --> 00:38:19,500 She entered on in and let God speak to her and birth something in her that now has affected 612 00:38:19,500 --> 00:38:21,700 the entire world. 613 00:38:21,700 --> 00:38:24,540 Who's next? 614 00:38:24,540 --> 00:38:26,380 After Hannah, we look at Ruth. 615 00:38:26,380 --> 00:38:28,980 What would Ruth say to us when you don't know what you're supposed to do? 616 00:38:28,980 --> 00:38:41,700 She would tell you it's not over until God says it's over. 617 00:38:41,700 --> 00:38:44,020 She wasn't even supposed to be there. 618 00:38:44,020 --> 00:38:46,220 She was a Moabite. 619 00:38:46,220 --> 00:38:47,220 Hello? 620 00:38:47,220 --> 00:38:52,140 An enemy. 621 00:38:52,140 --> 00:38:56,420 But somehow I just reminded her of that phrase and I've shared it with you for. 622 00:38:56,420 --> 00:39:03,540 Dr. Chris Thomas used that phrase quite often said God writes straight with crooked lines. 623 00:39:03,540 --> 00:39:11,300 You got a man who backsides and leaves his own home and goes down to the enemy's place 624 00:39:11,300 --> 00:39:14,480 and sets up home and takes his two sons. 625 00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:17,340 They take two wives from the enemy. 626 00:39:17,340 --> 00:39:21,100 They marry Orphe and Ruth. 627 00:39:21,100 --> 00:39:23,740 These boys marry. 628 00:39:23,740 --> 00:39:25,220 Daddy dies. 629 00:39:25,220 --> 00:39:28,260 The two boys end up dying. 630 00:39:28,260 --> 00:39:32,420 Naomi's in Moab not knowing what she's supposed to do now. 631 00:39:32,420 --> 00:39:33,420 Oh my God. 632 00:39:33,420 --> 00:39:36,060 You see how this is working? 633 00:39:36,060 --> 00:39:39,340 She's in Moab not knowing what she's supposed to do next. 634 00:39:39,340 --> 00:39:43,140 And then there's word that gets to her from a wayfaring traveler. 635 00:39:43,140 --> 00:39:47,620 She hears that there's bread again in the house of Beth. 636 00:39:47,620 --> 00:39:48,620 There's bread. 637 00:39:48,620 --> 00:39:49,980 There's there's a flaw. 638 00:39:49,980 --> 00:39:54,780 There's harvest again in Bethlehem, which is the house of bread. 639 00:39:54,780 --> 00:39:58,140 She hears that there's bread again in the house of bread. 640 00:39:58,140 --> 00:40:03,140 She looks to those two foreign daughter-in-law who she's grown to love and she looks at him 641 00:40:03,140 --> 00:40:05,540 said you have permission to go home. 642 00:40:05,540 --> 00:40:06,740 I'm an old woman. 643 00:40:06,740 --> 00:40:08,740 I can't bring another son in. 644 00:40:08,740 --> 00:40:11,700 And by the time he's old enough, you're going to be too old. 645 00:40:11,700 --> 00:40:14,300 So I release you from your covenant vow. 646 00:40:14,300 --> 00:40:15,340 I release you. 647 00:40:15,340 --> 00:40:16,340 You go to your homes. 648 00:40:16,340 --> 00:40:17,340 Amen. 649 00:40:17,340 --> 00:40:19,220 And just make a new life for yourself. 650 00:40:19,220 --> 00:40:21,540 I'm going back to the house of bread. 651 00:40:21,540 --> 00:40:26,340 Oh, one looks and says, I will thank you and kisses her and leaves. 652 00:40:26,340 --> 00:40:31,060 But Ruth falls down at Naomi's feet and begins to make a confession of faith. 653 00:40:31,060 --> 00:40:32,740 Your God will be my God. 654 00:40:32,740 --> 00:40:34,500 Your home will be my home. 655 00:40:34,500 --> 00:40:36,860 Where they bury you is where they're going to bury me. 656 00:40:36,860 --> 00:40:38,900 I'm not going to forsake you. 657 00:40:38,900 --> 00:40:41,500 My God, what a testimony. 658 00:40:41,500 --> 00:40:45,780 What are we going to do when you understand all that God is doing? 659 00:40:45,780 --> 00:40:48,380 It's not over until God says it's over. 660 00:40:48,380 --> 00:40:52,780 And Naomi thought it was finished, but no, there's a Boaz in every life. 661 00:40:52,780 --> 00:40:53,780 Amen. 662 00:40:53,780 --> 00:40:57,540 There's a Boaz for every life and the kinsman redeemer for you and I. 663 00:40:57,540 --> 00:41:00,900 His name is Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. 664 00:41:00,900 --> 00:41:15,500 Where you're not supposed to be, you have no pedigree, but God is still. 665 00:41:15,500 --> 00:41:17,300 Happy Mother's Day. 666 00:41:17,300 --> 00:41:21,460 I promise my intention was to give you a homily and let you go home. 667 00:41:21,460 --> 00:41:28,060 But my Lord, what a word from heaven today. 668 00:41:28,060 --> 00:41:32,380 It's not over until God says it's over. 669 00:41:32,380 --> 00:41:34,740 Why, pastor? 670 00:41:34,740 --> 00:41:40,180 Because when you get in the right field harvesting, he's going to have your Boaz go in front of 671 00:41:40,180 --> 00:41:46,140 you and start leaving handfuls of purpose, little piles of goodness, little piles of 672 00:41:46,140 --> 00:41:50,020 harvest that you don't have to glean for, you don't have to work for. 673 00:41:50,020 --> 00:41:53,740 All you've got to do is take it up and take it into yourself. 674 00:41:53,740 --> 00:41:56,420 That's what God is doing this very moment. 675 00:41:56,420 --> 00:42:00,900 Right now, he's left a handful of his anointing, a handful of his glory. 676 00:42:00,900 --> 00:42:05,420 You don't know what you're supposed to do, but God's telling you it's not over because 677 00:42:05,420 --> 00:42:14,060 he's not put an end on it yet and he's leaving a handful of blessing on purpose for you. 678 00:42:14,060 --> 00:42:17,300 Who's next? 679 00:42:17,300 --> 00:42:21,780 Man, these are powerful women of faith. 680 00:42:21,780 --> 00:42:25,780 They've got some rough stories. 681 00:42:25,780 --> 00:42:27,260 Not easy lives. 682 00:42:27,260 --> 00:42:29,780 It's not supposed to be easy. 683 00:42:29,780 --> 00:42:32,580 He never said it would be easy. 684 00:42:32,580 --> 00:42:35,780 He said he'd give us grace for it. 685 00:42:35,780 --> 00:42:41,860 That heaviness that many of you are feeling this morning, he said would be there. 686 00:42:41,860 --> 00:42:50,340 Pastors are those who mourn, but he didn't leave you with your mourning. 687 00:42:50,340 --> 00:42:53,460 He's left a handful on purpose for you in your mourning. 688 00:42:53,460 --> 00:42:55,660 How so, pastor? 689 00:42:55,660 --> 00:42:58,820 They shall be comforted. 690 00:42:58,820 --> 00:43:02,700 In your mourning, he will comfort you. 691 00:43:02,700 --> 00:43:07,820 In your heaviness, he'll be the lifter of your head and the addition of grace in your 692 00:43:07,820 --> 00:43:08,820 life. 693 00:43:08,820 --> 00:43:14,180 That's the reason I pray for a smile, to go along with the tear and the weight of sorrow. 694 00:43:14,180 --> 00:43:15,700 That there's joy that comes. 695 00:43:15,700 --> 00:43:16,700 Why? 696 00:43:16,700 --> 00:43:19,580 Because weeping endures for the night and some of you need to hear it. 697 00:43:19,580 --> 00:43:21,260 Your night of weeping is over. 698 00:43:21,260 --> 00:43:31,700 Your joy is about to approach with the dawning of a brand new day. 699 00:43:31,700 --> 00:43:35,700 Happy Mother's Day. 700 00:43:35,700 --> 00:43:41,180 Esther, what's she going to tell you to do when you don't know what you're supposed to 701 00:43:41,180 --> 00:43:42,180 do? 702 00:43:42,180 --> 00:43:47,700 Esther would tell you, trust God. 703 00:43:47,700 --> 00:43:56,300 He'll show up right on time. 704 00:43:56,300 --> 00:44:01,540 He'll show up right on time. 705 00:44:01,540 --> 00:44:03,380 No invitation from the king. 706 00:44:03,380 --> 00:44:10,780 Mordecai says, honey, says, niece, honey, you've got to go approach the king. 707 00:44:10,780 --> 00:44:14,980 They've got a plan made and we're all going to die. 708 00:44:14,980 --> 00:44:17,580 All your kinsmen are going to die. 709 00:44:17,580 --> 00:44:19,820 You've got to go before the king. 710 00:44:19,820 --> 00:44:22,300 I can't go before the king, uncle. 711 00:44:22,300 --> 00:44:25,220 I've not been called into his presence. 712 00:44:25,220 --> 00:44:32,700 And you know as well as I know that if I go in and don't find favor, if the king doesn't 713 00:44:32,700 --> 00:44:39,580 extend his scepter, I'll lose my life. 714 00:44:39,580 --> 00:44:46,380 But for such a time as this, I think I'll risk it. 715 00:44:46,380 --> 00:44:50,860 I think if we look at the time in which we're living, I think some of us need to take a 716 00:44:50,860 --> 00:44:54,460 little risk and enter into the king's court. 717 00:44:54,460 --> 00:44:58,400 My God, and we're not having to wait for the acceptance of the scepter to point us because 718 00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:05,220 we have an invitation, come boldly unto the throne of grace any time that you're in need. 719 00:45:05,220 --> 00:45:10,300 When you come in seeking mercy that you might find help for your trouble, come to me. 720 00:45:10,300 --> 00:45:11,300 Come in. 721 00:45:11,300 --> 00:45:14,660 The invitation is always open. 722 00:45:14,660 --> 00:45:18,900 For such a time as this, I might have come into the kingdom. 723 00:45:18,900 --> 00:45:22,180 He'll show up right on time. 724 00:45:22,180 --> 00:45:28,380 Just to let you know, if you don't know the end of that story, how God works things out 725 00:45:28,380 --> 00:45:38,220 the enemy builds the gallows right in the front of the courtyard for old Uncle Mordecai 726 00:45:38,220 --> 00:45:41,420 to be hung on and everybody else. 727 00:45:41,420 --> 00:45:51,500 And when she comes in and finds favor with the king, then the king begins to question, 728 00:45:51,500 --> 00:45:56,980 has anything been done for old Mordecai other than he didn't know this gallows had been 729 00:45:56,980 --> 00:45:58,420 built, you know? 730 00:45:58,420 --> 00:46:01,500 Has anything been done to honor him? 731 00:46:01,500 --> 00:46:05,820 He showed me favor once. 732 00:46:05,820 --> 00:46:11,440 And when it all comes down, the enemy's hanging on his own gallows. 733 00:46:11,440 --> 00:46:19,220 Can I tell you that the devil's going to be hung with his own lie? 734 00:46:19,220 --> 00:46:26,900 The first deception of all was where he deceived himself and he's written his own demise with 735 00:46:26,900 --> 00:46:28,580 his own lie. 736 00:46:28,580 --> 00:46:33,940 When he decides to exalt himself to the level of God and move God off his throne and be 737 00:46:33,940 --> 00:46:45,420 God over, he really didn't have a good comprehension of God, did he? 738 00:46:45,420 --> 00:46:50,340 I'm reminded one more time of that wonderful Joel Snead sermon title, Somewhere in Heaven 739 00:46:50,340 --> 00:46:52,660 There's an Angel Polishing a Chain. 740 00:46:52,660 --> 00:46:55,740 Oh, and that makes me so happy. 741 00:46:55,740 --> 00:46:56,860 Why? 742 00:46:56,860 --> 00:47:02,340 Because the devil's going to be bound with a chain for a thousand years. 743 00:47:02,340 --> 00:47:03,660 He's going to hang by his own lie. 744 00:47:03,660 --> 00:47:05,940 Let me move on through here. 745 00:47:05,940 --> 00:47:08,900 After Esther, who can we look to? 746 00:47:08,900 --> 00:47:13,260 A New Testament woman of faith, this woman with the issue of blood who remains nameless 747 00:47:13,260 --> 00:47:15,900 to this day, who remains nameless. 748 00:47:15,900 --> 00:47:18,660 If you ask her, she didn't know what she was supposed to do. 749 00:47:18,660 --> 00:47:19,660 She's broke now. 750 00:47:19,660 --> 00:47:24,500 She spent all she had been to ever specialists around the countryside. 751 00:47:24,500 --> 00:47:28,180 And still she grew worse. 752 00:47:28,180 --> 00:47:37,020 What she would tell you is this, if you'll show up, he'll show out. 753 00:47:37,020 --> 00:47:41,500 When all else fails, he never fails. 754 00:47:41,500 --> 00:47:45,460 And sometimes all you got to do is show up. 755 00:47:45,460 --> 00:47:47,120 Amen. 756 00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:51,120 You have to make a declaration like she did in her heart. 757 00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:52,120 Everything else has failed. 758 00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:56,380 She didn't know what she's supposed to do next, and then she hears that this man, Jesus, 759 00:47:56,380 --> 00:47:58,500 is coming to town. 760 00:47:58,500 --> 00:48:08,980 And she says to herself, no one else to confess to, she's alone, lonely, in despair, disillusioned, 761 00:48:08,980 --> 00:48:17,960 disappointed, but yet somehow found enough resolve to gather a mustard seed of faith. 762 00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:27,860 If I can just touch the hem of his garment, I know I'll be made whole. 763 00:48:27,860 --> 00:48:39,140 And then she sets out on her journey, pushes her way, a weak, weakened, failed vessel, 764 00:48:39,140 --> 00:48:46,300 pushing her way through a thronging crowd who's trying to get their touch of Jesus for 765 00:48:46,300 --> 00:48:49,100 themselves. 766 00:48:49,100 --> 00:48:55,100 And I think maybe with the last ounce of her strength, she made the push, and he almost 767 00:48:55,100 --> 00:48:59,120 got by. 768 00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:06,300 You do realize if she was closer, then she would have gotten a handful of his robe. 769 00:49:06,300 --> 00:49:10,460 You do realize if she was really close, she probably could have grabbed him by his shoulder 770 00:49:10,460 --> 00:49:12,700 and turned him around. 771 00:49:12,700 --> 00:49:26,220 But with the last effort that she had, she makes her own lunge, and all she got 772 00:49:26,220 --> 00:49:30,420 was a touch of the hem. 773 00:49:30,420 --> 00:49:32,660 That's all she got. 774 00:49:32,660 --> 00:49:37,020 She didn't get a handful of that beautiful robe. 775 00:49:37,020 --> 00:49:44,260 She just got a touch of the hem. 776 00:49:44,260 --> 00:49:52,820 Can I tell you with your last lunge, if you just get a touch of the H-I-M, it's going 777 00:49:52,820 --> 00:49:56,500 to change your entire perspective. 778 00:49:56,500 --> 00:50:00,620 All you've got to do is just get a little touch of the H-I-M, the hem. 779 00:50:00,620 --> 00:50:02,300 You don't have to get a handful. 780 00:50:02,300 --> 00:50:05,700 You don't have to get him by the hand or the shoulder or by the hair or the head to get 781 00:50:05,700 --> 00:50:06,700 his attention. 782 00:50:06,700 --> 00:50:13,980 All you've got to do is just touch him with an ounce of faith, and faith will stop him 783 00:50:13,980 --> 00:50:16,260 in his tracks. 784 00:50:16,260 --> 00:50:20,820 Who touched me? 785 00:50:20,820 --> 00:50:31,700 As the caboose is colliding, and probably the apostle most like me, Peter, says, what 786 00:50:31,700 --> 00:50:34,340 are you talking about, Lord? 787 00:50:34,340 --> 00:50:36,820 Everybody's trying to get a piece of you. 788 00:50:36,820 --> 00:50:39,540 What do you mean who touched you? 789 00:50:39,540 --> 00:50:43,620 This is a different touch. 790 00:50:43,620 --> 00:50:45,860 He clarifies the touch. 791 00:50:45,860 --> 00:50:55,860 He says, for I have felt virtue, leave me and enter them. 792 00:50:55,860 --> 00:51:04,060 He don't have to be looking at you for you to get it. 793 00:51:04,060 --> 00:51:07,100 He don't have to lay both hands on you for you to get it. 794 00:51:07,100 --> 00:51:12,620 You just got to touch him. 795 00:51:12,620 --> 00:51:14,700 You just got to touch him. 796 00:51:14,700 --> 00:51:26,360 Your faith just has to reach out with, I know if I can just touch him. 797 00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:30,500 For most of us, well, if I can just get so and so to anoint me and pray over me, lay 798 00:51:30,500 --> 00:51:32,620 hands on me. 799 00:51:32,620 --> 00:51:36,780 No, that wasn't her confession. 800 00:51:36,780 --> 00:51:47,460 If he will lay hands on me, her confession is if I can just get a touch of him. 801 00:51:47,460 --> 00:51:54,980 If you could just get a touch of him, if you touch him, he don't have to be looking. 802 00:51:54,980 --> 00:51:57,060 You don't have to have his undivided attention. 803 00:51:57,060 --> 00:51:58,060 Why, pastor? 804 00:51:58,060 --> 00:52:05,380 Because when your faith reaches him, virtue flows and he knows where it went. 805 00:52:05,380 --> 00:52:08,500 The who wasn't for her or for himself. 806 00:52:08,500 --> 00:52:10,180 It was for those around him. 807 00:52:10,180 --> 00:52:20,180 He knew who touched him because he turns and addresses her. 808 00:52:20,180 --> 00:52:23,860 Probably a test for the preachers in the crowd. 809 00:52:23,860 --> 00:52:25,180 Somebody touched me with faith, guys. 810 00:52:25,180 --> 00:52:28,260 Did you see who it was? 811 00:52:28,260 --> 00:52:31,620 It'd be the woman laying on her face in the dust and everybody trying to keep from stepping 812 00:52:31,620 --> 00:52:33,060 on her, weeping. 813 00:52:33,060 --> 00:52:34,060 Why? 814 00:52:34,060 --> 00:52:37,420 Because she felt virtue come in. 815 00:52:37,420 --> 00:52:38,420 Why? 816 00:52:38,420 --> 00:52:46,180 Because the scripture says that her flow stopped. 817 00:52:46,180 --> 00:52:49,180 Her condition ended. 818 00:52:49,180 --> 00:52:54,140 Strength come in her body. 819 00:52:54,140 --> 00:52:56,220 She was healed. 820 00:52:56,220 --> 00:52:59,420 She knows she broke every law in the book, getting it. 821 00:52:59,420 --> 00:53:04,740 But let me tell you something about desperate people. 822 00:53:04,740 --> 00:53:12,740 Desperate people could care less about religious... Desperate people can care less about religious 823 00:53:12,740 --> 00:53:22,140 structure, systems, demands, and laws because desperation that is driven by faith could 824 00:53:22,140 --> 00:53:24,940 care less about all of that. 825 00:53:24,940 --> 00:53:30,340 Their desire is to touch him. 826 00:53:30,340 --> 00:53:36,660 She knew she was breaking the law just by being within 300 feet of that crowd because 827 00:53:36,660 --> 00:53:40,620 of her condition, this flowing from her body. 828 00:53:40,620 --> 00:53:44,540 She wasn't supposed to be there until after seven days and then present herself. 829 00:53:44,540 --> 00:53:45,940 Seven days after it stopped. 830 00:53:45,940 --> 00:53:47,100 Seven days after she's healed. 831 00:53:47,100 --> 00:53:51,380 Then she presents herself with the right offering and the right sacrifice. 832 00:53:51,380 --> 00:54:00,580 But my God, I'm so grateful that Jesus came to fulfill that law. 833 00:54:00,580 --> 00:54:02,940 He was the personification of it all. 834 00:54:02,940 --> 00:54:03,940 Amen. 835 00:54:03,940 --> 00:54:08,940 When we touch him, we break every religious barrier. 836 00:54:08,940 --> 00:54:10,220 I'm desperate. 837 00:54:10,220 --> 00:54:11,220 Stand with me this morning. 838 00:54:11,220 --> 00:54:12,220 I'm closing. 839 00:54:12,220 --> 00:54:26,460 What are we supposed to do when we don't know what to do? 840 00:54:26,460 --> 00:54:33,580 I saw a young couple going into the hospital the other morning. 841 00:54:33,580 --> 00:54:35,700 Cleveland is a baby factory. 842 00:54:35,700 --> 00:54:43,460 I don't know if you know that, but when you go right through the doors and you go to your 843 00:54:43,460 --> 00:54:50,660 right, man, they just bring them out of there. 844 00:54:50,660 --> 00:54:55,700 This young couple, I'm going in to make a visit into the hospital. 845 00:54:55,700 --> 00:55:01,220 I remember, it's just Kathy and I with Jessica trying to figure this car seat deal out. 846 00:55:01,220 --> 00:55:08,100 The nurse trying to help us get the car seat buckled and make sure she's... Back when 847 00:55:08,100 --> 00:55:12,140 we were little, they just laid you in the seat and you went on about your business. 848 00:55:12,140 --> 00:55:16,980 You got up in the back window wherever you could get. 849 00:55:16,980 --> 00:55:25,020 I had a little flashback of our getting away from T.C. Thompson's Children's Hospital. 850 00:55:25,020 --> 00:55:33,580 As I walked by, I told the young couple, I said, congratulations. 851 00:55:33,580 --> 00:55:35,740 Dad turned around with this grin from ear to ear. 852 00:55:35,740 --> 00:55:36,740 He said, thank you. 853 00:55:36,740 --> 00:55:39,100 I said, now the work starts. 854 00:55:39,100 --> 00:55:43,140 He just kept on walking. 855 00:55:43,140 --> 00:55:50,980 I know I left that young father scratching his head because in a couple years, he's going 856 00:55:50,980 --> 00:55:55,620 to want to know what's he supposed to do now. 857 00:55:55,620 --> 00:55:59,180 That little young mother's thinking the same thing. 858 00:55:59,180 --> 00:56:03,380 What are we supposed to do now? 859 00:56:03,380 --> 00:56:08,940 We're supposed to trust him. 860 00:56:08,940 --> 00:56:09,940 Forget about your past. 861 00:56:09,940 --> 00:56:12,380 He's not concerned about it. 862 00:56:12,380 --> 00:56:16,900 If he's washed it out of your life, he's washed it away and he remembers it no more. 863 00:56:16,900 --> 00:56:22,340 He's purged with his blood. 864 00:56:22,340 --> 00:56:26,700 So don't let the devil get you caught up in your past. 865 00:56:26,700 --> 00:56:28,980 Nothing's too hard for him. 866 00:56:28,980 --> 00:56:29,980 Nothing. 867 00:56:29,980 --> 00:56:34,580 Well, I don't have much. 868 00:56:34,580 --> 00:56:36,820 You don't need much if God's in it. 869 00:56:36,820 --> 00:56:40,780 What am I supposed to do now? 870 00:56:40,780 --> 00:56:46,380 With the last effort you have, touch him. 871 00:56:46,380 --> 00:57:04,100 As he goes by, you will find he's not too busy to hear your heart's cry. 872 00:57:04,100 --> 00:57:10,780 He's passing by this moment. 873 00:57:10,780 --> 00:57:26,100 Your need to supply, reach out and touch the Lord as he goes by. 874 00:57:26,100 --> 00:57:27,100 Anybody need to touch today? 875 00:57:27,100 --> 00:57:28,500 That's how we're going to close. 876 00:57:28,500 --> 00:57:34,500 If you need to touch, male, female, young, old, mama, not, doesn't matter. 877 00:57:34,500 --> 00:57:38,140 If you need to touch, if you need to touch him, you don't know what you're supposed to 878 00:57:38,140 --> 00:57:40,340 do now. 879 00:57:40,340 --> 00:57:43,060 We're going to try to touch him together. 880 00:57:43,060 --> 00:57:46,860 Anybody need to touch from the Lord this morning? 881 00:57:46,860 --> 00:57:49,740 All right. 882 00:57:49,740 --> 00:57:54,940 Give the Lord a good hand clap of praise. 883 00:57:54,940 --> 00:57:55,940 That's a little weak. 884 00:57:55,940 --> 00:58:11,580 I mean, really, that was a little weak.