1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,940 I want to read out of the book of Ezekiel if I may 2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:08,780 The script that I'm going to take I'm going to read several verses today, but not all at once 3 00:00:09,480 --> 00:00:17,880 Praise God and I want to begin at Ezekiel chapter 16 as you see there on the I was gonna call it la pantalla 4 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:22,460 But it's the screen. I don't you know how you say it in English. Amen, but the screen 5 00:00:23,240 --> 00:00:28,360 Amen, and it says this way then I received another message from the Lord Son of Man 6 00:00:28,360 --> 00:00:29,560 Man 7 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:31,560 confronts Jerusalem with its 8 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:34,160 detestable sins 9 00:00:34,160 --> 00:00:38,000 Give her this message from the sovereign Lord 10 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:41,680 You are nothing more than a Canaanite woman 11 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:49,520 Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite on the day you were born 12 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:52,240 No one cared for you 13 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:56,160 Your umbilical cord was not cut or you were 14 00:00:56,160 --> 00:01:03,440 Or you were washed or rubbed with salt or wrapped in swaddling clothes 15 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:07,480 No one took the slightest interest in you 16 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:13,000 No one had compassion on you or cared for you on the day you were born 17 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:20,520 You were unwanted you were thrown into the field and left to die 18 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:22,680 and 19 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:26,320 I want to if I may give this thought 20 00:01:27,200 --> 00:01:29,200 take my cloak 21 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:31,880 upon you and 22 00:01:31,880 --> 00:01:33,320 live 23 00:01:33,320 --> 00:01:39,000 Take my cloak upon you and live lift up your hands there as we go before the Lord father 24 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:41,000 I thank you for this moment 25 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:48,320 In time Lord that you have given us to be here once again bringing sacrifice of praise to you 26 00:01:48,320 --> 00:01:52,280 Which is the most important part of our service to you and worship 27 00:01:53,320 --> 00:02:00,320 Lord God the message now Lord that you have for your people Lord help me that I may deliver it as you gave it to me 28 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:09,040 God in the name of Jesus that it will touch the hearts of somebody both here today and through social media 29 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:11,600 However, they might 30 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:16,880 hear and view it today that it may be an encouragement to them knowing God that 31 00:02:16,880 --> 00:02:19,520 You brought us out from the miry clay 32 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:28,880 You lift us lifted us up you pulled us out from where we were and you have placed us in heavenly places with you 33 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:31,680 And Lord, we are so grateful and thank 34 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:36,080 Thankful to you in your mighty name Jesus 35 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:38,720 Amen, you may take your places 36 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:42,880 Take my cloak upon you and live 37 00:02:42,880 --> 00:02:48,640 this script that of this word from Ezekiel to Jerusalem 38 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,040 It's quite depth. There's so much so much 39 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:59,360 Theology in that and I'm I cannot go into all of all of that 40 00:02:59,360 --> 00:03:02,400 You can make a great series out of this 41 00:03:02,960 --> 00:03:04,960 Amen that you were more 42 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:08,240 nothing more than a canine night woman and 43 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:11,280 Your father was a man of the word 44 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:15,540 And your father was an amorite and your mother a hittite 45 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:17,840 which is 46 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:21,840 not under the covering and the promises of god and 47 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:28,240 And but it is this scripture is a very powerful reflection of where god brought us from 48 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:32,900 And this is something that I oftentimes reflect 49 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:39,860 As who am I I could be driving in my automobile and and just going or on an airplane 50 00:03:39,860 --> 00:03:47,480 Traveling somewhere and and in my mind and heart I asked myself who am I that I would be where I am today 51 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:51,000 And it's not of my own doings of my own 52 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:59,400 Abilities or talents or gifts or whatever that I we might claim that we have and I don't claim to have any of those 53 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:04,680 But nonetheless what am I doing here? Who am I that I should be where I am? 54 00:04:05,080 --> 00:04:07,400 And maybe that has crossed your mind as well 55 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:15,000 But and I was I've always thought of this passage here this scripture that I that I read and studied so many years ago 56 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:22,840 As power is a powerful reminder of where and how god rescued me from a miserable 57 00:04:23,460 --> 00:04:29,160 Condition in this passage the lord commissions the prophet ezekiel to confront 58 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:37,020 Jerusalem and this is the different cut I'm gonna I'm just gonna go through this part part rather quickly because that is not 59 00:04:37,020 --> 00:04:41,180 My entirety but but we need to know why it all happened 60 00:04:41,180 --> 00:04:45,020 Why did why did Ezekiel continue to write in this passage? 61 00:04:45,820 --> 00:04:49,780 About where we have come from and Ezekiel had to confront 62 00:04:50,700 --> 00:04:54,740 Jerusalem and because of its detestable backslidden 63 00:04:54,740 --> 00:04:59,620 Condition this passage was and is a great reminder of how 64 00:05:00,420 --> 00:05:08,060 The Lord found us he loved us. He blessed us and he gave us a hope and from a condemned 65 00:05:08,500 --> 00:05:14,800 Condition when we had no hope he gave us hope god used the prophet Ezekiel to remind 66 00:05:15,060 --> 00:05:17,820 His people of how they had become 67 00:05:18,500 --> 00:05:20,100 detestable and 68 00:05:20,100 --> 00:05:27,620 distant from their sovereign God while forgetting their beginnings and left their first love in 69 00:05:28,180 --> 00:05:34,100 Revelations 2 and 4 it talks about that the Lord gave this to the great man 70 00:05:34,420 --> 00:05:41,440 Apostle John he says nevertheless I have this against you that you have left your first love 71 00:05:41,540 --> 00:05:48,580 You know many of us we don't know we can we've asked your your your spouse or your mom or your dad 72 00:05:48,580 --> 00:05:51,060 Do you love me and says yes? I love you 73 00:05:51,220 --> 00:05:56,580 You know and how much do you love me well this much you know and you you're going to measure it 74 00:05:56,580 --> 00:05:59,460 It's hard to measure love praise God. It's hard to measure it 75 00:05:59,460 --> 00:06:05,540 I mean they may not love you at all, but they really convinced you you know and and but you know we depend on people 76 00:06:05,940 --> 00:06:10,260 Measuring love how what is love but the one that could measure love is love itself 77 00:06:10,620 --> 00:06:17,900 God is love even that's who he is and it's measurable according to his you know measuring stick 78 00:06:17,900 --> 00:06:23,700 He can measure the love in our lives, but when you have God in your life you have love 79 00:06:24,740 --> 00:06:31,900 Hello, amen because God is love praise God hits it. There's nothing else outside the world thinks they know love 80 00:06:32,340 --> 00:06:34,540 Nobody knows love like we do 81 00:06:35,540 --> 00:06:40,340 Because God is in us and we have his love bless God for that 82 00:06:40,980 --> 00:06:45,820 Jerusalem put themselves in a certain condition and they begin to drift away 83 00:06:45,820 --> 00:06:52,580 And I'm gonna keep it short that they drifted away for whatever reason has became an idolatrous people and you know it almost 84 00:06:53,340 --> 00:06:56,300 depicts certain situations certain people and 85 00:06:57,100 --> 00:07:00,140 Religions and so forth they start off well, but they don't end well 86 00:07:00,140 --> 00:07:06,460 They start in love and they they they fail it to continue in that 87 00:07:06,780 --> 00:07:12,420 But the Lord he he is a God a man of restoration 88 00:07:12,420 --> 00:07:18,940 Thank God for that how many of us have ever failed God at one time or another if you have never failed God 89 00:07:18,940 --> 00:07:22,260 We have a prize for you at the church 90 00:07:23,580 --> 00:07:28,060 But if you failed him at one time don't expect nothing from God or from us 91 00:07:28,660 --> 00:07:34,060 Amen, but we've all failed God at one time or another praise God. We probably failed him this morning 92 00:07:34,540 --> 00:07:39,700 You know something you said or something you did or something you didn't do it praise God 93 00:07:39,700 --> 00:07:44,320 We failed him all the time, but thank God that he's a forgiving God and he's a 94 00:07:44,940 --> 00:07:52,500 Restoration God and he restored he puts us back to where we need to be with a man, but Jerusalem 95 00:07:53,180 --> 00:07:58,380 themselves they they got they drifted away from the will of God and 96 00:07:58,780 --> 00:08:03,240 They and and more than anything as a representation of God 97 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:10,380 You know that Jerusalem was a representation of who God is because God took them from nothing and he made them something 98 00:08:10,740 --> 00:08:16,500 And that's the way God works in all lives. He took us from nothing and he made us something 99 00:08:16,740 --> 00:08:20,580 So who are we we are the representation of God? 100 00:08:20,700 --> 00:08:28,620 We are restored you're looking at a restored person right here because God did it and only God can do what he does 101 00:08:28,620 --> 00:08:35,660 Man, if God can fix this he can fix anything you hear what I'm saying if he can fix your heart your mind your spirit 102 00:08:35,660 --> 00:08:39,100 Your past if he can wash it all the way and make you brand new 103 00:08:39,900 --> 00:08:43,820 Rest and be the name of the Lord. Amen. That is amazing 104 00:08:43,820 --> 00:08:48,180 What was a sign of them leaving their first love Jerusalem? 105 00:08:48,180 --> 00:08:52,100 They they began to drift it a man and and and because of that 106 00:08:52,580 --> 00:08:58,100 The only thing that we can apply to it there is that they left their first love when you leave your first love you start 107 00:08:58,100 --> 00:09:02,780 Acting certain weird ways you start doing things that that are not customarily 108 00:09:02,780 --> 00:09:06,580 Well, or you know, and so God he knows right away 109 00:09:06,580 --> 00:09:10,420 He knows because nothing hides you can't hide anything from God 110 00:09:10,580 --> 00:09:16,900 Their best days when your best days are in the past you're drifting away from God's love 111 00:09:18,620 --> 00:09:20,620 That he calls you nothing right there 112 00:09:20,980 --> 00:09:26,180 When your best days are behind you you're falling out of love 113 00:09:26,180 --> 00:09:28,740 Because the love is to grow 114 00:09:29,300 --> 00:09:34,420 Love needs to grow in our lives and if you're not growing in love 115 00:09:35,140 --> 00:09:37,140 You're falling out of love 116 00:09:37,140 --> 00:09:40,900 Praise the Lord. That's what happened to Jerusalem. They began to fall out of love 117 00:09:40,900 --> 00:09:48,340 They they began to do things act on things put change the priorities, you know, it's not so important anymore 118 00:09:48,340 --> 00:09:51,380 No, no, no, it's okay. God's forgiving God. Just do it like that 119 00:09:51,380 --> 00:09:57,220 Do it like that any away and they began to do things any away and and so what happened there is that? 120 00:09:57,540 --> 00:10:03,860 They they began to lose out with God and they began to drift away in these and but as 121 00:10:04,420 --> 00:10:10,020 Jerusalem and as many today after they have been prospered blessed and given life 122 00:10:10,500 --> 00:10:18,980 They forget about their beginnings in the world the Lord finds this fallen and abused and rejected 123 00:10:18,980 --> 00:10:24,020 And helpless person that we read about this little baby 124 00:10:24,020 --> 00:10:29,700 We're going to be talking about this little baby today a little child that was found in a field 125 00:10:30,420 --> 00:10:38,020 And this little child was a newborn child, but it was born in the world and it's a representation of our 126 00:10:38,660 --> 00:10:44,020 Old condition where and how God found us and he begins to talk about her 127 00:10:44,020 --> 00:10:49,780 He talks he he talks about Jerusalem as a little baby and how he found 128 00:10:50,260 --> 00:10:54,260 This this this people this nation they had no name 129 00:10:54,580 --> 00:11:00,340 They had nothing to them and it's it's the way that world produces humanity 130 00:11:00,580 --> 00:11:04,420 It's the way that the world produces people it praise God 131 00:11:04,580 --> 00:11:09,700 We can't blame the people for acting the way they act and doing the crazy things they do 132 00:11:09,700 --> 00:11:15,060 Because that's what the world does it produce them that forms them that develops them into who they are 133 00:11:15,300 --> 00:11:20,660 There's people out in the world that hate there's people out there that that that discriminate 134 00:11:20,660 --> 00:11:23,780 There's people in the world that they do all kinds of crazy things 135 00:11:23,780 --> 00:11:27,940 But they're doing what the world does so we can't blame them 136 00:11:28,180 --> 00:11:34,100 But we need to blame the spirit behind all of that and know that the devil is a liar 137 00:11:34,100 --> 00:11:41,380 How many know that event and he is the god of this world and he tends to control the people that live within 138 00:11:42,500 --> 00:11:48,900 And this little baby that we reference here is is how the lord found 139 00:11:49,620 --> 00:11:51,620 this little baby 140 00:11:52,020 --> 00:11:56,260 And our god he he's a redeeming god. Can you say praise the lord for that? 141 00:11:56,260 --> 00:12:03,540 Amen in galatians four and three it says that is what happened to us before christ came we were like 142 00:12:04,420 --> 00:12:10,740 Children we were slaves to the basic spiritual principles of this world. What are the basic? 143 00:12:11,620 --> 00:12:18,260 Spiritual principles of the world the basic spiritual principles of the lord is in slavery 144 00:12:18,500 --> 00:12:24,740 It it controls your mind your spirit. It controls everything about you praise god 145 00:12:24,740 --> 00:12:30,740 So if that car cuts you off on the freeway or or you know, whatever happens somebody stole 146 00:12:31,220 --> 00:12:35,220 Something from you took advantage of you or whatever that is 147 00:12:35,700 --> 00:12:42,100 That comes from the basic spiritual principles of this world and we're not going to change those 148 00:12:42,420 --> 00:12:49,140 But we are better than that because we've been introduced to something much greater praise the lord somebody 149 00:12:49,140 --> 00:12:55,300 And this is the way god found us. This is the way we were found. We weren't found a man in a perfect state of 150 00:12:55,540 --> 00:13:02,100 Oh, man, you don't even need baptism brother. There's been there's been people think they don't need baptism because they don't they think they don't have no sin 151 00:13:03,780 --> 00:13:05,940 How many of you were like that don't raise your hand 152 00:13:07,940 --> 00:13:15,380 I wasn't like that. Believe me. I knew I needed more than one bad do it twice dump me twice brother 153 00:13:15,380 --> 00:13:19,300 It's almost like once is not enough, you know do it twice do it three times 154 00:13:20,100 --> 00:13:23,780 You know, I really need a good washing here in the blood praise god 155 00:13:23,780 --> 00:13:26,660 But once it's enough somebody say once was enough for me 156 00:13:26,980 --> 00:13:34,420 Amen, but look at the spiritual principles of the world those spiritual principles are powerful because they dominate the control 157 00:13:34,580 --> 00:13:40,020 And that's what they produce. They produce a failing people a fallen people 158 00:13:40,020 --> 00:13:45,380 In our passage we see an unwanted neglected and an unloved child 159 00:13:46,100 --> 00:13:50,180 A child abandoned and exposed to the elements of the world 160 00:13:50,500 --> 00:13:54,740 The only thing that waited her was the bible says is death 161 00:13:55,460 --> 00:13:59,300 That's it. And ezekiel said this was your condition, Jerusalem 162 00:13:59,860 --> 00:14:02,900 You were miserable before god came to you 163 00:14:03,380 --> 00:14:07,220 The condition of this child is how god found everybody 164 00:14:07,220 --> 00:14:11,860 This is how he found me ezekiel said this child was unclean 165 00:14:12,260 --> 00:14:15,460 Unloved uncared for and unclaimed 166 00:14:16,180 --> 00:14:18,820 Unclean because the child had not been washed 167 00:14:19,620 --> 00:14:23,460 But remained in the state in which it was born 168 00:14:24,260 --> 00:14:33,780 Unclean as romans 3 23 and isaiah 64 6 says tells us we are all unclean sinners in the eyes and in the presence of god 169 00:14:33,780 --> 00:14:36,820 That's how I came to him. That's how he found me 170 00:14:37,140 --> 00:14:40,980 And this is the condition we're with the world 171 00:14:42,500 --> 00:14:44,500 Throws out the babies 172 00:14:44,660 --> 00:14:48,820 It throws out the babies. It just leaves the babies in that condition 173 00:14:49,140 --> 00:14:51,140 Unloved and uncared for 174 00:14:51,460 --> 00:14:56,260 This child had not even had her umbilical cord cut properly 175 00:14:57,220 --> 00:15:00,660 She was not been she had not been washed nor rubbed with it 176 00:15:00,660 --> 00:15:06,180 She was not been she had not been washed nor rubbed with salt. There's so much significance there 177 00:15:06,420 --> 00:15:11,620 Amen, we can spend a lot of time talking about being washed or rubbed with salt 178 00:15:12,020 --> 00:15:16,660 To protect her from the elements of the world that was harming her 179 00:15:17,220 --> 00:15:19,220 She had not been clothed 180 00:15:19,300 --> 00:15:25,220 She had been left naked and exposed to all the dangers and all the elements of the world 181 00:15:25,700 --> 00:15:29,940 Into which she had been born and this is the way we were born 182 00:15:29,940 --> 00:15:34,340 And we were all born sinners. Uh, every one of us was born a sinner 183 00:15:34,420 --> 00:15:37,780 It doesn't matter how cute you were and and and and you know 184 00:15:37,780 --> 00:15:43,300 They put that bow on your head young ladies babies as a big look how cute and you young guys, you know 185 00:15:43,380 --> 00:15:46,740 Well, you weren't so cute, but but you were you know, you were healthy 186 00:15:48,340 --> 00:15:54,740 Amen, we're gonna say you were cute. We're on the girls. Yeah, you know, the beautiful princess and whatnot 187 00:15:54,740 --> 00:16:00,500 Praise god, but in all of that you were a sinner. I don't think i've heard anybody, you know 188 00:16:00,500 --> 00:16:04,260 What the brand new born baby? We're gonna say this you see her for the you sinner 189 00:16:05,860 --> 00:16:09,300 She's not gonna tell that to a baby you're gonna offend the mom and daddy, you know 190 00:16:09,620 --> 00:16:12,900 But the fact is yes, we were because we were born in sin 191 00:16:13,140 --> 00:16:16,660 We were born in a human way and here we are praise god 192 00:16:16,900 --> 00:16:20,900 It seemed that everyone around this little baby girl hated her 193 00:16:20,900 --> 00:16:24,900 This is how the world rejects humanity 194 00:16:25,380 --> 00:16:30,340 This is how the world treats its babies. This is how the spiritual 195 00:16:30,980 --> 00:16:32,980 principles of the world 196 00:16:33,460 --> 00:16:40,740 Treats their newborns. They abandon them. They leave them there. They hope they die in their miserable condition 197 00:16:41,380 --> 00:16:46,340 For this reason david even said at one occasion in psalm 142 and 40 198 00:16:46,340 --> 00:16:49,300 He said refuge has failed me 199 00:16:49,300 --> 00:16:55,860 He says no one cares for my soul and that's how he felt and he expressed himself that way 200 00:16:55,860 --> 00:16:59,460 But that is the way that that that a born 201 00:16:59,860 --> 00:17:05,060 Human in this world a baby in this world a refuge has failed them 202 00:17:05,060 --> 00:17:12,180 No one cares for their soul. This little girl was laid naked before the hostile world 203 00:17:12,980 --> 00:17:16,500 No matter how hard we tried to hide our condition 204 00:17:16,500 --> 00:17:21,780 We can never hide our shame our guilt or our sin 205 00:17:22,020 --> 00:17:25,940 We are like this little girl that was naked in the field 206 00:17:27,060 --> 00:17:29,060 covered in her own blood 207 00:17:29,860 --> 00:17:36,180 Hebrews 4 and 13 it says there is nothing in all creation that is hidden from god 208 00:17:36,180 --> 00:17:40,020 Everything is naked and exposed in his eyes 209 00:17:40,660 --> 00:17:44,180 And it is to him that we give account 210 00:17:44,180 --> 00:17:49,460 Praise be to god. Nothing is hidden. Nothing passes by everything. He sees 211 00:17:50,100 --> 00:17:53,940 Everything praise god. No one wanted to claim this little girl 212 00:17:54,500 --> 00:17:59,940 Neither the mom or the father would claim her as their own 213 00:18:00,500 --> 00:18:07,140 There's not a father. There's not a mother in this world that can save their child from sin 214 00:18:07,700 --> 00:18:11,300 Amen, there's nothing you can do. You can say i'm gonna do this 215 00:18:11,300 --> 00:18:17,140 I'm gonna do that. No, no, no, no, you can't uh, you know baptize them as a baby 216 00:18:17,700 --> 00:18:25,540 But you can present them before god obviously praying that that god gives you the strength that you've been rear up and train up this child 217 00:18:26,020 --> 00:18:33,060 In the fear of the lord and one day they will decide for their own selves that they want to surrender their soul to him 218 00:18:33,620 --> 00:18:37,540 But this child here that we're talking about had no idea 219 00:18:37,540 --> 00:18:43,300 Can you imagine a a new born child in a field by itself? 220 00:18:43,940 --> 00:18:49,700 Bloody naked it's umbilical cord to the side. They're hanging on to for dear life 221 00:18:50,020 --> 00:18:54,500 No one wanted to claim this little girl neither her mother nor her father 222 00:18:54,820 --> 00:19:01,700 Amen would claim this and we are praise god ourselves or were like orphans just like this baby 223 00:19:02,180 --> 00:19:05,220 Abandoned even though you might say well, I'm not gonna do this 224 00:19:05,220 --> 00:19:10,020 Abandoned even though you might say well my mother my daddy loved you. Oh, yes, they did 225 00:19:10,180 --> 00:19:13,940 But they were still an orphan before god 226 00:19:14,420 --> 00:19:19,300 Why it's because you didn't have your heavenly father with you 227 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:25,060 Ephesians 2 12 says at that time you were living apart from christ 228 00:19:25,380 --> 00:19:28,500 You were not allowed to be citizens of israel 229 00:19:28,500 --> 00:19:36,500 And you did not know the promises of the covenant that god had made with you you lived in this world without 230 00:19:37,860 --> 00:19:40,180 God and without hope 231 00:19:41,140 --> 00:19:43,140 Doesn't matter how good you are 232 00:19:44,020 --> 00:19:47,940 What nice things you do in life and I know a lot of people that don't know god 233 00:19:48,100 --> 00:19:52,180 They do a lot of nice things for people but that's not going to save them 234 00:19:53,060 --> 00:19:57,540 Yes, we have a family. We have friends all around us, but they cannot 235 00:19:57,540 --> 00:19:59,040 ever 236 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,880 Satisfy the desire and the longing of our soul 237 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:09,480 What our soul desires is a relationship with the living god and creator of all mankind 238 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:14,600 Amen this wisdom this this excuse me this newborn child baby 239 00:20:14,920 --> 00:20:18,280 Amen was completely unable to change its own situation 240 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:20,440 And this is what I want you to see 241 00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:22,520 You know a lot of us we we think that you know 242 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:28,040 We were at the right place at the right time and and you know, so you got saved you went to the right revival 243 00:20:28,120 --> 00:20:32,200 You went that's that's that's okay. You know, that's all and that's wonderful 244 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:38,760 But you know what you didn't set up your salvation. You didn't set yourself up for salvation 245 00:20:39,400 --> 00:20:42,280 praise god, and you might say yeah brother, but I 246 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:47,080 You know I used to give to the church and I and I used to clean the church and I and I used to do 247 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:51,400 All these you know, and yeah, that's all fine. You did all that you did all of that 248 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:53,880 But you didn't set yourself up for salvation 249 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:56,600 No, you did not 250 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:02,000 God came to you. He said if I'd be lifted up, I'll draw all men unto me 251 00:21:02,600 --> 00:21:05,840 You don't have nothing to do with your salvation. I came to you 252 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:09,240 I found you like this little baby in a field full of blood 253 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:15,480 Uncapable of taking care of yourself. You couldn't feed yourself. You couldn't give yourself milk 254 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:21,640 You couldn't wash yourself clean yourself clothe yourself. I picked you up from there 255 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:25,960 That's where I found you and I picked you up from that condition 256 00:21:26,360 --> 00:21:33,320 I'm the one that lifted you up. I clipped your umbilical cord. I put cleaning solution upon you 257 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:35,640 I washed you 258 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:44,920 This baby could not change its current condition if someone does not come to rescue rescue her 259 00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:46,920 She will surely die 260 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:54,120 Praise God. This could be someone here today or maybe listening on the live broadcast today 261 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:59,880 Praise God. This could be your condition today. There is nothing we can do to rescue ourselves 262 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:04,640 You don't have the power within yourself to rescue you 263 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:11,800 You have to see yourself as this little baby you help your helpless hopeless laying there with no 264 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:18,280 Future with nothing a man on that that you can say was of any beauty upon you 265 00:22:19,360 --> 00:22:24,520 You could have been the most beautiful baby, but with that blood in the condition that we're laying out in the field 266 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:28,200 There's nothing we can do to rescue our own selves 267 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:36,000 This baby's condition is the condition of humanity if you please if there were if this was the end of the story 268 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,000 Oh, it would be sad 269 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:44,800 But thank God that's not the end of the story of this little baby girl in Ezekiel 16 6 270 00:22:45,280 --> 00:22:49,280 It says yet. I came and saw you there 271 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:56,880 Kicking helplessly in your own blood as you lay there. I said 272 00:22:57,520 --> 00:22:59,520 live 273 00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:01,520 Wow, somebody say live 274 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:03,840 He stopped 275 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:10,720 He stooped down and he began to minister healing to this helpless child 276 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:16,640 And let me say something to you the only word that the Lord 277 00:23:17,360 --> 00:23:21,280 Jehovah God uttered to this little baby girl was 278 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:26,400 Live and you know, that's all he has to say 279 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:32,800 You know, it will go against everything. What is the one thing that everybody fears in this world? 280 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,120 Are not ready for well, maybe you don't well 281 00:23:35,120 --> 00:23:41,200 We don't we're children of God to be absent from this bodies to be ever present with God, but yet you're hanging on right 282 00:23:43,120 --> 00:23:45,440 Nobody wants to leave praise God 283 00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:49,280 But the sooner we get there the sooner is it's going to get better for all of us 284 00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:51,280 But the one thing that the Lord said was 285 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:53,360 live 286 00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:59,520 We can see what Christ has done for all who have put their faith and their trust in him 287 00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:04,880 It this it was the Lord who came near and saved this little girl 288 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:09,120 Death was certain but the voice of God 289 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:16,960 Speaks and gives life in Ezekiel the next verse 7 it says and I helped you to flourish 290 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:23,680 Like a plant of the field you grew up and became a precious jewel 291 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:26,560 Your breast grew your hair came out 292 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:30,400 But you were still naked. I'm going to tell you something 293 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:37,680 There's a process in how God does things and when this is what we have to be patient with the Lord sometimes 294 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:44,080 But he said I and I helped you to flourish. He said I made you who you are today 295 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:48,560 Everybody that is in this building and that is hearing my voice 296 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:53,760 I want you to know that it was God that helped you you were right 297 00:24:53,760 --> 00:25:01,120 It was God that helped you you were miserable. You were in a state of death, but God helped you 298 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:04,880 He made you flourish 299 00:25:05,120 --> 00:25:09,600 And become like a plant in the field there where you are 300 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:13,120 What does that mean that while we're still in this world? 301 00:25:13,520 --> 00:25:20,080 We can be blessed and be prospered and live heavenly for God even though we're not of this world 302 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:24,400 We're still here, but we can be precious in the sight of the Lord 303 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:27,840 Praise God a precious jewel 304 00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:30,640 It's what this little baby became 305 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:32,880 He been this abandoned 306 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:37,200 girl through the love of God became a young lady a 307 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:40,080 precious jewel 308 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:46,000 The same one who was despised rejected abandoned and considered worthless 309 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,360 And now is adorned with beauty 310 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:56,560 What a picture of what Jesus can do and does when he enters into our lives 311 00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:02,800 I'm not I am what I am because of him. I didn't do anything praise God 312 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:05,040 To be where I'm at today 313 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:10,640 I have to be thankful to the Lord every day for pulling me out of that horrible place 314 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:18,240 He meant out to be thankful for the Lord for taking this little bloody baby one day and putting it in his arms 315 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:24,640 Oh, I want to tell somebody today. You got to think back that way. That's how I see myself 316 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:30,560 This is why I have such great gratitude for my savior is because that's where he pulled me up 317 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:31,840 That's what he did 318 00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:41,440 He took this little baby bloody in the condition that it was and he caressed it and began to love this child 319 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,600 What a picture of what Jesus does 320 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,040 When he tells us to live 321 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:49,940 What a powerful and loving transformation 322 00:26:51,340 --> 00:26:55,040 Ezekiel 16 8 the next verse says then I passed by again 323 00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:57,760 And saw that you were of 324 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:00,000 an age for love 325 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,480 Then I wrapped my cloak 326 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:05,600 around you 327 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,080 To cover your nakedness 328 00:27:08,560 --> 00:27:10,560 and pronounced my 329 00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:13,040 marriage vows 330 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:15,040 to you 331 00:27:15,040 --> 00:27:20,240 I made a covenant with you says the sovereign Lord and you became mine 332 00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:23,280 Wow 333 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:27,680 This is this is this is really something we can be on this for a month man 334 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:31,600 I'm telling you that this is has some so much theological depth 335 00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:35,040 The Lord covered her with his cloak 336 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:37,200 that is the 337 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:39,200 the topic of today 338 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:44,080 The cloak holds a significant symbolism in the bible 339 00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:50,640 From the old testament to the new testament the biblical meaning of the cloak 340 00:27:51,120 --> 00:27:55,360 Is woven into numerous stories and teachings in scripture 341 00:27:55,360 --> 00:27:58,160 a cloak can symbolize 342 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:00,160 favor 343 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:01,680 distinction 344 00:28:01,680 --> 00:28:03,680 in God's faithfulness 345 00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,160 the cloak typifies 346 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,240 righteousness 347 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,240 and protection 348 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:13,680 The prophet Isaiah said in Isaiah 61 and 10 349 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:19,520 He says for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation 350 00:28:20,160 --> 00:28:24,080 He has covered me with the robe of righteousness 351 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:28,320 When he covers us you're covered. I got you covered 352 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:35,280 You're not going to find an insurance company in the world that will cover you like he covers us 353 00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:40,880 He covers us with his own garment of service. He clothed us. He put his own cloak 354 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:43,440 upon us of salvation 355 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:48,000 He covered us with his robe of righteousness 356 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:51,520 We are who we are we talk and we walk 357 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:57,280 And we act and we do the things we do today because he covered you with his cloak 358 00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:05,040 in biblical times a cloak represented various aspects of a person's identity 359 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:07,920 and spiritual journey 360 00:29:08,160 --> 00:29:12,160 If a man came and put his cloak on a woman 361 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,200 He was claiming her betrothal 362 00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:16,800 and 363 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:18,800 ultimately marriage 364 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:22,320 to love to cherish to protect 365 00:29:23,040 --> 00:29:25,040 and to safeguard 366 00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:29,520 You see the cloak that that you have received upon your life 367 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:33,600 The cloak that he has put upon you and is put upon me 368 00:29:34,320 --> 00:29:37,440 Let me tell you something. That is a covenant 369 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:42,480 That God made with you and me to love us 370 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:46,000 to cherish us to protect us 371 00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:50,240 And to safeguard us I can do all things through christ 372 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:55,440 Why because I've got his cloak upon me. I'm a child of the living god 373 00:29:56,160 --> 00:30:01,040 He has rescued me from shame and disgust and sin 374 00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:08,400 He clothed his cloak upon me and now I feel love like i've never felt it before 375 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:13,120 I feel the covering upon my life like nobody can do 376 00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:18,320 I feel safe and I feel cherished and I feel protected 377 00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:21,680 Praise god 378 00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:27,600 It was a public sign of commitment of love of desire and of devotion 379 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:32,960 It is for this reason that ezekiel goes on to say 380 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:36,560 That god entered into a covenant 381 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:39,520 An everlasting covenant 382 00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:42,960 With this chosen one, which is you and me 383 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:46,800 Whom he found abandoned and destitute 384 00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:50,480 In the same way god has claimed us 385 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,200 as his own 386 00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:55,440 He has made a covenant with us 387 00:30:55,920 --> 00:31:02,640 That cannot be broken or that that he has not covered us with himself 388 00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:06,080 He put his own cloak on you 389 00:31:06,080 --> 00:31:12,480 He didn't he didn't tell somebody else to throw a blanket on you. No, no, no, he took off his own cloak 390 00:31:13,280 --> 00:31:15,280 He put it on you 391 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:20,400 And when he did that you're covered sister you're covered brother 392 00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:25,600 You're under his care. He cherishes you he protects you 393 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:29,200 He is your security. He is your identity 394 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,960 Amen, because when people see that cloak on you 395 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:38,000 They see christ because you are covered. Amen in the cloak of christ 396 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:40,560 That is what identifies us with it 397 00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:45,600 What identifies us with him is the fact that he put his cloak upon us 398 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:52,480 Amen, and he loves we are his we're mine. I'm yours lord. Hey, amen. I'm sorry. I got your cloak upon me 399 00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:55,440 I can I can go to whatever this world has 400 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:57,680 I can go to whatever this world has 401 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:03,840 But I'm gonna be all right because greater is he amen that i'm cloaked with than he that is in the world 402 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:09,120 I've got your covering. I got god's covering upon my life. No matter what comes your way 403 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:15,600 It doesn't matter what the doctor says doesn't matter what the lawyer and the judge says it don't matter what anybody says 404 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:20,400 It's because you have the cloak of god upon your life 405 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,600 Bless the lord 406 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:28,000 Only he in him do we find refuge salvation and love 407 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:34,960 Compassion security and the hope for all eternity. This is our wonderful picture of god's grace in action 408 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:39,200 He's still reaching out to the helpless today 409 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:48,160 To the hopeless to the rejected and and to the abandoned the lonely the unworthy and he says to you today 410 00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:50,880 Live 411 00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:54,400 If you're hearing my voice today and you have not 412 00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:58,000 Been cloaked you have not been covered 413 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:03,520 Let him cloak you today. Let him cover you with his protection 414 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:09,840 It don't cost you nothing. The price has been paid. It's not gonna it's gonna help you 415 00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:14,560 Consider yourself as a little baby in a field 416 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:20,240 Abandoned you're helpless as much as you feel that you feel love around you 417 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:25,280 You're not gonna feel love until you have that cloak upon your life 418 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:28,960 He's still reaching out 419 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:36,080 Somebody here today somebody, you know watching, you know via whatever amen and and 420 00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:40,320 You you get you need to know that he loves you today 421 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:45,200 And he wants to save your soul. He he wants to tell you today live 422 00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:47,360 live 423 00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:53,680 Live he has truly given us beauty for ashes as isaiah says beauty for ashes 424 00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,720 I I could have been still in that field 425 00:33:57,360 --> 00:34:02,720 Abandoned thinking waddling in the dust a man waddling in my own blood 426 00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:07,200 Just hoping that I could make it for that another night 427 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:10,400 Hoping that I could make it for that another night 428 00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:14,720 But you know what you don't need to spend another night 429 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:18,880 Amen in the field in waddling in your own blood 430 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:25,840 You can let him come to you and you can say here. I am lord here. I am lord 431 00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:31,280 Come on to me. I open my heart to you lord. Amen. And this is a choice today 432 00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:36,900 Ezekiel 16 and 9 and 10 it says then I bathed you he says 433 00:34:37,380 --> 00:34:41,860 I wiped away your blood and I rubbed your skin with 434 00:34:42,380 --> 00:34:48,740 Fragrant oils. Look at that my god. I clothed you in costly garments of fine linen 435 00:34:49,060 --> 00:34:55,220 And sealed with beautiful embroidery and I put sandals of the finest quality 436 00:34:55,860 --> 00:34:57,860 Of goat's skin on you 437 00:34:57,860 --> 00:35:03,620 Oh somebody say I'm glad I'm clothed by him. I'm so glad that he found me 438 00:35:03,860 --> 00:35:08,500 I'm so glad that he reached down for me. I'm so glad that he picked me up 439 00:35:09,140 --> 00:35:11,140 from that horrible place 440 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:17,860 Ezekiel explains explains exactly what god has done for this little girl 441 00:35:18,660 --> 00:35:20,980 He cleansed her healed her and 442 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,000 consecrated her 443 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:30,880 He washed away all impurities all the sin everything that separated her from him 444 00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:36,560 When god saves us he cleanses totally by the blood of Jesus Christ 445 00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:43,080 Romans 5 and 9 it says much more than have he now been justified by his blood 446 00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,560 We shall be saved from the wrath through him 447 00:35:47,240 --> 00:35:48,960 Wow. Oh 448 00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:50,480 his clothe 449 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:52,840 His clothe covers me 450 00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:56,600 He also anointed this little baby 451 00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:58,600 with oil 452 00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:01,560 The oil had a double purpose in those days 453 00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:04,600 medicinal and religious 454 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:10,360 By anointing the little baby girl with oil or the girl with oil event 455 00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:17,160 He was showing that he came to bring healing to the lives of those he saves 456 00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:21,240 in 2nd Corinthians 1 21 it says now 457 00:36:21,240 --> 00:36:27,560 He who establishes us with you in Christ has anointed us in God us is God 458 00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:31,720 He anointed you he's anointed me 459 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:38,120 All that oil that he put on her. Let me tell you something. He was looking to this day 460 00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:41,880 He he was yes, he's he's he told 461 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:43,720 Ezekiel to 462 00:36:43,720 --> 00:36:46,040 Speak prophetically to Jerusalem 463 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:51,640 But in reality God put the words in his mouth as Ezekiel began to proclaim 464 00:36:52,120 --> 00:36:54,760 But he was looking to this day today 465 00:36:55,240 --> 00:37:00,520 This was a prophetical word a prophetic message not just to Jerusalem 466 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:08,120 But to us here today that could easily by just accepting him into my life into our lives 467 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:12,040 Bless the name of the Lord. Don't wait another day 468 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:17,000 Don't take another day in the field covered in that condition 469 00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:21,400 Be saved be saved. This is the day of salvation 470 00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:26,280 The scripture says at the moment of salvation. He gives us the holy spirit 471 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,320 as our sanctifier as our 472 00:37:29,860 --> 00:37:36,200 Counselor and as our comforter. This is a typology of the oil that he put upon her 473 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:43,080 Amen, the oil is his is significant of his spirit how he how he gave us 474 00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:49,400 His spirit and how we have his anointing upon our lives. He came to heal wounds 475 00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:51,140 damaged 476 00:37:51,140 --> 00:37:54,200 Relationship damaged emotions mental scars 477 00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:59,160 Amen, he came to heal us so that we may have abundant living 478 00:37:59,960 --> 00:38:03,880 If you think you're living you're not living until you're living 479 00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:08,120 In God you're not living it until you're cloaked by his cloak 480 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:11,880 You're not living until you're anointed by him 481 00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:16,200 Washing the salt washed by him 482 00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:22,520 Taking in his arm to love you to caress you to cherish you to protect you 483 00:38:23,240 --> 00:38:28,440 This is what it means and you will never ever be alone again 484 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:34,280 It doesn't matter where you end up in life when you have christ you got everything you need 485 00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:39,000 What else do you need if you got jesus? Amen. We have been 486 00:38:39,940 --> 00:38:41,240 consecrated 487 00:38:41,240 --> 00:38:45,320 For his glory. I'm gonna ask the keyboards if he can come up now. Praise god 488 00:38:45,960 --> 00:38:48,920 Praise god doesn't mean anything but just come 489 00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:52,200 No, i'm almost done 490 00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:54,760 This little girl's life 491 00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:57,160 Would never be enough 492 00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:58,440 And my life 493 00:38:58,440 --> 00:39:00,440 Would never be the same 494 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:03,080 again 495 00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:06,920 If you are hearing my voice today and 496 00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:12,360 First of all in the opening of the scripture we talked about how that 497 00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:15,320 Jerusalem had lost their first love 498 00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:19,480 And that's that can happen 499 00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:26,520 We've seen it we don't want to judge nobody but but you know over the years in my life 500 00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:28,840 In one occasion I was 501 00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:31,320 I was praying 502 00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:33,960 It was for a relative of mine 503 00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:39,720 And I was preaching a revival many years ago and this relative came 504 00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:44,280 And I know that this person had so many chances to 505 00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:47,900 Make things right with god was backslidden 506 00:39:47,900 --> 00:39:54,860 And I I seen this person get close to god and then leave come back and leave 507 00:39:55,580 --> 00:39:57,580 back and forth and 508 00:39:57,580 --> 00:40:01,980 Happened to be there in that revival and I was it was a big altar. I was praying and 509 00:40:02,780 --> 00:40:06,700 after we had preached and and I was praying for the people and 510 00:40:07,660 --> 00:40:10,060 I experienced something that I had never 511 00:40:10,700 --> 00:40:12,780 In my life to this day 512 00:40:13,500 --> 00:40:15,500 ever experienced 513 00:40:15,500 --> 00:40:17,500 And it wasn't good 514 00:40:18,860 --> 00:40:21,980 When I went to pray and lay hands on this person 515 00:40:23,340 --> 00:40:25,340 Something pushed me away 516 00:40:26,220 --> 00:40:28,780 And it wasn't the devil. It was god 517 00:40:29,420 --> 00:40:31,420 It says don't 518 00:40:31,500 --> 00:40:33,500 I said well lord I was gonna don't 519 00:40:34,700 --> 00:40:36,700 Then I heard a cry 520 00:40:37,900 --> 00:40:39,900 From this person 521 00:40:39,900 --> 00:40:46,460 I heard a cry that I had never heard before I heard a cry 522 00:40:47,100 --> 00:40:49,340 As if somebody was falling 523 00:40:50,060 --> 00:40:52,220 and falling and falling 524 00:40:53,020 --> 00:40:55,020 and falling 525 00:40:55,820 --> 00:40:59,660 Oh my god said lord, why did you let me hear that? 526 00:41:01,180 --> 00:41:03,580 Why did you let me hear that cry? I 527 00:41:03,580 --> 00:41:09,660 I'll it's right here in my heart my mind all these years. It's never left me 528 00:41:11,260 --> 00:41:18,240 And he says because I wanted you to hear the cry of a reprobate mind 529 00:41:20,780 --> 00:41:22,780 And I says but lord 530 00:41:22,780 --> 00:41:24,780 It's a soul. He says you leave that to me 531 00:41:25,980 --> 00:41:27,980 You leave that to me 532 00:41:28,060 --> 00:41:30,060 But you need to know 533 00:41:30,060 --> 00:41:32,860 That the only 534 00:41:33,660 --> 00:41:37,760 Only option people have is this salvation 535 00:41:39,500 --> 00:41:45,900 And I've preached my heart out for many many many years i've been preaching and 536 00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:52,460 Teaching and reaching out to folks. I don't ever want to hear that cry again 537 00:41:53,740 --> 00:41:55,740 never 538 00:41:55,820 --> 00:41:58,220 It's not a not a nice cry 539 00:41:58,220 --> 00:42:01,180 I heard as though the 540 00:42:02,140 --> 00:42:06,860 Voice was falling deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper 541 00:42:08,940 --> 00:42:12,060 And the lord says, you know what that is and I says yes I do 542 00:42:15,420 --> 00:42:17,420 He says only I can correct that 543 00:42:19,660 --> 00:42:23,900 And I told god mercy god have mercy 544 00:42:25,340 --> 00:42:27,340 And that's up to him 545 00:42:27,340 --> 00:42:29,340 but 546 00:42:29,900 --> 00:42:31,980 When we reject god or when we 547 00:42:33,420 --> 00:42:35,500 Pull away from him and we begin to 548 00:42:36,460 --> 00:42:41,340 Make reasons or excuses or justifications to drift away from him 549 00:42:42,940 --> 00:42:44,940 It's dangerous 550 00:42:45,580 --> 00:42:47,580 You know years ago 551 00:42:47,580 --> 00:42:56,480 Years ago when I was just a young man just newly converted only had like maybe six months 552 00:42:58,540 --> 00:43:02,860 I used to go to the prayer meetings every sunday morning at the church at 6 a.m 553 00:43:03,740 --> 00:43:08,140 We had fasting every sunday the young people would go and we would fast every sunday 554 00:43:09,660 --> 00:43:15,420 And there was a backslider that came and I invited this backslider to come come come with me to the prayer 555 00:43:15,420 --> 00:43:17,420 or coming fast with me and 556 00:43:17,980 --> 00:43:20,540 Finally, I'd convinced him and I and he came 557 00:43:21,580 --> 00:43:22,780 King 558 00:43:22,780 --> 00:43:24,780 Oh my god, and 559 00:43:24,780 --> 00:43:29,340 We gathered around him and we prayed and prayed and prayed and 560 00:43:30,460 --> 00:43:32,460 Then the lord 561 00:43:32,940 --> 00:43:34,940 Began to lift up his spirit 562 00:43:36,220 --> 00:43:39,900 He began to speak in tongues and oh my god 563 00:43:41,020 --> 00:43:43,020 What a restoration 564 00:43:43,020 --> 00:43:45,020 That's amazing 565 00:43:47,100 --> 00:43:49,100 But then back then 566 00:43:50,780 --> 00:43:52,780 Unfortunately 567 00:43:55,420 --> 00:43:57,420 Backsliders could not come back 568 00:44:00,300 --> 00:44:02,700 Backsliders were not permitted to come back 569 00:44:03,980 --> 00:44:07,180 And when I took him to the pastor and I said pastor pastor 570 00:44:07,980 --> 00:44:09,980 Look what the lord has done 571 00:44:09,980 --> 00:44:12,700 And he says what's he doing here? 572 00:44:13,980 --> 00:44:16,620 And I said, well, I invited him. He says no 573 00:44:18,620 --> 00:44:22,380 Once you turn your back on god, you're done 574 00:44:23,740 --> 00:44:26,060 Please leave and never come back 575 00:44:28,620 --> 00:44:30,620 I heard those words 576 00:44:31,020 --> 00:44:33,420 And let me tell you something it pierced my heart 577 00:44:33,420 --> 00:44:38,940 I cried for days and days and didn't understand it 578 00:44:40,300 --> 00:44:42,220 but the lord 579 00:44:42,220 --> 00:44:44,140 Showed me and says 580 00:44:44,140 --> 00:44:46,140 I am a restoring god 581 00:44:47,420 --> 00:44:49,980 So I talked to that brother and I says just 582 00:44:50,860 --> 00:44:56,300 Find a place that you can worship god and just serve the lord with all your heart 583 00:44:57,500 --> 00:44:59,260 And he did 584 00:44:59,260 --> 00:45:01,260 To this day. He's still serving god 585 00:45:01,260 --> 00:45:03,260 And still serving the lord 586 00:45:04,300 --> 00:45:06,300 Didn't lose him 587 00:45:06,780 --> 00:45:08,780 But just the mindset and the mentality 588 00:45:09,820 --> 00:45:11,820 in those days 589 00:45:12,060 --> 00:45:15,500 Well, let me tell you those hermanitos that get out in a lane. I see 590 00:45:17,340 --> 00:45:18,940 My god 591 00:45:18,940 --> 00:45:20,380 it's 592 00:45:20,380 --> 00:45:22,780 But we do serve a god that restores 593 00:45:23,900 --> 00:45:27,820 He's a restoration god and in time we learned that and 594 00:45:27,820 --> 00:45:33,820 And you know the pastor he changed in in in the short time and realized that 595 00:45:34,700 --> 00:45:36,700 There's restoration 596 00:45:36,700 --> 00:45:38,700 and but it was just the way that 597 00:45:39,500 --> 00:45:42,780 The belief was at that time but thank god 598 00:45:43,900 --> 00:45:45,820 that the lord 599 00:45:45,820 --> 00:45:48,940 he dealt with Jerusalem in a way where 600 00:45:49,740 --> 00:45:51,420 They became 601 00:45:51,420 --> 00:45:53,660 restored in splendor after 602 00:45:53,660 --> 00:46:00,940 later on and with time and and i'm telling somebody here today or on 603 00:46:01,580 --> 00:46:03,580 Whoever means you can hear this 604 00:46:04,380 --> 00:46:06,380 There's hope for you 605 00:46:06,780 --> 00:46:08,780 There's hope for you 606 00:46:08,780 --> 00:46:13,660 The lord will extend his hand to where you are because he loves you 607 00:46:15,420 --> 00:46:19,420 Take and receive him in faith today and see how that 608 00:46:20,860 --> 00:46:22,860 He wants 609 00:46:22,860 --> 00:46:24,060 you 610 00:46:24,060 --> 00:46:27,340 To hold you like he held that little baby 611 00:46:28,780 --> 00:46:31,420 What he did for that little baby he'll do for you today 612 00:46:31,420 --> 00:46:54,400 Hallelujah